ELMA Progress Report 2015-2016

Contents

ELMA Progress Report 2015-2016

3 A Note from the CEO

5 Overview of The ELMA Philanthropies

6 Overview of The ELMA Group of Foundations

8 2015-2016 Investments Map

11 The ELMA Foundation 01

13 Education

19 Health

20 Feature Story: ELMA’s Unfinished Business in Pediatric HIV

31 ELMA Community Grants Program

37 Other Grant Investments

BonitaH 41 Impact Investments Age 6 47 Grade 1 The ELMA Relief Foundation Bonitah’s favorite subject is math and when she grows 48 Feature Story: Special Initiatives, Ebola and Syria up, she wants to become a doctor. 53 The ELMA Music Foundation Her schooling is made possible by Father Alex You Memorial School in Mubende, Uganda, an 54 Feature Story: Music and Youth Development Alliance ELMA Community Grants Program grantee. 59 The ELMA Growth Foundation Cover and inset photo, Jjumba Martin 63 The ELMA South Africa Foundation

67 The ELMA Vaccines and Immunization Foundation

A Note from the CEO THOMAS McPARTLAND Chief Executive Officer The ELMA Philanthropies Services

During 2015 and 2016, ELMA achieved key milestones including the celebration of our 10th anniversary. During this period, we expanded our activities and impact in a number of important ways which are highlighted through- out this Progress Report. 02 03

Ebola and Syria (Page 48) The war in Syria and the related refugee crisis has exposed unprecedented numbers of children and families to a mix of toxic stresses. A global response is required to deal with the damage already inflicted and to mitigate further trauma for increasing numbers of those who are displaced and underserved. Disease outbreaks such as Ebola have reminded us that fragile health systems and limited numbers of appropriately skilled human resources can be easily overwhelmed, creating crisis far beyond the immediate consequences of a particular health emergency.

Unfinished Business in Pediatric HIV (Page 20) In addition to responding to the Syrian refugee crisis and Ebola, during 2015 and 2016, ELMA focused on expanding HIV prevention, testing, and treatment services to children and adolescents through our Unfinished Business initia- tive. While pursuing this effort, it became apparent that adolescents – particularly girls – face an ever-growing set of challenges to their health, educational opportunities, and their ability to realize their full potential. Moving forward, ELMA will seek to better understand and address the urgent health and education needs of adolescent girls in Africa.

Music and Youth Development (Page 54) In the United States, we will focus on expanding The ELMA Music Foundation’s Music and Youth Development Alliance (MYDA) to support a greater number of organizations using music as a driver of holistic youth development.

What continues to define ELMA is a belief in what is possible tempered by the understanding that pragmatic, measured, and contextually correct interventions are needed to address the myriad of challenges our world, and particularly Africa, face. My hope for the future is best embodied in our cover photo of smiling Bonitah. I choose to believe her hopeful gaze is not just focused upon what is immediately in front of her but also upon the far horizon of what is possible if we remain confident and diligent in our collective efforts. Photo: Janet Kleinbaum Photo: The ELMA Philanthropies Services

The ELMA Philanthropies Services is the services arm of The ELMA Group of Foundations.

From locations in New York, Cape Town, Johannesburg, and 06 Kampala, The ELMA Philanthropies team develops program 05 strategies, identifies and explores investment opportunities, monitors and evaluates investment performance, and manages strategic partnerships for The ELMA Group of Foundations. Photo Left: Jjumba Martin, Infectious Diseases Institute Photo Right: Anthony Bila, ASHA Trust ASHA Bila, Anthony Diseases Institute Photo Right: Infectious Jjumba Martin, Photo Left: 06 07 Photo: Jjumba Martin, Father Alex You Memorial School You Alex Father Jjumba Martin, Photo:

The ELMA Group of Foundations provides sizable philanthropic assistance The ELMA Group of Foundations to high-impact initiatives within each foundation’s area of focus.

The ELMA The ELMA The ELMA The ELMA The ELMA The ELMA Foundation Relief Foundation Music Foundation Growth Foundation South Africa Vaccines and Foundation Immunization The ELMA Foundation’s mission is to The ELMA Relief Foundation provides The ELMA Music Foundation invests in The ELMA Growth Foundation invests improve the lives of Africa’s children and post-disaster emergency assistance organizations in South Africa and the exclusively in Africa in the growth of The ELMA South Africa Foundation funds Foundation youth through the support of sustainable throughout the globe with special United States that either support youth initiatives focused on the economic and selected programs not aimed specifically efforts to advance education, improve attention to the needs of children, who development through music or provide The ELMA Vaccines and Immunization social development of low-income at children, within the country of South health, and relieve the effects of poverty. often suffer disproportionately in the assistance to members of the music Foundation’s mission is to expand vaccine individuals, families, and communities. Africa. aftermath of such tragedies. community who undergo personal and and immunization coverage for children financial hardship. globally. North America AFRICA

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Regional country-specific nvestments Map nvestments Investments Investments I

08 Global Burkina Faso Guinea-Bissau Swaziland The ELMA Foundation The ELMA Relief Foundation The ELMA Vaccines and The ELMA Foundation The ELMA Foundation 09 The ELMA Relief Foundation Immunization Foundation The ELMA Vaccines and Burundi Namibia Syria Immunization Foundation The ELMA Relief Foundation Haiti The ELMA Foundation The ELMA Relief Foundation The ELMA Growth Foundation The ELMA Relief Foundation

Niger Africa Cameroon Jordan The ELMA Vaccines and The ELMA Foundation The ELMA Foundation The ELMA Relief Foundation The ELMA Relief Foundation Immunization Foundation The ELMA Growth Foundation The ELMA Growth The ELMA Vaccines and Foundation Immunization Foundation Kenya Nigeria Uganda The ELMA Foundation The ELMA Relief Foundation The ELMA Foundation The ELMA Growth Foundation The ELMA Growth Foundation Democratic Republic of Congo Rwanda The ELMA Relief Foundation Lebanon The ELMA Foundation United States The ELMA Relief Foundation The ELMA Growth Foundation The ELMA Music Foundation

Ethiopia The ELMA Foundation Lesotho Sierra Leone Yemen The ELMA Relief Foundation The ELMA Foundation The ELMA Relief Foundation The ELMA Growth Foundation The ELMA Relief Foundation The ELMA Vaccines and Liberia South Africa Zambia Immunization Foundation The ELMA Foundation The ELMA Foundation The ELMA Foundation The ELMA Relief Foundation The ELMA Vaccines and The ELMA Music Foundation Immunization Foundation The ELMA Growth Foundation The ELMA Growth Foundation Malawi The ELMA South Africa The ELMA Foundation Foundation Zimbabwe 2015-2016 ELMA Guinea The ELMA Foundation The ELMA Growth Foundation The ELMA Relief Foundation South Sudan The ELMA Relief Foundation The ELMA Vaccines and The ELMA Vaccines and The ELMA Relief Foundation Immunization Foundation Immunization Foundation The ELMA Vaccines and Immunization Foundation The ELMA Foundation The ELMA Foundation

The ELMA Foundation is the primary foundation within The ELMA Group of Foundations, and since the commencement of its activities in 2005, has grown into one of the world’s largest private foundations 12 focused exclusively on children in Africa. 11

The ELMA Foundation’s investments fall within five portfolios: Education Health ELMA Community Grants Program Other Grant Investments Impact Investments Photo Left: Project Mercy Photo Right: Mario Rabie, Wordworks Mario Rabie, Photo Right: Mercy Project Photo Left:

Education

In pursuit of its mission, The ELMA Foundation makes investments in programs and organizations that support the education and development of African children. EDUCATION The ELMA Foundation:

In particular, ELMA’s education investments seek the 12 following returns: 13

African children have access to quality early childhood care and development, and are prepared to learn and participate in primary education to maximize their long-term potential

African teachers are trained, supported, and retained to provide high-quality teaching

African schools are well-managed to provide quality education for their learners

African children successfully transition from one grade to the next on time with appropriate academic knowledge and life skills

To ensure long-term sustainability, ELMA’s education investments aim to:

Align with government priorities while catalyzing the operationalization of relevant policies and service delivery

Increase coverage, equity, and quality of educational services

Support Africa-based organizations Photo Left: Jjumba Martin, Father Alex You Memorial School Photo Right: Zondra Tyre, Project Mercy Project Tyre, Memorial School Zondra Photo Right: You Alex Father Jjumba Martin, Photo Left: Selected Education Investments active during 2015 and 2016

Early Childhood MOZAMBIQUE Cape Educational Trust General support for an organization Development (ECD) Associaçao Wona Sanana expanding access to ECD through center GLOBAL General support for a leading ECD civil and home-based ECD platforms and society organization to implement its through the provision of an essential Results for Development new strategic plan, strengthen its M&E package of services to children Institute systems, and further its influence on a Project support for a global initiative to national scale The DG Murray Trust analyze the challenges facing the early Project support for Ilifa Labantwana, a national initiative to develop quality, childhood workforce and to promote RWANDA country-level development of policies scalable, and sustainable ECD programs and programs to strengthen the work- Harvard University for disadvantaged children force Project support to implement and test the effectiveness of a family-based home Khululeka Community AFRICA visiting intervention to promote ECD Education Development for vulnerable children ages 0-3, as part Centre Trust Grand Challenges Canada of Rwanda’s national social protection General support for an ECD training and Project support to the Saving Brains program implementation organization focused on initiative for sub-granting, focused on increasing the number of trained ECD improving health, nutrition, cognitive Unicef practitioners in the Eastern Cape

nvestment List nvestment development, and early stimulation in Project support to train half of the pre- I African children in the first 1,000 days of life primary teachers in Rwanda to deliver the SmartStart new pre-primary curriculum, disseminate General support to seed an organization EDUCATION The ELMA Foundation: supportive teaching and learning materials that aims to expand access to quality, ETHIOPIA to all pre-primary schools, and strengthen affordable early learning for children by pre-service teacher training developing a network of licensed ECD School Readiness Initiative facilitators and registered ECD “social 02 General support for an organization franchises” throughout South Africa 15 providing quality ECD services, SOUTH AFRICA including teacher training, health checks, Training and Resources in African Self Help Trust JF Kapnek Charitable Trust SOUTH AFRICA Teacher Training, and deworming to 5,000 children in Early Education Project support for the provision of Addis Ababa annually General support for a well-established Development and ECD training organization that General support for KwaZulu-Natal comprehensive ECD services to 80% of LEAP Science and Maths undertakes ECD center development (KZN)’s largest ECD organization that eligible children in rural Mhondoro/Ngezi School Support and Sanyati districts and practitioner training in underpriv- provides integrated, coordinated, and General support in the form of a SOUTH AFRICA ileged areas in Gauteng quality ECD services for families and challenge grant for a network of Project support to renovate and equip vulnerable children secondary schools specializing in math Save the Children South 106 classrooms and create ECD centers and science and serving students from in rural Mhondoro/Ngezi and Sanyati Africa Wordworks disadvantaged backgrounds in three Project support to improve the quality districts General support for an organization provinces. of up to 100 teacher graduates through that supports early language and literacy specialized recruitment, mentoring, and development in the first eight years of New Leaders Foundation exposure to best practice in high children’s lives Stronger Schools Project support for a pilot program functioning schools in Thabo Providing Quality seeking to demonstrate that a Mofutsanyana District in Free State combination of user-friendly data ZAMBIA Education dashboards and coaching school leaders University of Cape Town, on how to use them to make informed LIBERIA Schools Development Unit decisions will lead to improved school Project support for scholarships for Project support for the development of management young women to become ECD teachers Absolute Return for Kids a Grade R (Kindergarten) Early Project support for year one of a five- Mathematics Program, including the year plan to build the capacity of the related teaching and learning materials, ZIMBABWE Liberian Ministry of Education to and the training of 3,800 Grade R contract the management of public teachers in the Western Cape Camfed schools to private operators in an Project support for scholarships for effort to improve numeracy and literacy young women to become ECD teachers outcomes 2015-2016 Education Photo Left: Africa University Photo Right: Jjumba Martin, Father Alex You Memorial School You Alex Father Jjumba Martin, Photo Right: Africa University Photo Left: Selected Education Investments active during 2015 and 2016

University of Johannesburg Education Special SOUTH AFRICA Project support to: (1) establish a Centre for African Language Teaching and (2) Opportunities Ikamva Youth support the foundation phase AFRICA General support for a growing after- education program at the Teacher school tutoring organization that has Education Campus in Siyabuswa Africa University a proven track record in improving Renewal scholarship support for 43 educational outcomes for disadvantaged students to complete their under- high school students UGANDA graduate degrees The Learning Trust STIR Education General support to an organization General support, restricted to Uganda, Challenge grant to encourage support providing capacity building services and for an organization enhancing learning from African donors and project support financial support to start-up education outcomes by equipping and motivating to strengthen AU’s development capacity organizations in the Western and Eastern teachers to improve classroom practices related to African donors Cape provinces African Leadership Academy ZAMBIA No-interest unsecured loan (forgivable based on sustainable milestones) to Vlaamse Vereniging voor support sustainability of an African Ontwikkelingssamenwerking educational institution developing the Camfed

nvestment List nvestment en Technische Foundation next generation of African leaders

I Bijstand (VVOB) Implementing the most

Project support to create teaching effective strategy to tackle EDUCATION The ELMA Foundation: practice systems in five Colleges of poverty and inequality, Education in Zambia to enable ECD Camfed educates vulner- Education lecturers to mentor student able and disadvantaged teachers during their teaching girls and young women 02 internships living in Sub-Saharan Africa and empowers them to 17 become leaders of change in their communities.

In 2015, through direct scholarships and funding from community members and the women of Camfed’s alumnae network, CAMA, Camfed supported 538,782 children to attend school. 2015-2016 Education Photo Left: Anthony Bila, ASHA Trust Page Right (top) Janet Kleinbaum, Camfed Photo Right (bottom) Patrick Hayes, Camfed Photo Right (bottom) Patrick Hayes, Camfed Page Right (top) Janet Kleinbaum, Trust ASHA Bila, Anthony Photo Left:

Health

In pursuit of its mission, The ELMA Foundation invests in programs and organizations that

support the healthy growth and development HEALTH The ELMA Foundation: of African children.

In particular, ELMA’s health investments seek the following returns: 18 19 African mothers have access to appropriate maternal and newborn care so they can ensure their newborns have the best possible start in life

African children and mothers have the nutrition they need to develop into their true potential

African women and children avoid HIV infections and those living with HIV survive and thrive

African children have access to appropriate preventative and curative health services and treatment so they can survive and thrive

To ensure long-term sustainability, ELMA’s investments aim to:

Strengthen health systems with a particular focus on infrastructure and human resources for health

Increase coverage, equity, quality, and safety of integrated health services

Support Africa-based organizations Photo Left: JJumba Martin, Infectious Diseases Institute Photo Right: Jjumba Martin, The Union Jjumba Martin, Diseases Institute Photo Right: Infectious Martin, JJumba Photo Left: y ESS N r

ELMA’s Unfinished Business SI in Pediatric HIV BU ISHED N FI Sto Creating an AIDS-Free Future for Africa’s Children UN re ELMA’s Unfinished Business initiative aims to expand HIV tu prevention, testing, treatment, and Story: Feature treatment retention services for

ea children and adolescents in

F high-burden countries in Africa.

The term “Unfinished Business”is based on the realization that early gains in investing in pediatric HIV-positive children on treatment in 2015: 48 21 HIV, while impressive, were still not enough to • South Africa: 44% of 360,0003 find, test, and treat all children living with HIV, or • Uganda: 22% of 197,8864 to prevent new infections. • Zimbabwe: 27% of 170,0005 ELMA’s goal is for an additional 80,000 HIV-positive Between 2006 and 2011, alongside UNITAID, the Photos: Jjumba Martin, PATA Jjumba Martin, Photos: children and adolescents to be on treatment by 2018 Elton John AIDS Foundation, the Bill and Melinda

Gates Foundation, and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, ELMA invested in the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)’s ground-breaking HIV program, which helped reduce the price of pediatric HIV treatment from USD745 per child per year in 2005 to USD103 per child per year by 2010. CHAI supported national governments to scale-up early infant diagnosis, resulting in more than 8,000 facilities diagnosing HIV in Using 2013/2014 government targets to define our investment goal, ELMA’s Unfinished Business infants at the end of 2010, compared to less than 200 in 2005. At the end of 2010, 305,000 children living with initiative aims to find an additional 80,000 HIV-positive children and adolescents in these countries, HIV were accessing treatment, compared to less than 20,000 in 2005. support their rapid enrollment onto Antiretroviral Therapy, and provide support services to ensure retention. To achieve this, ELMA has invested in 21 implementing partners who have the knowledge In spite of these gains, in 2013, only a quarter of the 2.6 million children living with HIV and resources to reach, treat, and support children in districts with the highest number of HIV-positive (88% of whom were in Africa) had access to treatment1. children who are not yet diagnosed or on treatment.

To help close this gap, ELMA has combined forces with a group of concerned funders, implementing partners, and governments to make significant investments towards achieving an AIDS-free generation of children and adolescents in multiple high-burden countries in Africa.This synopsis focuses on concerted

efforts made in South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, three countries that together account for 22% of the 1 “U.S. Philanthropic Support to Address HIV/AIDS in 2014.” Funders Concerned About AIDS. fcaaids.org/resourcetracking world’s children living with HIV2. 2 “Children, Adolescents, and AIDS in 2016.” UNICEF. childrenandaids.org/situation 3 “South Africa HIV Epidemic Profile.” UNAIDS, 2014. unaidsrstesa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/UNAids-Profile-South-Africa.pdf-18-Feb.pdf 4 “UNAIDS Gap Report 2014.” unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/UNAIDS_Gap_report_en.pdf 5 “Zimbabwe HIV Epidemic Profile.” UNAIDS, 2014. unaidsrstesa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/UNAids-Profile-Zimbabwe.pdf y In South Africa, community-based and facility-based implementing partners are working jointly with ELMA’s Unfinished Business in Pediatric HIV will remain unfinished until a provincial Departments of Health in nine high-burden districts across three provinces. They aim to close ESS N r much higher number of HIV-positive children and adolescents in our priority approximately one-third of the national pediatric treatment gap by using a systems improvement approach SI geographies are found and linked to life-long treatment, and the rate of new that involves collaborative assessment and rapid roll-out of what works to find, test, and treat hard-to- BU reach children and adolescents. infections has reduced significantly, particularly in adolescent girls. To this end, ELMA will continue to invest in prevention, testing, and treatment programs ISHED to ensure all children and adolescents survive and thrive. N FI Sto In Uganda, CHAI and the Ministry of

Health are coordinating a joint effort UN between Mildmay Uganda, Baylor

re College of Medicine Children’s Foundation, and Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, to find, tu test, and treat previously unreached Story: Feature children and adolescents in 19 high- burden districts. ea

F In Zimbabwe, CHAI, working with the Ministry of Health, World Education, Africaid, and other key partners have mapped the 11 districts 48 23 where the majority of unreached children are estimated to be located. Photos: Jjumba Martin, PATA Jjumba Martin, Photos: These implementing partners are working intensely to improve facility-based testing and care. Africaid, a leader in adolescent-focused HIV counseling and care, is supporting the government and all of the national treatment partners to set up Unfinished Business Grantees peer-led support groups that offer services tailored to the needs of adolescents. South Africa Uganda Looking forward, ELMA is applying a gender analysis to HIV testing, treatment, and, importantly, KwaZulu-Natal • Baylor College of Medicine • AIDS Foundation South Africa Children’s Foundation Uganda prevention. This is because adolescent girls and young women in Sub-Saharan Africa are becoming newly • Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric • mothers2mothers AIDS Foundation infected with HIV in increasing numbers. In 2015, 450,000 new infections occurred among • Networking HIV/AIDS adolescent girls and young women ages 15-24 in Sub-Saharan Africa, or approximately Community of South Africa • Infectious Diseases Institute • Mildmay Uganda 6 • Trust for Health Systems 8,600 new infections per week , creating an urgency to find and treat girls who have already been Planning and Development • Clinton Health Access Initiative infected, and prevent new infections in this particularly vulnerable population. Several factors increase • Wits Health Consortium young women and girls’ risk of contracting HIV, including high rates of school drop-out and gender based • Zoe-Life Innovative Solutions Zimbabwe violence. ELMA is currently working with governments, non-governmental partners, and sector experts Johannesburg • Africaid on how best to prevent new infections in adolescent girls and young women. • Anova Health Institute • Clinton Health Access Initiative • Community AIDS Response • World Education • Grassroot Soccer • HIVSA • Right to Care • Wits Health Consortium Eastern Cape • UNICEF 6 “HIV Prevention Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women.” UNAIDS, 2016. unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/UNAIDS_HIV_prevention_among_adolescent_ girls_and_young_women.pdf Selected Health Investments active during 2015 and 2016

Child and NAMIBIA Joan and Sanford I. Weill Adolescent Health Medical College of Cornell The Synergos Institute University AFRICA Project support for constructing and Project support to establish a pediatric operationalizing 20 primary healthcare burn unit at Sekou Toure Regional The END Fund clinics Referral Hospital General support to an organization aiming to control and eliminate the most prevalent neglected tropical diseases SOUTH AFRICA UGANDA (NTDs) by providing technical Children’s assistance and funding to high impact CliH nton ealth Access Hospital Trust NTD programs Initiative Project support for the construction and Project support to increase uptake of commissioning of the recently opened Oral Rehydration Salts/Zinc (ORS/Zinc) University of Cape Town Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital Project support for the African Pediatric to treat diarrhea in children

Fellowship Program to train pediatric special- Support for costs incurred in its ists from university hospitals across Africa Project support to improve national operations during the initial three-year supply, logistics, and distribution of post-construction period of the Nelson diagnostics and treatments for pneumonia, Project support for the Child Nurse Mandela Children’s Hospital Practice Development Initiative to sup- , and diarrhea and to improve case

nvestment List nvestment port postgraduate scholarships and build management among private providers in Umthombo Youth HEALTH The ELMA Foundation: I clinical pediatric nursing capacity in East nine high-burden districts in Uganda and Southern Africa Development Foundation General support to an organization The International Union focused on increasing and retaining rural Against TB and Lung Disease MALAWI health professionals Project support to improve childhood TB diagnosis, treatment, and prevention by Soccer Grassroot Photo: University of Malawi, College Wits Health Consortium developing a sustainable delivery model 02 L wALA Community Alliance 25 of Medicine Project support to build the Empilweni for childhood TB control HIV and TB MOZAMBIQUE Project support to provide postgraduate Services and Research Unit at Rahima South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe General support for an organization Fundação Ariel Glaser pediatric training for 16 doctors Moosa Mother and Child Hospital HIV Unfinished Business grantees are scaling up the delivery of integrated ZIMBABWE listed on page 23 under five and HIV/ Prevention of Contra o SIDA Pediátrico Project support for scale-up of Bubble Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) Project support to improve pediatric and Continuous Positive Airway Pressure TANZANIA University of Zimbabwe - AFRICA healthcare through facility based and maternal TB diagnosis, prevention, and breathing therapy in 10 government and College of Health Sciences community outreach interventions in treatment in four high-burden districts in Children in Crossfire Foundation for Innovative eight Christian Health Association of Project support for 11 scholarships North Kamagambo, Western Kenya, Maputo Province Project support for a pediatric oncology New Diagnostics Malawi (CHAM) hospitals, and the for pediatric postgraduate training to which has a population of 20,000 program to improve treatment, care, and Project support for optimization and provision of equipment, training, and increase the number of pediatricians in support for children with cancer validation of an accurate, cost-effective, SOUTH AFRICA mentoring in all 28 government hospitals central and provincial hospitals and easy-to-use diagnostic for children LESOTHO and eight CHAM hospitals with TB University of KwaZulu-Natal CliH nton ealth Access Project support to the 20,000+ Partner- Project support for scholarships for 15 ship for HIV Survival to rapidly implement Pediatric AIDS Treatment for Initiative Bachelor of Science (BSc) Clinical Officer Project support to expand access to the 2010 WHO guidelines on PMTCT Africa in Pediatrics and Child Health, 20 BSc pediatric care and treatment through and HIV and Infant Feeding in Ilembe General support to an African network Clinical Officer in Anaesthesia and outreach and mobile health in a joint District, as part of the Partnership. that develops capacity of frontline health- Intensive Care, and four Master of effort with the Vodafone Foundation care providers in 24 countries to test, Medicine in Anaesthesia and Intensive and Government of Lesotho Care treat, and provide care for children living SWAZILAND with HIV Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric University of Malawi, Kamuzu MALAWI AIDS Foundation College of Nursing KENYA CliH nton ealth Access Project support to expand access to HIV Project support to train 15 Master of

2015-2016 Health testing and treatment by accelerating Science (MSc) and 48 BSc child health Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Initiative Project support to close the pediatric implementation of Provider Initiated nurses and build the grantee’s capacity to AIDS Foundation HIV and TB care and treatment gap by Testing and Counseling for children deliver the MSc in Child Health Nursing Project support to expand access to supporting ministries of health and key alongside the introduction of new Point programs HIV testing and treatment by accelerating partners of Care Early Infant Diagnostic implementation of Provider Initiated Test- technology ing and Counseling for children alongside the introduction of new Point of Care

Photo: Jjumba Martin, Infectious Diseases Institute Infectious Jjumba Martin, Photo: Early Infant Diagnostic technology Selected Health Investments active during 2015 and 2016 University of KwaZulu-Natal, UGANDA ZAMBIA Centre for Rural Health Project support for implementation of Baylor College of Medicine Africare the KZN Initiative for Newborn Care Children’s Foundation Project support for the renovation of (KINC) in partnership with the KZN Project support for the Saving Mothers high-quality sustainable maternity homes Department of Health Giving Life program that expands safe to increase access to quality intrapartum birth services to women and newborns care among vulnerable rural women University of Limpopo Trust during the critical period of labor, Project support for implementation of delivery, and first 48 hours postpartum Boston University the national newborn care strategy and Project support for the renovation of for the improvement of newborn and Infectious Diseases Institute 12 maternity homes to increase quality pediatric health in Limpopo by scaling Project support for the Saving Mothers intrapartum care for vulnerable rural priority interventions province-wide Giving Life program that expands safe women birth services to women and newborns during the critical period of labor, deliv- Centre for Infectious Disease TANZANIA ery, and first 48 hours postpartum Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) Project support for the Preterm Re- Comprehensive Community The University of Calgary sources, Education, and Effective Manage- Based Rehabilitation in Project support to establish an East ment for Infants initiative which ensures Tanzania Africa center of excellence in simulation women at risk for preterm delivery Project support for the construction of training, research, and skills enhance- receive high-quality clinical care the Baobab Maternity Hospital ment in maternal and newborn care at Mbarara University of Science and nvestment List nvestment

Ifakara Health Institute HEALTH The ELMA Foundation:

I Technology Project support to improve districts’ capacities to manage obstetric emergen- cies through the introduction of the non-pneumatic anti shock garment and a ‘closed user group’ mobile support system 02 Photo: Jjumba Martin, The Union Jjumba Martin, Photo: 27 P aTHFInder International zambia Maternal and University of Malawi, Kamuzu Project support to improve pre and College of Nursing post-natal care, birth attendance, HIV CliH nton ealth Access Newborn Project support for scholarships for 80 testing, counseling, and treatment for Initiative ETHIOPIA students to obtain a BSc in Nursing and mothers and newborns in hard to reach Project support to close the pediatric HIV Midwifery locations and TB care and treatment gap by support- Unicef ing ministries of health and key partners Project support to scale up community- PharmAccess based newborn care including testing and SOUTH AFRICA Project support to build capacity of Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric treatment of neonatal sepsis private providers to deliver an expanded Philani Nutrition Centres AIDS Foundation range of quality maternal, newborn, and Trust Project support to expand access to HIV child health services for rural poor General support for an organization testing and treatment by accelerating KENYA communities that trains “mentor mothers” to provide implementation of Provider Initiated Kisumu Medical and home-based health services to pregnant Testing and Counseling for children Touch Foundation Educational Trust women and children under five, including alongside the introduction of new Point Project support to strengthen Bugando Project support to alleviate postpartum antenatal care, infant and young child of Care Early Infant Diagnostic Hospital into a center of excellence hemorrhage death and disability by ac- feeding counseling, early identification for nurse training, in part by expanding technology celerating uptake of the Uterine Balloon and rehabilitation of under-nourished external rotations for Assistant Medical Tamponade package in four high-burden children, and ECD Officers and Nurses counties Praekelt Foundation Project support in partnership with MALAWI

2015-2016 Health Johnson & Johnson, for MomConnect, a National Department of Health-led Friends of Sick Children Project support for extensions and mobile health initiative to connect preg- alterations to the Kangaroo Mother nant women to public health facilities, Care Ward at Queen Elizabeth Central send them messages about their and Friends of Sick Children Photo: Hospital in Blantyre their baby’s health, and thereby improve uptake of antenatal and postnatal care Selected Health Investments active during 2015 and 2016

ZIMBABWE Nutrition SOUTH AFRICA Absolute Return for Kids Ethiopia & Rwanda University of KwaZulu-Natal, Project support to improve obstetric Centre for Rural Health and newborn care by strengthening the CliH nton ealth Access Project support to improve exclusive capacity of front line health care work- Initiative breastfeeding rates in KZN through the ers to deliver quality services across 10 Project support to reduce childhood KZN Initiative for Breastfeeding Support, districts malnutrition through advisory and a partnership of KZN Department of brokerage services to the governments Health, Centre for Rural Health and ZimHealth of Ethiopia and Rwanda to set up UKZN Department of Pediatrics and Project support to expand the maternity in-country production and distribution Child Health unit at Mabvuku Polyclinic in Harare to in- of complementary foods for babies clude an obstetric theatre and neonatal unit (6-23 months), and pregnant and lactating women nvestment List nvestment The ELMA Foundation: HEALTH The ELMA Foundation: I

02 29 Photo: Jjumba Martin, Infectious Diseases Institute Infectious Jjumba Martin, Photo:

Health Special UGANDA Opportunities Global Health Corps LIBERIA Project support for a public health fellowship program supporting the place- CliH nton ealth Access ment of young Ugandan professionals in Initiative organizations that provide child-focused Project support to secure resources and health services establish critical core capacity within the Ministry of Health and national institu- tions for the launch of a National Health Workforce program

RWANDA CliH nton ealth Access Initiative Project support to review and implement

2015-2016 Health mid-course corrections in Rwanda’s Human Resources for Health Program and operationalize the Academic Consortium for Human Resources for Health, Inc. to assist other African countries who seek to adopt a similar

Photo: Candace Hope, SHOFCO Candace Hope, Photo: model The ELMA Community Grants Program

In Africa, particularly in rural areas, community-based organizations (CBOs) are often the only safety net for children with the greatest developmental and survival needs. CBOs often serve areas that governments, markets, and large non-governmental organizations (NGOs) do not reach. 21

Launched in 2012, The ELMA Community Grants Program (ECGP) provides grants, mostly in the form of general support, to CBOs and other small NGOs in Southern and East Africa that provide direct humanitarian services to children and their families. GRANTS PROGRAM ELMA COMMUNITY The ELMA Foundation:

These services aim to provide for the following essential needs for children:

Physiological needs – such as food, water, clothing, and shelter Safety needs – such as protection, psycho-social support, and health

Using creative and resourceful methods, organizations supported through The ELMA Community Grants Program work with local communities and families to reach some of the most marginalized and vulnerable groups in society, from children with disabilities to unaccompanied minors crossing country borders.

In addition to ELMA’s financial investment, certain grantees supported by The ELMA Community Grants Program receive tailored support to assist their learning and capacity in the areas of fundraising, financial Photo Left: BESO Photo Right: HI HOPES BESO Photo Right: Photo Left: management, leadership, monitoring and evaluation, and program development.

With a relatively small financial investment and additional support, these organizations are able to better serve their beneficiaries. 30 31 Selected ECGP Investments active during 2015 and 2016

AFRICA Thuso-E-Tla-Tsoa-Kae Primary Mangochi Orphans Education School and Training Mukisa Fountain of Life Runs a tuition-free school and boarding Provides free quality primary school Provides comprehensive trauma and psy- house for disadvantaged children with education, nutrition, and essential Foundation chosocial counseling, community aware- multiple disabilities support to orphans and vulnerable ness, and linkage to support services for children In 2015, Mukisa provided more than 800 disabled children and adolescent victims of sexual Touching Tiny Lives Trust children and their caregivers abuse and gender-based violence Provides integrated care to vulnerable Matunkha Development Trust with free quality education, children under five and their caregivers Provides access to education, health ser- therapy, and counseling vices, and psychosocial care to orphans services. KENYA and vulnerable children and their families MALAWI Dignitas Project Trust In addition to direct service Provides marginalized community Children of Blessing Trust Rights Institute for Social provision, Mukisa helps educators in five informal settlements Provides therapeutic and health services, Empowerment children with special needs with training, coaching, and professional nutrition, and specialized education for Provides quality health and education reach their full potential by development disabled and malnourished children services for children, adolescents, and advocating on their behalf women while protecting their to government, and fundamental human rights Little Rock ECD Center Foundation for Community supporting the collaboration Provides inclusive ECD education and and Capacity Development of community members, housing to special needs children, Salima AIDS Support service providers, and other nvestment List nvestment Provides ECD, community prevention orphans, and vulnerable children Organization I of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, non-profit organizations Provides health care, nutrition, and serving children with special adolescent HIV prevention, and Riziki Kenya vocational skills training for youth educational support to orphaned and needs. vulnerable children Provides orphans and other vulnerable children with access to quality education, Provides comprehensive trauma and

healthcare, and improved nutrition psychosocial counseling, community Urunji Child-Care Trust Mukisa Jjumba Martin, Photo: awareness, and linkage to support Provides essential nutrition for children 02 Oonte Orphans and Vulner- 33 Stara Peace Women services for children and adolescent and malaria prevention for rural MOZAMBIQUE NAMIBIA Organization victims of sexual abuse and gender-based communities able Children Organization Associ ação Moçambicana The Association for Provides nutrition, education, and Provides education, food, and psychoso- violence cial support to orphans and vulnerable Youth For Development and para o Desenvolvimento Children with Language, psychosocial support to orphans and

ECGP Comunitaria Concertado Speech and Hearing other vulnerable children children KINDLE Orphan Outreach Productivity Provides ECD, nutrition, educational, Provides health care and educational Provides localized emergency relief to Impairments of Namibia and prevention of mother-to-child support for orphaned and vulnerable vulnerable children, youth, and their Provides quality, specialized education STEPS Namibia Clubfoot LESOTHO families affected by flooding transmission support to vulnerable and other services to disadvantaged deaf Programme children GRANTS PROGRAM ELMA COMMUNITY The ELMA Foundation: families and hearing-impaired children and their Provides clubfoot correction treatment GROW Provides essential services to children caregivers for infants Provides care for orphans and vulner- Life Concern Organization and youth and ensures food security for Associação Movimento Social able children by addressing issues of food Reduces child sexual abuse, increases vulnerable families in rural communities São Gabriel Cheshire Homes (Namibia) security, livelihood recovery, and access to education, and promotes W alVIS Bay Child and Family Provides ECD and education services, non-formal education of herd boys sexual reproductive health and children’s Trust Centre rights among orphans, other vulnerable nutritional support, and after-school Provides therapeutic treatment and Provides education, therapy services, and activities for vulnerable children assistance to children with disabilities Phelisanong Pitseng with children, and adolescents psychosocial support for physically and intellectually disabled children Disabled Group Associação Pára o Desen- Light for the Children Provides disabled, orphaned, and other volvimento Comunitário vulnerable children with nutrition, school Foundation Provides nutrition, education, and SOUTH AFRICA boarding facilities, health, and educational Kuwangisana Provides ECD, remedial education, home-based care to orphans and other support Anna Foundation and prevention of mother-to-child vulnerable children Provides quality after-school services transmission of HIV services to women to disadvantaged children living in rural St Bernadett Resource and children

2015-2016 Ombetja Yehinga Centre For The Blind farming communities Provides a specialized primary school Organisation (Trust) Caritas Regional De Chokwe Supports vulnerable adolescents and and boarding facilities for visually Arebaokeng Multipurpose and Provides ECD services, nutritional, and youth in schools and community clubs impaired and blind children Palliative Care Centre housing support to orphaned and using the creative arts as a medium, Provides a continuum of care from ECD vulnerable children alongside psychosocial support to after-school care, for orphaned and vulnerable children

33 Photo: Jjumba Martin, Father Alex You Memorial School You Alex Father Jjumba Martin, Photo: Selected ECGP Investments active during 2015 and 2016 Soft Power Education Mapalo Support Group ZIMBABWE Provides safe learning environments and Provides HIV-positive mothers with (continued) education for children in rural popula- best feeding practices and HIV-exposed Chiedza Child Care Centre tions and training for community mem- infants with nutrition while eliminating Provides a broad spectrum of SOUTH AFRICA bers to develop their own sustainable mother-to-child transmission activities educational, health, and financial livelihood projects assistance to vulnerable children (ages Bulungula Incubator Special Hope Network Zambia 3-18), and their caregivers Provides children with quality education, Tiny Tim Tunaweza Children’s Centre Provides special education and nutrition, health, and basic services Provides children with special needs therapeutic services to children with Chiedza Community Welfare and Friends access to therapy, specialized education, intellectual disabilities and support to Trust Hantam Community In 2015, Tiny Tim and and day programs their caregivers Provides educational, healthcare, and Education Trust Friends tested over psychosocial services to children in rural Provides a continuum of integrated 5,200 people for HIV Wells of Hope Ministries Tiny Tim and Friends disadvantaged communities educational and humanitarian care for and provided treatment Provides educational, psychosocial, medi- Provides medical, nutritional, and psycho- rural children and youth and essential medical cal, and feeding support to children of social support to HIV-positive orphans, Child Protection Society care for 828 HIV-positive prisoners and similar care to their parents vulnerable children, and pregnant women Provides essential health, education, and HI HOPES individuals including protection services to children in high Provides early intervention services and many orphans and Village of Hope - Mongu density suburbs support to hearing impaired infants and vulnerable children. ZAMBIA Branch their families Africa Directions Provides nutrition, medical care, Edward Ndlovu Memorial Youth-led organization that provides a education, and psychosocial support to Trust Lesedi Educare Association Tim Tiny Photo: and Friends wide range of services including psycho- orphans and vulnerable children and Provides access to educational and Provides children with access to quality

nvestment List nvestment their families literacy resources in rural and urban Woza Moya Community Vusumnotfo social support, health services, and life I ECD through training, education, and skills training to young people ages 4-26 schools and communities through library support programs in rural and urban Development Project Trains community members on social, Zambian Institute for programs communities Provides quality home-based care and economic, and agricultural development, essential support to orphaned and and trains teachers and caregivers on Children in Distress (CINDI Sustainable Development best practices in ECD Kitwe Trust) Provides underprivileged adolescents Family AIDS Counselling Malamulele Onward vulnerable children and their families Provides essential services to children and youth with educational support and Trust - Chiredzi Provides comprehensive rehabilitation and their caregivers in peri-urban com- youth development interventions Provides holistic care to orphaned and therapy to children with cerebral palsy 02 SWAZILAND UGANDA munities vulnerable children and families affected 27 who live in underserved, rural areas by HIV in rural and urban communities Cabrini Ministries Bless a Child Foundation Messina Community Home Provides comprehensive, integrated health Provides treatment services and palliative Heather Chimhoga Orphan care to pediatric cancer patients Based Care Project care, education, and psychosocial support Care ECGP Provides healthcare, nutrition, social services to children and their families Provides education, nutrition, and services, and life skills training to Bugerere Education Support medical provisions to orphans and vulnerable families and orphaned Moya Trust Organization vulnerable children

children through home visits and two Provides holistic care to orphaned and Provides disadvantaged children and GRANTS PROGRAM ELMA COMMUNITY The ELMA Foundation: community drop-in centers vulnerable children in rural communities families with access to free quality formal Kidzcan Children’s Cancer education, meals, scholastic materials, and Relief Net vir Pret St Joseph’s Boarding House vocational skills training Provides medical and psychosocial care Provides integrated after-school care and Provides boarding facilities, nutrition, to children living with cancer and blood youth development to vulnerable young after-school activities, and other support Child Restoration Outreach disorders children and adolescents living on farms to orphaned and vulnerable children Reconnects street children with their attending primary and high school families and empowers them to become Nhaka Foundation The Pebbles Project Trust productive members of their Provides access to ECD and nutritional Provides a continuum of care to children The SHAMBA Trust communities support to rural children living on farms from ECD to after-school Provides educational, nutritional, and Bulungula clubs psychosocial support and access to Fr. Alex You Memorial School Incubator NZEVE Deaf Children’s Centre health services for children at three Provides quality nursery and primary Provides a holistic education and Tholulwazi Uzivikele neighborhood care points education and holistic community In partnership with the psycho-social intervention for deaf Provides integrated care, focused on development for poor communities community of Xhora children and their families

2015-2016 early childhood and youth development, Siphilile Maternal And Child Mouth, South Africa, Bulungula Incubator to vulnerable children and youth Health Mukisa Foundation Rozaria Memorial Trust established the area’s first Provides health and nutrition Provides therapeutic care, medical Provides educational and nutritional ever early childhood Uhambo Foundation home-based services to pregnant treatment, and educational support to support to children affected by HIV/ development centers. Provides training and support services mothers and vulnerable children in children and youth with special needs AIDS, while empowering the for families and communities of children disadvantaged peri-urban areas and to their caregivers community to reduce the spread of HIV As a result, all children ages with disabilities and promote positive living 3-6 now attend quality, early learning programs.

Photo (top) Janet Kleinbaum, Bulungula Incubator (bottom) Isaac Oboth, Bulungula Incubator Bulungula Incubator (bottom) Isaac Oboth, Photo (top) Janet Kleinbaum, 35 Other Grant estments v in Investments grant

On a select basis, The ELMA Foundation makes

grant investments that may not fit neatly other within, or that bridge our Education or Health program strategies.

Examples to date include: 21 Children’s rights – supporting organizations or programs that advance the legal rights of children The ELMA Foundation: The ELMA Foundation: Children’s policy formation – providing support so that public policy as it concerns children is formed on well- documented facts and evidence

Vocational training – assisting disadvantaged youth to have practical vocational training to prepare them for the job market Photo Left: Deborah de Silva, Ilifa Labantwana Photo Right: Salesian Institute Youth Projects Youth Salesian Institute Ilifa Labantwana Photo Right: Deborah de Silva, Photo Left:

36 37 Selected Other Grant Investments active during 2015 and 2016

ethiopia Legal Resources Trust University of Pretoria, Project support to strengthen organiza- Centre for Child Law Jerusalem Children and tional capacity and sustainability for the General support for a social justice Community Development advancement of children’s rights institute focused on advancing the realization of children’s rights in South Organization Africa Project support for re-granting and Salesian Institute Youth training assistance to community-based Projects organizations serving vulnerable children General support for an organization providing education and vocational training of disadvantaged youth living in

SOUTH AFRICA and around Cape Town estments v ACFS Community Education in

University of Cape Town, and Feeding Scheme Children’s Institute General support for a long-standing General support for a premier research, South African organization that provides advocacy, and policy development insti- grant mass feeding, health, and nutrition tute, whose work increases the evidence support to children living in Soweto and base for child-centered policies and the East Rand action nvestment List nvestment other I

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39 2015-2016

Impact estments v n Investments I mpact ELMA’s Impact Investment Portfolio is comprised of for-profit entities that are mission aligned with The ELMA Foundation’s focus on improving the lives of African children.

With over-burdened and in some cases failed public services, many

40 private companies are providing essential healthcare and education I The ELMA Foundation: services across the African continent for both poor and middle class communities. More than 50% of health services in Africa are provided by private companies1. Thus to reach an even greater number of children with improved education and healthcare services, via its Impact Investment strategy, ELMA continues to build a portfolio of both pooled investment funds and direct investments into individual companies that are mission aligned with ELMA. Photo Left: PharmAccess Photo Right: Shonaquip PharmAccess Photo Right: Photo Left:

1 “The Business of Health in Africa.” International Financial Corporation, 2007. unido.org/fileadmin/user_media/ services/PSD/BEP/IFC_HealthinAfrica_Final.pdf 41 Selected Impact Investments active during 2015 and 2016

Direct Investments SPARK Schools Investment Fund for Health Investment in a private company that has in Africa II C urevac established a chain of affordable primary Investment in a private equity fund that Investment in a German-based schools reaching a market segment that targets both a financial and social return biotechnology company that is currently has few quality options. SPARK by investing in private healthcare developing a number of product lines uses a blended learning model with companies in Sub-Saharan Africa using mRNA technology. Of most highly trained teachers and technology interest to ELMA is the vaccine to keep costs under control. Medical Credit Fund technology that, if successful, could elimi- Investment in a fund that provides loans, nate the need for cold storage which Pooled Investment alongside local banks, to healthcare currently hampers vaccine delivery in providers serving poor and underserved many African countries. Funds estments communities in a number of African v countries. All borrowers participate in a Africa Health Fund in Shonaquip Investment in a private equity fund that quality improvement program aimed at No-interest, no-fee loan to a private invests in private sector health care increasing the quality of services offered South African company that manufac- providers serving low to middle income by the provider. tures quality, adjustable, modular populations in Africa children’s posture support wheelchairs and posture management systems

nvestment List nvestment appropriate for resource poor settings.

I Shonaquip’s products come standard with occupational therapy support.

02 33 IMPACT The ELMA Foundation: mpact I Photo: SPARK Schools SPARK Photo: 2015-2016 Photo: PharmAccess Photo:

43 Photo: Anthony Bila, ASHA Trust The ELMA Relief Foundation

The ELMA Relief Foundation supports relief efforts for populations affected by both natural and man-made disasters, with a special emphasis on children.

43 ELMA Relief investments fall into three clusters:

Response – meeting the urgent needs of affected The ELMA Relief Foundation communities in a timely manner immediately following disaster onset

Recovery – rebuilding communities following a disaster

Risk Reduction – alleviating the suffering of underserved low-income communities affected by cyclical and predictable disasters

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F committed multi-year grant-making bud- Photo: Louise Annaud, MSF Annaud, Louise Photo: gets to two of the world’s most pressing crises: the Ebola outbreak in West Africa syria 1 48 Roughly 6.5 million people are internally displaced in Syria. Additionally, at least 4.8 million refugees (of 49

and the Syria crisis in the Middle East. ALIMA Janet Kleinbaum, Photo: which approximately 2.28 million are children) have fled to other countries to escape the conflict in Syria. 4.4 million of these refugees are registered in neighboring countries Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. Turkey EBOLA hosts 2.7 million refugees, making it the world’s largest refugee-hosting nation. Lebanon has the highest The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa was an acute health crisis, with over 11,000 individuals dying from number of refugees per capita with a total of 1 million registered refugees in 2016, or roughly 232 infection out of over 28,000 total reported cases. Beyond the devastating impact on those who suffered from registered refugees per 1,000 inhabitants, and an estimate of total registered and unregistered refugees the disease, the outbreak impacted every facet of life in the affected countries. Health and education service upward in the hundreds of thousands.2 delivery was interrupted for months, economic and livelihood activities suffered due to fear and stigma, and many children lost their parents and caretakers. In response to this crisis, The ELMA Relief Foundation has established a special budget to support responses in education and health care services for children impacted by this emergency. Organizations In 2015 and 2016, as part of its approach to investing in both immediate response and longer-term supported to date are: Catholic Relief Services and its local partner Caritas Jordan, Médecins recovery activities, The ELMA Relief Foundation provided support to six organizations: Action Against Sans Frontières, the International Rescue Committee, and War Child Holland. Hunger, Alliance for International Medical Action, Catholic Relief Services, International Rescue Committee, Last Mile Health, and Médecins du Monde. Activities supported by The ELMA Relief Foundation to date include:

Through grants to these organizations, The ELMA Relief Foundation has: • Education, psychosocial support, and protection services to children in Jordan and Lebanon

• Supported over 100 health facilities to resume or continue provision of primary and maternal healthcare, • Mobile and fixed clinics providing primary and maternal child healthcare services to displaced management of acute malnutrition, and response to pediatric emergencies populations in Lebanon and Jordan

• Supported the resumption of education activities for over 7,500 children in 27 schools • Direct medical relief in Syria • Supported the provision of psychosocial support to 5,700 children affected by Ebola, and case

management services to 500 children made newly vulnerable by the outbreak 1 United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance. unocha.org/syria 2 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php Selected Relief Investments active during 2015 and 2016

Recovery HAITI LIBERIA NPH-USA Project support for a rehydration center International Rescue at St. Damien’s Pediatric Hospital, treating Committee cholera and other diarrheal illnesses in the Project support for the provision of case context of a worsening cholera outbreak

management to Liberian children made ALIMA Janet Kleinbaum, Photo: vulnerable by Ebola and capacity building of the Liberian Ministry of Gender, JORDAN Children, and Social Protection to provide case management services in Catholic Relief Services - the future United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Last Mile Health Project support for protection, psycho- Project support for restoration of social support, pre-school, remedial, and health care services following the Ebola catch-up education services for Syrian outbreak refugee children International Rescue Committee International Rescue

nvestment List nvestment Médecins du Monde Committee I Project support for rebuilding the health Project support for the Airbel Research system in Montserrado County in a and Development center, which develops Project support for the provision of post-Ebola context and tests innovations in education, primary and reproductive health services employment, health, and safety to Syrian refugees through mobile clinics surrounding global humanitarian crises SIERRA LEONE Médecins Sans Frontières SIERRA LEONE Catholic Relief Services Project support for a rapid response 02 Action Against Hunger Project support for restoration of fund to address medical needs of popula- 33 education services and psychosocial Project support for the prevention and tions facing humanitarian crises and treatment of acute malnutrition in the support for children emergencies

context of Ebola The ELMA Relief Foundation Response ETHIOPIA GLOBAL SOUTH SUDAN Catholic Relief Services Save the Children Alliance for International Project support for construction of Project support for testing and Medical Action (ALIMA) schools for South Sudanese refugee demonstration of efficacy of guidelines, No-interest, no-fee, unsecured finance children in Gambella region curriculum, and commodities kits as part facility to provide ALIMA working capital of a comprehensive Newborn Health in Photo: Peter Morrison, Catholic Relief Services Morrison, Peter Photo: during predictable cash shortfalls related Oxfam America Humanitarian Settings Package to delays in disbursement from Project support for a sub-granting mech- Risk Reduction Relief Special committed donors, primarily the Euro- anism to be used by Oxfam to ensure 2015-2016 Relief Foundation pean Commission’s Humanitarian Office quick and effective emergency response ZIMBABWE ETHIOPIA Opportunities by community-based organizations Rapid response drawdown fund to JF Kapnek Charitable Trust Oxfam America GLOBAL Project support for the expansion of a support emergency assessments and Save the Children Project support to scale an integrated Alliance for International program startups in response to school feeding program in the context of risk management program designed to Project support for the construction Medical Action (ALIMA) humanitarian emergencies drought in Zimbabwe and operations of schools for South build resilience and improve household General support to enable a growing Sudanese refugee children in Gambella food security and incomes for farmers humanitarian organization to expand region as part of the larger R4 Rural Resilience its footprint, improve the quality of its Initiative programs, and diversify its funding base GUINEA HAITI Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) NPH-USA Project support to maintain Ebola General support for St. Damien’s surveillance and response capacity and to Pediatric Hospital, Haiti’s premier improve access to pediatric care in the children’s hospital context of Ebola 51 The ELMA Music Foundation

Focused primarily in the United States, The ELMA Music Foundation has a dual purpose: to invest in organizations that use music to improve outcomes for children and youth and

50 to assist members of the music community 13 undergoing financial or personal hardship.

In 2015 and 2016, The ELMA Music Foundation expanded its portfolio in the following areas:

Improving the quality of and access to after-school music programming that attracts and retains low-income youth into comprehensive youth development programs

Improving, expanding, or sustaining school music programs linked to education outcomes Foundation The ELMA Music

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ELMA Music Foundation, u the Music and Youth m ea Development Alliance F (MYDA) was launched in 2013 as a nation-wide coalition of community- Story: Feature 48 based organizations across 55 the United States that use music as a youth Alternatives A Center for The Door – Ward, Tarik Photo: development tool. Each MYDA organization provides robust music and arts programming

Photo: Tarik Ward, Renaissance Youth Center Youth Renaissance Ward, Tarik Photo: which includes instrumental training, digital music creation, song writing, video production, and live performances, along with integrated MYDA complements The ELMA Music Foundation’s financial investments by providing time and space for our Music and Youth Development grantees to collaborate and learn from one another, thereby improving their wrap-around services that address the multi-dimensional needs of young music programs and wrap-around services. During 2015 and 2016, MYDA formalized its vision and mission, people. collaborated on the album Youth in Revolt, Volume 2: No Labels (available on SoundCloud), and shared resources and best practices on developing youth leadership, connecting young people with music industry professionals, These services range from healthcare - both mental and physical - to job training, school readiness, and and developing a shared monitoring and evaluation system. legal aid. However, it is the youth members’ interest in music that inspires them to join these organizations, thus providing them with the opportunity to access additional resources. Currently, MYDA is made up of the following organizations, which serve nearly 4,000 young people ages 14-21 from underserved communities across the United States: MYDA is shining a spotlight on programs that use music to change the trajectory of young lives, to positively affect cognitive development, emotional management skills, self-image, relationship building, and The Door in New York City perseverance. Beyond 2016, The ELMA Music Foundation will actively support the growth of MYDA to Neutral Zone in Ann Arbor, Michigan ensure that more young people have the support they need as they transition into adulthood. RYSE Center in Richmond, California A Place Called Home in South Central Los Angeles, California Renaissance Youth Center in Bronx, NY Selected Music Investments active during 2015 and 2016

Music and Youth After-School Music Music Special Development Programs Opportunities

UNITED STATES UNITED STATES Berklee College of Music Project support for need-based scholar- A Place Called Home Mama Foundation for the Arts ships for youth from The ELMA Music Project support for the music Project support for the Harlem-based Foundation’s U.S.-based grantees to department of a comprehensive Gospel for Teens after school music attend Berklee College of Music’s four afterschool youth development center program, which provides free intensive year undergraduate program in South Central Los Angeles training and performance opportuni- ties in gospel music for 350 mostly low Harlem Children’s Zone The Door - A Center of income teenagers Project support for the music program Alternatives of a community-based organization Project support for the music and In-School Music dedicated to the healthy development of performing arts programming of a com- Programs children from pre-natal through college munity based organization that serves in Central Harlem youth ages 12-21 in the areas of health, UNITED STATES education, the arts, personal develop- Jazz Foundation of America ment, and career services Berklee College of Music Project support for the Agnes Varis Jazz

nvestment List nvestment Project support for a joint venture in the Schools Program which extends I between Berklee College of Music and Neutral Zone the careers of aging artists and brings Project support for a youth driven music Little Kids Rock to expand and modern- ize music education in New York City music to schools, nursing homes, and and performing arts program serving hospitals nationwide teenagers between the ages of 13 and 19, public schools through training teachers many of whom are at-risk and/or from and supplying schools with instruments MusiCares Foundation disadvantaged backgrounds and modern music technology Matching grant for the MusiCares 20th Anniversary Campaign to support safety 02 Renaissance Youth Center KIPP Foundation 33 Project support for music programs net services for members of the music Project support for the music program community who fall on hard times. The of a community-based youth develop- and classes in KIPP Public Charter High Schools ELMA Music Foundation is match- ment organization in Bronx, New York ing certain contributions (minimum of USD100,000) made by music business REYS executives. Project support for the Media, Arts, and Culture program of a community-based youth development organization that provides a safe space for creative expres- sion, youth leadership, and social justice in Richmond, California

SOUTH AFRICA America of The Jazz Foundation Photo: The ELMA Music Foundation The ELMA Music 2015-2016 Music Foundation The Field Band Foundation Project support for the Field Band Acad- emy, which trains disadvantaged youth in music, administration, and life skills, and prepares many of them to be band coor- dinators for the Field Band Foundation Photo: Angela Buckland, The Field Band Foundation Angela Buckland, Photo:

57 The ELMA Growth Foundation

Beginning its work in 2013, The ELMA Growth Foundation invests exclusively in Africa in:

The economic and/or social development or

advancement of low-income individuals, families, or 43 Foundation The ELMA Growth communities

The growth or expansion of initiatives that seek to achieve the relief of poverty and/or the effects of poverty on individuals, families, or communities

60 SHOFCO Candace Hope, Fund Photo Right: Acre One Photo Left: 59 Selected Growth Investments active during 2015 and 2016

African Social kenya Growth Special Entrepreneurship Opportunities Shining Hope for Communities AFRICA General support contribution as part AFRICA of a challenge grant led by Focusing African Leadership Network Philanthropy African Leadership Academy Foundation Project support for the Africa Project support for the Outstanding Project support for physical expansion of Careers Network to place and support Social Entrepreneur Award Kibera School for Girls alumni, who are currently in university, in summer internships at ELMA grantee One Acre Fund General support for an organization organizations General support for a rapidly growing alleviating poverty in urban slum social enterprise that offers comprehen- communities by providing basic services African Philanthropy Forum sive agricultural training, supplies, and including healthcare, clean water, and Project support to establish a forum for financing to improve the livelihoods of girls’ education African philanthropists to network and subsistence farming families in Africa collaborate to expand philanthropy in UGANDA and from Africa BURUNDI Living Goods Village Health Works ETHIOPIA General support for a growing social nvestments List nvestments General support for a growing social

I enterprise focused on scaling a more enterprise focused on improving health, Project Mercy, Inc. sustainable community health worker education, and nutrition General support for a holistic Ashesi University model community development agency serving GHANA the rural poor in four regions in Ethiopia Ashesi University educates Africa’s through the provision of education, future leaders through an academic Ashesi University College essential health care, vocational training, program steeped in the liberal arts

02 Project support to build a 96 bed and water and sanitation and sciences. 33 Foundation The ELMA Growth student dormitory Over 90% of Ashesi’s alumni live and Project support to procure laboratory SOUTH AFRICA work in Africa, helping to expand equipment required to launch a new business, influence society, and engineering program Harambee Youth Employment contribute to a renaissance across Accelerator Africa. Project support for the Work Seeker There are 791 students in the Class Support program which aims to provide of 2020. Ashesi plans to grow the young work-seekers in South Africa with number of students to 1,000 in the skills and support to enhance the graduating class of 2024. likelihood of them gaining employment

Photo: Ashesi University Photo: Photo: Ester Havens, Living Goods Ester Havens, Photo: 2015-2016 ELMA Growth Foundation 2015-2016 ELMA Growth

61 The ELMA South Africa Foundation

The ELMA South Africa Foundation funds select causes in South Africa that may not directly relate to children.

During 2015 and 2016, The ELMA South Africa 64 Foundation focused on building out its “In Support of 6343 the Constitution” grants cluster, which is comprised of organizations protecting the rights of all people in South Africa as enshrined in the Constitution of South Africa. The ELMA South Africa Foundation

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63 Photo Left: Jjumba Martin, Infectious Diseases Institute Photo Right: Section 27 Diseases Institute Photo Right: Infectious Jjumba Martin, Photo Left: Selected South Africa Investments active during 2015 and 2016

Health System Strengthening Forum of University Nursing Deans of South Africa (FUNDiSA) Project support to build organizational capacity of a key nursing education institution in the Southern Africa region

South Africa Partners Project support for a partnership between the University of Pretoria, the University of Fort Hare, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the National Department of Health, to build the Albertina Sisulu Executive Leadership Programme in Health (ASELPH)

In Support of the ProBono.Org nvestments List nvestments

I Constitution General support for an organization that matches attorneys with indigent clients The Black Sash Trust to provide pro bono and high quality General support for a human rights legal services organization that provides education, training, advocacy, and litigation support to communities to ensure that their Section 27 General support for a public-interest law 64 human rights and particularly the 6543 and advocacy center that uses litigation, socio-economic rights enshrined in the advocacy, and community mobilization Constitution are being realized on the to help realize the rights to education, ground health care, and food Legal Resources Trust Project support for organizational capacity building to strengthen the human resources and transformation agenda of the Legal Resources Centre The ELMA South Africa Foundation Foundation Albertina Sisulu

2015-2016 ELMA South Africa Africa 2015-2016 ELMA South Executive Leadership Programme in Health

Since its launch in 2013, Trust ASHA Anthony Bila, Photo: ASELPH has provided executive level training and support to 93 public health managers. Photo(top): Mario Rabie, Ikamva Youth (Bottom): ASELPH (Bottom): Youth Ikamva Mario Rabie, Photo(top): 65 The ELMA Vaccines and Immunization Foundation

Beginning its work in 2012, The ELMA Vaccines and Immunization Foundation’s mission is to expand vaccine and immunization coverage for children globally.

40 Investments are focused on: 67

Improving vaccine coverage in complex emergency situations

Increasing vaccine coverage through improvements in oundation supply chain management and delivery infrastructure in Africa

Expediting the introduction of new vaccines that have the potential to greatly impact child mortality and morbidity accines & Immunization F V The ELMA

42 SHOFCO Candace Hope, The Union Photo Right: Jjumba Martin, Photo Left: Selected Vaccine and Immunization Investments active during 2015 and 2016

Vaccine Supply ZAMBIA

Chain Solutions Centre for Infectious Disease GLOBAL Research in Zambia Project support for capital purchases and The GAVI Alliance training to expand national cold chain Project support for the Supply Chain capacity Fund, a pilot program to provide rapid, targeted end-to-end vaccine supply chain Vaccine System support Strengthening ETHIOPIA ZIMBABWE JSI Research and Training CliH nton ealth Access Institute Initiative Project support to improve cold chain Project support to expand cold chain capacity, improve immunization coverage,

mmunization mmunization capacity and effective vaccine and support introduction of rotavirus I management through training of cold chain technicians, optimizing cold chain vaccination in two rural and underserved nvestment List nvestment logistics, and proper temperature Zimbabwean provinces I monitoring

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Our Values

• Humility and integrity • Respect for human dignity • Pursuit of excellence • Commitment to partnership 72 01 • A results-orientation informed by continuous learning Photo: Mario Rabie, Wordworks Back Cover Photo: Anthony Bila, ASHA Trust ASHA Bila, Anthony Photo: Back Cover Wordworks Mario Rabie, Photo: www.elmaphilanthropies.org