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THAN HATE Testimony Makes an Impact 2017 Annual Report INTERACTIVE IMPACT This year’s Annual Impact Report features opportunities to engage with USC Shoah Foundation testimony and educational programming in addition to other highlights. Download the Blippar app for your smartphone from the App Store or Google Play. When you see this icon, scan the entire page with Blippar to access video testimony, documentary and film clips, and website resources that delve deeper into the Institute’s work. Your smartphone will automatically recognize the image and connect to online content. 2017 ANNUAL REPORT Editorial Team Contributing Writers June Beallor Jayne Perilstein Nick Kennedy, Christopher Records, Managing Editor Founding Executive Director Managing Director of Advancement Janiece Richard, Susan Wampler, Nicole Watkins Sonya Vanhoof Jimenez Janiece Richard and Nicole Watkins Director of Donor Relations Executive Director of Stewardship, Dornsife Assistant Director of Annual Giving Frieda Kahn Andrea Waldron Design Executive Director of Advancement Senior Executive Director of Advancement The Doyle | Logan Company Nick Kennedy Aaron Zarrow Associate Director of Annual Giving Program Manager for Strategic Communications © 2018 USC SHOAH FOUNDATION Cover Image: Intercollegiate Diversity Congress student leaders at USC Shoah Foundation MESSAGE FROM OUR LEADERSHIP MESSAGEMESSAGE FROM OUR FROM LEADERSHIP OUR LEADERSHIP Dear Friends, As curators of the world’s largest collection of firsthand accounts about the genocidal consequences of hatred, we are uniquely positioned to educate and inspire humanity to counter hate through empathy and action — all thanks to you. As you will see in the pages of this report, each act of support makes an impact. Your gifts put us at an advantage to pursue Juneour mission, 2016June newly2016 bolstered through guidance from McKinsey & Co. for sustainable operation and an extraordinary new home on the fourth floor of Leavey Library. Your donations and participation directly empower the people we reach, now nearly 2 million every month. This growth can be attributed, in part, to our educational program expanding in scope and audience, adding primary education and IWitness DearUniversity Friends,Dear for Friends, college-level teaching. 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COZEN Chair Andrew J. and Erna Finci Viterbi Chair, USC Shoah Foundation The Doyle|Logan Company AndrewAndrew J. and J.Erna and FinciErna FinciViterbi Viterbi Endowed Chair Chair,USC ShoahUSC Shoah Foundation Foundation ExecutiveExecutive Director Chair,Director USC Chair, Shoah USC Foundation Shoah Foundation Board of BoardCouncilors of Councilors UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education UNESCO UNESCOChair on ChairGenocide on Genocide Education Education AdjunctAdjunct ProfessorAdjunct Professor Professor of ReligionReligion of Religion SCAN THIS PAGE TO WATCH VIDEO MESSAGES FROM OUR LEADERSHIP University of Southern California 650 West 35th Street, Suite 114, Los Angeles, California 90089-2571 IMPACT : BY THE NUMBERS VISUAL HISTORY ARCHIVE 55,000 testimonies Contemporary Antisemitism The Holocaust The Armenian 10 53,925 Genocide The Nanjing 334 Massacre 30 The Central African The Guatemalan Republic Conflict The Cambodian Genocide 4 Genocide 14 The Genocide 5 Against the Tutsi 86 115,649 63 41 hours of indexed, searchable testimony countries represented languages by testimonies 1,862,718 searchable names 65,430 keywords 2 2017 ANNUAL REPORT Visual History Archive® is a registered trademark of USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education. 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CENTER FOR ADVANCED GENOCIDE RESEARCH 80 Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies Conference attendees 30 EDUCATION academic events, conference papers, and exhbitions 85,318 24 cumulative number of teachers reached Fellows and Visiting Scholars-in-Residence 8,038,123 SOCIAL MEDIA cumulative number of students reached 10,000,000 80 cumulative views of clips, testimonies, and documentaries countries using IWitness 10,974 195 YouTube subscribers activities published in 8 languages 144 English 7 Czech f 14,511 Facebook followers 18 Hungarian 5 Spanish 11 Ukrainian 2 French 12,105 Twitter followers 6 Polish 2 Chinese 2,197 Instagram followers 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 3 IMPACT : STRONGER THAN HATE Confronting Hate the number of university student leaders participating in our Intercollegiate Diversity Congress to 75 campuses representing Through Education 1.5 million students, scaling a critical and effective component of And Resources the Countering Antisemitism Through Testimony program. Additional plans include establishing the world’s first annual very day, teachers, parents, and community leaders confront the post-doctoral fellowship on testimony-based study of hate at the seeds of hate. They need support, resources, training, and tools Institute’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research for three years, Eto provide values-based education and leadership to enable as well as doubling the academic outreach program to university students to learn to recognize and counter antisemitism, racism, partners and increasing