By Andy Smith It may sound unusual, but BC/EFA’s grants committee finds requests for items like X-ray machines, cleaning supplies, new water heaters, and corrugated tin sheds exciting. It thrills us to fund essential bricks-and-mortar type projects, especially ones that federal funders overlook. Dallas, TX’s AIDS ARMS, for example, used our 2008 grant ($10,000) to […]

International AIDS Empowerment provides services for families in El Paso, Texas and across the border in Juarez, Mexico By Andy Smith International AIDS Empowerment sounds like an enormous organization with a suite of offices, so it’s surprising to learn it’s actually a mid-sized AIDS service provider with 12 part-time employees squeezed into a small office. However, […]