With your support, RAIN can continue empowering individuals living with HIV and those at risk by expanding access to services, promoting lifelong health, and reducing the stigma that still impacts too many lives. When you invest in RAIN, you’re creating meaningful, lasting change for local teenagers, young adults, and adults across the Charlotte region.
As a sponsor, your business will also receive valuable visibility through RAIN’s active and growing digital presence, including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. Your sponsorship helps make our work possible.
RAIN maximizes its services to individuals and the community by keeping administrative and fundraising costs to a minimum. RAIN averages between 90¢ and 94¢ of every dollar raised going back to direct services.
AIDS WALK Charlotte is the Carolinas’ largest HIV fundraising and awareness walk, bringing together families, friends, and community members since 1997 to support RAIN’s services and programs. Every dollar raised stays in Charlotte to benefit people living with or at risk for HIV, while participants, volunteers, and sponsors unite in a visible, family-friendly show of compassion, advocacy, and education aimed at breaking down stigma and promoting health.
Attendance: 800 to 1,000 individuals
Location: Truist Field, 324 S Mint Street
Gay Bingo Charlotte is one of Charlotte’s most outrageous and unforgettable fundraisers, a high-energy, bingo themed event where community, creativity, and fun come together for a purpose. Featuring community drag, costumed emcees, audience participation, and entertaining games, this lively and inclusive event draws a diverse crowd to celebrate community, laugh loud, and raise vital funds and awareness for HIV services and programs in the Charlotte area. Since 2000, Gay Bingo has brought people together to support RAIN’s mission and the communities we serve.
Attendance: 1,400 to 1,500 individuals
Location: Charlotte Convention Center, 501 S. College Street
RAIN’s annual World AIDS Day Luncheon is a meaningful gathering that honors lives lost, raises awareness, and highlights the work underway to end HIV in our region. Community members, leaders, and supporters come together for a day of unity, reflection, and hope, with funds raised directly supporting RAIN’s care, services, and advocacy for people living with or at risk for HIV.
Attendance: 300 to 400 individuals
Location: The Casey, 1801 N. Tryon Street
