National Minority AIDS Council Building Healthier Communities

NMAC Lifeline - February 23, 2009   Complete a Survey and Be Entered to Win a Free 2009 USCA Registration! We need your help planning the United States Conference on AIDS (USCA), set for October 29-31, in San Francisco, CA, at the Hilton San Francisco. Submitting your input is easy - just click here to take a one-minute survey. Everyone who participates is automatically entered into a drawing to win a free 2009 USCA registration!  Register early for the 2009 USCA at www.2009usca.org, and book your flight on American Airlines using starfile code #A77H9AD. Online participant and exhibitor registration, as well as abstract submission, are available at www.2009usca.org. Direct inquiries to (202) 483-NMAC (6622) or conferences@nmac.org.        Join NMAC's Facebook Group Today!  Are you on Facebook and want to connect with others in the HIV/AIDS community? Want to receive periodic updates about HIV/AIDS-related events and trainings in your inbox? Then join NMAC's Facebook group! Finding us is easy - just type "NMAC" into the search bar.   Hope's Voices Launches New "Does HIV Look Like Me?" Campaigns and Invites Everyone to Join Its Facebook Group Hope's Voice International is excited to announce the premiere of the "Does HIV Look Like Me?" campaigns for South Africa, Swaziland and the United States. The campaigns worked with ambassadors - young people living with HIV or AIDS - in each country, and included leadership workshops, filming of the ambassadors’ stories, a full print campaign, registration into the social networking website and an in-country website in the native language. View the the campaigns at www.doeshivlooklikeme.org/. Spanish versions are available here. If you are a young person living with HIV or AIDS, and are interested in becoming an ambassador, complete the enrollment form. We encourage supporters to join the Hope's Voice Facebook group! Entries for POP Awards Due March 20! Cable Positive is accepting entries for the 2009 Positively Outstanding Programming (POP) Awards, which honor exceptional HIV/AIDS-related cable television. Entries are due March 20, 2009; applications are available from http://www.cablepositive.org/. To be eligible, original programming must have aired January 1 - December 31, 2008 and fit into one of the following categories:  Outstanding Biographical Program Outstanding Community Partnership (for cable systems and local cable outlets) Outstanding Documentary Outstanding News Coverage Outstanding News Magazine Outstanding Original Film/Movie Outstanding Original Series Outstanding Public Service Announcement (PSA) Outstanding Special Programming Outstanding Public Service Announcement (PSA) Outstanding Program Outstanding Original Spanish Language Public Service Announcement (PSA) Outstanding Original Spanish Language Programming POP Network of the Year  Nominees will be announced in spring 2009.        New HIV Drug Guide Now Available  Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN) and Positively Aware magazine announce the arrival of the 13th Annual Positively Aware HIV Drug Guide. Widely recognized throughout the country as the "must have" tool for HIV service providers, this year's HIV Drug Guide offers the most up-to-date information on currently available HIV medications, as well as a detailed look at those in development. To order copies, call (773) 989-9400, or e-mail distribution@tpan.com. For more information, visit http://www.tpan.com/ and http://www.positivelyaware.com/.     NAPWA Honors the Denver Principles The National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA) has launched the Denver Principles Project in honor of the Denver Principles, created 25 years ago by AIDS activists. The Denver Principles Project:  Enables you to directly manage your own health and healthcare Provides awareness of and access to information that improves your well-being. Creates a large social network that leads to a more fulfilling and connected life. Contributes to helping others in need. For more information or to get involved, visit NAPWA online or call (866) 846-9366.    Policy Papers from "Our Place at the Table" Available Online Many of the documents presented during "Our Place at the Table," a one-day policy institute held in Washington, DC, on January 19, are now available for download here. Pictures from the training, and the reception that followed, also are available online.   Nonprofit Times Names NMAC's Director of Development, a Top Fundraiser in the U.S.  Nonprofit Times, a national philanthropy publication, has named Alphonce Brown, NMAC's Director of Development, among the country's leading fundraisers. Read this article online. Click here to email this message to a friend. If you received this message from a friend and would like to receive NMAC Lifeline you can sign-up here. You received this email because you expressed interest in future email communications from us. 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NMAC ONLINE CALENDAR Visit NMAC's Online Calendar for more event and grant details. NMAC SOCIAL MEDIA/NETWORKING Join NMAC's Facebook group today!  NMAC’s YouTube.com Film Clip Library is available here. NMAC’s Online Photo Library is available here. UPCOMING EVENTS February 2009 NMAC's Webpage Honoring National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Premiers February 27, 2009 30th Annual Minority Health Conference: "Our World, Our Community: Building Bridges for Health Equality", Chapel Hill, NC   March 10, 2009 3rd Annual Women and HIV Conference, Baltimore, MD March 10, 2009 National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day March 12-14, 2009 AIDS in America, Fort Walton Beach, FL March 20, 2009 National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day March 12-14, 2009 AIDS in America, Palm Springs, CA, April 13-15 Testing Days Campaign Training April 16-18, 2008 HIV/STD Prevention in Rural Communities: Sharing Successful Strategies VI April 27-29, 2009 AIDSWatch, Washington, DC  May 18, 2009 HIV Vaccine Awareness Day May 19, 2009 National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day June 8, 2009 Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day June 27, 2009 National HIV Testing Day August 23 - 26, 2009  2009 National HIV Prevention Conference, Atlanta, GA September 27, 2009  Gay Men's HIV Awareness Day  October 15, 2009 National Latino AIDS Awareness Day December 1, 2009 World AIDS Day UPCOMING DEADLINES March 9, 2009  Transition from Prison to Community March 20, 2009  Cable Positive POP Award Applications Due April 1 & October 1, 2009  Tommy Hilfiger Foundation Grants for Health and Youth Proposals Due July 10, 2009 2009 USCA Scholarship Applications Due July 17, 2009 2009 USCA Early Participant Registrations Due July 17, 2009 2009 USCA Early Exhibitor Registrations Due