Mission
At Siempre Unidos, our mission is to deliver medical, spiritual and emotional care to Hondurans living with HIV in a manner that empowers them to recover not just their health, but their lives. For the greater good and understanding the reality of the HIV+ stigma, we will also provide general medical care to the community.
Notes from the nonprofit
Siempre Unidos [California 501(c)3] works very closely with and financially helps support 2 clinics in Honduras that treat HIV+ and HIV- clients (Siempre Unidos Honduras). The Honduran staff of 17 includes 2 physicians, 2 nurses, 2 psychologists, 2 pharmacists, a laboratory director and technician, a social worker, and others. The program provides 24 daylong medical outreach clinics to very poor neighborhoods annually. They advocate for the LGTBQI+ community, commercial sex workers, and ethnic minorities, groups that remain highly stigmatized in Honduras. Siempre Unidos began in Honduras in 1999 as the first self-help group for people with AIDS. Affiliation with Dr. Denise Main and colleagues began in 2000. Siempre Unidos started effective anti-retroviral therapy in 2003, even before the Honduran Ministry of Health. Now, working closely with the Ministry of Health, Siempre Unidos remains the only independent program providing HIV treatment to indigent people in Honduras.
Ruling year
2004
Board President & Co-founder
Dr. Denise Main
Main address
1001 Smith Rd
Mill Valley, CA 94941 USA
EIN
20-1316120
NTEE code
Single Organization Support (B11)
IRS filing requirement
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
HIV & Primary Care Clinical Services
Our clinic-based services provide HIV treatment and care to over 500 patients at two clinic sites. The first is our San Pedro Sula (SPS) clinic, the largest site where we have a pharmacy and a comprehensive laboratory including one of two viral load machines and CD4 count machine. Our Siguatepeque clinic offers the same services and sends its lab tests to our SPS laboratory. Our staff at each of these two sites includes a physician, nurse, pharmacist, psychologist, social worker, home visitors and night watchmen. The clinics provide primary care to over 1,000 local residents seeking treatment for ailments like fevers, skin infections, and heart disease and well-baby check-ups.
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How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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Operations
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Siempre Unidos
Board of directorsas of 06/17/2024
Dr. Denise Main
Siempre Unidos
Term: 2003 -
Lydia Arellano
Janet Brown
Thomas Coyne
Elisabeth Fowler
Jay Lalezari
Colin McNamara
Galen Main
Richard Schaper
Pascual Torres
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Not applicable -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
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