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The TRIAD Trust, Inc.

Train to Sustain

aka TRIAD   |   Boston, MA   |  http://www.triadtrust.org

Mission

TRIAD's mission is to cut HIV transmission through innovative training and workshops for young leaders and orphans & vulnerable children. Training local leaders to create and run sustainable HIV and life skills education programs will enable these young people to be agents of meaningful change.

Ruling year info

2008

Executive Director

Brooke Wurst

Main address

535 Albany Street Suite 5B

Boston, MA 02118 USA

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EIN

26-0396048

NTEE code info

Public Health Program (E70)

Management & Technical Assistance (S02)

Youth Development Programs (O50)

IRS filing requirement

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Communication

Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Iniquities in access to reliable information and care for sexual and reproductive health and rights, comprehensive family planning, gender based violence, and inclusion resources result in poor health outcomes and gross disparities in socioeconomic opportunity. TRIAD Trust's direct education programs and mobile technology-based initiatives reach more people more effectively than others working in the communities in which we and our partners operate.

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?

ImprovED

ImprovED is TRIAD's core educational program. After identifying and training local leaders to become executives and leaders of their own sustainable HIV and life skills education programs, TRIAD remains engaged with the local organizations to ensure up-to-date management, financial and medical skills.

Population(s) Served
Children and youth
At-risk youth

Where to Care is a mobile technology initiative designed in partnership with amfAR and dozens of in-country organizational partners. Where to Care enables care providers to send anonymous SMS messages with embedded links to a geo-locating map of safe and legitimate SRH, Comprehensive Family Planning, and Gender-Based Violence resources

Population(s) Served
Health
People of African descent
Young adults
Older adults
Adolescents

Where we work

Awards

Gold Star for Technical Merit 2011

International AIDS Society

Affiliations & memberships

Registered NPO in Republic of South Africa 2010

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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 groups/individuals benefiting from tools/resources/education materials provided

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

LGBTQ people, Adolescents, People with HIV/AIDS

Related Program

ImprovED

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

In 2019, TRIAD launched a new mobile initiative that powers local health care providers to provide accurate information about safe and legitimate SRH, Family Planning, & GBV resources.

Number of students at or above a 90% attendance rate

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Adolescents, People of African descent, At-risk youth

Related Program

ImprovED

Type of Metric

Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of participants attending course/session/workshop

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Adolescents, At-risk youth, People with HIV/AIDS

Related Program

ImprovED

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of students receiving information on HIV/AIDS and STDs

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

People with HIV/AIDS, Substance abusers, Women and girls, LGBTQ people, Sex workers

Related Program

Where to Care

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

The Where to Care initiative now covers individuals across South Africa with updated, realtime, geolocating info about where youth and community members can access comprehensive SRH and GBV services

Number of clinic sites

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Where to Care

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

As of Jan 2022, Where to Care has mapped more than 2,000 facilities providing comprehensive SRH, family planning, and GBV services. We expect to add an additional 6,000 facilities across South Africa.

Our Sustainable Development Goals

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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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.

Increase the role of local stakeholders in designing and implementing sustainable HIV and Life Skills education programs

Decrease incidence of new HIV infection

Increase access to treatment and care for those infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS

Identify community-based civil society, NGO, or public partnerships through which capacity-building trainings can occur

Identify local leaders to train in the ImprovED methodology of interactive learning modalities

Ensure ongoing access to most timely and community-appropriate fact-based curriculum

Improve access (availability + affordability + acceptability) to sustainable resources

10+ years of experience designing and implementing ImprovED programs around the world

-TRIAD's training staff are world-class educators, community leaders, athletes, artists, social scientists, and infectious disease/health care workers

-Partner organizations are vetted according to adherence with a Fact-based World View, ie Science > Ideology

-Partner organizations are selected based on past commitment to deriving solutions to complex problems and future orientation toward financial and programmatic sustainability

-Technology innovation platform development partners to listen to community- and research-based stakeholders to design, develop, and deploy resources that lead to solutions to the problems exacerbated by HIV/AIDS and institutional denial of services to vulnerable individuals

Since inception, more than 24,000 unique vulnerable youth have participated in at least 2 annual 10-week ImprovED workshops in rural South Africa (communities in which HIV prevalence is >40%)

Troupes have been trained and sustained in South Africa and Haiti.

As of December 2020, the Where to Care initiative has formal partnerships and implementing agreements with more than 20 community-based organizations and national or international NGOs, as well as government-level MOUs and LOIs with three provinces in South Africa.

As of December 2020, the total population reached by the implementing partners in South Africa is more than 26 million individuals.

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 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

  • 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 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?

    We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback

Financials

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Operations

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

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The TRIAD Trust, Inc.

Board of directors
as of 01/27/2022
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Brooke Wurst

TRIAD Trust

Term: 2020 - 2024

Brooke Wurst

The TRIAD Trust

Sally Fassler

Bain Capital

Ilana Hurwitz Starfield

Boston College / Boston University

Rebecca Lichtenfeld

WITNESS

Dwayne Killings

University of Connecticut

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 1/27/2022
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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Female, Not transgender (cisgender)
Sexual orientation
Decline to state
Disability status
Decline to state

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

 

Sexual orientation

No data

Disability

No data

Equity strategies

Last updated: 01/27/2022

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 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 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.