Garden State Equality Education Fund Inc
New Jersey's Largest LGBTQ Organization
Mission
Garden State Equality is New Jersey's statewide advocacy and education organization for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. We represent nearly 150,000 members and all those who believe in equality.
Ruling year
2005
Executive Director
Christian Fuscarino
Main address
1408 Main Street
Asbury Park, NJ 07712 USA
EIN
20-2588166
NTEE code
Lesbian/Gay Rights (R26)
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (O01)
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (B01)
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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?
Teach & Affirm
Teach & Affirm is a program to improve the lives of LGBT youth by creating safe and inclusive learning communities across the state. Under this program we are working with families, educators, and school administrators to address issues faced by LGBT youth. We provide an assessment of the current school climate; policy assistance on issues of gender, gender identity and expression, and sexual orientation; tailored professional development trainings on a variety of topics related to LGBT students; LGBT-inclusive curriculum workshops for educators; anti-bullying and other workshops for students; and community events such as parents’ nights, as well as advocacy for students and families.
Map & Expand
Map & Expand seeks to address one of the great civil rights challenges of our time: making sure health services meet the needs of the LGBT community. Part of this is about training, and under this program we are providing needs assessments, policy assistance, and professional development trainings to healthcare providers. Our trainings in this space focus on developing cultural competencies and sensitivity in working with LGBT patients and clients. Additionally, we understand that LGBT people need to know where we can go to receive care that is sensitive to and appropriate to our needs. To that end we are working on developing a statewide needs assessment for providers that will allow us to identify health care providers that know how to treat us, and literally map out where they are in the state.
Pledge & Protect
Our Pledge & Protect program, protects and addresses the unique and complex needs of the LGBT older adult community.
Where we work
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of audience members with favorable attitudes towards the issue or interest
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, LGBTQ people
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
With approx. 500,000 LGBT individuals in NJ and a total of over 150,000 GSE members, we estimate that our audience is half a million
Number of audience members willing to take action on behalf of a specific issue
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, LGBTQ people, People with HIV/AIDS
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
With 150,000 members our organization is able to mobilize citizens quickly and effectively in support of our work and actions.
Number of audience members saying issue is important to them
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Intersex people, LGBTQ people
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Support for our advocacy is provided at our events and workshops, as well as via email and social media, with an average rate of satisfaction of approx. 10 individual comments/likes per day.
Number of policies formally established
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, Adults, Seniors
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
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Number of community events or trainings held and attendance
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Intersex people, LGBTQ people
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
42 community events, workshops, and trainings across all program areas in 2017. With over 3,127 in total attendance.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
In this post-marriage environment, our main focuses are youth, transgender people, and seniors, and our work on those issues is informed by racial, economic, and disability justice concerns. GSE is working on campaigns to address safe environments for youth, improvement of health services that meet LGBT community needs, and respectful treatment of seniors. Beyond that, GSE supports NJ's activist community by bringing an LGBT lens to the shared struggle for justice.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Bringing our programs (Pledge & Protect, Map & Expand, Teach & Affirm) throughout New Jersey.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
As New Jersey's largest LGBT organization, we have hired an impressive team trained and certified to facilitate our program goals and have a strong base of volunteers to help.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Please visit Garden State Equality's "about" section to see our accomplishments: https://www.gardenstateequality.org/about
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Operations
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Garden State Equality Education Fund Inc
Board of directorsas of 01/03/2023
Franklin Cumberbatch, Jr.
A+E Networks
Term: 2016 -
Zak Karim
Bank of America
William Bradshaw
Withum
Barbara Graham
Hackensack Meridian Health
Chris Budin
Mondelez International
Paul Ashley
Bristol Myers Squibb
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 ? Yes -
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? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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