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ANNUAL REPORT 2010—2011 Health Programs Financial Information Leader in Disease Independent Auditors’ Report Celebrating 30 years of waging peace, fighting disease, and building hope 30 ANNUAL REPORT 2010—2011 HEALTH PROGRAMS FINANCIAL INFORMATION Leader in Disease Independent Auditors’ Report . 64 Eradication and Elimination . 20 Financial Statements . 65 Partner for Village-Based Notes to Statements . 70 Health Care Delivery . 22 OUR COMMUNITY The Carter Center at a Glance . 2. Voice for Mental Health Care . 24 The Carter Center Around Aontents Message from President Health Year in Review . 26 the World . 84 CJimmy Carter . 3 PHILANTHROPY Senior Staff . 86 Interns . 86 Our Mission . 4 A Message About Our Donors . 32 A Letter from the Officers . 5 International Task Force for Donors with Cumulative Lifetime Disease Eradication . 87 Giving of $1 Million or More . 33 PEACE PROGRAMS Friends of the Inter-American Pioneer of Election Observation . 8 Donors During 2010–2011 . 34 Democratic Charter . 87 Trusted Broker for Peace . 10 Ambassadors Circle . 48 Mental Health Boards . 88 Champion for Human Rights . 12 Legacy Circle . 58 Board of Councilors . 89 Peace Year in Review . 14 Founders . 61 Board of Trustees . 92 A woman works at a small-scale subsistence mine in the province of Katanga, southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo . The Carter Center’s work in the country is raising awareness about the nation’s lucrative mining industry, which generates huge profits while impoverished local communities receive few of the benefits . 1 The Carter Center at a Glance Overview • Strengthening international standards for human rights The Carter Center was founded in 1982 by former U.S. and the voices of individuals defending those rights in President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in their communities worldwide partnership with Emory University, to advance peace and • Pioneering new public health approaches to preventing health worldwide. A nongovernmental organization, the or controlling devastating neglected diseases in Africa Center has helped to improve life for people in more than and Latin America 70 countries by resolving conflicts; advancing democracy and human rights; preventing diseases; improving mental • Advancing efforts to improve mental health care and health care; and teaching farmers to increase crop diminish stigma against people with mental illnesses. production. Donations Accomplishments The Center received $185.7 million in cash, pledges, • Leading a coalition that has reduced incidence of and in-kind gifts in 2010–2011. The Center is a Guinea worm disease from an estimated 3.5 million 501(c)(3) charitable organization, financed by private cases in 1986 to about 1,100 today, making it likely donations from individuals, foundations, corporations, to be the first disease since smallpox to be eradicated and international development assistance agencies. Contributions by U.S. citizens and companies are • Observing 90 elections in 36 countries to help tax-deductible as allowed by law. establish and strengthen democracies • Teaching techniques that have helped more than Location 8 million small-scale farmers in 15 African nations to In a 35-acre park, about 1.5 miles east of downtown double or triple grain production Atlanta. The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum, which adjoins the Center, is owned and operated by the National • Furthering avenues to peace in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Archives and Records Administration and is open to the Liberia, Sudan, Uganda, the Korean Peninsula, Haiti, public. (404) 865-7100. Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Middle East • Helping to establish a village-based health care delivery Staff system in thousands of communities in Africa that now 175 employees in Atlanta headquarters, with staff in field have trained health care personnel and volunteers to offices in more than a dozen nations. distribute drugs and provide health education A Liberian actress performs for a radio program in Monrovia A girl in Guatemala is measured by a health worker to on rule of law, supported by The Carter Center . Since 2008, determine her dosage of the medication that prevents river the Center has produced several radio shows each month to blindness . In 2011, the Guatemalan government announced that keep Liberians informed of their legal rights . the disease had ceased transmission in the country . 2 President and Mrs . A Message From President Jimmy Carter Carter take notes at a polling station while observing the January 2011 referendum in southern Sudan . 3 Our Mission The Carter Center, in partnership with Emory University, is guided by a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering; it seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health. While the program agenda may change, The Carter Center is guided by five principles: • The Center emphasizes action and results. Based on careful research and analysis, it is prepared to take timely action on important and Above: In Bolivia, The Carter pressing issues. Center is looking for ways to keep an increasingly polarized society from • The Center does not duplicate erupting into violence . the effective efforts of others. Right: A Chinese woman in the village of Hetao, Yunnan • The Center addresses difficult province, waits for the results problems and recognizes the of local elections, monitored possibility of failure as an by The Carter Center. Below: Now free of Guinea acceptable risk. worm disease, Sadia Mesuna is able to attend school in • The Center is nonpartisan and northern Ghana . acts as a neutral in dispute resolution activities. • The Center believes that people can improve their lives when provided with the necessary skills, knowledge, and access to resources. The Carter Center collaborates with other organizations, public or private, in carrying out its mission. 4 Oz Nelson John Hardman A Message From the Officers resident and Mrs. Carter founded The Carter Often, we find that as we become invested with our Center 30 years ago to create a brighter future for partners in a country’s success on one front, we have been Psome of the world’s most vulnerable people. Though invited to expand our efforts beyond a single project to problems like conflict, oppression, and disease can seem help create more comprehensive infrastructures to further insurmountable, the Carters were not deterred. They, peace and health. and all of us at the Center, have remained committed to For example, our work in Liberia began with conflict working in places and on issues others have deemed too mediation in 1991 and grew to include observation of difficult or too risky. multiple elections. Today, the Center has partnered with We’ve achieved success the Carters never imagined a variety of stakeholders — ministerial agencies, traditional in the early years. But our many accomplishments cannot councils, and civil society organizations, to name a few — to be attributed solely to us. It is the partnerships we have help guide the post-conflict democracy as it restores the built and the way in which we work that have allowed the rule of law and establishes a mental health care system. Center to make a difference in the lives of people around In Sudan, we have worked both during times of peace the world. and war throughout the last quarter-century to fight crip- We want our work to be sustainable and have lasting pling diseases like Guinea worm and prevent conflict. In impact; therefore, we never start a project without the January 2011, we witnessed the birth of the world’s newest support of the local and national governments. For nation — South Sudan — during a historic referendum that example, in our health programs, we coordinate work in brought the region another step closer to a lasting peace. colla boration with our host country’s ministry of health. At We thank our many partners from the last 30 years. the ground level, we hire and mobilize local community The Carter Center’s achievements would not be possible members because they are the ones with the most at stake. without them. Similarly, The Carter Center will not observe an elec- tion unless all the major participating political parties welcome our involvement. And we train local community groups in techniques to monitor elections and human rights, so they can hold their governments accountable Kent C. “Oz” Nelson John Hardman into the future. Chairman President and Chief Executive Officer 5 As part of a nationwide effort to create the Peacecountry’s first digital voter list, a Nepalese Programs woman is photographed for her voter registration in Bhaktapur district . Carter Center observers monitored the process, continuing to support and strengthen democracy in the country . 6 30 years of waging peace, 30fighting disease, and building hope 7 30 years of waging peace, 30 fighting disease, and building hope Pioneer of Election Observation he Carter Center has pioneered the field of election observa- Ttion, monitoring some 90 elec- tions in Africa, Latin America, and Asia since 1989 to help countries in political transition fulfill democratic aspirations. “The growing global movement toward democracy brought with it a demand for the presence of indepen- dent election observers. Over time, the Center has received more and more invitations to assist as nations take steps toward holding genuinely democratic elections,” said Dr. David Carroll, director of the Democracy The Carter Center observed its first elections in Panama in 1989, and President Carter denounced the elections as fraudulent . Program. “With more than two decades of election observation Some election missions have been integral parts of missions, the Center has developed a still-fragile peace accords, as in Nicaragua, the Democratic solid record of expertise and impartial- Republic of the Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Nepal, and ity. The assessments of Carter Center Sudan. Others have taken place in countries undergoing observers play an increasingly impor- difficult democratic transitions, such as in Panama, Haiti, tant role in shaping public perceptions Indonesia, Guinea, Tunisia, and Egypt. And in East Timor about the quality of elections.” and Sudan, observers even witnessed the birth of new states.
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