Unity Consortium
Improving adolescent health through a focus on prevention and immunization
Unity Consortium
EIN: 47-1293305
Mission
Provide action-oriented leadership, innovation and education on preventive health and immunization for adolescents and young adults. Establish immunization as a central component of preventative health and as an investment in lifelong health. Engage parents, adolescents and young adults to embrace the value of immunization. Develop healthcare providers as advocates that make strong recommendations for all nationally recommended vaccines. Ensure easy access to and timely delivery of all recommended vaccines.
Ruling year
2015
Principal Officer
Judy Klein
Main address
36 ALEXANDERS CT
NEWTOWN, PA 18940 USA
EIN
47-1293305
Health care access
E-health
Preventive care
Pharmacies
Communicable disease control
Population served
Children
Preteens
Adolescents
Young adults
Adolescent parents
NTEE code
Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis (E05)
IRS subsection
501(c)(3) Public Charity
IRS filing requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.
Tax forms
Communication
Programs and results
Reports and documents
Download other documentsWhat we aim to solve
Because rates of adolescent vaccination remain lower than desired in the United States, particularly for human papillomavirus (HPV), the 2nd dose of Meningococcal ACWY (MenACWY), and Meningococcal B (MenB) vaccines, Unity Consortium aims to target and promote adolescent immunization platforms through a discussion between the patient/parent and the health care provider (HCP) to ultimately address significant gaps present in adolescent and young adult preventive health.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Adolescent Immunization Action Week (AIAW)
Adolescent Immunization Action Week (#AIAW23) is a national movement to support parents, healthcare providers, and adolescents to keep adolescents up to date on their immunizations.
The Three C's
A comprehensive initiative to support healthcare providers and organizations to make concise, confident and consistent vaccine recommendations in their discussions with parents, adolescents and young adults. A "3Cs" recommendation is shown to improve the acceptance rate for all CDC/ACIP-recommended vaccines for adolescents and young adults. The 3Cs approach features presumptive, bundled recommendations for adolescent vaccines. Research indicates that healthcare providers are the most important source of vaccine information for parents, and most influential in parents’ decision to vaccinate their adolescents.
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A comprehensive program supporting healthcare providers with the16-year-old well-visit and the recommended vaccines. The program includes ready to use tools and resources for healthcare provider organizations to integrate into their practices including case studies and template communications.
FACTSinnated
FACTSinnated is a podcast for anyone interested in adolescent and young adult health, including parents, adolescents, young adults and healthcare providers. The podcast format is concise, engaging with accessible interviews that highlight credible, evidence-based vaccine information. Each episode features a nationally recognized expert or individual with unique experience to explore misconceptions surrounding adolescent and young adult vaccines.
Mom Advisory Council
A forum for parents to share advice and insights to support Unity’s mission to improve adolescent and young adult preventive health, with a focus on immunization. Participants take part in advisory group meetings every 2 – 3 months over a one-year period to guide Unity’s strategies and programs.
Teen Advisory Council
A forum for teens to share advice and insights to support Unity’s mission to improve adolescent and young adult preventive health, with a focus on immunization. Participants take part in advisory group meetings every 2 – 3 months over a one-year period to guide Unity’s strategies and programs.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Message dissemination and digital engagement via social media reach and engagement metrics.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Social media reach during Adolescent Immunization Action Week in 2022 (#AIAW22) was 45 Million with an improved reach for 2023 (being analyzed currently).
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Coverage is 90% or greater nationally recommended vaccines for adolescents and young adults.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Unity Consortium provides action-oriented leadership, innovation and education on preventive health and immunization for adolescents and young adults. Adolescents and young adults are an often-overlooked cohort for preventative health and immunization, making them an important, and vulnerable, target population for our organization. By partnering with diverse representatives from academia, public and private sectors provide strategic guidance and input to ultimately amplify the Unity “voice” through member and liaison networks. These include experts in immunization, policy, vaccine confidence, communications, marketing, and study design, amongst other relevant fields. Unity’s Teen and Mom Advisory Councils provide direct input and feedback on Unity, member and liaison priorities, strategies, resources and initiatives. Finally, Unity has compiled an extensive resource library in engaging formats addressing immunization barriers for adolescents and young adults, parents and HCPs, along with a cadre of scientifically proven interventions and initiatives to improve immunization rates.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Unity Consortium offers a unique value proposition made possible by its broad and diverse members and liaisons and unique partnerships with public and private sector organizations. Unity brings deep understanding of adolescent and young adult preventive care and immunization through its nationally recognized expertise and experience, ongoing processes for listening to the needs of parents, adolescents and young adults and insights gained via Unity’s Teen and Mom Advisory Councils and market research. Unity programs are founded in a comprehensive market understanding of evidence-based solutions to improve immunization rates amongst adolescents and young adults.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Unity Consortium has accomplished an increased level of awareness and action amongst adolescents and young adults (AYAs), parents, and health care providers and other organizations who serve AYAs. Unity’s accomplishments with programs and educational efforts and calls to action for getting AYAs up to date on their recommended vaccinations is evidenced through Unity’s program performance. This includes Adolescent Immunization Action Week (AIAW) which was established in 2022 with a reach of 45 million and executed for in 2023 with higher reach made possible by broad public and private sector participation.
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 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, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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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 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
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
Financials
Revenue vs. expenses: breakdown
Liquidity in 2021 info
511.17
Months of cash in 2021 info
10.9
Fringe rate in 2021 info
0%
Funding sources info
Assets & liabilities info
Unity Consortium
Revenue & expensesFiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
SOURCE: IRS Form 990
Unity Consortium
Balance sheetFiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
SOURCE: IRS Form 990
The balance sheet gives a snapshot of the financial health of an organization at a particular point in time. An organization's total assets should generally exceed its total liabilities, or it cannot survive long, but the types of assets and liabilities must also be considered. For instance, an organization's current assets (cash, receivables, securities, etc.) should be sufficient to cover its current liabilities (payables, deferred revenue, current year loan, and note payments). Otherwise, the organization may face solvency problems. On the other hand, an organization whose cash and equivalents greatly exceed its current liabilities might not be putting its money to best use.
Fiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
SOURCE: IRS Form 990
This snapshot of Unity Consortium’s financial trends applies Nonprofit Finance Fund® analysis to data hosted by GuideStar. While it highlights the data that matter most, remember that context is key – numbers only tell part of any story.
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Business model indicators
| Profitability info | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrestricted surplus (deficit) before depreciation | $107,680 | $45,327 | $60,578 | -$187,814 | $526,237 |
| As % of expenses | 9.4% | 7.1% | 8.5% | -20.8% | 63.2% |
| Unrestricted surplus (deficit) after depreciation | $107,680 | $45,327 | $60,578 | -$187,814 | $526,237 |
| As % of expenses | 9.4% | 7.1% | 8.5% | -20.8% | 63.2% |
| Revenue composition info | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total revenue (unrestricted & restricted) | $1,255,295 | $682,600 | $770,150 | $715,177 | $1,358,281 |
| Total revenue, % change over prior year | 98.3% | -45.6% | 12.8% | -7.1% | 89.9% |
| Program services revenue | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Membership dues | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 8.2% | 58.5% |
| Investment income | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Government grants | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| All other grants and contributions | 0.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 91.7% | 41.5% |
| Other revenue | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Expense composition info | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total expenses before depreciation | $1,147,615 | $637,273 | $709,572 | $902,991 | $832,044 |
| Total expenses, % change over prior year | 86.2% | -44.5% | 11.3% | 27.3% | -7.9% |
| Personnel | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Professional fees | 99.5% | 98.6% | 96.1% | 99.7% | 94.8% |
| Occupancy | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Interest | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Pass-through | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.7% | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| All other expenses | 0.5% | 1.4% | 3.2% | 0.2% | 5.2% |
| Full cost components (estimated) info | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total expenses (after depreciation) | $1,147,615 | $637,273 | $709,572 | $902,991 | $832,044 |
| One month of savings | $95,635 | $53,106 | $59,131 | $75,249 | $69,337 |
| Debt principal payment | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Fixed asset additions | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total full costs (estimated) | $1,243,250 | $690,379 | $768,703 | $978,240 | $901,381 |
Capital structure indicators
| Liquidity info | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Months of cash | 3.2 | 6.7 | 7.0 | 3.0 | 10.9 |
| Months of cash and investments | 3.2 | 6.7 | 7.0 | 3.0 | 10.9 |
| Months of estimated liquid unrestricted net assets | 3.2 | 6.7 | 7.0 | 3.0 | 10.9 |
| Balance sheet composition info | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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| Cash | $310,730 | $356,057 | $416,635 | $229,102 | $756,538 |
| Investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Receivables | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Gross land, buildings, equipment (LBE) | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Accumulated depreciation (as a % of LBE) | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Liabilities (as a % of assets) | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.2% |
| Unrestricted net assets | $310,730 | $356,057 | $416,635 | $228,821 | $755,058 |
| Temporarily restricted net assets | $0 | $0 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Permanently restricted net assets | $0 | $0 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Total restricted net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total net assets | $310,730 | $356,057 | $416,635 | $228,821 | $755,058 |
Key data checks
| Key data checks info | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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| Material data errors | No | No | No | No | No |
Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
Documents
Principal Officer
Judy Klein
Number of employees
Source: IRS Form 990
Unity Consortium
Officers, directors, trustees, and key employeesSOURCE: IRS Form 990
Compensation data
There are no highest paid employees recorded for this organization.
Unity Consortium
Board of directorsas of 04/29/2023
Board of directors data
Ardivan Kazarian
Gregory Zimet
Indiana University School of Medicine
L.J Tan
Special Advisor to the Board - Chief Strategy Officer, Immunize.org
Mitchel Rothholz
American Pharmacists Association
Luis Romano
GlaxoSmithKline
Ardi Kazarian
Technology Consultant (Formerly) Verizon
Claire Hannan
Executive Director Association of Immunization Managers (AIM)
Tamara Coyne-Beasley
MD, MPH, FAAP, FSAHM, Division Director for Adolescent Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
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? 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? Not applicable
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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