Political Notes: 2015 saw increase in AIDS charitable giving

The following coverage of FCAA’s recent resource tracking report comes from the Bay Area Reporter

The amount of money raised from charitable donors to fight the global AIDS epidemic saw an annual increase of 10 percent in 2015, according to a new report. And in the U.S., California received more money than any other state.

Global philanthropic AIDS funding last year totaled $663 million, the highest level of funding since 2008, according to Funders Concerned About AIDS. The bulk of the money, nearly $168 million, went to programs in the U.S., with South Africa receiving the second highest amount of $33,830,167.

California alone received $17,271,905 of the funding, with New York seeing the second largest amount among U.S. states, more than $14.1 million.

The funders’ affinity group released its 14th annual Philanthropic Support to Address HIV/AIDS report Monday, December 5. It found that a total of 482 philanthropic funders in 16 countries made more than 7,300 grants for HIV/AIDS to approximately 4,000 grantees in 2015.

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