JAMIE SGARRO CO-FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Imagine being known globally as an ally for LGBTQ+ safety. Envision recent graduates, young professionals, and seasoned executives considering this distinction when deciding to work with you over competitors. Think what it would mean to your bottom line as more socially conscious consumers choose your products or services because they know by doing so they too are helping improve people’s lives. Partnering with InReach is one way to help get you there.
Corporate and brand/artist partnerships align with business objectives related to key goals, such as recruiting and retaining employees, fostering a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion, increasing sales, and building brand or artist awareness to specific target audiences. For a meaningful investment at the level of your choice, you will help increase access to safe, verified resources for the diverse, intersectional LGBTQ+ community, and be significantly recognized for doing so.
Today, thousands of LGBTQ+ people facing discrimination and persecution rely on the free InReach free tech platform, available on web, mobile web and native iOS and Android. With you as a partner, we could do so much more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS BY SECTION
01: About Us
02: Our Competitive Advantage
03: Meet the Team
04: Social Media Reach
05: Partnership Rationale
06: Organization-Wide Partnerships
07: Benefits Comparison Chart
08: Program-Aligned Partnerships
09: Other Support Opportunities
10: Next Steps
FEATURED CORPORATE & OTHER SUPPORTERS
Kupanda Capital is proud to be a corporate supporter of InReach. Leveraging data and technology for social good is at the core of what we do, so InReach's innovative solution to increase access to safe resources for LGBTQ+ people facing persecution and discrimination deeply resonated with our team. We've been impressed by the clear impact InReach has made to-date and are excited to continue to support the organization in its growth.
Jamie co-founded AsylumConnect (now InReach) during his senior year at the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, he met fellow student Sy. Sy shared his personal experience struggling to find safe resources during his U.S. asylum process. Despite access to technology, upon arrival in the United States Sy struggled as a gay immigrant to find reliable data on where it was safe to go for help to meet his basic needs, from finding legitimate pro bono legal representation for his LGBTQ+ asylum claim to affirming health care, mental health support, housing, and educational opportunities. As a trans man who grew up in a conservative environment, the feeling of not being able to live authentically and lacking easily accessible information on how to find affirming support deeply resonated with Jamie.
So, during their senior year, Sy and Jamie co-founded AsylumConnect, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization started as the world's first technology platform for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, to fill the critical resource information gap facing the diverse LGBTQ+ community. The organization is founded on the belief that every LGBTQ+ person deserves the safety and freedom to live authentically. Jamie has led the organization since.
In May 2022, AsylumConnect officially became InReach. Our mission is to ensure safe help is InReach for all members of the LGBTQ+ community. Since launching its App in 2016, the organization has seen the platform be used by a wide variety of LGBTQ+ people, in addition to those seeking asylum. The organization rebranded to InReach to better communicate and reflect the value of its free technology to a broader LGBTQ+ user base.
Today, InReach has services for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, refugees and other immigrants, LGBTQ+ BIPOC communities, the transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community, LGBTQ+ youth and their caregivers, and more LGBTQ+ communities.
INNOVATION THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
InReach is the most technologically advanced, verified resource platform designed for the intersectional LGBTQ+ community. Current features include: the ability to leave public ratings and reviews on every service provider’s InReach profile page, view the App in native English or Spanish (with 100+ languages via Google Translate), save and share resources via print or email, filter out service providers that require specific documentation to access services, and search across 14 different categories of verified support (ranging from legal help to meal assistance to housing to abortion care to education and employment to mental health care).
FOCUS ON PRIVACY AND USER SAFETY
Online anonymity can be a life-or-death issue for LGBTQ+ people. That's why InReach is designed to protect users' safety and confidentiality online. InReach does not require any personally identifiable information to use its free App.
FOCUS ON INTERSECTIONALITY
Every LGBTQ+ person deserves the safety and freedom to live authentically. Achieving LGBTQ+ equality requires transgender justice, racial justice, refugee justice, reproductive justice, language justice, and more. InReach’s resource vetting process and front-end product UI/UX design prioritize these values.
THE MOST RIGOROUS RESOURCE VETTING PROCESS TAILORED TO THE NEEDS OF THE DIVERSE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY
Every service provider listed on InReach is vetted by trained volunteers to be welcoming spaces for LGBTQ+ people facing discrimination and persecution. Reverifications by our trained volunteers are required at least once every 6 months for every provider listed on InReach.
STAFF
During 2023, InReach will be run by 8 paid staff (5 full-time, 3 part-time), 2 engineers on contract, 40+ volunteers & 25+ interns (Fall/Spring/Summer).
GOVERNING BOARD
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20,000 visits, 40,000 page views in 2022
I pp: ~250,000+ users/year
265,000+ user sessions in 2022
Newsletter:
2,200+ subscribers to monthly email
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2021 Annual Report: 21,000+ impressions, ~2,000 reads Launched October 2022
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Thank you for considering a corporate or brand/artist partnership with InReach. As a partner, you will engage in specific activities to help advance InReach’s mission to increase access to safe, verified resources for the diverse LGBTQ+ community. In appreciation, InReach will provide significant recognition to celebrate this special relationship with our organization.
By partnering with InReach, you will be supporting the diverse LGBTQ+ community, including trans equity and refugee justice, and technology for social good while increasing your community involvement, branding and lead generation, customer/client visibility, marketing, public relations and employee engagement (such as through volunteer opportunities).
InReach offers organization-wide and program-aligned partnerships, as well as other support opportunities, including project-based sponsorships and general donations.
Funding received through organization-wide partnerships provide operational support impacting every aspect of InReach's work, particularly promoting and improving the free InReach App - the world’s first tech platform matching LGBTQ+ people facing discrimination and persecution with safe, verified resources.
The InReach App includes over 8,000 verified services in geographic areas across North America with new resources being verified and added every day by trained volunteers.
Our goal over the next 3 years is to secure the support necessary to establish InReach as the go-to verified resource platform for the diverse LGBTQ+ community in the United States. Organization-wide partnerships help InReach focus on core strategic priorities for 2023-2025, such as:
Increasing the number of InReach App users, including LGBTQ+ communities, caregivers of LGBTQ+ youth, service providers assisting LGBTQ+ clients, and more.
ImprovingtheInReach Appinalignmentwiththe organization’smissionto providethemost technologically advancedresource platformbuiltforthe diverse,intersectional LGBTQ+community.
Expanding community partnerships and implementing marketing strategies to help ensure all LGBTQ+ people facing discrimination and persecution have access to InReach.
Building InReach’s internal Resource Team capacity to enable trained volunteers to identify, independently verify and add thousands more affirming services to the InReach App
DEI Branding & Promotion:
Logo placement on InReach’s website
Logo inclusion on promotional materials for all events hosted by the InReach Junior Board of young professionals throughout the year
Logo placement in annual report
Feature in four (4) email newsletters
Ten (10) mentions on social media
Virtual Employee Engagement:
Introduction to InReach's work via 1 webinar & 3 other customized virtual lunch and learn webinars
Option for a company representative to speak to the InReach Junior Board of young professionals (via our remote guest speakers series)
Option for up to 1,000 employees to contribute to the Local Community Reviewer Program AND the option to organize a virtual 1-day hackathon to make a direct impact on the free InReach App
Up to 20 guaranteed seats for eligible employees (ages 21 - 40) in the InReach Junior Board Program for young professionals (*note: the $1,000 annual membership dues requirement for these seats will be covered)
Option for the company to have a named seat on the InReach Board of Directors and nominate an individual to fill this seat
Option for a company representative to join the InReach Advisory Council
Limited to 5 new partners per year. 5 remaining for 2023.
Requested Commitment: 3 years. Payable at $100,000/year for 3 years or a discounted rate of $250,000 for a single lump sum payment during the first year of the partnership.
Minimum Commitment: 1 year. Payable at $100,000 during the year of the partnership.
DEI Branding & Promotion:
Logo placement on InReach’s website
Logo inclusion on promotional materials for two (2) events hosted by the InReach Junior Board of young professionals
Logo placement in annual report
Feature in three (3) email newsletters
Five (5) mentions on social media
Virtual Employee Engagement:
Introduction to InReach's work via 1 webinar & 2 other customized lunch and learn webinars
Option for a company representative to speak to the InReach Junior Board of young professionals (via our remote guest speakers series)
Option for up to 750 employees to contribute to the Local Community Reviewer Program OR host a virtual 1-day hackathon to make a direct impact on the free InReach App
Up to 10 guaranteed seats for eligible employees (ages 21 - 40) in the InReach Junior Board Program for young professionals (*note: the $1,000 annual membership dues requirement for these seats will be covered)
Option for a company representative to join the InReach Advisory Council
Limited to 10 new partners per year. 10 remaining for 2023.
Requested Commitment: 3 years. Payable at $50,000/year for 3 years or a discounted rate of $125,000 for a single lump sum payment during the first year of the partnership.
Minimum Commitment: 1 year. Payable at $50,000 during the year of the partnership.
DEI Branding & Promotion:
Logo placement on InReach’s website
Logo inclusion on promotional materials for one (1) event hosted by the InReach Junior Board of young professionals
Logo placement in annual report
Feature in two (2) email newsletters
Three (3) mentions on social media
Virtual Employee Engagement:
Introduction to InReach's work via 1 webinar & 1 other customized lunch and learn webinar
Option for a company representative to speak to the InReach Junior Board of young professionals (via our remote guest speakers series)
Option for up to 500 employees to contribute to the Local Community Reviewer Program OR host a virtual 1-day hackathon to make a direct impact on the free InReach App
Limited to 20 new partners per year. 20 remaining for 2023.
Requested Commitment: 3 years. Payable at $25,000/year for 3 years or a discounted rate of $60,000 for a single lump sum payment during the first year of the partnership.
Minimum Commitment: 1 year. Payable at $25,000 during the year of the partnership.
DEI Branding & Promotion:
Logo placement on InReach’s website
Logo inclusion on promotional materials for one (1) event hosted by the InReach Junior Board of young professionals
Logo placement in annual report
Feature in one (1) email newsletter
One (1) mention on social media
Virtual Employee Engagement:
Introduction to InReach's work via 1 webinar
Option for up to 250 employees to contribute to the Local Community Reviewer Program to make a direct impact on the free InReach App
Unlimited number of new partners per year. Option remains available for 2023.
Requested Commitment: 3 years. Payable at $10,000/year for 3 years or a discounted rate of $25,000 for a single lump sum payment during the first year of the partnership.
Minimum Commitment: 1 year. Payable at $10,000 during the year of the partnership.
InReach offers organization-wide and program-aligned partnerships, as well as other support opportunities, including project-based sponsorships and general donations.
Funding received through program-aligned partnerships provide operational support impacting every aspect of InReach’s work, but make it possible for corporate, brand and artist partners to target the significant recognition being provided by InReach to a particular program. At this time, we are pleased to offer the following program-aligned partnership opportunities:
