The PepsiCo Challenge

Help provide shelter, food, counseling and support for one homeless LGBT youth for one year.

You can help by buying days of care. Each day that you purchase costs just $25 and helps the Ali Forney Center provide a place for a teen to call home. Not only will the PepsiCo Foundation match any donation of $25 or more made by a PepsiCo employee, but each dollar will also enter the donor into a raffle drawing for prizes.

Statistics show that a staggering 40% of all homeless adolescents are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender (LGBT). Each year, this percentage translates to over one thousand homeless LGBT youths living on the streets of New York City. The Ali Forney Center (AFC) was created to address this devastating problem. Our goal is to provide homeless LGBT youths (aged 16-24) with the support and services they need to escape the streets and begin to live healthy and independent lives.


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Ali Forney was a gay teen who was forced to live on the streets of New York during the 1990s. Ali was dedicated to the safety of other homeless youth: he was a committed HIV prevention worker, and aggressively advocated that the NYPD investigate a series of murders of the homeless gay youth he had befriended. Ali was an inspiration to those who knew him.

In December of 1997, Ali was murdered on the streets. His tragic death called attention to the atrocious conditions for homeless gay youth in New York. Ali's murderer has never been identified.


Ali Forney