About the Power of Love Foundation
The Power of Love Foundation is a US non-profit that was officially founded in 2002 by Suresh Subramanian, Alka Subramanian and Ellen Furnari to develop community responses to the AIDS crisis in Africa. For some years, the founders had been traveling to and funding programs in Kenya and Zambia independently. They found two significant problems that moved them to action. First, while the fight against the AIDS epidemic was being fought in the communities, little funding was going there. Second, what little funding was going to community AIDS relief organizations was most often needed to fulfill immediate on-the-ground requirements. Little flexibility existed within these organizations to design and test new, potentially more effective models of response. The founders believed that by utilizing technology and business processes appropriately to build creative solutions, a great opportunity existed to increase the output of care from each dollar donated. By increasing the output, more funding could be attracted to communities.
Our work began with four organizations, two each in Kenya and Zambia. These community-based organizations were evaluated on their models, their community equity, and their management. Power of Love continues to fund and partner with two of the original four organizations (The Anglican Children’s Project in Zambia and the Akado Women’s Group in Kenya).
Our mission is:
To turn back the tide of the global AIDS epidemic through innovative community responses that increase the effectiveness of prevention and care efforts.
Our vision is:
A world where the AIDS epidemic is in continuous retreat and people living with HIV have access to loving care and treatment in an environment free of stigma and discrimination.