WHY JOIN THE FC?

Why should you invest in MTA’s Founder’s Club today?

 

Because of our Programs:

  • MTA reaches over 37,000 community members with our testing, outreach, and education services on an annual basis.
  • MTA’s 45 Peer Educators provide information on HIV prevention to 8,000 youth annually.
  • Our Social Marketing Campaign, REALtalkDC, is designed by youth, for youth to increase HIV testing and access to condoms.
  • MTA’s clinical team works to test over 1,700 individuals every year for HIV and STIs and provides risk reduction counseling.
  • MTA’s Schools Team works in DC’s Public and Charter Schools to educate 2,000 7th and 10th graders each year.

 

Because of our Youth and Staff:

  • Our long-time Executive Director, Adam Tenner, was the 2012 recipient of the prestigious Ryan White Award for Service to Prevent HIV/AIDS to honor his lifetime commitment to AIDS prevention.
  • MTA’s Schools Services Manager Christopher Barnhill was featured at the International AIDS Conference in the documentary Passing the Torch, as a young leader in the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic
  • Six MTA youth partnered with the local theater, Arena Stage, to write, produce, and perform their own play Pulled Apart throughout the spring and summer of 2012, to express what it’s like coming of age in DC.
  • MTA was chosen as the sole beneficiary at the 2012 BET Honors, representing the face of DC youth across the nation.