The message that your friends will receive: Hello: I would like to introduce you to the African American Planning Commission (AAPCI) Inc., a community-based non-profit organization and their efforts to develop affordable housing for seniors and families living with HIV/AIDS. As new treatments continue to change the face of the AIDS epidemic and extend the lives of people with the disease, communities of color remain under constant siege. This does not have to be the case. The same strategies that have brought HIV/AIDS under control in more affluent neighborhoods: empowering people with housing and supportive on-site services can be equally effective and duplicated in many minority and depressed communities. Your financial support, combined with mine, will help ensure that infected individuals and their families have access to permanent housing with on-site support services so they can live their lives with dignity. Our donations will also help ensure that future generations - including children who have lost their parents to HIV/AIDS - are empowered with the knowledge they need to avoid contracting and transmitting the deadly disease. AAPCI is a registered 501(C)(3) nonprofit organization. All donations to the organization are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permissible by law. Please get involved and donate today. Visit http://aapci.org/services/edwin.html to learn more. Thank you.