20 years of inspiring philanthropy beyond borders Annual Report 2010 International Community Foundation Annual Report 2010 Table of Contents OUR MISSION. 3 LETTER TO DONORS & FRIENDS . 4 20 YEARS OF INSPIRED PHILANTHROPY . 5 DONORS . 8 PUBLICATIONS . 13 FINANCIALS . 14 FUNDS. 16 GRANTS . 18 BOARD OF GOVERNORS . 24 ADVISORY BOARD . 25 INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION STAFF, ADVISORS, VOLUNTEERS & COMMITTEES . 26 OLIVEWOOD GARDENS STAFF . 27 Inspiring philanthropy beyond borders Our Mission The International Community Foundation seeks to increase charitable giving and volunteerism across U.S. borders to benefit overseas communities and nonprofit organizations. Who We Are Established in 1990, the International Community Foundation has a proven track record in strategic, international grantmaking. To further its mission, the International Community Foundation spearheads coalitions for a variety of important causes and also represents over 1,000 donors with diverse international interests. To maximize the social impact of our work, the majority of the International Community Foundation’s charitable giving is focused on About the Cover: A Mexican Ranchero photographed assisting registered public charities throughout Mexico and in Los Planes, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Central America. Mexico. (Mónica Kiy) What We Do The International Community Foundation is more than a mechanism for giving. The Foundation works as a partner and strategic advisor for donors, helping to identify where donations can have the greatest impact and guiding donors through each complex step involved in international philanthropy. The International Community Foundation makes the process easy for donors, shouldering the responsibility of implementing the required due diligence to ensure that grants are distributed effectively and have maximum impact. This protects both donor and grantee by observing strict compliance with all U.S. laws and regulations governing international charitable giving. 3 D ear Donors and Friends, It has been over 20 years since the International Community Foundation (ICF) was founded on the vision of promoting philanthropy and grantmaking in underserved communities in the Americas and Asia. During this time, over $33 million in grants has been made to charities in the communities that we serve internationally. During the past decade, the International Community Foundation had sought to stay true to its founders’ original vision of serving as a philanthropic connector for both the Americas and Asia. However, the need for expanded grant compliance and oversight prompted the foundation’s Board to refocus our grantmaking priorities on two key geographic priorities: Mexico and Central America. In the past fiscal year, 121 grants totaling almost $5.8 million were made to 90 nonprofits, representing an increase of 5% over the prior fiscal year. Through this funding, a wide range of projects and initiatives was supported in the areas of education, the environment, health & human services, community development and arts & culture. Beyond its grantmaking in the San Diego-Tijuana border region, the Foundation published a study highlighting cross-border challenges and opportunities in tuberculosis. With financial support from Qualcomm’s Wireless Reach Initiative, the Foundation also helped forge an innovative, cross-border, public-private partnership that has led to the development of a wireless diabetes management solution for underserved patients in Tijuana.. Given that over 50% of the International Community Foundation’s current donors are retirees or second homebuyers in Mexico, the Foundation has sought to better understand how the ongoing economic recession has impacted this unique subpopulation. To learn more, the International Community Foundation embarked on a year-long effort to study U.S. retirement trends in Mexican coastal communities, which resulted in four research reports published since March. In the coming decade, it is our hope that the International Community Foundation can inspire more U.S. donors to expand their level of giving to Mexico and Central America. Increased giving will empower and enable more worthy nonprofits to proactively respond to growing challenges and needs using community-based solutions that government is unable to provide alone. Thank you for your steadfast support of the International Community Foundation over the past two decades. It is thanks to your generosity that our work is possible. Sincerely, Cheryl Hammond Richard Kiy Chair President & CEO 4 2 Years of Inspired Philanthropy Environment0 Los Laureles Canyon, Tijuana, BC, Mexico With a population of 65,000 residents, many in illegal settlements without access to sewer and water pipes, Los Laureles Canyon was sending trash, sediment and sewage directly into the protected wetlands and beaches of the Tijuana River Estuary. When approached by the California Coastal Conservancy, Grey whale at Laguna San Ignacio, BCS, Mexico (Richard Kiy, ICF) the International Community Foundation agreed to oversee and implement the first steps toward improving local residents’ quality of life and health, launch the Center for Environmental Advocacy as well as the estuary’s health. After three years, the (CIAM). Almost immediately, CIAM was approached International Community Foundation and its partners by local residents of Bastimentos Island to challenge completed a diagnostic of the canyon and an an oversized tourism complex on Red Frog Beach. education and outreach program that has resulted in This challenge went all the way to the Supreme Court, a small grants program for local projects, a formal where CIAM won, overturning the environmental land-use plan for the canyon, residential water impact assessment approval for the first time in connections and green space for students and Panama’s history. With continued technical and families to play. financial support from the International Community Foundation, CIAM is protecting mangroves, turtle Isla Espíritu Santo, La Paz, BCS, Mexico nesting sites, rare bird habitat and large expanses of tropical forest. The Red Frog tourism complex has When the Mexican government and the philanthropic still not been approved. community announced that the island would become a protected area, the International Community Laguna San Ignacio Conservation Alliance, Foundation took the idea one step further. With a 1:1 San Ignacio Lagoon, BCS, Mexico challenge grant from the United Nations Foundation, the International Community Foundation raised In an effort to protect and conserve the breeding $250,000 for the first conservation management grounds of the California grey whale, in 2003 the program on the island. Not only did this funding International Community Foundation forged a cross- provide much-needed operational support in the border partnership with Pronatura Noroeste Mar de early years of the reserve, but it led to the application Cortes, A.C, Wildcoast/Costa Salvaje and the Natural for the declaration of all 244 islands of the Gulf of Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to establish the California as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Laguna San Ignacio Conservation Alliance. Thanks to the support of the Foundation’s collective donors and Red Frog Beach, Bastimentos Island, the collaborative work of our program partners, the Panama Alliance has secured conservation easements on more than 140,000 acres of land around the lagoon After identifying the need to better enforce and has helped spur the protection of additional environmental laws in Panama, the International 300,000 acres of Federally owned land. The Community Foundation worked with local advisors to Foundation continues to support the Alliance’s 5 Twenty years of inspiring philanthropy beyond borders Dulce Wireless Tijuana East Cape Community Urgent Care Clinic Espiritu Santo efforts serving as the fiscal steward for endowment nurses, supplies and equipment for Los Barriles. Her funds to promote the long-term stewardship of the “friends of” fund is now used for emergency care and lagoon as well as an ongoing protection of communal a new dental clinic. lands from Ejido Luis Echevarría Alvarez through Maijañuí, A.C. Indonesian Red Cross, Jakarta, Indonesia In 2004, the South Asian tsunami left 1.5 million Health homeless; countless individuals lost family members as a result of one of the deadliest disasters in modern Dulce Wireless Initiative, Tijuana, BC, history. In response, the International Community Mexico Foundation again partnered with the United Nations Foundation and 13 U.S. community foundations to With funding from Qualcomm’s Wireless Reach provide immediate assistance for response, recovery Program, the International Community Foundation is and reconstruction in the tsunami-affected regions of managing a 3G mobile medicine initiative, which Indonesia, Sri Lanka and North Africa. Ultimately involves six project partner organizations from raising almost $1 million, the International Mexico and the U.S. The ultimate goal of Dulce Community Foundation’s largest grantee was the Wireless-Tijuana is to improve diabetes patients’ Indonesian Red Cross, the lead response organization health and lifestyle by utilizing 3G wireless in Banda Aceh. Their work on water and sanitation, technology to more effectively monitor and treat as well as their health response programs, was diabetes in otherwise hard to reach communities supported by Sempra Energy’s donor-advised fund at of Tijuana. the International Community Foundation. The International Community Foundation also