Investing, Leading, Building, and Ending the HIV Epidemic: The PoWER of Collaborative Learning for Community-Based Organizations in the South.

The PoWER Series is the Emory COMPASS Coordinating Center's (ECCC) most intensive strategy for assisting organizations with transforming organizational practice, improving systems and operations, and ensuring data-driven service outcomes. COMPASS Coordinating Center's partners who have completed PoWER have developed the infrastructure of their organization, increased their knowledge, secured additional funding, and developed new partnerships.

Southern Care: A Rapid Response to Supporting Southern CBOs at the onset of COVID-19.

Southern community-based and HIV/AIDS service organizations (CBOs) were particularly vulnerable to the onset of COVID-19 due to already fragile infrastructures and underfunded budgets. At the height of the pandemic, the Gilead COMPASS Coordinating Centers launched the Southern CARE Grant, awarding 41 grants to provide supplemental operational support funds.