Gospel Against AIDS Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Since 2022, GAA expanded its focus to include strengthening its community mobilization efforts by creating and attending community forums where more community change agents could be identified. These change agents were trained, equipped, and empowered to become "HIV community ambassadors" who, not only assists us in disseminating prevention information, but also, they actively engage in creating, identifying, and implementing community-based activities, forums, and conferences where hard to reach and unreached high-risk individuals can receive HIV, STI and COVID 19 tests and in the case of the later, vaccinated. We have found that we have had to expand our partnering agencies within our care continuum to include not only HIV service providers, state and local health departments, but also more non-HIV service agencies inclusive of but not exclusive to; clinics and hospitals, substance abuse and treatment centers, homeless shelters and soup kitchens, houses of worship and other faith-based organizations. This expansion also allows GAA to provide active referrals for those who test positive (reactive) for HIV and STIs. In these cases, our goal is to establish a seamless transition for clients to have access to additional medical and non-medical services. This community expansion has also provided GAA the opportunity to re-engage those who have dropped out of care and treatment. Finally, this component allows GAA to tap into previously untapped venues in high prevalence communities. Over 5,000 individuals have heard our prevention messages and/or received services through this component.GAA's community engagement activities this year included educational sessions provided at both individual and group levels both virtually, and in-person. Because of demand, GAA brought in additional HIV testing agencies to provide Hep C, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and other STI testing. Also in 2023, GAA continued to provide Implicit Bias training sessions to Beaumont/Corewell Hospitals Cancer Center Integrated Medical Division, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Conversations on Race-Faith-based Leadership Group, Detroit Public Schools - Nous Foundation, Kennesaw State University (KSU)School of Engineering Marietta, GA, Great Lakes Bay Health Centers and Faith and Community Leadership Group/Covenant Community Care, Michigan Nurses Association, and the New Light Treatment Center. This 6-part session was provided for medical and non-medical staff at the hospitals, universities, schools, faith-based organizations, and substance abuse treatment centers. It has become an integrated part of new employee orientation at these facilities. This year, KSU brought on GAA to continue its work to provide our Anti-Stigma/Implicit Biases training sessions specifically to engineering students through the university's mentorship program.GAA's partnership with HIV and STI testing agencies has allowed the agency to more than double the number of individuals screened for the aforementioned. These agencies have provided these services to houses of worship, faith-based organizations, and substance abuse treatment centers. These partnerships provide multi-faceted benefits not only to the individuals getting screened who now have the barrier of "access" eliminated, but it also assists agencies to meet their contractual requirements in terms of individuals tested.From 2022 to 2023, GAA trained the staff at Soaring Unlimited Health Center in Cape Haitian, Haiti. This training resulted in a partnership between Soaring Unlimited and GAA to work together to support their HIV testing initiative by providing virtual prevention sessions in both English and French to staff and selected patients, community residents, and volunteers from the US in Haiti. It is the first of its kind in that region of the island. This partnership also led to the opening of a birthing center at the clinic. Now managed by a former GAA HIV tester and counselor. It is the only birthing center in

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 74.3%; rating input score 74
• Program expense ratio: 80.7%; rating input score 81

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 7.9%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.8; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 63.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings