Thank you to our supporters for helping to make 2006 a great
year! Below are just a few of Asian & Pacific Islander
Wellness Center’s accomplishments for 2006.
Download the 2006 year end
review.
Distinction :: Honored by: Mayor Gavin
Newsom (for contributions to the LGBT A&PI communities),
Asian Women’s Shelter
(Ally Award), and Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (Douglas Yaranon
Community Ally Award). John Manzon-Santos received the Award
of Courage from the American Foundation for AIDS Research
(amFAR).
Local/National Visibility :: In May, then Surgeon General,
Richard H. Carmona, and actors Jason Scott Lee and Honey
Labrador participated in our Banyan Tree Project’s
National A&PI HIV/AIDS Awareness Day activities. We produced
weekly radio spots on Energy 92.7fm reaching high-risk A&PIs
who had never accessed HIV services. We launched the US A&PI
HIV/AIDS, Health, and Social Services Directory, a web-based
resource listing of all HIV-related services in the US and
Pacific Island Jurisdictions.
International Expertise :: Staffer Carlos Bermudez was invited
by the Naz Foundation and UNAIDS to New Delhi, India, to
join experts and activists from 22 countries in Asia Pacific
and over 8 other countries from around the world to address
HIV in MSM communities; and Executive Director Lance Toma
was invited to Kyoto, Japan, to share best practices in HIV
prevention and research for MSM communities.
Accountability :: Demonstrating our fiscal integrity, our
FY2006 audit continued our track record of over 10 years
of “clean” audits.
Building the Future :: With the generosity of Ed Tang, $16,000
in Queer A&PI Pride Scholarships were awarded to 15 Bay
Area youth, the most awards in seven years. We expanded our
East Bay services with a new, larger site in Oakland at 350
Frank Ogawa Plaza; we also continue to serve clients in our
Daly City satellite office. We won a three-year contract
from the California State Office of AIDS to continue and
expand our California Statewide Treatment Education Program,
a State-required HIV certification training conducted in
English and Spanish.
Leadership :: In fall, 2006, we bid farewell to former Executive
Director John Manzon-Santos and, after a national search
conducted by A&PI Wellness Center’s Board of Directors,
hired and transitionedlong-time Deputy Director Lance Toma
into the position of Executive Director to lead us into our
third decade. Two new members joined our Leadership Council:
Community Advocate Claudine Cheng and Former NFL Football
Star Esera Tuaolo. We built organizational leadership through
completion of year one of our three-year Evelyn and Walter
Haas, Jr. Fund Flexible Leadership Award, awarded to recognize
and invest in our “outstanding organizational leadership.”
Outgoing
Executive Director John Manzon-Santos and Incoming Executive
Director Lance Toma.
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