In 2000, as a follow-up to Philanthropy and AIDSA

In 2000, as a follow-up to Philanthropy and AIDS: Assessing the Past, Shaping the
Future and part of FCAA’s remobilization campaign, FCAA embarked on a more
qualitative research project called the Funder Remobilization Project (FRP). The goal of
this work was to create an even greater critical understanding of the current and
possible future state of HIV/AIDS grantmaking and significant trends in the
philanthropic field. The results were presented in FCAA’s publication Voices from the
Field: Remobilizing HIV/AIDS Philanthropy for the 21st Century. This publication not
only made the case for enhanced grantmaker leadership on HIV/AIDS domestically and
globally, but also reported important research results showing that many foundations
were not moving away from AIDS, but rather were developing innovative ways to
continue funding HIV/AIDS-related issues by incorporating HIV/AIDS into other funding
categories or collaborating with various grantmaking institutions to pool resources (See
Appendix I for executive summary of Voices from the Field).45
After several years of remobilization efforts, FCAA’s latest research shows a marked
improvement in foundation commitment to HIV/AIDS grantmaking. As the data in the
following section indicate, philanthropy responded increasingly well, at least through
2000, to the many challenges AIDS posed in Africa, Asia and Latin America and also
right here in the United States.