
Joe Hollendoner, MSW
Chief Executive Officer
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Pronouns: He/him/his
Joe Hollendoner, MSW
Chief Executive Officer
Joe Hollendoner, MSW, joined San Francisco AIDS Foundation as CEO in May 2016. He is responsible for setting our strategic priorities with the Board of Directors and ensuring they are operationalized through day-to-day leadership and management of our work.
Joe came to SFAF with more than 15 years of experience in the field of HIV, having served as First Deputy Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, the nation’s third-largest health department. Prior to his work in the public sector, Joe was in executive leadership roles at Chicago’s two largest private HIV services providers: AIDS Foundation of Chicago and Howard Brown Health. At AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Joe served as senior vice president and oversaw the agency’s $15 million portfolio of HIV prevention, care, housing and evaluation programs. During his 11-year tenure at Howard Brown Health, Joe first worked as a health educator and was eventually named chief program officer with the responsibility of overseeing all of the agency’s health promotion and social service programs for LGBTQ youth, adults and seniors.
Joe has dedicated much of his career to improving direct health service delivery to marginalized populations. In 2004, Joe was the founding director of the Broadway Youth Center, the first of its kind health center for LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness. He was later named a 2010 Community Health Leader by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for his leadership in the creation of the Center. Joe also served as program director for the first successful adaptation of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intervention for young transgender women of color, assisted in the development of Nigeria’s first HIV prevention centers for gay and bisexual men, and created new behavioral health programs for childhood survivors of sexual assault, mentally-ill adults being released from jail, and family members of homicide victims.
Joe received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in social work from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a focus in community development, public policy and organizational leadership. He continued his postgraduate education at DePaul University in the field of public health and is a 2016 fellow of the University of Chicago’s Civic Leadership Academy.