Building Trust. Building Partnerships

Building Trust.

Building Partnerships. Working in partnership to empower people, communities and institutions to drive and sustain their own development.

Contents 4 Chairman & President’s Note 6 Developing Ecotourism in Ethiopia 8 Civil Society in Afghanistan 10 Feedling Schoolchildren in Cameroon 12 Keeping Children in School in Yemen 14 Improving Farming Methods in the Dominican Republic 16 Responding to Disaster in Georgia 18 Results Around the Globe 24 Our Team & Our Portfolio 26 Donors, Supporters & Partners

2 3 TRUST... THE CORNERSTONE OF OUR PARTNERSHIPS

We all strive for sustainability – seeking permanent impact from our theme not only because it captures how Counterpart operates around the short-term projects. Yet sustainability often feels like a chimera, beyond the globe, but also because it shows that the permanent power of development power of project teams once the project ends. Why? Because sustainability is local. doesn’t rest on new capabilities or technologies or markets alone. This annual report provides six stories of how Counterpart has helped Instead, its long-term success rests on local relationships, trust, mutual people build partnerships and trust, in different parts of the world and also understanding and mutual benefit. in Counterpart’s different areas of practice. We hope you enjoy them and At Counterpart, building trust is at the core of our success. It can be see in them our point-of-difference - what we call the Counterpart Way. time-consuming, but it pays back for years into the future as local partners Within Counterpart, 2011 was a year for new relationships as well. In continue to work together to improve citizens’ lives and strengthen their September, Counterpart welcomed three new board members: Jennifer communities. Rose, Corporate Controller, Summit Materials, Washington, D.C.; Marcia We see the dividends of community cohesion in Cameroon, where a Silverman, Chair, Ogilvy PR, Washington, D.C.; and Judith H. Whittlesey, common vision for healthy children has launched a local volunteer corps. Executive Vice President, Susan Davis International (SDI), Washington, We see the stabilizing influence of trust in Yemen, where ministries worked D.C. In May, we welcomed Tim Ogborn as Senior Vice President for hard through a turbulent 2011 to deliver on their promises to citizens. Programs. We are thrilled to have our family growing! We are celebrating growing trust in Afghanistan as well. In 2011, Finally, the 2011 fiscal year also marked a period of programmatic Counterpart facilitated town meetings between citizens and leaders, growth for Counterpart. We were strengthened by new donors and identifying community priorities and potential. In September, these contributors. And with the support of our partners, we were able to reach communities sent representatives to Kabul to share ideas – building bridges more communities, helping them to establish a brighter future. between communities across language and ethnic barriers. From all of us at Counterpart, we wish you a year of exploration, “Building Trust, Building Partnerships” was selected as this year’s success and the satisfaction that strong partnerships bring.

Jeffrey T. LaRiche Chairman of the Board Counterpart International

Joan C. Parker President & CEO Counterpart International

4 5 CONSERVING ENDANGERED LAND THROUGH ECOTOURISM IN ETHIOPIA

A new approach to protecting land in Ethiopia is knitting stronger democratically chosen management committee spent the year building communities, as well as a stronger economy. awareness of the benefits for the community in conserving biodiversity and Ethiopia has modest natural resources and an agricultural economy creating incentives for alternative livelihoods. beset by drought and deforestation. Tourism is limited, though its potential Through this committee, villagers planned efforts to reverse is great: Ethiopia’s rich history goes back to the first humans, and its environmental degradation, establish sustainable management for their landscape is varied and beautiful. But tourism has grown slowly, and the natural resources and work to attract tourists – and create jobs. central government’s decisions to conserve land for parks haven’t always Nearby, the Arsi Nature Conservation and Environmental Development sat well with the people who live nearby and see the land as a resource for Association (ANCEDA), led by Dekebo Dale, is Counterpart’s partner in a wood, grazing and hunting. similar effort to bring sustainable tourism to the Lepis Forest. An innovative, community-run initiative is changing those attitudes. Dale has mobilized residents, says Bedilu Shegen, Director of A CATALYST FOR The Ethiopian Sustainable Tourism Alliance, supported by the U.S. Counterpart’s programs in Ethiopia. “There is a huge level of trust between EMPOWERING A Agency for International Development and organized by Counterpart the communities and ANCEDA, and he is originally from the same place. NATION THROUGH International and its partner the Ethiopian Wildlife and Natural History It’s a perfect match for us,” Shegen says. ECOTOURISM Society, is building relationships with communities and providing them with Without the chance to take on sustainable livelihoods as tour operators, the skills needed to save their ecological and historical treasures – while residents would “cut trees, burn charcoal,” Shegen says. “Most of them are still supporting sustainable livelihoods. engaged in unsustainable use of natural resources.” The results are evident in places such as Lake Ziway. The regional government, the tourism alliance and its partners are The lake, in the Central Rift Valley, is best known for a monastery helping residents to make a better future: In 2011, ESTA trained nearly on one of its five islands. Tulu Gudo is said to have housed the biblical 1,200 residents in natural resource management and biodiversity. Ark of the Covenant 1,200 years ago. In the villages near Lake Ziway, a

people were reached Project Overview with HIV prevention 6 messages The Ethiopian Sustainable Tourism Alliance creates opportunities for communities to benefit from conservation- based activities through improved livelihoods, natural resource management and social infrastructure. HIV/AIDS Community Conservation Areas established, demarcated and prevention and awareness activities strengthen the tourism value chain by preventing infections and mitigating embraced by communities 33k the epidemic’s impact in the target areas.

6 7 GIVING VOICE TO THE PEOPLE FOR A CIVIL SOCIETY in AFGHANISTAN

They came from Afghanistan’s 36 provinces – some at great risk – to a These conversations have been a catalyst in helping citizens and groups to large ballroom in a Kabul hotel. They were patient, eager and ready for two build better relationships with local and regional governments. Six regional days of intense work. policy dialogues then led to the national conference. Two hundred leaders of Afghanistan’s emerging civil society and “Civil society organizations can hold the government accountable,” government officials assembled for the first-ever National Policy Reform Usman Khan, Program Manager for the group Basic Education and Conference in September 2011. In small-group sessions and in large Employable Skill Training, said at the conference. “We are mobilizing the forums, the attendees mapped out the country’s needs – from women’s people to demand good governance.” rights to water – and talked about making national policies and services The U.S. Agency for International Development, which funds more responsive to citizens. Counterpart’s I-PACS program, sees civil society as a key player in the Yet participants said the conference wasn’t nearly as important as what country’s future. A CATALYST FOR it represented: growing citizen engagement with government, and emerging “When civil society comes together around one issue or a group of A CIVIL SOCIETY citizen partnerships across regions. issues, we start to see a vibrant civil society and a vibrant democracy,” WHERE PEOPLE To begin citizen dialogues, work started in villages and provincial S. Ken Yamashita, Ph.D., USAID’s Mission Director for Afghanistan, told HAVE A VOICE capitals. Counterpart’s Afghan staff built close relationships with civil the conference. “These issues – education, women [and] health – are not society organizations and then leveraged that trust to bring them and the new to you. The question is, how do we give voice to these issues so that government to the table to discuss each community’s needs. government can respond to your needs? That is the role of civil society.” Counterpart’s Initiative to Promote Afghan Civil Society (I-PACS) and Through Counterpart’s I-PACS, civil society’s voice – and subsequently its partners organized more than 160 community dialogues in 2011 alone. the communities it represents – has been amplified in Afghanistan.

organizations benefit from Project Overview our specialized training 50% and small grants The Initiative to Promote Afghan Civil Society empowers Afghan organizations and the communities they serve to more effectively participate in the political process, solve local problems and demand good governance from of our partner organizations are either women-led or their leaders. Our work provides consistent, long-term assistance to more than 350 organizations and emphasizes women-focused 363 the participation and leadership of Afghan women.

8 9 CHANGING CHILDREN’S LIVES WITH GOOD NUTRITION IN CAMEROON

Joan Mary Berinyuy can tell you what a difference good nutrition makes It worked, and today the little girl’s good health – and that of thousands for children in Cameroon. She sees it every day in her little girl, Eli-Gisele. of children in her village and others nearby – has been a cooperative, By the time Eli-Gisele was 3 months old, Joan Mary knew that community effort, with Counterpart as the catalyst. something was wrong. The little girl could not keep on weight and was School-age children receive daily hot lunches using ingredients from sliding into the dangerous category of severe malnutrition. school gardens, which are planted and tended by members of parent- It was then that Counterpart brought to the child’s village of Anseh teacher associations. The Counterpart-inspired gardens have allowed the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s McGovern-Dole Food for Education the program to stretch its resources and reach 90 schools instead of the Program. original target of 50. Throughout 2011, community health volunteers tracked Eli-Gisele’s Communities also have built school latrines, and children are learning weight and height each month and gave Joan Mary a take-home ration of about health and nutrition – improvements that will help children long after A CATALYST FOR rice, beans and vegetable oil. At the same time, they have counseled Joan Counterpart’s work with villagers in Northwest Cameroon is complete. LIFE SKILLS THAT Mary and other parents on breastfeeding, nutrition and hygiene. Eli-Gisele Desiré Yameogo, Counterpart’s Country Director in Cameroon, says WILL LAST A has thrived. members of the community will build on the progress. LIFETIME Before little Eli-Gisele could be placed on the scale, the community had “Whether it is the cooks, or the PTAs, or the community health workers, to buy into the nutrition and maternal health strategy. Counterpart’s staff they are all volunteers,” he says. “We have built a kind of volunteerism spirit (nearly all of them from Cameroon, and several from the area near Eli- in each village.” Gisele’s village) established close relationships with community leaders and solicited their input and support.

children receiving healthy Project Overview meals at school through our 6,156 school feeding program The Food for Education project works in partnership with 90 primary schools and the communities to increase the attendance, health and nutritional status of children, particularly girls. Counterpart provides lunch using children’s growth and health monitored USDA-donated food to more than 26,000 primary-age students every day. The communities also benefit from every month 26K small school gardens, deworming, vitamin A distribution and training in health, hygiene and nutrition.

10 11 saving the school year while citizens make history IN yemen

Political tensions in Yemen were at their peak in the fall of 2011 – and their studies, despite the country’s political crisis,” says Abdul Karim Alaug, trapped in the middle were children who needed to go back to school. RGP’s Deputy Director. “We told our students that missing a whole year of education means The campaign was a tremendous success as children returned to losing a whole year of your lives,” says Education Minister Abdulsalam the 16,400 schools across the country. “The response was extraordinary,” Al-Jawafi. “To parents, we told them we love your children as much as you Minister Al-Jawafi says. “Classrooms are now full of students.” do. Thus, let’s work hand in hand so that our students go back to school.” The back-to-school initiative also gave nonprofit groups and ministry That shared concern was the basis of an extraordinary outreach officials the opportunity to drive home two more messages to parents: program. Officials sought help from members of civil society who had children are better off in school than working and girls should be educated. built a relationship of trust with the people as well as the government Yemen suffers from widespread illiteracy, especially among women – nongovernmental organizations including Counterpart’s Responsive and girls, so the campaign paid particular attention to putting girls into the A CATALYST FOR Governance Project (RGP) – to reach their constituents with a key classroom. A BRIGHT FUTURE, message: Despite the civil unrest, schools would reopen in the fall. “It is an unfortunate fact that many parents either do not send their UPLIFTING THE Within weeks, a back-to-school campaign was launched by the daughters to school or remove them from classrooms after only a few years COUNTRY’S YOUTH RGP and one of its civil society partners, the All Girls Society for of formal education,” says Mehboob Karim, Director of Monitoring and Development, along with UNICEF, CHF International and two Yemeni Evaluation at the RGP. “The campaign seeks to break the cycle of illiteracy media companies. Included in the campaign were three television public and poverty. Educating girls is good for their families, their communities and service announcements that carried the message that every child has the their country.” right to learn. The campaign worked: Instead of a drop in enrollment, schools “We’re on the side of the children and ensuring that they continue reported an increase.

maternal deaths per Project Overview 100,000 live births 29% (UNICEF, 2006-2010) Counterpart’s Responsive Governance Project is working collaboratively with government, civil society and the private sector to increase the chances for a smooth transition to democratic governance and the delivery of of Yemeni women are literate, compared with 61% of men public services that meet the needs of Yemeni citizens. The approach recognizes the crucial role that a strong (UNDP, 2004) 370 civil society plays in discouraging corruption and holding government accountable.

12 13 Making livelihoods sustainable for coastal communities IN the Dominican Republic

The people who live in and around the Dominican Republic’s Monte Felipe Gomez, a rice farmer and project collaborator, has seen the Cristi National Park have long relied on a few ways to make a living, mostly importance of adopting more sustainable production practices. “You could fishing, crabbing, farming rice and harvesting sea salt. say that this project has given my family a chance to keep farming and Their challenge now is to continue this way of life without destroying stay on the land,” he says. “We’re always struggling to rein in [production] the ecosystem that has sustained them. In 2011, they started making plans costs, and the project is showing us that we can produce more rice and taking steps to do so thanks to a community partnership project with with less chemicals.” Bottom line: Rice farming is more profitable and Counterpart. environmentally sound. The project, which includes the Dominican organization AgroFrontera Fishermen are changing the way they do business, too. The project and is funded by the MacArthur Foundation, seeks to turn the deteriorating is helping fishermen market their catch directly to retail buyers instead of coastal ecosystem and coral reefs into “productive landscapes” with a relying on intermediaries. So the fishermen are getting higher prices, and A CATALYST FOR balance of sustainable growth for all of its residents. more of the profit stays in their communities. sAFEGUARDING Frederick Payton, Executive Director of AgroFrontera, says the project The project is also promoting the adoption of more sustainable THE ENVIRONMENT has to build trust among stakeholders and respond to their needs to ensure fishing practices. One measure of its success: By year’s end, fishermen AND PEOPLE’S the long-term protection of coastal ecosystems: “It has as much to do with had identified four no-take zones and were instituting responsible fishing LIVELIHOODS commerce as it does with conserving biodiversity.” But, he says, the two practices in an effort to recover depleted stocks of key commercial species. can go hand in hand. An ecologically sound approach to livelihoods is essential as Monte So the project is teaching a new, sustainable model for rice farming in Cristi grows as a tourist destination. Counterpart’s work to this end in the the park’s buffer zone that uses less fertilizer, pesticide and irrigation water Dominican Republic and Honduras earned it the 2011 Caribbean Media – and yet produces at least as much rice. Exchange’s World Leadership Award.

increase in profitability Project Overview of rice crop after farmer 5x education program The project to conserve biodiversity at Monte Cristi National Park brings together a coalition of resource users to reduce the negative environmental effects of rice cultivation and to improve the economic competitiveness of increase in number of times fishermen reported violations rice farming in the country’s northwest. The program has also implemented educational and outreach activities to after conservation meetings 60% strengthen community-based fishing and farmer institutions.

14 15 a NATURAL DISASTER BRINGS gOVERNMENT AND RESIDENTS TOGETHER IN GEORGIA

Georgia’s worst flooding in a quarter-century stranded residents and just about to contact you, because 1,500 houses are flooded.’ ” washed away vehicles, homes and lives. But it did not wash away the In this case, Counterpart had pre-positioned disaster relief packages people’s growing trust in their government. in a warehouse in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, as part of a partnership with Flooding on the Mtkvari River (also known as the Kura) has become the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Coordinator of U.S. Assistance more ferocious over the years as climate change and deforestation have to Europe and Eurasia (EUR/ACE). The packages enable Counterpart to allowed more water to pour into it from spring rains, melting snow and quickly provide critically needed aid in response to disasters in the region. shrinking glaciers. Heavy rains on June 19, 2011, in the Shida Karlti region Counterpart coordinated the distribution of aid from the pre-positioned triggered landslides and closed roads. In some villages, water levels rose to supplies with the State Department, the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi and nearly 10 feet, affecting about 1,500 Georgians, many of whom were forced the Shida Kartli regional government. The UN High Commissioner for into temporary shelters. Refugees, the UN Children’s Fund and the Tbilisi mayor’s office provided A CATALYST FOR A natural disaster can test people’s relations with their governmental clothing and cots. BRINGING PEOPLE institutions. The partnership with the State Department, Georgian government AND GOVERNMENT Irakli Saralidze, the Counterpart Country Director for Georgia, said offices and several international organizations made the response to this TOGETHER that for seven years the government has been overcoming a legacy devastating natural disaster fast and effective. Within 10 days, Counterpart of corruption and that its relationship with the people has improved had distributed 1,500 sleeping bags, 3,000 bed sheets, 2,154 blankets and substantially. 1,500 pairs of boots to the people in need, and the governor expressed The June flooding put that relationship to the test. “deep respect and great gratitude” for its effort. “We found out about the flood on TV and immediately we called the Equally important, it enabled the government to build a positive local administration,” Saralidze says. “They just said that, ‘Guys, we were relationship with residents.

worth of humanitarian aid Project Overview shipped around the world 202k since 1994 Counterpart’s Humanitarian Assistance program has mobilized communities and diverse donor resources to help the world’s most vulnerable populations. Ensuring that people have homes and food may be only the first Georgians reached through our humanitarian step in developing a prospering society, but it is essential in helping communities help themselves long after the aid in 2011 $1.2 b foreign aid withdraws.

16 17 MAKING A DEEP AND LASTING IMPACT IN EVERY HEMISPHERE

Afghanistan BELARUS •• Built the organizational sustainability of a network of 244 civil society •• Delivered $82,920 worth of medical equipment and supplies, such as organizations (CSOs) that have a programmatic reach across wheelchairs, adult diapers, lab coats and hygiene kits. Afghanistan. •• Operated resource centers in 16 provinces that provided technical CAMEROON assistance in project implementation and design, reporting, library •• Monitored and fed 6,156 children younger than 5. skills, computer and Internet skills, and English. Served about 3,000 •• Fed healthy meals to 26,169 primary school children. people on nearly 8,000 visits. •• Expanded Food for Education program to 18 more schools. •• Provided $2.6 million in grants to Afghan CSOs. •• Trained 660 volunteers to cook balanced meals for large numbers.

A CATALYST FOR ARMENIA CHAD connecting •• Mobilized more than 80 key CSOs to provide substantial input •• Reached 9.9 million citizens by voter and civic education and conflict- people and into electoral legislation reform process, resulting in hundreds of resolution campaigns during national elections. groups for recommendations to the parliamentary committee and several •• Trained 78 CSOs in advocacy, public procurement and external enduring nationwide awareness-raising events. oversight; and trained 1,092 people in civic and voter education and partnerships •• Provided 89 grants totaling $836,233 to Armenian CSOs. conflict resolution. •• Delivered $37,467 worth of medical equipment and supplies. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Azerbaijan •• Engaged 75 practitioners in identifying and sharing best practices and •• Fostered leadership and advocacy capacity for 3,500 individuals and lessons learned in coral reef restoration. A Caribbean restoration map 202 organizations through new social media opportunities. was created to evaluate and map restoration models and techniques. •• Distributed $500,000 in peer-to-peer mentoring grants in 32 regions. •• Delivered three cargo containers of food, valued at $186,896.

years of honing our skills of Around the world, part of the solution building partnerships and 65 trust Counterpart operates as a part of a large, global community working together to solve the world’s toughest challenges. We are known for a unique approach to partnership and capacity building, a commitment to learning countries have benefitted from the community-driven programs and continuous improvement, and a reputation as a responsible steward of funder resources. implemented by Counterpart 47

18 19 ETHIOPIA Kyrgyzstan •• Trained 1,885 people in ecotourism business and 1,172 in natural •• Renovated the bathrooms at the Kara-Suu Specialized Boarding resource management, which in turn generated income for 3,000 School for Deaf Children to help create a more sanitary living community members in the Southern and Central Rift Valley. environment for the 185 disabled children and school’s 75 personnel. •• Provided HIV/AIDS prevention and education outreach to more than 33,000 people. Mauritania •• Co-launched the National Geographic Geotourism MapGuide, which •• Provided 16,661 children from 6 to 59 months old with vitamin A promotes sales and sustainable economic growth. supplements. •• Taught hygiene, nutrition and health to 11,901 people. GEORGIA •• Reached 769 women with a small loan program and saw 216 new •• Led an in-depth assessment of the agricultural sector, provided business activities. recommendations for strategic interventions, constructed a vision for the future of the agricultural sector and assembled an authoritative MOLDOVA knowledge base. •• Replaced 60 windows and doors at the Municipal Infectious Diseases •• Delivered three cargo containers of food, valued at $178,912. Hospital for Children to improve the quality of care and treatment for the 4,500 pediatric patients a year. A CATALYST GUATEMALA FOR improving •• A novel program for credits in Chisec and Raxruha provided about NIGER prospects $1,000 each to eight women to set up poultry and egg farms to supply •• Trained 1,496 farmers in improved seed production. for the next nearby restaurants. •• Treated 4,500 children for moderate malnutrition and 2,587 for severe generation •• The “Let’s boost your business” program expanded to provide technical malnutrition. assistance and training to 122 small and medium-size businesses and •• Provided 7,047 pregnant women and 4,044 lactating women with food tourism organizations – a 65 percent increase. rations. •• Eleven international tour operators went on two days of familiarization tours, and 112 people joined a Counterpart-sponsored two-day SENEGAL conference on sustainable tourism. •• Distributed nearly 6 million hot meals to schoolchildren. •• Helped raise girls’ attendance at school 39 percent. HONDURAS •• Provided deworming medicine to 74,967 children younger than 5. •• Advanced our work in identifying and coordinating advocacy agendas •• Disbursed 721 lines of credit. at local, regional and national levels through two grants worth •• Brought required Daara training to 14,262 vulnerable children $200,000. (including 4,000 girls) ages 6 to 12; 60 percent demonstrated the •• Established a joint CSO program to monitor anti-corruption challenges necessary skills (reading and writing in French, four arithmetic and opportunities. operations). •• Awarded a $48,000 grant to establish a Legal Assistance and Anticorruption Complaint Center with the support of Transparency International.

20 21 Tajikistan UZBEKISTAN •• Established Youth Centers in nine target communities where more than •• Reconstructed the outdoor bathroom facility at Specialized Boarding 300 participating youth will study civics and engage in after-school School #124, improving hygiene standards for the school’s 139 activities. students and 35 staff members. •• Replaced floors, windows and doors and repaired the power supply system at the Jonvarsuz Medical Point to improve sanitation for the YEMEN 10,500 clients and four clinic workers; distributed medical supplies •• Used a mass-media outreach campaign during the protest movement valued at more than $3,000. to help 500,000 primary and secondary school students take national exams. UKRAINE •• Helped conduct the first national public hearing on private health •• Delivered 52 cargo containers of aid, including 31 with medical insurance. equipment and supplies.

TOTAL BENEFICIARY

A CATALYST COUNT: 3,378,711 FOR GREATER TRANSPARENCY

REGIONS WE SERVE:

LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN

AFRICA

NEAR EAST

EUROPE & EURASIA

SOUTH & CENTRAL ASIA

22 23 board members

Jeffrey T. LaRiche Les Wallace Judith H. Whittlesey Chairman, Counterpart International Chairman, Governance & Nominating Committee Executive Vice President, Susan Davis International CASTLE Worldwide, Inc. Signature Resources Joan C. Parker Deborah Nolan David Wickline Ex Officio Chairman, Audit Committee Chairman, Finance Committee Ernst & Young Alchemy Ventures Group

Brenda Broz Eddy Jennifer Rose Eddy Associates, Inc. Corporate Controller, Summit Materials

Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy Marcia Silverman Heinz Center for Science Chair, Ogilvy PR

executive team A CATALYST FOR BUILDING Joan C. Parker Mary Au TRUST President and Chief Executive Officer Vice President, Finance & Risk Management

Tim Ogborn Sibel Berzeg Senior Vice President, Programs Vice President, Government & Civil Society Strengthening

country programs

Afghanistan Chad Guatemala Mauritania Sudan Armenia Dominican Republic Honduras Moldova Tajikistan Azerbaijan Ethiopia Kazakhstan Niger Yemen Cameroon Georgia Kyrgyzstan Senegal

24 25 Donors, supporters and partners

For the year ended September 30, 2011

A Call To Serve International International Foundation for Electoral Systems Punta Cana Ecological Foundation Aid to Artisans International Relief & Development Reo Distribution Mohsen Amani International Resources Group Republic of Yemen Government AmeriCares Foundation, Inc. IREX Robert J. and Paula B. Reynolds Fund Armenian Gospel Mission ISOH/IMPACT Jennifer Rose Daniel Bernstein Jezreel International Rita Shafer Books For Africa Kaalo Relief and Development Organization Marcia Silverman Phillip and Judith A. Bradbury Rang Hee Kim Somali Family Services The Breast Cancer Relief Foundation Altinay Kuchukeeva Stop Hunger Now Margaret A.Cargill Foundation Jeffrey T. LaRiche Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation ChildFund International Arlene Lear Thomas Suber Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Charities) Lelei LeLaulu Sandra Taylor Churches of Christ Eric Leuthold United Methodist Committee on Relief A CATALYST CitiHope International Joe Light United Nations Children’s Fund FOR BUILDING CLUSA International Little Lambs Ministry United Nations Development Programme PARTNERSHIPS Corvallis-Uzhhorod Sister Cities Association Little Samaritan Mission United Nations World Food Programme Dr. William Crano Dr. Thomas Lovejoy United States Agency for International Development Development & Training Services Inc. Lutheran World Relief United States Department of Agriculture Double-0 Marketing John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation United States Department of Defense, Brenda and Charles Eddy Management Systems International Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services Jason Edelen Medical Teams International United States Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration Feed My Starving Children Messengers of Mercy United States Department of State, Office of the Coordinator FHI 360 Mission to Ukraine of U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia Friends of Chernobyl Centers U.S. Nazarene Compassionate Missions, Inc. United States Potato Board Paul and Maxine Frohring Foundation Deborah Nolan United Ukrainian American Relief Committee Fundación Vista Para Todos Ocean Foundation Vornado George Washington University Office of the United Nations High Commissioner Sara Wachspress for Refugees Global Aid Network (GAiN) Les Wallace Susan Christine O’Neal Great Oaks Church of Christ Judith H. Whittlesey Operation Blessing Jennifer Grizzard Ekzarkhov David Wickline Hand in Hand Together Operation Mercy/Freedom Village USA Hands of Hope Northwest Orphan Grain Train Heart to Heart International Joan C. Parker hellenicare Peace Corps Father Stanley Hosie Plan International International Center for Not-for-Profit Law Project HOPE

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