2016 ANNUAL REPORT

The National Business Association CLUSA International Contents Joint Message: 100 Years and Counting: A legacy of resilience and trust

100 year Anniversary spread...... 4-5 Programs Membership...... 7 Advocacy...... 8-9 CDF Annual Report International Programs...... 10 2016 Active Programs...... 13-18

Donors & Partners...... 19-21 Audited Financial Report...... 22-23 Board Members...... 24 Senior Leadership Team...... 25 MESSAGE FROM Through our international projects, NCBA CLUSA leader on economic security in today’s economy. has impacted the lives of 1.5 million people. In They explored the question: If 100 million THE PRESIDENT & CEO 2016, we implemented over $45 million in 20 cooperative voices in the where AND CHAIRMAN countries focusing on our core practice areas mobilized, how would we be a “Force for Good” of building resilient communities, providing in society? This question challenges the cooper- Judy Ziewacz, economic opportunities and strengthening ative community to think outside of itself. and producer groups. Over 800 President & CEO How would you answer: staff members around the world work to improve the quality of life for millions of individuals, If 100 million cooperative voices families and communites. where mobilized, how could they impact the world? Andrew Jacob, We are proud of the legacy cooperatives have Chairman of the Board built over the past 100 years. In this annual Coupling this trust with action, in January of report, you’ll learn more about our commemora- 2016 NCBA CLUSA formally launched the tive year, the worldwide footprint of cooperative Congressional Cooperative Business Caucus. development and the activities your membership Co-chaired by Reps. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Ed 100 Years and Counting supports. Strong financial rigor continues to Royce (R-CA), this caucus provides cooperatives A legacy of resilience and trust provide a firm foundation for NCBA CLUSA’s with a strong platform and is a milestone for the activities and has ensured the continued growth cooperative movement. Having a voice in Con- The cooperative enthusiasts, as they were and impact of our organization. We constantly gress is a necessity for any industry. With the known over 150 years ago, were a group of seek opportunities to elevate the cooperative caucus, the cooperative movement is now better community members in England who established business model as a solution to societal and equipped to mobilize its collective voice. the Rochdale Pioneers Society. This cooperative economic challenges. society developed the , a set The Next 100 years of seven cultural and philosophical guidelines Trusted Leadership The cooperative movement evolves and adapts that govern the operation of cooperatives Now more than ever, people are looking for with every new socioeconomic challenge our and continue to underpin these businesses businesses and services that they can trust. A country faces. We—a united cooperative com- worldwide. In 2016, NCBA CLUSA was proud to new wave of workers and consumers is seeking munity—can leverage our trust to help people share in that history as it celebrated 100 years out organizations that are principled and prioritize own and control their jobs into the future. We of supporting cooperative businesses that build community empowerment. They are looking to are using cooperative principles to help resilient a better world. use their purchasing decisions for impact in their communities emerge overseas and in the United Over the past 100 years, NCBA CLUSA has community. These individuals are making deci- States, building on the foundation of trust. supported cooperatives that have shaped the sions about where they work based on ownership Looking ahead to the next century, cooperatives fabric of our society. From delivering reliable, and societal benefit rather than personal gain. are well positioned to have a greater impact. affordable power to tens of millions of rural The cooperative principle of ownership resonates Society is trending toward collective ownership, households, to providing solutions for people with community leadership. Our ability to amplify democratic governance and local investment. seeking access to healthy and nutritious food, that sentiment to policymakers at all levels of More and more, cooperative businesses are better wages, affordable housing and home government is paramount to our mission. coming into focus for those trying to live a life health care, cooperatives continue to be the best Cooperatives have always been uniquely and that is in harmony with their values. NCBA solution to sustainable communities. highly regarded by consumers. In a survey we CLUSA will continue to be the primary voice in Our centennial celebration focused on amplifying released in 2016, 70 percent of respondents the United States for those who use cooperatives the good work being done by cooperatives: we said they believe co-ops have their best interests to build a better world and we are committed to profiled our members, penned dozens of opinion in mind. This level of trust has consistently been unifying that voice across all sectors, deepening pieces and partnered with the Public Television reflected in polls conducted by cooperatives over the cooperative footprint in communities across series Visionaries for an hour long documentary the past 25 years. the nation and around the world. that featured cooperatives in the United States With that trust in mind, throughout 2016 our and highlighted NCBA CLUSA flagship projects in board members and management team worked Mozambique and . to position NCBA CLUSA as a national thought NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 1 Celebrating 100 Years of Supporting Cooperatives that Build a Better World

2016 marked our 100th anniversary, Congressional Cooperative Business reflecting on the impact cooperative Caucus with co-chairs Reps. Ed Royce businesses have had on our nation (R-CA) and Mark Pocan (D-WI). At the press throughout history and looking toward conference in Washington DC, cooperative the next 100 years of a strengthened leaders heard about the importance of co-op movement. co-ops in districts around the country, and From our organization’s founding in 1916, learned that cooperatives are more trusted to the founding of CARE in 1945, to the first than conventional businesses, according ever Federal Interagency Working Group to a consumer perception survey of co-ops on Co-ops established in 2015, the U.S. conducted in April 2015. co-op community continues to exemplify We celebrated our official 100th year the incredible societal and economic impact anniversary on March 18, 2016, launching that can be achieved through principled our 100th anniversary website with a cooperation and a cross-sector, globally timeline infographic and resources on oriented movement. the history of the cooperative movement. We began the year “Celebrating 100 years Those historical pieces came to life at of Cooperation” with a National Press our interactive museum exhibit during the Club event that announced the Bipartisan International Summit of Cooperatives in

2 NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 Quebec City, Canada in October. U.S. The co-op community has held by NCBA CLUSA in the 1980s with

Throughout the year we focused on the nearly 100 screenings in 10 countries the “CLUSA Approach,” which functions good work being done by cooperatives and around the world. as guiding principles for sustainable worked with cooperative leaders to draft During May we held our Annual Member development, has in building a op-eds for local and national newspapers, Meeting, highlighting “Co-op Impact” and better world. articulating the cooperative advantage and advocating for cooperative issues on Capitol NCBA CLUSA was also featured in the shining a spotlight on the cooperative story. Hill. We tripled the membership of the newly International Cooperative Alliance (ICA)’s Cooperative focused op-eds were published formed Congressional Cooperative Business exhibit at the United Nations this year, in over 15 publications including the Caucus and have made significant progress featuring the work of co-ops to impact the Huffington Post and Forbes magazine. in getting co-ops represented in the 2017 Sustainable Development Goals. As NCBA We placed special attention on our Economic Census! CLUSA looks toward our next 100 years, members, profiling over 36 cooperatives, the Co-ops for 2030 campaign works once per week during our 100th to highlight co-ops as the sustainable anniversary highlighting the depth and business model. breadth of the co-op community and IMPACT 2016 the myriad ways co-ops build resilient NCBA CLUSA • Annual Cooperatives Conference To celebrate Co-op Month last year communities and promote economic we teamed up with cooperators opportunities in their local and across sectors to highlight why business sectors. Annual Meeting Hike the Hill participants Cooperatives Build a Better World. also pressed Congress to pass the Global We also partnered with the weekly radio As we look to our next 100 years, we show Everything Co-op hosted by Vernon Food Security Act, which President Obama continue with this momentum to bring Oakes, highlighting monthly themes signed into law in July 2016. The White the largest cross-sector gathering of with hour-long radio interviews that House hosted a Global Development co-ops to the National Mall for our 2017 we turned into podcasts available Summit, where NCBA CLUSA’s Yaajeende Co-op Festival and look at the impact of on our 100th Anniversary website project in , funded by USAID, was the cooperative economy during our first www.ncbaclusa100.. Highlights featured for the food security section – included Steve Alves talking about his an example of the role community-led ever Co-op Impact Conference, to be held documentary Food for Change and Martin development, key to co-ops, and pioneered during Co-op Month in 2017. Lowery from NRECA discussing the rural electric cooperative mission to power .

For our year end highlight, we collaborated with the PBS Series Visionaries to produce an hour-long documentary that focused on the diversity of co-ops here in the U.S. and NCBA CLUSA’s work with co-ops around the world, traveling from Seattle to DC, Mississippi to Massachusetts and Mozambique in Africa to East Timor in Southeast Asia. The documentary continues to air on local PBS stations and has been broadcast in over 38 markets across the NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 3 4 NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 5 PROGRAMS Membership Advocacy Cooperative Development Foundation International Programs

6 NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 MEMBERSHIP $150000

Developed from a need for national $120000 organization and representation, the Cooperative League of the United States of America (CLUSA) was established $90000 on March 18, 1916. Since then, this organization has been proud to represent $60000 the cooperative movement, providing cross-sector collaboration opportunities and advocating for cooperative friendly policies, $30000 laws and practices.

The dedication and support of members 0

has elevated the cooperative movement and Health Worker Utilities Insurance Consumer Purchasing Agricultural

helped countless cooperative members con- nect—strengthening their cooperatives and Housing Co-ops Banking & Finance providing increased economic opportunities Cooperative Development Cooperative Professionals Councils, Centers, Institutions Centers, Councils,

that build resilient communities. Cooperative Sector Association State Rural Electric Association State Rural Electric Credit Union Association/League National Co-op Sector Association National Co-op Sector Through NCBA CLUSA’s three levels of mem- bership in 2016—Individual, Organization and Associate—members took advantage of cross-sector conferences, educational Individual 1% webinars and other learning events. Our As- and take every opportunity to elevate the $9,035 sociate Members provided the added benefit work that they do in communities na- of business-to-business engagement while tionwide. As the national association for Associate cooperative businesses, NCBA CLUSA also 4% increasing access to the key services and $33,050 resources cooperatives need to prosper. serves to connect U.S. cooperatives with the over one billion cooperative members As we celebrated 100 years of cooperation in around the world through our member- Organization 2016, we took the opportunity to recognize 95% our member co-ops nationwide by profiling ship and integration in the International $756,536 their cooperatives and highlighting their Co-operative Alliance. It is here that we join our voice with like-minded cooperators impact in the community. There are now an Cooperative Business Caucus has opened worldwide to collaborate and connect on estimated 40,000 cooperative businesses a new chapter in cooperative government global issues that impact cooperatives. in the U.S., each contributing to a stronger relations, providing a platform for coopera- economy by investing in people and their As we look to 2017, membership in tives nationwide to have a seat at the policy communities. Profiles of many of these co- NCBA CLUSA will be a crucial element table where we can amplify the societal ops can be found on our 100 year anniver- in advancing the cooperative agenda. and economic impact cooperatives have on sary website. We are proud of our members Our work to establish the Congressional sustainable communities.

NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 7 Congressional Cooperative consider including cooperative businesses ADVOCACY Business Caucus in the 2017 Economic Census. The U.S. In January of 2016 NCBA CLUSA formally Department of Commerce committed to A major part of NCBA CLUSA’s mission launched the bipartisan Congressional researching the feasibility and entered this over the past 100 years has been to Cooperative Business Caucus. Co-chaired phase in the third quarter of 2016. The advocate for the cooperative business by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) and Rep. Mark U.S. Census Bureau anticipates that the model as a sustainable solution to Pocan (D-WI), the caucus counts more survey with be disseminated in the fall of many of the economic, social and policy than a dozen congressional members that 2017 and preliminary data will be available issues that affect our nation. Throughout have voluntarily joined to lend their voice by mid-2018. 2016 we focused our efforts on this guiding to promote the cooperative business principle —that federal officials need to model as a viable market solution and RCDG Protection know who co-ops are, what co-ops look like, policy option. To view the current list of NCBA CLUSA has diligently advocated for where co-ops are found within the economy caucus members, visit www.ncba.coop/ consistent RCDG funding on behalf of our and why consumers consistently choose the advocacy/coopcaucus members and co-ops across the country. goods and services co-ops provide. The appropriations approved for fiscal year 2016 preserved the only federal program Congressional Engagement 2017 U.S. Economic Census dedicated to advancing the cooperative The Annual Cooperatives Conference in In 1997, the U.S. Census Bureau stopped businesses that help America’s rural May of 2016 centered on congressional identifying the cooperative business sector communities prosper. engagement and focused on these key in any of its census or business reporting asks—join the Congressional Cooperative surveys. Since then the only available data NCBA CLUSA’s advocacy efforts at the Business Caucus, approve $26.5 million on co-ops came from federally-supported time included directly engaging with in Rural Cooperative Development Grant research by the University of Wisconsin every member of the House Agriculture (RCDG) Program funding for fiscal year Center for Cooperatives in 2007. That Appropriations Subcommittee and 2017, urge the U.S. Census Bureau to add study found that there were 29,000 co-ops back into the census and support cooperatives in the U.S. that account for reconciliation of the Global Food Security more than $3 trillion in assets, more Act (H.R. 1567, S.1252). During the event than $500 billion in revenue, and NCBA CLUSA members met with staff from sustain nearly two million jobs. NCBA 27 Congressional offices. During these visits, CLUSA now estimates that there members reiterated the impact cooperative are closer to 40,000 cooperative businesses have on the nation’s economy, businesses in the U.S., but specifically in rural areas where many census data is needed Americans rely on co-ops for their food and to confirm that number. electricity. At Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s office In a May 2016 letter, U.S. (D-NY), staff members were enthusiastic Representatives Ed Royce (R-CA) about the largely untapped potential of co- and Mark Pocan (D-WI), co-chairs ops to empower women and lift communities of the Congressional Cooperative out of poverty. Business Caucus, urged the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to

8 NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 following up with close to 50 other U.S. government programs over the past programs, reaching 18 million children with congressional offices that heard directly eight years, President Obama officially vital nutrition interventions. This project from their local cooperative development signed the Global Food Security Act into has also reduced child stunting in project centers. NCBA CLUSA also distributed a law, bringing a whole of government villages by 36 percent. request letter and written testimony arguing approach to address food security needs for the preservation of RCDG funding. around the world. Part of this strategy includes cooperatives, which are mentioned as key stakeholders six The primary objective of the RCDG program The Act authorized more than $7 billion times throughout the 2016 bill. For over two is to improve the economic condition for international food programs through initiatives like Feed the Future. This of rural areas by assisting individuals years NCBA CLUSA worked with the bill’s strategy focuses on increasing sustainable or entities in the startup, expansion or sponsor Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) to include and equitable agricultural development, improvement of rural cooperatives and cooperatives in the language of the Act. reducing global hunger and improving other business entities. Grants are awarded nutrition—especially in the key first 1,000 The final bill reflected both the importance competitively and on an annual basis to days between a woman’s pregnancy and of cooperatives as tools of development as Rural Cooperative Development Centers her child’s second birthday. that, in turn, provide technical assistance to well as part of larger strategy to combat individuals and entities. The whole of government approach speaks food insecurity at the community level. to the priority this act places on tackling We look forward to continuing our Global Food Security Act nutrition and food security issues. NCBA On July 21, 2016, the same day as CLUSA’s flagship Feed the Future Yaajeende advocacy work in 2017 to educate and the White House Summit on Global project in Senegal strategically integrated inform lawmakers on the powerful impact Development highlighted the impacts of nutrition-led agriculture throughout its cooperatives have on the U.S. economy.

“Development is not charity, it is one of the smartest investments we can make in our shared future.” — President Barack Obama during the 2016 White House Summit on Global Development.

(Official White House photo by Pete Souza)

NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 9 2016 Message from the Executive Director and Chairman

Leslie Mead, Contents Executive Director

Message from the Executive Director and Chairman------2-3 Gasper Kovach, Jr., Impact: Home Care Cooperatives------4 Chairman of the Board

Events------5

Impact: Food Cooperative Board and Staff Training------6 In 2016, the Cooperative Development Foundation grew in financial strength and efficacy as we strove Special Gifts------8-9 to realize our mission of promoting community, economic and social development through CDF Family of Funds------9 cooperatives. As the audit shows, the Foundation Key Donors and Partners------9 is on firm financial footing that will enable us to dedicate more resources to programmatic activities Audited Financial Statement 2016------10 such as the development of home care cooperatives. 2016 CDF Board of Directors------11 The Foundation has steadily rebuilt its operating capital after several lean years. This year, CDF fulfilled the board’s directive to consolidate and spin off some of the smaller funds the Foundation previously managed. The MSC, Emergency and Innovation Funds were combined. The assets of the

2 CDF Annual Report 2016 Message from the Jones, Sullivan, and Kagawa Funds were granted to leaders in NCBA CLUSA events. Additionally, CDF’s organizations in closer alignment with the goals of Cooperative Development Fund provided direct Executive Director those funds. financial support for NCBA CLUSA’s work in Cuba. These changes allowed CDF to spend more The Foundation supported projects at the request and Chairman time working with thought leaders and technical of the cooperative community. We were happy assistance providers on a cooperative solution to to assist in raising funds for the recovery of quality home care services that meet the needs Ecuadorian cocoa growers associations impacted of both clients and workers. In addition to working by a devastating earthquake. With Equal Exchange with individual home care cooperatives, CDF as a partner, CDF managed a fundraising campaign commissioned a study of home care cooperative and contributed funding from the Cooperative replication models and markets, and hosted the Development Fund to support the effort. We first-ever meeting of home care cooperatives and continue to serve as fiscal sponsor for the technical assistance providers. Cooperatives for a Better World Initiative while the group awaits its tax exemption ruling. CDF and NCBA CLUSA continue to work together where the missions of the two organizations are in In an effort to enhance our support for cooperatives, alignment. NCBA CLUSA supports the CDF home the CDF Board adopted a policy to invest 50 percent care cooperative development initiative through of the Foundation’s assets into cooperatives. Earlier communications, advocacy, and partner cultivation. in the year, the Foundation’s financial advisor CDF advances the work of NCBA CLUSA projects by began selling current investments and purchasing serving as a fiscal sponsor for a variety of grants, cooperative investment instruments such as including a grant from the Starbucks Foundation preferred stock. to support well construction in the coffee growing regions of Indonesia, a grant from the Christopher Looking ahead, we will continue to work closely Reynolds Foundation to support the US-Cuba with NCBA CLUSA as our organizations chart a Working Group, and a grant from the Nationwide domestic cooperative development agenda. We Foundation in support of the Cooperative Impact will continue to capitalize on our national position Conference. CDF established the Emerging Leaders to bring together technical assistance providers, Fund in memory of NCBA CLUSA membership cooperatives, funders, and thought leaders to director Thomas Bowen, which supports the address the issues of the day through democratic, participation of the next generation of cooperative user-controlled cooperatives.

CDF Annual Report 2016 3 Impact: Home Care business assistance the cooperative needed.

Cooperatives Armed with a model to estimate costs, a better Cooperative Care, a 50 member home care understanding of compensation rates, and a more cooperative in rural Waushara County, Wisconsin, strategic approach to recruitment, the sharp and was at a crossroads. State reimbursement rates for dedicated “core four” of the Co-op board are now its public pay clientele were not keeping up with leading the cooperative to stability and expansion. costs, making it increasingly difficult to attract home Cooperative Care is just one example of the care workers. While the Co-op struggled to meet Cooperative Development Foundation’s impact in the demand of its public pay contract, it was turning the effort to address an elder crisis with significant away higher-paying private pay business for a lack financial and social implications for our country. of workers. The 15-year-old, woman-run cooperative Cooperatives offer the potential to provide quality — one of the largest employers in the county — jobs, wages and care in a field well-known for their would be out of business without the help of the absence. Our work with Cooperative Care informs Cooperative Development Foundation. technical assistance to other home care cooperatives By aggregating financial support from USDA and and establishes best practices. Monthly, CDF brings the Cooperative Development Fund of CDF and together technical assistance providers working with drawing on our longstanding relations with quality home care cooperatives to discuss development technical assistance providers such as the University issues. These calls represent a brain trust of thinkers of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives and The ICA and doers that learn from each other to expand the Group, CDF was able to coordinate the financial and knowledge base in the field.

4 CDF Annual Report 2016 Home Care Facts

Caregivers by the numbers 2.5 million workers 40% on public 58% high school 90% women, Median wage $10 per assistance education or less 56% non-white hour, $20,000 per year

Current Co-op Landscape

8 existing home care cooperatives Cooperative Home Washington State Cooperative Care Care Associates, has the greatest in Wautoma, Bronx, NY is the largest concentration WI is the longest 6 home care in of home care operating rural cooperatives in the U.S. cooperatives home care development cooperative

In 2016, CDF organized the first ever National growth. The result of this research, which is being Home Care Cooperative Conference attended by conducted by The ICA Group, will be available in the cooperatives and technical assistance providers Fall of 2017. from across the US. Hosted by the National Rural Our vision for home care cooperative development Utilities Cooperative Finance and aims to replicate the success of electric cooperatives supported by grants from USDA and the CHS in rural America. Through support of cooperatives on Foundation, the conference provided networking an individual basis or on a larger scale, CDF is at its and education opportunities for home care best working with partners to harness financial and cooperatives that often lack the resources to attend intellectual capital to meet the needs of communities. such events. Participants reported that the sessions on governance, finance, and marketing were CDF dedicated especially impactful to their work. The conference laid groundwork for additional $194,440 financial resources from Capital Impact Partners to home care cooperative and the AARP Foundation to support comprehensive research and development model and market research for developing a in 2016. replicable, scalable model for home care cooperative

CDF Annual Report 2016 5 Events

Co-op 5K – Over 175 cooperators from the Washington, DC area participated in this annual Co-op Month activity, which raised over $53,000.

Cooperative Hall of Fame – Cooperators from across the country honored Dennis Bolling, former president and CEO of United Producers, Inc., Columbus, OH; Dennis Johnson, former president and CEO of the St. Paul Bank for Cooperatives, Cooperative Issues Forum – The Forum featured and Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard, professor a panel discussion on “The Changing Nature of Work of Community Justice and Social Economic and the Role of Cooperatives,” and was moderated Development at CUNY and author of “Collective by Ellis Carr, President of Capital Impact Partners. Courage: A History of African American Cooperative The event featured a keynote presentation by Economic Thought and Practice” at their induction Vickie Choitz, Associate Director of the Economic into the Cooperative Hall of Fame. All inductees Opportunities Program at the Aspen Institute, and a held a track record of accomplishments that have panel discussion that included Dan Arnett of Co-op benefited the cooperative community. Individually and Central, Melissa Hoover of the Democracy at Work collectively, they advanced cooperative enterprises, Institute, and Thomas Beckett of Carolina Common empowered people through their association Enterprise. Attendees took part in a discussion about with cooperatives, and contributed to the broader trends in the labor market, challenges to raising acceptance of the cooperative model in the United wages and the quality of working conditions, and States and around the world. The 2016 Cooperative opportunities to anchor wealth in communities. Hall of Fame raised $216,672 in support of the The event was sponsored by the Ralph K. Morris Foundation. Foundation.

6 CDF Annual Report 2016 CDF Annual Report 2016 7 Impact: Food Cooperative demand for the sixth-annual conference, in which Board and Staff Training participation increased by 50 percent over 2015. Guided by the Fifth and Sixth Cooperative Principles Alongside benefits for grantees, the Bowers Fund to promote education, training, and cooperation creates opportunities for mature food cooperatives to among cooperatives, the Howard Bowers Fund pay their successes forward by funding scholarships invests in the professional growth and development for trainings and education. Karen Zimbelman of the of food cooperative staff and board members. In an National Cooperative Grocers Association described environment where resources are often lacking to the opportunity as, “our own Fund to take the propel cooperatives to advanced stages of growth successes that we build in our local communities and and development, the Howard Bowers Fund helps help expand and grow that to other communities.” bridge funding gaps for training to improve business. The Howard Bowers Fund positively impacts the In 2016, the Howard Bowers Fund granted 20 food cooperative community by investing in both scholarships for participation in the Consumer cooperative member development and organizational Cooperative Management Association Conference, growth. These investments continue to strengthen “Disrupting the Future: Cooperative Food and the economic development within communities across Next Generation.” Bowers Fund grantee West Chester the nation. Food Co-op described the energy and the community to be “truly inspiring—especially for cooperators like us who are building a startup—it gave us a vision of what we one day will be.” The Howard Bowers Fund disbursed The Fund provided support for the Small and Strong 19 training grants to Conference in Bloomington, Minnesota which food cooperatives in 2016. held educational sessions for both existing and start-up cooperatives on governance, marketing and operations. The conference benefitted upper- Midwestern food cooperatives with strategies for improving merchandising, staff management, and regional collaboration. Special Gift

Additionally, the Fund supported the fast-growing Up Edith Jean Werts Bequest – Ms. Werts, a long- and Coming Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a time cooperator left CDF $26,240 for cooperative series of workshops for startups on topics such as development in her will. the evaluation of operational performance indicators A graduate of Kansas State University and the and relationship development with lenders. Support University of Chicago Divinity School, Ms. Werts’s from the Bowers Fund helped accommodate high passion for cooperatives developed in Chicago.

8 CDF Annual Report 2016 She moved to Ohio to work for the Ohio Farm Bureau, where she served for many years as coordinator of women’s activities and interests. Ms. Werts contributed both her time and money to a range of local, national, and international Key Donors and Partners charities and organizations. She lived her Capital Impact Partners passion for promoting rights for women, racial CCA Global Partners equality, and economic justice. Christopher Reynolds Foundation CDF Family of Funds CHS Foundation

Cooperative Development Fund – Helps CHS Inc. cooperatives recover from disasters, promotes CoBank cooperative development for people with limited Edith Jean Werts Bequest resources domestically and internationally Emmet, Marvin & Martin, LLP and supports the needs of seniors through cooperative enterprises. Equal Exchange 2016 Grants: $80,000 IFFCO Grants since 1993: $3,479,533 Loeb & Loeb National Co+op Grocers Emerging Leaders Fund – Established National Cooperative Bank in 2016 in memory of NCBA/CLUSA staffer Thomas Bowen to support cooperative National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation education. Nationwide 2016 Fundraising: $6,000 Nationwide Insurance Foundation Ralph K. Morris Foundation Howard Bowers Fund – Supports the Starbucks Foundation education and training of food co-op staff, management, and board members. USDA Rural Development 2016 Grants: $68,000 Grants since 1994: $450,000

Revolving Loan Fund – Provides loans to develop senior cooperative housing.

CDF Annual Report 2016 9 Audited Financial Statement 2016 CDF Unrestricted 2015 2016 Support and Revenue Contributions and grants 132,459 176,217 Government contracts 231,826 265,242 Special events, net expenses 299,705 206,267 Investment Income (loss) (6,705) (6,679) Administration fee income 7,004 7,004 Loan interest Net assets released from restrictions 385,195 813,490 Total Support and Revenue 1,049,484 1,461,541 Expenses Program 646,541 1,126,151 Management and general 95,509 99,558 Fundraising 48,640 51,670 Total Expenses 790,690 1,277,379 Net Income 258,794 184,162

CDF Temporarily restricted 2015 2016 Support and Revenue Contributions and grants 316,015 363,240 Investment income (loss) 62,324 51,684 Loan Interest 5,215 1,775 Net assets released from restrictions (385,195) (813,490) Total Support and Revenue (1,641) (396,791) Expenses -- -- Net Income 1,641 (396,791)

All CDF 2015 2016 Support and Revenue 1,047,843 1,064,750 Expenses 790,690 1,277,379 Net Income 257,153 (212,629) Reserves 2015 2016 Unrestricted (Beginning) 204,578 463,372 Unrestricted (Ending) 463,372 647,534 Temporarily Restricted (Beginning) 4,071,513 4,069,872 Temporarily Restricted Ending 4,069,872 3,673,081 Permanently Restricted Beginning 381,151 381,151 Permanently Restricted Ending 381,151 381,151 Total Net assets beginning of year 4,657,242 4,914,395 Total Net Assets, end of year 4,914,395 4,701,766 Audit conducted by Kositzka, Wicks and Company, Certified Public Accountants

10 CDF Annual Report 2016 2016 CDF Board of Directors Gasper Kovach, Jr., Chair, Highland Exchange Service Cooperative (HESCO) (retired), Lakeland, FL Larry Blanchard, CUNA Mutual, Palm Springs, CA Karen Blickley, Nationwide Insurance Foundation, Columbus, OH Carla Decker, District Government Employees Federal Credit Union, Washington, DC Christina Jennings, Shared Capital Cooperative, Minneapolis, MN Richard Larochelle, National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (retired), Fredericksburg, VA Charles Snyder, National Cooperative Bank, Arlington, VA Linda Tank, CHS Inc. (retired), Cottage Grove, MN Deborah Trocha, Indiana Cooperative Development Center, Indianapolis, IN Judy Ziewacz, ex officio, NCBA CLUSA, Washington, DC

CDF Staff Leslie Mead, Executive Director Ellen Quinn, Funds Manager Cassandra Durand, Events Coordinator & New Media Specialist Kristen Kiewiet de Jonge, Communications Manager

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CDF Annual Report 2016 11 For more information, please visit CDF’s websites: cdf.coop, heroes.coop, and seniors.coop

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202-442-2331 [email protected] INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 2016 Impact

projects 27 Overall, we in 20 impacted countries 1.5 million lives

We directly trained 328,000 women 142,000 children have access to better nutrition

We worked with 420,000 farmers Including 230,000 5,600 women farmers youth got business skill training and started youth associations

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One hundred years ago, the founders We are experts at applying the cooperative By better documenting what works and of our association, (then know as model and principles to development what doesn’t and sharing that learning, we CLUSA) began with a clear vision of challenges, whether focused on food can demonstrate how our projects improve how cooperatives can build a better security and nutrition, value chain livelihoods, reduce vulnerability, improve world. They understood that cooperative development, empowerment of women local services and create more resilient businesses and the values and principles and youth, or increasing rural incomes. In households and institutions. that underpin them can create solutions to remote and impoverished places like the Our team of highly skilled professionals the world’s most pressing economic and Sahel of West Africa, or the rural across technical disciplines are leaders in social challenges. Even before the 1920s, Highlands of Guatemala, NCBA CLUSA facilitating the process of transformation— we were connecting with cooperative works alongside communities to develop of skills, opportunities and lives. We applaud collective local solutions to food insecurity, movements around the world to share every person working with NCBA CLUSA climate crises, malnutrition, and poverty. successes and overcome challenges as staff, consultant or volunteer for helping We are also engaging the U.S. cooperative as the movement grew. The tenets of us realize the impact that we can only have community’s expertise through partnerships self-help, ownership and empowerment when we listen to what is needed, and work with Cuban cooperatives, technical were cornerstones for these nascent with others to realize their aspirations. cooperatives that sought practical models expertise of Farmer-to-Farmer volunteers, to push back against the inequalities and and alliances with companies that want to excesses of the industrial revolution. support cooperatives in building sustainable By better documenting supply chains. Today, NCBA CLUSA’s team of over 800 what works and what staff based in the U.S. and around the world In 2016, we re-focused our efforts around doesn’t and sharing continues the legacy built around these three technical practices: Building Resilient that learning, we same values and principles of cooperation. Communities, Promoting Economic Oppor- can demonstrate how We are trusted partners of major donors tunities, and Strengthening Cooperatives our projects improve like the U.S. Agency for International and Producer Groups. With clear strategies, livelihoods, reduce Development (USAID), the U.S. Department approaches and tools, field teams and local vulnerability, improve local of Agriculture (USDA) and other founda- people can co-design programming to tion and private sector donors to deliver transform communities, cooperatives and services and create more high-quality technical training and services markets. With these more rigorous tools, resilient households that empower communities to lead their we hope to have even more impact and the and institutions. own development. ability to share the results more widely.

NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 11 2016 ACTIVE PROGRAMS Building Resilient Communities Promoting Economic Opportunities Strengthening Cooperatives and Producer Groups

12 NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 Africa

Building Resilient S S BUILDING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES BUILDING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES Communities in 2016 PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES BURKINA FASO and NIGER: MADAGASGAR: RESILIENCE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE FARARANO SAHEL – ENHANCED RESILIENCE (REGIS-ER) Fararano, meaning “harvest season” in This five-year, $70 million USAID project imple- Malagasy, aims to reduce food insecurity and mented in Niger and Burkina Faso addresses chronic malnutrition and increase resilience in We worked with the root causes of chronic vulnerability in the four USAID/Food For Peace (FFP) priority regions Sahel region of Northern Africa while promot- of . As a technical partner for 153,650 ing economic resilience. USAID/REGIS-ER is Catholic Relief Services (CRS), NCBA CLUSA will households empowering local communities with the tools increase and diversify incomes by linking local and knowledge necessary to adapt to climate producers to national and international markets. change, withstand food crises and improve nutri- Budget: $1,700,183 tion, especially among children under five. Lives Impacted in 2016: 1,773 Budget: $70,039,011 Duration: NOV 2014 – SEPT 2018 Lives Impacted: 2 million 15,000 Lives Impacted in 2016: 833,000 people can now access clean water Duration: NOV 2013 – NOV 2018 S COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES

COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT NEW PROJECT ETHIOPIA AND : MADAGASCAR COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FARMER TO FARMER ADVANCE 10,513 PROGRAM III – ICT The USAID Farmer to Farmer program in (7,343 women) Through our implementing partner adults graduated literacy classes Madagascar brings American cooperative Communications Cooperative International development experts to vanilla producer groups (CCI), NCBA CLUSA is dedicated to increasing in rural Madagascar to support the forming and access and use of information communication strengthening of local vanilla co-ops. technology through cooperative and community- Budget: $149,890 based enterprises. In Ethiopia, CCI implements Farmers trained in 2016: 119 We trained an ICT training and capacity building program Duration: NOV 2016 – JUL 2017 designed to maximize prospects for financial and 163,995 operational sustainability of ICT centers. women and children on nutrition In Nigeria, CCI collaborated with the Schlum- berger Excellence in Education Development (SEED) foundation to implement a new program to improve the quality of teaching and enhance student learning of science, technology, engi- neering and math (STEM) subjects in selected secondary schools. 87,000 Total Budget: $3,627,438 Total Lives Impacted: 11,000 people are better equipped to adapt to Duration: SEPT 2010 – SEPT 2016 drought and climate change NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 13 S S S STRENGTHENING CO-OPS PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES : MOZAMBIQUE: NEW PROJECT MALI FINANCE FOR FOOD SECURITY AND USAID SMALLHOLDER EFFECTIVE EXTEN- WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS (FFSWE) SION-DRIVEN SUCCESS (SEEDS) MADAGASCAR The overarching goals of the FFSWE project are This USAID Partnering for Innovation Project EAST AFRICA TRADE AND INVESTMENT HUB to create a more robust agricultural financial provided expanded access to quality inputs and This $100,000 USAID-funded project runs until sector in Mali and to fully utilize USAID’s Devel- services for smallholder farmers in Northern Mo- October 2017 and leverages financial and tech- opment Credit Authority (DCA) guarantee. Led zambique, increasing key value chain crop yields nical support from a public-private partnership by International Executive Service Corps (IESC), by at least 30% over three years. Through the with a national vanilla exporter and a Fortune NBCA CLUSA’s role is to mentor and advise loan creation of a public-private partnership, NCBA 1000 company to increase the export of quality recipients, especially women entrepreneurs, CLUSA, Oruwera and Phoenix Seeds established Madagascar vanilla to the U.S. by modernizing to help grow their operations in the post-loan commercial systems that provide smallholders in smallholder farmer value chain management and investment environment. NCBA CLUSA will Northern Mozambique with access to affordable, facilitating the adoption of a sustainable vanilla provide cooperative business development quality inputs, storage options tailored to their value chain model so smallholder farmers can training to 8,400 farmers and herder groups as needs and production knowledge, as well as capture more of the value of their product. an additional service to the loan access. tilling and post-harvest handling services. $99,977 Budget: Budget: $300,000 Budget: $1,714,458 NOV 2016 – OCT 2017 Duration: Small Businesses Supported in 2016: 205 Farmers accessing improved seed in 2016: 8,029 Duration: AUG 2015 – JUL 2019 Duration: NOV 2014 – MAR 2017 201 S PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES S S STRENGTHENING CO-OPS BUILDING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES BUILDING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES : PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES UNITED IN BUILDING AND ADVANCING LIFE MOZAMBIQUE: MOZAMBIQUE: EXPECTATIONS (UBALE) CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE PROGRAM FOR AGRICULTURE EXTENSION PROJECT NCBA CLUSA is supporting Catholic Relief SMALLHOLDER AND EMERGING FARMERS Through improved technologies and inputs, the Services under the USAID/FFP Malawi UBALE (PROMAC) goal of this project is to increase agricultural project by leading the agribusiness strategy, Funded by the Norwegian Government, this productivity by 50 percent for farmers. Training providing technical leadership in value chain project will help reverse endemic food insecurity will take place through the establishment of an strengthening and business development in Mozambique by encouraging the adoption agricultural extension services system, where services, identifying on and off-farm employment of conservation farming techniques proven to lead farmers will set up 135 demonstration plots opportunities for youth, women and vulnerable boost yields, profits and soil fertility. PROMAC’s to showcase techniques like irrigation, conserva- participants, and building the technical and integrated approach also provides basic literacy tion farming, animal traction and mechanization, institutional capacity of the National Smallholder and numeracy training for farmers and supports and quality inputs such as improved seed. Farmers’ Association of Malawi (NASFAM). land registration. Budget: $678,121 Budget: $3,001,872 Budget: $13,540,159 Farmers trained in 2016: 3,416 Duration: JAN 2015 – OCT 2019 Total number of people trained in CA: 27,900 Duration: SEP 2015 – AUG 2017 Duration: NOV 2012 – OCT 2017

14 NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 S S S PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES NEW PROJECT STRENGTHENING CO-OPS : MOZAMBIQUE: SENEGAL: PURDUE IMPROVED CROP STORAGE (PICS) NEW ALLIANCE ICT EXTENSION CHALLENGE Through a partnership with Purdue Univer- MILLET BUSINESS SERVICES PROJECT FUND (E-EXTENSION) sity, NCBA CLUSA distributed PICS bags to The agricultural productivity and food secu- This $1.7 million information communication smallholder farmers in remote areas of Uganda. rity training implemented by this $9.6 million technology program in Mozambique will meet The storage bags were developed by Purdue USDA-funded project will strengthen the the extension training needs of 600,000 small- University through a Bill and Melinda Gates commercial viability of millet in the Kaolack, holder farmers. The New Alliance ICT Extension Foundation-funded project to prevent crop Kaffrine and . Farmers Challenge Fund project, known locally as e-Ex- spoilage. Comprised of three layers of plastic, and processors will receive training in improved tensão, will use communication technology— each PICS bag is designed to keep out moisture agricultural production techniques, post-harvest such as mobile phones and radio programs—to and pests while crops are stored. handling, storage and improved marketing and disseminate key food security and agricultural Budget: $712,425 technology information complementing tradition- branding strategies. The project will also work to Bag Demonstrations: 3,710 al agriculture extension services through NCBA build relationships between buyers and sellers. Farmers Trained: 189,502 Duration: JUN 2014 – JUL 2016 CLUSA’s lead farmer network. The project works Budget: $9,579,255 Lives Impacted in 2016: 48,036 in partnership with Vodacom, which has agreed Duration: OCT 2014 – SEPT 2017 to support the project in reaching 5 million cell phone subscribers. S Budget: $1,700,000 STRENGTHENING CO-OPS Clients accessing technology in 2016: 2,752 S PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES Duration: FEB 2016 – FEB 2019 PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES SENEGAL: UGANDA: FARMER TO FARMER S YOUTH EMPOWERMENT THROUGH NCBA CLUSA’s USAID-funded Farmer-to-Farmer BUILDING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES AGRICULTURE (YETA) program links American agribusiness profes- sionals with farmers and farmer cooperatives in PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES YETA draws on a network of producer organizations and Youth Associations as an Senegal who request technical assistance, and SENEGAL: entry point to train, mentor and provide offers NCBA CLUSA members and supporters YAAJEENDE AGRICULTURE AND NUTRITION employment opportunities for at-risk youth in with agribusiness experience an opportunity to FOR FOOD SECURITY PROJECT four districts in Uganda. Training includes share their knowledge and gain a deeper under- This seven-year, $50 million, USAID-funded proj- integrating numeracy, literacy and life skills with standing of the realities of life in rural Senegal. ect is reducing malnutrition by promoting access technical expertise in agriculture, business and Budget: $1,661,421 to nutrient-dense foods through the Communi- entrepreneur management. Part of the Youth Volunteers in 2016: 31 ty-based Solution Provider model. Forward Initiative with Mastercard Foundation, Farmers trained in 2016: 2,416 Duration: SEPT 2013 – JUL 2018 Yaajeende bolsters women’s resiliency to NCBA CLUSA partners with the Overseas economic and climate-induced food insecurity, Development Institute, Global Communities, : creates and leverages dynamic local markets Solidaridad and GOAL. FARMER TO FARMER to increase agricultural productivity and enlists Budget: $11,454,063 The Zambia F2F Program strengthened international and national researchers and insti- Youth Associations Formed in 2016: 163 economic resilience by providing technical tutions to test and introduce bio-fortified foods Duration: FEB 2015 – FEB 2020 assistance to smallholder farmers involved in specifically bred to maximize nutritional content. the value chain. Yaajeende was the first flagship Feed the Future Budget: $150,000 Initiative. 2016 Volunteers: 9 Budget: $49,799,066 Farmers Trained in 2016: 1,044 Hectares with improved farming in 2016: 71,502 Duration: MAR 2015 – MAR 2016 Women and Children trained on nutrition in 2016: 248,055 CBSP sales: USD $2.6 million NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 15 Duration: NOV 2010 – SEPT 2017 Latin America S Strengthening STRENGTHENING CO-OPS STRENGTHENING CO-OPS CUBA: PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES Cooperatives and US-CUBA COOPERATIVE WORKING GROUP EL SALVADOR: (USCCWG) COFFEE REHABILITATION AND Producer Groups in 2016 Led by NCBA CLUSA, in partnership with SOL2 AGRICULTURAL DIVERSIFICATION Economics, the USCCWG promotes mutually This $12.9 million, USDA-funded project will Supported beneficial engagement between the U.S. and fund the restoration of coffee crops and sup- Cuba’s cooperative sectors in an effort to support port the rehabilitation of coffee production in El 857 US cooperative growth and the updated Cuban Salvador after the devastation of the industry Co-ops and economic model. In July 2016, a delegation of top in the region by coffee rust. NCBA CLUSA will producer groups co-op leaders from the U.S. visited Havana and work with 7,500 producers and 50 producer around the world surrounding areas during the first ever U.S.-Cuba organizations and cooperatives, along with Cooperative Forum. This program is supported by government agencies and the private sector. the Cooperative Development Foundation and the Budget: $12,915,940 Christopher Reynolds Foundation. Lives Impacted in 2016: 10,434 OCT 2014 – SEPT 2019 163 Budget: $82,000 Duration: Youth Duration: APR 2015 – AUG 2017 Associations formed

S BUILDING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES NEW PROJECT Volunteers donated 33 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: GUATEMALA hours of time to train SAFE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD COMMUNITIES LEADING DEVELOPMENT 645 EXPORT PROGRAM (SAFE) co-op members In partnership with Catholic Relief Services, NCBA CLUSA will, over the course of five years, this USAID project empowers communities increase the value chains in two sectors in the through participation in the development Dominican Republic: beef and dairy. This project Value of loans and implementation of community devel- for agribusiness improves agricultural productivity by increasing opment plans, identifying and prioritizing totaled over the use of improved techniques and technolo- community needs and assets, improving gies, improving farm management, increasing million resilience through strengthened community $1.1 the availability of inputs and use of financial social cohesion, and building alliances with services, strengthening the capacity of govern- the public and private sector for community ment institutions and key groups, and increasing development at scale. NCBA CLUSA’s role the leverage of private sector resources. Once includes $4.2 million to set up and sustain agricultural productivity is improved, the project a Community Development Fund eventually also aims to expand trade and export by adding funded at $25 million and to promote private value to post-production, increasing the adoptions sector investments. Through the Farm Bill, our of standards and certifications, increasing access advocacy secured Budget: $4,266,608 to markets, building linkages between buyers and Duration: OCT 2016 – JUN 2021 million sellers, improving post-harvest infrastructure, $5.8 increasing the use and efficiency of post-produc- in funding for rural tion processes, improving the policy and regulatory cooperative development framework, and strengthening the capacity of key centers in the U.S. organizations in the trade sector. Budget: $16,212,121 Lives impact in 2016: 8,553 16 NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 Duration: SEPT 2015 – NOV 2020 Southeast Asia

2017 S S PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES STRENGTHENING CO-OPS Promoting Economic STRENGTHENING CO-OPS BUILDING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES Opportunities in 2016 EAST TIMOR: INDONESIA: COFFEE AND COCOA AGRIBUSINESS COOPERATIVE WATER AND SANITATION OPPORTUNITIES (CACAO) FOR HEALTH (CoopWASH) NCBA CLUSA and Cooperativa Café Timor, in This grant from the Starbucks Foundation partnership with the Government of New Zealand, exceeded its goal of supporting 25,000 will identify 19,000 Arabica, Robusta and cocoa Supported people and coffee farmers with access to farmers in the country’s western districts to receive clean, abundant and accessible water in Su- seedlings and tools, including saws and pruning 1,341 matra, Indonesia this year and reached over shears that—according to the grant agreement—are Small and medium businesses 27,000. The three-year project will install “critical” for effective farm rehabilitation, but largely gravity-fed and deep-well water systems unavailable in East Timor. Participating farmers will that will create new sources of water for 80 also receive training from existing CCT extension staff percent of community members and reduce on environmentally sustainable practices such as the workload of women and girls—who often composting, erosion prevention and biological pest collect and carry water long distances—by control that are compatible with organic and other Farmers accessed 75 percent. ethical and sustainable production certifications. Metric Tons Budget: $728,140 45.7 Budget: $10,499,896 Lives Impacted: 27,000 of quality seed in the market Seedlings distributed in 2016: 160,000 Community water systems built: 90 Duration: JUN 2015 – JUN 2020 Duration: OCT 2014 – OCT 2017

S PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES Value of Sales across projects is STRENGTHENING CO-OPS EAST TIMOR: $35 million EAST TIMOR AGRIBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PROJECT Supported Co-ops The underdeveloped, remote districts of central and sold over eastern Timor Leste are the target of this USDA-funded $9.2 million project providing income opportunities 51 for rural households. NCBA CLUSA and its local Metric Tons of partner Cooperative Café Timor (CCT) are introducing Coffee commercial varieties of clove, cocoa, cassava, coffee, black pepper, vanilla and moringa to 8,000 farmers, with an emphasis on recruiting and involving women farmers. Capacity-building for farmers and local agribusinesses is a priority of the project—training will underpin improved farming techniques, seedling production, post-harvest handling and organic/free trade certification. 32,590 Budget: $9,241,886 Hectares used improved Lives Impacted in 2016: 2,046 In kind planting materials distributed: 846,403 agricultural techniques Duration: SEPT 2013 – SEPT 2017 NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 17

S STRENGTHENING CO-OPS STRENGTHENING CO-OPS STRENGTHENING CO-OPS PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES WORLDWIDE: WORLDWIDE: BUILDING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE RESEARCH COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IV GROUP WORLDWIDE: This $650,000 multi-country project facilitates Launched in 2013 through funding from develop­ment and expands economic assistance COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM III USAID, the five-year project provides a platform through coop­eratives and credit unions in , This $7.3 million, USAID-funded project address- for the development­ of research products Indonesia and Latin America. In pilot programs in es the three stages of cooperative development: and guidelines for members of the Overseas Indonesia and Latin America, through the EUCLID building, formalizing and expanding. Launched in Cooperative Development Council and Alliance, CDP IV is creat­ing more jobs, higher 2010, the project promotes cooperative develop- establishes cooperative development research to incomes, greater food security and sustainable ment, collaborative partnerships and economic meet the needs of the international cooperative economic growth. growth. It supports food security and cooperative development community. Budget: $649,027 development in , nutrition-led agriculture Budget: $2,248,294 Latin American Alliances Trade: $358,246 in Guate­mala, advocacy in Mozambique and Duration: JULY 2013 – SEPT 2018 Duration: MAR 2013 – MAR 2016 cooperative trade in Latin America. Budget: $8,418,564 Lives impacted in 2016: 39,000 Value of Co-op to Co-op trade: $2.8 Million Duration: SEPT 2010 – SEPT 2018

18 NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 Donors and Partners

Government Donors Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food for Children (FFC) U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Frontier Spice U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Full Belly Project Government of Norway French Broad Food Co-op New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID) GeoTraceability Green Mountain Coffee Foundation Donors HealthPartners Heifer Project International MasterCard Foundation Human Network International (HNI) Starbucks Foundation InterAmerican Coffee Christopher Reynolds Foundation International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF) International Executive Service Corps (IESC) International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Institutional Partners International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) International Organization for Migration (OIM) InterAction International Women’s Coffee Alliance International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) Jason Wiener P.C. ICA—Americas Kishé Foods Overseas Cooperative Development Council (OCDC) Land O’ Lakes International Development Society for International Development (SID) Mercy Corps U.S. Global Leadership Campaign (USGLC) Making Cents International McCormick International NGO/Private Sector Partners National Cooperative Bank (NCB) National Cooperative Grocer’s Association (NCGA) ACDI VOCA National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) Action Contre La Faim – ACF International OAS Federal Credit Union Aflatoun Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) African Confederation of Cooperative Savings and Credit Associations (ACCOSCA) Organic Valley Agribusiness Market Ecosystem Alliance (AMEA) Opportunity Threads Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives Pachamama Coffee Cooperative BriarPatch Food Co-op Partners of the Americas Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Portucel Mozambique Cervantes Coffee Roasters Population Services International (PSI) Co-Bank Purdue University Coexist Corp. Red Cross (Niger and Burkina Faso) Communications Cooperative International (CCI) Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op Cooperative Business International (CBI) Save the Children Cooperative Resources International (CRI) Scaling Seeds and Technologies Partnership (STTP) CoopMetrics Sheladia Associates Inc. Coordinadora Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Pequeños Productores y Trabajadores de Sol2Economics Comercio Justo (CLAC) Southern States Cooperative Counterpart International Starbucks Cuba-U.S. Agroecology Network Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition, Globally (SPRING) Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) Texas A&M Bourlag Institute for International Agriculture Development Media International True Value Company digitalGREEN University of Missouri-Columbia District Government Employees Federal Credit Union University of Wisconsin – Madison, Center for Cooperatives Engage Cuba University Research Company (URC) Enhancing Development through Cooperatives (EDC) U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives Equal Exchange Vodacom European Cooperative for Rural Development (EUCORD) Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA) Fairtrade America World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) Farm Radio International World Food Programme (WFP) FHI360 Youth Alive Fintrac NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 19 Donors and Partners Continued

Local NGO/Private Sector Partners CLUSA El Salvador COEX Commercial Coffee Exporters (El Salvador) Action pour la Dynamisation et le Renforcement des Organisations Communautaires (ADROC) Comité d’Appui au Développement Local (CADEL, Niger) Action for the Promotion of Rural Organizations (APOR) Comité d’Appui et de Soutien au Développement Economique et Social des régions de Addis Ababa Savings and Credit Cooperatives Union (AASCCU, Ethiopia) et de (CASADES, Senegal) Action for the Vitalization and Strengthening of Community Organizations (ADROC) Comité permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (Permanent Interstate Comitttee for Drought Control in the Sahel) (CLISS, Senegal) Agence nationale de conseil agricole et rural (ANCAR, Senegal) Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO, Zambia) ANACAFÉ (Guatemala) Asociación Agropecuaria Ganaderos de San José Sacare de R.L. (El Salvador) Community Oriented Development Program (CODEP, Zambia) Asociación Agropecuaria Caficultora de la Sierra Lenca de Morazán de Responsabilidad Consejo Nacional para la Reglamentación y Fomento de la Industria Lechera (CONALECHE, Limitada (El Salvador) Dominican Republic) Asociación Agropecuaria Ganaderos de San José Sacare de R.L. (El Salvador) Consejo Salvadoreño de Café (El Salvador) Asociación Comunal “Los Cafetaleros” (ADESCOLOSCAF, El Salvador) Cooperativa AGASACARE (El Salvador) Asociación Cooperativa de Aprovicionamiento Agropecuario Ana Guerra de Jesus de R.L. Cooperativa Café Timor (CCT) (East Timor) (ACODONAGE, El Salvador) Cooperativa Ciudad Barios (El Salvador) Asociación Cooperativa de Aprovicionamiento Agropecuario y Servicios Multiples Chichontepec Cooperativa de Cafetaleros San José de la Majada de R.L. (El Salvador) de R.L. (El Salvador) Cooperative Confederation of Argentina (Cooperar, Argentina) Asociación Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria Rio Grande el Barrancón (El Salvador) Credit Mutual of Senegal (CMS) Asociación Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria “Cafetalera Divino Salvador” (El Salvador) Credit and Savings Union for the Association to Promote Senegalese Women(APROFES) Asociación Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria El Jabalí de R.L. (El Salvador) Téranga (MECAT, Senegal) Asociación Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria El Refugio de R.L. (El Salvador) Dairy Industry Association (Dominican Republic) Asociación Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria Entre Rios de R.L. (El Salvador) Daminare Women’s Group (Senegal) Asociación Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria Hacienda Las Tablas de R.L. (El Salvador) Dokolo FM (Uganda) Asociación Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria Las Lajas de R.L. (ACOPRA, El Salvador) Dominican Milk Producers Association Asociación Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria Los Pinos de R.L. (ACOPALP, El Salvador) Dryland Seed Company Asociación Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria San Antonio de R.L. (El Salvador) Eau et Assainissement pour l’Afrique—Niger (EAA Niger) Asociación Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria San Carlos Dos de R.L. (El Salvador) East African Breweries Limited (EABL) Asociación Cooperativa de Productores Orgánicos Agropecuarios El Túnel de R.L. (El Salvador) Equity Bank (Kenya) Asociación de Dueños de Mataderos (Dominican Republic) Every Home for Christ Zambia (EHC) Asociación de Productores de Leche (APROLECHE, Dominican Republic) Fanaye Association for Integrated Development (Senegal) Association des Maires du Sénégal (AMS, Senegal) Farmer Hands (Guatemala) Association des producteurs d’oignons (APOV, Senegal) Federación Comercializadora de Café Especial de Guatemala (FECCEG) Asociación Dominicana de Hacendados y Agricultores (ADHA, Dominican Republic) Federación de Cooperativas Agrícolas de Productores de Café de Guatemala (FEDECOCAGUA) Association Guatemalteca de Exportadores (AGEXPORT, Guatemala) Federation of Production Cooperatives of Paraguay (FECOPROD) Association Kawral Ngenar et Bossea (AKNB, Senegal) Fedde Balal Allah Women’s Group (Senegal) Association of Sahelian Agribusinesses and Distributors (Senegal) Finance Trust Bank (Uganda) Association of Savings and Credit Unions (UIMCEC, Senegal) FONDAGRO Credit Union (Dominican Republic) Association Zood Nooma Pour le Développement (AZND, Burkina Faso) Food Technology Institute (ITA, Senegal) AnaCafé (Guatemala) Fouta Development Association Federation (FAFD, Senegal) APRAINORES Cashew Co-op (El Salvador) FUNCAFE (Guatemala) Association for the Revitalization of Livestock in Niger (AREN) Fundación Ecológica SalvaNATURA (El Salvador) Association Noode Nooto (A2N, Niger) Groupe d’Action pour le Développement Communautaire (GADEC, Senegal) Baitul Qiradh Baburrayyan Cooperative (KBQB) (Indonesia) Groupe de Promotion Féminine (GPF Ganki, Senegal) Balton (U) Ltd (Uganda) Groupo Alonzo (Dominican Republic) Banco Agricola (Dominican Republic) Grupo Comunal El Junquillo de Productores de Café (El Salvador) Banco de Fomento Agropecuario (BFA, El Salvador) Grupo Comunal Los Santos de Productores de Café (El Salvador) Banco de Oportunidade (Mozambique) Grupo Comunal de Productores de Café del Cantón Llano El Angel (El Salvador) Banco de Reservas (Domincan Republic) Grupo de Productores de Café del Cantón La Criba (El Salvador) Banco Hipotecario (El Salvador) Grupo de Productores de Café del Cantón San Matias (El Salvador) Caritas Los Altos (Guatemala) Harvest Plus (Uganda) Caritas San Marcos (Guatemala) Instituto Dominicano de Investigaciones Agropecuarias Y Forestales (IDIAF, Dominican Republic) CENTA-Café (El Salvador) Institut Sénégalais de recherches agricoles (ISRA, Senegal) Centenary Bank (Uganda) Instituto Dominicano para la Calidad (INDOCAL, Dominican Republic) Center of Support for Local Devleopment (CADL, Senegal) Instituto Agrário de Gurue (Mozambique) Chipata District Farmers Association (CDFA, Zambia) Instituto Superior Politécnico de Manica (Mozambique)

20 20 NCBA NCBACLUSA CLUSA Annual Annual Report Report 2016 2016 Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique (IIAM) Senegal Institute for Agricultural Research Junta Agroempresarial Dominicana (JAD) Seyni Seck Company Kamurugu Agricultural Development Initiatives (KADI) Schlumberger Excellence in Education Development (SEED) (Nigeria) Kawral Nguenar Bosséa Association (AKNB, Senegal) Simlaw Seed Company (Kenya) Kenya Seed Small Irrigation Scheme Development Organization (SISDO) Kenyatta University SNV (Uganda) KJUB Puspeta Luwu (Indonesia) Sociedad Cooperativa de Cafetaleros de Ciudad Barrios de R.L. (El Salvador) Kilimo Salama Insurance (Kenya) Société d’aménagement et d’exploitation des terres du Delta (SAED, Senegal) Kiryandongo FM (Uganda) SOS SAHEL International (Burkina Faso) Koperasi Serba Usaha Numoran Kencana (Indonesia) Sumatra Specialty Coffee (Indonesia) Malawi Union of Savings and Credit Cooperatives (MUSCCO) Systems and IT Development Company of Senegal (Sodevitel, Senegal) Millet Producers Union (Senegal) Terra Amiga (Mozambique) Missão Fonte Boa de Angónia (Mozambique) The Agro-Chemical Manufacturing Company of Senegal (SENCHIM) MEA LTD (Kenya) Union des Producteurs Horticole de Bakel (UPHORBAK, Senegal) MEC-CCIAK (Senegal) Uruguay’s Federated Agricultural Cooperatives (CAF) Mozambican Association for the Promotion of Modern Cooperatives (AMPCM) Urrutia’s Estate Coffee S.A. de C.V. (El Salvador) Mwangaza Water and Sanitation for Africa (WSA, Niger) Nalweyo Seed Company (NASECO, Uganda) Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI) Namibia National Farmers Union (NNFU) National Agricultural Credit Fund of Senegal Government Partners National Agricultural Insurance Company (CNAAS) Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Agriculture—Livestock Department (DIGEGA) National Agriculture Research Organisation (NARO – Uganda) Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Health National Agricultural and Rural Adivsory Agency (ANCAR) El Salvador’s Ministry of Agriculture National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB, Kenya) Guatemala’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food National Interprofessional Seed Union (UNIS, Senegal) Guatemala’s Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare National School for Training in Domestic and Social Economy (ENFEFES, Senegal) Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture National Seed Service of Mozambique Kenya’s Ministry of Cooperative Development National Smallholder Farmers Association of Malawi (NASFAM) Kenya’s Ministry of Local Government Nestle (Dominican Republic) Kenya’s Ministry of Livestock Development Network of AIDS Researchers of Eastern and Southern Africa Madagascar Ministry of Agriculture Ophavela (Mozambique) Madagascar Ministry of Industry and Private Sector Development Organization of Cooperatives of Brazil (OCB) Mozambique District Services of Education (SDEJT) Oruwera Seed Company Lda (Mozambique) Mozambique Ministry of Agriculture Ourosidi Citizens Working Group (Senegal) Mozambique Ministry of Commerce Parmalat (Dominican Republic) Mozambique Ministry of Health Partnership for Mobilization of Savings and Credit in Senegal (PAMECAS) Mozambique Ministry of Youth and Sports PASMO (Guatemala) Mozambique Provincial Directorates of Education and Culture (DPEC) Pasteurizadora Rica, C. por A. (Dominican Republic) Senegal Ministry of Agriculture Phoenix Seeds (Mozambique) Senegal Ministry of Higher Education and Research Pioneer Seed (Kenya) Timor-Leste Ministry of Agriculture Portucel Mozambique Uganda’s Ministry of Agriculture PROCONSUMIDOR (Dominican Republic) Programme régional de résilience à l’insécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle au Sahel (P2RS, Senegal) PT AgriSpice Indonesia (ASI) PT Cooperative Business International Indonesia Pusat KUD NTT (Indonesia) Radio Lango (Uganda) Regional Development Agency (Senegal) Reproductive Health Uganda Rural Credit Intermediary Service Kokari (SICR Kokari) Rural Value Chains Project (RVCP, Guatemala) Salvadoran Association of Coffee Cuppers (El Salvador) SCENIUS (Cuba) Secretariat for Food and Nutritional Security (SESAN, Guatemala)

NCBANCBA CLUSA CLUSA Annual Annual Report Report 2016 2016 21 21 Audited Financial Statement 2016

Financial Report Membership Dues I’m pleased to report that in fiscal year 2016, NCBA CLUSA made great strides to strategically manage our financial performance. 800,000 700,000 Financial strength is critical to our ability to deliver on our promises 600,000 to members, donors, partners and other constituents. 500,000 NCBA CLUSA’s fiscal year begins January 1 and ends December 400,000 31, a twelve month calendar cycle. The 2016 financial resources 300,000 are comprised of member services and sponsored programs 200,000 revenue. The year-end results reflect an 11.3% increase in revenue 100,000 from the prior year resulting in $45.3 million in total revenue. 0 Additionally, the association gained $1.19 million on investment 2015 2016 income. Congratulations to the staff, both at headquarters and around the Grants and Contracts world, for a job well done. The financial outlook for the association remains strong. 43 42 41 40 39 Millions Valeria Roach 38 Chief Financial Officer 37 36 35 2015 2016

Net Income 1,450,000 1,250,000 1,050,000 850,000 650,000 450,000 250,000 50,000 2015 2016

22 NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 NCBA UNRESTRICTED 2015 2016 REVENUES Membership Dues 756,914 756,536 Grants and Contracts 38,130,768 42,575,556 Registrations 263,378 165,445 Support 252,500 218,000 Publication & Other 137,133 169,081 Interest 46,814 44,000 Net Assets Released from Restriction 69,350 187,149 Gain on Investment 286,831 1,188,726 Total Revenue 39,943,688 45,304,493

EXPENSES Federal Awards 24,544,811 28,356,457 Non-Federal Awards 4,795,152 5,167,662 Public Affairs & Membership Services 1,247,257 954,109 Partner Services 149,284 180,579 Supporting Service 9,000,756 9,296,979 Total Expense 39,737,260 43,955,786 Net Income 206,428 1,348,707

NCBA RESTRICTED 2015 2016 DOTCOOP 2015 2016 Revenue 6,367 (134,962) Revenue 1,173,486 480,700 Expense - - Expenses 461,646 517,735 Net Income 6,367 (134,962) Net Income 711,840 (37,035)

CONSOLIDATED 2015 2016 RESERVES 2015 2016 Revenue 41,123,541 45,650,231 Unrestricted (Beginning) 2,711,769 2,918,197 Expense 40,198,906 44,473,521 Unrestricted (Ending) 2,918,197 4,266,904 Net Income 924,635 1,176,710 Temporarily Restricted (Beginning) 15,336,262 15,342,629 Temporarily Restricted (Ending) 15,342,629 15,207,667

NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 23 2016 Board of Directors

OFFICERS BOARD MEMBERS Esteban Kelly Co-Executive Director, Andrew Jacob, Chair Joseph Bergeron US Federation of Worker Co-ops Chief Regulatory, Legislative, and President, Philadelphia, PA Compliance Officer Association of Vermont Credit Unions CoBank South Burlington, VT Martin Lowery Englewood, CO Executive Vice President, External Affairs, Cornelius Blanding National Rural Electric Cooperative Erbin Crowell, 1st Vice Chair Executive Director, Association Executive Director, Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Arlington, VA Neighboring Food Co-op Association Assistance Fund Shelbourne Falls, MA East Point, GA Lance Rantala CEO, Karen Zimbelman, 2nd Vice Chair Howard Brodsky Blue Hawk Director, Membership and Cooperative Co-CEO, Chicago, IL Relations CCA Global Partners National Co-op Grocers Manchester, NH Christopher Roe Arcata, CA Senior Vice President for Legislative Steve Brookner Affairs, Jerry McGeorge, Immediate Past President, CUNA Mutual Group Chair National Cooperative Bank, FSB Madison, WI Vice President of Cooperative Affairs, Washington, DC Organic Valley Family of Farms Michelle Schry LaFarge, WI Ellis B. Carr General Manager, President & CEO, People’s Food Co-op Helen Godfrey-Smith, Treasurer Capital Impact Partners La Crosse, WI President & CEO, Arlington, VA Shreveport Federal Credit Union Patrick Smith Shreveport, LA Carla Decker Vice President of Sponsor Relations, President & CEO, Nationwide Deb Trocha, Secretary District Government Employees FCU Columbus, OH Executive Director, Washington, D.C. Indiana Cooperative Gregory Starheim Development Center, Inc. Kimberly Garmany Senior Vice President, Indianapolis, IN Director of Membership & Development, National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance College Houses Corporation Austin, TX Dulles, VA

Kevin Higginbotham David P. Swanson CEO, Attorney, Evergreen Marketing Group Dorsey & Whitney Farmers Branch, Texas Minneapolis, MN

Ann Hoyt Jill Tomalin, Professor and Department Chair, Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief Operating University of Wisconsin-Madison, Officer Department of Consumer Science Credit Union National Association, Inc. Madison, WI Madison, WI

24 NCBA CLUSA Annual Report 2016 2016 Senior Leadership

Judy Ziewacz President & Chief Executive Officer

Valeria Roach, MBA/ACC Doug O’Brien Chief Financial Office Executive Vice President of Programs

Amy Coughenour-Betancourt Larry Thomas Chief Operations Officer, International Development Chief Human Resource Officer

Leslie Mead Executive Director Cooperative Development Foundation

Matthew Buzby Jhon Manning Vice President, International Operations Vice President, Contracts, Grants & Compliance

Jack Deeds Alex Serrano Vice President, Systems & Finance Vice President, Strategic Development

Alan Knapp John Torres Vice President, Advocacy Vice President, Communication & Public Relations

Full membership listing available at www.ncba.coop/members Editor: John Torres Contributing writers: Elizabeth Lechleitner, Sarah Crozier Design: Slice-Works (slice-works.com) Printed in the U.S.A. by House of Printing, Burtonsville, MD ©2016 National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International All rights reserved.

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