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R e p o r t You must be“ the change you wish to see in the world.

” — Gandhi

Be the change THE FUTURE IS NOW Our Mission How We Work What We Do Mercy Corps exists to alleviate In more than 25 years of ■ Emergency Relief t is an understatement to say that young people are the future. suffering, poverty and oppression experience, Mercy Corps has ■ Economic Development They are the present. The growing generation between 15 and by helping people build secure, learned that communities ■ Civil Society Initiatives 25 years old is one of the most dynamic social forces in recent productive and just communities. recovering from war or social I upheaval must be the agents Our Success Is history — and they have the power and technical know-how to Our Core Values of their own transformation for Empowered communities standing change the world. change to endure. Making this ■ We are awed by human resilience on their own, living with dignity. happen requires communities, Youth activism and innovation are key to the success of and believe in the ability of all Mercy Corps’ programming. Our work is personified in the optimistic people to thrive, not just exist. governments and businesses to solve shared problems in a and idealistic energy of the young people who are our program ■ Our spiritual and humanitarian values compel us to act. spirit of accountability and full participants, partners and staff in 40 countries. participation. Secure, productive ■ We believe in the intrinsic value and just communities arise only Young people shaped Mercy Corps’ work in 2006. While and dignity of human life. when all three sectors work conflict raged between Hezbollah and the Israel Defense Forces, ■ We believe that all people have together in close cooperation. Mercy Corps provided emergency assistance to more than 750,000 the right to live in peaceful Lebanese caught in the crossfire. Young people were vital to that communities and participate fully in the decisions that affect Who We Help effort and are crucial to rebuilding Lebanon now. their lives. Around the world, millions of ■ We believe that human While Lebanon dominated the headlines last summer, we also people are caught up in intolerable imagination and energy can situations. But they are not today’s helped bring about countless quiet successes all over the world. inspire innovative solutions to These triumphs — ranging from education to economic development any problem, no matter how victims; they are tomorrow’s heroes — relied on the many talents of motivated, skilled youth. intractable. who have the power to transform ■ We believe that it is our duty their own communities. Mercy Mercy Corps would not be the organization it is without the to be effective stewards of the Corps works in the world’s most youthful idealists we discover and empower. Today’s youth are hard financial resources entrusted difficult conflicts and disasters to to us. at work reimagining their world. For them, and for all of us, the unleash the potential of people who future is now. We are proud to present their inspiring stories in our can win against nearly all odds. 2006 Annual Report.

Cover: Young boys in Nepal. A LETTER FROM THE LEADERSHIP TEAM

Dear Friends, people in the fight against global poverty. In New York City, we began work on the World Hunger Action f the many global forces that define our present and shape our future, the demographic Center, an interactive learning space that will catalyze visitors — particularly young people — to join the boom in young people — those between the ages of 15 and 25 — holds the most promise. global movement to end world hunger. O More than half of the developing world’s population is under the age of 25. One of the We help young women in Iraq’s Shia heartland learn to read and write. We enable young men in most significant global challenges of the next decade will be to help this generation find ways to earn Kyrgyzstan to learn skills and trades that are badly needed in their communities. We engage youth in an adequate living. Over the next ten years, more than one billion of these youth will enter the global sports programs throughout Africa and Asia, teaching important lessons about teamwork, leadership and labor market. Labor experts predict that only 300 million responsibility, and life and health skills. new jobs will be created by the global economy during These are the faces of today’s young people. They are not only the future; they the present. In this year’s this same period of time. annual report, we will introduce you to this next generation, whom we are proud to call our partners. But the future for the world’s young people need not While youth engagement was an important priority for Mercy Corps in 2006, we also strengthened our be as dire as these statistics suggest. The challenge is commitment to the kinds of programming we have done for almost three decades. Providing lifesaving to enable them to become productive and contributing relief supplies for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by conflict in southern Lebanon. Civil members of their communities. And that will take creativity, society building through the support of neighborhood associations in devastated New Orleans wards. The commitment and investment from the rest of us. creation of MICRA, a “bank for banks,” enabling 50,000 Indonesian microfinance institutions to help Mercy Corps finds infinite promise in this challenge. thousands of families work their way out of poverty. As an agency, we see the best aspects of youth In 2006, Mercy Corps provided more assistance to more people than at any other time in our nearly — creativity, energy, hope, idealism — as the core 30 years of service. Our programs reached more than 12.5 million people in 40 countries and we delivered attributes of our own organizational personality. To make nearly $220 million in support and services. Thousands of you — individuals, corporations, foundations, progress on the world’s toughest problems, we embrace the newest technologies. We demand innovation governments, and faith communities — enabled Mercy Corps to support more young people this year. After and responsible risk-taking in our program design. When confronted with a crisis, we operate with several years of high profile disasters, you all bucked the conventional wisdom that charitable giving would thoughtful, field-tested action. decline dramatically. Thanks to your generous support, 2006 was one of Mercy Corps’ strongest years ever. Given the right support, young people will lead — and indeed, already have led — the way into the As we expand our efforts to meet the needs of youth in the future — and continue our work in future. This year’s most talked about business deal was the purchase of YouTube (founded by two young emergency relief, economic development, and civil society around the world — we thank you, our men in a garage) by Google (started by two graduate students). And in India, youth are driving the supporters, for your generosity and trust over the years. phenomenal growth of that country’s technological and professional sectors. Sincerely, In 2006, Mercy Corps significantly deepened its commitment to the needs of youth. In October, we

merged with NetAid, a non-profit that engages student leaders to better inspire and empower young Daniel W. O‘Neill Nancy Lindborg Neal L. Keny-Guyer Founder President Chief Executive Officer

2 3 L EBANON AND T HE S TRUGGLE WITHIN

n summer 2006, nearly 1.3 million people in Lebanon and Israel were displaced from I their homes, caught in the deadly crossfire between Hezbollah and the Israel Defense Forces. By the time the smoke had cleared, the social and economic infrastructure in southern Lebanon was devastated. Prior to the war, Mercy Corps had worked in Lebanon for nearly 15 years, helping increase economic opportunities and introduce environmentally sound agricultural practices. When the conflict began, Mercy Corps was one of the first agencies to provide emergency assistance, reaching more than 750,000 people to date. Today, all our pre-war development programs are back up and running, and we also continue to help vulnerable families during this transition from relief to recovery.

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A New Generation of Leaders n Liberia, students teach their peers to read and write. I A young woman uses her conflict resolution skills to bring people together in Uganda. Two teenagers in Tajikistan lead drug-education and conflict-prevention classes for friends and classmates. Everywhere we work, young people are a growing force in Mercy Corps’ mission: helping people help themselves. Resilient, optimistic and energetic, today’s youth are the fastest growing creators of new businesses and ideas, putting them at the center of economic and social transformation. Through idealism and activism, the next generation is changing the world for the better. Mercy Corps helps young people unlock their potential.

They benefit from our work — they also contribute to it.

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9 Grace Under PressureEMERGENCY RELIEF

Major emergencies, whether natural or man-made, can stress societies to their breaking points. Under those kinds of challenging circumstances, young people can experience some of the most intense losses and desperation. But at the same time, their energy, strength and dynamism provide crucial natural resources for Mercy Corps’ emergency response efforts. In times of crisis, Mercy Corps works to provide immediate help and lay the groundwork for recovery and a better future. Those who have the greatest stake in rebuilding their communities gain valuable skills and experience that can be used to help the people closest to them remain optimistic over the long haul. Emergencies come and go. But the young people Mercy Corps engages in its relief efforts have a lasting effect on their communities — and the world.

EMERGENCY RELIEF 11 FARES’STORY

Behind The hen the conflict between Hezbollah bombs,” Fares says. “Everyone just wandered around in “I don’t think Wand the Israel Defense Forces began a trance. I don’t think I will ever forget that look.” of myself as Change in July 2006, the world’s media zeroed Fares refused to succumb to despair. Instead, exceptionally in on Lebanon. But no matter how many he volunteered to help Mercy Corps distribute food, news reports covered the war, the human water and blankets to Keyfoun’s legions of displaced ‘heroic’ . . . dimension — the fear, chaos and disruption families. Mercy Corps’ emergency relief efforts in I just hate being experienced by Lebanese civilians — Lebanon were attracting global attention, and the idle and useless. remained difficult to grasp. work provided an important and practical lifeline of Now that I am The story of Fares, a 20-year-old who hope for Keyfoun. volunteering with became a Mercy Corps volunteer even as “Mercy Corps was the first organization to come Mercy Corps, I his family struggled to adjust to life during help us,” he says. “I don’t know what we would have realize that I love wartime, sheds light on the ordeals ordinary done if they had not come.” helping people.” Lebanese faced. Fares had never done this kind of work before “We had to flee our home on the second but he quickly discovered that he loved the round- day of the war,” Fares recalls. His family left the-clock challenge of helping people facing difficult their home in the Beirut suburbs and headed circumstances. “I started to recruit my friends to for the city of Keyfoun. There, they found help,” he says. “I told them all that helping everyone the streets jammed with more than else really makes you feel better.” 40,000 other stunned, displaced As Mercy Corps continues to help Lebanon rebuild civilians. its economy and repair its multi-ethnic civil society, “I think the empty look Fares sees an opportunity to provide youthful energy on people’s faces was and know-how for a country in need. more frightening than the

EMERGENCY RELIEF 13 ROZINA’S STORY SNAPSHOT

he massive earthquake that hit Pakistan in she had once harbored for the future died in the Raising Awareness, Reducing Risk Riding High T October 2005, completely devastated the city months after her injury. Thirty-nine million people around the And Holding of Balakot. The destruction was so thorough that Then, in the summer of 2006, workers for Mercy Corps world live with HIV/AIDS. Mercy Corps’ it is still uncertain if the city will be rebuilt in and Milestone, a Pakistani group that advocates for HIV/AIDS programming is helping the Strong the same location. disabled people’s rights and self-sufficiency, came next generation prevent its spread. In the midst of that colossal disaster, a more to visit. Our YES to Soccer program in personal tragedy changed 18-year-old Rozina’s “They pushed me to try to do more, to get out of Liberia delivers life skills and HIV/AIDS life forever. A collapsing wall of her family’s home the house and go to school,” Rozina says. “Mercy Corps prevention education to Liberian youth crushed her, severing her spinal cord and leaving brought me a new, modern wheelchair with wide rubber who never had a chance to attend school. her a paraplegic. After months in a hospital and a tires so it can go through the rubble and dirt roads here. In Zimbabwe, we ensure that orphans in series of unsuccessful surgeries, she moved with I was taught how to use the wheelchair and how to take rural communities are guaranteed the her family to a new and unfamiliar village. care of myself and stop depending on my family to do education and proper care that prevents “There is no special assistance for everything for me.” the spread of HIV/AIDS. In Niger, we use handicapped people in Pakistan,” Rozina says. Today, Rozina is preparing to return to school and a peer-education model to transmit a “We don’t need to worry about handicapped finish her general studies. She hopes to begin college more hopeful message to 1,500 young access ramps, because no one here has a next year and plans to study physical therapy. Now, people. And in China, Mercy Corps and wheelchair anyhow! It’s true — most people she has a dream again — she wants to help other the Nike Foundation are educating 2,500 cannot afford wheelchairs. They spend their disabled Pakistanis. ethnic minority Yi girls from Sichuan lives lying in bed, having people move them “I have gone from feeling like a prisoner with a life Province, preparing them to meet the around like bags of rice.” sentence to having a plan for the future,” says Rozina. challenges of urban migration and the For a long time, Rozina “In Pakistan there is very little support for the disabled, HIV/AIDS epidemic. was depressed and so we need to get to work and learn to help ourselves.” hopeless. All of the dreams

15 Making Markets WorkEMERGENCY RELIEF

Mercy Corps believes that the market is the most effective tool for lifting people out of poverty, and today’s youth are one of the most positive forces for economic change in the world. Young people start new companies and create new jobs. Their fresh insights and boundless energy keep economies growing and evolving. Their hard work and efforts matter in ways that go beyond the balance sheet. The astonishing trendspotting and trendsetting power of this young demographic is especially important. Companies and organizations founded by young people have literally changed the world. Nations like China and India are producing some of the most sought-after new global professionals. Revitalized economies and newfound prosperity give people hope and commitment as they move into the future. The young people involved in Mercy Corps’ economic development initiatives are promising professionals and entrepreneurs — and heroes.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 17 MATTHEW’S STORY Dreams Do atthew was just 11 years old when Liberia’s Matthew soon established a small drygoods shop. “Mercy Corps Mcivil war forced him to flee his home city Now 25 years old, and earning enough to feed his doesn’t just help Come True of Buchanan in 1992. As the city was ransacked, family, Matthew wanted to do something more. people learn to Matthew and his older brother fled into the bush and He quickly discovered Mercy Corps’ Youth were separated from their family. Education for Life Skills (YES) program. YES assists read and write . . . As the two tried to reach safety, rebels captured young Liberians whose lives have been defined We also help them and murdered Matthew’s brother. Left alone, the by conflict and war and who do not yet have the learn to think young boy managed to reach a displacement camp. skills needed to become productive members of about the future He built a shelter from sticks and palm leaves and the community. YES teaches a range of subjects and care for their survived by working for anyone in the camp who — health, literacy, numeracy, work preparation, families and homes could pay him. conflict management, and civic education. properly. I am very Just six months later, another rebel attack YES enabled Matthew to find a venue through proud to work with forced Matthew to flee again. This time, he found which he could help his peers recover. “I had Mercy Corps.” his way back to Buchanan where he dealt with a lot of tragedy myself but still discovered his parents and ten managed to survive and prosper,” Matthew siblings alive and together. He recalls. “I believe this is why Mercy Corps was overjoyed not to be alone accepted me as a volunteer.” anymore and quickly began to With his work for Mercy Corps, Matthew is build a new life. actively able to help his community forge a From humble beginnings brighter economic and social future. He has a — he started out hawking vision of a strong, peaceful, prosperous Liberia — foraged wood and coal — a Liberia that he is helping to build.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 19 AZIZ’S STORY SNAPSHOT

t’s not unusual to see sparks flying at the Usta a model for equitable economic progress. We help Building Community Welding I Construction Company in Jalalabad, Kyrgyzstan. Eighteen- the next generation find jobs by linking young Through Sports His Way year-old Aziz is honing his welding skills under the watchful people with local master seamstresses, milk Sports can transcend differences, uniting eye of one of the company’s experienced ironworkers. processors, bakers, mechanics, arborists, and other youth on playing fields and teaching To Work Aziz is one of three apprentices learning how to make professionals. Mercy Corps supplies the master important lessons about teamwork, everything from steel building frames to decorative iron craftspeople with all the necessary equipment leadership and responsibility. gates as part of a Mercy Corps project that connects master the apprentices need and takes care of all the In Liberia and south of Sudan, craftspeople with young trainees in southern Kyrgyzstan. paperwork associated with their employment. Mercy Corps and partner Grassroot Soccer Aziz had already attended a special welding school after The practical knowledge the apprentice welders teach life and health skills along with he graduated from high school. “But I couldn’t get a job are getting from their work at Usta is supplemented soccer to children who have had limited with just my welding certificate,” he explains. “I needed an by a series of lectures on welding’s technical aspects. access to either. In the Balkans, we apprenticeship, and they’re very difficult to find.” And welding is a surefire way to earn a good living, organized a soccer tournament between In fact, few jobs are easy to find around says Muhamatbek Kambarov, Usta’s owner. “There’s Serbs and Kosovars, and helped construct Jalalabad, part of Central Asia’s densely populated a lack of qualified welders here,” he says. “An a swimming pool in Serbia, providing Ferghana Valley. The sluggish economy forces experienced welder can earn more than a college- an incentive for young people to help many working-age men to seek work in Russia, educated worker.” revitalize their community. a less than ideal situation for families — and Aziz is determined to fill that need. After his Mercy Corps also uses soccer to for Kyrgyzstan’s economic future. three-month apprenticeship at Usta ends, he and his defuse ethnic tensions in Central Asia’s Mercy Corps’ programs in Kyrgyzstan fellow apprentices will be able to market themselves as Ferghana Valley. We have brought provide financial services and business junior welders. That kind of job security is a big reason together hundreds of young people advice, improving education and why Aziz wanted to become a welder in the first place. from different ethnic backgrounds to vocational opportunities for “There are always things to be fixed,” he reasons. “So compete in tournaments and create youth and establishing there will always be a lot of work for good welders.” positive relationships.

21 Transforming TheEMERGENCY Future RELIEF

Whatever Mercy Corps does — providing emergency assistance, launching economic development projects and more — we bolster the ways in which people come together for collective action. With young people in particular, we support emerging leaders who have the drive, creativity and enthusiasm to make their communities and countries successful. At its core, all of Mercy Corps’ work focuses on strengthening bonds among the public, private and civic sectors. We work to build social relations based on the ideals of accountability, participation and peaceful change. While we shape our work for each unique situation we encounter, our commitment to building trust between individuals, community members and grassroots organizations remains constant.

CIVIL SOCIETY 23 HUSSINIA’S STORY

he ongoing conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region The ongoing violence in Darfur had sparked an influx “Mercy Corps Reaching In affects a staggering 3.6 million people. of new displaced people to Hassa Hissa. Many belonged T said I had shown And Hussinia, a 38-year-old mother of six, is one of to Arab tribes previously linked to attacks against African passion and the many caught up in the tragedy. Hussinia, villages like Hussinia’s. Displaced Arabs established a new Reaching Out however, refuses to let herself become a passive camp nearby and sought aid from humanitarian groups. commitment victim of the violence. Now Mercy Corps wanted Hussinia to go into the Arab to my work, so Hussinia fled her village when a raid killed camp as its new Hygiene Promotion Officer. they asked me more than 80 of her neighbors. Her family “I was very scared,” she says. “How could I go to their if I would be found itself in the huge Hassa Hissa camp in camp and walk out alive?” willing to take Zalingei, West Darfur, where Mercy Corps provides But Hussinia overcame her fear. on a special services to more than 130,000 people affected “I went to each tent in the Arab camp and introduced assignment. by the conflict. myself as a Mercy Corps volunteer,” she says. “They . . . I said ‘yes’ “Life will never be the same,” Hussinia says welcomed me and invited me in. In some tents they gave before I even now. “But things got a lot better. Kids even started me water or milk to drink. I drank it all, to show respect.” heard what going to school again and playing in the after-school Over the next few months, Hussinia put the skills it was.” center Mercy Corps set up.” she’d learned in her own camp to work, improving Hussinia was determined to play an active role in life in the Arab camp. She now frequently eats the camp’s affairs. As a volunteer Hygiene Promotion breakfast with Arab women. It’s a small step towards Officer, she worked with Mercy Corps to teach reconciliation in a war-ravaged nation. people about basic sanitation and health “Having Mercy Corps start this program is the start issues. She excelled in the work. Soon, of a better future,” Hussinia says. “With these few her efforts earned her an unusual — and friendships, we have taken the first steps towards peace.” extremely difficult — assignment.

CIVIL SOCIETY 25 SAIDA & MUQADDAS’ STORY

ou might think that to nine teenagers asked to sit During this Mercy Corps sponsored class, the “We want Fresh Ideas, Y in a room, a lesson about “drugs and their harmful volunteer teachers keep their fellow students on effects” would be a recipe for deadly boredom. Not when their toes with funny skits, quirky projects and vivid the youth of Vast Saida and Muqaddas — two Tajik teenagers who are best discussions of how drug and alcohol abuse affect Tavildara to be Possibilites friends — are in charge. families in Tavildara. These impressive young women able to study Saida and Muqaddas are part of Mercy Corps’ got involved in Mercy Corps’ programs because they at university youth education efforts in the remote Tajik city wanted to help forge new opportunities for young and then return of Tavildara. Located in an isolated, economically people in their area. A newly constructed resource here and make depressed mountain region, Tavildara lags behind center, home to a library and a computer workstation, even as Tajikistan works to build a post-Soviet gave them a place to take action. And Saida and our community economy and civic culture. Over the past two years, Muqaddas have big plans — in the near future, they stronger. . . . Mercy Corps has organized will conduct seminars on violence against women, We’re going eight separate week-long conflict prevention and health care issues, as well as on to university youth camps, rehabilitated substance abuse. next year. If we athletic fields and volleyball “We plan to organize our own youth group and courts, sponsored sports recruit a lot of members,” Saida says. “We want instruct and tournaments, and helped to hold seminars in different villages. Most young prepare others, create a new sense of people don’t have enough information about anything there will be possibility among youth in — they don’t even know their rights. We want to some who will this region. bring them some benefits.” fill our shoes.” It’s safe to say In a country still transitioning from Soviet rule, none of it would young people like Saida and Muqaddas form the work without foundation of a more vigorous civil society, one that people like Saida will open new economic opportunities for Tajikistan. and Muqaddas. And they’re having a good time doing it.

CIVIL SOCIETY 27 NEBIL’S STORY SNAPSHOT

he soccer field that lies on the outskirts of the village address pressing social needs, and promote strong Mercy Corps Connections Rallying T of Grabovc — built by residents with Mercy Corps’ help economic development. Local communities and Youth around the world thirst for the Around — might not seem that ambitious when compared to the roads, governments then contribute a portion of all opportunity to interact with each schools or other large projects being constructed throughout rebuilding costs themselves. other in ways that build bridges and A Goal post-war Kosovo. Nebil’s idea for a soccer field in Grabovc came understanding. And the Internet can Twenty-three year-old Nebil is quick to acknowledge that his from a simpler, happier time in his life — his provide that opportunity.

village’s project may seem small. Immediately after the Kosovo school days. He remembered the friends he’d made Mercy Corps connects youth

war, villagers returned here to find every building save one through playing sports. “We all decided on a soccer throughout the Middle East with the

burned to the ground. Nothing was left of their former lives. field because the local school had lost theirs in larger world by infusing communities

Families were isolated from former neighbors by unthinkable the war,” Nebil explains. “We thought that it could and schools with technology. We have

loss, grief and mistrust. serve the other villages around here, too.” initiated Internet exchanges between

The questions that have dogged the people of Since the soccer field was completed, two US students and their counterparts in

Grabovc since the war are the same being asked sports tournaments have been held, one of which Iraq and West Bank/Gaza.

everywhere in Kosovo — how do we begin to rebuild? brought in 30 teams and throngs of spectators A new Mercy Corps program

Where do we start when there’s nothing left? How can from the surrounding area. It’s been such a entitled Why Not? will enable students

we feel whole again? success that Grabovc residents plan to undertake in the US, Lebanon, Iraq, and West

Working in Kosovo since 1993, Mercy Corps’ additional infrastructure projects, such as paving Bank/Gaza to engage in further

post-conflict work centers on helping people rebuild the main village road and installing a community- Internet exchanges. Our program will

a society that is both economically sustainable wide water system. build insight and empathy as students

and respectful of all of its citizens’ rights. We “Since beginning our work alongside Mercy Corps, explore each other’s cultures, lives

bring together community groups and local we’ve become a much more tightly knit community,” and aspirations. governments for joint discussions on how Nebil says. “Now we feel like we can accomplish best to rebuild local infrastructure, our goals.”

29 The World of Mercy Corps In 2006, the global resources of Mercy Corps and its partners totaled nearly $220 million — B Mercy Corps provided a record. We managed 40 material aid to the G H following 18 countries, ongoing worldwide programs, E 21 15 where at present we 20 36 assisting more than 12.5 million A 17 24 have no ongoing F 19 22 development programs. 38 people in need. J 14 18 D I 16 23 Material aid shipments This map highlights where we 28 — food, construction 30 31 29 26 25 supplies, emergency currently work (shown in green), 39 37 27 relief — totaled more where we have operated in the 35 than $57 million in 33 C fiscal year 2006. past (shown in light brown), 12 4 ■ Bolivia and the location of Mercy Corps’ 6 1 10 ■ Brazil 13 11 ■ Bulgaria global headquarters. 2 40 ■ Cambodia 9 5 3 7 ■ Czech Republic ■ El Salvador Worldwide Programs 34 ■ Ghana 32 Africa Balkans Middle East ■ Haiti 1. Eritr ea 15. Bosnia and Herzegovina 25. Ir an ■ Laos 2. Ethi opi a 16. Kosovo 26. Ir aq ■ Latvia 3. Liberi a 17. Serbia 27. J or d an 8 ■ Lithuania 4. Ni g er 28. Leban on ■ Morocco 29. West Bank/Gaza 5. Som ali a Caucasus/Central Asia ■ Namibia 6. Su d an 18. Arm eni a ■ Philippines 7. Ugan d a South, East & Southeast Asia 19. Azerbaijan ■ Republic of Djibouti 8. Zimbabwe 20. Geor gi a 30. Af ghanistan ■ Romania 21. K azakh stan 31. Chin a ■ Slovakia Americas 22. K yr gyzstan 32. East Tim or ■ Zambia 9. Colombi a 23. Tajikistan 33. In di a Mercy Corps Global Headquarters 10. Gu atem ala 24. Uzbekistan 34. In d on esi a 11. Guyan a 35. Kiribati A. Mercy Corps (Portland, OR, USA) F. Mercy Corps Cambridge (Cambridge, MA, USA) 12. H on d ur as 36. M on g oli a B. Mercy Corps Europe (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK) G. Mercy Corps Canada (Penticton, BC, Canada) 13. Ni car agu a 37. N epal C. Mercy Corps Asia (Hong Kong, China) H. Mercy Corps Belgium (Brussels, Belgium) 14. United States 38. N orth K or ea 39. Pakistan D. Mercy Corps DC (Washington, DC, USA) I. Mercy Corps New York (New York City, NY, USA) 40. Sri Lank a E. Mercy Corps Seattle (Seattle, WA, USA) J. Mercy Corps San Francisco (San Francisco, CA, USA)

3 0 3 1 MERCY CORPS PROGRAMS AROUND THE WORLD In 2006, Mercy Corps touched the lives of more than 12.5 million people in 40 countries around the world. Our emergency response programs sustained people living under unimaginably difficult conditions in areas devastated by conflict and natural disasters. HOPE & OPPORTUNITY We worked with individuals, communities, governments, and businesses to create jobs, generate incomes, ameliorate conflict, and improve lives through our programs. In small villages and large cities, we partnered with local organizations to address pressing needs and lay the foundation for lasting peace. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, we inspired hope and created opportunity. The following provides a closer look at our programs

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33 MERCY CORPS works in countries on nearly every continent of the ercy Corps began working in Afghanistan in 1986. Since 2002, our focus has been on globe. But we do not operate alone. Without significant support from helping communities rebuild and stabilize. In 2006, we helped farmers repair 400 kilometers of roads and canals and drill 250 water wells. Other Mercy Corps programs focus on key partners, it would be impossible for us to respond quickly and M agricultural research, natural resources management, school construction, and the introduction of effectively when disasters strike. It would be impossible for us to small loans to new businesses. provide complex and long-term development solutions. Our thanks and In Azerbaijan, Mercy Corps helps 400,000 people with veterinary services and healthcare for women and children. In southern Azerbaijan, where Mercy Corps was the first international non-governmental gratitude go to the following United Nations, US, European, and other organization to operate, our children’s health program decreased infant mortality by 80 percent and overall government donors. child mortality by 70 percent. As Bosnia and Herzegovina From the United Nations — the High Commissioner for Refugees, International Children’s slowly recovers, Mercy Corps continues Emergency Fund, the World Bank Group, and the World Food Programme. to help displaced people return to their pre-war homes and rebuild their From the US — the Agency for International Development, its Office of US Foreign Disaster lives and livelihoods. Through housing Assistance, the Department of Agriculture, and the State Department’s Bureau of Population, reconstruction, microcredit loans and Refugees and Migration. support for land mine survivors, we help provide an environment in which From Europe — the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development and the Foreign communities can thrive. We also helped and Commonwealth Office, Irish Aid (Development Cooperation Ireland), the European 512 families return to Srebrenica by creating jobs through entrepreneurship Commission, the European Community Humanitarian Aid Office, the Royal Netherlands and investment. Government, the Swedish International Development Agency, and the Swiss Agency for In China, Mercy Corps works with Development and Cooperation. the rural poor, ethnic minorities, migrant youth, and communities affected by HIV/AIDS. With local partner China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, we provide affordable credit to rural farmers in four provinces. And And from around the world — the Australian Agency for International Development, Canadian with support from the Nike Foundation, Mercy Corps assists the Liangshan Yi for Empowerment Center to International Development Agency, New Zealand Aid, and the Taiwan International support adolescent girls through improved literacy, health knowledge, and income-earning opportunities. Cooperation and Development Fund.

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Mercy Corps’ work in Colombia helps rural families forced to migrate due to civil conflict. workers to help remotely located indigenous people obtain medical care. We also help strengthen local In fast-growing urban slums outside cities like Bogota, Cartagena and Barranquilla, Mercy Corps is organizations and build cooperative working relationships with local governments. improving the lives of these displaced people through education, jobs, economic development, and With local partner Proyecto Aldea Global, Mercy Corps assists more than 32,000 people food security. in Honduras. Our programs tackle a broad array of health, agricultural, environmental, educational, In East Timor — the world’s newest domestic violence, and economic issues. We also administer Honduras’ PANACAM National Park and independent state — Mercy Corps works help protect key watersheds. A Mercy Corps agro-ecology program helps subsistence farmers develop cash with a local organization, Timor Aid, to crops and improve their livelihoods. educate young people about democracy In India, Mercy Corps helps improve conditions in the historic tea-growing regions of and nation-building. Civic education Darjeeling and Assam. Funded by Tazo Tea/Starbucks and implemented through local partner campaigns and teacher exchanges organizations, the Collaboration for Hope and Achievement in India (CHAI) program enables between East Timor and Scotland have communities to increase economic raised awareness about individual rights, opportunities and improve local health responsibilities and other community care, and strengthens the ability of local challenges. groups to solve their own issues. Mercy Corps’ programs in Ethiopia Mercy Corps’ Indonesia help communities peacefully diffuse programs aid tsunami survivors in Aceh potential conflicts while building stronger and Sumatra, provide health and nutrition civil institutions. In rural areas, we are education in the capital city of Jakarta, supporting efforts to make livestock more resilient to drought and disease, and helping herders diversify and promote economic development their income streams. in regions affected by conflict and Mercy Corps helps more than 40 communities in Georgia carry out social service, economic poverty. We partner with nearly 100 and agricultural projects. Additional Mercy Corps programs support cooperation among communities local organizations, universities and and local governments, reduce rural poverty, improve child education, strengthen private businesses, and governments in efforts that benefit 1.5 reduce social and ethnic tensions. million Indonesians. After 36 years of civil war and devastating floods from Hurricane Stan in 2005, Guatemala After four years in Iraq, Mercy Corps’ work there is still essential. We teach thousands of was left with poor public health and disempowered communities. Mercy Corps trains local health care women to read, help disabled Iraqis raise their voices and be heard, connect Iraqi youth with their

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peers in the US via the Internet, and guide the newly formed Provincial Councils in community kindergartens and work to prevent conflict by increasing employment opportunities and engaging representation. In northern Iraq, Mercy Corps provides assistance to tens of thousands of internally local government and youth in community development. Since its formation in 2005, Kompanion — a displaced people by helping them keep warm and fed during the harsh winters, and by assisting microcredit institution started by Mercy Corps — has disbursed more than 100,000 loans to women’s their return home when possible. solidarity groups and individual clients. In Jordan, Mercy Corps and local During the recent conflict in Lebanon, Mercy Corps led the way in responding, providing partners Jordan River Foundation and emergency medical and food supplies throughout the country. Months later, we are reconstructing the Royal Scientific Society help improve schools, fixing damaged infrastructure, and jump-starting economic development programs. Prior to the water resources through irrigation canal war, Mercy Corps helped boost tourism, taught Lebanese farmers environmentally sustainable practices, rehabilitation and rainwater harvesting. and organized social groups for kids in We will also provide 150 grants over five Beirut’s suburbs — programs that are now years, establishing revolving loan funds back up and running. to community groups to strengthen water In January 2006, Liberia management. inaugurated its first post-war president In the Pacific atoll nation of after 14 years of civil war. As the country Kiribati, Mercy Corps has started radio- moves toward a more hopeful future, based education programs to improve Mercy Corps is active in more than 200 communication between islands Liberian communities, helping them rebuild scattered across 3.5 million square by providing food security, developing kilometers. The radio programs help citizens engage with government and tackle poverty-related social sustainable crop production, access to clean problems while maintaining important cultural traditions. water and sanitation, and road and bridge As negotiations over the final political status of Kosovo continue, Mercy Corps pursues a building. We also offer basic education, life vision of a vibrant, tolerant, well governed multi-ethnic society. Our work there includes municipal skills and HIV/AIDS awareness education to training on how to work with a multi-ethnic citizenry, technical training for small farmers, grants youth affected by the war. awarded to people returning home, and small scale loans to entrepreneurs. Mercy Corps reaches more than 400,000 people in Mongolia, providing herder cooperatives, In Kyrgyzstan, Mercy Corps’ work centers on conflict management, microcredit, children’s farms and other businesses in the remote Gobi region with technical support and connections to new nutrition, and economic development. We distribute food to more than 80 percent of the country’s markets through our Gobi Regional Economic Growth Initiative. We are also one of the founders of

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— and currently one of the largest shareholders in — XacBank, a Mongolian microfinance institution Mercy Corps — active in Pakistan since the mid-1980s — was recently declared the lead serving the needs of the rural poor with a range of financial services. agency in tuberculosis detection and treatment in the country by the Pakistan government. Since the In Nepal, Mercy Corps focuses on economic and community development, particularly where October 2005 earthquake, our work in northern Pakistan has moved from emergency relief to long-term it involves youth, working with local partners to promote peace, tolerance and reconciliation. With local economic development, infrastructure organization Backward Society Education, we bring 15,000 young people from different communities upgrades, and provision of health care, together with decision makers to discuss the specific challenges facing Nepalese youth. particularly for women and children. In Nicaragua, Mercy Corps’ collaboration with local partners Aldea Global and Coffee Bean Mercy Corps’ work in Serbia International (CBI) is helping boost coffee prices for small farmers through Fair Trade marketing, investment in improves the welfare of families by training and equipment, and crop diversification. CBI donates $2 to Mercy Corps from the sale of every pound helping them participate more actively of Café Aldea™ coffee, which we then reinvest in society as well as take care of the into health clinics and clean water filters for environment. We operate in some of coffee growing communities. the most vulnerable areas of southern Because of droughts and plagues of Serbia, helping communities with locusts in recent years, Niger has experienced initiatives that create jobs, generate multiple hardships — compromised harvests, income and create an environment for increasing migration of families from rural economic opportunities in both urban areas, and high malnutrition rates among and rural regions. women and children. In 2006, Mercy Corps Mercy Corps’ work in Somalia is helping nearly 7,200 people recover from the Indian strengthened rural health networks and treated Ocean tsunami. Cash-for-work projects employ people in road reconstruction and help fishermen 30,000 malnourished children in urban and rebuild their livelihoods. Among the diverse clans of the Puntland region, we are strengthening local rural areas. organizations so that they can be effective advocates for change as Somalia moves towards a more Mercy Corps’ work in North Korea peaceful and prosperous future. continues, with a focus on practical, In Sri Lanka, Mercy Corps’ work includes emergency assistance to families displaced by person-to-person exchanges and efforts to improve food production. Sustainable agriculture projects — fighting between the government and Tamil separatists, and infrastructure projects that promote including technical exchanges between North Korean farmers and US experts — are supported through equitable development and peaceful change. In tsunami-affected areas, we help revitalize local the active involvement of US businesses, educational institutions and individuals. economies, improve coastal livelihoods and promote community cohesion.

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News reports from Sudan continue to be dominated by the ongoing crisis in the Darfur region, When hurricanes Katrina and Rita tore through Louisiana and Mississippi in the United where more than 200 Mercy Corps aid workers help more than 130,000 people affected by the conflict. States in 2005, Mercy Corps provided emergency assistance. Now, we support neighborhood groups Mercy Corps provides safe drinking water, improved sanitation, education, and psycho-social services and in New Orleans as they rebuild their communities. We also provide direct assistance to small business looks for creative solutions to economic owners and are pioneering home deconstruction as an economically productive alternative to outright challenges faced by the region’s demolition. In Portland, Oregon, Mercy Corps Northwest helps low-income, minority and immigrant displaced people amid worsening entrepreneurs start and expand small businesses violence. In southern Sudan, Mercy in Oregon and southwest Washington. Corps plays a large role in helping Mercy Corps’ work in Uzbekistan war torn communities get back onto is located in the Ferghana Valley, a rural, their feet after a peace accord put a densely populated region with a complex stop to the long-running civil war. ethnic and political mix. In addition to conflict We help communities by providing mitigation and microcredit projects, we offer technical assistance, agricultural tools disaster preparedness training, improve water and supplies, marketing help, and resources, and provide hygiene, sanitation and community financing. preventative health care education. In Tajikistan, Mercy Corps works In West Bank/Gaza, Mercy Corps to improve the health of more than assists the unemployed, youth and people 80,000 women and children, deliver with disabilities by providing emergency food safe water to rural communities, foster and medical supplies. We also help create the development of rural businesses, increase food production, and support women micro entrepreneurs. jobs, provide opportunities for people to get In the Ferghana Valley, a region encompassing three nations, we focus on conflict resolution in involved in community service work, and offer communities split by Soviet era borders. development prospects to entrepreneurial young people. As peace talks continue in Uganda, Mercy Corps is improving water and sanitation in Drought, HIV/AIDS and chronic political instability affect millions in Zimbabwe. Mercy Corps densely packed displacement camps. We help Acholi families prepare for their much delayed journey helps 5,500 children — many orphaned by the AIDS pandemic — afford school tuition and create after- home through creative agricultural programs that encourage collaboration and self-sufficiency, helping school clubs. We also provide food, HIV/AIDS education and shelter to vulnerable households in urban,

communities regain a cherished way of life. high density areas of Zimbabwe. ■

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o our Mercy THE MERCY CORPS FAMILY: ONE GLOBAL ORGANIZATION T Corps supporters, compassion knows no ith headquarters in the United States and the United Kingdom, and borders. From the Middle Wwith vital partnerships around the globe, Mercy Corps’ global resources totaled nearly $220 million — a record — in 2006, enabling us to reach more East to the Balkans, than 12.5 million people in need. Our Portland, Oregon, and Edinburgh, Scotland, headquarters — along with the partners that make up the Mercy Central Asia to Central Corps family — give us the ability to secure resources and advocate policies America, your generosity on a global scale. was overwhelming in Mercy Corps/Conflict Proyecto Aldea Global Pax World Service Management Group 2006. Without each one Mercy Corps/Proyecto Aldea Pax World Service formally In 2004, Mercy Corps merged Global has been working in affiliated with Mercy Corps of you, our work would with Cambridge, Massachusetts, Honduras since 1982. We are in January 1998, creating simply not be possible. based Conflict Management recognized there for our high a partnership that couples Group, significantly enhancing impact programs in underserved Mercy Corps’ emphasis on As we express our our ability to make a positive communities, particularly in civil society initiatives with deep gratitude to our difference in the world through the areas of health care and Pax’s interest in peace and many dedicated partners, conflict analysis, negotiation civil society initiatives. Mercy reconciliation. The Mercy Corps/ and crisis diffusion. The Corps/PAG’s programs currently Pax merger also augmented a we would like to renew integration of the CMG team serve over 200 villages in 17 unique relationship with the Pax our commitment to into the Mercy Corps family municipalities, and we are one World Fund, the first socially strengthens our humanitarian share mercy, justice of the few non-governmental responsible mutual fund. Pax work as we address the root organizations working in rural World Fund shareholders are and compassion around causes of conflict in the world. north and central Honduras. able to designate a portion of the world. their investments to Pax World Service, helping increase Mercy Together, we are doing Corps/Pax’s support for those the things that matter most in need worldwide. most. Thank you.

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ercy Corps’ ONE: The Campaign to The Boeing Company The Bill & Melinda NetAid A Special Thanks Make Poverty History In 2006, the Boeing Company Gates Foundation In October 2006, Mercy Corps More and more private organizations M message of hope ONE is a nationwide and its employees provided In 2006, The Bill & Melinda Gates merged with NetAid, a nonprofit are taking their place in the world campaign that Mercy Corps with more than $2 Foundation provided more than that educates, inspires and as caring and committed neighbors inspired thousands of engages Americans on million in support. While their $1 million to Mercy Corps to assist empowers young of those less fortunate. We at Mercy Corps are privileged to call them global poverty issues. The major contributions were to earthquake survivors in Pakistan, people to fight global supporters around the partners. In 2006, we honored those ONE Campaign, along with Mercy Corps’ tsunami recovery among other projects. Such early poverty. Mercy who contributed $250,000 and more Make Poverty History in the efforts in Indonesia and relief for support is crucial, allowing us to Corps and NetAid world in 2006, resulting in to bring help and hope to people United Kingdom, is part of the rapidly begin emergency response earthquake survivors in Pakistan, aim to dramatically alter the around the world. record contributions from international Global Call to Boeing also assisted in fighting operations. We are pleased to be way Americans — especially Action against Poverty that the “forgotten crises” around the a long-term partner of the Gates young Americans — view the The Boeing Company individuals, organizations, focuses attention on reaching world, assisting those suffering in Foundation, having teamed world beyond their borders by Pat Boone Foundation, Inc. the United Nation’s Millennium northern Uganda, Somalia and previously to address crises in such creating hands on, peer-to-peer corporations, foundations, CARE Development Goals. The ONE elsewhere. This support made a diverse environments as Indonesia learning opportunities and CharityUSA.com LLC Campaign calls for an additional after the Indian Ocean tsunami, and faith communities. In significant difference for programs innovative ways to connect with Combined Jewish Philanthropies one percent of the US budget to competing for funding with other, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and young people overseas. Together, Eiting Foundation all, private contributions go towards foreign assistance for higher profile disasters. North Korea. we hope to inspire the next The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation health, education, clean water generation to action in the fight GE Foundation totaled more than $51 and food, debt cancellation for Connecting through Film Envision a World against global poverty. the poorest countries, and trade without Poverty Global Impact In 2006, million in cash and reform. Mercy Corps is a founding Intel Foundation Mercy Corps’ Intel Foundation member of the ONE Campaign. Intel and its employees have been The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur more than $33 million in The Film Connection, founded online Foundation For more information, visit a major supporter of Mercy Corps in 2003, is a community of magazine, Global Envision, commodities and services mercycorps.org/one. for years. In 2006, they provided JP Morgan Chase Foundation film lovers and social activists continued to create awareness of nearly $1 million to Mercy Corps Microsoft Getty Images who view, discuss and act upon the global economy with timely — significant increases to assist earthquake survivors Nike In 2006, Getty Images donated compelling movies from around articles, interviews and book in Pakistan and Indonesia. Oprah’s Angel Network from 2005. In addition, a new system to Mercy Corps to the globe. In 2006, Mercy Corps reviews about globalization and By mobilizing its network of Starbucks Corporation streamline our photographic col- and The Film Connection merged sustainable development. Offering employees and partners, Intel nearly 100 volunteers lection. This important digital to create a new, non-profit 25 feature articles every month, Waterford Foundation has consistently marshaled asset management service, valued Mercy Corps initiative, offering a a bi-weekly newsletter, 250 lesson Estate of Clara Wildenhof resources that allow Mercy Corps donated more than 4,600 at $40,000, included system set up growing lending library of DVDs plans, and interactive discussions, to launch innovative disaster and free hosting of the collection. that tackle the issues facing the Global Envision is a great resource hours of work in 2006. response programs. world we live in and providing for students, teachers and people with a way to engage their informed global citizens. To find communities around important out more or to contribute your global topics. To find out more, opinion, visit GlobalEnvision.org. visit thefilmconnection.org. continued on next page

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RESOURCE PARTNERS [Mercy Corps’] Starbucks John Michael Talbot, Mercy Corps multiplies resources and the impact of our work through a growing global ❝ Starbucks Corporation and its Honorary Chair, strategy is beautifully network of partnerships with outstanding public, private and humanitarian organizations, employees provided more than Partners in Mercy and the generosity of forward thinking foundations and benefactors. We offer our simple: they provide $1.3 million in vital support Mercy Corps gratitude to these partners. of Mercy Corps programs in honors John grants to the best, most Guatemala, India and Indonesia. Michael Talbot Strategic Partners United States German Agency for Technical Swedish International Development for his tireless capable nongovernmental In particular, partnerships with Asian Credit Fund (Kazahkstan) Government Partners Cooperation Agency subsidiaries Tazo Tea Company efforts on Agency for Finance in Kosovo City of Portland (OR) Government of Bosnia- Taipei Economic & Cultural Office City of Seattle (WA) Herzegovina (Seattle, WA) organizations in their behalf of the Borshud (Tajikistan) and Ethos Water have helped Centre for Development and The Congressional Hunger Center Gradacac Municipality Taiwan International Coooperation ensure access to clean, drinkable poor. As the Support CRP (Bosnia & METRO (OR) Milici Municipality and Development Fund host countries, and help John Michael Talbot Multnomah County (OR) Modrica Municipality Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs water in schools, supported the world’s leading Herzegovina) China Foundation for Poverty Oregon Department of Agriculture Odzak Municipality The World Bank those NGOs run highly construction or rehabilitation Catholic recording artist, John Alleviation (Beijing, China) State of Oregon Sarajevo Canton Tesanj Municipality Organizational Partners of water and sanitation Michael raises funds and Jordan River Foundation (Jordan) US Agency for International efficient projects and International Micro Loan Fund Development Tuzla Canton Abyei Community Action for facilities, and sustained youth awareness for Mercy Corps at his “IMON” (Tajikistan) US Agency for International Vlasenica Municipality Development programs. . . . ‘There’s not empowerment programs and concerts throughout the United Kompanion Financial Group Development Office of Conflict Government of Ethiopia ACAD (Kyrgyzstan) Prevention and Response Government of Faroes Islands Academy for Educational vocational training in poor States. Representing Mercy Corps US Agency for International Government of Hong Kong Development a lot of drama in what Mercy Corps Northwest (Portland, rural villages, creating civic for more than 20 years, he has OR, USA) Development Office of Food for International Development Academy of Public Administration, Peace Research Centre RF Presidents Administration involvement and opportunity for raised more than $2 million for Microfinance Innovation Center we do,’ says Mercy Corps for Resources and Alternatives US Agency for International Irish Aid (Development (Russia) the next generation. our programs around the world. (Indonesia) Development Office of US Cooperation Ireland) ACDI-VOCA Senior Program Officer He is also the Founder and Partner Microcredit Organization Foreign Disaster Assistance Kosovo Provisional Institutions of Action Against Hunger-USA (Bosnia-Herzegovina) US Department of Agriculture & Self Government Action Aid International (China) VH1 Minister General of the Brothers Nick Macdonald. ‘But a Peace Winds Japan (Tokyo, Japan) Foreign Agricultural Service Microfinance Investment and Afghan Health and Development Using its considerable storytelling and Sisters of Charity. Poverty Alleviation in the Tumen US Department of Energy: Support Facility for Afghanistan Services (AHDS) skills and broadcast capacity, VH1 River Area (PATRA) Bonneville Power Administration Ministry for Reconstruction, Agri-Service Ethiopia lot of what makes good XacBank LLC (Mongolia) US Department of State Development and Return America-Mideast Educational and helped Mercy Corps keep viewers XAC-GE LLC (Mongolia) US Department of the Treasury (Bosnia & Herzegovina) Training Services, Inc. television doesn’t make informed about and engaged with US Fund for UNICEF Ministry of Agriculture (Georgia) America’s Heart United Nations Partners US Peace Corps Ministry of Agriculture and Animal American Jewish World Service Hurricane Katrina recovery prog- great development.’ Food and Agriculture Organization US State Department/Bureau Husbandry and Food (Kandahar American Red Cross ❞ ress. VH1 also donated significant of the United Nations of Population, Refugees and and Helmand, Afghanistan) American University of Beirut American University of Beirut airtime to promoting Mercy Kits, International Labor Organization Migration (BPRM) Ministry of Education (Afghanistan) Jeff Greenwald Office for the Coordination of Ministry of Education (Zimbabwe) Alumni Association of North Mercy Corps’ holiday season giv- Humanitarian Affairs World Government Partners Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Taiwan) America: New England Chapter The San Francisco Chronicle ing option. United Nations Assistance Mission Australian Agency for International Ministry of Health (Guatemala) and Greater Washington in Afghanistan Development (AusAID) Ministry of Health (Pakistan) Chapter United Nations Children’s Fund Big Lottery Fund (UK) Ministry of Health (Tajikistan) Anne Ueltschi United Nations Development Canadian International Ministry of Health (Zimbabwe) Ariana Financial Services Group Programme Development Agency Ministry of Planning and (ASFG) United Nations High Commissioner Department for International International Cooperation The Asia Foundation for Refugees Development (United Kingdom) (Jordan) Asia Pacific Ladies Club United Nations International Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Asian Development Bank Children’s Emergency Fund Embassy of Japan (Pakistan) Development (Afghanistan) Asociación para el Desarollo United Nations Mission in Kosovo Embassy of Lebanon Ministry of Trade (Indonesia) Humano World Food Programme (Washington, DC) New Zealand Aid Association pro-Health for Tucurú World Health Organization European Commission Norwegian Royal Ministry of APROSAT European Community Humanitarian Foreign Affairs (Zimbabwe) Battery Park City Authority Aid Office Scottish Executive Berklee College of Music

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Books for Africa Grassroot Soccer National Relief Charities Vocar Agricultural Cooperative, BAND Foundation Community Foundation of Silicon ESRI Mercy Corps, Bread for the World Guardians Negotiation Project at Harvard Law Zvornik Bank of America Valley Farleigh Witt ❝ Builders Exchange of Gusto E Sapore Ltd School Voluntary Association of Baumann Foundation The Community Foundation of Valerie Auerbach Washington, Inc. Habitat for Humanity NetHope Reconstruction of Afghanistan Bay Valley Foods Western North Carolina Michelle Kerin which has a long Canadian Feed the Children Health 2000 New Avenues for Youth (VARA) Bayer (China) Limited Computer Associates International, David Ludwig Canadian University Association Heart to Heart International NLBI Volunteers of America Oregon Bayer Corporation Inc. FedEx Kinkos history of working Ltd (Hong Kong) Horn of Africa Relief and Northshore School District We Are Women Activists Benjamin Peace Foundation CONTECH Stormwater Solutions, The Feinstein Foundation The Capital Trust Company of Development Organization ONE Campaign West Windsor-Plainsboro High Bessemer Trust Inc. Firstgiving, Inc. in Lebanon, ran the Delaware Hungry for Life International Open Meadow School North BetterWorld Together Foundation Cornell University Foundation Fletcher Bay Foundation CARE ImagineNation Group (ING) Operation USA Women Waging Peace Big Lottery Fund Corning China Flora Family Foundation largest US relief Catholic Relief Services Immigrant & Refugee Community Oregon State University Women’s Association Ruza, Zvornik The Bill and Melinda Gates Crane Creek Family Fund of the Floscan Instrument Company, Inc. Catlin Gabel School Organization Oxfam America Woodland Park Zoological Society Foundation Oregon Community Foundation ForesTrade, Inc. Ceili Rain India Community Center Oxgangs Primary School World Affairs Council of Oregon Blue Moon Fund D’Amato Conversano, Inc. FORTiX effort there. . . . Center for Creative Leadership InterAction Pact, Inc. World Reach, Inc. The Boeing Company The Darla Moore Foundation Foundation for Innovative DOTS Center for Development and International Association for Partners in Solidarity World Outreach Now The Bradbury & Janet Anderson David Evans and Associates, Inc. Expansion through Local But [relief aid is] only Support (CRP), Bosnia Agricultural Development People in Need World Vision Family Foundation David McAntony Gibson Foundation Initiatives to Stop TB Central Chinese Christian International Book Bank Portland Access Users Group YMCA (Lebanon) Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc. Davis Food Co-op Frank & Elizabeth Robertson’s a temporary solution. Central Puget Sound GIS Users’ International Finance Corporation Portland Community College Young Women Social Brother’s Brother Foundation Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Charitable Trust Group International Medical Corps Portland Development Commission Entrepreneurs Bullivant, Houser, Bailey Carol Bernick Franklin Conklin Foundation The larger answer, CHF International Office for Migration Portland, OR, Public Schools Bunson Family Foundation Brian Buckham Fraser Valley Gleaners Child Aid International Rescue Committee Cleveland High, Franklin High, Foundations and Calvert Foundation Kristine Fyfe Freidberg Family Foundation Church World Service The Islamic Cultural Center of Roosevelt High, Wilson High, Corporate Partners Campbell & Company Kristen Gurdin French Quarter as Mercy Corps Citigroup Global Impact Funding Northern California Fernwood Middle School Abessinio Family Foundation The Capital Group Companies Stuart Harris Froelich Consulting Engineers, Inc. Trust, Inc. Jewish Coalition for Sudan Relief Portland State University (OR) adidas USA Capital Research and Management Jay Hull GE Foundation has demonstrated Columbia Theatre Association John Snow International Portland Youth Builders Adobe Systems Incorporated Carei, LLC Salley Johnson Gertrude B. Nielsen Charitable Trust Combined Jewish Philanthropies The Johns Hopkins University Practical Action Aetna Giving Campaign Caring for Humanity Foundation Kelly Luzania Goldman, Sachs & Co. worldwide, lies Consultative Group to Assist the Poor Kidstown International Princeton University AFM, Inc. The Carnegie Corporation of Devon Lyon Goodfellow Fund Conflict Dynamics Kinco International, Inc. Program for Applied Technology Aidmatrix New York Sean Malcolm Google in helping people Conflict Management Partners Korean American Sharing in Health Alavi Foundation Caruso Produce, Inc. Marilen McGill Grantland Avenue, LLC Counterpart International Movement RAPIDS/Zambia Albert Kunstadter Family Cascade Rubber Products, Inc. Jim Mei Granville Homes The Country School (Easton, MD) Lakeside School Rex Putnam High Foundation CharityUSA.com LLC Sheila Fox Morrison Great Kindrochit Quadrathlon develop long-term Dalian Charity Federation Latter Day Saint Charities Room to Read Alex Shulman Family Foundation The Charles Evans Hughes Robert Newell Greater Kansas City Community DATA Lebanese American University Rotary International District 5030 Allied Buying Corporation Memorial Foundation, Inc. Kevin Saer Foundation jobs, shelter and Development Alternatives, Inc. The Lebanese Organization for Royal Scientific Society AMD Matching Gift Program ChevronTexaco Global Fund LaVerne Woods Gypsum Wallboard Supply Drugs and Narcotics Educational Study and Training Save the Children American Express Foundation Chez Panisse Restaurant & Cafe James Zupancic HammerSurf security. . . . Services for Humanity Liangshan Yi for Empowerment Save Youth Future Society (Gaza) American Jewish World Service Chicago Hot Glass, Inc. Davis Wright Tremain, Shanghai Hampton Lumber Sales Company (DANESH) (Formerly Yi Center) The Schwab Fund for Charitable Amgen Foundation China Foundation for Poverty Office Hanna Andersson Corporation Mercy Corps has a Edinburgh Academicals Sports LIFE Giving Antietam Oncology & Hematology Alleviation DHL Worldwide Express Hariri Foundation Centre The Lions Club of Hong Kong Service Clubs of Wilsonville Group PC City of London Investment Group plc Dick’s Country Dodge Harrington Family Foundation Electrodistribution Bratunac Citizens Sharek AOH Foundation Cityice Cold Storage Company DLK Moving & Storage Harris Bank Foundation global reputation for Engineers Without Borders Make Poverty History Small Change Apple Physical Therapy, Inc. Clarence E. Heller Charitable DMI Drilling Hedinger Family Foundation Episcopal Relief and Development Manchester United Football Club Smrcak, Zvornik Aram Properties, Inc. Foundation DNS Funding Helen John Foundation putting donations to Eton College Marc Lindenberg Center, University Social and Economic Development The Arca Foundation CLD Pacific Grain Dobyns Educational Foundation Herman Goldman Foundation First Book of Washington Organization for Tamils (SEDOT) Arntz Family Foundation CMRK, Inc. The Dowling Foundation Holst Architects efficient use. FreeGeek Maret School Society of St. Vincent de Paul Around Foundation Coffee Bean International DRW Holdings Homes for Scotland ❞ Friends International Medical Teams International (for- Sudan Production Aid Arrojo Studio Corporation Dunietz Minsk Family Foundation Hoss Foundation Arrow Electronics Friends of Mongolia, Inc. merly Northwest Medical Teams) Swiss Academy for Development Columbia Sportswear Company Eagleflight Capital, LLC Hudson Investment Co. Editorial Board Friendship in Action Mennonite Central Committee Texas A&M University Artemis Comfort Aid International eBay Foundation Hull Family Foundation The Statesman Journal Fundemi Mobility International Timor Aid Arthur & Sara Jo Kobacker, Alfred Community Foundation for eBay Giving Works The Hunger Site George Watson’s College Momentum Georgia Tufts University & Ida Kobacker Foundation Southwest Washington Echo Geophysical Corporation Hyde Family Foundation (Salem, Oregon) Glentorran Soccer Academy Mongolia VET Net Union for Reform Judaism Astronics AES, Inc. Community Foundation of Abilene EIG Family Foundation HydraMaster Corporation Global Impact Mother Theresa Society United Way Austin Community Foundation The Community Foundation of Eileen Fisher, Inc. Hyperion Capital Group Global Operations & Development National Funeral Directors University of Pattimura Ayco Charitable Foundation Greater Atlanta, Inc. Eli Lilly and Company Foundation IBM Corporation GOAL Association Urban Institute B.R. Cohn Charity Events The Community Foundation of Elle Magazine Ideal Mobile Home Community The Governor Hotel National Iranian American Council Vision Eritrea B.F. Saul Co. Greater Greensboro EMS, Inc. IKEA

50 51 IMM Trust Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation North Carolina Hillel Foundation Portland Lines Bureau, Inc. Scottish Council for Development Vesta Corporation Faith Community Partners Mercy Corps . . . In the Sun Foundation, Inc. Margaret Watt Edwards North Star Foundation Portland Trail Blazers and Industry VH1 Angel Ministries ❝ India Community Center Foundation The NPD Group, Inc. Possibility Infinity Enterprises Scottish Executive The Vintage Plaza Hotel Brothers and Sisters of Charity focuses its efforts on InfoSpace, Inc. Marin Community Foundation NVIDIA Corporation Powell’s Books, Inc. Sea Port Products Corp. Virginia Wellington Cabot Monastic at Little Portion ING Asia Mariposa Foundation, Inc. Oaktree Capital Management Pratt and Larson Seattle Aero, LLC Foundation Hermitage crises where it can Intel Foundation The Martin Fabert Foundation OCP Precision Castparts Corporation The Seattle Foundation Virtual Technology Corporation Brothers and Sisters of Charity Interface Engineering Martin Family Foundation Odyssey Re Holdings Corporation Preston, Gates & Ellis Sewalanka Foundation Volver a la Gente Domestic International Rehabilitative Mazama Capital Management, Inc. Old Friend Footwear Ellen Bachman Shamiana Restaurant W. Glen Boyd Charitable Buddhist Churches of America make a long-term Sciences, Inc. McDermott International OneFamily Foundation Derek Crick Share and Care Foundation Foundation Church of St. Charles Borromeo Intrepid Powerboats, Inc. McGhan Ranch I Oodrive Technologies Deanna Gregory Shiels Obletz Johnson W. O’Neil Foundation, Inc. Collegiate Church Corporation difference. The group J.L. Schiffman & Co., Inc. McGraw-Hill Open Door Incentives Matt Lysne Shulman Media, LLC Waggener Edstrom Dungeness Community Church Jack & Marie Eiting Foundation McKenzie River Gathering Oprah’s Angel Network Margaret Niles Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., Inc. Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club Foundation First Presbyterian Church has been a leader in Jewish Community Endowment Foundation Oregon Anesthesiology Group, PC Charles Purcell Simon Golub & Sons, Inc. Walsh Construction Marble Collegiate Church Fund McMaster-Carr Supply Company The Oregon Community Yujing Shu Sincerely Henry Foundation The Warrington Foundation Resurrection Parish the gradual blurring Jive Software Medallion Industries, Inc. Foundation Primescape Solutions, Inc. Sino Golf Holdings, Ltd. (Hong Washington Mutual Foundation Seattle Taiwanese Christian Church John D. and Catherine T. MedPham Oshyn The Prudential Foundation Kong) The Washington Post Company Self Realization Fellowship Church MacArthur Foundation Melody S. 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Whispering Pines Development (Portland, OR) Foundation Microsoft Corporation Participatory Integrated R. L. Fortney Management, Inc. Standard Life plc Company, LLC Tuttle Chapel United Methodist development. Kimberly Clark Corporation Minuto de Dios Development Society (PIDS) Raven Drum Foundation Stanley Foundation WhiteTie, Inc. Church Kinnie Family Foundation Mithun Pat Boone Foundation, Inc. Raymond James Financial, Inc. Starborn Creations, Inc. WhiteHall Products, Inc. Washington Cathedral The Kobacker Company MKM Foundation Patricia Eiting Foundation The Real Estate Board of New Starbucks Coffee/Ethos Water Whole Foods Market, Inc. . . . ‘They’re not just Kohl Construction and Remodeling, Monqui Presents Paulson Investment Company, Inc. York Foundation Stokes Lawrence, PS William Henry Knives, Inc. Inc. Moore & Van Allen, PLLC Pax World Funds REI Stormwater Management, Inc. William James Foundation in the visible places, Kraak Charitable Foundation Mostyn Foundation Pax World Management Corp. Reliable Hardware & Equipment, Summerhall The William L. Price Charitable La Grand Industrial Supply Co. Motley Fool PeacePartners Inc. Surya, Inc. Foundation they’re in the small The Lamb Baldwin Foundation Mountain Hardwear Peninsula Community Foundation Renschler Foundation SwiftView, Inc. The William Zimmerman Foundation Landmark Equipment Mt. Hood Chemical PepsiCo, Inc. Revolver USA Symbol Technologies, Inc. Windermere Foundation The Lara Lee & George Gund III MTV Networks Perkins Coie LLP Rex Foundation Szekely Family Foundation Winky Foundation places,’ and stay Foundation Music Aid Northwest Robert Aldisert Richemont North America, Inc. 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Chandler Fund of the The Tibden Trust Ziba Design The Liana Foundation of the Oregon Community Gwynneth McApine Oregon Community Foundation Tides Foundation The Zoline Foundation has shifted,’ says Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc. Foundation Renee Starr Rosen Family Foundation Tidewater Barge Lines, Inc. The Little Red Hen Foundation Network for Good The PF Charitable Trust Rosengarten-Horowitz Fund The Timberland Company Samuel Worthington, LizardTech New Leaf Community Markets Pfizer, Inc. Rossmore Properties TOSA Foundation Lloyds TSB Scotland plc New Seasons Market PGE Beijing Office Roy E. Crummer Foundation Towne Foundation president and CEO of Longbottom Coffee & Tea, Inc. Nicole Laurel Cuddy Foundation PGE Foundation Russell Investment Group Transformation Trust, Inc. Lori Philipson Nike Africa Pikes Peak Community Foundation SG Foundation Turner Foundation, Inc. Washington DC based Love Foundation for North Korea Nike EMEA (Netherlands) Pioneer Human Services Safeco Corporation Turntables on the Hudson, LLC LSI Logic Corporation Nike Europe Piros Family Foundation Sanctuary CRC Union for Reform Judaism InterAction. Lucy Activewear, Inc. Nike Foundation Ploughshares Fund Sara Lee Unocal Foundation ❞ Lynden, Inc. Nike, Inc. Plus Vision Corp. The Schley Family Millennium Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust Nike Japan PNC Advisors Foundation US Bancorp Joseph B. Frazier The MacInnis Fund Nike Middle East Portland Arena Management, LLC Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. Varitz Foundation Associated Press Malakan Diamond Co. Norris and Stevens, Inc. Portland General Electric Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, PC The Venetian Company, LLC

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Monthly Giving at Partners in Mercy Heroes Against Hunger Jennie Peabody, Director, Planned Give the Gift of Mercy Giving, at 800.292.3355, ext. Mercy Corps By becoming a Partner in For most, hunger does not arise Mercy Kits are a great way to 418, [email protected], ver the last year, hundreds Mercy, you help us keep our from a shortage of available honor friends and family while or visit mercycorps.org/donate/ making a difference in the world. of new donors joined Mercy commitment food or a O plannedgiving. to rapid, famine, but Remember Mercy Kits for your Corps’ convenient and efficient decisive rather from next gift giving opportunity. It’s Phoenix Fund — Social monthly giving programs, adding action in severe easy to send your personalized Venture Capital at Work response to disasters, as well as poverty and gift announcement by mail, Mercy Corps Chief Executive Officer Neal their individual voices to thousands Keny-Guyer visits with kids in Lebanon soon long-term assistance that helps a shortage of opportunity. In The Phoenix Fund is privately by email or by printing after the Israel-Hezbollah conflict in 2006. calling for a better, safer world. communities recover. In 2006, 2006, 779 Heroes Against Hunger raised capital that enables your own card. Simply go to These generous partners help nearly 7,600 Partners in Mercy donors helped Mercy Corps work Mercy Corps to test high-risk, mercycorps.org/mercykits to high-reward projects that will provide Mercy Corps with a put their convictions into action with local farmers to increase browse our catalog and select with generous monthly gifts that food security. serve as models for future your gift. reliable, vital flow of income to helped poor families. activities around the globe. The For information on becoming a Partner Fund is supported by businesses Every Click Counts ensure a rapid response to natural in Mercy, or on joining Give for Kids or and entrepreneurs and provides disasters, crises, hunger, and Give for Kids Heroes Against Hunger, please call In 2006, support 800.292.3355, ext. 250, email strategic investments though seed from The Hunger children’s issues. We are pleased Children living in areas of [email protected], or go capital grants and loans that conflict and disaster should to mercycorps.org/monthlygiving. Site helped thousands of families. to honor the more than 10,300 sustain locally implemented have every The Hunger Site, a Mercy Corps economic development projects. donors who belong to our three chance to Planned Giving partner since 2001, generates The Phoenix Fund has made vital support for programs that monthly giving societies. Their grow up You can be the change beyond grants to Mercy Corps in safe, alleviate hunger and poverty by commitment to positive, lasting your lifetime by including microenterprise programs healthy donating enough money to help Mercy Corps in your estate in Mongolia, Guatemala, change is making a difference for and supportive environments. feed a hungry person every time plan. By naming Mercy Corps Kyrgyzstan, China, Serbia, millions of children and families With the support of nearly 2,000 you visit. To find out more, go to as a beneficiary of your will and India that enhance the Give for Kids donors in 2006, hungersite.org. around the world. or trust, life insurance policy, livelihoods of local participants. Mercy Corps improved the well- or retirement plan, or by To find out more, contact being of children in some of the establishing a life income gift, Jean Hart, Phoenix Fund world’s most troubled regions. you can leave your own legacy Director, at 503.450.1976, or of compassion and hope for [email protected].

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54 55 FOUNDERS CIRCLE Michael and Heather Conley Holly Fajardo Julian Head Alma Krivonen Anthony J. McEwan Kathleen Pascal Robert Connon and Kim Lan Craig and Sally Falkenhagen Linda Heaney Phillip and Mary Krueger Nancie S. McGraw Minhaj Patel There were 620 Founders Circle members in Simmons Laurie Fan Elizabeth Hebert and Donald Quercus and Carolyn Kulog William and Noreen McGraw Dal Paull, Jr. John Conover Kim and Robert Farias Guthrie Johan Laban Gerald and Tona McGuire Norma Pawley 2006, 97 of whom are anonymous, who give Karen and Jess Cook Donald and June Farries Fred and Harriet Hegge Ronni Lacroute Lizabeth McKibben Velda Pearson $2,500 or more annually. The Founders Circle David Corella Lou Fezio Lucy Helm Anil Lal Michael Mcmanmon The Honorable Charles Percy and John Corrigan Kathleen Fielder and Richard Gay Michael Hennig Kathleen Lane and David Helm Elsa McTavish Lorraine Percy Honorary Chair is Pat Boone. David Courtney Jon Lea Fimbres Joel Henry Erik and Anne Larsen Ken Medenbach Debra Perry and Jeff Baldwin Estate of Doris F. Cowgill Scott Finch Russell P. and Linda E. Herwig Mr. and Mrs. John Lastova III Farokh Mehran Paul W. Peterson Janna Crist Kathleen Finn George and Gladys Heusser Dr. James and Edith Laurent Marvin Mercer Ronald Peterson Jaculin Aaron Richard Bingham Brian and Kristin Cronn Joyce Flaschen Wesley and Diane Hickey Beverly and Raymond Lawrence Maurice Meslans and Margaret Thomas Peterson Stacy Aaron John and Sally Blair Dr. Robert Crooks and Ms. Sami Fr. Richard Luke Flom and Diane Linda and Bob Hildreth Jacob and April Lawrentz Holyfield Margi and Joseph Piorkowski Abraham Aburachis Stephen and Janet Blake Tucker Flom Mr. Jim W. Hitzman David and Ann Ledgerwood Bob Metzler Scott Plybon Daniel and Lisa Adams Paula Blasen Kathryn and David Cuddy Lynn Fountaine Sandra Hoehne Marilyn Leff Steve Miller and Pam Cowan Martin and Mary Pointon Anne Ader Teresa Bledsoe Alexander and Peggy Culbertson Raymond Frantz Christina Bird Holenda Debbie and Richard Lemon Mrs. R.G. Miller David and Shirley Pollock Cynthia Albert Link and Lawrence Malcolm A. and Victoria L. Blier Donald Culver Padraic Freeman and Susan Golub John Holt Charles and Carlene Lenard Ross and Jess Millikan Jim Pope Link Martha Boesenberg Maida and John Cummings Marie Gaillard Robert and Terri Hopkins Leung Siu On Clifford Catherine and John Milos Frances Posel Janet Aldrich Ed Bomber Evelyn and John Daly Richard Galiardo Eric Hougen Irving Levin and Stephanie Fowler Ryan Misener Jacqueline Post Ann Allen Gary Bottone Deborah and Thomas Davidson Paul Gamble and Jeri Van Dyk Joseph and Mary Hovel Elaine Lim Anne Modarressi Andrew Pozsgay James Allen Jeffrey B. Bradley and Lilot S. Mark and Christina Dawson Woodrow and Susan Gandy Warren Howe and Janet Karon Holly Lind Mr. and Mrs. John Monroe Steven Priest Paul Allen Moorman Margo Day Gordon Gefroh Andrew and Caroline Huddart Nancy Lindborg Robert Montalbine Steven Pumphrey Sheryl M. Altman Hugh Brady David Dee Robert and Alene Gelbard Deirdre E. Hunter-Bingman Lance and Sherry Linder Martin S. and Patricia K. Morehart E. D. Radkey Valerie Anton in Memory of John Mary Brennan Joe and Randee Dellaselva Katharyn Gerlich Alexandra Isles Michael Litke Paul Morel, Jr., and Linda Susie Ralls and Margaret Anton Brooke Brimm Robert Denman Adrienne Gignoux Ivan and Ruth Jacobs Brian Littleton Woodworth Mark Raney and Dixie Wyckoff- Robin Appleford Mrs. O’Neil Brown Dale and Lois Derouin Camilla Gignoux Frank James Darrell Litvin Mahmoud Mostafa Raney Dr. Anita L. Archer Mark Brubaker Barbara K. and William E. Derry Leon and Erika Giles Linda Jangaard Jack R. Loew Steve Muth Vivekanand Rau Mel Archer Thomas Bruggere David Derting Mike and Diane Giles Yusaf Jawed and Fernanda De Bartholomew Lower Millicent Naito Charles Reif Yvonne Arechiga Mr. and Mrs. William Brunnett John Desiderio John Giuliani Clercq Robert Lundeen Michelle Nannini Pepe Mr. and Mrs. Richard Reuter Jonathan and Deanne Ater Margaret S. Bryant Leonard and Lou Jean DeVito Sarah Glickenhaus Susheela Jayapal and Bradley Susan Lutes Rami Naqib Robert Rhodehamel Robert and Patricia Atkinson Robert Bunn Esther Di Maggio and Deborah Michael Glinsky Miller Anne Lynch Sanjay Natarajan and Monica R. Scott Ringwald Ray and Jean Auel R. Scott Bunt Ebersole Keith Golden and Ellen Spertus Grady Jenkins Patrick Lynch Enand Kenneth Robbins Ann Aurelius Ms. Mary Catherine Bunting Robert Dietz Alexander and Jeannette Golitzin Linda Jensen Lyon Family Raymond C. Nelson Ronald Roberts Elizabeth Austin Kristin and Victoria Burch Jacquie and John Dillon Brenda Goodrich Steven Jette Lynda and Barry Mackichan Ulla Neuberger Shirley Robertson George Azumano Christine Burrell David and Julie Doka Rodney Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Johnson Jane Macnab-Dow and James S. Robert and Melinda Newell Nea Lynn Robinson Stephen Bachelder and Kathryn Timothy Butler Lynda Dolan Hala Gores Jack Jue Dow Ly Nguyen Dick and LeRita Rodbury Tucker-Bachelder Steve and Vicki Byers Lee and Rene Doran Barry and Naomi Goss Ben Kaiser and Erin Livengood Jennifer and Carter MacNichol Mark Niehaus Joan Rogers Marianne Baird Barry Cain Ralph and Susan Doughton Marjorie Goss Mark Kantor and Lawranne Stewart Carla Main John Nitardy G. William Rogers, Jr. Diana Baker Lisa Caldwell Theodore Downes-Le Guin Dr. Gerald Goudreau and Rev. Katherine and Gordon Keane Anthony D. Maiocco Harvey Nixon Piercarlo Romano Ms. Janet Baldwin Jeremy Campbell Bertis Downs Mary Goudreau Sue and Scott Keane Chris and Melody Malachowsky Nancy Nordhoff Laura Rose and Scott Lewis Meredith Ball Steven Cantor Sho and Loen Dozono Daryl Gourley Mary Kedl Dominic and LeeAnne Mancini Marilyn M. Norfolk Libby Rouse Linda Barnwell Anne Carragher Benjamin Duell Arrel Gray Patrick Keegan Brian Maney Harriet Norman Dyanne Routh George and Colleen Bartolini Joseph Carrere Greg and Kathy Dunn Vartan and Clare Gregorian Clifford and Diane Keeling Tim Manring Frances Nyce Elena Rozier Alan Baxter Maria Caruso Caroline Durston John Griffen Thomas Keffer and Lee Christie Patrick and Judith Manza Lawrence and Dorothy O’Rourke James Rudinski Claire and Bruce Bean Mary Warren Case and Stanley William and Karen Early James Griner Joanne Kendall Leta Markley Emmett Omar John E. Ryan Suzanne and John Beaumont Case Don Eaton Jeanne Gross Mike and Fabian Kennedy Dr. John Marks Molly Omizo Dr. and Mrs. Garrett Ryder Tom and Harriet Beck Indy Chakrabarti Lindsay Eberts Jane and Allen Grossman Farhat Khan and Mohammed Edward Markusen Robert Orenstein Mr. and Mrs. David Sauer Celeste Becker George Chaloner Virginia Egan Guy Haigood Anjum Frances and Chris Marthaller Jeff Osborn Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Scafidi Elizabeth Becker Julie Chapman Ronald and Melinda Eisen Carolann Haley Richard and Gretchen Kieding Jim Martindale Robert and Dorothy Osborn Dr. Barton Schmitt Mary C. Becker Romir Chatterjee Roger and Francoise Eiss Thomas and Julie Hamlin Earl Kimmel Linda Mason and Roger Brown, Jr. Sam Osmen Mark and Sandi Schmitt Theresa Becks Barbara and Ralph Christensen Debra Ekman Jay and Andria Hannah Grant Kindrick Suzanne Masuret Greg and Carla Page Edward Schwartz Jonathan Beebe Paula Clancy Jennifer Ellestad Richard Hardegree William King Paul and Terri McAllister Ken and Alicia Paist Aaron Schwindt Robert and Lorraine Beegle Karen Clarke Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ellis Brad and Alison Harlow June and Elwyn Kinney Michael and Jane McCarthy Chuck Palahniuk Jim Scott and Elaine Robin Joshua Bekenstein William Coe Joan English Krista and Brad Harris Thomas Kirby Mary McClain Susan and Timothy Palmer Steve Sekel Stephen Belmont Marian Cole Johannes V. Erhardt Dale and Renee Hartman James Klaus Steven McClain Joseph and Susan Palmieri Jan Sewell India Berkholtz Virginia Coleman Stephanie Evans Mark Hartman Thomas B. Klein Ken and Beverley McClure Daphne Pang Bijan Shahir and Karen Ramus Harold Berliner Mrs. Frances Collier Ben Ewing Sylvia and David Hathaway Stephen and Mary Eileen Knoff Alan and Ruth McCollom Shin Park James Shaw and Marnie Weber Lois Berning Truman and Kristin Collins John Failor and Cheryl Mansfield Nikki Hatton Ted and Virginia Koontz Robert V. McCullough Janet Parker Mark Siegel Michael Bigelow John Condon

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MERCY CORPS — AN EXEMPLARY STEWARDSHIP RECORD Misha Simmonds Huong and John Vo GIRON LEGACY SOCIETY he resources of Mercy Corps’ global operations totaled nearly $220 million — a record — in fiscal Virginia M. Sloyan Theodore Waddell Patricia Smail George and Barbara Walker The Giron Legacy Society enables donors to support year 2006. Material aid, government grants and private fundraising enabled us to provide significant Jim and Betty Jo Smith Kent Walker Mercy Corps through estate planning. Established in 2003, John and Catherine Smith Kevin Waltz there are 93 members. relief and development assistance. Some 89 percent of our resources were directed to programs. Robert L. Smith and Adriana Huyer Richard and Patricia Warren T Ensuring that resources are wisely spent is the cornerstone of our values, vision and strategy for growth in Robert and Patricia Smith Robert Warren Barbara Andersen Mary Sue and Carl Lauersen Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Barber, Jr. Estate of Edwin Leach, Jr. Bob Snead Colin and Janee Watson Marie and Joseph Barca Doris S. Lottridge the future. Guy and Alice Snyder Tony and Mary Wawrukiewicz Linda Barone Douglas and Linda MacGregor Jeanne Snyder Brian Weatherford Alan Baxter Loretta Macha Global Financial Summary Audited Financial Summary Preeti Sodhi Joe and Judith Weber Carole Anne and Eugene Best Dominic and LeeAnne Mancini Support, Revenue and Expenditures of Mercy Corps Condensed Summary of Support, Revenue and Expenditures for Mercy Valeria Solomonoff Mike and Diane Weber Gerald Boarino Barbara A. Marin and Worldwide Partners Corps Global Operations Virginia A. and Theodore J. Sommer Karen and Harold Weight Estate of E. Pauline Brown Julie and William Martin Support & Revenue FY 2006 FY 2005 Support & Revenue FY 2006 FY 2005 Mark and Ele Spada Gwen Weiner Betty Lou Butzin Ronald and LuAnn Martin Laurence Spitters Laurence Weinstein Proyecto Aldea Global $ 2,152,496 $ 2,149,724 Government and Marie Clark Barbara May Mercy Corps Scotland 19,625,527 14,052,950 Organizational Support: Judith Stampler Douglas Weinstock Lisa and Tom Cohen Jules and Lisa Mazzei Mercy Corps US 140,088,995 116,288,446 Government Grants $ 85,297,654 $ 77,125,488 Richard Stawicki John Weiser Mrs. Frances Collier Linda McAllister Subtotal: Cash Revenue $ 161,867,018 $ 132,491,120 International Organization Grants 3,095,440 2,848,233 Judy and Richard Steigerwald Dorothy and Joshua Weissman Joe Collver William and Noreen McGraw Material Aid (In Kind) 57,272,392 52,187,890 Material Aid (Government Commodities) 23,956,285 21,682,209 Robert Steinberg Daniel Welch John Condon Richard and Mary Montgomery TOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUE $ 219,139,410 $ 184,679,010 Jean Stevenson Nancy Wendt Estate of Doris F. Cowgill Mary Ann Myers Subtotal: Government & Organizational Support $ 112,349,379 $ 101,655,930 Scott Stice Mr. Robert Wessel Dr. Robert Crooks and Ms. Sami Tucker Raymond C. Nelson Expenditures Private Support: Kirk Stiffler Norman R. West David and Joanne Deaton Daniel and Cherry O’Neill Program: Margaret Denny Peter and Sherry Ohotnicky Proyecto Aldea Global $ 1,797,585 $ 1,719,023 Contributions 37,828,132 22,189,581 Michael Stipe John Whitaker Grants 9,801,193 10,926,806 Leigh Stokes Nathaniel Whitten Norma and Donald Dody Margaret G. Orlett Mercy Corps Scotland 17,266,538 11,965,978 Mercy Corps US 111,483,360 95,325,071 Gifts in Kind 33,316,107 30,505,681 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Streit Celia Wiebe Beth Erickson Ronald Peterson Other Revenue 4,066,576 3,198,338 Subtotal: Cash Expenditures $ 130,547,483 $ 109,010,072 Dr. Barbara Stuart Estate of Clara Wildenhof Julia Field David and Shirley Pollock Subtotal: Private Support $ 85,012,008 $ 66,820,406 Peter Fremgen Sheila Preston Comerford Material Aid (In Kind) 57,272,392 52,187,890 Miss Rose Surface Kory Willis TOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUE $ 197,361,387 $ 168,476,336 Carolyn Surgent Carol and Paul Wilson Donn and Jan Gassaway Mrs. Nancy L. Risser Total Program $ 187,819,875 $ 161,197,962 Leo and Marti Gilleran Doug and Paula Saintignon Daniel and Mary Sweeney Fredrick Wilton and Sandra Support Services: Expenditures Clarence and Sylvia Gillett Suzanne and Charles Schirmer General & Administration $ 15,441,694 $ 12,300,542 John Michael and Viola Talbot Bonderman Program Laura Good Ms. Betty Schnorbus Resource Development 9,272,695 8,883,230 Karen Talmadge Julia Winiarski Project Expenditures $ 111,483,360 $ 95,325,071 Dr. Gerald Goudreau and Rev. Tom Shanahan Lloyd and Jan Tate Estate of Viola Wintz Total Support Services $ 24,714,389 $ 21,183,772 Material Aid 57,272,392 52,187,890 Mary Goudreau Helen June Shaver TOTAL EXPENDITURES $ 212,534,264 $ 182,381,734 Subtotal: Program $ 168,755,752 $ 147,512,961 Gilbert Tauck Richard Wise and Amy Houchen David and Ardath Griffin Ms. Dorene M. Shores Jane Telfair Stowe and Peter Stowe Robert and Mary Kay Wollmuth NET $ 6,605,146 $ 2,297,276 Support Services Paul Dudley Hart and Jane Alford Hart Michele Spencer General & Administration $ 13,852,281 $ 11,093,797 Rosemary Terry Marcy S. Wolpe Donald P. Heim Mr. and Mrs. Peter Streit Brian Tervo Jane and Robert Woolley Resource Development 8,860,273 7,250,100 Manuel Hernandez Katherine Sutherland Subtotal: Support Services $ 22,712,554 $ 18,343,897 Isaac Thomas and Liza Varghese Richard Worley Norman Higginson Jenny Taylor TOTAL EXPENDITURES $ 191,468,306 $ 165,856,858 Melissa Thomas Shelia Wright James Houston Estate of Joseph W. Tokarski How Our Resources Were Spent Craig Thorn Brett Yeager Jeff and Debby Howell Margaret Tompkins in Fiscal Year 2006 NET $ 5,893,081 $ 2,619,478 Scott Thorn Myron and Evelyn Young Marianne Hubbard Kathryn Turay Diane Toby and Jeffrey Lea Herbert and Nancy Zachow Karen Jacks Estate of Doris Waian Balance Sheet Rhoda Todd Ihor and Sandra Zakaluzny Mr. Leslie Jaslove Kathy Warner FY 2006 FY 2005 Estate of Joseph W. Tokarski Steven Zimmerman Greg and Stella Marie Jeffrey Miss Catherine A. Webb A s s e t s Gordon Jones Wiley and De Vera Wenger Cash $ 51,960,780 $ 47,494,057 Khaled Toumeh Suzan Zoukis Receivables 31,927,648 23,462,818 Kim Trapp Nancy Zubair Craig Kelly Catherine and Norman West Inventories 9,099,943 12,059,877 Fred and Judy Triggs Mary Ann Zulawinski Keith and Ann Kendrick Estate of Clara Wildenhof Property and Equipment (Net) 3,425,499 2,784,912 Svea and Rich Truax Michael and Sharon Kerns Tonia Willekes Other 2,236,303 2,122,538 Catherine Tulauskas Stephen Koeune Elizabeth and Brian Willis Total Assets $ 98,650,173 $ 87,924,202 Alma Krivonen Estate of Viola Wintz Joan Tupper Liabilities John and Cynthia Lammers Bob and Joyce Wolcott Kathryn Turay Payables & Accrued Liabilities $ 31,247,238 $ 26,774,282 Atahan Tuzel Kenneth C. Lang Karen Wong Deferred Revenue 22,917,154 30,721,052 Katherine Van Dyke Total Liabilities $ 54,164,392 $ 57,495,334 ■ Gerald and Wanda Van Hoomissen GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY = Total Global Programs: 89% N e t A s s e t s ■ = Administrative Support: 11% Paul VanCura and Michael Eaton Good Samaritan Society members are donors who make Unrestricted $ 15,835,144 $ 9,942,063 Steven VanRockel Temporarily Restricted 28,650,637 20,486,805 Christine and David Vernier annual financial contributions between $1,000 and $2,499. Total Net Assets $ 44,485,781 $ 30,428,868 Over the past five years, more than 90% of our Ernest Vetter In 2006, 2,114 members helped Mercy Corps programs aggregate resources were directed to programs. TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $ 98,650,173 $ 87,924,202 Henry P. Vigil around the world.

58 59 INNOVATE FOR CHANGE: Mercy Corps Board Members Leadership Team Program Leadership Credits 3015 SW First Avenue Mercy Corps Neal L. Keny-Guyer, Kathy Fry, Managing Editor Portland, OR 97201 Lisa Kenn THE CAMPAIGN FOR MERCY CORPS Phone: 800-292-3355 Board of Directors Chief Executive Officer Regional Program Director, 503-796-6800 Senator Mark O. Hatfield, Nancy Lindborg, President Latin America Writer Honorary Chair Diane Johnson, Zach Dundas Fax: 503-796-6844 Daniel W. O’Neill, Founder Robert D. Newell, Chair Regional Program Director, Mercy Corps Headquarters Email: [email protected] Linda A. Mason, Vice Chair n the past decade, Mercy Corps has grown from a $30 million organization to a $200 million Website:mercycorps.org Jeremy Barnicle, South & Southeast Asia Contributors Daniel W. O’Neill, Founder Managing Director, & the Gulf Coast Jeremy Barnicle Mercy Corps Europe Neal L. Keny-Guyer, Marketing & Communications Eric Block Chief Executive Officer David Holdridge organization; from 650 staff in 12 countries to more than 3,400 staff in 37 countries. Growth 17 Claremont Crescent Roger Burks Brigadier Allan Alstead Peter Blomquist, Regional Program Director, Matthew De Galan Edinburgh EH7 4HX Dr. Jay A. Barber, Jr. Vice President, Middle East Jennifer Dillan Scotland, UK has enabled us to realize our ideas in previously unimaginable ways, and challenged us to Phyllis Dobyns Constituency Development Matt Lovick David Evans Phone: 44-131-558-8244 Elizabeth Goebel Regional Program Director, Laura Guimond I Fax: 44-131-558-8288 Mark Gordon Mary Chaffin, Jo Haberman East Africa continue operating with results-oriented efficiency. Email: [email protected] Allen Grossman General Counsel, Bob Ham Website: mercycorps.org.uk Hannah Jones Corporate Secretary Phil Oldham, Ellie Johnson Regional Program Director, Mary Keegan Dusty Kidd Matthew De Galan, The world has changed as well. Globalization Mercy Corps Asia West & Southern Africa Susan Laarman Rick Little Senior Vice President, Resource Unit A & B, 6/F World Trust Tower Mike Maerz Angela Murray Development & Communications Fernando Soares, 50 Stanley Street, Central David Mahoney Dan Sadowsky offers great prosperity but also huge challenges. Climate Director, Programmes, Program Officers and HQ staff Hong Kong SAR Philippe Villers George Devendorf, Mercy Corps Europe Melissa Waggener Zorkin Director, Public Affairs Mercy Corps Field Staff Contributors Phone: 852-2822-9222 Anna Young, change looms as the next great global crisis. And yet life Fax: 852-2822-9233 Edmond Boshnjaku Mercy Corps Scotland Bill Farrell, Deputy Director, Technical Support Jackie Lee Email: [email protected] Board of Trustees Senior Director, & Organizational Learning Cassandra Nelson Website: mercycorps-hk.org continues largely unchanged for the one billion people Brigadier Allan Alstead, Chair Program Development Design Mercy Corps DC John Musson, Vice Chair Paul Dudley Hart, Barnebey & Owen, Inc. George Menzies, Company Secretary Country Director at Large, who live on less than $1 per day. 1730 Rhode Island Avenue NW Neal L. Keny-Guyer, Director at Large Fred Gregory Photography Credits Suite #809 Chief Executive Officer Mervyn Lee, front cover: Jason Sangster, Nepal Afghanistan, Nigel Pont pg 1: © Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters/Corbis, Niger Washington, DC 20036 Nancy Lindborg, President Executive Director, What must Mercy Corps do to meet the challenges Phone: 202-463-7383 Barry Ayre Azerbaijan, Julie Burch pg 2: Steve Harmon, SJ Harmon Photography Mercy Corps Europe pg 4: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps, Lebanon Fax: 202-463-7322 Lady Djemila Cope Bosnia, Marko Nišandžic´ pg 6: © Andrew Stern 2006/Redux, Lebanon of the next 25 years? Our answer is represented in a Jock Encombe Randy Martin, China, Steve Zimmerman Mercy Corps Seattle Director, Global Emergency Colombia, Gary R. Burniske pg 7: © Lynsey Addario/Corbis, Lebanon Elena Engel pg 8: © Hugh Sitton/zefa/Corbis, Sri Lanka 146 North Canal Street, Suite #350 Kathleen Graham-Harrison Operations East Timor, Diane Johnson Seattle, WA 98103 pg 10: © Eliana Aponte/Reuters/Corbis, new $37.5 million campaign, Innovate for Change: The Very Rev. James Harkness Mignon Mazique, Ethiopia, Tom Hensleigh Colombia Phone: 206-547-5212 Ann McKechin, MP Executive Counselor Georgia, Julie Burch pg 12: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps, Lebanon Fax: 206-547-9928 Steven Mitchell Guatemala, Borys Chinchilla pg 14: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps, Pakistan Campaign for Mercy Corps. Hon. Simon Scott Steve Mitchell, Mercy Corps Cambridge Honduras, Chet Thomas pg 16: © Gopal Chitrakar/Reuters/Corbis, Nepal Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer pg 18: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps, Liberia 9 Waterhouse Street Mercy Corps India, John Strickland If realized, this campaign will allow us to create Board of Ambassadors Diana Tsui Indonesia, Craig Redmond pg 20: Jason Sangster for Mercy Corps, Cambridge, MA 02138 Kyrgyzstan Phone: 617-354-5444 Sir Norman Arthur Managing Director, Iraq, Paul Butler pg 22: © China Newsphoto/Reuters/Corbis, two funds to meet humanitarian challenges and invest Fax: 617-354-8467 Dr. Hanan Ashrawi Mercy Corps Asia Jordan, Marta Colburn China William Baldwin Jim White, Kosovo, Cathy Rothenberger pg 24: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps, Sudan Mercy Corps Canada Martin Bell Director, Program Operations Kyrgyzstan, Catherine Brown pg 26: Jason Sangster for Mercy Corps, in innovative ideas that might otherwise be discarded. 233 Haynes Street, Suite 102 Malcolm Butler Lebanon, Sarah Warren Tajikistan Penticton, V2A 5S1 Diana Dajani Steve Zimmerman, Liberia, Tom Ewert pg 28: Edmond Boshnjaku/Mercy Corps, Kosovo British Columbia, Canada Sho Dozono Senior Vice President, Programs Mongolia, Sean Granville-Ross pg 32: © Piyal Adhikary/epa/Corbis, India We will inspire a generation of youth around the world Loen Dozono pg 35: Jackie Lee/Mercy Corps, Indonesia Phone: 250-493-7123 Nepal, Arend van Riessen William Early pg 36: Dan Sadowsky/Mercy Corps, Ethiopia Fax: 250-493-7125 Rev. Joseph T. Eldridge Nicaragua, Warren Armstrong pg 37: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps, West by building Internet-based educational programs to Mercy Corps Belgium Elena Engel Niger, Christy Collins Bank/Gaza North Korea, Myung Ken Lee pg 38: Norman Ng for Mercy Corps, Sri Lanka NPDD Warehouse Jack Huang North Sudan, David Brigham pg 39: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps, teach about hunger and poverty, anchored by interactive Toekomstiaan 51 Unit 5, 2280 Amb. Swanee Hunt Bianca Jagger Pakistan, Faiza Janmohamed Afghanistan Grobbendonk, Belgium Walter Russell Mead Serbia, Craig Hempfling pg 40: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps, Uganda Phone: 32-14-848-907 Sir William Purves pg 41: Jason Sangster for Mercy Corps, learning centers in Portland, Oregon, and New York Somalia, Abdikadir Mohamed Kyrgyzstan Fax: 32-14-848-918 Lord Robertson of Port Ellen Mohamud Laurence A. Shadek pg 42: Emmy Lang-Kennedy/Mercy Corps, Mercy Corps New York South Sudan, Richard W. Haselwood Liberia City. We will build a “green” headquarters in downtown Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill Sri Lanka, Josh DeWald pg 43: Miguel Samper for Mercy Corps, 75 Broad Street, Suite 2410 Victoria Stack Tajikistan, Patricia Kennedy Colombia New York, NY 10004 Nohad A. Toulan Portland, Oregon, complete with a world-class learning Phone: 212-537-0500 United States/Mercy Corps pg 44: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps, Liberia Henry P. Vigil pg 55: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps, Lebanon Fax: 212-537-0501 Wm. Harvey Wise Northwest, John Haines West Bank/Gaza, Andrew Dwonch pg 60: Images courtesy of Thomas Hacker Architects, Inc., Portland, Oregon, United center enhancing our connections to the community Mercy Corps San Francisco East Asia – US Zimbabwe, Robert Maroni 200 Sansome, Suite 1000 Advisory Committee States (top) and ESI Desgin, New York City, New York, United States (bottom) — especially youth. ■ San Francisco, CA 94104 Sho Dozono back cover: Kim Ludbrook/cpa/Corbis, Uganda Phone: 415-217-0018 Loen Dozono Fax: 415-217-0053 Jim Rue

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