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2020 ANNUAL REPORT CAp nAtionAl HeAdquARteRs 105 south Hansell street | Maxwell Air Force Base, Al 3 6112 Greetings, The fact that our donor list managed to grow during such a challenging year speaks to the generosity of CAP members and others who contribute to our important missions. Your donations are vital to the growth of CAP On behalf of Civil Air Patrol and its Board of Governors, I am pleased to present to you our 2020 Annual and its impact, and we appreciate your efforts. Report. This annual report touts the vigilant efforts of our 54,000 citizen volunteers in the past fiscal year in which CAP’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic became the organization’s The expanding donor list is also a reflection on our development team, which achieved the trifecta of charity largest mobilization since World War II. review recognition this past year — just in time for the current giving season. Achieving accreditation by the BBB Wise Giving Alliance complemented our receiving the GuideStar Platinum seal and the “Give with During the pandemic, our members used their professional knowledge, skills and Confidence” Seal from Charity Navigator. These achievements signify that CAP is a well-run organization expertise to fulfill CAP’s U.S. Air Force auxiliary role of Defense Support of Civil deserving of donor trust. With this charity review accomplishment, CAP is demonstrating our commitment to Authorities to meet the demands of local, state and federal agencies. Our sound governance, transparency and achieving our mission while also earning the public’s trust. humanitarian relief efforts, detailed on the opening pages of this report, involved more than 40 CAP wings performing over 120 COVID-19-related missions With such measures in place, the Civil Air Patrol Foundation is experiencing growth in endowments, which are nationwide. Those missions included delivering (and even making) personal critical to CAP’s financial health. Those gifts are also listed in this report (on page 43). Ten trustees now serve on protective equipment (PPE), building temporary hospitals and other facilities, the foundation board, which helps manage these funds in support of the organization and its membership. In the expediting deliveries of kits, samples and vials of vaccine to labs in rural areas, past year, I was blessed to do my part — giving to create the Semper Vigilans Society. You can learn more about delivering or serving meals, staffing emergency operations centers and Points of Distribution (PODs), and this on page 20. hosting blood drives to help meet a critical need for the American Red Cross. Finally, you will find a summary of Civil Air Patrol’s financials. This statement on pages 18-19 is the culmination CAP accomplished much in support of America during this crisis while also meeting the search and rescue, of CAP’s 13th consecutive unmodified audit. Auditors providing the unmodified audit opinion emphasized its emergency services and homeland security needs of the Air Force — our Total Force partner. In addition, importance: “Financial transparency and accountability are essential for a not-for-profit organization to succeed our volunteers maintained a leading role in aerospace education, using national academic standards-based in these unpresented times. An unmodified audit opinion helps demonstrate both.” aviation/STEM education, and served as outstanding mentors to over 20,000 young people participating in CAP’s cadet programs despite the challenges imposed by COVID-19. Truly, Civil Air Patrol is a solid investment in America and its communities, returning $4 in service for every $1 in funding it receives. With more than $193 million in volunteer hours benefiting the nation in 2020, it is easy As CAP’s national commander and CEO, I must say how very proud I am of this unprecedented effort, to see why CAP is recognized as one of the premier public service organizations in the United States. which was achieved in the middle of a pandemic under the most demanding of circumstances. That reputation for service is made possible through the support of Semper Vigilans! The words of Lt. Gen. Kirk S. Pierce, commander, First Air Force, Air Forces Northern, sums up our the Air Force and Civil Air Patrol’s growing number of generous performance in 2020: “CAP has successfully risen to meet the needs of the nation during the pandemic. As donors, who include many of our members as well as others who a Total Force partner, CAP seamlessly complements our efforts. They provide exceptional capability and contributed to our missions during the past year. Your unwavering Maj. Gen. Mark E. Smith capacity to assist the Air Force and our citizens during this national crisis.” support ensures that CAP will be able to continue to serve well CAP National Commander/CEO into the future. Thank you. This annual report also reflects Civil Air Patrol’s emphasis on philanthropy, which comes from the Board of Governors’ commitment to the future of our great organization. Its effect is reflected in a multipage list of our donors that you will find in this report. This list is led by the 2020 Commander’s Circle (beginning on page 26), which lists donors of $1,000 or more. go civil air patrol .com 1 he U.S. Air Force’s newest Total humanitarian relief, educational The nation heavily relies on the CAP’s Force partner proved its worth as a programs and a variety of youth develop- ability to support community, state, Tforce-multiplier in 2020, more than ment initiatives amid unforeseen and federal agencies during this CoVid-19 living up to its reputation as one of the challenges. pandemic,” said Lt. Gen. Kirk S. Pierce, nation’s premier humanitarian service commander, First Air Force, Air Forces ‘our largest Campaign organizations. During the COVID-19 Initially, not knowing how it would Northern, which approves most CAP since World War ii’ pandemic, Civil Air Patrol stood out by be asked to respond, CAP took the operational missions performed in its providing emergency services, necessary steps to protect its 60,000 role as the Air Force auxiliary . members by socially distancing and eventually curtailing in-person meetings Through September, more than 40 COVID-19 RESPONSE and activities. Soon, calls began coming wings were tasked with COVID-19 By the Numbers into the National Operations Center at duties, such as decontaminating Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. ambulances, delivering personal protective equipment (PPE) to rural 92 MISSIONS At first the missions were fairly basic, locations, building temporary hospitals ConduCted oVeR 190 like taking aerial photographs of and other facili ties, staffing emergency dAys oF Continuous temporary drive-through testing operations centers, delivering or serving opeRAtions facilities to document traffic flow. Then meals, making PPE, hauling mobile came requests to transport test kits by command centers, expediting test >> air to expedite the virus detection NEARLY proc ess, along with many more missions 7 MILLION assigned by the Air Force — some of which required new processes and MeAls seRVed in FisCAl 2020 procedures, like sanitizing vehicles and aircraft between missions and safely loading and transporting kits to labs CAP has successfully risen to 32,000+ before and after testing. meet the needs of the nation VolunteeR dAys oF seRViCe during the pandemic. As a Total pRoVided By CAp MeMBeRs “Given the scope and diversity of “ Force partner, CAP seamlessly missions assigned in a Defense Support complements our efforts. They of Civil Authorities capacity, CAP’s provide exceptional capability capacity as a Total Force partner has and capacity to assist the Air proven to be an invaluable resource. Force and our citizens during lt. Col. Mario Accardo (left), commander of the this national crisis.” — Lt. Gen. Michigan Wing’s southeast Michigan Group, and Col. leo Burke, former wing commander, Kirk S. Pierce, commander, First were part of the CAp contingent assisting the Air Force, Air Forces Northern incident command post at the tCF Care Center in detroit — a 1,000-bed field hospital erected in the city’s largest convention center to handle CoVid-19 patients. 2 Civil Air patrol go civil air patrol .com 3 samples to labs, conducting aerial so impressed with our volunteers and photography and using unit locations our staff for the amazing work that is for blood drives for the American being done across the organization, Of over 17,000 blood drive sponsors from Red Cross. from working points of distribution to March –June of 2020, the Arizona Wing of Civil flying test samples t o virtual meeting Air Patrol was in the top 500 sponsors for blood “No matter how you slice it — aerospace activities to wing admin- “collections.” — J ason Benedict, regional donor duration, level of effort, or scope — istrators to our national staff.” services executive for the American Red Cross Civil Air Patrol’s COVID-19 response Arizona/New Mexico Region is our largest campaign since World In September, CAP joined Operation Collecting Blood War II,” CAP’s national commander, Warp Speed to transport COVID-19 Maj. Gen. Mark Smith, told CAP vaccines to rural areas of the members less than four months into country. their response to the pandemic. “I am Making deliveries in April 2020, 2nd lt. John p. laramie (left) and his daughter, Cadet tech. A delivery of personal protective sgt. Kathleen laramie, help set up a point of distribution for personal equipment sits outside a CAp protective equipment for new Hampshire first responders and healthcare GA-8 aircraft in Alamosa, Colorado, workers in epping. ready for pickup by hospital staff. the May 21, 2020 delivery was made by an aircrew from the Colorado Wing. 1 DID YOU KNOW? nearly 2 /2 million masks were among even squadron meeting and training facilities were pressed into service the personal protective equipment delivered by CAp for CoVid-19 missions.