Joseph & Elizabeth Quansah Foundation
Providing College Scholarships to Excellent but Needy Students in Ghana
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?
Need-Based College Scholarships for students in Ghana, West Africa
What We Do
We Provide
Tuition scholarship
• Funding for undergraduate tuition ($500 - $1,100 per year)
• Funding for college application fees ($30 - $50 per application)
• Support to high school graduates transitioning into colleges and universities in Ghana ($600 per year)
Housing Support
• Full or partial support for housing fee ($300 per year)
Technology
• Laptops (for selected recipients)
Student Support
• Academic advising
• Career guidance
• Counselling
• Mentorship
• Graduate school preparation
Where we work
Awards
Global Impact Award 2022
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Kappa Chi Chapter
Affiliations & memberships
Member, Auburn Chamber of Commerce 2022
External reviews

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Our Sustainable Development Goals
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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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Who are the people you serve with your mission?
We serve excellence but underserved Ghanaian college students in Ghana, West Africa.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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What significant change resulted from feedback?
Paying It Forward is the only mandatory condition for receiving JEQ Foundation's scholarship. The goal is for recipients to give back to their local communities after gainful employment but in one of our zoom listening sessions early this year, we added a mandatory 15 hours community services that we require all our scholarship recipients to perform outside their colleges, churches and mosques to Pay It Forward to their local communities and also impact lives in their own small ways. This new addition came about as a result of our quarterly advisory and listening session we have for our recipients. We realized that this mandatory community service will help our recipients to establish networks for potential employment after graduating from college and will also give them experience.
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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 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
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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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Joseph & Elizabeth Quansah Foundation
Board of directorsas of 07/12/2022
Dr. Joseph Quansah
Joseph & Elizabeth Quansah Foundation
Term: 2019 - 2024
Dr. Elizabeth I Quansah
Joseph & Elizabeth Quansah Foundation
Term: 2019 - 2024
Linda Broz
Auburn University OLLI/JEQ Foundation
Dr. Valarie Thomas
Auburn University/JEQ Foundation
Dr. Elikem Gbeddy
Veterans Affairs, Hope Mills, NC/JEQ Foundation
Dr. Catherine Sam
Franciscan Alliance in Lafayette, Indiana/JEQ Foundation
Mrs. Scott Wagoner-Bishop
Auburn University/JEQ Foundation
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? Not applicable -
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? Not applicable
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- 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 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.