Chefs and the City, Chicago's much-anticipated annual dining extravaganza, is back! Join Honorary Chairs Amanda Puck and Jesse Garza as you dine on food created by some of the city's most sought-after chefs in the chic surroundings of the Peninsula Hotel. Sample great food, sip fine wine, try specially created Grey Goose cocktails, and nibble on a fabulous dessert (or two). An Exclusive After-Party will be held from 10:30 p.m. until Midnight at RL Restaurant.
Read More about Chefs and Buy Your Tickets Today!
Where would you turn to rebuild your life? Strengthen your body? Lift your spirits?
Vital Bridges. Bridges to health. Bridges to hope.
In 1988, an HIV diagnosis for most was a death sentence. Today, HIV is still incurable but those who have the disease – whether rich or poor – can lead fruitful and fulfilling lives with the right medications and resources.
Vital Bridges – at the forefront of helping men, women and children impacted by HIV and AIDS build healthier lives for twenty years.
AnnouncementsSAVE THE DATE for Chefs and the City!
Chicago's much-anticipated annual dining extravaganza is back! Join us for Chefs and the City on Friday, July 24, 2009 at The Peninsula Hotel. EARLY BIRD SPECIAL UNTIL JULY 1st! Click here to purchase tickets or learn more.
VITAL BRIDGES Celebrates 20 Years
What started as preparation and delivery of a simple holiday meal on December 24, 1988 has grown into an organization of over 500 volunteers and 30 professional staff that serves nearly 2,000 people impacted by HIV and AIDS in the Chicago metropolitan area each year. Over the past 20 years, Vital Bridges has provided nearly 10 million meals, more than 600,000 nights of shelter and 250,000 hours of counseling to over 10,000 clients.
You Shop and Vital Bridges Gets a Donation!
Here's a new easy way to raise money for Vital Bridges throughout the year. Do your shopping through GoodShop.com shopping mall, where you can shop at more than 900 top online retailers and a percentage of your purchases will go to us. You pay the same price as you normally would, but a donation goes to Vital Bridges!
Here's the web site — http://www.goodsearch.com. You can also read about GoodShop in the NY Times, Oprah Magazine, CNN, ABC News and the Wall Street Journal.
HIV News/Resources02/01/2009
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It didn’t surprise Dr. Joseph U. Becker, chief resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital’s emergency department, when the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that some 1.1 million people nationwide are living with H.I.V. Read More...
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Spring 2009
Celebrating 20 years!
Twenty years ago, Vital Bridges was born in the throes of an epidemic that was killing our friends, colleagues and neighbors, and a city and country that were slow to respond. Download Newsletter_ 
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