Garden State Equality is New Jersey’s largest advocacy organization. Since Garden State Equality's founding in 2004, New Jersey has enacted 210 laws at the state, county and municipal levels to advance the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. That's more LGBT civil rights laws enacted in less time than in any other U.S. state – ever. A 2009 year-end study by www.eQualityGiving.com ranks New Jersey as #1 in the United States for LGBT civil rights, tied with California, Iowa and Vermont. In 2008, Garden State Equality became the first statewide civil rights organization in America to be showcased in an Academy Award®-winning film. "Garden State Equality has run the most effective grassroots campaign New Jersey has seen in years," the Star-Ledger has written. Next we will win a marriage equality statute to replace our state's failed civil union law. So welcome to Garden State Equality, a movement making history. We're glad you're here.
The Garden State Equality family of organizations, each of which is colloquially called Garden State Equality, includes the 501c3 Garden State Equality Educational Fund, which focuses on public education, including education and grassroots programs to complement the lawsuit for marriage equality; and the 501c4 Garden State Equality Action Fund, which focuses on lobbying for legislation. These two separate organizations operate independently of one another in strict compliance with state and federal laws.
If you would like to make a 100 percent tax-deductible donation to the 501c3 Garden State Equality Educational Fund, which will support programs and events to educate the public about the challenges the LGBT community faces, click here.
If you would like to make a contribution to the 501c4 Garden State Equality Action Fund, which will go to lobbying legislators to pass pro-LGBT civil rights laws like marriage equality, click here to leave this website to go to the 501c4 Garden State Equality Action Fund page. Contributions to the 501c4 Garden State Equality Action Fund are not tax-deductible.
