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When San Francisco activists use the derisive term "AIDS Inc" to describe the AIDS bureaucracy, it is shorthand for the collection of nonprofit service agencies, the enormous number of DPH AIDS Office staffers, myriad HIV programs at UC San Francisco, and all the outside consultants who advise the many public panels in town set up to deal with AIDS.
AIDS Inc, in the eyes of many PWAs and health advocates, is often seen as devoted more to keeping itself afloat and the executives and staffers working within the group getting good salaries, than to meeting the many needs of PWAs.
And speaking of salaries, a friend, also gay and living with HIV, recently asked me how much a certain AIDS executive director was earning and I told him the figure was over $100,000, which seems to be the creepy norm among top AIDS careerists. My PWA pal was horrified and after he got over his shock, asked me to give a snapshot of currently available information on salaries of key AIDS executives and staffers in San Francisco. I agreed to do this for my friend.
These are the salaries for assorted AIDS executives and leaders in San Francisco, from source materials including IRS 990 filings on GuideStar, articles from the Bay Area Reporter and applications by SF DPH for federal HIV/AIDS dollars.
Some key names are missing from the list, such as Jimmy Loyce, the head of DPH's AIDS Office, and Michelle Long-Dixon, the AIDS Office's director for Ryan White CARE Act funded services. Sunshine Act requests for that information has been requested and once I have their salaries confirmed, I will add the data to this list.
I've said it before, but it needs repeating. These salaries are excessive and come at the expense of unmet needs of PWAs. As the city grapples with new restrictions on federal AIDS housing subsidies, and PWAs in SRO hotels are in jeopardy of losing a roof over their heads during this cold season, we must ask, again, that folks making over 6-figures cut their pay and divert the money to help PWAs keep or get housing.
Here are the numbers:
Private Sector:
AIDS Emergency Fund
Mike Smith, ED
$115,010
AIDS Legal Referral Panel
Bill Hirsh, ED
$73,099
API Wellness Center
John Manzon-Santos, ED
$104,086
Black AIDS Coalition on AIDS
Perry Lang, ED
$70,600
Catholic Charities
Brian Cahill, ED
$182,896 (versus SF AIDS Foudation's ED salary of $212,565.)
Total revenue FY 2005: $38.7 million (versus SFAF FY05 revenue of $23 million.)
Continuum HIV Daycare Service
Tiffany Mock-Goeman, ED
$119,527
Continuum HIV Daycare Services
Laura Thomas, Government Grants Coordinator
$78,316
Maitri Hospice
Tim Patriarca, ED
$95,594
Native American AIDS Project
Joan Benoit; ED
No IRS 990 available on GuideStar
Positive Resource Center
Brett Andrews, ED
$112,616
Project Open Hand
Tom Nolan, ED
$164,341
Project Open Hand
Antonio Choy-Koo, CFO
$106,023
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Mark Cloutier, ED 2005 - 2006
$170,000
SFAF
Lance Henderson, Acting ED 2004 - 2005
$212,565 (versus Catholic Charities' ED salary of $182,896.)
Total agency revenue FY 2005: $23 million (versus Catholic Charities' FY05 revenue of $38.7 million.)
SFAF
Steven Tierney, Public Policy Director
$155,000
SFAF
Daniel Crawley, CFO
$149,993
SFAF
Katherine Miessner, Budget Director
$135,015
SFAF
Fred Dillion, Policy Director
$131,872
SFAF
William Bland, HIV Prevention Programs
$114,695
SFAF
Sue Gallego, Client Services Director
$114,585
Shanti Project
Kevin Burns
$82,805
Stop AIDS Project
Robert McMullin, ED
$103,430
Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center
Tracey Brown, ED
No current IRS 990; Last available year on GuideStar is for 1997
UCSF Sector:
AIDS Health Project
James Dilley, ED
$159,600
SF DPH AIDS Office:
Vacant, Director of HIV Prevention
$145,041
Tracey Packer, Senior Health Educator
$117,070
John Melichar, Health Program Coordinator
$106, 696
William Gaitan, Administrative Analyst
$95,372
Lisa Reyes, HPPC Meetings Coordinator
$93,982
Michael Paquette, Gay Men's Health Educator
$89,506
Betty Chan-Lew, Meetings and Management Coordinator
$87,777
Israel Nieves-Rivera, Health Planner
$86,082
Vincent Fuqua, Gay Men's Health Educator
$84,997
Joseph Imbriani, Gay Men's Health Educator
$73,266
Jenna Rapues, Gay Men's Health Educator
$73,266
Oscar Mascias, Gay Men's Health Educator
$66,452
Doug Sebesta, Epidemiologist
$35,803