Mission
The mission of ATNJEF is to educate, engage, and empower New Jerseyans to be active citizens participating fully in our vibrant democracy.
Ruling year
2019
Founder and Executive Director
Ms Nhu-Uyen Khuong
Main address
PO Box 1206
Madison, NJ 07940 USA
EIN
83-2933150
NTEE code
Civil Rights, Advocacy for Specific Groups (R20)
Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (R05)
Voter Education/Registration (R40)
IRS filing requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990-N.
Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Election infrastructure has been perennially over-looked while the focus and money has been poured into candidates and campaigns. Without the fundamentals in place e.g. a fair and secure process of canvassing the ballots, high-speed optical scanners, and voter-verified paper ballots, our elections are vulnerable.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Election Infrastructure
Due to a worldwide viral contagion, we knew we had to act quickly to ensure that our democracy was not going to be at the expense of our health. This meant working with the Executive Branch to get necessary tools such as secure ballot drop boxes which needed funding and lead time. At the same time, we educated voters who were voting by mail for the first time. Under our nonpartisan 501(c) 3 nonprofit, we:
- Created VoteByMailNJ.org website with over 100,000 unique visitors to educate the public with the top page “What Does a Mail-in Ballot Look Like” garnering over 55,000 visitors.
- Wrote two op-ed letters on election infrastructure needed during a pandemic appearing in NJ.com and The New Jersey Globe.
- Conducted educational webinars on Primary and General Elections with statewide, regional, and local nonpartisan civil rights, faith-based, secular, civic, universities, and community organizations and their members including Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, Zioness NJ, NAACP-NJ, Kean Univ, and Rutgers.
- Provided expert testimony on three election bills in the State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee and appeared in numerous articles on elections.
- Presented independent research and voter data, and made recommendations to Executive Branch officials for two Executive Orders pertaining to the Primary and General Elections.
Census 2020
The Census takes place every 10 years and is the accounting of all residents in the United States. This essential data is used to determine both Congressional and Legislative districts. The information that is collected is further used by the federal and state governments and agencies to allocate resources. It provides everyone from nonprofits, businesses, academic institutions pertinent insight on the residents so that the organizations' missions can be met effectively or adjusted based on the make-up of the residents in any given geography. When residents are undercounted, states lose out on both Congressional seats and federal funding. In New Jersey where we have a large immigrant population, the fear on citizenship questions and the anti-immigrant legislation has sowed fear in the immigrant communities.
We employed our core competency of having a statewide network and focused on helping New Jersey with the 2020 Census. We worked diligently and:
- Became a Partner with the US Census Bureau.
- Provided Census Ambassador training in 13 counties with 230 Ambassadors trained.
- Posted 3200 English Census flyers, 800 Spanish Census flyers and 2100 trilingual flyers in Hard-to-Count communities in 13 counties at houses of worship, grocery stores, hair and nail salons, libraries, community centers, senior living homes, town/municipal buildings, liquor stores, laundromats, and other retail shops.
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
PEOPLE, PROCESS, PRODUCTS: We will work to educate the People, improve the Process at the county level, and get the Election Officials the Products they need to carry out our elections.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
As the premier nonprofit that led the expansion of voting access in New Jersey, we have the relationships with legislators and the Executive Branch to achieve our objectives of improving our election infrastructure. We will meet with the legislative staffers and work with Executive Branch officials to educate them on the key components required for a sound election infrastructure using our independent research and recommendations.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Our core competency is our ability to have independent voter data research that allows us to make sound recommendations to both increase access to the polls and decrease voter disenfranchisement. We have on-the-ground presence in all 21 counties in New Jersey: we reach voters where they are.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
In 2020, we were effective in working with the Executive Branch on two executive orders pertaining to elections. Highlights include:
- mailing a mail-in ballot to every active registered voter in NJ giving them an option to voter from home during the pandemic
- installing new and secure ballot drop boxes in every county
- removing the requirement to have postmarks for canvassing ballots
Additionally:
- VoteByMailNJ.org website: over 100,000 visitors. When our preliminary data showed that counties with high spanish-speaking households had the highest correlation of ballot rejection, we translated our entire website to Spanish and provided election education for voter outreach with other organizations. Two op-ed letters on election infrastructure needed during a pandemic in NJ.com and The New Jersey Globe.
- Conducted educational webinars on Primary and General Elections with statewide, regional, and local nonpartisan civil rights, faith-based, secular, civic, universities, and community organizations and their members including Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, Zioness NJ, NAACP-NJ, Kean Univ, and Rutgers.
- The only organization to provide testimony on three election bills in the State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee.
- Provided independent research and met with Executive Branch officials to make recommendations for two Executive Orders 177 pertaining to the Primary and General Elections.
We also were involved in the 2020 Census!
- Became a Partner with the US Census Bureau.
- Provided Census Ambassador trainings in 13 counties with 230 Ambassadors trained.
- Posted 3200 English Census flyers, 800 Spanish Census flyers and 2100 trilingual flyers in Hard-to-Count communities in 13 counties.
What's Next?
With elections occurring twice a year, every year in New Jersey, we work year-round on voter education. Timelines and laws change and new voters are registered every day so our work on educating the voter never stops.
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 collecting feedback from the people you serve?
Electronic surveys (by email, tablet, etc.), Focus groups or interviews (by phone or in person), Community meetings/Town halls, Suggestion box/email,
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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,
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What significant change resulted from feedback?
In educating voters on Vote By Mail, we had two voters contact us after finding out after the 2019 Election that their Mail-in Ballots were rejected due to arriving past the Election Day deadline. We worked with them to get signed notarized letters attesting that they mailed in their ballots ten days prior to Election Day. We worked with the Executive Branch and informed them that USPS did not require its employees to provide postmarks on prepaid mail and then recommended that the requirement to have a postmark needed to be removed. Executive Order 177 and subsequent legislation removed the postmark requirement for ballots to be canvassed if received within 48 hours of the close of Election Day.
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With whom is the organization sharing feedback?
The people we serve, Our board, Our funders, Our community partners,
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
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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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ATNJ EDUCATION FUND
Board of directorsas of 6/18/2021
Nhu-Uyen Khuong
ATNJ Education Fund
Term: 2018 - 2020
Scott Salmon
ATNJ Education Fund
Samantha Bobila
ATNJ Education Fund
Ahmed Shehab
ATNJ Education Fund
Cindy Matute-Brown
ATNJ Education Fund
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