2019Annual Report A LETTER FROM ANERA’S PRESIDENT

Just when we thought the news could not get any worse for Palestinians under occupation, or in camps in neighboring countries, it did. This year saw a complete freeze of US government support to Palestinians. The freeze affected Anera and our work in no small way, halting our USAID-funded Palestinian Community Infrastructure Development Project with $28 million left in funding. For years, the project, and similar ones before it, with support from the American people, helped Palestinians build stronger, healthier communities and a better chance for long-term peace and prosperity. Thanks to supporters like you, though, we are still building. Just this past year, in partnership with individuals, families, foundations and institutions, we built a lot: six new kindergartens to add to the 200 schools Anera constructed in the past eight years, giving 32,000 preschoolers a head start in life. In just three months, we built 104 greenhouses, for women-led and vulnerable households in Gaza, that generate about three times the average GDP per owner. And, we’re working with 180 women in the West Bank and Gaza to help them build their businesses. In this year, in response to the ongoing garbage crisis, Anera built three large sorting and composting facilities to recycle solid waste in Bekaa, reducing waste, improving the environment and building social cohesion among refugee and host communities. We also rebuilt the emergency rooms in the busiest hospital in Burj el Barajneh Camp, improving access to health care for 35,000 residents. Finally, in Jordan, we are building back our programs after a several year absence, beginning with a partnership with a coding academy training the next generation of Palestinian Cover: Sanaa participates in Anera’s Women Can program, which helps technology leaders. Palestinian women to start small businesses in the West Bank. Sanaa plans to produce, Thank you for your support. Let us pledge to continue our work together, helping hope find a way market and sell her locally famous goat in the Middle East. cheese to increase her family’s income. In gratitude, On this page: Construction workers lay the for a reservoir in Al Fukhari, Gaza. Inaugurated in 2019, the reservoir now supplies 10,000 people with water. Sean Carroll Program Expenses in 2019 Trusted & In 2019, 92 cents of every dollar you gave us respected... went directly to humanitarian projects and programs — providing urgent relief and 51 years delivering sustainable results and life-improving development to refugee % positive change in communities communities and other vulnerable populations Trusted 5% Management partner of the UN and other 92 & General across Palestine and Lebanon. international agencies for 40+ years 3% spent on projects $56.2 million Thanks to you and our local in-country partners, and programs in the donated by thousands of Anera delivered humanitarian relief Middle East individuals and organizations and sustainable health, education, and Transparent financial statements and audits economic development projects totaling published online more than $48.8 million in 2019. 4-star To see detailed, audited financial reports, visit ranking from Charity Navigator and anera.org/financials top ratings from BBB and Guidestar With your support in 2019... It scared me when the $30.8 million “[old] machine stopped worth of vital medicines and relief supplies working in the middle of my distributed in Palestine and Lebanon. session. I had to wait until 2,090 families they fixed and cleaned it.” received nutritious and filling food parcels - Haja from Gaza City Haja, along with 458 other patients, during Ramadan in Lebanon and Gaza. relies on the dialysis unit at Al-Shifa Hospital twice a week. Anera donated 10 new machines to the hospital. 1,000 young women attended awareness sessions on menstrual hygiene in three of Lebanon’s Palestinian camps. Health is a crown 35,000 patients “ got access to improved medical services through only seen by those the rehabilitation of a hospital in Lebanon. who lose it.”

- Halima from Beit Anan, West Bank 46,000 refugee children Halima is well known for her goat cheese. We would like to thank everyone received a pair of TOMS shoes — for some, Infected with a parasite on the farm, “ Halima got better quickly with Anera- who remembered us during the storm their first new shoes ever. delivered medicine. with fuel, heating and food baskets.”

- Syrian refugee in Alkaram camp in , Lebanon HEALTH & RELIEF A big snow storm hit Lebanon and made conditions in tent camps miserable. Anera donors helped 500 families with food packages, blankets, fuel and lamps. With your support in 2019... The project helped us 5,041 refugee youths “relieve our own stress and learned , English, math and valuable job skills across Lebanon. enabled us to identify what children are suffering from 610 children with special needs gained access to rehabilitated educational, physical and how to help them.” and cognitive therapy facilities in Jerusalem. - Ala’ teacher at Awdah Kindergarten, Gaza Ala’ was one of 63 Gaza preschool teachers who took part 63 teachers in Anera’s expressive arts trainings. trained on using expressive arts in preschool classrooms in Gaza. 6 new preschools I’d like to dedicate the school When women from my built in the West Bank, giving hundreds “to the memory of my father community“ need [plumbing] help of prechoolers access to vital education who was a very proud while they are home alone, they 155 coaches Palestinian. He greatly valued feel more comfortable inviting a trained to become agents of positive change education and family.” woman into their home... among vulnerable young people in Lebanon. - Kathleen from Cincinnati, Ohio I can fill that gap for them.” Kathleen and Jim Stengel donated the funds to build a new preschool in Ni’lin, West Bank. - Nivine from Tripoli, Lebanon EDUCATION They visited Palestine for the first time Nivine completed an Anera course on plumbing, solar and heating to be at the school opening. systems. Now she plans to start her own plumbing business. In 2019, Anera built six beautiful new preschools in the West Bank towns of Bazariya, Deir Al Hatab, Madama, Nassaria, Ni'lin (pictured) and Qibya. With your support in 2019... “I like to begin my day early It pains my heart 26,500 Palestinians inside the greenhouse. “when olive trees now have reliable connections to potable water My life revolves around the in the West Bank and Gaza. that are hundreds progress of my plants. It’s not of years old 100 women entrepreneurs just a source of income for me, burn down.” enrolled in a program to start or build up it’s my passion. It’s exciting!” small businesses in the West Bank. - Jameel from Ramallah, West Bank - Amena from Deir El Balah, Gaza Jameel, a firefighter, can now fill his fire Anera built a greenhouse on Amena’s land in Gaza. engine using Anera’s wastewater reuse 104 farming families Amena is an excellent and devoted farmer. reservoir, enabling him to respond more in Gaza grew fresh produce and earned Her crops are bountiful.. quickly to fires. much-needed extra income in new greenhouses. 9,000 camp residents became champions of recycling, actively From now on, no more garbage participating in home solid waste sorting in Lebanon. “ smoke and horrible smells. Our 1 wastewater reuse facility environment will be able to heal and added a reservoir and pumping station to enable we must commit to keep it clean no park irrigation and fire-fighting in Ramallah. matter what!”

- Niveen from Temnin El Foka, Lebanon Niveen is an active participant in Anera’s recycling project in her Bekaa Valley ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT town, where Anera’s solid waste-sorting facilities and engagement programs are transforming attitudes towards environmentalism. In-Kind Partners Funding Organizations Americares Jerusalem Pharmaceutical Company Sanofi Genzyme $1,000,000 and above Direct Relief Johnson & Johnson Sign Fracture Care Islamic Relief USA $10,000 - 24,999 $1,000 - 2,499 Health Partners International of Canada Latter-Day Saint Charities Thaki UNHCR The Atlantic Director/Employee Choice Financial Group International Health Partners Lutheran World Relief TOMS Shoes UNICEF Designated Fund Christians for Peace and Justice U.S. Agency for International Development Embassy of the State of Qatar in the Middle East Healing Across the Divides Governor’s School for Government and $100,000 - 999,999 Matching Gift Donors McMillan-Stewart Foundation International Studies Ajram Family Foundation American Endowment Foundation GE Foundation T-Mobile USA, Inc. The McWilliams/Piraino Family Foundation Islamic Cultural Center of Greater Chicago Ghiath and Nadia Sukhtian Foundation Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Inc. IBM Employee Services Center T. Rowe Price Sanofi Genzyme Mental Health Services Fund at the Reach Out to Asia, A Program Anonymous (1) Charlottesville Area Community Foundation BP Foundation, Inc. Intel Corporation UBS Financial Services Inc. of Education Above All The Boeing Company International Monetary Fund UK Online Giving Foundation National Institute for the Clinical Application The Jim Pattison Group $5,000 - 9,999 of Behavioral Medicine Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Microsoft United Health Group The Khaled Family Distracted Globe Foundation River Road Unitarian Church, Bethesda, MD City of Seattle Morgan Stanley Visa, Inc. United Methodist Committee on Relief Global Impact UNRWA USA Dell Employee Charitable Giving Program Oracle Corporation World Bank Community Connections Fund Anonymous (1) Islamic Center of Middle GA World Street Kitchen Exxon Mobil Foundation Prudential Financial Inc. National Arab American Medical Association $25,000 - 99,999 Anonymous (2) Gartner Inc. Salesforce Matching Grant Foundation Aramco Services Company Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Bequests Embassy of the United Arab Emirates Exxon Mobil Corporation $2,500 - 4,999 Anera mourns the passing of these Jean K. Andrews Catherine Lynch Anera Legacy Society Supporters who have included Firedoll Foundation Interaudi Bank valued members of our community. Peter Blank Serge Valle Through their bequests, they continue Anera in their wills in 2019. Foundation for Middle East Peace Karmel Community Prayer Center Hope Fay Cobb Mrs. Eric Weinmann to demonstrate their generous spirit Arthur Baur Padosi Foundation Rotary Club of Washington, DC and commitment to Anera’s work and Gerald Halmo Dr. Gabriele M. Zu-Rhein Lois Herrmann streetfootballworld SunTrust Banks, Inc. set an example for others. These Philip O. Koch Weissman Family Trust Betty Mann The Dorothea Haus Ross Foundation The New York Community Trust mean Anera will be here tomorrow, Ruth Langner Lulu Brair Moller The Morganti Group US Omen - Southern California Chapter Martha Wilson so people throughout the Middle Exemption Trust The Moriah Fund Vera J. Wohlfort East may live with the dignity and The Olayan Group opportunity they deserve. Anonymous (1) Purple pipes = Foundation of America ♻ Learn more at anera.org/legacy Anonymous (1) Two construction workers stand ready to install pipes which now carry recycled wastewater INSTITUTIONAL DONORS throughout central Ramallah for municipal use. Leena El-Ali Tahirah Mousa LEBANON Bekaa PALESTINE Gaza City Board Managing Partner, Bona Smarts, L.L.C. Director Employee Relations, Ochsner Health Staff Mohamed Awad Mohammed Abu Jahal System Jerusalem Officers Hani M.S. Farsi WASHINGTON, DC Mazen Chamas Nahed Al-Wehaidi CEO and Founder, Corniche Group, London, UK Amel Najjar Samar El-Yassir, Country Jack Byrne, Country Director David F. Nygaard, Ph.D., Chair Sean Carroll, President & CEO May Issa Mostafa Al Ghosain Former Director of Rural Development, Ilana Feldman, Ph.D. Executive Director & Founder, Children of War Director Mamoun Abu-Gheith Foundation Lola Akinuli George Makadssi Rania Elhelo Aga Khan Foundation Professor of Anthropology, History & International Lina Atat Tamara Handal Al-Hodali Affairs George Washington University Kathleen Ridolfo Maha Akkeh Sami Matar Grace Tompkins., Vice Chair Leen Ataya South Lebanon Barihan Al-Khatib Executive Director, Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center, Ibrahim Najjar Education Specialist Edward “Skip” Gnehm, Jr. Hamsa AlQaraghuli (Ein El Hilweh & Tyre) Amjad Ebeid Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman Reem Aziz Kuwait Professor, George Washington University; Christina Andeweg Ahmad Daher Ahmad Al-Najjar Lawrence A. Hamdan, Treasurer Maria Berbari Emile Makhlouf Executive Chairman, Global Mergers Former Ambassador Fred Rogers Rula Kort Bawardi Rakan Diab Lana Qedwa Vice President & Treasurer, Rana Charide Lana Noureddin & Acquisitions, Barclays Capital John Gurley Liz Demarest Oyoun Shabayta Marwa Sbeih Partner, Arent Fox Carleton College Serene Dardari Beitin Sanaa Abouzaid, Secretary of Corporation Donna Diane Rania Shahrour Mousa Shawwa Regional Corporate Governance Lead, MENA – Michael Hudson Joseph P. Saba Hiba El Safadi Mohammad Atieh Adj Professor, Georgetown University; Consultant Dina Dukhqan International Finance Corporation Professor of International Relations and Arab Maya El Saleh Tripoli Hani Khleif Studies, Emeritus, Georgetown University for Operations in Conflict & Fragile States Steve Fake Sean Carroll, Anera President & CEO (ex-officio) Ahmad Fares Safaa Al Ahmad Mohammad Mahmoud Ma’tan Michael G. Sahouri Maggie Forster Schmitz Members Haig V. Kalbian Sirine Fattoum Diala Ali Partner & Co-Founder, Kalbian Hagerty, LLP Vice President of Operations, Holly Jordan Ramallah Dr. Grace Baliunas Austin Sahouri Insurance Lama Ghaddar Fouad Mansour Stephen Karam Nisreen Khalaf Miral Al-Bess Former Periodontist; Author Aya Hawarni Bassam Qadi Independent Consultant, Urban Economist James K. Sams Skylar Lawrence Nariman Deik Zeina Azzam Principal, KPMG LLP Sara Hijazi Piney Kesting Samantha Molt Sulieman Mleahat Publications Editor, Arab Center Washington DC Peter Schoettle, Ph.D. Ziad Kawash Owner, Piney Kesting, Writing and Consulting Elizabeth Obeidat Naser Qadous Teresa Barger Former Director of Policy Programs in Executive Oussama Majzoub Nabil Elie Khoury, M.D. Daniel Riley Anera staff from Palestine, CEO/Chief Investment Officer, Cartica Capital Education, Brookings Institution Reine Moubayed Medical Director, Department of Emergency Christina Schnoor Lebanon and Washington Judy Barsalou, PhD Medicine, Sparrow Hospital Murad M. Siam Anas Shehab Co-Founder, President & CEO, at a strategic planning Former President, El-Hibri Foundation Yara Yassine Jeffrey Mansour IDS Real Estate Group, Inc, Los Angeles, CA meeting in Jordan. Kenneth H. Close Program Director, Thompson Charitable AMMAN, JORDAN Christine Zahm CEO & Founding Partner, The Quincy Group Foundation David Sprague, Ph.D. Education Consultant; Former Director, Education Carina Aoun Dima Zayat Faris Eid Robert Anton Mertz, Ph.D. Policy & Data Center at AED Founder & President, Design Innovations Former Project Manager, The World Bank Akkar Architects, Inc. Elena Turner Saleh Abdul Wahhab Partner, Pelorus Partners Ahlam Chalabi Mayssa Qassem George Doumar, Legal Counsel Doumar Martin, PLLC Marwa Saadi Alaa Yacoub BOARD & STAFF Statement of Activities & Changes in Net Assets HOW YOU CAN 2019 2018 GET INVOLVED Support and revenue Gifts-in-kind contributions $30,850,680 $43,348,377 Governmental grant revenue 11,839,067 12,239,102 In 2019, Anera donors like you positively impacted the lives of thousands of people 7,694,884 8,740,563 Non-governmental grant revenue in vulnerable communities across Palestine and Lebanon, but we need your help to Contributions 5,609,822 5,433,505 Investment Income 258,485 113,654 do more. As a valued member of the Anera community, we invite you to become more Other income 3,665 10,695 In 2019, Anera opened a new waste involved — whether it’s spreading the word, fundraising, attending an event or donating. sorting and recycing facility in Majdal Total support and revenue 56,256,603 69,885,896 Anjar — located in Lebanon’s Bekaa Expenses Valley. Anera’s waste management program has reduced waste going to Program services landfills and dumps by up to 80% in BE IN THE KNOW DONATE OR RAISE MONEY the localities where we operate. Medical in-kind & health services 29,991,418 44,312,138 anera.org anera.org/fundraise 13,986,069 13,664,012 Community & economic development Check out our website featuring photos, videos, Set up your own fundraiser for a run or bike ride, 4,879,808 6,805,300 Education statistics, success stories and more. an event, your birthday, or a special time of year. Total program services 48,857,295 64,781,450 Supporting services anera.org/blog | The Olive Press anera.org/monthly-giving Management & general 2,652,052 2,481,915 Our blog features a wide variety of perspectives Join our Visionaries, a group of committed Fundraising 1,609,931 1,411,663 from our areas of work. monthly donors creating long-term impact. Total supporting services 4,261,983 3,893,578 Total expenses 53,119,278 68,675,028 anera.org/events anera.org/legacy Change in net assets 3,137,325 1,210,868 Come to an event near you and learn about the Your planned gift ensures that Anera will be there Net assets: programs we deliver. tomorrow. Beginning 11,334,203 10,123,335 Ending $14,471,528 $11,334,203 Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube anera.org/donate Follow us on social media to view photos and be Make a now to fund the quality programs up-to-date on all of our work. @aneraorg Anera is delivering today. 2019 FINANCES June 1, 2018 - May 31, 2019 Feeding a hungry child is an act of compassion MIDDLE EAST OFFICES — not a political statement. Lebanon Providing safe places for young people to Akkar learn and grow helps build community Beirut — not division. Bekaa Easing refugees’ suffering, caused by war and Ein El Hilweh & Tyre poverty, should inspire our shared responsibility Tripoli — not controversy. Palestine Giving disadvantaged families access to Beitin reliable livelihoods creates peace Gaza City — not conflict. Jerusalem Ramallah Ensuring that our most vulnerable communities have access to clean water is a right Jordan — not a privilege. Amman As a human being, standing up for those who need help is not a difficult decision. Will you join us?

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