ACT AR 2011-12

Annual Report2011 - 2012

"ACT gives me support...and hope."

- ACT service user

ACT | ANNUAL REPORT | 2011 - 2012 ACT | ANNUAL REPORT | 2011 - 2012

CONTENTS

01 A Message from the Board of Directors

02 A Message from the Executive Director

03 The Four Pillars of Our Work

04 Research and Knowledge Exchange

05 Community Capacity Building and Training

06 Support Services

07 Volunteer Profile

08 Community Health Programs

09 Communications

10 The Provincial Women and HIV/AIDS Initiative

11 Financial Statements

12 Supporter Lists

13 Board of Directors 2011 - 2012


A MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Over the last year, ACT has displayed tremendous growth, driven by a single enduring purpose: a community still in need. There remains a significant demand for HIV/AIDS prevention and support services in Toronto as we still see roughly two new HIV infections every day in our city.

Our 2011 – 2012 Annual Report profiles our efforts to continue to be a strong leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS. From our research initiatives and our community health and support services programming, to our communications and financial development strategies – we continue our legacy as an agency that not only acts but leads.

The slow economic recovery in 2011 has put pressure on the agency to do more with less. And ACT has responded. As HIV infection becomes more recognized as a manageable chronic condition rather than a terminal disease, ACT has tapped into its resilient, resourceful and passionate spirit to increase cost–effectiveness, improve efficiency and set strategic priorities and goals to meet the needs of the communities living with and affected by HIV/AIDS in Toronto.

We are proud to report that ACT’s management team has continued to make significant progress in its effort to reduce its annual deficits. The success of this fiscal year demonstrates the team’s dedication and innovation in providing maximum effort and results with limited resources.

We would like to thank our fellow members of the Board and, on their behalf, we would also like to thank the staff, volunteers, supporters and service users of ACT for making our work possible. It is an honour to help lead ACT at this time. Our commitment to challenging ignorance, fear and stigma is stronger than ever. Our work unites us.

Richard Willett, Co-Chair Jamie Slater, Co-Chair


A MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

ACT bold.

ACT strong.

ACT resilient.

No other time seems to capture the essence of our new tagline as much as this past year. From our research programs to our support services and community health initiatives to our fund development activities, we have demonstrated our boldness, our strength, and our capacity to be a resilient organization.

This year ACT reached out to our service users for feedback and with the launch of our annual service satisfaction survey, 87.5% of those service users believe ACT’s programs and services have helped their overall well-being

We provided hot lunches, counselling, case management, organized support groups and retreats, and found employment for HIV-positive people ready to return to work through our Employment ACTion program.

We reached over 100 women from the African, Caribbean and Black communities through our Women’s Coffee Night, Community Kitchen and Wellness Retreat. We launched a new preventative initiative for young gay men called Totally outRIGHT aimed at cultivating peer facilitators to become sexual health leaders within their social networks and the larger community.

We started Spunk! as a way for gay, bi and queer-identified men who use substances to connect with each other and have open, meaningful discussions about their substance use in an environment that is non-judgmental and “safe.”

And with support from the M·A·C AIDS Fund, we integrated a self-employment initiative open to all people living with HIV into our Employment ACTion program.

We strengthened partnerships with other AIDS service organizations by offering a number of new joint activities. For example, along with the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation, we launched a financial management series that helped people living with HIV/AIDS to plan for and secure their financial future. With four other AIDS service organizations we launched the Circle of Care: a collaborative initiative aimed at providing support programming and services for women living with HIV. And, along with other organizations, we continued to be part of the Ontario Working Group on Criminal Law and HIV Exposure to monitor developments, and to lend our voice to ensure that people who are HIV-positive are not criminalized if there is no significant risk of transmission.

Our research initiatives helped build our capacity to better understand the work we do and want to do in the coming years. For example, Research With A Purpose (funded by the Canadian Institutes of HIV/AIDS Research) brought evidence and knowledge about the health promotion priorities (mental health, aging through the lifespan and stigma) we identified in our 2010 - 2015 strategic plan, Resilience.

Our capacity-building opportunities included the forums we provide to the community on HIV/AIDS. Last year the forums reached over 600 people, and with the assistance of the Ontario HIV/AIDS Treatment Network, we are now able to broadcast those forums online which has increased virtual attendance to over 4,000.

Our women's community development staff reached over 1,300 service providers, primarily in the settlement sector, to increase understanding of HIV and its implications for the HIV-positive women who access their services.

Our outreach team went to bars, bathhouses, fairs, community events, Pride, and a diversity of community venues to reach out to communities at risk for HIV to promote safer sex and raise awareness about HIV. Of note, is our Gay Men’s Resilience campaign that celebrates the resilience of gay men, despite the impact of HIV to the gay community. Posters were placed in key locations with taglines that said it all: Keep it up! Keep it on! and Keep it sexy!

Our fundraising events and activities continue to draw support from the community for our work at ACT. It is so important that we continue to develop programs and services that are responsive to community needs, demonstrate our commitment to the meaningful involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS, and impress upon our donors, funding partners, and volunteers that our work is vital and their support makes our work possible. In an environment when resources are limited, we need to ensure that our work is relevant and our cause is still important.

Our many thanks to everyone who has made this year one of great accomplishment for ACT. It is the dedication of our staff and volunteers that helps to keep our work relevant, responsive and demonstrative of a reputation that truly reflects ACT NOW!

Hazelle Palmer

Executive Director


THE FOUR PILLARS OF OUR WORK

Research and Knowledge Exchange

Initiating community-based research projects to inform our program development that focus on emerging trends and issues related to HIV/AIDS and sharing the research findings with the communities with whom we work.

Community Capacity Building and Training

Creating opportunities for individuals, communities and organizations to enhance their knowledge and understanding of HIV/AIDS. Providing individuals with ways to enhance their own learning and skills.

Community Health Promotion

Increasing, knowledge, skills and resilience within communities at risk for HIV/AIDS, and linking this to the social determinants of health.

Support Services

Providing services and supports that help and empower people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS to achieve self-determination, informed decision-making, independence, and overall well-being.

All of our programs and services are informed by evidence and input from the communities we serve. ACT works with gay men, women and youth to increase their knowledge, skills and resilience living with HIV/AIDS and reduce HIV transmission.


BY THE NUMBERS

OF SERVICE USERS INDICATED THAT THEY ARE SATISFIED OR VERY SATISFIED WITH THE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES THEY ACCESSED LAST YEAR.

Our annual service user satisfaction survey was distributed in October 2011. This confidential survey was used to record feedback from those who access ACT services and provide insight into the quality, accessibility and utility of our programs.

SERVICE USERSATISFACTION

85.5%

87.5%

50%

OF RESPONDENTS AGREED OR STRONGLY AGREED WITH THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT: “ACT PROGRAMS AND SERVICES HAVE HELPED MY OVERALL WELL-BEING”.

OF RESPONDENTS ARE INTERESTED IN ACCESSING PROGRAMS AND SERVICES ONLINE.

65 SERVICE USERS RESPONDED

67%

33%

11.3

%

66.1%

22.7

%

RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE

Research With a Purpose

ACT’s researchers conducted an environmental scan to capture and assess the program and service landscape related to the health promotion priorities identified in our 2010 - 2015 strategic plan: mental health, stigma and HIV across the lifespan. The scan aimed to strengthen the agency’s knowledge and evidence base for program development related to the priorities. The results will help ACT explore new and innovative program ideas to address the evolving needs of our service users more effectively.

What's In It For Me?

The purpose of What's In If For Me? was to facilitate and support the development of research literacy and capacity for people living with HIV/AIDS, enabling them to better engage in, direct and critically examine knowledge production in the field of HIV/AIDS. The project curriculum was developed in consultation with people living with HIV/AIDS and we held four focus groups to assess the experiences of those who had previously served as research participants or peer research assistants. Focus group participants provided primarily positive feedback about their experiences with research, but were also troubled by a lack of follow-up, detailed process information, shared responsibility, and opportunities for increased involvement. Our workshop sessions focused on addressing these issues and covered the behind-the-scenes of research processes including: consent and confidentiality, legal risk and ethics, qualitative analysis, psychometric scales, the role of the participant, and the greater/meaningful involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS (GIPA/MIPA). The success of What’s In It For Me? enabled workshop participants to feel more comfortable with research, and encouraged them to collectively explore their research interests.

In our nearly 30-year history, we have actively sought how to understand the diverse needs of the men, women and young people who rely on our programs and services. ACT’s engagement in research has focused on developing an interactive space between the organization and the communities we serve. In the last year we have been able to continue to develop meaningful research; engaging in work that is beneficial to creating current programs and services and improving the lives of our service users. What has been identified as particularly influential in our work is focusing on implementing purposeful research. Emphasis has been placed on the areas of health promotion, community representation and the satisfaction of our service users.


BY THENUMBERS

120new intakes

job placements42

COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING AND TRAINING

Employment Services

Employment ACTion has undergone an ambitious development of new activities within the past year. Measures in expanding our communications strategy, service user intake plan and also offering specialized services have all been top priorities. Building on the strength of ACT’s excellence in developing and producing relevant outreach information, Employment ACTion has strengthened its visual identity with the introduction of a new and standardized logo. Our visual communication overhaul has also included informative brochures specific to both our service users as well as prospective employers.

Part of Employment ACTion’s goal to make further connections with service users interested in returning to the workforce was enhanced in the development of the self-employment stream. Although the self-employment stream is in its infancy, many successful graduates of the program have launched businesses in fields such as hospitality and retail and have even applied and successfully received funding from competitive grants.

The workforce is a dynamic changing environment and one of Employment ACTion’s successes has been in offering contemporary workshops for our service users. Applied skills in using social media to find employment and creating digital resumes were the most popular.

ACT is committed to creating opportunities for individuals, communities and organizations to enhance their knowledge and understanding of HIV/AIDS. 320

Employment ACTion service users


COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING AND TRAININGVolunteer Program

Volunteers remain an integral part of our agency. In the last fiscal year, volunteers in fund development as well as programs and services contributed a total of 27,042 hours of service, which is the equivalent of 14 full-time staff people.

In this past year, ACT hosted six volunteer information nights for prospective volunteers to learn more about the work we do and to discover what volunteer opportunities are available. From this process, we recruited and trained 69 new program volunteers through our Volunteer Core Skills Training program held in the spring and fall of 2011.

We have seen a great demand in volunteers wanting to help in areas of our work including: gay men’s outreach, harm reduction outreach, Positive Youth Outreach, women’s programing and fund development. In order to ensure volunteers receive the information, skills, training and support needed we undertook a number of innovations including the creation of a standardized agency-wide volunteer intake process and a revamped database to accurately track the numbers of active volunteers in the agency.

We hosted five ‘in-service’ training sessions, attended by 162 volunteers. Topics for these training sessions included managing conflict and anger, introduction to harm reduction (working with substance users), mental health, aging, and HIV transmission updates that included the newest information on viral load as well as PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) and PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis).

In order to ensure that our Core Skills Training--a workshop all volunteers must complete in order to provide program and service delivery--remains up-to-date, we also began to review and revise the curriculum. This revamped training will be offered in fall 2012.

VOLUNTEER PROFILE: CARMEN GALAVAN“I chose ACT because it does good for the HIV-positive community and it focused on getting service users to feel like part of the team. It was also very refreshing to see that a lot of the work that was done through ACT was volunteer-based, with many of the volunteers also being service users.”

As an undergraduate, on the road to completing her Social Work degree, Carmen is a leader in the community. She actively seeks out opportunities to engage in volunteer work, assist peers and gives a voice to young people living with HIV in Toronto. Carmen says, “The youth I worked with have changed my life. I feel that what they have given me is far more than I could ever give them and I hope they realize this. They taught me about issues that are facing people that are HIV-positive and the stigma associated with it not being spoken about openly.”

Carmen’s volunteer work here at ACT has lead her to establish a specific goal she is set on achieving: “After I graduate I hope to eventually move back to my home country, Mexico, and work toward raising awareness about HIV/AIDS prevention and advocate for better services and treatment for people living with HIV."


BY THENUMBERS

285people accessed counselling

94people accessed support groups

people accessed case management

143people accessed lunch programs

146 people accessed bathhousecounselling (TowelTalk)

180

314 people accessed tax and insurance benefits clinics

SUPPORT SERVICES

Community Health Forums

Our community health forum series features expert presentations and panel discussions about health issues relevant to people living with HIV/AIDS including barriers to treatment, healthy relationships and aging. We have seen this program grow not only with attendees but also with the quality of internationally renowned speakers and contributors and the number of participants. 633 people attended the community forums in person and, with the support of the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN), we successfully launched the forums online to increase accessibility which resulted in over 4,300 people in virtual attendance.

Women's Support Programs

Through our monthly Women’s Coffee Night, our Women’s Community Kitchen for African, Black and Caribbean women and a retreat for women living with HIV, we reached 106 HIV-positive women and provided supportive, safe and culturally significant environments to provide an opportunity for women to share their experiences and learn more about how to manage their health.

Financial Management Series

With new medical interventions and holistic care treatments available, people are living longer with HIV/AIDS than ever before. As their prospects for long-term health improve, many are eager to reconsider or, in some cases, seek clarity to gain long-term financial options and security. In 2011 - 2012, 12 unique service users participated in these inaugural workshops. This series will be offered again in the coming year and an additional workshop on ‘estate planning’ will be included based on participant feedback.

Effective services and supports help to empower men, women and young people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS and promote self-determination, informed decision-making, independence and overall health and well-being. This year, we continued to provide our counselling, case management and social support activities while successfully enhancing additional program areas to increase the knowledge, skills and resilience of the communities we serve.


BY THENUMBERS

378,161 condoms distributed*

1,001 outreach events

2,674 significant conversations

327,974 lube packs distributed*

245workshops, presentations, discussion groups, and training sessions

7,683 participants

27,287resources distributed

*agency record372

young people attended PYO drop-in sessions

COMMUNITy HEALTH PROGRAMS

Resilience in Our Work

Communities in Toronto that have been most affected by HIV/AIDS have long histories of surviving adversity – and despite this adversity, we have grown stronger as individuals and communities by working together.

Today, ACT continues to nurture our community's resilience by building the capacity of individuals living with HIV, those at risk for HIV, and the communities most affected by HIV/AIDS. By nurturing individual capacity, creating a sense of belonging and fostering the development of community, we enable ourselves to increase control over and thereby improve our health and well-being.

Each facet of community health programs operationalized resilience into all of our community education and outreach programs. We have reviewed and updated internal and external education and outreach materials including websites, social media, and workshop and training presentations to ensure they are rooted in a strength-based approach.

In 2011 - 2012 we launched new programs and services that exemplify creativity, innovation and boldness. Our featured programs include: SPUNK!, Totally outRIGHT and the Women and HIV/AIDS Initiative Toronto.

ACT’s community health promotion initiatives include the development and delivery of resources, workshops, trainings and discussion groups. We also continued to offer a wide range of outreach and community development initiatives that promote increased awareness of HIV/AIDS and sexual health issues to a diverse range of individuals and communities. Our priority populations to which we tailor our programs toward are still identified as gay men, women, and young people. We have shaped our programs from a resilience model, which we have used to nurture and grow the capacity of those we serve.


COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMSSPUNK!

There is a need to provide stronger support to gay, bi and queer-identified men who use substances. To address this SPUNK! was launched in February 2012 as an opportunity for men to connect with each other and engage in open, meaningful discussions in a confidential, sex-positive, substance-user-positive space. Participants enthusiastically reported that the tools they learned, and the facilitation of the group process, were beneficial to them in challenging the shame, judgment and stereotypes often experienced with substance use and gay culture and offered encouragement, alternatives and tools for making positive changes in their lives.

Totally outRIGHT

We continue to develop our health promotion programming for young people at increased risk for HIV; in particular, young gay men who make up 85% of new infections among young people in Toronto ages 18 to 29.

We were successful in our funding application to the City of Toronto to bring Totally outRIGHT to ACT, a program that had already seen tremendous success in Vancouver. The new funding allowed us to build new infrastructure and create a new Peer Facilitator position to begin delivery of the program in March 2012. Totally outRight was designed to transfer knowledge and foster learning about gay men’s sexual health and to encourage young gay men to become sexual health leaders within their social networks and in the larger community. The program will continue to run for a second time in June 2012 and we have been successful in our application for renewed funding for the coming year.

Women and HIV/AIDS Initiative - Toronto

ACT is one of the 17 provincial sites of the Provincial Women and HIV/AIDS Initiative (PWHAI) launched in 2010 to provide better HIV education and training to agencies that work with women. ACT’s ongoing work with women and the services that empower them has seen great success in the last year. Despite the considerable challenges of stigma, lack of awareness, and under-resourced agencies serving women, in 2011 - 2012 our women’s community development staff completed 96 activities, including 30 trainings that engaged 1,314 people. Training sessions lead by our community educators explored the basics of HIV, and provided insight into counseling and sexual health. The investment in building networks in the non-AIDS service sector will continue to generate interest and demand for future trainings that equip service providers with knowledge and motivation to better support women living with and at risk for HIV/AIDS in Toronto.

CAMPAIGN PROFILE: GAY MEN'S RESILIENCE

Gay men have been made the subject of many studies, surveys, reports, projects, and theses. Most often, deficiencies are highlighted over accomplishments. For example, most studies of gay men's sexual behaviour focus on those who have reported unsafe sex, and the factors that contribute to unsafe sex--but not on the factors that help gay men practice safer sex. The philosophy of our 2011 sexual health campaign celebrated the assets of gay men--that despite the huge impact of HIV, gay men have survived, thrived, and continued to have the highest rate of consistent condom use and that gay men care about their health and the health of others. The bold imagery created for the campaign is a cheeky nod to gay men’s sexual health and an acknowledgement of the 30 years of the gay community’s resilience.


BY THENUMBERS

3,514,144 total hits to ACT website (to date)

1,977 twitter followers

1,269 facebook likes

121 media contacts

29,418 materials distributed

COMMUNICATIONS

ACT’s communication activities seek to engage those communities most profoundly affected by HIV in ways that are respectful and appropriate and at the same time increase support for our work from individuals outside of our priority populations who are more inclined to be supportive of our cause.

The past year was a busy one for our communications department as we launched our new communications strategy with goals to:


BY THENUMBERSapproximately

300 women test positive for HIV in Ontario

approximately 15% of Ontarians diagnosed with HIV are female

women now make up an increasingly large portion of new HIVcases in Ontario*

*23 to 25% in 2007 and 2008 (Ontario HIV Epidemiologic Monitoring Unit, 2009)

PROVINCIAL WOMEN AND HIV/AIDS INITIATIVE

The Provincial Women and HIV/AIDS Initiative (PWHAI) was developed by the AIDS Bureau of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care in response to community requests for a coordinated, decentralized focus on women and HIV/AIDS across Ontario. The overall goals of the initiative are to:

1) Reduce HIV transmission among women;

2) Enhance local community capacity to address women and HIV/AIDS; and,

3) Build safe environments to support women and their HIV/AIDS related.

This initiative is being implemented through 17 local AIDS service organizations throughout the province. In 2011, ACT was identified as the host agency to coordinate this initiative and we have hired a Manager to lead and coordinate the initiative’s deliverables, build capacity among the local initiative workers, and to develop resources that assist them in the work they do.


FINANCIALSTATEMENTS

78%16%

6%

TOTAL AGENCY REVeNUE:$4,113,390

Fund Development (Net) $648,814

Government and other grants $3,207,303

Other $257,273

TOTAL AGENCY EXPENSES:$4,122,460

23%Community Development $961,706

17%Support Services $707,443

17%Employment and Volunteer Services $701,090

14%Operations $562,257

12%Health Promotion $481,832

9%Research and Program Development $365,872

8%Communications and Policy Development $342,260


SUPPORTER LISTS 2011 - 2012

GOVERNMENT FUNDERS

Government of Canada

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Public Health Agency of Canada

Government of Ontario

Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care – AIDS Bureau

Ministry of Community and Social Services

City of Toronto

REGIONAL PARTNERS

$100,000 and above

Ontario HIV Treatment Network

$5,000 to $99,999

Circle of Care

Mid-Toronto Community Services

Ontario AIDS Network

Ryerson University

CORPORATIONS

$100,000 and above

M·A·C AIDS Fund

$10,000 to $99,999

Abbott Laboratories Ltd.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Canada Inc.

Gilead Sciences Canada, Inc.

Janssen-Ortho Inc. / Tibotec

Merck Frosst Canada Inc.

TD Canada Trust

The Village Pharmacy

ViiV / Shire Canada

Up to $9,999

1629323 Ontario Inc.

ACE Canada

Advantex Express Inc.

A. Kong Medicine Professional Corp.

Arch Insurance (Canada)

Aronovitch Macaulay Rollo

Aviva

Big Carrot Natural Food Market

Capital One Services Inc. Canada

Chartis

Chopper Pictures

Colourgenics Inc.

Crawford & Company

Cunningham Lindsey Canada

David Milner and Associates Inc.

Dr. Kevin Russelo & Associates

Equity Credit Union

Evelko Designs

Guild Electric Limited

Independent Booking

Infield Marketing Group

IQ Business Events

Kiangtex Company Limited

Labatt

Lawn Barber

Levi Strauss & Co. Canada Inc.

Lifford Wine Agency

With the generosity and patronage of thousands of supporters in the community, ACT is able to provide compassionate, proactive services to people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. We gratefully acknowledge our government funders, regional and international partners, and the many individuals, corporations, foundations, and groups that have supported ACT with philanthropic commitments, grants, or sponsorships during our 2011 - 2012 fiscal year.

Liteworks Lighting Productions Inc.

LOFT Communications and Events Inc.

Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.

McCarthy Tetrault LLP

Rainbow Cinemas

Razor Creative Solutions

Resolve Audio Inc.

Retail Category Consultants Inc.

RSA Group

Scotiabank

Scott Knaut Communications Inc.

Spark Inc.

Starbucks

Thorek, Scott & Partners

Tower Litho

Travelers Canada

WHIRL Inc.

Willis Canada Inc.

FOUNDATIONS

$25,000 and above

Ontario Trillium Foundation

Up to $25,000

Bermuda Foundation

Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto

John and Deborah Harris Family Foundation

Legacy Private Trust Foundation

Les and Kae Martin Charitable Foundation

Red Meets Pink Foundation

Philip Smith Foundation

EMPLOYEE AND COMMUNITY GROUPS

$5,000 and above

IN Toronto Magazine

Pride and Remembrance Association

Up to $5,000

BMO Employee Charitable Foundation

Crescent Town Community Church

The Design Bitches

Etobicoke School of the Arts

Hydro One Employee’s and Pensioner’s Trust Fund

INK Entertainment

Manulife Financial

Mayhem North (Goodhandy’s)

OPG Employees’ & Pensioners’ Charity Trust

Oulton Technology Management

Pegasus on Church Inc.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada

Straight on Church

Telus Corporation - Employee Charitable Giving Program

Toronto Eaton Centre

Trinity College, University of Toronto

Windsor Arms Hotel

Wish Restaurant

Woody’s

INDIVIDUALS

Thousands of individual supporters sustain our work, whether through one-time gifts or on a monthly basis through our Partners in ACTion monthly giving plan. We particularly thank our Leaders in ACTion, individuals who give $1,200 or more annually, who lead the way in our fight against HIV/AIDS.

Leaders in ACTion

Gold Supporters ($5,000 to $9,999)

Rick Hynes and Jack Roks

Bob Pente

Anonymous

Silver Supporters ($2,500 to $4,999)

Ricky Boudreau

Chris Ciavaglia

Clive Desmond

Maria Diaz-Robinson

Paul Hains

Don Pfeil

Anthony Sweeney and Mike Parrish

Anonymous

Bronze Supporters ($1,200 to $2,499)

Brad Berg and Brian Rolfes

Donald Cameron

Donna Campbell

Dan Caputo

Patrick W. Casey

Dr. David L. Clark and Tracy L. Wynne

Wayne Clark

Elvira A. D’Ambrosio

Donald Dodds

Peter Erlendson

John-David Fentie

Jonas Giesen

Dr. John Goodhew

Philip Ing

Harry Koster

Ernie Laurenciano

Jacquelyn Mathe

Scott McConnell

Scott C. Miskie

David O’Brien

Alan Smith

Walter Stewart

Sandra Whitbread

Chuck Wong

Maritza Yumbla

Anonymous (2)


Sustainers ($500 to $1,199)

Ritva Aalto

Alexander Antonijevic

Todd V. Austin

Lisa Balfour Bowen

Robert Bartlett

Norma Bertuzzi

Robert Boardman

Bob Dorrance and Gail Drummond

C. George Boisvenue

Andrew C. Bome

Bill Bossert

Paul M. Brennan

David Brethauer

Gary Bunch

James Burn

Richard Cadieux

Brent C. Carver

Pegi Cecconi

Chris Chambers

Roxanne Chandoo

Terence Chang

Terry Christiansen

Anna Christofides

Geoff Ciaschini

Joanne Clark

Margaret Cockshutt

Dr. Evan Collins

Brian M. Cornelson

Maria Corral

Robert Crichton

Elena Daldan

Craig Daniel and Jim

Turner

Anita Day

Dave Doig

Paul Douglas

Leah Duncan

Richard Ellis and Andy Colwell

John Embry

Nancy Embry

Joe Essaye

Mark Faircloth

Brian Finch

Marco Andre Fiola

Rick Fishell

Sandra Fisher

Heather Fitzgerald

Doris Flanagan

Roland Fortier

George Ganetakos

Thomas W. Garnett

Greg Garrison

Dinarte Gaspar

David Gerry

Michael Goldberg

Keith Goranson

Carla Granger

John and Judith Grant

Rita Healey Grave

J. Thomas Greenwood

Jim Gregory

Christopher D. Grimston

Earl Groenewegen

Boulos Paul Haddad

Beth Hanson

Ursula Harbutt

Peter Hawkins

Ronald G. Hay

Raymond Helkio

Mary Hennessy

Geoffrey Hogarth

Barbara Houlding

Pieter C. Huisman

Tom Hutchinson

Martine Irman

Maria Jankovic

Andrew M. Johnston

Carol Johnston

Colleen Johnston

Barry Joslin

Ellen June

Blair Kissack

Philip B. Lanouette

Esther Lee

Bob Leeming

Gabriele Litz

Bronwen Lloyd

Dennis R. Loney

Rob MacLellan

In memory of Andrew MacNaughtan

Mahmoodi Manoochehr

Leslie Manzano

Moe Marion

Victor Maurice

Jannie McInnes

Kevin McMurray

Ross Morrison

Shawn Newman

Ian V. B. Nordheimer

Mark Oudesluys

George Papatheodorou

Peter Perdue

Andrew Pruss

Patrice Pusey

George C. Pyron

Maria Racz

Simon Raphael

Mark Reid

Edward J. Richardson

Tom Ricketts

Gary Robinson

David Rose

Ron H. Rosenes

Alan Rowe

Ken Ryfa

Dorothy Salusbury

Phillip Sanford

Erik Schannen

Rick Schiralli

Bernie Silverman

Gulshan Singh

Zahid Somani

Kyle Spencer

James Stewart

Francine Stowell

John Strachan

Phillip Sutherland

Jane Swatridge

Stephen Tait

Timothy Thompson

John Wallace

James Waters

Jessica Whitbread

Richard J. Willett

Becki L. Williams

Paul T. Wragget

Edgar Wright

Shivonne Yarden

Stephen A. Yarrow

Paul and Devin Zalesky

Anonymous (5)

LEGACY OF ACTION

A planned gift, such as a bequest in a will or gift of life insurance, is the ultimate expression of support in our fight against HIV/AIDS. ACT’s legacy fund was created in 1999 and is housed with the Toronto Community Foundation. Upon completion of fiscal year 2011- 2012, the fund stood at over $782,000.

We thank the many individuals who have made a planned commitment to ACT, and gratefully acknowledge legacies left in the last fiscal year:

Estate of George E. Clark

SIGNATURE EVENTS

AIDS Walk for Life Toronto 2011

National Presenting Sponsor

Scotiabank

National Platinum Sponsor

Santa Margherita – Pinot Grigio Wines

National Gold Sponsor

Gilead Sciences Canada, Inc.

National Bronze Sponsor

Bristol-Myers Squibb Canada Inc.

National Promotional Partners

Canpar

Cineplex Media

Empire Theatres

enRoute Magazine

Maclean’s Magazine

Marketwire

Rainbow Cinemas

Magic Lantern Theatres

Local Sponsors

103.9 PROUD FM

104.5 CHUM FM

Clockwork Productions

The Co-operators

Dragos Productions

Exclusive Affair Rentals

Extreme Fitness

Grassroots Advertising Inc.

Nella Bella

Nestlé Waters Canada

Pizza Pizza

Rainbow Cinemas

Trojan

Xtra!

StarWalkers ($250 and above)

Kira Abelsohn

Massiel Acuna

Carmela Aita

Solmaz Akef

Sergio Alvarado

Jersey Anderson

Danielle Aronovitch

Antonio Arribas

Jennifer Baines

Eric Balfour

Marlon Banez

Robert Bartlett

Kevin Beaudoin

Calvin Bill

Matt Blair

Jill Borra

Ricky Boudreau

Adam Bowslaugh

Daniel Burns

Adam Busch

Marilyn Calleja

Gail Campbell

James Campbell

Lawrence Campbell

Steven Campbell

Jessica Cattaneo

Roxanne Chandoo

Lisa Chapman

Sheila Chevalier

Jeff Christensen

Rahim Chunara

Julia Church

Erica Cih

Jo Clark

Andrew Clarke

Jason Cloutier

Megan Cockerill

Jason Cole

Vincent Cote

Jocelyn Courneya

Mhairi Cumming

Sara Curtis

Charles Cuschieri

Thomas Daly

Glenn Daniel

James Darling

Stephanie Darrach

Doreen Davies

Daraugh Dawes

J. J. Dayot

Craig de Blois

Scott De Laplante

Marcellius de Leon

David DesLauriers

Cal Dethmers

Laura Di Labio

Maria Diaz-Robinson

Michael Diorio

Michael Dix

DJ Diggy

DJ Sumation

Marie D’lima

Lee Dobbs

Hamal Docter

Kiran Dogra

Amy Donkers


Leah Dungan

Adam Dunn

Robert Durocher

Kim Dwyer

Andrew Eaton

Mark Edwards

Kevin Einig

Dwaine Elder

Kieran Engel

Katie Evans

Jessa Featherstone

Amy Fedrigo

Brian Fernandes

Chelsea Ferris

Randy Filby

James Forbes

Lorne Fox

Marcelle Francis

Margaret Fung

Francis Gaudreault

Robert Gauvin

John Gaylord

David Grant

Kyle Greenwood

Adam Grenier

Shree Guha

Zulfikar Gulamhusein

Michael Gurevitch

Chad Hale

Tony Hamill

Jeanne Hanna

Kirsten Harding

Josh Hass

Ted Healey

Isabel Henkelman

Laura Hensley

Patricia Hernandez Crowe

Paul Hill-MacRae

Denise Hines

Ken Holt

Rupert Hon

Soteira Hortop

Bobby Hrehoruk

Pieter C. Huisman

Tom Hutchinson

Tamryn Jacobson

Sally Jacquart

Ellen June Hyelim

Ryan Kaufman

Jen Keystone

Blair Kissack

Sandi Kiverago

Vanessa Kong

Helen Kotsopoulos

Vivianna Kouwenhoven

Andre Kuhne

Helen Kwak

Sandrine Kwan

Geneviève Landry

Stephanie Lao

Ernie Laurenciano

Margot Lautens

Don Lawson

Jude MacDonald

Jenna MacKay

Amy MacKinnon

Duncan MacLachlan

Gillian MacLean

Colin MacRae

Kermit Malcom

Mahmoodi Manoochehr

Sergio Martinez

John Joseph Mastandrea

Jacquelyn Mathe

John Maxwell

Laura Lee Mazzocca

Evan McCraney

Emma McDermott

Rob McGee

Cathy McKim

John McNain

Rodney McPherson

Mario Medeiros

Diana Mejia

Charlene Meredith

Owen Milburn

Paul Mineo

Maegan Minichiello

Shari Mogk-Edwards

Amy Morrell

Kevin Moulton

Natasha Moulton

Aj Mundie

Kate Murzin

Stefan Naccarato

Arjun Nanda

Karrey Neyedly

Stephen Nunn

Felicia O’Brien

Caroline O’Toole

Phil Ottenbrite

Tim Paige

Hazelle Palmer

Cindy Pelletier

Peter Perdue

Danielle Pettigrew

Don Phaneuf

Rui Pires

Brad Pottle

Liz Racz

Maria Racz

Raffaele Ragonese

Ike Rai

Stephanie Raymond

Dwane Read

Kenneth Reid

Shaun Reid

Stephanie Rentel

Gary Robinson

Janine Roos

Amy Rose

Ron H. Rosenes

Philip Roy

Amanda Ruppert

Mélissa Sabourin

David Salak

Dianne Salt

Scott Scambler

Elizabeth Scarff

Rick Schiralli

Brad Schmale

Neil Schmidt

Michael Serapio

Nancy Seto

Barry Shecter

Fanny Simoulidis

Gulshan Singh

Litsa Skrivanos

Rita Skrivanos

Jamie Slater

Alan Smith

Jeremy Smith

Haley Snow

Zahid Somani

Krista Storey

Christine Strack

Amin Sunderji

Kevin Taylor

Julia Teeluck

Sante Tesolin

Rahim Thawer

Jodi Thibodeau

Brad Thomas

Jan Tillcock

Tian Tompkins

Greg Tranah

Elise Tremblay

Sandy Tzogas

Hunter Valentine

Alexander Venditti

Leslie Virdo

Brian Wale

Jordan Wareham

Diane Welborn

Jessica Whitbread

Sandra Whitbread

Sid Whitbread

Dini Wickneswaran

Jack Wilkie

Richard J. Willett

Becki Williams

Bree Williamson

Glen Willows

David Wilson

Karman Wong

Dave Wood

Daryl Woods

Ralph Wushke

Stefan Wypchol

Shivonne Yarden

Simon Yee

Bruno Zaratin

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IN-KIND SUPPORTERS

Many members of the community provide invaluable in-kind support, thereby allowing us to reduce administrative costs and allocate more funds to our services and programs. The following have made receiptable in-kind gifts to ACT in the last fiscal year:

Anna Audette

Steven Beckly

Ronald Boaks

Christopher Boffoli

Jesse Boles

Roberta Bondar

Dianne Bos

Ian Bradshaw

Stephen Brookbank

Colin Carney

Bob Carnie

Simon Clements

Becky Comber

Andrea Cooper

John Cyr

James Robert Durant

Benjamin Freedman

Graham French

Sean Galbraith

Eldon Garnet

Erin Graham

Stev’nn Hall

Yuji Hamada

Lori Hepner

Jonathan Hobin

Kathryn Hollinrake

Susan Horodyska

Vanessa Hussey

Ina Jang

Ellen Jantzen

Joshua Jensen-Nagle

Joan Kaufman

Kevin Kelly

Brendon George Ko

Michael Krauss

Yuriko Kubota

Suzanne Lake

Heidi Leverty


Eamon MacMahon

Mathew Merrett

Russell Monk

Andrew B. Myers

Jesse Neider

Maureen O’Connor

Meaghan Ogilvie

Brady Olson

Brent Orr

Beverly Owens

Toni Pepe

Vessna Perunovich

Geoffrey Pugen

Adam Rankin

Herb Ritts

Harold Ross

Sonja Scharf

Ryan Schude

Betsy Siegfried

Scott Silverthorne

Heath Simpson

Robert Sprachman

Andres Stenberg

Amber Wachtl

Toni Wallachy

David Welch

Dean West

Dario Zini

We apologize for any errors, omissions, or inaccuracies. Please contact us at 416-340-8484 ext. 255 for any corrections, additions, or inquiries.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2011 - 2012Jamie Slater, Co-Chair

Richard Willett, Co-Chair

David DesLauriers, Treasurer

Peter Macdonald, Secretary

Jeffrey Cowan

Tamryn Jacobson

Lance McCready

Charlie McKee

Peter Perdue

Beena Tharakan

Ken Tong

Dean Valentine

The AIDS Committee of Toronto399 Church Street, 4th Floor, Toronto, ON M5B 2J6T 416-340-2437 F 416-340-8224 E [email protected] Charitable registration number: 11877 9024 RR0001

"ACT has always been there when I needed them."

- ACT service user

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