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  • Special Invitation - Ryan Adams Event to Benefit Housing Works Photo

    Special Invitation - Ryan Adams Event to Benefit Housing Works

    RYAN ADAMS DEBUT COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL PAINTINGS AT MORRISON HOTEL GALLERY MORRISON HOTEL’S FIRST ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, ADAMS WILL ALSO CREATE NEW PIECES IN GALLERY’S BOWERY SPACE TO BENEFIT THE HOUSING WORKS BOOKSTORE CAFE WHO: Acclaimed musician/songwriter/author Ryan Adams WHAT: Opening of first major exhibition of original paintings WHERE: Morrison Hotel Gallery, 313 Bowery (at Bleecker St.), NYC WHEN: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Critically lauded songwriter Ryan Adams will debut a new collection of his…
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    • Categorized as: Membership
    • Posted by Membership on August 28, 2009 at 7:28pm
  • Get your AIDSVote on Photo

    Get your AIDSVote on

    Why does Bill de Blasio opposed HASA for All? What will David Yassky do to make sure more people get tested for HIV? Find out the answers to these and other questions as candidates in the 2009 election for New York City Comptroller and Public Advocate participate in a community forum focused on AIDS issues facing New York City on Tuesday, September 1 from 4pm to 6pm at Restoration Plaza in Brooklyn (1368 Fulton Street;…
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    • Posted by Diana Scholl on August 27, 2009 at 8:20pm
  • Member Spotlight Photo

    Member Spotlight

    September 9 through 13, Bob Graubard will bike 500 miles over the course of five days for Ride FAR, an HIV/AIDS Bike-a-thon. And while he is anticipating aches and pains, he is enduring to support AIDS prevention and services and is expecting to raise thousands of dollars for Housing Works, more than qualifying him to become a Housing Works Member. Read more about Bob’s story Follow Bob’s lead and MAKE AN ADDITIONAL GIFT TO HOUSING…
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    • Categorized as: Membership
    • Posted by Membership on August 24, 2009 at 6:07pm
  • Action Alert:Tell Senators Healthcare Reform Must Include Medicaid Parity for U.S. Territories! Photo

    Action Alert:Tell Senators Healthcare Reform Must Include Medicaid Parity for U.S. Territories!

    While the U.S. government covers at least 50 percent of the bill for states’ Medicaid funding, it caps the amount of Medicaid dollars it will give to U.S. territories. This discrepancy severely limits territories’ funding streams, and means that in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa, only the poorest citizens qualify for Medicaid and people, including those living with HIV/AIDS and other diseases are the ones who suffer.…
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  • Ryan White Must be Extended—Then Fixed Photo

    Ryan White Must be Extended—Then Fixed

    The current Ryan White Care Act is up for reauthorization on September 30. So Congress must take action ASAP to make sure the Ryan White CARE Act extends another year so people with HIV/AIDS continue to get to receive care—and Obama and HHS Secretary Sebelius must put pressure on them to do so (see action alert below, for who to call and what to say). But while Housing Works recommends using the fixes recommended by…
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  • Member Spotlight Photo

    Member Spotlight

    September 9 through 13, Bob Graubard will bike 500 miles over the course of five days for Ride FAR, an HIV/AIDS Bike-a-thon. And while he is anticipating aches and pains, he is enduring to support AIDS prevention and services and is expecting to raise thousands of dollars for Housing Works, more than qualifying him to become a Housing Works Member. Read more about Bob’s story Follow Bob’s lead and make an additional gift to Housing Works
    • Categorized as: Membership
    • Posted by Membership on August 10, 2009 at 4:45pm
  • Rare Book Feature of the Week! Photo

    Rare Book Feature of the Week!

    “This volume is meant for the lover of the wild, free, lonely life of the wilderness, and of the hardy pasttimes known to the sojourners therein.” So goes Theodore Roosevelt’s foreward to The Deer Family, his typically boisterous collection of essays about the deer and antelope of North America. Along with his observations of the animals under study, Roosevelt engages in the spiralling digressions for which is prose is so well-known, such as these remarks…
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