On Thursday, December 8, PVH team members came to Alliance to wrap almost 100 holiday presents. These wiil be distributed at our holiday event this Wednesday, December 14. Thank you, PVH, for wrapping with love! All Photos: David Nager / Alliance
12/06/22 Lunch at Midtown Central
Alliance provides approximately 20,000 nutritious meals to our program participants throughout the year, and thousands more bags of healthy pantry goods. This Tuesday, we were gifted a delicious assortment of fruit, vegetables, muffins, and more than fed 50 program participants. Thank you to Paine Schwartz Partners for generously sponsoring this meal.



Icahn School of Medicine Assembles Safer Sex Kits at Alliance
Always a backbone of Alliance’s work, we have reopened in-person volunteer opportunities, and on Wednesday, November 30, it was time to bring in the volunteer calvary. Faculty and students at IFH (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Family Medicine Residency Program) assembled over 150 safer sex kits at Alliance Midtown Central. Thank you, IFH!
All photos: David Nager/Alliance
World AIDS Day at Alliance
In commemoration of World AIDS Day, Alliance hosted a full day’s slate of events in-person and virtual. The day started with a reading of names, then a poets cafe, a coordinated red balloon release at multiple sites, a roundtable discussion of HIV, stigma, and culture, tabling, and testing at multiple sites.

Peer Training Cycle 59 Graduation
On Monday, November 28, Alliance was proud to celebrate the graduates of our Peer training Cycle 59: Carmen C., Crystal C., Davvillion F., James J., Jeanette W., Khadija H., Lee S., Lydia B., Malia S., Marvelyn B., Milton G., Nadege B., Nildi R. A., Rare-Pearl Paul M., and Wayne M.
The ceremony was held at The Door, and featured remarks from graduates, Alliance Peer trainers, Alliance CEO Sharen Duke, COO Brenda Starks-Ross, former Peer graduate and current staff member Jarius Oxendine, and Board Member Stephen Gass.
All photos: David Nager/Alliance