The Empathy Alliance

Organization Country: United States

Link to their website: https://www.theempathyalliance.org/

What do they do?

Make education safer and more inclusive for LGBTQ+ youth

Who’s their audience?

Educators, students, LGBTQ+ youth

What’s their approaches?

The founder partners with various organizations (like the white house) to spread awareness, and the founder often does speeches/talk shows/interviews to further spread awareness, and ensure that nobody else has to go through what he did. Their three approaches are: spreading awareness, educating educators, and transforming communities.

What’s their current program/project?

Speaking at events geared towards educators and youth-serving professionals.

What’s their organizational structure?

Seems like one leader (Sameer Jha) and a host of unnamed donors and supporters. The group partners with many other organizations to spread the message of LBGTQ+ acceptance and identity.

Who funds them? (can be hard to track down, make an educated guess)

Likely CA based donations, and certainly federal grants.

What else stands out?

Seems like the website hasn’t been updated since 2022. Much of this work seems awareness focused, and they mention that they have “reached over 1 million people” through their work. It’s hard to measure the success of this organization, but they’re doing something right if Biden invited Sameer to the White House to “advise on the needs of trans youth.”