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Garden State Equality Education Fund Inc

New Jersey's Largest LGBTQ Organization

aka Garden State Equality   |   Asbury Park, NJ   |  www.gardenstateequality.org

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 info

2005

Executive Director

Christian Fuscarino

Main address

1408 Main Street

Asbury Park, NJ 07712 USA

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EIN

20-2588166

NTEE code info

Lesbian/Gay Rights (R26)

Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (O01)

Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (B01)

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Programs and results

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Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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.

Population(s) Served
Children and youth
LGBTQ people

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.

Population(s) Served
LGBTQ people
Caregivers

Our Pledge & Protect program, protects and addresses the unique and complex needs of the LGBT older adult community.

Population(s) Served
Seniors
LGBTQ people

Where we work

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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, Children and youth, At-risk youth

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, 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

Type of Metric

Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2016/Bills/PL17/268_.HTM, http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2016/Bills/PL17/176_.HTM, http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2016/Bills/PL17/137_.HTM

Number of community events or trainings held and attendance

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

42 community events, workshops, and trainings across all program areas in 2017. With over 3,127 in total attendance.

Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

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.

Bringing our programs (Pledge & Protect, Map & Expand, Teach & Affirm) throughout New Jersey.

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.

Please visit Garden State Equality's "about" section to see our accomplishments: https://www.gardenstateequality.org/about

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We demonstrated a willingness to learn more by reviewing resources about feedback practice.
done We shared information about our current feedback practices.

  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals

  • 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 take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We share the feedback we received with the people we serve, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    The people we serve tell us they find data collection burdensome, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection, Staff find it hard to prioritize feedback collection and review due to lack of time

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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Garden State Equality Education Fund Inc

Board of directors
as of 11/20/2023
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

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

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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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

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 11/20/2023
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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Male, Not transgender
Sexual orientation
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or other sexual orientations in the LGBTQIA+ community
Disability status
Person without a disability

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

Transgender Identity

Sexual orientation

Disability

Equity strategies

Last updated: 11/20/2023

GuideStar partnered with Equity in the Center - an organization that works to shift mindsets, practices, and systems to increase racial equity - to create this section. Learn more

Data
  • 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 have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
Policies and processes
  • We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
  • We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
  • We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
  • 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.
  • We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
  • We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.