ConservationSocialJustice Arcus Foundation 2012 Annual Report The Arcus Foundation is a leading global foundation advancing pressing social justice and conservation issues. The creation of a more just and humane world, based on diversity, Arcus works to advance LGBT equality, as well as to conserve and protect the great apes. equality, and fundamental respect.

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Front cover photo © Jurek Wajdowicz, Inside front cover photo © Isla Davidson Movements—whether social justice, animal conservation, or any other—take time and a sustained sense of urgency, In 2012 alone, we partnered with commitment, and fortitude. more than 110 courageous organizations hotos © Jurek Wajdowicz hotos © Jurek P working in over 40 countries around the globe.

Dear Friends, Dear Friends, As I write this letter we are approaching the number 880, which represents a nearly 400 Looking back on some of the significant of the Congo. Continued habitat loss, spillover 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s percent increase in their population from milestones of 2012, it would be easy to over­ from conflict, or the spread of deadly diseas­ I Have a Dream speech delivered at the famous two decades ago. This is clearly a huge look the decades of collaborative effort that es from humans to apes could wipe out this March on Washington in August 1963. I was a and amazing conservation success story–– preceded the advances that the year brought population in short order. It is a cold, hard fact mere five years old at the time. yet the species continues to be extremely in. For this reason, we chose to focus on that we could lose this species in our lifetime Certainly our world has changed a lot vulnerable and precarious. movements and their tremendous collective if we are not thoughtful and conscious about since Dr. King described his elusive dream in We are happy that Argentina has made it power as the theme of this Annual Report. how human behaviors, like our overcon­ that iconic moment at the Lincoln Memorial. We should all be legal to change one’s name and gender without surgery or psy­ In the words of U.S. historian John D’Emilio, movements sumption of natural resources, impact our planet and the creatures left awestruck at the civil rights movement’s tireless and resolute chiatric diagnosis, and we are happy to see transgender youth advance by “creeping and leaping”: Years of hard work building we share it with. arc of progress that has been evolving since that astonishing day. become more visible. Still, there were at least 267 reported trans­ the trust and partnerships that undergird movements then lead Here in New York City—where it is illegal to discriminate Movements––whether social justice, animal conservation, phobic killings worldwide in 2012, and we are certain this repre­ to bursts of progress that seem to happen almost overnight. based on sexual orientation (although not gender identity) and or any other––take time and a sustained sense of urgency, com­ sents but a fraction of the real number of such tragic events. Too 2012 was a year of leaping in both of Arcus’ mission where there is marriage equality—we still saw a gay man, mitment, and fortitude. They require collaborations and alliances often, authorities don’t even bother to respond when it’s a trans areas. For the first time in U.S. history, people voted marriage Mark Carson, 32, gunned down in 2013 simply because of his among an intricate network of individuals, institutions, communi­ person who has been killed. equality into law—in Maryland, Maine, and Washington. The sexual orientation, barely half a mile from Arcus’ headquarters. ties, governments, and businesses. And it takes years, and often I am so gratified that Arcus has been able to become a federal government announced plans to release the vast major­ While we see areas of progress in the fight for legal equality decades, for these critical collaborations to effect sustained and significant leader working for great ape conservation and LGBT ity of its chimpanzees from their cruel and unnecessary use in for LGBT people, we are also learning the painful lesson that meaningful change. equality. Our remarkable board of directors and staff, along with medical experimentation. passing a law is the end of the beginning of the work we need to Despite heroic efforts, the pace of progress can seem our heroic grantees and partners, have such incredible passion, At Arcus in 2012 alone, we partnered with more than 110 do to achieve lived equality—not the beginning of the end. glacial, and often the movements never catch up to all of the expertise, and commitment. For more than a decade, we have courageous organizations working in over 40 countries around The milestones that you will read about in this report individual lives they were meant to transform. For example, been working together to make justice a reality in society and the globe. We are proud to be part of a worldwide movement to happened because people worked in movements for decades many who heard Dr. King’s speech in 1963 never got to live in in nature, and we are committed to continue doing this critical create a just and humane world, from Cameroon to Turkey to the to achieve them. I am hopeful that the seeds we are planting the Promised Land of legal equality. Regardless of any future work for decades to come. We too share a dream––a dream of United States. We are excited to have supported the movements today will yield victories that we report in 10, 20, or 50 years, progress, we will forever regret the abuses and losses of so living in a world where all beings can live full, free, and fulfilled that won these leaps forward. achieved by people who have the vision and the courage to many LGBT people worldwide whose lives have been and lives. Famously Dr. King said, “The arc of the moral universe is But our work is far from finished. The exciting progress of believe in a world more just and humane, where all humans continue to be irrevocably damaged or destroyed just because long but it bends toward justice.” We at Arcus are determined to 2012 is equally matched by peril. There is still no country in the and other animals can live in safety and in freedom. of who they are. scale that arc. I hope you’ll stay with us throughout our journey. world where LGBT populations are truly safe. Neither is there You will read in this report how the LGBT and Great Ape With warmest regards, any terrain on the planet where great apes live free from threat. Conservation movements are progressing and becoming more While we see an encouraging increase in the number of global, collaborative, and effective. These are heroic stories mountain gorillas in Uganda in the most recent census, fewer about people, working on a multitude of diverse and often very than 900 of these magnificent creatures survive, many of them Kevin Jennings perilous frontlines, making real change in lives––one at a time. caught in the crossfire of war in the eastern Democratic Republic Executive Director We are encouraged but not at all complacent with the Jon Stryker growth of the world population of mountain gorillas. They now Founder and President

02ARU C S FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 03Conservation Arcus Great Apes Program

The long-term survival of both humans and the great apes* is dependent on how we respect and care for all species and our shared natural resources. The Arcus Foundation seeks to improve conservation of, respect for, and recognition of the great apes and strengthen protections from threats to their habitats. P hotos © I sla D avidson

04ARU C S FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 * The Great Apes strategy includes gibbons, because these smaller apes are often excluded from ape-focused conservation approaches despite significant threats to their survival. 05Conservation Conservation of Apes: Uganda, Rwanda, DRC

Catalyze Growth in Long -Term Partnerships Mountain Gorilla Population

T he world’s mountain gorilla population grew by more than 10 ranging from a handful of individuals to several dozen members, honey production to operating luxury tourist lodges. It has also MGVP vets fielded reports of 52 ill or injured animals located percent from 2006 to 2011, reflecting successful cross-border each led by a dominant male whose sexual maturity is displayed in helped ensure that revenue from gorilla tourism is shared with local by trackers working for the wildlife authorities of all three range partnerships and conservation efforts in Uganda, Rwanda, and the silver fur on his back. residents to fund conservation-oriented livelihood projects. states. They were able to administer life-saving care to 13 gorillas Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Conflict and a rapidly rising human population have put much Community cooperatives and associations bordering the within 24 hours of receiving these reports. An official census, conducted in 2011, showed that, unlike of the region’s gorilla habitat under threat, with the center of parks now earn more than US$500,000 per year from businesses Among the conditions treated by MGVP were diseases such anywhere else in the world, the number of mountain gorillas in instability located in Virunga National Park in eastern DRC, where that have benefited from IGCP training in governance, product as respiratory viruses, which can arise through human-gorilla trans- Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest rose from 302 in 2006 to 400 hostilities continued throughout 2012. development, and marketing. mission—one of the major threats identified by IUCN as endangering five years later, bringing the world population to 880. In April, rebels in DRC’s North Kivu province, on the border Moreover, the linkage of income-generating activities to con- the survival of the species. /arcusgreatapes /arcusgreatapes “It’s not that the threats and dangers have diminished, it’s with Rwanda, began a renewed insurgency against the govern- servation is changing attitudes toward mountain gorillas—a trend that conservation efforts are succeeding in abating those threats,” ment, causing a collapse in Virunga tourism and a revenue drop of evident in the engagement of former poachers to help with anti- says Anna Behm Masozera, interim director of the International $700,000 in the park’s annual budget. poaching patrols and practical conservation work. Gorilla Conservation Program (IGCP), which in 2012 comprised the An emergency grant to the Virunga Fund enabled vital park In Rwanda, for example, some 3,000 members of the ex- Grantees Total amounts to end 2012 African Wildlife Foundation, Fauna & Flora International, and the ranger activities to continue by funding supplies related to patrols, poacher group Amizero now repair the stone “buffalo walls” that n International Gorilla Conservation Program World Wildlife Fund. health care, and transport for rangers. keep animals off smallholder farms and help to keep the park free of ( See African Wildlife Foundation) “That’s the result of years of partnership and cooperation “We work closely with the regional park authorities, who’ve snares and rubbish that are a danger to gorillas. n African Wildlife Foundation $591,160 among the wildlife authorities of all three countries,” says Masozera. improved law enforcement and ways of securing mountain gorilla Another element of the multi-faceted conservation approach in (for International Gorilla Conservation Program) Mountain gorillas, whose thick fur allows them to survive at habitat,” says Masozera. “Communities neighboring the parks have the region’s highlands combines close monitoring, community involve- n International Union for the Conservation of Nature $1,153,810 high altitudes, are ranked “endangered” by the International Union become more direct beneficiaries of mountain gorilla conservation ment, and active intervention, when needed, to protect gorilla health. n Virunga Fund $200,000 for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). They and eastern lowland, in recent years…that’s encouraged greater participation.” In 2012, the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project (MGVP), n Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project $530,150 or Grauer’s, gorillas are subspecies of the eastern gorilla. For several decades, IGCP has collaborated with local com- which has worked in the region for more than 25 years, performed Both mountain and eastern lowland gorillas live in groups munities on enterprise development, ranging from beekeeping and 143 routine checks on mountain and eastern lowland gorillas. Organizations are listed in order of appearance above P hoto © Estimates of Mountain Gorilla Population Increases in Bwindi impenetrable National Park, Uganda IGCP

500 total number of mountain gorillas, indirect sweep method 400 400 total number of mountain gorillas, indirect sweep + 336 genetic verification 320 300 300 302 total number of mountain gorillas, two indirect sweeps + genetic verification (modified mark 200 recapture method)

NO TE: This population is estimated at 400 individuals as per the last 100 complete census in 2011.

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Source: Visualization revised from information graphic produced by International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP), based on 2011 census data collected by the Uganda Wildlife Authority with support from l’Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature, the Rwanda Development Board, and IGCP. O ne of the four hundred mountain gorillas in the Virunga National Park area. 06ARU C S FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 07Conservation P hoto © I sla D avidson Conservation of : Apes Cameroon A Western Lowland Gorilla, Central African Republic.

Ape Poaching and Groups Confront Raise Profile of Rare Gorilla

T en years ago, not a single poacher, dealer, or trafficker had been Nast Traveler Environmental Award. Some successes were seen in 2012, including the arrests in are home to about one-third of all Cross River gorillas. In 2012, Taka- prosecuted under Cameroon’s wildlife laws, even though Central and Working in close collaboration with Cameroon’s Ministry of Congo of a trafficker—found with a chimpanzee aboard a boat on manda patrols covered more than 925 miles over 118 days, resulting in Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees and western lowland and Cross Forestry and Wildlife, a LAGA network of undercover investigators the Congo River—and the boat’s captain, who had allowed the use 12 arrests and the removal of 205 hunting camps and 1,028 wire snares. River gorillas were being traded or killed in numbers that threatened and informants gathers evidence to support law-enforcement agencies, of his vessel. In Gabon a forestry official who was found with his The number of gorilla and chimp nest sites recorded by patrols their survival. while its operations team helps coordinate arrests and monitors cases car full of bushmeat has been imprisoned and is awaiting trial for his in Okwangwo increased from 32 in 2011 to 50 during the year, and, But in 2012 and every year since 2006, closely to minimize corruption risks. role in poaching and corruption. for the first time in many years there were direct sightings of both an average of one major wildlife dealer has LAGA’s legal-assistance team sup- The growing movement around stronger law enforcement Cross River gorillas and Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees. been arrested and convicted every week in “The Condé Nast Traveler ports the prosecution of wildlife cases, includes the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) efforts to In January WCS captured its first camera-trap footage of a Cameroon, with 94 percent imprisoned for Environmental Award shines and a sustained media campaign resulted conserve the Cross River gorilla, Africa’s most endangered ape, group of elusive and rarely observed Cross River gorillas strolling their offenses for periods ranging from 2 to a valuable spotlight on heroes in 367 radio, television, and press stories whose habitat straddles the Nigeria-Cameroon border. through the forest, including a chest-beating display and a charge 30 months, according to data from the Last like Ofir Drori in 2012, showing the enforcement of wildlife The main threats to the 250-300 remaining gorillas are illegal from a silverback. Great Ape Organization (LAGA). who dedicate laws and the consequences of law-breaking. hunting for body parts and meat, and habitat loss due to logging The footage spread widely online, attracting more than “We take a direct approach,” says LAGA their lives to In line with the Convention on Inter- and agricultural expansion. 400,000 viewers on YouTube, and was posted on several high- director Ofir Drori. “Long-term solutions can protecting national Trade in Endangered Species of A WCS partnership with national governments, communities profile news sites. take decades to be implemented, and there’s species en- Wild Fauna and Flora, to which Camer- living close to the endangered populations, and nongovernmental “This type of exposure is hugely important in terms of raising a serious risk there will be no apes left to save dangered by poaching and oon is a signatory, the country’s national organizations has helped to increase surveillance around a main awareness and creating a movement to save these extraordinary and by then.” habitat loss…Thanks to his wildlife-protection law prohibits the sale habitat site. critically endangered animals,” says Graeme Patterson, deputy direc- “Our fight is against the corruption and tireless efforts, we can help and trafficking of endangered species, Foot patrols in the Okwangwo Division of Nigeria’s Cross tor of WCS’s Africa Program. /arcusgreatapes /arcusgreatapes complicity that facilitates this trafficking, secure a thriving future for with penalties ranging from fines of about River National Park rose from 87 days covering 327 miles in 2011 and our sole aim is getting wildlife traf- great apes and the other US$1 million to life imprisonment. to 235 days covering 996 miles in 2012, according to WCS reports. magnificent creatures that fickers arrested, prosecuted, and imprisoned The LAGA model of support for law- These patrols discovered and destroyed 130 hunting camps, Grantees Total amounts to end 2012 walk this earth.”—C arter Roberts, to deter future crimes,” says Drori, whose enforcement authorities is now being used in more than double the number in 2011. The average number of wire n President and CEO of the World L ast Great Ape Organization $397,424 organization was recognized in 2012 by the Togo, Benin, Republic of Congo, Gabon, and snares found per mile dropped from more than three in 2011 to Wildlife Fund, U.S. and Condé Nast n Wildlife Conservation Society $1,286,881 Marsh Christian Trust Award, the Duke of Traveler Environmental Award judge. Central African Republic. Similar plans are around two in 2012. Edinburgh Conservation Medal, and the Condé also advancing in Chad and Nigeria. Okwangwo and Cameroon’s adjacent Takamanda National Park Organizations are listed in order of appearance above P hotos © Documented number of great apes trafficked from the wild, 2005-2011* L A G A Chmpani zee Bonobo Gorilla Orangutan Total

Live 614 >48 78 1,016 >1,755

Ded a † >29 Many 15-20 3 >50

Toa t l >643 >48 93-98 1,019 >1,808

* Reports of ape trafficking do not always provide precise numbers but refer to “a few,” “many,” or a numerical range. These inexact numbers are reflected in the table as the ‘more than’ (>) symbol or a qualitative term. † Great ape skulls, hands, meat, and other body parts are often confiscated as part of the illegal trade, and can be counted as an ape lost to the illicit trade. Source: Stolen Apes: The Illicit Trade in Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Bonobos and Orangutans: A Rapid Response Assessment, 2013. United Nations Environment Programme, A chimpanzee rescued from a trafficking operation in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde. through the Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP). 08ARU C S FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 09Conservation P hoto © Ami Vitale

Conservation of : Apes Congo Basin Chimpanzee at Mahale National Park, Tanzania.

Sustainable Forest U se Is Key to African Ape Survival

Around one-tenth of Africa’s Congo Basin forest, home to the center on reducing human-ape disease transmission, strengthening for example, rethinking the size and shape of logging zones and by 2012 and included the Congo Basin’s largest FSC-certified forestry majority of the world’s approximately half-million great apes, is law enforcement within concessions, and establishing long-term addressing the timing of logging to minimize stress. manager, a logging concession run by the Singaporean company covered by certification programs that give some level of protection monitoring of apes in logging zones. An estimated 1,050 gorillas and 614 Olam International. to the region’s many endangered plants and animals, including goril- “Consumption of resources is necessary for human survival,” chimpanzees remained stable over eight RIL practices include advanced map- las, chimpanzees, and bonobos. says the report’s author David Morgan, a Lincoln Park Zoological years in FSC-certified zones of the Kabo ping to avoid construction of unnecessarily Logging companies that adhere to certification by the inde- Society (LPZ) research fellow. “At the heart of committed con- timber concession that borders the protected damaging roads and other infrastructure, pendent nongovernmental Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) can servation work is a respect for the needs of both humans and Goualougo Triangle in northern Republic of harvesting of only the most commercially be catalysts for long-term survival of the continent’s ape popula- other animals, and a need to find sustainable ways to manage our Congo, according to a separate 2012 study , valuable trees, avoidance of fells that hit or tion, according to a 2012 report by the International Union for the resources in ways that avoid endangering the lives and homes of that LPZ co-authored with the Wildlife 1050 pull down other trees, and reduction of wood Conservation of Nature. great apes or other species.” Conservation Society. E stimated number of gorillas that waste and soil disturbance. remained stable over eight years Great Apes and FSC: Implementing ‘Ape Friendly’ Practices in With more research, says Morgan, logging operations might The study of reduced-impact logging in one FSC-certified area Central Africa’s Logging Concessions makes recommendations that be designed to avoid heavier impacts on apes and other species, by, (RIL) covered a period between 2004 and P hoto © Bruce CHANGES IN AFRICAN RANGE GREAT APE POPULATIONS

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avidson indicate a span of estimated numbers. Vulnerable Endangered Critically Endangered

Cross River Gorilla 300

Mountain Gorilla 880

2,000 10,000 Eastern Lowland Gorilla

Bonobo 15,000 20,000

Western Lowland Gorilla 150,000

431,000 Chimpanzee

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L arge-scale hardwood timber extraction in Gabon. S ource: Graphic revised and reproduced from Stolen Apes The Illicit Trade in Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Bonobos and Orangutans: A Rapid Response Assessment, 2013. United Nations Environment Programme through the Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP). Based on data sourced from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List 10ARU C S FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 of Threatened Species website, accessed February 2013. 11Conservation Actions Against Corruption in the Timber Sector

E ven where certification programs are in place, corruption and poor Most loggers abusing artisanal permits target wenge, an Africa’s Ape range states practice in the timber sector continue to be major threats to the endangered hardwood in high demand in China for flooring and well-being of apes in their Congo Basin range states (see page 13). furniture, often for export to Europe and North America. The Congo Basin spans six countries—Cameroon, Central African In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), for example, While there are no complete data on bonobo populations, Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Republic of abuse of logging licenses meant for small-scale loggers who rely on some estimates suggest a population of between 29,500 (Myers Congo (ROC), Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon—and touches three forests for their livelihoods was found in western Bandundu Prov- Thompson, 1997) and 50,000 (Dupain and Van Elsacker, 2001), more: Angola, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its forests cover nearly one ince, home to small and scattered populations of bonobos. with more recent estimates suggesting a minimum population million square miles, of which nearly one-quarter are designated for Some 146 artisanal licenses had been issued by authorities of between 15,000 and 20,000 (IUCN/Institut Congolais pour la timber production (State of the World’s Forests, U.N. Food and Agri- since 2010 in the province, in violation of as many as 10 different Conservation de la Nature, 2012). culture Organization, 2011). provisions of DRC’s laws, according to a June 2012 report, The Art /arcusgreatapes /arcusgreatapes The Congo Basin provides ecosystem resources in the form of food, The Congo Basin of Logging Industrially in Congo, by Global Witness and a local non- water, and shelter to more than 75 million people. The carbon cap- governmental partner. tured by its forest cover earns it the title “the lungs of the world.” DRC’s forest law states that a maximum of two artisanal per- mits can be issued annually to Congolese individuals equipped only The area also contains extraordinary biodiversity that includes all of with a long-saw or chainsaw. But up to 12 of these licenses were Africa’s great ape species—gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos—as being given per year to overseas companies who enter the forests well as many other threatened plants and animals. for industrial-scale logging. Grantees Total amounts to end 2012 Africa’s apes are found in the following countries: n Bonobo – DRC “The right laws are vital to ensuring the survival of the n L incoln Park Zoological Society $1,030,861 n eastern lowland gorilla – eastern Democratic Republic of the n Western chimpanzee – Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, forests and the apes who live within them, but vigilant follow-up n Wildlife Conservation Society $1,286,881 Congo (DRC) Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone is essential to ensure that laws are properly implemented,” says n Global Witness $600,000 n mountain gorilla – DRC, Rwanda, Uganda n central chimpanzee – Angola, Cameroon, CAR, DRC, Equatorial Andrew Simms, head of Global Witness’s forest campaigns. “Illegal n cross River gorilla – Cameroon, Nigeria Guinea, Gabon, ROC deforestation on this scale is a massive threat to the habitat of Organizations are listed in order of appearance above n Western lowland gorilla – Angola, Central African Republic (CAR), n eastern chimpanzee – CAR, DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, western bonobos and other endangered species.” DRC, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, ROC Tanzania P hotos © Ami Vitale (left) Major importers of DRC Timber (logs) – growth of the chinese market

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Change in logging to year end

Between January and May 2012, for the first time, more of the DRC’s timber was exported to China than to the whole of the European Union. The table below demonstrates the growth of exports to the Chinese market since 2005. Given that not a single Chinese company has an industrial logging concession in the DRC, and that European and Lebanese logging companies are still mainly exporting to European markets, it is likely that a significant portion of the exports to China are linked to the increase in companies using artisanal logging permits meant for individuals.

* Round Wood Equivalent – a measure of the volume of logs Chimpanzees in the Congo Basin forest area (left). Western Lowland Gorillas in Republic of Congo (right). Source: Graph based on data from The Art of Logging Industrially in Congo, October 2012. Reproduced by kind permission of Global Witness; data sourced from duediligencetimber.eu 12ARU C S FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 13Conservation P hoto © H utan/K OCP - D Conservation of aisah Kapar : , Jenny, an orangutan in Borneo, has been monitored by the HUTAN- Apes Indonesia Malaysia Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Programme research team since 1998.

Deforestation Pledge Gives Hope for Orangutans

O ne of the world’s largest paper and packaging producers has supply chains of global companies and to monitor the activities of known species of flora and fauna, including elephants, tigers, and Thailand Vmietna Philippines committed to ending operations that over decades have wiped APP and others, which have been devastating for orangutans and more than 1,500 species of birds. Cambodia out the forest homes of many thousands of critically endangered other endangered wildlife.” While figures were unavailable as to the scale of high con- orangutans in Sumatra, Indonesia. Since 1996, the rate of forest loss in Indonesia has doubled servation value (HCV) and high carbon stock (HCS) forestland to Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP), a subsidiary of the to an average of nearly 5 million acres per year from about 2.5 be protected, APP committed itself to undergoing independent Sabah Sinar Mas agribusiness conglomerate, announced a new million acres annually during the 1980s, mostly due to production assessments of any prospective concessions to identify and exclude Miaalays forest conservation policy early in 2013 following a decade of public of paper and palm oil—the latter used in many processed foods, such protected areas. Borneo pressure and the loss of some of the world’s larg- soaps, and cosmetics. KFC, National Geographic, Xerox, and Mondi suspended est brands as clients. Populations of wild orangutan on the island contracts with APP in 2012 and introduced policies requiring that “Momentum is starting to build in favor of Sumatra have declined by more than 80 percent suppliers source their raw material exclusively from “sustainably Indonesia of the forests and the people and animals who in the last 75 years, according to the International managed forests.” live in them,” says Dr. Amy Moas, senior forest Union for the Conservation of Nature, and the More than 100 companies took action related to sourcing campaigner at Greenpeace, one of the world’s % number of Borneo orangutans has fallen by more timber products from APP, including Adidas, Kraft, Mattel, Hasbro, leading advocates against destruction of Indone- 80 than 50 percent, leaving an estimated 45,000 to Nestlé, Carrefour, Staples, and Unilever, after the long-term Green- sia’s rainforests. Decline of Sumatra’s 69,000 in the wild. peace campaign. community, respect for human rights, and to ensure that wild orangutan population “But vast deforestation continues, and over 75 years In addition to orangutans, Indonesia’s rain- APP’s policy commits it to support for Indonesia’s green- all fiber products are derived through well-managed forestry. there’s still a lot of work to do to truly clean the forests support as much as 15 percent of all house gas emission cuts, consultation and cooperation with the (continued on lower p. 14 )

Hopes Fade after Logging Freeze K

A two-year logging freeze, introduced by the government of of fragile orangutan populations destroyed and individuals and U Indonesia in 2011, was intended to open the way for a broad families displaced, leaving them stranded,” says Moas. assessment of the country’s forestland, strengthen forest gov- In 2012, a Global Witness report into logging and plantation

operations in Malaysian Borneo by com- Appeal rangutan

ernance, and enable solutions to be O found for the use of forest resources panies financed by HSBC led the British roject, roject, by local communities. We continue to see the bank to make a commitment that failed to P However, according to environ- meet its forest-related policies. rangutan rangutan mentalists, in spite of the moratorium’s homes and food sources HSBC now requires that its forestry O abin extension in 2013, illegal logging, corrup- ‘‘of fragile orangutan clients be at least 70 percent compliant T hoto © tion, and land grabs have led to ongoing populations destroyed with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), P forest destruction and continue to take which sets standards for responsible forest a heavy toll on orangutan populations in and individuals and management around the world. Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo. families displaced, Global Witness’ investigations “We had great hopes when the 2011 leaving them stranded. showed that none of the four companies moratorium was put in place, but we con- —D r. Amy Moas, Senior forest CAMPAIGNER in its report held a single FSC or equivalent tinue to see the homes and food sources at Greenpeace ’’ certificate. (continued on p. 16)

Anekara, a nine-year-old female released from captivity, December 2012, in Tabin, Sabah, Malaysia. 14ARU C S FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 15Conservation Also in Malaysian Borneo, in the northeast province of Sabah, “We’ve found evidence that orangutan survival in these akasi T roughly 452,000 acres of forest were given protected status in man-made landscapes depends on the availability of mixed-use

zulirwan zulirwan 2012. This land includes orangutan habitat that was previously forests as vital corridors between protected areas that support

D Also part of the Sinar Mas group, palm oil producer - heavily exploited for timber. larger populations,” says HUTAN co-founder and wildlife veteri- Golden Agri-Resources published a 2012 report on OCP Over the past decade, Malaysia’s government has extended narian Dr. Marc Ancrenaz. carbon retention in forests in five of the company’s utan/K H protection to several key areas, increasing pro-tected forest from “Our results and recommendations will be able to guide concessions in West and Central Kalimantan in smallholders and bigger producers in practices that will help the

hoto © 15 to 20 percent of Sabah’s territory in 2012.

P Indonesian Borneo. The government’s action followed a pivotal advocacy effort orangutan to survive in a changing environment.” by the HUTAN-Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Programme /arcusgreatapes /arcusgreatapes The HCS Forest Report, produced in collaboration and Land Empowerment Animals People that has engaged Sabah’s with partners including Greenpeace, made wildlife and forestry departments, local communities, research recommendations for maximizing the size of Grantees Total amounts to end 2012 institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and others in partner- protected high carbon stock forest patches and ships over the last 15 years. n Greenpeace $1,200,000 maintaining connectivity between patches to While more than 60 percent of the province’s estimated n International Union for Conservation of Nature $1,153,810 enable wildlife migration. 11,000 orangutans lived in unprotected forests early in the last n Global Witness $600,000 decade, HUTAN’s work in 2012 showed that, due to the increase in n H UTAN-Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Programme protected areas, more than 65 percent of Sabah’s orangutans now $600,000 live in protected forests. n L and Empowerment Animals People $1,738,490 But with up to 3,800 individuals still living outside these areas, HUTAN is looking at how orangutans cope with timber Organizations are listed in order of appearance above exploitation and with agro-industrial landscapes such as palm oil and pulp-and-paper plantations. Juliana is a wild habituated orangutan who lives in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife sanctuary and is regularly followed by KOCP teams. P hoto © Global FSC-certified forest area by region G lobal Witness

Euo r pe 43.04% of global FSC-certified areas 71,064,722 hectares 474 certificates

Nor th America 40.74% of global FSC-certified areas 70,510,595 hectares 226 certificates

Asia Sot u h America & Caribbean 3.29% of global FSC-certified areas 7.23% of global FSC-certified areas 6,855,318 hectares 12,424,237 hectares 154 certificates 247 certificates

Hectares of Forest Land* Africa 4.26% of global FSC-certified areas 10,000,000 and above 7,174,485 hectares 7,500,000-9,999,999 45 certificates Oc eaNIA 1.44% of global FSC-certified areas 5,000,000-7,499,999 2,441,961 hectares 35 certificates 2,500,000-4,999,999 1,000,000-2,499,999 750,000-999,999 500,000-749,999 250,000-499,999 hectares 100,000-249,999 170 ,471,317 80 1181, Toar t l ce tified area Cont u ries To r tal ce tificates 100-99,999 No FSC-certified forest * Hectares are standard measures of forestland. 10,000 hectares is equivalent to 38.6 square miles.

Pristine forest in Malaysian Borneo has been cleared at a rapid pace. Source: Global FSC Certificates: Type and Distribution, based on data from FSC International and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Forestry Paper December 2011 16ARU C S FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 17Conservation Well-Being of Captive Apes P R ecommendation Brings Hope for hoto © Jurek Wajdowicz Research Agency U.S. Captive Chimpanzees

H undreds of chimpanzees now living in medical research facilities “This is the history-changing moment we’ve all worked so T he NIH report also describes acceptable conditions for in the United States may look forward to leaving their concrete and hard for: a final decision to move away from invasive experimenta- housing captive chimps, many of whom will step on grass for the steel cages and retiring to verdant sanctuaries if recommendations tion on chimpanzees and provide these amazing individuals with first time in their lives after decades living in small, barred cages from a U.S. government study completed in 2012 are implemented. the peace they so deserve,” says Kathleen Conlee, vice president and being exposed to invasive medical testing. More than 400 chimpanzees used for research at facilities in of Animal Research Issues at The Humane Society of the United Those conditions include allowing for social groups of at least Save the Chimps, a chimpanzee sanctuary in Florida, U.S. Texas and Louisiana could be retired to sanctuaries as a result of States (HSUS). seven, access to the outdoors, and space to forage and build nests. the National Institutes of Health (NIH) study, which recommends “We must now roll up our sleeves and make sure that even Many groups working on issues addressed by the NIH report Society, New England Anti-Vivisection Society, North American Primate an end to their use in trials of new drugs and vaccines, zero-gravity the eldest chimpanzees are afforded a better life in high-quality supported its research process and recommendations. These include Sanctuary Alliance (NAPSA), Physicians Committee for Responsible space, and other experiments. sanctuaries as soon as possible.” HSUS, Animal Protection of New Mexico, Lincoln Park Zoological Medicine, and Save the Chimps. (continued to lower p. 18 )

Sanctuaries R aise the Bar

With the 2012 accreditation of Save the Chimps, the number of among the key attributes that the GFAS accreditation process really mean anything if we don’t have a sustainable organizational the future. chimpanzees in NAPSA member sanctuaries accredited by the seeks to ascertain. infrastructure to carry us into the future.” During the year, NAPSA and other animal protection groups Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS) rose to more than As part of its process, which must be revisited every three Jackie Bennett, deputy director of Great Apes and Regional successfully urged the NIH to move 100 chimpanzees to a legiti- 465. Save the Chimps is a 150-acre Florida sanctuary where more years, “GFAS looks at every single facet of care that we provide for Accreditation for GFAS, says “The greatest challenge for any mate sanctuary instead of transferring them from a research facility than 259 chimpanzees, most rescued from lives of pain and isola- the chimpanzees,” says Jennifer Feuerstein, sanctuary director of sanctuary is fundraising and diversifying funding streams” for in Louisiana to another one in Texas. tion in biomedical laboratories, live on 12 spacious islands. Save the Chimps, which in 2012 became the 100th GFAS-accred- long-term sustainability. GFAS and NAPSA actively share information through work- Providing a high standard of care throughout the lives of apes, ited sanctuary. The Arcus Foundation published a report in 2012, Building shops, webinars, and other outreach, and encourage sanctuaries who can reach 55 years of age in captivity, requires an organization “They take a look at our organizational sustainability, because Sustainable Sanctuaries, in an effort to support such initiatives to to participate as a community to strengthen the animal-welfare with a commitment to both quality care and financial strength— we can provide wonderful care to the chimpanzees, but it doesn’t create healthy sanctuary organizations that can remain strong into movement and plan for future needs. P hotos © S ave the C himps

April (left) and Arthur (right) at Save the Chimps. Elway (left) and Janice (right) at Save the Chimps. 18ARU C S FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 19Conservation Another Step Toward Full Protection

P etitioning by HSUS and its partners in animal protection during protection and allowed chimpanzees to be kept as pets, experi- Chimp “Bill of Rights” 2012 influenced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which had mented on, transported without permits, and exploited for been reviewing the status of chimpanzees and put forward the 2013 commercial purposes. I n a high-standard sanctuary, chimpanzees should be able to: n live free from exploitation, including captive breeding, recommendation that all chimpanzees be listed as “endangered.” As this publication went to press, the FWS announced that it n form social groups of about seven individuals commercial trade, or use in entertainment Previously, the FWS had split the listing of chimpanzees into had “determined that the [Endangered Species] Act does not allow n eat fresh fruit and other healthy food n climb and play on outdoor structures or trees two groups. Those considered wild and living in their range states for captive-held animals to be assigned separate legal status from n receive preventative and routine veterinary care and n gain privacy from humans, having limited contact with were “endangered,” but captive ones, including all those living in their wild counterparts on the basis of their captive status.” live in a clean environment caretakers and visitors the United States, were considered “threatened.” The recommendation is followed by a public comment period n roam freely and forage in natural settings n count on a stable environment of long-term and The lesser “threatened” status afforded a lower level of before a final rule is issued. /arcusgreatapes /arcusgreatapes n enjoy enrichment activities to increase mental stimulation high-quality care

African Chimp Finds New Home in Florida P At the Center for Great Apes in Wauchula, Florida, a chimpanzee in clothes, took him for motor- hoto © wouldn’t leave his enclosure and eat Apes C Total amounts to end 2012 named Clyde enjoys a game of chase with his caregivers, meets cycle rides, and fished with him r screeched with fear when we Grantees e G nter for for nter some other chimps, and ventures onto climbing frames and through in a boat. opened the door.” n The Humane Society of the United States $765,068 G e

aerial chutes. But as Clyde grew into a r But before long, Clyde C eat Apes eat n Animal Protection of New Mexico $230,000 He’s in much better health than he was when Patti Ragan, strong adolescent, he responded began to gain weight and respond

hoto © n L incoln Park Zoological Society $1,030,861 founding director of the center, discovered him behind bars in a to his unnatural living conditions P nter for to the care and patience of garage in Ohio, where he had been kept for 40 years. with frustration, aggression, and the center’s staff. His health n New England Anti-Vivisection Society $169,750 “He was emaciated, his muscles had atrophied so he could unpredictable behavior. improved, his skin darkened, his n North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance $65,000 hardly walk or climb, his skin was almost white from lack of Realizing he could no longer hair regrew. n Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine $190,289 sunlight, and a lot of his hair had fallen out,” she says. safely share their home, Clyde’s Clyde still lives alone rather n Save the Chimps $38,806,903 Clyde’s owners had bought him from a pet dealer in New owners moved him to a cage. Clyde’s health suffered from his being Clyde has gained weight, his skin has than in a social group, but he is kept in a cage as a household pet. darkened, and his hair has regrown. n Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries $127,500 York after he’d been shipped from his birthplace at an unknown After his relocation to the increasingly happy and confident. location in Africa. Center for Great Apes in November 2011, Clyde’s progress was slow. His lifestyle in Florida has brought him closer to home. / n Center for Great Apes – Orangutan and Chimpanzee They named him, taught him table manners, dressed him “When he first arrived, everything frightened him,” says Ragan. “He arcusgreatapes /arcusgreatapes Conservation $7,395,505

Organizations are listed in order of appearance above P hotos © Jurek Wajdowicz (p.20, 21 bottom)

Center for Great Apes, Wauchula, Florida U.S. 20ARU C S FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 21Conservation P hoto © I sla D avidson

Grants awarded in 2012 Great Apes Program

Fauna & Flora International In Defense of Animals Max Planck Society O rangutan Foundation Virunga Fund Pan African Sanctuaries a pes in the wild c aptive apes fauna-flora.org idausa.org mpg.de orangutan.org.uk gorilla.cd Alliance Cambridge, UK Portland, OR Leipzig, DE Germany London, UK Brooklyn, NY pasaprimates.org African Wildlife Foundation $19,999 $80,000 $156,356 $49,997 $200,000 A. H. Schultz Foundation Portland, OR awf.org One year of support for the pilot For 2 years of support for capacity- For 2 years of support for a viability One year of project support for the One year of emergency support to (Stiftung) $140,000 Washington, DC program Integrating Local Values, building efforts for Sanaga-Yong assessment for bonobo ecotourism Indonesian NGO Yayorin to secure the enable Virunga National Park rangers Zurich, Switzerland For 3 years of support of a financial- $216,160 which promotes a cultural-values Chimpanzee Rescue Center in in the Salonga National Park region, conditions for the long-term conserva- to continue to monitor critical ape $60,000 development project One year of support for the Interna- approach to protected-area planning Cameroon, a project of IDA-Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo tion of the Belantikan Hulu forest habitat during the recent outbreak of For 3 years of support for Orangutan tional Gorilla Conservation Program to for Lake Piso Multiple Use Protected ecosystem as a priority habitat for civil war Reintroduction: Measuring and Primate Rescue Center build a foundation for collaboration in Area in Liberia International Union for Mountain Gorilla Veterinary endangered Great Ape populations in Predicting Success primaterescue.org mountain gorilla conservation Conservation of Nature Project Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia Wildlife Conservation Society Nicholasville, KY Fauna & Flora International iucn.org gorilladoctors.org wcs.org Center for Great Apes- $50,000 African Wildlife Foundation fauna-flora.org Gland, Switzerland Davis, CA Pan Eco Foundation Bronx, NY Orangutan and Chimpanzee For 2 years of general operating awf.org Washington, DC $150,185 $7,500 paneco.ch $150,000 Conservation support to provide high-quality care Washington, DC $378,580 One year of core support for the Short-term support to engage and Berg am Irchel, Switzerland For ground enforcement and patrols centerforgreatapes.org for primates formerly used as pets and $224,955 For 3 years of support to mountain Great Ape Section of the IUCN’s grow a community-level donor base $75,000 over three years in three provinces of Wauchula, FL laboratory experiment subjects For 2 years of support for bonobo gorilla conservation through increased Species Survival Commission through Giving Tuesday email and Six months of support for the the Lao People’s Democratic Republic $7,500 conservation and management of the capacity, strategic design, and Primate Specialist Group Facebook blast appeals to support Tripa Campaign of Hutan Alam dan in support of the National Gibbon Short-term support for a social-media Quebec Fauna Foundation Lomako Reserve functioning of the Greater Virunga Gorilla Doctors Lingkungan (Natural Forest and Action Plan campaign through the Giving Tuesday faunafoundation.org International Union for initiative, which will work to match Chambly, Quebec Canada Center for Great Apes- Transboundary Core Secretariat Environment), Aceh, to help save Conservation of Nature Mountain Gorilla Veterinary World Wildlife Fund grant funds and provide permanent $60,000 Orangutan and Chimpanzee the remaining Sumatran orangutan Greenpeace Fund iucn.org Project worldwildlife.org ape habitat enrichment For one year of support of Conservation population from extinction by working greenpeaceusa.org Gland, Switzerland gorilladoctors.org to stop oil plantation permitting in the Washington, DC caregiver salaries centerforgreatapes.org Global Federation of Animal Washington, DC $323,473 Davis, CA Tripa peat swamp area of the Leuser $100,000 Wauchula, FL Sanctuaries Save the Chimps $300,000 Three years of start-up and core $250,000 Ecosystem in the province of Aceh, One year of support to strengthen $400,000 sanctuaryfederation.org savethechimps.org Two years of funding for a campaign support of IUCN’s Species Survival For 2 years of support of health care Sumatra, Indonesia gorilla tourism and health monitoring For one year of consultant services to achieve “zero deforestation” in Commission/Primate Specialist Group for mountain gorillas to build capacity in Dzanga-Sangha, Central African Washington, DC Fort Pierce, FL and staff expansion to advance Indo­nesia by 2015, which will result in Section on Small Apes for the development of their long-term People Resources and Republic $60,000 $2,700,000 succession planning, strengthen fund habitat protection for the orangutan sustainable health care Conservation Foundation One year of project support of For one year of support for the delivery development, and prepare for the Jane Goodall Institute prcfoundation.org Y ayasan IAR Indonesia Great Apes Sanctuaries: Accredita- of high-quality care to the chimpanzees 20th Anniversary Capital Campaign Hutan - Kinabatangan janegoodall.org N EW Course Los Angeles, CA internationalanimalrescue.org tion and Addressing Challenges to residing at the organization’s Florida Orang-Utan Conservation Arlington, VA anewcourse.org Tamansari Ciapus, Bogor Indonesia Sustainability sanctuary and for organizational man- Conservation International $224,573 Programme $1,000,000 Bainbridge Island, WA One year of support for restoration $250,000 agement and development planning Foundation Global Federation of Animal hutan.org.my Three years of support of a collabora- $59,893 and expansion of critical habitat for Support over 2 years to support and implementation activities conservation.org Sanctuaries Sandakan, Sabah Malaysia tive program to strengthen great ape One year of support to reduce hunting the cao vit gibbon in the transboundary capacity building for an orangutan Arlington, VA sanctuaryfederation.org The Humane Society $600,000 conservation through the implementa- of bonobos and habitat loss in the region between Cao Bang Province, rehabilitation and release program in $300,000 Washington, DC of the United States For 3 years of support to this project tion of priority actions identified in the Maringa Lopori-Wamba Landscape Vietnam, and Guangxi Province, West Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia Support for 3 years to the conservation $7,500 humanesociety.org to implement holistic solutions for the eastern Democratic Republic of the of the Democratic Republic of the China - Phase II of habitat for northern yellow-cheeked conservation of orangutans compatible Congo Conservation Action Plan Congo by mainstreaming systems Z oological Society of London One year of support, through the Washington, DC zsl.org gibbons and other high-biodiversity- with socioeconomic development in analysis and gender in the planning The New Nature Foundation Giving Tuesday initiative, to award $300,000 London, UK value areas in the Veun Sai-Siem Sabah, Borneo L ukuru Wildlife Research and implementation of conservation newnaturefoundation.org small “compliance” grants to ape orga- Two years of support for the “Chimps Pang Conservation Area in northeast Foundation and development investment Denver, CO $300,775 nizations in Asia to help bring them Deserve Better” campaign to end Cambodia In Defense of Animals lukuru.org $7,500 Three years of support to ensure into compliance with GFAS standards invasive research on chimpanzees in idausa.org Marion, OH Short-term support of a fundraiser, responsible wildlife management the United States International Primate Portland, OR $400,000 through the Giving Tuesday initiative, in areas identified as priority for Protection League $7,500 For 2 years of support for community that will broaden the base of donors great ape conservation in Cameroon ippl.org Short-term support of fundraising integration into the protection of in the Denver area for the Kibale through improved logging practices Summerville, SC efforts to increase awareness and the Tshuapa-Lomami-Lualaba (TL2) Eco-Char Initiative and strengthening sustainable natural support of conservation work in Cam- Landscape, a bonobo habitat in the resource management $170,000 eroon by combining Giving Tuesday, an Democratic Republic of the Congo, to For general operating support to annual appeal letter, and collaboration involve villages in pilot areas in the regu- promote well-being and provide care with a local chain restaurant lation and zoning of their own forests for orphaned and captive apes in their home countries

22ARU C S FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 Country names are given for grantees outside of the United States. 23Conservation Great Apes Strategyy The Foundation’s strategy focuses on 35 priority landscapes within ape range states. It also centers on countries where apes are held in captivity, whether or not the country includes ape range areas. Priorities are adopted through a planning process that involves input from multiple partners and is based on data collected in reports and through information-sharing platforms*. The strategy aims to: reconcile socioeconomic development and conservation activities in priority great ape landscapes, build an integrated and coordinated conservation movement, and improve respect and recognition for the intrinsic value of apes.

*Such platforms include A.P.E.S. portal (mapper.eva.mpg.de). Consolidated Statement of Financial Position As of December 31, 2012. Audited by PKF O’Connor Davies, LLP

Gantsr and Operating Expenses 2012 Grants Awarded 2012* $28,655,380 Total $18,091,450 Total

$18,091,450 $10,563,930 $75,548 $2,528,175 Grants Awarded Operating Expenses Employee Match and Misc. Social Justice Program - Global

$35,370 $585,000 Special Opportunities Social Justice Program - International

$3,555,000 $5,079,911 Great Apes Program - Social Justice Program - U.S. Captive Apes

$6,232,446 Great Apes Program - Apes in the Wild

*Reflects decreases of grants awarded in prior years

Combined* Board & Staff Assets Cash and cash equivalents $ 2,609,741 As of September, 2013 Accrued interest and dividends 367,957 Board Members Staff Members Investments 169,102,464 Jon Stryker, Founder and Board President United States Prepaid federal excise tax 358,269 Stephen Bennett, Board Member Kerry Ashforth, Grants and Knowledge Manager Linh M. Nguyen, Accountant Evelynn M. Hammonds, Board Member Property, equipment, and leasehold improvements (net) 3,873,027 Monica Charles, Grants Management Associate Ericka Novotny, Grants Management Director Janet Mock, Board Member Other assets 831,910 Adrian R. Coman, International Human Rights Adriana Odice, Financial Reporting and Catherine Pino, Board Member Program Director Analysis Director Total Assets $ 177,143,368 Jeff Trandahl, Board Member Cheryl Dudley, Global Religions Program Director Jennene Tierney, Human Resources Director Darren Walker, Board Member Desiree Flores, U.S. Social Justice Rafael Torres, Administrative Assistant, LIABILITIES Grants payable (net) 22,300,543 Executive Members Program Director Social Justice Programs Accounts payable and accrued expenses 1,139,382 Kevin Jennings, Executive Director Elisa Gerontianos, Policy Director Daniel Werner, Grants Management and Deferred federal excise tax 625,000 Annette Lanjouw, Vice President, Linda Ho, Controller Evaluation Assistant Strategic Initiatives and Great Apes Program Sandor Johnson, Executive Assistant Deferred rent 605,376 United Kingdom Jay Michaelson, Vice President, Melvin Jung, Accountant Total Liabilities $ 24,670,301 Adam Phillipson, Great Apes Program Officer Social Justice Programs Roz Lee, Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Justice Net Assets 152,473,067 Helga Rainer, Conservation Program Director Cindy Rizzo, Vice President, Organizational Senior Program Officer Marie Stevenson, Program Assistant / Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 177,143,368 Learning and Grants Management Erica Lim, Program Associate / Coordinator UK Office Manager Bryan Simmons, Vice President, Communications Linda May, Captive Apes Program Director *This Consolidated Statement of Financial Position is a combined statement for the Arcus Foundation and the Arcus Operating Foundation. Arie Weissman, Vice President, Sebastian Naidoo, Global Media Director The Arcus Operating Foundation supports the mission of the Arcus Foundation through convenings, research, and special projects that increase philanthropic engagement. Finance and Operations

25ARCUS FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 26Conservation SocialJusticeConservation Arcus Foundation 2012 Annual Report The Arcus Foundation is a leading global foundation advancing pressing social justice and conservation issues. The creation of a more just and , , Arcus works to advance LGBT equality, humane world based on diversity as well as to conserve and protect the great apes. equality, and fundamental respect. Front cover and Inside front cover photos © Jurek Wajdowicz Wajdowicz photos © Jurek cover and Inside front cover Front

Letter from Jon Stryker 02

Letter from Kevin Jennings 03

New York, U.S. Cambridge, U.K. Social Justice 04 44 West 28th Street, 17th Floor Wellington House, East Road New York, NY 10001 U.S. Cambridge CB1 1BH, U.K. Social Justice–Grantees 20 Phone +1.212.488.3000 Phone +44.1223.451050 Fax + 1. 212.488.3010 Fax +44.1223.451100 Strategy 24 [email protected] [email protected] Financials / Board & Staff Art direction & Design: © Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios / NYC / www.DesignEWS.com Editorial team: Editor, Sebastian Naidoo Writers, Barbara Kancelbaum & Susanne Morrell 25 Thank you to our grantees, partners, and friends who contributed to the content of this report. © 2013 Arcus Foundation Movements—whether social justice, animal conservation, or any other—take time and a sustained sense of urgency, In 2012 alone, we partnered with commitment, and fortitude. more than 110 courageous organizations hotos © Jurek Wajdowicz hotos © Jurek P working in over 40 countries around the globe.

Dear Friends, Dear Friends, As I write this letter we are approaching the number 880, which represents a nearly 400 Looking back on some of the significant of the Congo. Continued habitat loss, spillover 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s percent increase in their population from milestones of 2012, it would be easy to over- from conflict, or the spread of deadly diseas- I Have a Dream speech delivered at the famous two decades ago. This is clearly a huge look the decades of collaborative effort that es from humans to apes could wipe out this March on Washington in August 1963. I was a and amazing conservation success story–– preceded the advances that the year brought population in short order. It is a cold, hard fact mere five years old at the time. yet the species continues to be extremely in. For this reason, we chose to focus on that we could lose this species in our lifetime Certainly our world has changed a lot vulnerable and precarious. movements and their tremendous collective if we are not thoughtful and conscious about since Dr. King described his elusive dream in We are happy that Argentina has made it power as the theme of this Annual Report. how human behaviors, like our overconsump- that iconic moment at the Lincoln Memorial. We should all be legal to change one’s name and gender without surgery or psy- In the words of U.S. historian John D’Emilio, movements tion of natural resources, impact our planet and the creatures left awestruck at the civil rights movement’s tireless and resolute chiatric diagnosis, and we are happy to see transgender youth advance by “creeping and leaping”: Years of hard work building we share it with. arc of progress that has been evolving since that astonishing day. become more visible. Still, there were at least 267 reported trans- the trust and partnerships that undergird movements then lead Here in New York City—where it is illegal to discriminate Movements––whether social justice, animal conservation, phobic killings worldwide in 2012, and we are certain this repre- to bursts of progress that seem to happen almost overnight. based on sexual orientation (although not gender identity) and or any other––take time and a sustained sense of urgency, com- sents but a fraction of the real number of such tragic events. Too 2012 was a year of leaping in both of Arcus’ mission where there is marriage equality—we still saw a gay man, mitment, and fortitude. They require collaborations and alliances often, authorities don’t even bother to respond when it’s a trans areas. For the first time in U.S. history, people voted marriage Mark Carson, 32, gunned down in 2013 simply because of his among an intricate network of individuals, institutions, communi- person who has been killed. equality into law—in Maryland, Maine, and Washington. The sexual orientation, barely half a mile from Arcus’ headquarters. ties, governments, and businesses. And it takes years, and often I am so gratified that Arcus has been able to become a federal government announced plans to release the vast major- While we see areas of progress in the fight for legal equality decades, for these critical collaborations to effect sustained and significant leader working for great ape conservation and LGBT ity of its chimpanzees from their cruel and unnecessary use in for LGBT people, we are also learning the painful lesson that meaningful change. equality. Our remarkable board of directors and staff, along with medical experimentation. passing a law is the end of the beginning of the work we need to Despite heroic efforts, the pace of progress can seem our heroic grantees and partners, have such incredible passion, At Arcus in 2012 alone, we partnered with more than 110 do to achieve lived equality—not the beginning of the end. glacial, and often the movements never catch up to all of the expertise, and commitment. For more than a decade, we have courageous organizations working in over 40 countries around The milestones that you will read about in this report individual lives they were meant to transform. For example, been working together to make justice a reality in society and the globe. We are proud to be part of a worldwide movement to happened because people worked in movements for decades many who heard Dr. King’s speech in 1963 never got to live in in nature, and we are committed to continue doing this critical create a just and humane world, from Cameroon to Turkey to the to achieve them. I am hopeful that the seeds we are planting the Promised Land of legal equality. Regardless of any future work for decades to come. We too share a dream––a dream of United States. We are excited to have supported the movements today will yield victories that we report in 10, 20, or 50 years, progress, we will forever regret the abuses and losses of so living in a world where all beings can live full, free, and fulfilled that won these leaps forward. achieved by people who have the vision and the courage to many LGBT people worldwide whose lives have been and lives. Famously Dr. King said, “The arc of the moral universe is But our work is far from finished. The exciting progress of believe in a world more just and humane, where all humans continue to be irrevocably damaged or destroyed just because long but it bends toward justice.” We at Arcus are determined to 2012 is equally matched by peril. There is still no country in the and other animals can live in safety and in freedom. of who they are. scale that arc. I hope you’ll stay with us throughout our journey. world where LGBT populations are truly safe. Neither is there You will read in this report how the LGBT and Great Ape With warmest regards, any terrain on the planet where great apes live free from threat. Conservation movements are progressing and becoming more While we see an encouraging increase in the number of global, collaborative, and effective. These are heroic stories mountain gorillas in Uganda in the most recent census, fewer about people, working on a multitude of diverse and often very than 900 of these magnificent creatures survive, many of them Kevin Jennings perilous frontlines, making real change in lives––one at a time. caught in the crossfire of war in the eastern Democratic Republic Executive Director We are encouraged but not at all complacent with the Jon Stryker growth of the world population of mountain gorillas. They now Founder and President

02ARCUS FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 03SOCIAL JUSTICE P hoto © Jurek Wajdowicz Arcus Social Justice Program Discrimination, social exclusion, violence, and persecution affect millions of individuals around the world, whose sexual orientation and gender identity are seen as non- conforming. The Arcus Foundation seeks to overcome cultural and policy obstacles that are barriers to full acceptance, respect, and human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.*

* In the following pages, the letters Q and I are abbreviations for queer and intersex. 04ARCUS FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 They appear when referenced by individuals quoted or presented in organization descriptions. 05SOCIAL JUSTICE P hotos © T aw ania P International ettus (left) © Born this W ay (right)

Human Rights Yves Yomb, Director, Alternatives-Cameroun. Scene from 2012 documentary film Born This Way.

LGBT Groups Worldwide Step up Pressure for Human Rights

As this publication went to press in July 2013, Cameroon’s LGBT documents the lives of LGBT Cameroonians—is one of six groups adults—to which the government must respond on sexual orientation or gender identity to the community was demanding that authorities act to stop homo- seeking fundamental change in the country, where danger is in October 2013. U.N. Human Rights Council. phobic violence in the wake of the torture and murder of Eric Ohena ever-present for those in same-sex relationships or working on Cameroon is one of more than 35 coun- Since I started my A separate body, the U.N. Human Rights Lembembe, 34, a journalist and executive director of the Cameroo- same-sex issues. Alternatives’ office itself was the target of an tries in Africa and 76 worldwide where same-sex Committee, heard in 2012 for the first time nian Foundation for AIDS. arson attack in June 2013. acts are illegal. Anti-homosexuality laws also LGBTI activism, from a representative of the trans community “It’s a shock in the community,” said Yves Yomb, 32, a fellow Cameroon’s government brought charges against at least 28 lead to the death penalty for some cases in five ‘‘I’ve never been as in Turkey, which has among the highest rates Cameroonian activist, responding to the murder. “We really ask people and convicted more than one-third for homosexual con- countries and parts of Nigeria and Somalia. afraid as I am now. of transphobic murders in the world. duct between 2010 and 2012, according to research by HRW and Nigeria was the site of a 2012 meeting Șevval Kiliç, representing the organi- about the security of gay leaders in Cameroon with this crime. Since —Yves Yomb, Director, Alternatives- I started my LGBTI activism, I’ve never been as afraid as I am now.” Alternatives. Convictions have been based on little or no evidence, organized by the Coalition of African Lesbians Cameroun zation LGBTT Istanbul, along with five local Like Lembembe, Yomb (pictured on Pg. 7 above left) has and some confessions have been extracted by torture. (CAL) prior to the government’s 2013 passage partners and IGLHRC, urged that Turkey stood up for justice in the country that, according to Human Rights Alternatives and several other Cameroonian organizations of a law that, under the pretext of prohibiting same-sex marriage, “enact ’’legislation on anti-discrimination and equality, ensuring Watch (HRW), prosecutes people for consensual same-sex conduct along with HRW and the International Gay and Lesbian Human extended existing penalties for consenting same-sex relations to that it includes a comprehensive prohibition of discrimination on more aggressively than almost any other in the world. Rights Commission (IGLHRC), submitted these and other data in anyone who speaks up for, meets with, or forms a group to support all the grounds.” Once rejected by his father—who did not speak to him for two a 2012 report to the United Nations, which periodically reviews its LGBTI rights. In February 2013, 70 members of the Turkish Parliament years when he revealed his sexual orientation—Yomb now assists member countries’ performance on human rights. CAL is an organization seeking to protect lesbian and requested the first inquiry into the country’s LGBT human rights, other LGBT Cameroonians facing family and community scorn as The report’s presentation to the Geneva-based U.N. Human women’s rights defenders in 19 countries. It also worked with a significant development that Kiliç (pictured on Pg. 9) believes the director of the Douala-based organization Alternatives-Cameroun. Rights Council led 15 countries in May 2013 to recommend that organizations in Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, and Botswana during will result in SOGI-based anti-discrimination language being Alternatives, featured in the 2012 film Born this Way—which Cameroon decriminalize same-sex activity between consenting 2012 to submit their first reports addressing discrimination based added to a Turkish hate crimes law.

Ev oLUTION of Legislation Related to LGBT Rights

YEAR 2008 > 2013 2008 > 2013 2008 > 2013 2008 > 2013 2008 > 2013 2008 > 2013 115115 86 59 19 19 10 26 18 114 16 9 54

113 113 number of 52 countries* 80 20 49 7 7 19 78 48 17 17 109 76 76 76 45 3 6 6 16

Type of Law Homosexual Acts Legal Homosexual Acts Illegal Laws Prohibit SO† Discrimination Laws Prohibit GI† Discrimination Constitution Prohibits SO Discrimination SO is considered an aggravating in Employment in Employment circumstance in hate crimes

*U.N. Member States † SO = Sexual Orientation GI = Gender Identity Figures are based on data from the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Association, as of July 2013. The status of laws in some countries was pending or unclear at press time. For more information, please visit ilga.org.

06ARCUS FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 07SOCIAL JUSTICE Beyond Geneva

In Geneva and beyond, the judges have ruled,” says IGLHRC exec- a resolution condemning “extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary exe- progressive legislation in the world on gender recognition. He utive director Jessica Stern. “It’s now in the hands of the very cutions” based on sexual orientation or gender identity. criticized so-called “anti-propaganda” bills that had been set in Gantr ees Talot amounts to end 2012 governments that have trampled LGBT rights to take seriously the This vote followed a campaign by a group of organizations— motion to criminalize public discussion of homosexuality in Ukraine, n Human Rights Watch $600,000 recommendations of international bodies to protect those within including IGLHRC, HRW, Global Action for Trans* Equality, and ARC as well as in Russia where such a law was passed in June 2013. (funds were not specifically for Cameroon-related work) their borders.” International, among others—to reinstate the “Let me say this loud and clear: lesbian, gay, bisexual, and n Born this Way $50,000 Several nations responded positively words “sexual orientation,” which had been transgender people are entitled to the same rights as everyone (to Fractured Atlas Productions, awarded January 2013) in 2012 to international recommendations: Let me say this removed from the resolution in 2010, and added else,” he said. “They, too, are born free and equal. I stand shoulder- n International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission Both Chile and Moldova enacted anti-LGBT- “gender identity” for the first time. to-shoulder with them in their struggle for human rights.” $1,025,000 (inc. funds to Global Action for Trans* Equality) discrimination laws—a step that had been loud and clear: les- Among the countries in which Comité /arcuslgbt /arcuslgbt n Coalition of African Lesbians $227,000 recommended during their U.N. human rights IDAHO reported that events were organized for ‘‘bian, gay, bisexual, n Global Action for Trans* Equality $350,000 reviews. Lesotho, which had earlier rejected and transgender the May 17 International Day Against Homopho- (inc. funds through: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights U.N. members’ calls to decriminalize homosex- bia and Transphobia were Burma and Haiti, as Commission, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice) uality, did so in 2012. people are entitled well as Morocco, which launched a campaign n A RC International $508,000 In addition, the U.N. refugee agency in to repeal the country’s criminalization of same- (inc. funds through: Queen City Community Development, to the same rights Tides Foundation, American Jewish World Service) October published guidelines clarifying the sex relationships. as everyone else. n criteria for granting asylum to LGBT individuals In honor of Human Rights Day, December Comité IDAHO $200,000 —U .N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon 10, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon fleeing persecution in their home countries, and Ogar nizations are listed in order of appearance above a U.N. committee vote in November resulted in praised Argentina for passing some of the most Șevval Kılıç gives a thumbs up after delivering remarks to the U.N. Human Rights Committee ’’ about LGBT violence, harassment, and discrimination in Turkey.

76untries Co where homosexuality is illegal* ommission (top) C ights R uman H

Africa Asia Latin America & Caribbean Oceania hoto courtesy of the International Gay and Lesbian Algeria Mozambique Afghanistan Pakistan Antigua and Barbuda Kiribati P Angola Namibia Bangladesh Qatar Barbados Nauru Botswana Nigeria Bhutan Saudi Arabia Belize Palau Burundi São Tomé and Brunei Singapore Dominica Papua New Guinea Cameroon Principe Iran Sri Lanka Grenada Samoa Comoros Senegal Kuwait Syria Guyana Solomon Islands Egypt Seychelles Lebanon Turkmenistan Jamaica Tonga

Malaysia United Arab St. Kitts & Nevis Tuvalu (bottom), Wajdowicz hoto © Jurek Eritrea Sierra Leone P Ethiopia Somalia Maldives Emirates St. Lucia Gambia South Sudan Myanmar Uzbekistan St. Vincent & the Grenadines OTHER TERRITORIES Ghana Sudan Oman Yemen Trinidad and Tobago (not counted among Guinea Swaziland Legal status of homosexuality in India and Iraq 76 countries) Kenya Tanzania was unclear as this publication went to press Cook Islands (New Zealand) Liberia Togo Gaza Libya Tunisia (in the Occupied Malawi Uganda Palestinian Territory) Mauritania Zambia Turkish Republic of Northern Mauritius Zimbabwe Cyprus Morocco (internationally unrecognized) South Sumatra and Aceh Province (Indonesia)

Source: International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Association *This list represents the most accurate assessment as of December 31, 2012; however, laws in some countries were pending at press time.

Gay pride activist in New York. 08ARCUS FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 09SOCIAL JUSTICE P hotos © Kike Arnal (left) Jean D ’Avignon (right)

GlobalReligions Gene Robinson, the United States’ first openly gay bishop. Church service held in Uganda’s capital Kampala.

Lift up the Religious Case for Faith Leaders LGBT Acceptance and Rights

“Church wasn’t just church for me. It was family,” Auburn Theological Seminary, which equips faith leaders to stand for “The bible is the word of God but not the Church Center for Sexual Politics, which will says Aubrey Thonvald, 31, who grew up in rural justice. A pre-referendum campaign workshop for clergy in Seattle words of God,” says Bishop Robinson, a fellow For people of faith, open in 2013 at New York’s Columbia University. Willmar, Minnesota, where the Evangelical Lutheran was attended by 83 participants, five times more than expected. at the Center for American Progress. “You can’t the first step is to Providing alternatives to the conservative Church of America (ELCA) was the center of her The clergy trainings, based on research published in Auburn’s take the modern understanding of homosexu- education received by the majority of clergy is a home life. “Yet, there was a strong sense that if I 2012 report My Mind Was Changed, played a key role in shifting religious ality and read it back into an ancient text any ‘‘overcome internal- worldwide priority, according to Robinson, to be lived fully into who I was, then that family wouldn’t want me.” views toward LGBT acceptance in the four states where marriage more than we would expect Moses to have ized homophobia extended to parts of the world such as sub-Saha- Thonvald (pictured above, right) enrolled in a master’s degree equality won in 2012: Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington. known that the earth was round.” and reconcile ran Africa, where there are now more practicing program in 2009 at the Seattle University School of Theology and “It was thrilling that the strongest Christian messages—such Robinson credits a number of organi- Christians than in Europe and where anti-LGBT Ministry. After ELCA’s decision the same year to allow ordination as ‘God is love’ and ‘We are not to judge’—communicated by the zations, including Integrity and the Chicago LGBT sexuality evangelists preach with considerable sway. of clergy in same-sex committed relationships, Thonvald told her right messengers, beat the strongest anti-LGBT messages,” says Consultation, with advances in the U.S. Episcopal with spirituality. While anti-LGBT attitudes have been rising mother she was gay. Macky Alston, a senior director at Auburn. “We saw a staggering Church, including the July 2012 approval of —Ju dith Kotzé, executive director in countries such as Cameroon, Zambia, Nigeria With her family’s support, in 2012 she was hired by Seattle’s movement of ideas.” ordination for transgender priests, a measure of Inclusive and Affirming Ministries and Uganda, some religious leaders in the region Pride Foundation to reach out to faith communities during a cam- Helping to push votes over the top in Maine were some 15,000 that passed with a substantial majority. —including Anglican priests Bishop Christopher paign to defeat a referendum that would have overturned same-sex phone conversations, coupled with several sold-out screenings of A series of 2011 and 2012 convenings, including black pastors, Senyonjo’’ in Uganda and Rev. Dr. Kapya Kaoma from Zambia (now marriage in the state of Washington. the 2012 documentary Love Free or Die, a film Alston directed about scholars, and activists, aimed at reconciling faith and LGBT inclu- a fellow with Political Research Associates)—have declared strong Thonvald relied on messaging developed by New York–based the country’s first openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson. sion within U.S. black churches led to the establishment of the Black acceptance of LGBT people of faith. (continued on lower left )

Renewing Messages

Bishop Senyonjo was among 39 participants from 26 countries in Muslims to understand their children better,” he says. “The fact that U.S.p Sup ort for Same-Sex Marriage by Religious Group Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific, Europe, and North America who it’s existed for the last 17 years, and that I’m an openly gay imam gathered in December at the first Muslim-Christian conference to and my work is known across the world and I’m still alive—that Among people who are religiously % build a strategic network for LGBT acceptance. speaks a lot.” /arcuslgbt /arcuslgbt unaffiliated, a solid majority have 80 One participant at the meeting in Stockholm, supported same-sex marriage

endricks organized by Inclusive and Affirming Ministries and Talot amounts to end 2012 H Gantr ees since 2001. the International Lesbian and Gay Association, was n uhsin Auburn Theological Seminary $220,756

M Among Catholics and white Muhsin Hendricks, an imam and founder of the South 60 n Center for American Progress $1,455,000 mainline Protestants, roughly Unaffiliated hoto ©

P Africa–based support organization The Inner Circle. n Integrity $495,790 half now express support for Hendricks, who built The Inner Circle over 17 years into a place same-sex marriage. n Chicago Consultation $859,413 where the principles of Islamic faith are reconciled with being LGBT, 40 Support among white evangelical Catholics described how he was “locked in the closet for 29 years” and imme- (inc. Protestant Episcopal Church Diocese of Chicago Bishops and Trustees, and Seabury Western Theological Seminary) and black Protestants remains diately dismissed from his mosques when he came forward about White Mainline Protestants n Columbia University-Roundtable on the lower than among other groups. his sexuality. Sexual Politics of Black Churches $302,036 20 Black Protestants While the majority of the Muslim world—including those countries n Political Research Associates $1,052,355 that experienced democracy-inspired uprisings in recent years— Source: Pew Research Center, n Religion and Public Life Project Poll: White Evangelical Protestants condemns homosexual relations between men, in some cases calling Inclusive and Affirming Ministries $152,761 Changing Attitudes on Gay Marriage, n International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex June 2013. For more information, 0 for the death penalty, Hendricks says The Inner Circle has helped many. visit: features.pewforum.org/ “It’s enabled them to live their lives, to perform better in their Association $275,675 same-sex-marriage-attitudes 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 work spaces and on a social level, and it’s helped parents of queer n The Inner Circle $250,000

Ogar nizations are listed in order of appearance above 10ARCUS FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 11SOCIAL JUSTICE P hoto © M isha Friedman

Global Trans Rights The Audre Lorde Project holds an annual Trans Day of Action in New York City.

and Recognition Advance Trans Health Care as Brave Activists Step Forward P “I felt I was the only one like me,” says Musonda, 27, of his the country’s second-largest city, to Lusaka, where hoto © Selly the police, who have taken no action “because It’s so important The organization intends to raise aware- isolation at school in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, where, self-identi- he met Chan Mubanga, co-founder of Transbantu of the nature of the person who was murdered,” ness among health care professionals in

T for us to be able to fied as male from childhood, he silently wished he were treated as Zambia—a group of eight trans men and women hiam according to Musonda. Zambia, where hormone therapy is inaccessi- male by others. who met informally on a university campus. With a membership of more than 40, ‘‘get together and ble, but for now only one physician is known to Musonda, whose name has been changed to protect his “It’s so important for us to be able to get Transbantu Zambia opened an office in 2012 and break the isolation. provide sensitive general health care to the anonymity, started at around age 13 to make sense of the word together and break the isolation,” he says, having since joined the began new services, including a library of trans trans community. “transsexual,” which he had learned from books and movies. organization as the finance and IT staff member. “But we have to be and intersex information, support groups, peer But we have to be “As much as our groups’ reputations are In 2001, at the age of 15, he lost his mother, who had raised careful. The more visible our members, the greater the risk.” education, and outreach to families and commu- careful. The more growing, there’s no medical access for most him alone, and moved in with an aunt and uncle who made him wear Homophobia and transphobia present constant dangers in nities miles away from Lusaka. visible our mem- people,” says Liesl Theron, co-founder of the a dress to church and family gatherings. “If God accepts every child, Zambia, where a sodomy conviction—a legacy of British colonial To illustrate how LGBT people in Zambia South Africa–based Gender DynamiX, which I should be able to wear what I want,” he recalls thinking, and he law—can carry a prison term of 10 years or more. hide their identities, Transbantu produced a short bers, the greater is approached by trans people needing help all soon began avoiding church. The trans community is aware of both a transphobic rape video, “Behind the Mask,” for the 2013 Interna- the risk.—Ma usond , over the world. At 23, Musonda returned from his relatives’ home in Kitwe, and a murder in 2012, but witnesses to the murder feared going to tional Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. Transbantu Zambia ’’ P hoto © M isha Friedman isha Friedman M hoto © P

The Audre Lorde Project holds an annual Trans Day of Action in New York City. 12ARCUS FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 13SOCIAL JUSTICE Medical Access a Priority

Support for networking and meeting basic needs of small, local in May, Argentina became the first country to pass a far-reaching, “Most trans people, and many doctors, would say that ‘trans- them aware,” he says. “We will have to move from ourselves to organizations benefiting multiple transgender communities was human-rights-based law making it legal to change one’s name and gender’ doesn’t belong in a mental health manual at all,” says Dr. family to religion to schools to government. It will take quite some advanced in 2012 through partnerships with organizations such as gender on official documentation without surgery or a psychiatric Robert Winn of Philadelphia’s Mazzoni Center, an LGBT health and time to change perceptions.” /arcuslgbt /arcuslgbt Mama Cash, the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, and others. diagnosis. The law is seen as a model by many in the international wellness organization that held its largest ever trans health confer- Yet Gender DynamiX and its partners were forced to scrap trans movement. ence during the year.

a meeting of Southern African trans organizations in Nairobi, In a step that may also The conference brought together 2,500 attendees, among Gantr ees Talot amounts to end 2012 Kenya, in August 2012, when hotel staff, who became aware of the influence the future of trans them medical and behavioral health professionals seeking to n M ama Cash $400,000 meeting’s topic and participants, evicted them. rights in some other countries, develop new protocols to help trans populations and activists from n Gender identity is rarely explicitly acknowledged as grounds the American Psychiatric Asso- around the world who came to share strategies and coordinate Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice $3,852,500 (inc. funds to The Pipeline Project, Freedom To Marry, Global Action for for discrimination, and trans-specific hate-crime legislation is even ciation voted in December to advocacy efforts. Trans* Equality) rarer, according to a landmark report, Transrespect versus Transpho- change the wording in its Diag- Fielding an increasing number of calls from parents of trans n Gender DynamiX $275,000 bia Worldwide, published by Transgender Europe in 2012. nostic and Statistical Manual of 267 children, in the summer of 2012 the center brought together health n Transgender Europe $200,000 The report moreover found a continual upward march in trans- Mental Disorders from Gender documented professionals from across the United States to develop a new phobic killings, including 267 cases in 2012—five more than the Identity Disorder to a new term, protocol to help families. n Global Action for Trans* Equality $350,000 transphobic (inc. funds through: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights prior year—for a total of 1,123 since the organization began keeping Gender Dysphoria: “a marked “Wherever they are in the world, every trans person was once Commission, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice) statistics on 58 countries in 2008. The highest numbers were incongruence between one’s killings in 2012 a trans kid, and they probably had no support,” Winn says, recalling n M azzoni Center $50,000 reported in Brazil (452), Mexico (106), and the United States (69). experienced/expressed gender the many individuals who have sought his care or treatment. Following years of work by Global Action for Trans* Equality, and assigned gender.” Musonda concurs. “First, we have to inform people and make Ogar nizations are listed in order of appearance above

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S treetwise and Safe at work in Harlem, New York City. G SA Network action in Sacramento, California, calls for LGBT youth voices United States to be heard in school policy decision-making, April, 2012.

Join Forces Against LGBT Youth of Color Homophobia, Prejudice

Stopped by New York police five times over the last five years, in detain me,” says Mora, who is shocked by how many times he and (NYPD), according to an analysis by the New York Civil Liberties the guide’s implications. New York City neighborhoods from the West Village to Park Slope, his friends have been stopped and frisked even when there is no Union. In the vast majority of stops, there were no grounds for In addition, work by the Communities United for Police Reform Mitchyll Mora weighs his options when he sees an officer on an objective “reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.” arrest and no weapons found. campaign, which includes SAS, led the New York City Council to upcoming street corner: “Do I cross before the corner or after?” Mora cannot envision a scenario in which he would go to Homeless youth, of whom 25 to 40 percent have been make history, also in June, by passing legislation banning police he asks himself. the police for help. “When you’re of color and queer or trans, and estimated to be LGBT, are particularly targeted, says Andrea profiling based on sexual orientation and gender identity in addition “One time the officer frisking me groped me and called me a police officer sees you, you’re assumed to be doing something Ritchie, co-coordinator of Streetwise and Safe (SAS). to race and other grounds. ‘faggot’ because of the way I was dressed,” says Mora, a 23-year- wrong,” he says. As a result of SAS advocacy in alliance with other organi- “I see a national youth movement growing around discrimina- old gay Latino, who moved to New York City several years ago from While New York’s Black and Latino communities make up 52 zations, the NYPD in June released broad changes to its Patrol tory policing,” Mora says. “People working with LGBTQ youth in the U.S. Midwest. percent of the city’s total population, they comprised 87 percent of Guide to address discrimination and abuse of LGBT or gender-non- Los Angeles and New Orleans are building off each other’s work to “Of course, they never found a weapon or any reason to the 533,000 stops in 2012 by the New York City Police Department conforming people, and the department is training officers about seek similar changes.” (continued to lower p.16 )

Bridging Campaigns,Building Movements

Whether seeking reform of policing, education, or immigration students across the country, with some 87 percent of rural LGBT policies, coalitions led by or prominently including LGBT young students reporting verbal harassment and 22 percent physical Gantr ees Talot amounts to end 2012 people are being formed across the country. Those include FIERCE, assault, according to the 2012 report Strengths and Silences: The n Streetwise and Safe (a project of Urban Justice Center – n Sylvia Rivera Law Project $525,000 Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students in Peter Cicchino Youth Project) $475,000 National Queer Asian and Pacific Islander Alliance, Southerners on n W estern States Center $680,600 New Ground, and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. Rural and Small Town Schools by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight n FIERCE $402,500 (inc. support for collaboration with Basic Rights Education Fund) In Oregon, for example, the Western States Center, a movement- Education Network (GLSEN). n N ational Queer Asian and Pacific Islander Alliance $447,500 n Basic Rights Education Fund $625,000 building organization, helped Basic Rights Oregon (see Basic Rights GLSEN, along with the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) Network (inc. funds through Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center, Tides Center) n Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network $2,950,000 Education Fund below), an LGBT group, understand the need to work and other organizations, has been working for decades to stop this n Southerners on New Ground $375,000 more intentionally with organizations such as the immigrant rights bullying, but they oppose the “zero tolerance” policies that have n Gay-Straight Alliance Network $150,000

group CAUSA. emerged as a response. Ogar nizations are listed in order of appearance above “Now, anyone who walks through the doors of either organiza- Alternatives that emphasize counseling or peer mediation tion is expected to be grounded in a broader, more inclusive set of can be more productive in changing the culture of a school than social justice values,” says Aimee Santos-Lyons, the center’s gender suspending bullies—who simply return unchanged—according to a andjelović justice director, adding that it is not uncommon to see LGBT youth 2012 white paper, Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right: Why Zero Toler- R speaking at Oregon farm-workers rallies. ance is Not the Solution to Bullying, authored by the GSA Network, One emerging CAUSA leader, Ish Guevara, Advancement Project, and Alliance for Educational Justice. hoto © Slobodan

now 20 and a student at Oregon State University, “Our young leaders are not only coming out about their sexual P was demoted from president of his high school’s orientation and gender identity in greater numbers, they’re also Latino Club when it came to light that he was gay. proudly standing up against discriminatory policies and practices Guevara, raised by parents who were migrant that fail to create a safe learning environment,” says Carolyn Laub farm workers from Mexico, was taunted with the Spanish word of the GSA Network. (See p. 18, Safe Schools Laws.) maricon (“faggot”) on the soccer field, leaving him feeling “dark Adds Mora: “LGBTQ youth of color are educating each other and evil.” But going to college and working with CAUSA helped and other youth to navigate police encounters with legal knowl- Guevara overcome feelings of shame about his sexual orientation, edge. We’re also engaging with larger coalitions to change systems and his family has come to accept him. that affect our lives and the lives of all LGBTQ youth of color.” Bullying and hostility continue to blight the lives of LGBT “We shouldn’t be singled out because of the color of our skin or the clothes we wear.” /arcuslgbt /arcuslgbt Rally and march in New York City’s Greenwich Village after murder of Mark Carson in May, 2013. 16ARCUS FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 17SOCIAL JUSTICE S elECTED 2012 LGBT Milestones in the United States involving Arcus Partners

>> >> >> >> >> >> Fbue r ary May July October November December Gantr ees A federal district court rules The U.S. Department of The U.S. Department of U.S. Court of Appeals, The report Intimate Partner Same-sex marriage is affirmed U.S. Supreme Court agrees to Talot amounts to end 2012 that a Missouri school district Justice issues the first-ever Health and Human Services Second Circuit, rules Section Violence in Lesbian, Gay, in all four states where it is hear United States v. Windsor, n American Civil Liberties cannot censor LGBT web national standards to stop clarifies that the Affordable 3 of the Defense of Marriage Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, put to a popular vote – Maine, a landmark challenge to the Union $3,690,000

content—a victory for the sexual abuse of prisoners in Care Act’s prohibitions Act to be unconstitutional. and HIV-Affected (LGBTQH) Maryland, Minnesota, Washington. last major barrier to nationally n Center for American “Don’t Filter Me” campaign. confinement facilities at the against sex discrimination Grantee Communities in the United GranteeS sanctioned same-sex marriage. Progress $1,455,000 Grantee federal, state, and local levels. includes gender identity. American Civil Liberties Union States in 2011 is released, American Civil Liberties Union, Grantee n Freedom to Marry American Civil Liberties Union Grantee Grantee recommending passage of Auburn Theological Seminary, American Civil Liberties Union $1,125,000 Just Detention International N ational Gay and Lesbian Task Force an LGBTQ-inclusive Violence Center for American Progress, Against Women Act—which is Freedom to Marry, Gay & Lesbian (inc. funds through Astraea) Advocates and Defenders, GLAAD, signed by President Obama in n Lambda Legal, National Gay and Gay & Lesbian Advocates March 2013. Lesbian Task Force, National Center and Defenders $725,000 for Lesbian Rights Grantee n GLAAD $2,240,000 N ational Coalition of Tribal Equity Toolkit: Tribal Reso- n Just Detention Sfea Schools Laws Anti-Violence Programs lutions and Codes to Support International $437,500 Two Spirit and LGBT Justice in n Lambda Legal $625,000 Indian Country is published. Washington n N ational Center for Grantee New Hampshire Lesbian Rights $475,000 Minnesota Vermont* Maine Western States Center, Basic Rights Oregon (See Basic Rights Oregon n N ational Coalition of Education Fund) Anti-Violence Programs Wisconsin $300,000 New York Massachusetts Rhode Island (inc. funds through New York Connecticut* City Gay and Lesbian Iowa* Pennsylvania New Jersey Anti-Violence Project) Delaware Utah Illinois Maryland n Colorado West N ational Gay and Lesbian Virginia District of Columbia Task Force $7,310,169 California* Even amidst this policy desert [in the U.S. (inc. funds through NGLTF North to Unid@s) Carolina* Arizona New Oklahoma* Arkansas South South], there are many flourishing oases of deep Mexico Carolina O rGANIZATIONS listed above Alabama ‘‘ includes only grantees not experience, courageous and creative organizing. referenced on earlier pages. Mississippi Georgia Texas — Better Together in the South: Building Movements across Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation, Pg. 5 Louisiana Source: Applied Research Center, June 2013. ’’

Law covers discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (19 states + D.C.) Law covers only sexual orientation (1 state) * Law also prohibits discrimination based on a student’s association with a person with a protected characteristic, such as a parent’s sexual orientation or family status (6 states) Nerumb of states recognizing same-sex marriage 1999-2013* School regulation or teacher code prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation Note: There are two types of safe schools laws: non-discrimination laws and anti-bullying laws. States with either kind of (5 states) law are reflected on this map. While some states, districts and schools have non-enumerated safe schools laws, State education laws expressly forbid teachers research by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) finds that such laws have no impact on from discussing LGBT issues in school rates of anti-LGBT bullying. Therefore, states with such laws are not included on this map. Some states may interpret 1999 2009 2013 (8 states) “gender” to include gender identity/expression. Such states are not reflected on this map. Arcus Founded Arcus 10th Anniversary Source: Safe Schools map reprinted by kind permission of the Map Advancement Project, lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/ No law protecting LGBT students (18 states) safe_school_laws. Data accessed August 1, 2013.

Progressive policy advancement in the U.S. as a whole 0states 5states 13states is contingent upon political movement in the South… Ca lifornia (not ENFORCED until 2013) ■ Connecticut ■ California ■ Connecticut ■ DelaWAre ■ IOWA ■ — Better Together in the South: Building Movements across Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation, Pg. 11 IOWA ■ Vermont ■ New Hampshire ■ + Washington, D.C. Maine ■ Maryland ■ s Mas achusetts ■ Minnesota ■ ‘‘ ■ ■ ■ ■ + one FIRST NATION Vermont New York New Hampshire o Rh de Island Source: Applied Research Center, June 2013. ’’ *Data correct as of July 2013. ■ Washington ■ + Washington, D.C. ■ + FOUR FIRST NATIONS 18ARCUS FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 19SOCIAL JUSTICE P hoto © Jurek Wajdowicz

Grants awarded in 2012 Social Justice Program

$250,000 Protestant Episcopal Church The Equal Rights Trust Ali Forney Center Two years of support for the LGBT Center for Progressive Freedom to Marry Global1 One year of continued support to Diocese of Chicago Bishops equalrightstrust.org aliforneycenter.org Racial Justice Collaborative Fund, a Leadership freedomtomarry.org expand global LGBT services, rights, and Trustees London, UK New York, NY new funder collaborative to support progressiveleaders.org New York, NY Astraea Foundation and protection efforts through the saintjamescathedral.org $100,000 $10,000 the leadership and engagement of Washington, DC $300,000 astraeafoundation.org Global Initiative for Sexuality and Chicago, IL One year of project support to Short-term general operating support LGBT people of color to advance rights $150,000 One year of general operating support New York, NY Human Rights $200,000 strengthen the organization’s working for LGBT people in the United States One year of support for the New for legal, policy, and cultural change $50,000 One year of support for the full partnership with the Kenyan Human Alliance for Justice Leaders Program, to provide paid strategies to secure the right to marry International Federation of Audre Lorde Project One year of support for the Global inclusion of LGBT Christians in the Rights Commission and the Gay and afj.org internships to LGBT leaders of for same-sex couples Black Prides alp.org Philanthropy Project to advance Episcopal Church and the worldwide Lesbian Coalition of Kenya to improve Washington, DC color at progressive organizations in ifbprides.org New York, NY the human rights of LGBT people by Anglican Communion the legal protection of LGBTI people in $150,000 Washington, DC; Ohio; and Pennsyl- Freedom to Marry Washington, DC $2,500 expanding financial resources for LGBT Kenya and to promote equality inclusive Two years of support for the LGBT vania to help launch their careers in freedomtomarry.org $135,000 Short-term general operating support organizations and deepening knowl- U nited States Department of sexual orientation and gender identity Advocacy Project to provide training the progressive movement, and for the New York, NY edge among funders around the globe One year of general operating support of State and technical assistance to LGBT $100,000 Austin Latina Latino Lesbian Michigan Civic Leadership Academy to to expand and develop an interna- state.gov/globalequality Highest Common Denominator organizations working at the state and Nine months of support for the & Gay Organization (Allgo) train emerging LGBT and racial-justice Astraea Foundation tional network of community-based Washington, DC Fund national levels on the legal requirements Familia es Familia project, a new allgo.org leaders to begin and more effectively astraeafoundation.org organizations originally founded to $1,000,000 hcdfund.wordpress.com of pursuing advocacy and public edu- public-education program to increase New York, NY Austin, TX organize local communities focus on producing annual black LGBT One year of support for the United Addison, TX cation activities dialogue, support, and allies within $50,000 $2,500 pride programs States Department of State’s Global $200,000 Chicago Freedom School Latino communities for LGBT issues, American Civil Liberties One year of general operating support Short-term general operating support Equality Fund, to expand the efforts Eighteen months of funding to support chicagofreedomschool.org including family unity, anti-bullying, International Lesbian and Gay to build the capacity of an emerging of local, national, and regional human Mideast Youth in enabling ahwaa.org Union Foundation Chicago, IL non-discrimination, and marriage Astraea Foundation Association network of statewide LGBT people rights organizations to advance public to make more widely available its aclu.org $2,500 equality astraeafoundation.org ilga.org of color organizations and leaders to awareness and dialogue in support of unique platform for safe LGBT organiz- New York, NY Short-term general operating support New York, NY Brussels, Belgium influence LGBT rights and racial justice Freedom to Marry the human rights of LGBT individuals ing, to reach economies of scale that $300,000 $250,000 $15,675 groups in Texas to include the priorities freedomtomarry.org around the globe will ensure its financial sustainability One year of support for comprehensive Crossroads Fund One year of general operating support Short-term support for the Interfaith impact litigation, public education, and of LGBT people of color crossroadsfund.org New York, NY for the foundation’s new strategic plan preconference convening at the ILGA- Inclusive & Affirming Ministries advocacy aimed at eliminating discrim- Chicago, IL $25,000 Center for American Progress World conference in December 2012 iam.org.za ination based on sexual orientation, $2,500 Short-term support for a post-election Community Initiatives I nTERNATIONAL2 americanprogress.org Cape Town, South Africa gender identity, and HIV status Short-term support for the Black analysis of the 2012 marriage move- communityin.org International Lesbian and Gay Washington, DC $50,000 Youth Fund ment ballot campaigns to capture the San Francisco, CA $400,000 Association American Jewish World One year of project support for the American Civil Liberties Union lessons, document what took place, $400,000 ilga.org One year of support for the 2012 State Service Regional Partnerships Program to Fund of Michigan Desert Aids Project and quickly prepare for new challenges Support over 2 years for the Council Brussels, Belgium Marriage Initiatives research project ajws.org facilitate dialogue between African aclumich.org desertaidsproject.org and opportunities for the future for Global Equality to advance U.S. to facilitate and disseminate a com- $50,000 New York, NY LGBT communities and mainstream Detroit, MI Palm Springs, CA foreign policy that is inclusive of parative analysis of efforts to increase One year of project support for 3 part- $108,000 Christian leadership in Africa $90,000 $7,500 Fund for the City of New York sexual orientation and gender identity time web managers in 3 countries in One year of support for ARC Inter- One year of continued support of the support for LGBT rights within the Short-term support for the Latino fcny.org context of the November 2012 ballot GLSEN the global South and East to actively national’s work to advance the LGBT Project, which engages in impact Outreach Program New York, NY contribute to and regularly update initiatives on marriage equality and $110,000 glsen.org recognition of human rights based on U nITED States litigation on LGBT issues and advances the ILGA-World interactive global to memorialize lessons learned FIERCE New York, NY sexual orientation and gender identity the rights of LGBT people in the public One year of support to the Service LGBT map at the international level through policy arena fiercenyc.org Women’s Action Network to follow up $125,000 Affinity Community Services Center for American Progress strategic planning, coalition and New York, NY with women after the repeal of Don’t Nine months of support for planning to N onprofit Enterprise and Self- affinity95.org americanprogress.org movement building, and advocacy Amigas Latinas Association $100,000 Ask Don’t Tell, to ensure individual and explore the possibilities, opportunities, Washington, DC Sustainability Team (NESsT) Chicago, IL amigaslatinas.tumblr.com One year of general operating support family benefits are provided and to challenges, and potential strategy for $300,000 nesst.org Coalition of African Lesbians $3,275 Chicago, IL for a national organizing program work with the transgender community a global anti-homophobia/transphobia Two years of project support for Fight- San Francisco, CA cal.org.za Short-term support for a Giving $2,500 to build the presence, capacity, and to assist in obtaining benefits safe schools campaign $50,000 Boksburg, South Africa Tuesday launch event to bring Affinity Short-term general operating support ing Injustice to Reach Equality (FIRE), effectiveness of LGBTQ youth of color a three-year initiative to provide an Heartland Alliance for Human One year of support to strengthen $127,000 to a broader audience and introduce a organizing across the United States Funders for Lesbian and Astraea Foundation integrated approach to addressing Needs & Human Rights the capacity of the Galeforce Capital One year of project support to promote 10-day online fundraising campaign Gay Issues project to develop, launch, and and protect the sexual and reproduc- astraeafoundation.org LGBT equality and racial-justice issues Fire Historical and Cultural lgbtfunders.org heartlandalliance.org Affinity Community Services expand LGBT social enterprises tive health and rights of lesbian, New York, NY through policy analysis, research, Arts Collaborative New York, NY Chicago, IL affinity95.org across the world bisexual, and trans-diverse people $600,000 and communications thisisfire.com $24,500 Chicago, IL in Africa, by strengthening the work Kalamazoo, MI Short-term support for membership $2,500 NOTES and activism of member organizations $2,500 dues for 2013 1. Support to grantees for projects to be carried out around the world, including in the United States Short-term general operating support 2. Support to grantees for projects outside the United States, including at regional and national levels outside of southern Africa Short-term general operating support Country names are given for grantees outside of the United States. 20ARCUS FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 21SOCIAL JUSTICE P hoto © Jurek Wajdowicz

Grants awarded in 2012 Social Justice Program

Gay Men’s Health Crisis Kick - The Agency for LGBT LGBT Labor Leadership $75,000 N ational Gay and Lesbian Task The Regents of the University Southerners On New Ground W estern States Center gmhc.org African-Americans Initiative One year of support for the Michigan Force Foundation of California southernersonnewground.org westernstatescenter.org New York, NY e-kick.org prideatwork.org Project for Informed Public Policy ngltf.org williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu Atlanta, GA Portland, OR $100,000 Detroit, MI Washington, DC to inform public policy and opinion Washington, DC Los Angeles, CA $100,000 $250,000 One year of support for the Federal Advo- $115,000 $100,000 through educational programs that $10,000 $200,000 One year of general operating support One year of support for the expansion cacy Initiative to advocate for HIV federal Fifteen months of general operating One year of support to implement a provide the latest science-based For support of the Futurist Project Two years of support for the Williams to increase statewide LGBTQ people- of a collaboration with the Basic policy with a focus on HIV and aging, support to continue programming targeted plan to increase member- psychological information on sexual Institute to complete its pilot public of-color base-building and to launch Rights Education Fund to support and ending the FDA ban on blood donation by and strengthen capacity to conduct ship, train new leaders, and form new orientation and gender identity N ew York Public Library opinion research center and archive, targeted issue campaigns in the advance long-term alliance building, gay men, and implementation of the new advocacy and education that positively chapters, resulting in greater LGBT nypl.org which would provide a clearinghouse southern United States education, and leadership-development M ichigan Technological National HIV/AIDS Strategy impacts the lives of LGBT African- representation in decision-making New York, NY for public opinion research that would efforts among and within the racial- University Americans in metropolitan Detroit roles within the labor movement $10,000 be available to the LGBT movement at Tides Center justice and LGBTQ movements in Oregon mtu.edu Hartley Film Foundation One year of support for the LGBT large to advance pro-LGBT policy at nqapia.org Houghton, MI hartleyfoundation.org Legal Services of South Central Lulac Institute Archive both the state and federal levels San Francisco, CA W estern States Center Westport, CT Michigan lulac.org $40,000 $7,500 westernstatescenter.org $50,000 farmworkerlaw.org Washington, DC One year of project support to Parents, Families and Friends R ockwood Leadership Institute Short-term support for the National Portland, OR One year of support for the develop- Ann Arbor, MI $10,000 establish an LGBT/Diversity Office of Lesbians And Gays rockwoodleadership.org Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance’s $55,600 ment of the Love Free or Die project $40,000 Short-term support of the Regional to build campus and community pflag.org Oakland, CA national fundraising campaign through One year of support for a collaboration website “The Friends & Family Plan,” One year of continued support for the LGBT Latino Summits awareness and educational programs, Washington, DC $85,000 the Giving Tuesday initiative with Indigenous Ways of Knowing and an effort to engage communities of Michigan Immigrant Rights Center to and to provide leadership opportunities $2,500 One year of continued support of the Native American Program of Legal faith through film and the Internet and expand and strengthen coalition-build- Lutherans Concerned for LGBT people and allies in the Short-term general operating support the National LGBT Advocacy Leaders Transgender Law Center Aid Services of Oregon to expand the to equip movement leaders with tools ing activities, including those with the North America Upper Peninsula for PFLAG Lubbock Fellowship, a leadership development transgenderlawcenter.org launch of the Tribal Equity Toolkit on to win full equality for LGBT people LGBT community, to provide statewide lcna.org program for 24 LGBT advocates San Francisco, CA LGBTQ and Two Spirit Native Equality N ational Black Justice Park Square Advocates, Inc. in America leadership on policy issues St. Paul, MN and leaders, with a primary focus $7,500 Coalition (Gay & Lesbian Advocates $7,500 on people of color and/or the trans­ Short-term support for engagement nbjc.org & Defenders) Hispanics in Philanthropy Lesbian Gay Community Short-term support for a post-election gender community of diversity-initiative populations Spialec hiponline.org Network of Western Michigan survey to capture the energy of Recon- Washington, DC glad.org (younger, transgender, and people- Opportunities Oakland, CA grlgbt.org ciling Works’ base, and for a campaign $2,500 Boston, MA R uth Ellis Center of-color communities) in the center’s $9,500 Short-term general operating support $100,000 ruthelliscenter.com fundraising campaign, “My Authentic Grand Rapids, MI to solicit support through video display Council on Foundations Short-term support for membership $50,000 of how members’ lives have been One year of general operating support Highland Park, MI Life,” launched on Giving Tuesday N ational Black Justice cof.org dues for 2013 One year of general operating support to impacted by the organization’s work to end federal marriage discrimina- $10,000 Coalition Arlington, VA strengthen programs, build community tion based on sexual orientation, Short-term general operating support Trustees of Columbia Just Detention International nbjc.org $18,020 coalitions, and develop the organiza- M exican American Legal increase access to legal assistance for University in the City of justdetention.org Washington, DC One year of support for membership tion’s board to better serve LGBT Defense and Educational Fund LGBT youth, and secure legal rights Servicemembers Legal New York Los Angeles, CA $7,500 dues for 2012 communities in western Michigan maldef.org for transgender people in the six New Defense Network columbia.edu $7,500 Short-term support for the launch of sldn.org Los Angeles, CA England states New York, NY Philanthropy New York Short-term support for a holiday card Lesbian and Gay Community $10,000 the Emerging Leaders Initiative, which Washington, DC $77,036 philanthropynewyork.org campaign launched through the Giving Services Center Short-term support for the organiza- aims to bring the next generation into Planned Parenthood of $50,000 Seven months of support for the New York, NY Tuesday initiative gaycenter.org tion’s LGBT efforts the fold for LGBT equality, by using Mid and South Michigan One year of general operating support development of a long-term strategy $17,350 New York, NY funds from a Giving Tuesday grant to plannedparenthood.org/ to build a Black Church movement for Kalamazoo Gay-Lesbian One year of support for membership $5,000 Michigan Citizens Education present a challenge to donors midsouthmi Services and Advocacy for the recognition of the moral and civil Resource Center dues for 2012 One year of general operating support Fund Ann Arbor, MI GLBT Elders equality of LGBT people kglrc.org michcitizenaction.org N ational Coalition for LGBT $75,000 sageusa.org Kalamazoo, MI Lesbian and Gay Community Kalamazoo, MI Health One year of support to sustain and New York, NY U rban Justice Center $90,000 Services Center $55,000 lgbthealth.net expand the Calhoun County Coalition $200,000 urbanjustice.org One year of general operating support gaycenter.org One year of general operating support Washington, DC for Inclusion Project, which serves One year of support to advance New York, NY to provide programs and advocacy for New York, NY for efforts to advance inclusive public $125,000 and advocates for LGBT youth, their SAGE’s transgender-inclusive LGBT $200,000 LGBT citizens in Michigan $5,000 policy in western Michigan Fifteen months of general operating families, and communities aging advocacy agenda and its efforts Eighteen months of support for Short-term support for Keith Haring support to advance access to health to advocate for federal policies that Street-wise and Safe to amplify the mural restoration M ichigan Psychological care for the LGBT community including improve the lives of diverse elders voices and leadership of LGBTQ youth Association Foundation equitable implementation of national nationwide through the Diverse Elders of color and homeless LGBTQ youth mpafoundation.org health care reform Coalition, and to engage the organiza- in national policy debates on sex work Lansing, MI tion in strategic and sustainability and trafficking planning during 2012

22ARCUS FOUNDATION | Annual report 2012 23SOCIAL JUSTICE StrategySocial Justicegy The Foundation’s social justice strategy is driven by its mission to enable individuals and families of every sexual orientation and gender identity, race, and ethnicity to live their lives with dignity and respect, and express their love and sense of self wherever they are in the world. Depending on the country, community, or family, the steps toward reaching this goal vary considerably. Yet, underlying each one is the premise that culture change and laws and policies are mutually reinforcing and must be pursued together to advance freedoms and protec- tions for LGBT individuals. Consolidated Statement of Financial Position As of December 31, 2012. Audited by PKF O’Connor Davies, LLP

Gantsr and Operating Expenses 2012 Grants Awarded 2012* $28,655,380 Total $18,091,450 Total

$18,091,450 $10,563,930 $75,548 $2,528,175 Grants Awarded Operating Expenses Employee Match and Misc. Social Justice Program - Global

$35,370 $585,000 Special Opportunities Social Justice Program - International

$3,555,000 $5,079,911 Great Apes Program - Social Justice Program - U.S. Captive Apes

$6,232,446 Great Apes Program - Apes in the Wild

*Reflects decreases of grants awarded in prior years

Combined* Board & Staff Assets Cash and cash equivalents $ 2,609,741 As of September, 2013 Accrued interest and dividends 367,957 Board Members Staff Members Investments 169,102,464 Jon Stryker, Founder and Board President United States Prepaid federal excise tax 358,269 Stephen Bennett, Board Member Kerry Ashforth, Grants and Knowledge Manager Linh M. Nguyen, Accountant Property, equipment, and leasehold improvements (net) 3,873,027 Evelynn M. Hammonds, Board Member Monica Charles, Grants Management Associate Ericka Novotny, Grants Management Director Janet Mock, Board Member Other assets 831,910 Adrian R. Coman, International Human Rights Adriana Odice, Financial Reporting and Catherine Pino, Board Member Total Assets $ 177,143,368 Program Director Analysis Director Jeff Trandahl, Board Member Cheryl Dudley, Global Religions Program Director Jennene Tierney, Human Resources Director Darren Walker, Board Member LIABILITIES Grants payable (net) 22,300,543 Desiree Flores, U.S. Social Justice Rafael Torres, Administrative Assistant, Accounts payable and accrued expenses 1,139,382 Executive Members Program Director Social Justice Programs Kevin Jennings, Executive Director Elisa Gerontianos, Policy Director Daniel Werner, Grants Management and Deferred federal excise tax 625,000 Annette Lanjouw, Vice President, Linda Ho, Controller Evaluation Assistant Deferred rent 605,376 Strategic Initiatives and Great Apes Program Sandor Johnson, Executive Assistant United Kingdom Total Liabilities $ 24,670,301 Jay Michaelson, Vice President, Melvin Jung, Accountant Adam Phillipson, Great Apes Program Officer Social Justice Programs Roz Lee, Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Justice Net Assets 152,473,067 Helga Rainer, Conservation Program Director Cindy Rizzo, Vice President, Organizational Senior Program Officer Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 177,143,368 Marie Stevenson, Program Assistant / Learning and Grants Management Erica Lim, Program Associate / Coordinator UK Office Manager Bryan Simmons, Vice President, Communications Linda May, Captive Apes Program Director * This Consolidated Statement of Financial Position is a combined statement for the Arcus Foundation and the Arcus Operating Foundation. Arie Weissman, Vice President, Sebastian Naidoo, Global Media Director The Arcus Operating Foundation supports the mission of the Arcus Foundation through convenings, research, and special projects that increase philanthropic engagement. Finance and Operations

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