2025 AIDS Walk Atlanta Music Festival and 5K Run: Neighborhood Church - AIDS Walk Atlanta Music Festival & 5K Run

Neighborhood Church

The funds raised through this event directly support HIV/AIDS services for our friends and neighbors throughout Atlanta, contributing to local HIV & AIDS service organizations in the city.

The Neighborhood Church team is specifically fundraising for the NCCHR LGBT Institute. Our justice focus for church year 2024-2025 is to show God’s love by having a positive impact on the lives of un-housed trans youth. Neighborhood is proud to continue partnering with the Institute on creating spaces for LGBTQ youth to find belonging and joy.

Donating to the NCCHR LGBT Institute is crucial because it directly supports their mission to mobilize LGBTQ communities through advocacy and education, with a particular focus on the U.S. South. The Institute is an integral part of The National Center for Civil and Human Rights' global civil and human rights platform, ensuring that the ongoing struggle for LGBTQ rights is recognized as a vital part of human and civil rights history.

Here's why your support matters:

Advocacy and Policy Change: The Institute provides a steady spotlight to create a public imperative for policies that treat LGBTQ people equally and fairly, both in the South and globally. They work to build power through partnerships with institutions and leaders.
Youth Empowerment: The NCCHR LGBT Institute believes that young people, particularly Gen Z, are uniquely positioned to lead thoughtful and strategic change. They offer a Youth Advocacy Fellowship to guide, mentor, and support 16 young individuals (ages 16-30) nationally, connecting their professional aspirations to their social justice passions, such as public health, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and civil/human rights history. This initiative is especially critical given the immediate and urgent threats to transgender and non-binary community members, aiming to assert that transgender rights are both civil and human rights.
Addressing Vulnerability: The Institute's work helps to counter systemic challenges and increased health risks faced by transgender youth, who are significantly more likely to experience homelessness and struggle with housing, food, and safety. Their efforts also address the scarcity of explicitly affirming and inclusive resources for queer and trans individuals, which is compounded by current political movements targeting this population.
Historical and Cultural Education: The Institute is dedicated to combating the politicization of history by building history and heritage month pages to elevate marginalized LGBTQ leaders, especially queer students of color, trans, and non-binary students, which positively impacts their educational and psychological outcomes.

Your donation enables the NCCHR LGBT Institute to continue its vital programming, grant oversight, and logistical support, fostering a future where every young person has the chance to thrive and be met with compassion and respect.