Joseph & Elizabeth Quansah Foundation

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501(c)(3) organization

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2262 MORGAN DR
Auburn AL 36830-7710

Auburn AL | IRS ruling year: 2019 | EIN: 84-3539460

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Not currently rated

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Impact & Results
Accountability & Finance
Culture & Community
Leadership & Adaptability

Impact & ResultsAccountability & FinanceCulture & CommunityLeadership & Adaptability

Culture & Community

Joseph & Elizabeth Quansah Foundation has earned a 88% for the Culture & Community beacon. See the metrics below for more information.

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Constituent Feedback - Data Available - 100/100 pts

30% of beacon score

This organization reported that it is collecting feedback from the constituents and/or communities it serves. Charity Navigator believes nonprofit organizations that engage in inclusive practices, such as collecting feedback from the people and communities they serve, may be more effective.

Who are the people you serve with your mission? Describe briefly.

We serve excellence but underserved Ghanaian college students in Ghana, West Africa.

How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?

Focus groups or interviews (by phone or in person), Other means

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

With whom does your organization share the feedback you got from the people you serve?

Our funders, Our community partners

How has asking for feedback from the people you serve changed your relationship with them or shifted power - over decisions, resources, rules or in other ways - to them?

Getting feedback from our scholarship recipients and our Ghanaian representatives has helped JEQ Foundation to structure its programs such as mentoring sessions, academic advising, and even scholarships package to address the needs of our current and prospective recipients. For our nonprofits, feedback from scholarship recipients, and our Ghanaian representatives is crucial to the performance and growth of our nonprofits. It helps to tell our story and cause to our existing and potential donors.

What challenges does your organization face in collecting feedback from the people you serve?

We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback

Briefly describe a recent change that your organization made in response to feedback from the people you serve.

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.

Equity Practices - Data Available - 83/100 pts

70% of beacon score

This organization's score of 83 is a passing score. The organization reported that it is implementing 4 Equity Practices. Charity Navigator believes nonprofit organizations implementing effective equity policies and practices can enhance a nonprofit's decision-making, staff motivation, innovation, and effectiveness.

Equity Practices (1/7)
	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.

Equity Policies and Procedures (3/7)
	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.

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