Login with FacebookPride Choice 2009 Results- Large Groups are Out…Religion is In?!
The month of June was crazy and exciting as you all posted your reviews and stories of great nonprofits serving the LGBTQ community during the 2009 Pride Choice Awards. The campaign was a huge success- over 32,000 people visited GreatNonprofits during the campaign, leaving over 700 reviews of 63 organizations. Thank you all for your participation!
The results are exciting and incredibly surprising. Click here to see the winners.
Check out what our partner Queerty has to say below:
SHOCK: Your Favorite Gay Non-Profits Do Not Include HRC, GLAAD, or NGLTF
Last month we asked you to help figure out which gay non-profits were the best out there. And now, after tallying all your reviews, superlatives, and yes, even some complaints, we've got the results.
Queerty teamed with GreatNonprofits and GuideStar for the 2009 Pride Choice Awards, giving average folks the choice to place a badge of honor on their favorite do-gooding groups. So who lead the pack? According to over 700 user reviews …
The Trevor Project — "the leading organization focusing on crisis and suicide prevention among LGBTQ youth" — takes the top prize for non-profits with annual budgets over $1 million; L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center receives an honorable mention.
For orgs with budgets between $250,000 and $1 million, it's Keshet, which "offers social and cultural events, support, education and resources to ensure that GLBT Jews are fully welcomed in the Jewish Community in Boston and across the USA."
And for the groups with budgets under $250,000, more users chose the Gay Christian Network, which "helps individuals reconcile their faith and sexuality."
Congrats to the winners!
But what do we find most notable from the results?
The big Gay Inc. organizations — like the Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and GLAAD — didn't receive anywhere close to the number of positive accolades bestowed upon smaller organizations. Rather, local groups focused on education and advocacy, as well as religious groups, scored the most glowing reviews. (Only one person felt inclined to bother reviewing HRC. Nobody talked about GLAAD.) It might have something to do with the project's methodology … or maybe these organizations just don't have the type of support in the community they think.
First Ever List of Top-Rated LGBTQ Nonprofits
Huge kudos to YOU for making the Pride awards such a success! This was our first ever award for LGBTQ nonprofits and the participation was outstanding. What's interesting is that LGBTQ nonprofits education, service, and advocacy received more positive ratings than the name brand nonprofits. Religious organizations, surprisingly, also made a strong showing in the list of winners.
The contest, held during Gay and Lesbian Pride Month in June, asked people to submit reviews and ratings about nonprofits serving the LGBTQ community. The contest was sponsored by GreatNonprofits, GuideStar and Queerty. The results provide surprising insights into the diversity of organizations that are considered effective and important by volunteers, donors and stakeholders of the gay and lesbian population.
Over the course of Pride Month, more than 32,000 people visited the GreatNonprofits Web site, and 736 reviews were posted about more than sixty LGBTQ organizations.
“The Awards gave voice to many of our constituents that we don’t hear from,” says Charles Robbins, Executive Director of The Trevor Project, which won for best LGBTQ organization with an annual budget over $1 million. “It was incredibly meaningful for our staff to hear youth saying ‘I was saved because of the work of The Trevor Project.’ It’s monumental.” Bonnie Rosenbaum is the Deputy Director of Keshet, Inc., the winner among organizations with budgets between $250,000 and $1,000,000. She says, “We are both humbled and fiercely proud of the feedback we have received from our community by participating. Statements such as, ‘my life is better because they exist’ inspire us as we work towards a day when all Jewish children – regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity – have a valued place in Jewish life.”
While big organizations such as Human Rights Campaign and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force were available for review, those groups didn’t see the kinds of results that their smaller counterparts did.
Gay Christian Network and Keshet, Inc. are two of the top three nonprofits, and both work to support gay and lesbians who want to be a part of religious communities. The success of religious organizations in the 2009 Pride Choice Awards show the large impact these groups have on the LGBTQ people they serve. It suggests that today’s gay and lesbian population wants a connection with religions that have spurned them in the past.
“There are so many great nonprofits that don’t have an advertising budget and are not household names. Similar to what Yelp has done for small restaurants, we enable grassroots nonprofits to gain recognition,” says Perla Ni, CEO and founder of GreatNonprofits. “Now there’s an even playing field through the genuine testimonials and reviews of people who have seen the work of a nonprofit first-hand. Donors and volunteers now have a source of information for which nonprofits are accountable and effective.”
Full list of 2009 GreatNonprofits Pride Choice Awards are here.
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Gay Religious Groups and Community-Based Nonprofits Get Highest Ratings
Menlo Park, Calif. — July 7, 2009 — Community-based nonprofits and religious gay groups get top ratings in the GreatNonprofits 2009 Pride Choice Awards. Local LGBTQ nonprofits focusing on education, service, and advocacy received more positive ratings than large national nonprofits. Religious organizations, surprisingly, also made a strong showing in the list of winners.
The contest, held during Gay and Lesbian Pride Month in June, asked people to submit reviews and ratings about nonprofits serving the LGBTQ community. The contest was sponsored by GreatNonprofits, GuideStar and Queerty. The results provide surprising insights into the diversity of organizations that are considered effective and important by volunteers, donors and stakeholders of the gay and lesbian population.
Over the course of Pride Month, more than 32,000 people visited the GreatNonprofits Web site, and 736 reviews were posted about more than sixty LGBTQ organizations.
“The Awards gave voice to many of our constituents that we don’t hear from,” says Charles Robbins, Executive Director of The Trevor Project. “It was incredibly meaningful for our staff to hear youth saying ‘I was saved because of the work of The Trevor Project.’ It’s monumental.” Bonnie Rosenbaum is the Deputy Director of Keshet, Inc. She says, “We are both humbled and fiercely proud of the feedback we have received from our community by participating. Statements such as, ‘my life is better because they exist’ inspire us as we work towards a day when all Jewish children – regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity – have a valued place in Jewish life.”
While big organizations such as Human Rights Campaign and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force were available for review, those groups didn’t see the kinds of results that their smaller counterparts did.
Gay Christian Network and Keshet, Inc. are two of the top three nonprofits, and both work to support gays and lesbians who want to be a part of religious communities. The success of religious organizations in the 2009 Pride Choice Awards shows the large impact these groups have on the LGBTQ people they serve. It suggests that today’s gay and lesbian population wants a connection with religions that have spurned them in the past.
“There are so many great nonprofits that don’t have an advertising budget and are not household names. Similar to what Yelp has done for small restaurants, we enable grassroots nonprofits to gain recognition,” says Perla Ni, CEO and founder of GreatNonprofits. “Now there’s an even playing field through the genuine testimonials and reviews of people who have seen the work of a nonprofit first-hand. Donors and volunteers now have a source of information for which nonprofits are accountable and effective.”
See the Top-Rated LGBTQ Nonprofits here: http://greatnonprofits.org/reviews/issues/pride/_
About the 2009 Pride Choice Awards
The awards were hosted by GreatNonprofits, the leading provider of user-generated ratings and reviews of nonprofits. Reviews appear on GreatNonprofits.org, Queerty.com, as well as GuideStar.org, the premiere source for donor research on nonprofits. Nonprofits with 10 or more positive reviews appear on the Top-Rated LGBTQ Nonprofits list. Those who submitted reviews were eligible to win prizes such as delicious Alter Eco fair trade chocolate, a subscription to Stanford Social Innovation Review, a getaway at Kimpton hotels (thanks Academic Ambassadors!) and more. Reviews submissions took place from June 1st to July 6th, 2009.
