Important News & Updates

Put AoA on your Facebook profile!

You can now add Acting on AIDS to your Facebook profile! Promote AoA and give friends an opportunity to advocate for global AIDS funding through your profile! Just add the new Acting on AIDS application today!

This new application is the first on the Web to allow you to advocate Congress directly through Facebook. It will allow you to keep up with the latest News & Updates with Acting on AIDS, watch the latest AoA videos on YouTube, and virally invite your friends to join the movement.

Please get started today by...
- Signing up for the Acting on AIDS application on your profile.
- Advocate that Congress reauthorizes the Global AIDS Bill through the application.
- Invite your friends and chapter members to join the application and get their friends to join as well.

Also, check out our new Facebook Portal Page. There you will find everything that is AOA on Facebook - including links to our national and regional groups, various campus chapter groups, and the national leadership team's profiles. Be sure to look at the Facebook Portal Page often though... we'll have something new and exciting up real soon! If you have a campus chapter group, we'd love to link to it as well, just e-mail us the information. You can also check out our Welcome Packet's Guide to Mobilizing Your Campus through Facebook.

TOGETHER, we can create a movement!

FALL CAMPAIGN: Take the 6000 Challenge

World Vision's theme for World AIDS Day (Dec. 1) is 6,000 Reasons in honor of the 6,000 children who become orphaned every day because of AIDS, but preparation for World AIDS Day begins NOW. This Fall, join the 6,000 Challenge, to be completed by World AIDS Day. Beginning now, we challenge you to mobilize students on your campus and in your community to raise $6,000 and obtain 6,000 signatures for our fundraising and advocacy campaigns.

Campuses who meet this challenge will be invited to help us deliver advocacy petitions personally during a national lobby day in Washington, D.C., this spring. Follow this link to learn how your campus can get started!

"Do You See Orange?" is Sept. 24-28.

September 24-28 is the first-ever national "Do You See Orange?" week!

Dozens of colleges have already used this unique, creative activity to create awareness on their campus – but this will be the first-ever national date! Together, we can mobilize thousands of students to speak out on the impact AIDS is having on children in sub-Saharan Africa.

The goal of the "Do You See Orange?" campaign is to saturate your campus with basic awareness of the global AIDS pandemic through a visual representation of the impact AIDS is having on children in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a terrific way to begin a grassroots campus movement that demonstrates the reality that 1 out of every 20 children in sub-Saharan Africa is orphaned by AIDS.

Get started today - we need your information by SEPT. 4! Follow this link to learn more and find out how to order materials.

Broken Bread is Oct. 16!

Through our national day for the Broken Bread Poverty Meal on Tuesday., Oct. 16, we desire to continue to build our national network and create synergy between local, regional, and national groups in this fight against global AIDS and poverty. Tuesday, Oct. 16 is also World Food Day (WFD), which is a worldwide event designed to increase awareness, understanding, and informed, year-round action to alleviate hunger. What better way to commemorate this day than to unite in remembrance and action focused on global poverty and hunger? Join other campuses throughout the nation by hosting your Broken Bread meal on World Food Day!

Follow this link to learn more and find out how to order materials. It is also the date of Broken Bread on Capitol Hill, when congressional members and their staff will also participate in this meal. Be on the look out for more information about this and how you can be involved over the next couple weeks!

Know the Fall Schedule.

Keep these dates on your radar screen and plan accordingly. If you can’t participate during a national date, let us know, and we’ll work with you on alternatives.

• 6,000 Challenge—throughout the fall semester until World AIDS Day
• National “Do You See Orange?” Week—Sept. 24-28
• Chicago Marathon—Sunday, Oct. 7
• National Broken Bread Poverty Meal—Tuesday, Oct. 16
• World AIDS Day—Saturday, Dec. 1
• Stigma Project—Schedule for the spring!

Make sure to communicate with us as we continue to reinforce this national movement.