title: New York City group leads the way toward a more optimistic future for ASOs. ASO went from near bankruptcy to $26 million.
abstract: A do-it-yourself AIDS social organization: AIDS service organizations are struggling because of tighter reins on government funding, but an alternative organization in New York City is showing how it can be done. It has developed a successful social entrepreneur program that employs HIV-infected clients, pays them living wages, and makes money from retail, food services, and medical care business entities, contributing three-quarters of the organization's revenues.
mesh_terms: D016361:Bankruptcy; D005381:Financing, Organized; D015658:HIV Infections; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D009519:New York City; D009939:Organizations, Nonprofit / Q000191:economics*; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D011057:Politics