
November 9, 2011
August 24, 2011
2011 AIDS Walk Run Roll-postponed
I regret to say that we have found it neccessary to postpone this years AIDS Walk Run Roll until the spring of 2012.
We will be providing all of you wonderful supporters with updated information as soon as it becomes avaiable. In the meantime, you can still be out there collecting donations for the event!
Thank you everyone for your continued support of the Greater Community AIDS Project
if you have any questions, please call 217/351-2437 or write info@gcapnow.com
June 18, 2009
About GCAP
August of 1985 found members of the local gay community banding together in response to the growing devastation of AIDS. First reported in 1981 in larger cities, 1984 found a small and growing number of cases appearing locally. People these men knew- their friends and acquaintances, were being diagnosed. They were alarmed and took action as a means of coping. By November those first few members of The Gay Community AIDS Project had written their articles of incorporation with five goals:
* Ascertain and express gay community concerns related to HIV/AIDS
* Keep ourselves informed to educate persons of ALL orientations about HIV
* Provide direct support services to Persons With AIDS and their loved ones
* Collaborate in these tasks with social service agencies and healthcare providers
* Raise funds (at first with donations and memorials) and later with grant writing
The founding board felt it imperative to include the word ‘gay’ in the title to let the larger community know the efforts were home-grown. GCAP was at the forefront of educating people of East Central Illinois about HIV/AIDS. The passage of time revealed that the disease affected all, not just gay white men, and the board felt it important to broaden the title. That controversial decision fostered our current name: The Greater Community AIDS Project.
Twenty five years later we are deeply indebted to these community leaders who had the foresight and energy to realize that sweeping HIV/AIDS under the table was not the answer. There is now a generation of people who learned about the disease from the efforts of GCAP.
Today, GCAP is as committed as ever and has expanded its original purpose. While some of the demographics of the disease have changed, we are still all brothers and sisters.
The GCAP office is open Monday – Friday from 10am-3pm
217.351.2437
217.351.2194
info@gcapnow.com
March 8, 2011
July 13, 2010
National AIDS Strategy Released
After nearly 18 months, President Obama has released the National AIDS Strategy and Implementation Plans.
Let us hope that having finally secured a domestic plan there can be some decrease in the more than 54,00 new infections each year.
Click here for the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States
July 7, 2010
The Positive Project
Here is a great resource in which HIV positive people tell their own stories about living with HIV and AIDS. Click here to be taken to the website. (a new window will open)
June 30, 2010
June 15, 2010
Artists Against AIDS Photos
Check our our Facebook page to see pictures of this years Artists Against AIDS show.
(click on the word Facebook to be taken directly there, a new window will open)

