2017 ANNUAL REPORT A LETTER FROM OUR PRESIDENT

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist

s I look back on my first year at Wings of Hope, I keep reflecting on the thread that Aruns through everything we do: our volunteers. When I say everything, I mean it literally. Every activity we do is directly touched by the hand of a volunteer. From the more visible activities of our pilots who fly medical missions in the U.S. and around the globe…to the unsung heroes who assist us through their administrative work and event support…to those who engage new volunteers and donors in our mission by representing Wings of Hope in the community, our volunteers are the engine that runs this organization.

In 2017, our volunteers dedicated thousands of hours of service to Wings of Hope. As much as I am humbled by this staggering amount of hours and the boundless energy they pour into their service, I am equally impressed with the experience and professionalism they bring to us.

Our pilots come to us after successful careers flying for commercial airlines, in the military, or for corporations. Our finances and database are managed by volunteers with years of professional experience in these areas. Many of our patient flight advocates are highly skilled nurses. Our hangar is full of retired engineers and mechanics.

What all our volunteers share is a passion for our mission — and their enthusiasm is infectious.

In my short tenure here, we’ve received a number of unsolicited donations — some quite significant — from new donors who learned of us from one of our volunteers. I have welcomed many new volunteers who have joined us because they were brought to us by a friend.

Throughout this report, you will read stories highlighting how we’re using our wings to lift up those in need all over the globe, and how our volunteers are indeed the thread that holds the Wings of Hope fabric together.

I dedicate this annual report to our volunteers.

In gratitude,

Bret Heinrich President and CEO

[ 2 ] WHO WE ARE

OUR MISSION We are an aviation nonprofit delivering humanitarian programs around the globe to lift people in need toward health and self-sufficiency.

OUR VISION We envision a world in which all people have access to the resources they need to create a better life.

OUR WORK OUR ROOTS ARE IN AVIATION. In 1965, we sent our first plane to the field to deliver medical care and resources to starving people in . Aviation remains central to our mission.

In 2003, we established our Medical Relief & Air Transport (MAT) Program to fly individuals with serious health conditions to transformative care at the country’s best medical facilities. The Wings of Hope MAT Program is the only free medical air transport service in the U.S. with airplanes specially equipped to accommodate stretchers and medical equipment.

Through in-country partnerships, our International Programs support some of the poorest communities of Africa, Asia, and Central and South America. We use airplanes to fly people in remote areas to emergency medical care. We also fly doctors into communities with no local health care. With self-sufficiency as the goal, we’ve partnered with communities on other opportunities to improve their health, education, food and financial security.

STRENGTH IN NUMBERS

H Adventist World Aviation (AWA) DOMESTIC MAT PROGRAM Emergency Response Team (BERT) + Flying Medical Service (FMS) HEALTH NETWORK 262 25 FlySpec Barnes-Jewish Hospital St. Louis Children’s Hospital ST. LOUIS-BASED Iglesia Centro Cristiano Siloh Cincinnati Children’s Swedish Medical Center VOLUNTEERS (U.S.PILOTS & INTERNATIONALLY) Hospital Shriners Hospitals John Givonetti Giving (JGG) M.D. Anderson Center Wilson Disease Center of Lewis Jungle Ministries Mayo Clinics Excellence, University VOLUNTEERS AT GLOBAL Nari O Sishu Kalyan Samitee (NSKS) PARTNERS SSM Cardinal Glennon of Michigan INTERNATIONAL 9 Transfedha FIELD SITES Children’s Medical Center 282 { St. Jude Children’s Hospital [ 3 ] UNITED STATES

VOLUNTEER PATIENT FLIGHT ADVOCATE Deborah Becker

U.S. MEDICAL RELIEF & AIR Deborah Becker stopped TRANSPORT PROGRAM by Wings of Hope seven years ago, after retiring as Our Medical Relief & Air Transport (MAT) Program a flight attendant and provides medical air transport services, free of charge, service manager for a to individuals who need specialized medical care that commercial airline. is not available to them locally. Using aircraft specially outfitted with stretchers to accommodate fragile and “I wanted to volunteer,” non-ambulatory patients, we fly individuals to hospitals Deborah says, “and I thought and treatment centers in 26 states within a 600-mile it was the right fit.” radius of our St. Louis headquarters. When Deborah was asked if she would lead our team of patient flight advocates (PFAs), she had one question: What’s a patient flight advocate? She quickly learned that it was the person who meets the patients when they come to Wings of Hope for a medical air transport flight and, again, when they leave. She also learned it was the perfect role for her.

Like many of our PFAs, Deborah often goes the extra mile to make sure the people we fly feel comfortable. She talks about a little boy and his mother who spent three months at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, with no family in town. Deborah visited them at least twice a week and, oftentimes, she would take the mom shopping or out to lunch.

Why do you volunteer? “You get to see patients over and over again,” she says, “and you develop a relationship. Even if it’s someone new, it’s making them feel comfortable about flying on Elizabeth a small plane.” Born premature and with mild cerebral palsy, Elizabeth spent the first five years of her life pulling herself around Deborah says most people light up when they see someone using her forearms, aka doing the “military crawl.” We flew waiting for them. But what’s the best part of her job? Elizabeth from rural Kansas to St. Louis Shriners Hospital “What’s really rewarding is the progress you see.” for major surgery – and continue to fly her for post-op treatments. Now, she is walking with a walker!

[ 4 ] 195 Flights x

2.5 hours (pre- & post-flight) x

2 Pilots per flight =

975 hours (pre- & post-flight) +

1063.7 hours (Total flight time on all 3 planes) =

2,038.7 Total Hours x $ $72/hour (for experienced pilot) 2017 MAT STATS = VOLUNTEER PATIENTS MAT PILOTS SERVED AND CENTS IN DOLLARS … WORTH ARE PILOTS VOLUNTEER OUR WHAT Grand Total: 20 202 $146,786.40 [ 5 ] INTERNATIONAL IMPACT

BELIZE

137 medevac patients PUERTO RICO* KENYA 1,000 1,034 people received entrepreneurs relief items provided loans *Puerto Rico was a one-time disaster relief effort, not a 3,491 Wings of Hope field site. individuals provided 46 financial education medevac patients 12 women entrepreneurs trained 4,931 patients offered 730 medical care children fed weekly

TANZANIA 24,700 patients treated in fly-in clinics medevac89 patients 953 patients treated in medical and dental clinics 2,160 individuals provided food, agricultural assistance and education

[ 6 ] INTERNATIONAL IMPACT

International Programs at a Glance

CAMBODIA We are an aviation nonprofit, and two-thirds of our international field sites use aircraft to help people. When 977 it makes sense, we also support programming that falls middle school students outside of the confines of aviation. These include on-the- taught English ground efforts to improve health, food security, as well 63 as income and education opportunities. In many cases, high school students projects support multiple goals. trained to teach 12 students supported in university Belize j x Cambodia 0 $ India x 0 $ INDIA Kenya 0 $ 198 Nicaragua j x $ women supported in Self Help Groups j x 1,286 Paraguay j x 0 teenage girls provided PAPUA health education NEW j x GUINEA 388 Zambia j x 0 teachers trained 249 patients treated In 2017, Wings of Hope 1,300 children vaccinated DIRECTLY SERVED 1,900 individuals provided health education 45,656 AROUND THE WORLD

[ 7 ] CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA

PARAGUAY We partner with Iglesia Centro Cristiano Siloh in serving more than 3,000 people annually through monthly flights into 16 indigenous communities. In 2017, we provided medevac services to 89 people, treated 534 patients VOLUNTEER FIELD DIRECTOR in medical clinics, provided 419 dental care, and delivered food, agricultural assistance Cliff Schisler and practical teaching on family, health and Cliff Schisler has been field director for vocational skills to more than 2,160. Wings of Hope in Paraguay since 2012.

“I came to Paraguay as an evangelical NICARAGUA missionary, leaving a good job at UPS in Portland, Oregon. I wanted to We support Adventist World Aviation in pursue a more honorable vocation, in my opinion, of helping others find providing emergency medical evacuation purpose in life and improve their possibilities for a better future.” flights (46 in 2017) to people in remote villages. We also support a sustainable Why do you volunteer? “Some of the greatest satisfaction I have comes chicken hatchery operated by 12 women from seeing people develop their potential out of practically impossible entrepreneurs — producing eggs that help situations. A case in point are two young brothers who have come from feed 730 children five days a week, serving the indigenous communities and are now living in a boys home we have — 14,600 meals a month via a local children’s working, studying and preparing for the future.” feeding center. Beyond providing humanitarian assistance to indigenous communities, BELIZE Cliff and his team have successfully engaged Paraguayan leaders in supporting a children’s home, a school aimed at lower-income families, We provide our partner, the Belize Emergency and a boys home where young men form a committed group and, Response Team (BERT), a volunteer pilot and through discipline and hard work, are developing their potential. annual maintenance of their aircraft which they use to support medical air evacuation “Of course, I will not take credit for all of this. Without God’s help coverage for the country’s 380,000 people. In and a good team of hardworking people, none of this would have 2017, BERT flew 137 individuals to emergency been possible.” medical care, up 17% from the previous year.

[ 8 ] VOLUNTEER FIELD DIRECTOR Cliff Schisler

BELIZE VOLUNTEER PILOT I have the time and financial security to serve those in need, Ken Pratt domestically and abroad.” Wings of Hope volunteer pilot, Ken Pratt, generously covered a gap in service in One of Ken’s favorite poems is “The Bridge Builder” by Will Belize during the two months between Allen Dromgoole. It describes an old man traveling a “lone previous pilot TJ Stewart leaving and new pilot Michael highway” who, after crossing a chasm, builds a bridge to Valley taking over. Ken flew for our MAT Program prior to provide safe passage for others who follow. signing up to help out in Belize. “I see myself as a bridge builder, working to span the gulf for Why do you volunteer? “I see my aviation career as having those who need to get somewhere that seems impossibly unfolded in three phases: First, I served my country. Then, I far away,” Ken says. “I seek to ease the journey for those who had the opportunity to build a successful airline career. Now, are also traveling the ‘lone highway’ of life.”

[ 9 ] AFRICA

KENYA We partner with Transfedha Microfinance in providing microloans, education and mentoring to help women entrepreneurs VOLUNTEER FIELD PARTNER start and grow small businesses as a path out of poverty. In 2017, they issued 1,034 Jackline Kirui loans and provided financial education to Transfedha Microfinance

3,491 individuals. As the women’s financial Jackline Kirui and her husband, Daniel, security has improved, so, too, has the health are school teachers who founded and school attendance of their children. Transfedha Microfinance in Bomet, Kenya, to address the widespread poverty in their community. TANZANIA For more than 20 years, we have partnered “My volunteering at Transfedha started way back in 2010 when with Flying Medical Service. Their fly-in I got employed after graduating from university. Back in the medical clinics serve 25 Maasai settlements, village, poverty was the order of the day in every home — no focusing on prenatal and infant care. In 2017, food, no shelter and people dressing in rags because of they treated 24,700 patients — vaccinating extreme poverty. more than 16,000 children and providing “Mothers were the most affected as their husbands resorted to prenatal care to 3,368 women. drinking alcohol to escape the reality at home. My employment was a blessing to not only me, but also to the whole society as ZAMBIA people started resorting to our home to beg for all the basic We support FlySpec, the only orthopedic and needs. My husband was facing the same challenge, so we sat reconstructive surgery service providing care down and decided to help the members of our society establish via airplane to remote parts of Zambia at no their own sources of income. This was the birth of Transfedha.” cost to patients. In 2017, the FlySpec surgical team saw 4,931 patients and performed more Why do you volunteer? “Poverty is the worst disease. My joy is than 1,388 operations, the majority of which in transforming mothers from beggars into economic pillars in were corrective surgeries for children with cleft their homes.” palates and clubfoot.

[ 10 ] TANZANIA VOLUNTEER MECHANIC Bill Patterson Bill Patterson started volunteering at Wings of Hope after retiring from a successful business career 20 years ago. Bill came to us with a private pilot’s license and some mechanical skills, and we trained him to be an A&P/IA (Airframe and/or Powerplant) certified mechanic, authorized to do airplane inspections. Bill flew hundreds of hours as a volunteer pilot for our MAT Program. He has completed inspections on our planes in Guyana and Nicaragua. In both 2016 and 2017, he flew to Tanzania to perform annual inspections on the two planes our partner, Flying Medical Service, uses for fly-in medical clinics.

Why do you volunteer? Bill has always been an extremely active individual, and retirement didn’t change that.

“I’m not going to retire and look at the sunset,” he says.

Bill says his interest in aircraft initially led him to Wings of Hope, and he very quickly bought into our mission. His personal motivation is simple: “There are good things that need to be done.”

[ 11 ] ASIA & OCEANIA

CAMBODIA We partner with John Givonetti Giving in a peer tutoring program that trains high school students to teach English to middle school students in farming villages. In 2017, we served 977 middle school students, trained 63 student teachers, and provided university scholarship support to 12 student volunteer alumnae. The first nine student Sokhary with 3 of our 9 CAMBODIA FIELD PARTNER first university graduates volunteer alumnae graduated university in 2017. Sokhary Pavese INDIA Sokhary co-founded John Givonetti Giving’s (JGG) peer-to- Our partner, Nari O Sishu Kalyan Samitee, supports peer English language teaching program in Pursat Province, 68 women in Self-Help Groups (SHGs) who earn in the same rural village in which she grew up. She says she $52, on average, per month making and selling was motivated to start teaching English to young students incense. Project Keep Girls in School addresses in Cambodia, “because without English, the door to higher poverty, women’s health, and the dropout rate education and a successful future will be closed.” among teen girls by supporting 10 SHGs (130 “So many rural children in Cambodia lack the opportunity to women) selling biodegradable sanitary pads and learn English well,” she says. “This was my own experience as a distributing 10,000 brochures — educating 1,286 student. I wish to give the children in the villages JGG serves the girls and training 388 teachers in 2017. best chance for success.”

PAPUA NEW GUINEA Sokhary says the greatest impact of the program has been the We partner with Lewis Jungle Ministries in serving number of students graduating high school — and now university the Sepik Region, a remote area with minimal — with a good foundation in English. health care resources. In 2017, they completed 29 “As these students go on to complete university and begin emergency transports to the hospital, treated 42 successful careers, the community is learning how important people in clinics, and administered medical care education is,” she says. “This understanding has increased to 178 patients in their home. They vaccinated 450 students’ interest in all their subjects, not just English.” children (providing an extra 850 doses of vaccines) and provided health education to 1,900 people.

[ 12 ] CAMBODIA FIELD PARTNER Sokhary Pavese

WHY DO YOU VOLUNTEER? “I know the students in our program can be successful, but most will never reach their goals without the support of an organization like JGG. So, I want to give them all the opportunity they deserve. In the long term, it will take educated workers to fully develop the Cambodia economy.”

[ 13 ] VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHTS In the hangar and around the globe, our volunteers were busy keeping our wings flying all year long.

HELPING IN THE HANGAR Our hangar crew was in over- 30 YEARS OF SERVICE We celebrated our longest serving drive in 2017, preparing 24 aircraft for service or sale. volunteer, Gene Pfautsch.

TASTE OF HOPE Our Young Ambassadors put on their 2017 HOPE IS WHERE THE HEART IS GALA More than 80 first culinary event in the hangar, raising $12,700 for our volunteers worked tirelessly to pull off our most successful international programs. dinner and auction yet, raising $300,000+ for our MAT Program.

HELPING PUERTO RICO We joined the Greater St. Louis Business BELIZE PLANE SWAP Pilots, Rick Oloteo, Ed Schertz and Don Aviation Association in raising $4,726 to ship supplies collected Hoerstkamp, delivered a Piper Cherokee to our field site in by students to 1,000 people impacted by Hurricane Maria. Belize and brought back N206KY — our very first MAT plane!

[ 14 ] 2017 FINANCIALS

Expenses

Program Services Administration Fundraising 83.1% 16.9%

Plane Donations Power Programming Our retrieval, delivery and maintenance (RDM) team, led by Chief RDM Pilot Don Hoerstkamp, collected 22 donated aircraft and returned them to our hangar in 2017. In recognition of their generosity and heart for service, we present each donor with our highest honor: the Order of the Aviator. We are able to use some Income of these donated planes in the field to support our international emergency medical flight services and our U.S.-based Medical Relief & Air Transport Program. Those that are not suitable to handle field work are sold and the proceeds are used to support our programming. In 2017, sale of donated aircraft generated $448,863.78 for Wings of Hope. Fundraising Events Contributions Give STL Day Drives Donations & Grants 12.4% On May 11, 2017, we participated in our third consecutive Give STL Day. Investment 72% Income Out of more than 800 participating 14.5% St. Louis nonprofits, Wings of Hope ranked 3rd in amount of total donations. Through 122 individual donations and a very generous Other 1.1% $25,000 donor match, we raised nearly $57,000 during the 24-hour online giving event. We always say we Our 2017 990 and audited financials can be found on our website, www.wingsofhope.ngo. have the world’s best supporters — and this is why! Thank You!

[ 15 ] 2017 DONORS

We are happy to recognize donors who support Wings of Hope with their generous donations of $100 or greater.

$100,000 $2,500 - $4,999 Saint Louis Community Foundation Stanley and Dorisann Newby Fabick Charitable Trust Steve & Elizabeth Akre Sam’s Club #6252 Nightline Express William R, Jr. And Laura Rand Anonymous Bernie Schmidt Payne-Brodeur Giving Fund Orthwein Foundation Knox Family Foundation John Schmidt, (Ret) Glen Phariss Matthew and Casey Arnold Schnucks Stores Pulver Packaging $25,000 - $49,999 AVMATS The Sidener Foundation Repco Solutions Costco Linda L. Baker David and Sara Taylor Jay Rickmeyer Emerson Charitable Trust International Charitable Foundation Arthur W. Trulaske Foundation Jeffrey Rickmeyer and Teresa Hickam GEICO Philanthropic Foundation Marc and Stacy Burton West Star Aviation Richard Ropp Robert and Irene Gulovsen Howard Canada Roger and Sandy Wickham Lucia P. Rosenbloom Mueth Family Foundation Teri L. Chapin Katherine S. Rutter John Pavese Gerry and Mary D’Angelo $1,000 - $1,499 Dave and Stacy Sabino The Saigh Foundation Wholesale Plumbing Thomas A. and Lilly Altwies Ray F. and Jackie Saleeby, Jr. William M. Taylor Nettie Dodge Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Sanford N. Wagner Foundation, Ltd. Gateway Buick and GMC Applied Materials Foundation McDonnell Foundation A.C. “Butch” & Jan Giessman & Employees Lynn Schiller $15,000 - $24,999 The Goldstein Family Foundation David P. and Tracy Baynes The Shepherd Foundation Anonymous Mike and Betty Graven Bess Spiva Timmons Foundation Leonard H. and Rita Sisul Beverly Bridges Laurna Godwin Hutchinson Boeing Employee Individual St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church Greater St Louis Business Aviation James Kaplan Giving Program Brad & Linda Statler Association (GSLBAA) Al and Kay Kent Nadine Boyd Hans M. Stover Estate of Bernice Mihalik The Kuhn Foundation First Rule Film & Broadcast Tim and Robyn Schaiff Ed Smith Mason Ave Family Foundation The Cady Family Foundation Anthony and Susan Tumminello Janine Fabick Mroz Chris and Sheila Carnahan James H. Turner $10,000 - $14,999 Natoli Engineering Co Inc William Charney Steven and Rebecca Von Gruben Anonymous Richard A. Noyes and Shirley R. Coen Walmart #2600 Collins & Hermann Barbara N. Schaffer Daikin, Inc. Walter, Marie and Barbara Infrastructure Solutions Rick Oloteo and Laura Helling Jenna Deutsch Falk Family Foundation Elis Olsson Memorial Fund Dave Pogorzelski Doug Dillard James and Dorothy Willhite Jeré Fabick Mark D. and Anne Rickmeyer Dot Foods, Inc. Jim and Cheryl Wiltsch Jerome and Susan Grossman Dennis Sappington Jerome F. and Mary C. Doyle Pat and Sharon Winn Duane A. and Joy Hercules Sons of American Legion Todd Emms Patrick Wittenbrink Donald And Ruth Malvern Foundation John Teipen John D. Flaherty Neill & Kelly Wright Maritz The Tarlow Family Foundation, Inc. George and Dianne Garrison James F. and Catherine Moore Roland Quest Memorial Fund Gateway Pharmacology $750 - $999 Col. Andy Mungenast Charitable Trust Karen Unnerstall Laboratories LLC Anonymous Raymond R. and Laurie A. Greater St. Louis Flight Instructors Roger J. and Cheri Bettlach $7,500 - $9,999 Van de Riet, Jr. Assoc. (GSLFIA) Terri Brockschmitt Anonymous James and Anne Von der Heydt Rose V. Hall Edward A. and Theresa Campbell Larry & Linda Lemke Yankton Wireless LLC Mark and Janis Halsey Bill and Carla Dowd Porlier Outdoor Advertising Co. Jean Henderson Dickson R. and Peggy R. Dunsworth Everett D. And Geneva V. $1,500 - $2,499 Lilly Christy Busch Hermann Dave and Karla Kramer Sugarbaker Foundation The Albert Schoendienst Charitable Charitable Foundation William Llewelyn Giving Fund Hilton 360 Bar Mike Mahoney $5,000 - $7,499 Anonymous Don Hoerstkamp Tom Miller Anonymous Thomas R. and Christine K. Berg Douglas Horner Dale Naas August A. Busch III Charitable Trust Deb Berryman Dick Horowitz Crystal Nelson Sue Bahle Mike Calcagno Stanley and Karen Hubbard John R. and Lynn Quillico Bernice Priger Charitable Foundation Carl E. Kessler Family Foundation Industrial Gas Products, Inc. Paul and Lisa Rolwes Blues for Kids Creve Coeur Days Inc. The JERA Foundation Robert Roth, Jr. BNSF Railway Foundation Sander Foundation Jhamandas Watumull Fund David J. and Anne Stockman Boeing Employee Community Fund Graybar Foundation Phil Koch Jack Taylor Larry and Carrie Dalton The Jeff Hansen Memorial Foundation Don Kukla Patrick Tracy Classic Aire Care Dave and Kathy Hawkins Shaun and Sal Laface William F. and Nancy Wallace Fund Roger Debenport Skip and Diane Hill Paul and Kathy Lang Angela Walleman Dierberg’s Markets Dave Huhn Keith LaRowe Charles & Lauren Wilken The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Jewish Women International Brent Lemon Emilee Williams Foundation, Inc. Joe-K Used Cars Steve Long Gregory L. and Therese L. Witry Melvyn L. and Dorothy Lefkowitz Peter H. and Kay Johnson Kishen and Kristin Mahendra Moneta Group Larry and Terry Longseth Merril Lynch $500 - $749 Mildred Simon Foundation Fred Meyland-Smith Joseph Matteoni Aero Performance Laurence J. and Christie J. Tietjen James D. Moffat, IV Clifford Matukonis Amazon Smile Ulrich Medical USA Inc Roger P. and Linda S. Mollman Josef Meyer Ambassador Floor Company Carroll B. Waldner Michael Parsons MHS Travel and Charter, a Division Anonymous Wells Fargo Advisors Jonathan D. and Penelope Pejka of Centene Corp. William R. Barrett Jonathan Raskas Jean-Paul and Isabelle Montupet Richard Best Michael J. Ross National Cart Company Kenneth O. and Beverly Boody

[ 16 ] Mary A. Bowlby $250 - $499 Craig A. and Marilyn K. McArton Mike Bland Brown Colonial Farms LLC Aegion Larry and Sandy McEntire Joanne K Blase David A. Cacioppo Anonymous Chuck Midyett Kathleen Boedeker Donald C. Canning Memorial Fund Ascension Catholic Church, Don Morton Steve and Sue Bollinger Daher SOCATA North America Knights of Columbus, Ladies Aux Jean Murry Rowling J. and Mary Helen Borgschulte Chesterfield Lions Activity Fund Dick and Carol Bacon NC Airports Association Walt Borja Corporate Insurance Management Inc. Deb Becker George and Barbara Nelson William W. Bower Bob and Mary Cunningham Nolan and Cathy Black George S. Newell Guy Bradley Pat Dervin IBM Jeff Bollard Erin Noble and Brent Zeman Robert P. and Linda Brandewiede Drury Hotels, LLC Natalie Boyd Northstar Management Company Pamela Bray Carolyn and Kevin Farrell Margaret A. Bristol Charles Ogle Betsy Breckenridge Robert W. Garvey Clayton Brown Nancy J. O’Hara Donna Broccard Lawrence Gelb Carl and Mary Alice Brumley Daniel and Melanie Osbourne Brookhurst Town Center LLC Mona Geyer Leila Bunte Robert and Margaret Owens Jerry G. and Shirleen Brown Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Beth Campbell Pascucci Family Foundation Ronald Brown Thomas and Barbara Gustainis Dawson V. Carr Gary Penrod Robert K. and Cynthia Burgess Melanie Halley Ryan Chandler Robert E. and Jane Perkinson Patricia Burroughs Dave Hancock Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce Benjamin J. Petrick Dana Calvert Richard W. Harper Kevin Clabert Diane Pizzuti Mary Ann Cantrell Miriam Hatoum Jon and Doris Clement Anna Plein Timothy Carman Clyde Heckert Conoco Phillips Company Sofie Pollet Bradley Carnegie Carl E. Henke Osmond and Sandra Conrad Clotilde J. Pottebaum Intidhar Carson Eric R. Johnson Edward F. and Penny Covill Bruce and Valerie Renstrom Cindy Chang Jerry A. and Jeanne Jones Rebecca Cramer Charlene Rittel Kyunghwan Cho Melissa and Greg Junge Dinh Dang Mary Jean Russell, Ph.D. Donald R. and Rita Choquette Susan M. Jutz Jeremiah Dellas Adisa Sahbegovic Churchill Center and School Larry Kamberg Michael Doherty and Kathleen Kane David and Peggy Schnardthorst Karen J. Clanahan KCAC Aviation Susan Dow Sisters Of St Dominic Corey and Amanda Coe King of Kings Lutheran Church Nina Orthwein Durham Robin Snedden Barbara Coleman Carol S. and Ward Klein Joann Dyroff Dan and Janet Sohn Didion Manufacturing Company David Lenz The Elfenworks Foundation No. 1 Patricia A. Staub Joan M. and Mark Conrad Lions Club of Wentzville William D. and Virginia Ellis Greg Tate Robert E. and Betty Coolidge Michelle LoTurco Jonathan P. Feldmann Dianne Taylor Cecil L. and Marypat Corbett Earl Lyden First National Bank - Staunton Elaine Tripolitis Allen J. Corbin Cynthia Mazzara Brent Furrow Daryl R. and Jacqueline Tweeton Stephen Costello Virginia Meunier Timothy D. Garner Union and Fifth/Third Sector Robert and Carolyn Cowherd Glenn and Jo Anne Miller Nancy L. Gilmer New England John Cox Janet Milone Greenway Communications, LLC Gary and Linda Unverfehrt Edward J. Crawford Mini Warehouse World Robert N. and Catherine A. Gross Daniel Utterson Edward J. and Vicki Crawford (dba Warehouse LLC) Edward A. and Norene Grossmann VFW Lake St. Louis Post 10350 Steve and Mary Crawford Mission Specialty Kurt Gruett John B. Vollmer Crushed Red - Clayton Tammy Mudd Brian Gustafson Walmart Store #648 Bob Cummiskey David C. and Judith Mueth Thomas Hall Patrick J. and Marie Walsh Gary M. and Jane Cunningham Rebecca S. Niemiec Christopher Hardnock Jim Watson Donald G. and Leslie Cuppett Janet Papageorge Sue Harrison Richard J. and Marian Wegner Laura Cutler Michael and Theresa Pape Luke and Holly Hayden Phyllis M. Westermeyer Cyclebar Peterson Family Foundation John Heilmann James D. and Linda L. Wickenhauser Melvin Dabner Douglas B. Phair Bret and Anne Heinrich Elizabeth Wleklinski Bruce Davis Laura Pinto Jeff H Hellenbrand Dawn Zeimet Gary Davis Polytech Plastic Molding, Inc. Dale W. Hiltner John M. Davis Edward and Gail Rice John (Bill) Hoffman $100 - $249 Neil Dawson Timothy and Nancy Rickmeyer International Tap House Alan and Judith Aaron Brad Deaver Michael and Susan Roesch Paul Maro Johnson Michelle Acker Hillary B. Debenport Tom Rosenmayer Henry O. and Sally Johnston Ellis Adams Randy and Paige Denny Saint Louis Science Center Terry M. and Christine Johnston Aero Charter Madhulika A. and Aditya Deshpande Saint Paul’s Evangelical Church Aura Joyce Donna M. Agnew Jennifer Devers Jeanne Shearer Rick Junkin Amy Aitken Anne M. DiCarlo Siebert Agency Ltd. Nick and Mary Kamakas Gloria J. Aldridge Joseph DiCiolla Anna P. Siromas Knight Charitable Account Loretto Alexander Sherry Diederich Dixi Smith David A. and Kari Kopp Julie Anderson F. Roger and Barbara Dierberg Jay Smith Stacy Kotis Anonymous Leonard Dino, Sr. G. Robert and Helen A. Soule Michael Krueger Velma Anthony Margie J. Dixon Donald W. Stage Ladue Chapel Women’s Association Debra L. Augustyn Thomas L. Dixon Stock & Associates David R. and Sandra Lamb Doris E. Austin Frank Doerr Casey Sullivan Cristian LeBlanc Kevin Baines Jose & Eileen Dominicci Shannon B. Downey Turpin Leo J. Shapiro & Associates Deanne Drechsler Bajaj Greg and Lisa Dosch Charles E. and Catherine Vaaler Timothy Long Eric Barnes-Debenport Harold L. and Nancy Dotson Todd and Deborah VanDyk Gregory Luckert Ronald E. Bemis Joshua and Elizabeth Dowling Vee-Jay Cement Contracting Co., Inc. Ruth Martin The Benevity Community Impact Fund Madeline C Dreher Chris Waltz David Mason Mary Berk Thomas Duerr Whitney Noel Wear Donny Mason George and Carol Bethune Fred J. Dulle, Jr. Kristina Welch Dave Mass Vijay K. and Sudha Bhasin Kevin E. and Sharon W. Dwyer Rosemary Wiltsch Walt and Anna Beck Foundation Barb Bielby Luella W. Dykhuis Dorothy Winter MBM Wealth Consultants Patricia Blair Ida Early

[ 17 ] 2017 DONORS

$100 - $249 continued Matthew R. Eisel Richard and Linda Jones Gwen Minkler Clayton K. and Janice Schnarr Robert C. and Beulah Elder Robert K. and Jane D. Jones Jan Misuraca Randy Schuermann Steven T. and Elizabeth A. Eldert Ronald E. and Ann Jones Nabanita Modak Fischer Patricia A. Sheehan Greg & Susan Elson Steven and Linda Jones Aaron and Helen Moffat Michael Siegel Rich Emery Craig Kaintz Peter Mohs John C. Skain Michael D. Erickson Anthony J. Keck Laura (Murch) Moran Dale and Gloria Slings R.E. Essen Ben & Jana Kehrer Tim and Paula Mortenson Brian E. Smith Dale Evans William G. and Margaret Kelsey Diane Morton Melinda Smith Bill and Deborah Everley Larry C. Kenna Lynn Muckerman Roger J. and Marilyn Smith Isaac Faibisoff Dean Kennedy Keith Mueller Susan Smith John M. Fawley Vickie Kimbrough Michael and Joan Mullen Terrence T. and Patricia A. Fontana Milton and Norma Fehrenbach Shane and Thalia Kirby James P. and Charlene Murphy Snook Joanne Mary Ferguson Glen Kirkland Clair Navarrette Donald A. and Ruth Solomon Terry Finn Kiwanis Club of Creve Coeur Josephine W. Nealis Paul S. Spencer, Jr Barry B. and Laverne M. Flachsbart George Knirsch Betty J. Negwer Scott W. and Ruth J. Spragg Glen S. Foster Neil and Linda Koelling David C. and Jessica Nelson St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church Kenneth Fox Kevin and Raenee Koogler R.C. Nemer St. Louis Chapter, Pilots Assoc. Michael and Judy Franze Kenneth S. and Nancy Kranzberg Network For Good St. Louis Flying Club Mark and Jackie Fredman Arnold Kreitman Steven L. and Charmaine Nicholson Adrian and Norah Stack James Funke Adam Kruger Melinda Jane Nielson Gary and Beatrice Statler M Caroyln Gamache Sheara Krvaric Donald Niemeyer Gertrude Steiger Robert W. Garthwait, Sr Christine Kukla Kathy Norwood Peggy Stelloh Gateway Inter City Council Scott Lagle David E. and Mae Nothstine James E. and Frances Stephens Nancy Gelb Dave Lanahan Joyce Noxon Dorothy J. Steurer Jim Gempeler William A. and Virginia Landers, Jr. Paul Odell Mike and Beth Styve Teresa K. Gill Richard Latto Jeremy Olexa Pat Sullivan Barry S. and Martha Ginsburg Sara Layman Dudley and Elis Olsson Tom and Lynne Svetnicka Donald W. Glazer Janet L. Leister Dorothy L. O’Neill Kathy Sweetnam Peter A. and Marianne Gleich Joan M. Leslie Rick Ortyl Thomas and Billie Swift Georgia Gnann Charles W. Letchworth Terrence J. and Sheila M. O’Toole Thomas Swigart Lawrence and Karen Goering Frans and Elly Liebert Sokhary Pavese Arlene Taich, PhD Otto and Charlotte Goering Earl G. and Sandra Lindenberg Ken Pedersen James S. and Anne Tate, Jr. Gustav F. Goetsch Doug Lindsay Tom and Susan Pelikan Judith A. and Tony Taylor Bonnie G. Graham Elizabeth Liringis Steve and Marion Penberthy Kathleen A. 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STEVE AKRE LOUIS G. CHIODINI Chairman FROM OUR BOARD CHAIRMAN CAMERON CONWAY FRED MEYLAND-SMITH KELLI FABICK ings of Hope is a vibrant, international nonprofit today because of Vice Chairman A.C. “BUTCH” GIESSMAN our volunteers - exemplary, mission-driven individuals. One group ROGER DEBENPORT SAMUEL C. HUTCHINSON of volunteers, who seek no recognition, is the Wings of Hope Board Deputy Chairman DONALD T. KUKLA Wof Directors. Our Directors, and in particular our Executive Committee, lead with JOHN W. SCHMIDT Treasurer JAMES D. MOFFAT purpose and passion. Inspired by the vision of our founders, our Directors give PATRICK T. WITTENBRINK SHELLEY PERULFI freely of their time, talents, and financial resources. Secretary RICHARD ROPP Our Board recognizes the responsibility of developing a Board for the future, TRAVIS H. BROWN LUCIA ROSENBLOOM and the exciting prospects for Wings of Hope, all our volunteers, and the people STEVEN BUSCH MICHAEL J. ROSS we serve domestically and internationally. I am pleased to share some Board accomplishments in 2017. HONORARY COUNCIL

• Completing a nationwide search for our President, introducing him to Dra. SHERRILL KAZAN GEN. COLIN L. our culture and mission and nurturing his great experience in financial Chairperson POWELL Former Chairman development. President, World Council of Peoples for of the Joint Chiefs • Communicating expectations for Board members’ commitment of time, the of Staff talent and finances and providing opportunities to engage in committee Former Secretary positions. ROY CLARK of State Entertainer and • Our Aircraft Acquisition and Sales Committee worked to improve our Humanitarian His Eminence donated aircraft valuation process, to accelerate refurbishments, and to JUSTIN CARDINAL enhance sales of donated aircraft. RIGALI • The board authorized the organization to offer — for the first time in its Former U.S. Senator Archbishop Emeritus and Humanitarian of Philadelphia history — medical insurance benefits to our staff.

• Supporting best practices in safety for our flight department, a Committee of ELIZABETH DOLE KURT RUSSELL Director pilots made the hard call to set the maximum age of our pilots at 75. Former U.S. Senator Actor, Pilot • Creating an Investment Committee to competitively review and better Former President of the American Red Cross Lt. Gen. oversee our investments, and our Audit Committee approved the audited Humanitarian TOM STAFFORD financial statements and the 2017 tax return. Former Astronaut • Establishing a realistic budget - no easy feat given the unpredictability of CARL EDWARDS NASCAR driver PATTY WAGSTAFF forecasting donations, aircraft donations and sales, and program expenses. Aerobatic National • Completing a rigorous strategic planning process, which will provide HARRISON FORD Champion Pilot direction to Wings of Hope. Actor, Pilot • We recommitted to building our existing endowment fund and initiated an Brig. Gen. BARRINGTON IRVING CHUCK YEAGER endowment campaign set to launch in mid-2018. Pilot, STEM Educator Test Pilot, Author All of these efforts - and many not listed - position us to move forward on a firm financial and operational foundation as we pursue our mission of lifting up those WINGS OF HOPE SENIOR STAFF in need.

I am grateful to our volunteer Board for their continued wisdom as we address BRET HEINRICH President & CEO matters before us as the premier aviation charity. LAURA HELLING Vice President Thank you, Board, for making a difference in the world and helping to make BETH CAMPBELL Chief Financial Officer Wings of Hope better for the next generation of board leadership. ANGELA WALLEMAN Director of Administration

STEVE LONG Director of Hangar Operations

Steve Akre, Board Chairman BERNIE SCHMIDT Director of Human Resources

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Where There are Wings, There is Hope

Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

18370 Wings of Hope Blvd. | St. Louis, MO 63005 | 636.537.1302 | 800.448.9487 www.wingsofhope.ngo [ 20 ]