Welcome to Catholic Charities AIDS Services of Albany, NY.

We hope you will use our site to learn more about us, to learn more about HIV/AIDS, and to support us in our efforts to help those in need.

Use this site to learn about our mission, where we provide services in Upstate New York, our history, the services we provide, news about our agency and events we are planning, how to support us and our clients, and about employment opportunites with Catholic Charities AIDS Services.

We have added a section, Stories of Hope, where we are publishing articles and stories about those we serve, those that serve, and the community. We hope you will find these stories enlightening and share them with others.

We have pages to provide information on resources in the community where you can get help if you need it, and daily news feeds with news on HIV and AIDS throughout the world.

Learn how your business can support us by giving us a donation or becoming a sponsor of one or more of fundraising events.

While you are here, visit our shopping portal where you can shop at over 50 online stores such as Amazon, Buy.com, Walmart and many other specialty online stores. For each purchase made, after entering the online store via our portal, we will receive an average of 3 to 4% of the purchase to support our work.

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“Nobody gets to heaven without a letter of reference from the poor.” This quote from James Forbes, a pastor in New York City, came to mind as I reflected on why I volunteer as a board member of Catholic Charities AIDS Services.

Answers.com states that Catholic is a word of Greek origin, which means … of universal interest. Charities: according to the Oxford Dictionary, is the voluntary giving of help.
The combined meaning of these two words – “to voluntarily give help to that which is of universal human interest” is a lot to live up to. But that is what we strive toward each day, at Catholic Charities AIDS Services.

Several years ago, a Catholic Charities AIDS Services staff member shared this story as words that motivated her about her work in the rural counties of the Diocese.

Each February a small group of Notre Dame students spend a few days in the Albany Diocese seeing Catholic social teaching in action and seeing poverty and other social conditions up closed. Intended to be an opportunity of learning and reflection, students are required to submit papers on their experience. Here are just a few excerpts from this year’s students’ papers:

The Following poem reminds me rather whimsically of the work we do on a daily basis:

It Couldn't be Done
Edgar Guest