"Money, Staff Woes Hit Big Los Angeles Minority AIDS Group"

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"Money, Staff Woes Hit Big Los Angeles Minority AIDS Group"

Advocate (12/18/90) No. 566, P. 36
Ocamb, Karen

Abstract: The Los Angeles Minority AIDS Project (MAP), a prominent AIDS agency, faces debts of $150,000 to vendors and $70,000 to the Internal Revenue Service in payroll back taxes. The MAP serves a caseload of 186 poor, minority people with HIV on a budget of more than $1 million, 75 percent of which is provided by federal, state, and county contracts. The MAP also faces inner turmoil and the resignation of staff members, including Gil Gerald, its executive director. Rev. Carl Bean, the MAP's founder, said the problems stem from the difficulty of serving the special needs of the group's clientele on its budget. Gerald said the agency, a nonprofit outreach project of Bean's Unity Fellowship Church, has outgrown the church's capacity and Bean's skills and suffers from lack of clear fiscal oversight. He also said "muddled lines" of authority between the MAP and the church could endanger its government financing. Other sources say MAP suffers from the same chronic problems of other minority AIDS groups: chronic overwork and underfunding because of a lack of a deep donor base.

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