Dining Out for Life Boston
Join us on Thursday, April 29, 2010, for Boston's first annual Dining Out for Life, benefiting Cambridge Cares About AIDS.
How it works
Participating restaurants donate 25% of your purchases on this one special evening to Cambridge Cares About AIDS, for HIV/AIDS care and prevention services to people from all over Greater Boston.
Get involved
Be a Host. Help us organize your favorite restaurant to participate, then get your friends to fill the seats. Be in the restaurant throughout the evening thanking people and encouraging them to make personal donations (about half the money raised comes from individual donations in the restaurants the night of the event).
Captain a Table. Plan to bring a party of 10 or more to one of the participating restaurants. Encourage them to make individual donations.
Spread the word, joining and inviting others to join the Facebook Group, recruiting your friends and family to be hosts or table captains, and generally sharing your enthusiasm.
Grab a friend and dine out at a participating restaurant. Enter to win the grand prize (to be announced soon)—and be sure to put a donation in that raffle envelope.
Why AIDS services still matter
5,444 people in Massachusetts are known to be living with HIV/AIDS. An additional 25% of people who are infected with HIV do not know it.
People who have HIV, but are not in regular care, use more expensive medical services and have poorer health outcomes than people who are able to adhere to their appointment and medication schedule.
Evidence shows that people who know their HIV+ status reduce their high-risk sexual behavior substantially. HIV continues to be spread primarily by people who do not know that they have it.
About Cambridge Cares About AIDS (CCA)
CCA provides services in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole to people from all over the Greater Boston area. Last year, CCA served over 3,500 people. 98% of CCA’s clients have incomes below the federal poverty level, and 75% are homeless or marginally housed.
Client Services programs extend easily accessible services to people who are living with HIV/AIDS, in order to improve health outcomes and increase practices of positive prevention. Prevention and Education programs provide down-to-earth outreach and proven programming to populations with the highest risk for HIV/AIDS.
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