The 2007 beneficiaries include:

AIDS Foundation Houston
AIDS Foundation Houston (AFH) was founded in 1982 as Texas' first organization dedicated to HIV prevention education and services. Our mission is to create positive social impact through the innovative management of HIV/AIDS and other chronic diseases. AFH values and respects each person's uniqueness and embraces the philosophy of equality in serving individuals and families in a non-discriminatory manner. In collaboration with clients, organizations, and funding partners. AFH endeavors to meet the needs of its clients through the design, implementation, and evaluation of globally significant programs. With innovative programs in education, disease prevention, and client services, AFH strives to eradicate HIV/AIDS and other chronic illnesses.

AssistHers
AssistHers uses a care team approach to provide non-medical in-home support to lesbians with chronic illness and/or disabilities. Additional programs include a client support group, case management, transportation, and food assistance. Founded over ten years ago, AssistHers has trained more than 600 volunteers (including several men) and donated thousands of hours of care to 80 critically ill lesbians.

Bering Omega Community Services
Bering Omega Community Services is a partnership formed in 1999 between Bering Community Service Foundation and Omega House. Since its formation, Bering Omega Community Services has set the standard in delivering an array of HIV related services in the Houston community. The organization’s mission statement is the following: To nurture the physical, emotional and spiritual well being of persons with critical health needs through compassionate programs and services. In addition to Omega House, Bering Omega Community Services offers the following services for individuals with AIDS: dental clinic, adult day care, financial assistance and network support.

Casa de Esperanza de los Niños
Casa de Esperanza de los Niños—the House of Hope for Children—is a safe place for children in crisis due to abuse, neglect or the effects of HIV. Casa de Esperanza provides residential, medical and psychological care according to the needs of each child. Counseling is also available to the parents in appropriate situations. Casa de Esperanza strives to break the destructive cycle of child abuse by offering safe homes to children of families in crisis. The goal of Casa de Esperanza is to return physically and emotionally healthy children to stabilized homes where caregivers can safely provide daily care.

Montrose Counseling Center
The Montrose Counseling Center is a nonprofit, community-based organization providing culturally affirming, quality, and affordable outpatient mental health, substance abuse treatment, and case management services, as well as education and research in Metropolitan Houston and surrounding areas. Services are provided primarily for and about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals and their significant others.

PFLAG/HATCH Youth Scholarship Fund
PFLAG Houston and HATCH (Houston Area Teen Coalition of Homosexuals) have jointly created the PFLAG/HATCH Youth Scholarship Foundation which offers a scholarship program to assist worthy youth in the Houston area in pursuing a college education. The scholarship program is for lesbian, gay bisexual or transgendered students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement while in high school or college. In addition to helping provide for higher education, PFLAG and HATCH hope that scholarship recipients will provide positive role models for other youth who cannot be open about their orientation. In July, 2006, a total of $107,000 was awarded in college scholarships to Houston-area students. The 2006 scholarships ranged in amount from $10,000 over four years to $2,000 over two years.

PFLAG
PFLAG works to keep families in loving relationships by helping them understand and support their gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered members. PFLAG also educates the public by seeking to dispel the myths and misinformation by working with educators, community and religious groups, the media, and the general public. As an advocate for equal rights, PFLAG works to broaden the base of support for equal human and civil rights by mobilizing millions of supporters from all political, economic, and social sectors of society.