Organizations 2018 Board of Directors Jote Taddese, President, Senior IT Adviser – Global IT, Medtronic Dave Schafer, Treasurer, Former Technology Account Manager, The Hartford, Past-President, Woodbury Rotary Club, Retired Atare Agbamu, Secretary, ThinkReverse LLC Thomas Warth, Founder (Ex Officio), T.E. Warth Esq. Automotive Books Patrick Plonski, Executive Director (Ex Officio) Tom Gitaa, Board Member Emeritus (Ex Officio), President and Publisher, Mshale Lamin “Lang” Dibba, Real Estate Investments John Elstad, Senior Vice President, Legal Editorial Operations, Thomson Reuters Dustin Holland, Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing, Better World Books Emma Kasiga, Program Manager, Housing & Financial Education, African Development Center Patrick Mandile, Former Chief Operating Officer, Robins Kaplan LLP, Retired Vuvu Manseka, Supplier/Bottle Auditor, The Coca-Cola Company Fotemah Mba, VP of Artist and Repertoire, Konlive Distributions Paul Musherure, DDS, Pediatric Dentist, Healthpartners Luanne Nyberg, Past Board President John Rupp, Owner, Commonwealth Properties Catherine Ryan, International Development Consultant John Stacey, Director of Campus Operations and Cardinal Scholars, Course Hero, Inc. Pam Pappas Stanoch, Owner, Athena Group International Joanna Sussman, Publisher, Kar-Ben Publishing – Lerner Publishing Group Gary Zelko, Publisher Emeritus, Merck and Company 2018 Books For Africa Ambassadors Circle Martin Akinseye, Simba Craftware Richard America, Georgetown University Frank Babka, Friend of BFA Sharon Sayles Belton, Thomson Reuters Chris Bercaw, Dorsey Whitney Law Firm Todd Bol, Little Free Library Henry Bromelkamp, Bromelkamp Company Mahamed Cali, Somali American Community Charlie Cogan, Northfield Rotary Club Richard de-Souza, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Genevieve Eba-Polley, Ghana Book Trust Tammie Follett, Thomson Reuters Lali Galan, Medtronic Christian Goergen, College of DuPage Natalie Hahn, Malaika Foundation Kim Harms, River’s Edge Dental Pat Harris, BMO Harris Bank Bryan Hanyes, Clean Earth Books Michael Henley, Hansen Henley Yoder and Lamb Juli Hubbard, Follett School Solutions Ambassador Howard Jeter, Former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Col. Yonahan Kassahun, EKTTS – Ethiopia Dr. Clark LaChapelle, Dr. LaChapelle Family Fund Todd Lawton, Out of Print Dick Leider, Friend of BFA Lee Lynch, Friend of BFA PJ Lynch, PJ Lynch LLC Catherine Martignacco, BFA Kilimanjaro Society Catherine Mayer, BFA Kilimanjaro Society Fiona McCrae, Graywolf Press Mike Miller, Better World Books The Honorable Anna Mkapa, Equal Opportunities For All Trust Fund Joseph Mrkonich, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP Jim Munson, Compass Relocation Group Charles Nichols, The Nichols Foundation Sir Emeka Offor, The Sir Emeka Offor Foundation – Nigeria Isaac Owens, Hennepin County Medical Center Rosemond Sarpong Owens, Former BFA Board President Doris Pagelkopf, United Way of Minnesota Dianne Patrick, Snowbound Books Tom Pfeifer, Thomson Reuters Legal David Robinson, Sweet Unity Coffee Farms – Tanzania Barbara Rose, Aid For Africa Margaret Sents, Friend of BFA Dick Simpson, University of Illinois at Chicago Val Stokes, Stokes Trucking Jeffrey Sturchio, Corporate Council on Africa Paul Thompson, The BetterWorld Trust Chris Tolbert, City Council of St. Paul, MN Cash Gifts Your cash, check or credit card gift to Books For Africa can be designated for a specific program or directed to where the need is greatest. All gifts are tax deductible, as specified by law. For your convenience, gifts by credit card can be made directly online at www.booksforafrica.org. Matching Gifts Many companies match employee donations dollar for dollar to the charity of the employee’s choice. Check with your employer about matching your gifts to Books For Africa. Wills and Other Planned Gifts Books For Africa can be named a beneficiary in your will and receive other deferred gifts such as life insurance. These gifts are not subject to estate taxes. Gifts of Appreciated Stock You and Books For Africa can both benefit from gifts of stock (provided you have held the stock for 18 months or longer). You can eliminate capital gains taxes, avoid income tax on the gifted stock, and receive tax deductions for the full value of the stock. Speakers Bureau If your employer, club, or group would like to learn more about Books For Africa’s mission and work, please call (651) 602-9844 or email [email protected]. Volunteer Opportunities Volunteers have helped Books For Africa become the world’s largest shipper of donated text and library books to the African continent. Volunteers help sort and pack books, plan special events, and raise funds. Contact BFA today to find out how to put your skills to work! Statement of Activity 2017 2018 SUPPORT AND REVENUES Contributions 2,278,253 2,489,944 Interest Earned 53,358 21,025 Books Contributed 33,434,957 22,976,725 TOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUES 35,766,568 25,487,694 EXPENDITURES Program Operating Expenses - Overseas 36,090,296 25,589,888 General and Administrative Expenses 103,038 102,412 Fundraising Expenses 223,412 220,913 TOTAL EXPENDITURES 36,416,746 25,913,213 Change in Net Monetary Assets $123,988 $(37,351) Change in Book Inventory $(431,779) $(395,305) Books For Africa Financial Information July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018 2018 CONTRIBUTORS SUMMIT SOCIETY $45,000-$50,000 Anonymous Andy Patel $20,000-$30,000 Anonymous Richard & Vivikka DeLoach Thomas Warth & Zantha LaFon Warth $10,000-$19,000 Anonymous Frank Babka Thomas & Katherine Harig Dick Simpson Jim & Amy Wolford $5,000-$9,999 Anonymous Vincent Barton Eric & Elaine Bucher Ethel Gill Gordon Gustafson Jack Kabak Norm & Pat Linnell Rebecca Marr Dan & Linda Melin Richard Murphy Sundip Naik 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Your generous support in 2018 has allowed us to make great strides in fighting the African book famine. We are pleased to share with you some of what we achieved in 2018: • We shipped books by the millions (yet again): BFA continues as the world’s largest shipper of donated books to the African continent, shipping over 43 million books and serving every single African country in our 30-year history. This has garnered us a perfect 100 out of 100 score from Charity Navigator, and a seventh consecutive top 4-star rating, putting Books For Africa in the top 5% of all U.S. charities for fiscal responsibility and transparency. In 2018 alone we shipped 2.3 million books, and 123 computers and e-readers containing 283,000 digital books, carrying a total value of $22 million. 29 countries were served this year. Thanks to supporters like you, more than $2.4 million in cash donations were raised in 2018 to ship these materials. • We shared the wealth: In pursuit of our goal to serve every county in Africa, we are proud to have shipped containers this year to Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic, and Sao Tome & Principe. None of these countries had previously received a BFA shipment, and we are thrilled to share the wealth as we continue our work to end the book famine across the African continent. The end result is that we have now shipped books to every country in Africa! We celebrated at our Atlanta warehouse, seeing off a container of books to the Central African Republic (funded by Better World Books) with diplomatic representation from the Embassy of Central African Republic on hand! • We traveled in the right circles: We interacted with numerous members of the African diplomatic corps in 2018 to coordinate our activities and secure advice on how best to meet needs in Africa. His Excellency Carlos Dos Santos, Ambassador from Mozambique to the U.S., hosted BFA’s annual Summit Society reception at Mozambique’s Embassy in Washington, D.C., with numerous African Ambassadors in attendance. In Minnesota, His Excellency Edward Sawerengera, Malawi’s Ambassador to the U.S., delivered a keynote speech at our annual luncheon and helped us to honor the winners of the 2018 Minnesota Book Awards at a special book reading. Additionally, we honored Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kenyan author and giant of African literature, at this year’s Twin Cities Book Festival and also at the Minnesota African Awards. Our 30th Anniversary Gala was a huge success, keynoted by African Union Ambassador to the U.S., Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao and raising funds to ship hundreds of thousands of additional books. Finally, we were honored to host former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan for a special reception sponsored by our Law and Democracy Initiative. This was one of the Secretary-General’s last public appearances before he passed away this year. Mr. Annan will be missed and well remembered by the BFA family. • We connected with key partners: 2018 also saw Books For Africa participate in a large-scale USAID-funded project in Uganda, and finalize a new project in Mozambique which will result in our first ever custom-printed book initiative with the delivery of 300,000 children’s books to Mozambique. We also partnered with the Parliament of Egypt to deliver a law and human rights library to their offices. And most importantly, we established a new collaboration with the African Union which resulted in the shipment of a container of books to the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Books For Africa will participate in a special book distribution ceremony at the African Union in February of 2019 to celebrate this book shipment. • We listened to our African partners: We also conducted on-site visits across Africa in 2018 to secure direct feedback in listening sessions with book recipients. We, along with board members, staff and volunteers, met this year with book recipients in South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, and the Seychelles. We also signed a partnership agreement to develop a librarian training program in Ethiopia to help ensure library patrons are being well-served and a culture of reading is being fostered. Finally, Books For Africa participated in interactive sessions this year at the World Literacy Summit at Oxford University, England. All of these activities were designed to help ensure that the books we send to Africa are useful, high quality, and meeting their intended purposes. • We gave the people what they wanted: For the third year, we surveyed our book recipients to assess impacts of our activities. As with previous surveys, we are pleased to know that recipients overwhelming rate BFA books as high quality, and agree that the books will be very useful in promoting literacy in local communities. 43 recipient organizations from 25 African countries completed our post shipment survey this year. Additional positive feedback was received from a book impact assessment of 514 schools in five countries conducted by partner organization BetterWorld Trust, and a focused five-year assessment conducted by the Nedjo Library Project in Oromia, Ethiopia, which showed dramatic increases in library use since the library’s restocking by BFA. In 2018 we engaged our partners on all levels in order to deliver millions of books. This year marks our 30th Anniversary of working towards our vision of getting children reading in every African country. This was the dream of Kofi Annan, who stated, “Literacy is quite simply the bridge from misery to hope.” We are honored to have the opportunity to help bridge this gap, and we appreciate your help in making this happen. With best wishes for a happy and productive 2019, Jote Taddese Patrick J. Plonski, PhD President Executive Director Individuals Combined Federal Campaign 10718 NONPROFIT ORG U.S. POSTAGE PAID TWIN CITIES, MN PERMIT NO. 4593 How To Help Support Books For Africa 50¢ provides a student in Africa with a book $100 provides a classroom set of books $200 provides an encyclopedia set for a school or community library $1,000 provides enough books for an entire school $10,300 supplies a full 40-foot sea container of 22,000 books – enough for 10 schools Front Cover: South Africa, Photo of Joy Hermanus, by David Bloomer Photo courtesy of Sierra Leone Book Trust SUMMIT SOCIETY $100,000-$200,000 Merck & Co., Inc. $65,000-$90,000 Better World Books Out of Print RTI International $55,000-$64,000 The Estate of Genevieve & Richard Conroy The Estate of Lucy Gery $30,000-$50,000 Anonymous Christian Relief Services Ghana Book Trust Rotary Club of Woodbury The Wasily Family Foundation Thomson Reuters USAID Ocean Freight Reimbursement $20,000-$29,000 Aid for Africa* Canada Inc. Carlisle Investment & Consultancy Services Dodge & Cox Follett School Solutions Room to Read The Medtronic Foundation $10,000-$19,999 Better World Trust Burundi Friends International Chief C.I. Ezeh’s Ugwumba Foundation, Nigeria Course Hero, Inc. Education Development Center Embassy of the United Republic of Tanzania Monroe Energy LLC PageHabit Peachtree Presbyterian Church Perimeter Church Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast Ruaha Catholic University, Tanzania Salem University, Nigeria Teofilo Kisanji University, Tanzania The O’Shea Family Foundation World Vision $5,000-$9,999 Agralife Foundation, Ghana Allbeon Media Amoud Foundation Borton Overseas Carl E. Kessler Family Foundation Digital Access Media Dr. LaChapelle Family Fund of the American Endowment Foundation Ebundant LLC Education Development Center Inc. Goddard Family Foundation Intrepid Movement LLC Margaret Rivers Fund Martha Charity Foundation National Center for State Courts Robins Kaplan Charitable Foundation The Conru Foundation Vignan Educational Foundation KILIMANJARO SOCIETY $1,000-$4,999 Adobe Africa Classroom Connection Akokwa American Development Association Inc Anonymous (2) Ansultech Barefoot Books Blue Cross Blue Shield of MN Bremer Bank Caraustar Central Highlands Foundation Coughlan Companies Dunn Boys Charitable Fund Educate Tanzania Fife Family Foundation Forty-One Foundation Freddie Mac Foundation Fredrikson & Byron Foundation Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. Good Steward Global Initiative Google Matching Gifts Program Graywolf Press James Boyce and Kristin Otis Charitable Trust Kelen Family Foundation KIM University, Rwanda Land O’ Lakes Lerner Foundation Lumwana International School, Zambia Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Minnesota Kenyan International Development Association Mshale Rafiki Foundation, Inc. Robert S. Starr Foundation Rosemary Lehman via Schwab Charitable Fund Rotary International District 5960 Savana Signatures Slaggie Family Foundation Spirit of America Inc. Tealwood Asset Management, Inc. The B & W Family Foundation The Culp Family Foundation The Ghana Association of Minnesota The Hillswood Foundation The MathWorks, Inc The Raynie Foundation The Rust Family Foundation The Sexton Family Foundation The T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving The U.S. Charitable Gift Trust The Voglewede Walker Family Charitable Foundation Timeless Grace LLC Tulip and Petunia Publishing University of St. Thomas U.S. Trust Varian Medical Systems Vector Global Logistics Vuitall Media LTD Warm Summer Nights LLC MEMBERS $500-$999 Active Network, LLC Episcopal Church of the Ascension Greif Family Fund Hadley Family Charitable Fund International Monetary Fund Linkedin Maynard/Dirksen Giving Account via Fidelity Portland Library Samuel & Tillie D. Cheiffetz Foundation Select More Media LTD The Chris and Barbara Exton Fund of Fidelity Charitable The Dante Moreira Gilbert Fund of the Renaissance Charitable Foundation The Dingwall/Fiore Family Charitable Fund The Foundation of the Federal Bar Association The White Bear Lake Rotary Foundation Trendah Fund Winston-Salem Foundation MAJOR IN-KIND CONTRIBUTORS Amphora Wines Better World Books Delta Airlines Follett School Solutions Hands on Atlanta Hey Man Productions Lerner Publishing Group Lommen Abdo, P.A. McGraw Hill Merck & Co. Mshale National Geographic Rand McNally David Stokes The University Club of St. Paul/ John Rupp Thomson Reuters United Airlines W.W. Norton Walker Bookstore World Vision LEGACY SOCIETY** Lane Ayres & Marion McNurlen Frank Babka Win Barnard Estate of Susan Barton Henry A. Bromelkamp Estate of Genevieve & Richard Conroy Richard Deuel Estate of Lucy Gery Michael Henley & Randi Yoder Nancy Johnson & Michael Addy William Klaila & Barbara Leibundguth Robert Kraske Dr. Clark & Vonnie LaChapelle Marybeth Nelson Carole Patrikakos Patrick Plonski & Judy Hawkinson Kathleen Tilford Thomas Warth & Zantha LaFon Warth *Denotes donations from large numbers of donors **Legacy Society members have included Books For Africa in their estate planning This list includes Kilimanjaro and Summit Society level donors to our 30th Anniversary Gala. Due to limits on space in this report, we were unable to list all cash and book donors. BFA apologizes for any errors or unintended omissions. Please contact BFA if your name is misprinted or omitted.