• Corporate Index: Human Rights Campaign Foundation
  Corporate Index (PDF)
  Webiste: www.hrc.org
  Email: Corporate Equality Index
  The Human Rights Campaign Foundation's eighth annual Corporate Equality Index shows an unprecedented 305 major U.S. businesses earned the top rating of 100 percent, up from 260 last year - despite the economic downturn. Detailed information on each employer rated is included in the report and on our employer database under "Employers with Corporate Equality Index rating.
• Breast Cancer Emergency Fund
  Women’s Cancer Resource Center of Oakland, CA (Serves CCC & Alameda Residents)
  Toll Free Help Line: 1-888-421-7900 (English & Spanish)
  Web site: www.wcrc.org
  Email: wcrc@wcrc.org
  Information & Referral Helpline;  Resource Library; Multicultural Outreach Program (African Americans, Latinas and other women of color);  in-home supportive services; Cultural & Healing Arts Programs, workshops & classes; peer support and referral; and financial assistance to low income women with breast cancer living in Alameda & Contra Costa Counties who are currently in treatment (up to $500.00/year).
• Craigslist
  www.craigslist.org
• GayJob
  www.gayjob.biz
  One of the leading companies representing the gay and lesbian community for job and career placement. Must become a member to search job postings.
• The Genard AIDS Foundation
  1630 North Main St #102,
  Walnut Creek, CA 94596
  Web site:  www.genard.org
  Email: support @genard.org
  Helpline: 925-943-AIDS (2437)
  The Genard AIDS Foundation provides services, support and education to people in Contra Costa County with HIV/AIDS, their families and loved ones, as they move through the trauma of living with HIV/AIDS, thereby providing them with the capacity to face death with dignity and peace.  Services include hospice volunteers, respite care, symptom management, home based care and financial assistance (individual grants requested by case manager, physicians and patient advocates ($100-1,000.00).
• Planetout
  www.planetout.com
  Online resource for the queer community with a section on money & careers.
• Positive Resource Center
  415.777.0333
  www.positiveresource.org
  Through culturally appropriate counseling, education and advocacy, assists people who are affected by or at risk for HIV/AIDS in making informed choices that maximize available benefits and employment opportunities.  (Benefits counseling only for SF County Residents—Employment Services also for Contra Costa Residents.)
• Progayjobs.com
  www.progayjobs.com
  Online job and resume search engine
• Visual Aid
  116 New Montgomery Street, Suite 640,
  San Francisco, CA 94105
  Ph: 415-777-8242
  Fax: 415-777-8240
  Email: visaid@visualaid.org
  Grants, supplies, and assistance to artists w/AIDS. The mission of Visual Aid is to encourage artists with life-threatening illnesses to continue their creative work. Visual Aid helps produce, present, and preserve the work of professional artists whose careers are challenged because of a life-threatening illness. We serve professional artists from the nine-county Bay Area, providing artists with direct services from art supplies to exhibitions and career development.
  
  

SF BAY AREA INANCIAL/EMPLOYMENT RSOURCES

• Brian McNaught
  www.brian-mcnaught.com
  Workplace trainings and writing on gay issues and the workplace.
• Equality Project
  415.425.8257
  www.equalityproject.org
  The Equality Project works to support and help monitor the adoption of written employee nondiscrimination policies on sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace by pressing companies to implement the progressive policies expressed in the Equality Principles (available in twelve languages).
• Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund
  www.lambdalegal.org
  The nation's oldest and largest legal organization working for the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, and people with HIV/AIDS.
• Out and Equal Workplace Advocates
  www.outandequal.org
  National organization, headquartered in San Francisco, to address GLBT issues in the workplace.
• Positive Resource Center
  785 Market Street, 10th Floor,
  San Francisco, CA
  415.777.0333
  Fax: 415.777.1770
  www.positiveresource.org
  Benefits Counseling and Employment Services for people living with HIV/AIDS. Full spectrum of vocational rehabilitation and employment services.
• The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Community Center
  1800 Market Street,
  San Francisco, CA
  415.865.5555
  www.sfgaycenter.org
  The Center provides free assistance with job searches, career growth, small business development, financial planning and security.
• San Francisco Mayor's Committee for Employment of Persons with Disabilities
  www.disability-employment-sf.org
  
  
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