2025 FCAA Global Philanthropy Summit

CHLP Executive Director S. Mandisa Moore-O'Neal is attending and participating in several panels at the 2025 Funders Concerned About AIDS Global Philanthropy Summit. Funding in Turbulent Times: The Intersection of HIV, Health, and Human Rights will be held from January 27 - 28 in Washington, DC, bringing together 200 HIV, health, and human rights donors and activists to mobilize resources and galvanize collective action.

Criminalized Sex, Criminalized Bodies: Addressing HIV Criminalization in the U.S. Landscape
Monday, January 27, 3:15pm
In 2022, The Center for HIV Law & Policy, AIDS United, and the Williams Institute, in partnership with Decriminalize Sex Work and Movement for Black Lives, created the Sex/Health Alliance (the Alliance) to support a robust, community-led, sustainable movement to end criminalization of consensual sex, race, sexual orientation, and gender identity in the United States. This session will share findings from formative focus groups, the Alliance’s programmatic and grantmaking model, and recommendations for other funders based on these experiences. This session will:  
•    Discuss the history of HIV and other infectious disease criminal laws and their roots in homophobia, transphobia, serophobia, racism, and classism. 
•    Describe the needs of people affected by criminalization and advocates.
•    Examine strategies the philanthropic community can leverage to support a robust movement to end such criminalization in the United States.
Panelists: S. Mandisa Moore-O’Neal, Esq., Executive Director, Center for HIV Law and Policy; Athena Cross, DrPH, Vice President & Chief Program Officer, AIDS United; Judy Yu, Senior Program Officer, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund 
 

New Approaches to a Renewed South: Strategies for Grantmaking, Meaningful Engagement, and Measuring Success (Working Title)
Tuesday, January 28, 12:30pm

The Southern United States is disproportionately impacted by HIV and a range of health disparities. The region also holds a deep history of modeling activism and innovative disruption and community-led efforts that have transformed our nation.  In this moment, how can funders support current efforts to end discriminatory policies, protect human rights and end long-held systemic inequities in the South? 

• This session will explore the significant connection of southern human rights movements to contemporary HIV justice efforts in the region
• This session will highlight practices for meaningful community participation in grantmaking, impact evaluation, and sustainability efforts -- and how these efforts can be leveraged to guide policy transformation
• This session will address the necessity of resourcing efforts across harm reduction, climate crisis, and other regional realities to meet goals to end HIV disparities