Every Penny Counts!

The EPC Mission: To partner with individuals, businesses, and schools to raise funds for low-income San Franciscans with disabling HIV/AIDS who are too sick to work. One hundred percent of the funds raised through the Every Penny Counts Campaign goes directly to help pay the basic living expenses of AIDS Emergency Fund clients. Every Penny Counts is all about COMMUNITY, COMPASSION, and GENEROSITY! Request a Jar for your home, office or business, or school! To request a jar please contact: Lance Brittain Every Penny Counts Coordinator 415-558-6999, ext. 232 [email protected] or [email protected] Volunteer for Every Penny Counts To volunteer as an Every Penny Counts Project volunteer please email: [email protected]

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Xavier Toscano - Never Wanna Leave (Official Video)

Music video for Never Wanna Leave (Official Video) performed by Xavier Toscano. Site: http://www.xaviertoscano.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/XToscano Faceb...

Our opening act for our Every Penny Counts Celebration is none other thanXavier Toscano! He will be performing at 12:05 and 1:30 at Jane Warner Plaza! Check out his work before you see him perform LIVE!

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An Every Penny Counts Celebration!

Sunday, November 2

at 11:00am - 3:00pm

Jane Warner Memorial Plaza

401 Castro St, San Francisco, California 94114

Join AIDS Emergency Fund (AEF) as they celebrate the 27th anniversary of the Every Penny Counts Merchant Campaign, the 20th anniversary of Every Penny Counts School Campaign, and the 4th anniversary of Empty Your Drawers. The merchant campaign has raised over $2.8 million and the school campaign has raised over $392,500. Listen to live music, drag revue performances, and entertainers from San Francisco Waldorf high School! Enjoy the weather and celebrate a milestone for a great cause! Empty your dresser drawers, gather up those penny jars, bring in those coins lying around the house and bring them to the event. Your donations will help provide people with HIV/AIDS with their basic living expenses such as rent, utilities, medical and prescription costs. Bills and checks are excepted as well! Entertainers and emcees (We will be added to the list as they sign on): Au Jus - Performer  BeBe Sweetbriar - Emcee and Performer Juliano Wade - Performer Kathleen Antonia - Performer Mutha Chcka - Performer Pat N Leather - Emcee and Performer Suzan Revha - Emcee If you would like to volunteer or perform, please call Lance Brittain, [phone], x232 or email him at [email protected].

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Sharing this important statistic from the CDC. Click below to find an HIV testing site near you. http://locator.aids.gov/

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An estimated 1 in 5 women and 1 in 16 men are sexually assaulted in college. We all have a role to play in stopping sexual assault. Take the pledge to be part of the solution.

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Pride (2014)

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I’m crying

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Today begins LGBT History Month! Let’s celebrate our victories, remember our roots, and never stop making history.

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HUGE NEWS from the Supreme Court today! Marriage equality is on its way! (via Freedom to Marry)

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Video

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If Buying Condoms Was Like Buying Birth Control

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Important words by tmichaelmartin. 

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DO U NEED A STEPMOM?!?

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I wasn’t aware there ever needed to be a reason..

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Transgender Actress Erika Ervin On Her ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ Role

We couldn’t be more thrilled for “American Horror Story: Freak Show” to kick off for numerous reasons, and learning that the hit FX franchise will welcome a transgender performer just makes our excitement for the show more palpable.

For more on Erika’s remarkable life including her time as a lawyer and her encounter with AIDS in the nineties watch the full mini-doc here. 

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CONGRADULATIONS!

James Lick Middle School in Noe Valley is the first school to commit to participating in the 2015 EVERY PENNY COUNTS 20TH ANNIVERSARY SCHOOL CAMPAIGN. Jake Stookey, Every Penny Counts Campaign, Advisor said James Lick's school campaign will begin in a week-and-a-half which would be September 8th.

Good Luck and Thank You James Lick for your participation in your ninth Every Penny Counts School Campaign!

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HIV/AIDS Local Facts

  HIV/AIDS FACTS*

San Francisco

(as of 06/30/2014)

  Since the beginning of the epidemic a total of 28,793 San Francisco residents have been diagnosed with AIDS, which comprises 18% of California AIDS cases and 3% of cases reported nationally.

There have been 19,341 reported AIDS deaths in San Francisco as of December 31, 2010.

There were 15,861 San Franciscans living with HIV/AIDS in 2010.

Of the total number of people with HIV/AIDS, 15,971 are living with the infection.

Diagnoses of HIV infection stage 3 (AIDS), cumulative 29,605

Deaths among persons diagnosed with HIV infection stage 3 (AIDS), cumulative 19,978

  Sources: San Francisco Department of Public Health, HIV epidemiology Section. HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Annual Report 2012; www.sfaf.org

  California

(as of 06/30/2014)

  ● Over 200,000 Californians have contracted HIV/AIDS and nearly 100,000 have died since the epidemic began in the early 1980s.

● California ranks second in the nation in cumulative AIDS cases at 157,719, surpassed only by New York.

● More than 60% of Californians living with HIV reside in Los Angeles or the San Francisco Bay Area.

● Approximately 122,382 Californians are HIV-positive, among whom 74,059 are living with AIDS.

● There are up to 7,000 new HIV infections in the state every year.

  Sources: California Office of AIDS, AIDS  semi-annual Surveillance report (as of June 2014); www.sfaf.org

  United States

Since the AIDS epidemic began in 1981, 1.7 million Americans have been infected with HIV and 583,298 have died of AIDS-related causes through 2007.

1.1 million Americans are living with HIV (including more than 468,000 with AIDS).

An estimated 16% of people living with HIV are undiagnosed.

Every 9 ½ minutes, someone in the U.S. is infected with HIV. 50,000 new HIV infections in 2010.

In 2011, an estimated 49,273 people were diagnosed with HIV infection in the United States.

Young adults and teens (13-24 years old) represent 26% of new HIV infections. (2010)

Sources:  1. Kaiser Family Foundation Fact Sheet: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the United States, September 2009; www.sfaf.org; 2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, December 2013;  www.cdc.gov.