2025-07-14T10:42:33Z 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 611807936 DEAF EQUITY DEAF 59 Litchfield Street Saint Paul MN 55117 Migdalia rogers Finance Director 2025-07-14 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X Grants www.deafequitymn.org X X non profit 96536 X 96536 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 96536 53000 0 0 12707 5800 5000 52000 128507 -31971 31971 0 31971 143000 0 0 0 0 31971 143000 0 0 31971 143000 Deaf Equity's primary exempt purpose is to advance equity and access for Diverse members of the Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing community through Education, Community Engagement, Empowerment and Advocacy. All of the work we do is through volunteerism. We offer opportunities that are accessible, barrier free and inclusive of our community. We offer these free and with support to access these opportunities. Our organization is UNIQUE and the ONLY one in Minnesota that offers services to all ages, enhancing the quality of life for all who are Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing. Check us out at www.deafequitymn.org Community Education and E Learning empowers Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of hearing with opportunities to present their info, train others, and offer it in American Sign Language. This is called the Empowerment Series. Many in our community often do not have the space, support or training to advance their skills. DE provides this support. In addition, provides the E learning topics and education free of charge and accessible in their language (ASL, through Deaf Blind interpreters) in person or on zoom. Topics like Suicide awareness and prevention, Asian American Culture and Microaggressions, budgeting, how to present, breast cancer awareness are offered through captions or voice but never in ASL. Through this we also offer culture immersion experiences so people can increase their awareness working with diverse members of their community, for example. DeafBlind community Immersion, taught us how to guide, how to communicate with DeafBlind, and how to use Pro Tactile. Community Engagement Opportunities programs offer all ages youth to Seniors opportunity to engage in activities accessible to them. Some examples include Self-Defense, Family Friendly events such as Fall Adventures, Community Gathering, Cookout and Deaf Eco System fair. At these events, members are connected, it helps reduce isolation, share information supports mental health and well being and connects members of the community to resources that they need. These also include partnerships with hearing partners such a Twins for a baseball clinic for deaf youth and kids, Day Camp for D, DB, HH kid, family social for parents who are hearing with deaf kids and more. Advocacy, Training and Consultations has three hats. One is to provide direct services to our community for support that they need whether it is using the Deaf Community Health workers in our program to connect to housing, lawyers, free food shelfs services, or to requiring support advocating at the clinics for access or filing reports. We provide referral to our client and help them navigate the system. We also provide training and consultations to hearing service providers who do want to welcome deaf community members but do not have the skills to do so. We help assess, and provide them with skills they need to make change to welcome them. If you check our website at www.deafequitymn.org you can see more of the work we do, or if you follow us on FB or IG. 60000 52703 52703 Migdalia Rogers Finance Lead 10.00 0 0 0 Del Anderson Volunteer Support 10.00 0 0 0 JulieAnn Scott Volunteer Support 10.00 0 0 0 John Fechter Finance Support 10.00 0 0 0 Riss Leitzke DeafBlind Lead/Social Media 10.00 0 0 0 Ntxhee Sua Vang Social Media Lead 0.00 0 0 0 Krissy Foreman Special Projects Support 10.00 0 0 0 Jer Loudenback Logistics Lead 10.00 0 0 0 Pam Burry BIPOC Lead 10.00 0 0 0 Kyle Littlepage Community Engagement Lead 10.00 0 0 0 Jessalyn Akerman-Frank Program Development/Lead and Grants 10.00 0 0 0 false false false false false 0 false false 0 0 0 false 0 0 false MN Migdalia Rogers Finace Director 59 Litchfield Street Saint Paul MN 55117 6123269086 false false false false false false false false false false false false NONE 0 NONE 0 false X X 0 DEAF EQUITY 611807936 7 false 0 0 1 0 0 false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false Part IV, Section A, Line 1 It is project based. Part IV, Section D, Line 2 This was a project based to support this organization. It was a project we did together. Part IV, Section E, Line 2a Minnesota Deaf Queers project focusing on the Deaf , DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing LGBTQIA2S community to increase awareness, and education was project based and support day Deaf Equity. Part IV, Section E, Line 2b Deaf Equity supported MDQ's work, provided guidance, leadership and support. Our volunteers supported their project and helped to support their work. Part IV, Section E, Line 3b Deaf Equity supported the program, providing guidance to finances and encouraging policies and set up. Deaf Equity helped MDQ a very small club by providing resources and information so that they can do their work. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Part I, Line 10 Emergency Assistance to D, DB, HH individuals who may need help with transportation, payment on home, food, electricity and other supports Support to small organizations to host featured speaker, scholarship Part I, Line 16 Our other expenses include ASL Interpreters, CART services, DeafBlind Interpreters, Tactile Interpreters, Access fees, rooms at the conference and retreat for access fees, Transportation for DeafBlind through private services. Many of our workshops required atleast 4-5 Interpreters especially for DeafBlind, in a addition when we did online workshops, the fees to make the room bigger. We had to rent meeting rooms to accommodate our group Part I, Line 8 We are a non profit that volunteers. We get grants, and the grants go directly to the community, their education opportunities, events. We do not Fundraise. When we host events like the community resource fair, anyone that supports the food, the interpreters, etc, all that money goes back to the community. We do not keep the money. When we pay stipend for Interpreters, for events, it goes directly to the people. We pay for access (Interpreters, CART, DeafBlind Interpreters) it goes directly to them as a stipend for their services. We were told that if our FY ended in Dec, we file in July of 2025. We also got more grant this year so we were told we needed to file a different form. This form, which we are filing by the 15th of July, does not fit our needs. We have consulted and are hiring propel to help teach us. We have two Banking and Accounting people on our team. We feel the rules have changed. We also wonder if we could file in December right after we end the FY. please do let us know if we are late, but when talking to the people at the office, we filed the same time last year, so we are not sure why the above states that we are late. If you look at our records, you will notice we always file in July. We will be happy to change that if required. thanks for your patience and support.