AIDS United seeks to understand the leadership and staff of the organizations we fund, the communities they serve, and the extent to which people most affected by HIV hold meaningful roles in organizational and project decision-making. These questions help AIDS United understand how an organization’s leadership, staffing, governance, and community relationships reflect its mission and the populations involved in the proposed work.
This section is not assigned a separate score. Reviewers will not award or deduct points based solely on an organization’s demographic percentages or its ability to provide complete demographic data. However, responses may provide context for evaluating the applicant’s approach to community leadership, MIPA, accountability, and equitable decision-making. This information may also inform final portfolio-level decisions, including representation across communities, geographies, and organizational types, particularly when applications are otherwise similarly competitive.
AIDS United recognizes that identity categories are imperfect and that organizations have different levels of capacity to collect demographic information. Please provide your best available aggregate estimates. Applicants may select “Not collected,” “Insufficient data,” or “Prefer not to answer” without penalty. Do not identify individual staff members, board members, volunteers, participants, or community members. Do not disclose or infer any individual’s HIV status.
For purposes of this section:
- Organizational leadership may include the executive director, chief executive officer, co-directors, senior staff, governing board members, or others with formal authority over organizational or project decisions.
- Staff may include paid staff and, when volunteers conduct a significant portion of the organization’s work, core volunteers.
- Communities served includes people who participate in, receive services from, organize with, or are otherwise directly engaged through the organization’s work.
- Nonbinary people may include people who identify as agender, genderfluid, gender nonconforming, or another gender outside the woman/man binary.
- People may hold multiple identities. Percentages are estimates, categories may overlap, and totals do not need to equal 100 percent.
Approximately what percentage of the people with formal decision-making authority in your organization voluntarily self-identify with each of the groups listed below?