Minority AIDS Project (MAP) of Los Angeles was established in 1985 by Archbishop Carl Bean, D.Min, Jewel Thais-Williams, and members of the Unity Fellowship of Christ Church.
[2] MAP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that offers free of charge HIV/AIDS education, medical treatment, and support services to all people, regardless of age, gender, race, or other circumstances.
[7] Bean worked with “a core group of black women in L.A.” (including local business owner Jewel Thais-Williams), to establish the Minority AIDS Project (MAP) in 1985.
[18] In 1988, MAP and Dionne Warwick hosted a special concert event, “Coming Home for Friends,” that featured performances by Al Jarreau, Natalie Cole, Patti LaBelle, and others, and raised $150,000 for the AIDS organization.
[19][20] [21] The following year, MAP and Warwick partnered to host “Coming Home for Friends 2,” that featured entertainment by Natalie Cole, Clifton Davis, Howard Hewett, Thelma Houston, Keith Pringle and other celebrities.
[13] That same year, the Social and Public Art Resource Center sponsored and commissioned a community mural by artist Mary-Linn Hughes in collaboration with Tammy Moritz, Reginald Larue Zachary, and others, that appears on MAP’s Jefferson Boulevard headquarters.
[4] MAP’s case managers and volunteers help clients to obtain public benefits, individual and group counseling, job leads and employment, rental and mortgage assistance, financial support, and other social services.