Satter Foundation 2015 Annual Report Table of Contents 3 Founder’s Letter: Muneer Satter 5 Founder’s Letter: Kristen Hertel Hoping to flee anti-Muslim militias but 6 Mission & Vision denied entry elsewhere, approximately 7 Historical Grant-Making Trends 500 people in the Central African Republic 9 Grantee Profile: Human Rights Watch live in the Yaloké displacement camp. The 11 Grantee Profile: AmeriCares camp’s children suffer from malnutrition 13 Grantee Profile: Ounce of Prevention Fund and respiratory and other diseases. 15 Grantee Profile: Academy for Urban School Leadership Human Rights Watch sounded an alarm, Grantee Profile: Samasource and the World Health Organization and 17 UNICEF have called for those in the camp 18 Satter Foundation 2015 Grantees to be evacuated to nearby countries. Founder’s Letter “Many people are in urgent need of help, so we are continuing to support dedicated, innovative, and effective grantees that are countering these challenges with big ideas, on-the-ground action, and strong leadership.” The world faced many challenges in 2015. School Leadership (profiled on page 15), According to the United Nations High Accelerate Institute, Perspectives, KIPP, and Commissioner for Refugees, in 2015, 65 million the Noble Network to provide children with a people around the globe experienced forced sanctuary from violence and to equip them with displacement, exceeding all previous records. an education that gives them the opportunity Asylum seekers and refugees fled Syria, and for a safe and prosperous future. terrorist groups such as ISIS and Boko Haram We don’t give up because we know that while coerced millions into leaving their homes it’s not easy, fighting for ambitious change is under the threat of torture and death. Closer essential to progress. I remember going to civil to home, Chicago continues to struggle with rights marches with my mother, who worked for too many homicides. the movement in the Deep South in the 1950s It is a world of tragedy and sorrow. But giving up and 1960s. I learned at an early age the power of is not an option. Many people are in urgent need equal opportunity, the effectiveness of peaceful of help, so we are continuing to support dedi- protest, and the dignity of hard work and strong cated, innovative, and effective grantees that values. We pray for a world where every person are countering these challenges with big ideas, has a right to freedom, equality, and a chance on-the-ground action, and strong leadership. to achieve his or her highest potential. Grantees such as Human Rights Watch (profiled There is much to do, which is why we are so on page 9) are using the power of information grateful to those who are helping people in and education to influence governments and need—our grantees, our peer funders, our their constituents to protect human rights friends, and our families. We’ve learned a around the world. AmeriCares (profiled on tremendous amount from you in 2015, and page 11) provides vital medical supplies during we look forward to applying those lessons disasters. Its model allows it to leverage the to our work in the future. We thank you for support it receives, turning every donated your dedication and welcome your thoughts. dollar into $20 worth of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. On the South Side of Chicago, we support charter schools and other educational Sincerely, organizations such as Academy for Urban Muneer A. Satter Asylum seekers and migrants descend from a large fishing vessel used to transport them from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos. Human Rights Watch’s reports have urged European leaders to address the crisis. 2 | THE SATTER FOUNDATION | 2015 Annual Report THE SATTER FOUNDATION | 2015 Annual Report | 3 Founder’s Letter “Our children are still too young to be actively involved in the organizations we support, but we spend time helping them realize how lucky they are and how many people aren’t as fortunate.” The Ounce of Prevention Fund established Educare Chicago My philanthropy often reflects my personal toms of pregnancy and birth, this study allowed in 2000. The school, located history and current endeavors, particularly my researchers to build a new test that can more on the city’s South Side, experiences as a parent. As my children grow, accurately distinguish if women are truly helps infants, toddlers, and my portfolio of grantees addresses issues that distressed. The next phase of the study will preschoolers from low-income affect children throughout their lives, from examine how health care providers can use this families develop crucial prenatal development and care to college test and other interventions to reach patients literacy, language, early math, preparation and access. I also recognize the on mobile devices, meeting women where they and social-emotional skills. importance of the people who shape children’s are and improving their ability to get the crucial lives, so I support them through organizations assistance they need. that work to improve maternal mental health Beyond grants, I’ve been giving my time to and build resilient communities. the issues I care about. As a member of our This year, the foundation began to support the school board, I have been working with the Ounce of Prevention Fund, which you can read superintendent to help ensure good outcomes more about on page 13. I know how important for our students, which has taught me a tremen- early intervention is to set children up for future dous amount about how to contribute to success. When our triplets were born, we were on-the-ground efforts. In addition, as a member so fortunate to have access to the resources that of the advisory board for the Northwestern promoted their healthy development. Their lives University School of Education and Social Policy, would be very different today if those services I’ve been lending my time to fund-raising. had been out of reach. We hope that our support Our children are still too young to be actively of organizations such as the Ounce will help involved in the organizations we support, but we other families have outcomes that are just as spend time helping them realize how lucky they happy and healthy as ours. are and how many people aren’t as fortunate. Also in 2015, our support of the NorthShore The best way to do that is to show them how we University HealthSystem’s perinatal work, put those words into action by being involved which we profiled in last year’s report, resulted community members and engaged grant in research that ultimately will help doctors makers. I am grateful that I have the opportunity better screen and treat mental health disorders to do that and am proud of our partner organi- in pregnant and postnatal women. Jo Kim, MD, zations’ continued successes. I hope you enjoy led a foundation-supported study that tested reading about many of them here. an adaptive, computer-based screening tool for depression, anxiety, and mania in more than 400 expectant and new mothers. Because many symptoms of these conditions, such as fatigue Sincerely, and appetite changes, are also normal symp- Kristen Hertel 2 | THE SATTER FOUNDATION | 2015 Annual Report THE SATTER FOUNDATION | 2015 Annual Report | 5 Historical Grant-Making Trends Mission Cumulative Giving 1997–2015 2015 Funding by Issue Area 2015 Funding Distribution Total Granted to Date: $41 million by Location The Satter Foundation aims $40,000,000 to empower the powerless $2,000,000 and to preserve our world’s $2,078,650 land and water by investing in bold, tactical, and innovative social entrepreneurs and International $2,280,000 organizations. $1,500,000 $30,000,000 $1,550,000 $1,000,000 $20,000,000 $935,000 Chicago Vision $2,036,150 $500,000 We envision a world where $625,000 all people—no matter where $453,000 or in what circumstances they $10,000,000 are born—have the resources and opportunities to live a free, $253,000 $150,000 educated, prosperous, and 0 United States n healthy life. Providing educational opportunities $1,728,500 n Promoting human rights & democracy n Providing health & human services n Protecting the environment & species n Supporting job creation & economic opportunity n 0 Supporting & honoring veterans 1997................................................................2015 n Supporting the arts THE SATTER FOUNDATION | 2015 Annual Report | 7 Refugee families walk along Human Rights Watch the railroad tracks from Serbia to Hungary, where they will be Human Rights Watch uses the power of it was his right to remain in power regardless, taken in buses to temporary which set off protests. He then began to kill detention camps. information to pressure governments to respect their people’s rights. It investigates abuses in 90 protesters. “We sounded the alarm about the mounting violence and were able to impart the countries and disseminates its findings to wide urgency of the situation to the US government, audiences. It also pushes governments, the the European Union, the United Nations, the United Nations, the African and European Unions, High Commissioner for Human Rights, and financial institutions, and corporations to enact others. They warned Nkurunziza that his actions policies that prevent atrocities and to punish were not happening in obscurity,” says Roth. those who violate the rights of others. “It’s still a tenuous situation, but because Nkurunziza is now under intense scrutiny, the threat of mass murder has been staved off.” The organization also mounted a lengthy Its methods: The organization deploys campaign to prosecute Hissène Habré, the researchers—lawyers, journalists, and former dictator of Chad. “He presided over a academics—in or near countries where serious prison system that tortured prisoners and human rights abuses occur.