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Mujeres Unidas was selected as an Americus Diamond Circle of Support Diamond Pendant recipient....look for raffle ticket sales soon!

Estimated retail value $2500.00

Tickets now available, drawing is Dec 1, 2011, tickets are 1 for $5 or 5 for $20. Call or visit the office for more details.

Mission

The Mission of Mujeres Unidas, Inc. is to provide education and support services to the communities faced with HIV /AIDS and other health concerns in a bilingual / bicultural familial environment.

History

Originally known as Mujeres Unidas Contra el SIDA (translated as Women United Against AIDS) Mujeres was founded in 1994 as a bilingual/ bicultural support group to serve Latinas (primarily Mexican-American) who were HIV-infected and/or affected in San Antonio, Texas and had no support system.

After almost three years of operating as the only bilingual/bicultural support group for Latinas, Mujeres decided to apply for funding under the fiscal sponsorship with another Latino community based organization, Center for Health Policy Development, Inc. The first funding that Mujeres received was from the Ms. Foundation for Women in the amount of $10,000.00. After three years of this level of funding, Mujeres evaluated its growth pattern and decided to build on its strengths and have the women from the support group who had become empowered to function as peer educators by reaching out to other women in need. This challenged Mujeres to seek other funding that would eventually broaden its scope of services. The Outreach and Education component was launched and began in 2000. In May 2003, Mujeres received its 501 (c) 3 non-profit status. Since then, we have attempted to add to this component with our various programs with the specific goal of ensuring that all are culturally competent.

Three other groups have emerged from the women’s group, Entre Familia (Among Family) - monthly support group sessions for families to come together and receive support from other family members of people living with HIV/AIDS; weekly support group sessions for HIV-impacted women, entitled Mujeres’ Writing / Artistic Circle; and weekly support group sessions for HIV-positive Latino men who are primarily Spanish speaking entitled Amigos Sin Fronteras (Friends Without Borders).

Support Groups

Weekly Support Group Session

Thursday evenings - women, infected/affected by HIV/AIDS
Saturday mornings - children; Niños Unidos Contra el SIDA (Children United Against AIDS) meets the needs of children who are HIV-impacted
Monday afternoons - Spanish-speaking men who are living with HIV/AIDS. Amigos Sin Fronteras

Monthly Support Group Session

First Thursday of the month - for families to come together and receive support from other family members of people living with HIV/AIDS. Families (“Entre Familia”)

Outreach and Education

Las Adelitas Program

This project provides HIV/AIDS Outreach and Prevention/Education services through community presentations. Presenters include members of Mujeres Unidas who have been certified through American Red Cross.

Madrina (Godmother)

This project allows experienced members of Mujeres Unidas living with HIV/AIDS who assist newly diagnosed women to learn coping strategies and healthy behaviors. Madrinas provide education and mentorship to those Latinas who face the challenge of learning about their chronic illness. Through this educational experience, the women will learn to make positive life changes and adaptations.

Pláticas

Mujeres Unidas is funded by the Pfizer through the Southern HIV AIDS Prevention Initiative to conduct plátícas in the form of focus groups and small group presentations to Latinas and their families. The focus groups are intended to solicit discussion on how Latino parents can best educate their children/adolescents about HIV, STDs, drugs, abstinence, condoms, and HIV testing. The small group presentations, target Latinas, which addresses a basic understanding of issues pertaining to HIV/AIDS and take place in private homes or other settings and include an incentive offered to the host/hostess and their participants.

Project SEEK

Mujeres Unidas is currently collaborating with the Center for Health Care Services on Project SEEK. The focus of this project is to seek out people living with HIV, who experience substance abuse, mental health problems, and or homelessness and have fallen out of medical care services. The primary goal of this project is to enroll these clients back into care .

Project Hoy en Adelante

Project Hoy en Adelante is a nationwide diabetes prevention program that uses theater-based peer education to reduce diabetes in Latinas ages 18-44, which is funded by the National Latina Health Network. It will train Latino educators to use teatro as a medium to reach Latinas at-risk for diabetes.

Project SAY!

Project SAY! is a nationwide HIV prevention program that uses theater-based peer education. Mujeres Unidas has recruited and trained a group of Youth Peer educators (Voices for Choices) whose main goal is to identify different venues for educating Latino Youth at-risk for HIV/AIDS.

Our program is never off the clock...

Our ATC Fund Raiser programs are designed to assist 501(c) corporations to earn funds online using the Internet. By using the Internet and Inetrnet Marketing Techniques (IMT) as a main media and method; we can utilize resources 24 hours a day 365 ays a year.

The ATC Fund raiser provides a portal for access to thousands of products you use in your daily life. As the ATC portal is used by friends and family you generate funds for your fundraiser.

The portal has products that individual use on a daily basis, making the portal and easy place to spend money you would normal spend anytime. The advantage is your family and friends can recomend the portal to their family and friends, making your fundraiser a larger success than expected.

Some benefits offered by the Portal: The Portal may be accessed from anywhere you can access the internet. Shipping is direct to the buyer, no products ot handle or return. No money to collect, all payments are made online. All you have to do is sirtback and promote your fundraiser.

Another powerful benefit; we help you promote your fundraiser using Internet technequies and strategies, at no charge.

When you start, we sit down and go through some techniques and strategies that would immediatelly impact your organization and then what strategies and techniques to use in the future.

Our Fundraising Program - "Make the Differance"

Our “Make a Difference” program permits anyone to help in many different ways. The Make the Difference program in a way for the community to volunteer their time and talents, make cash donations and help with our fund-raising activities and events.

Our Benefits Program provides a service that recognizes you as individual or company who is “Making a Difference”. The Benefits Program allows us to promote you as a “Make a Difference” partner.

Our Benefits Program promotes all our activities, fundraising and event efforts via the Internet. This allows all our activities and events to be available to our communities, families and friends.

It can be said that events and fundraisers are the life blood of any nonprofit organization. Fundraising is part art and part science and you have to be able to find the right combination within your board, clients you serve and within the community you serve, in order to make it work. There is no one size fits all solution.

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This Benefit Program helps to raise money for all our annual expenses. The Benefit Program is available on a continuous basis, day after day, week after week and year after year. Use an online benefits program that works on a perpetual and continuous basis without having to start and stop the program.

Every contribution, no matter what the size, will help make the difference in our success. We at Mujeres recognize that volunteers and contributors are very important and critical to our success. We want to thank you by providing something of value in return. When you become a volunteer, donor, contributor of a product or service or make a cash donation we want to recognize you in our monthly electronic newsletter.

Our Working Grants

Grants provide a source of income to an organization for services they provide to complete or help complete a grant project.

Grants may be issued by non-profit organizations, commercial organizations, county, state and federal government agencies.

Grants are normally for a period of time and a special amount of money, for specific services that an organization may offer.

We are a 501c organization and work hard to prepare and solicate grants from many differant organizations and agencies. We are proud of our work on the grants we have been involved with. Our Board of directors, staff and clients are serious abotut the type of work we do and how we contribute to the community.

Grants information collected is normally under a confidentality agreement, however please stop by and talk to us about the type of grants we work with and how they help the community and our clients.

Please free to visit our Online Grant NewLetter for more information about the grants we are working on. Our Online Grant Newletter

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