SFGate reports via North Dallas Thirty:
The Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund will donate $1 million to 14 Bay Area AIDS organizations that have been pinched by tighter federal budgets and may face severe cuts in the coming years. . . .
The San Francisco philanthropist and his late wife, Rhoda, are internationally renowned for the $125,000 prizes awarded to each of six "grassroots heroes" chosen every year for their work on environmental causes. Since 1951, however, their foundation also has distributed $450 million to various Bay Area charities and international organizations involved in environmental issues and Jewish affairs.
On Friday, which is designated World AIDS Day by the United Nations, the Goldman Fund will formally announce the 14 grants. They range from $250,000 for Project Open Hand -- which provides groceries and cooked meals to homebound patients with AIDS and other diseases -- to $25,000 for the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park.
None of the recipients had applied for the grants.
"It came out of the blue. We were literally jumping up and down,'' said Bob Brenneman, director of development for Project Open Hand.
And that's what it's all about.
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