February 28, 2023

PRC Brief: Black History Month Highlight — Sylvester

As Black History Month comes to a close, we’d like to highlight someone with profound significance to PRC. Sylvester, “Queen of Disco”, was known for his gender-bending persona and performances, flamboyant and androgynous appearance, falsetto singing voice, and hit disco singles in the late 1970s and 1980s. An inspiration to countless LGBTQ+ people, Sylvester was […]

February 16, 2023

Introducing PRC Brief: Our commitment to you

With new leadership and a new year, we wanted to rethink our communicationsto you, so we’re launching PRC Brief — shorter, more frequent, and moreengaging bites of content to keep you informed. We also recently surveyed you, our dedicated supporters, and we heard you. You want to know what’s going on with PRC You want […]

January 26, 2023

PRC Names Chuan Teng as New CEO

As a valued supporter, we wanted you to be among the first to know: we areelated to formally announce that PRC’s Board of Directors has appointed ChuanTeng as the permanent Chief Executive Officer of PRC! Since September, Chuan has served in this role on an interim basis andchartered a path to organizational sustainability by strengthening […]

October 27, 2022

An interview with retiring PRC CEO Brett Andrews

After two decades of visionary leadership, PRC’s Chief Executive Officer Brett Andrews has decided to retire. Since stepping into the role in 2003, Brett has grown PRC from a staff of 18 and an annual operating budget of $1.25 million to a staff of more than 300 and an annual budget of more than $30 […]

October 7, 2022

Brett Andrews Reflects on His Decades of Service at PRC Following the Announcement of His Retirement

Donna Sachet; the Queen of the Castro, fundraising powerhouse, fierce LGBTQ+ advocate, and longtime friend of PRC – recently interviewed PRC’s Brett Andrews to give readers of her SF Bay Times column a chance to learn more about how Brett views his twenty years of leadership at PRC. Give it a read and you’re sure […]

September 28, 2022

Joanie Juster, A Super Volunteer, Advocate, and All-Around Beautiful Human Being!

Last spring, we sat down with Joanie Juster, one of our super volunteers, who was previously on staff and served on the board of the AIDS Emergency Fund (AEF), the precursor to PRC’s Emergency Financial Assistance (EFA) program. Joanie has supported AEF, PRC, and so many SF nonprofits since the early 1980s. When we spoke, […]

September 28, 2022

“Those little moments when you realize that you were a part of this client’s meaningful change, there’s no better feeling than that.” 

For decades, AIDS Emergency Fund (AEF), the predecessor to PRC’s Emergency Financial Assistance (EFA), was guided by the expertise of Lee Harrington (will link to Lee’s blog post), who retired in December 2021 after more than 24 years in the role. Before he left, however, Lee single-handedly chose his successors to ensure that the program’s […]

June 30, 2022

A Letter from PRC CEO Brett Andrews

As we mark the end of our 2021-22 fiscal year – and what a year it has been – I can’t help taking stock of all that we have accomplished together, most recently a fabulously successful, in-person (for the first time in three years!) Pride Brunch, as well as some tremendous new sources of funding […]

June 13, 2022

Brett Andrews is honored as one of the San Francisco Business Times Outstanding Voices of 2022

April 26, 2022

Alisa Jackson, An Advocate for All!

“I get to see clients grow, access benefits, find housing, and become stable. It’s been really gratifying to work for PRC this long.” For many of PRC’s clients, Alisa Jackson is the first person they interact with on their quest for support. Having advocated for herself and countless others for nearly two decades, she’s appropriately […]

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