Following the commercial and critical success of No Alternative, Heck has produced other HIV/AIDS awareness raising albums and a series of concerts at Brooklyn Academy of Music.
[15] Heck co-produced Dark Was The Night (2009), an AIDS benefit album that raised over $1 million and featured artists like The National, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, My Morning Jacket and Jose Gonzalez.
[17] In 2019 Heck produced Love is the Drug,[18] a campaign in N. Carolina featuring live music pop-up events with video storytelling focused on raising awareness around Harm Reduction and Opioid Addiction.
In 2020 Heck invited another Brown alum, fine artist Keith Mayerson, to create a portrait of Dr. Anthony Fauci as a part of a limited art edition fundraiser for Treatment Action Group (TAG).
[20][21][22] He co-produced The National's second album "Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers" (with Nick Lloyd and Peter Katis - Brassland, 2003)[23] Heck was a part of the Red Hot team that provided Music Supervision for "How To Survive A Plague", (2012) an Academy Award-nominated documentary film directed by David France about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, and the efforts of ACT UP and TAG.