AIDS RIDE 2009

Thank you! ... Our 1st AIDS Ride was a great success raising over $7,800 for our programs...

Sign Up Online!... You can still support the Ride efforts on line and Riders can check their donations on this link... Get involved as a Sponsor or a Rider, or make a donation on behalf of a rider!

This ride on the Legacy Trail is more than 12 miles in length, the trail runs from just south of the City of Sarasota to Venice following the former CSX railroad corridor.  Our ride is a 25 mile ride if you ride to Venice and back but for beginners you can stop and rest at any of the 15 rest areas and return to the beginning at your leisure.  Get your friends together, wash off that old bike and join in the fun.

Sign up online now and print out a donation sheet.  You have plenty of time to gather small donations from your friends, family and co-workers.  In no time you will be able to add $500 to the HIV/AIDS work done by Trinity Charities.

Walk Date: November 22 Collected to date: $16,119 Walkers to date: 635

AIDS Walk 2008

Sign Up Online!... Be a part of the 3rd Annual Sarasota/Manatee AIDS Walk to benefit Trinity Charities. Get involved as a Sponsor or a Walker, or make a donation on behalf of a walker!

Pictures from last years Walk

The Walk scheduled for Saturday November 22, 2008 is being co-chaired jointly by Trinity Charities and New College. Teams are now being formed and over 500 walkers are expected. Learn More.

Got Donations?...Trinity Charities has launched a new website to help match up unwanted household items with clients needing general household or kitchen furnishings.  The new website is GotDonations.com.

Homecare and Healthcare professionals match your donation with people who can use them,

If you have something that you would like to donate and you want to find a good home for it, this is the place to start.  All you have to do is post your donated item right on this new website and our core of homecare and healthcare professionals will be able to see the listing and match it to an appropriate home. 

Local items may be delivered or picked up.

The 2nd Annual HIV Community Forum... took place on Saturday,

April 26, 2008.  Once again we were able to use the beautiful USF Campus Auditorium. A record number of over 100 people attended. The audience was made up of people who are HIV positive, family and friends of positive individuals and AIDS organization workers.  The costs of the event were covered by Tibotic Therapeutics and Gilead Sciences. The topics covered were Nutrition, Legal Matters, Life-style, Mental Health, Medical and Fitness.  This has become a workship that the community looks forward to and will be an annual commitment of Trinity.

The Calamus Foundation awards two new grants to Trinity Charities...

The Calamus Foundation awarded a second year renewal grant of $25,000 for the continuation of our Neurotransmitter Study under the program directorship of Eve Plews. Based on extremely encouraging first year progress the study and the nutritional supplements provided have improved clients mood management, reduced anxiety, reduced depression and improved the ability to sleep for those with AIDS participating in the study.

The Foundation awarded a second new $25,000 grant also under the direction of Eve Plews for the study of Vitamin D supplements as they effect HIV positive patients with chronic inflammation, bone loss due to poor digestion and absorption and abnormal immune responses.

Program Director Eve Plew directs our monthly Healthy People With AIDS Program (HPWA Program).  Read more about the HPWA Program