Anniversary Report 2010

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Celebrating 10 Years
of Grantmaking:
2000–2010
OUR APPROACH
Child-centered
Family-focused
Community-based
CELEBRATING 10 YEARS
Our Core Values. . . . . . 2 –11
Letter from the Founder & President......12
Letter from the Executive Director......13
The Need & The Solution......14
The Way We Work. . . . . .15
Our Programs. . . . . .16–17
Firelight 2000–2010. . . ...20–23
Our Grantees’ Work. . . . ..24
A Message from the Director of Programs......25
GRANTEE PROFILES
A Community Support Network Gives New Lease on Life:
Bwafwano Community Home-Based Care Program......26–27
Firelight supports grassroots
organizations that help families
and communities meet the
needs of their children.
OUR MISSION
Our Accomplishments & Impact......18–19
The mission of the Firelight
Foundation is to improve the
well-being of children made
vulnerable by HIV, AIDS, and
poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Transforming the Lives of Young Girls:
WEM Integrated Health Services......28–29
Protecting & Nurturing Children:
The Child Protection Society......30–31
REFERENCE
Support Firelight. . . . . 32–33
Donors. . . . . . 34–37
Board of Directors, Advisory Council & Staff......38–39
Our Vision 2010–2020. .....40
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www.firelightfoundation.org
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OUR CORE VALUES
We believe that children
hold the key to a
brighter future for Africa.
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Our grantees understand
the needs of children and
families made vulnerable by
HIV, AIDS, and poverty.
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Core Values
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We believe that real
and lasting change
begins at the grassroots.
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We know that small,
well-targeted investments
can make a big difference
in children’s lives.
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to 2010
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We have seen the
success and impact of
our approach on children,
families, communities,
and other funders over
10 years of operation.
“Africa is a magnificent
continent and its children
not only represent hope;
they also live and inspire it.
The privilege to witness this
energy and photograph it
continues to be the most
humbling experience of
my life.
As Firelight’s Communications
and Development Officer
from 2005 to 2008, I had
the opportunity to travel
and document some of the
remarkable work of our
grantees. There are so many
faces and smiles I will
never forget.
Firelight’s images of children
and families stir emotions
without evoking pity. These
are individuals with dreams
and aspirations who are overcoming frightening statistics.”
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to 2010
2010
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–Joop Rubens, photographer &
former Firelight staff member
Core Values
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LE T TER FROM THE FOUNDER & PRESIDENT
Celebrating a journey of partnership & action
In October 2000, the Firelight Foundation
celebrated an important milestone. We made
our first round of grants to 24 African communitybased organizations serving children in need.
Ten years and more than 1,100 grants later, this
publication marks the celebration of a journey
of partnership and grassroots action that
has improved the well-being of hundreds of
thousands of children made vulnerable by HIV,
AIDS, and poverty.
Kerry Olson
Founder & President
As we look back on the past decade, we have
much to be grateful for. While our core mission,
vision, and values have remained the same, our
Grantmaking and Capacity Building Programs
have evolved and we have formalized new ways
to leverage our impact through organizational
learning, outreach, and advocacy.
Our belief in the dignity and worthiness of every
child, the central importance of family, and the
power of community action to bring about positive
change are the cornerstones that have guided our
child-centered, family-focused, and communitybased approach.
Our growth has been guided by and grounded
in the day-to-day work of hundreds of granteepartners addressing the needs of children and
families in direct and life-changing ways.
It is the work of these grassroots groups—brought
to life in the following pages—that continues
to inspire us and affirms our sense of purpose
and commitment to stepping up support of
local initiatives that respond to the needs of
their communities.
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Letter
Our 10th anniversary celebration is especially
significant as it marks our transition from private
foundation to public charity, aligning our
identity more closely with the organization
we have become.
The heart and core of Firelight is about local
communities in Africa making a real difference for
children by mobilizing action and local resources,
and a growing virtual community of donors and
partners investing in these grassroots groups. By
working together we are able to build a brighter
future for children and families in one of the
most poverty-stricken yet resourceful regions
in the world.
We are deeply grateful to all of those who have
walked this journey with us—our past and present
grantee-partners, donors, staff, volunteers, and
Advisory Council and Board members who have
brought Firelight’s mission to life. We also honor
the dedicated African caregivers, local leaders, and
community activists who “walked the talk” but are
no longer with us, and whose memories remind
us that lasting legacies are created through giving
and service.
As we look forward to the next 10 years and beyond,
we remain steadfast in our mission. Alongside
our community-based partners, we are in this
for the long haul. Helping to improve the lives
of children and families in need is a social justice
issue that transcends current economic conditions
and political climates. It is a call to action to us as
responsible and compassionate citizens of the
world who together can help make a difference,
each in our own way.
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LE T TER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIREC TOR
Building on Africa’s strengths
For the last 25 years, I’ve been working to improve
the well-being of children in the developing
world. Going straight from college into the Peace
Corps, I spent the next two decades with a US
nonprofit in Africa and then heading a European
foundation. But my last two years, as executive
director of the Firelight Foundation, have been
especially memorable.
What makes Firelight so special? A lot of inspiration,
each and every day.
Much of this inspiration comes from working with
the Firelight team—a hard-working, creative group
of talented people dedicated to helping children. It’s
a very powerful mix that leaves me with more energy
at the end of the workday than I had at the start.
Firelight’s strong belief in the power of community
action is a unique hallmark of the Foundation. That
belief inspires everything we do. One of Africa’s most
abundant and renewable resources is solidarity—
the willingness of a neighbor to help another
neighbor. Firelight recognizes this strength and
celebrates the small but mighty organizations that
channel solidarity into positive change for children.
Many of these organizations are idea-rich but
cash-poor. This is where Firelight comes in, providing
modest but dependable funding, advice, and
support as the organizations grow.
Firelight is a responsive funder, seeking to help
what’s already going on rather than prescribing
approaches. Our only directive to prospective
grantee-partners is: “Show us that you are wellrooted in your community and that you’re well-run;
and then tell us what you think would make the
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most difference for the well-being of children in
your community.”
There are still many funders and policymakers who
see small grants given to small organizations as too
risky or time- and resource-intensive. At Firelight,
we see things quite differently.
In our experience, our grants have been remarkably
low-risk, because of the number of eyes on the
cashbox in a community. We have lost less than
two percent of the funds we have granted over
10 years, even though we would have accepted a
considerably higher loss rate in order to be able to
get funds directly to the grassroots. We are inspired
by the creativity, hard work, and energy in each of
these compassion-driven start-ups. Some of them
will stay small and steady, and others will grow
into large national nonprofits, but all make a big
difference in children’s lives.
Peter Laugharn
Executive Director
Firelight understands how crucial and ubiquitous
these small organizations are in the ecosystem of
child well-being. They are everywhere in Africa—
South Africa alone has 50,000 grassroots groups. So
it’s not a question of scaling up community action,
but rather of “skilling up” and of helping these
organizations become as effective as possible.
During the last 10 years, Firelight has been on an
inspiring journey, hand in hand and step in step with
our grantee-partners. Over the next 10 years our
focus will be on getting more funding to the grassroots, both through our own grantmaking and by
advocating that other large funders do the same.
We hope that you’ll come along with us on the
next phase of our journey.
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THE NEED
Children affected by AIDS & poverty
In Sub-Saharan Africa, more than 40 million
children have been orphaned. 12 million of
these children have lost at least one of their
parents to HIV and AIDS, and millions more have
been made vulnerable by poverty and the
burden of caring for ill parents.
THE SOLUTION: COMMUNIT Y AC TION
Communities changing children’s lives
About 90% of all children affected by HIV, AIDS, and
poverty are supported by extended families and small
community-based organizations (CBOs) that work on a
shoestring budget to help children stay in school and
ensure that they have food, clothing, shelter, psychosocial
support, and protection from abuse.
Close to 80% of the children orphaned by
HIV and AIDS globally live in Sub-Saharan Africa,
where nearly 60% of people live
on less than $1 a day.
Communities mobilize local resources to help vulnerable
children and families. They give their love and volunteer
their time to provide care, grow food, and give
clothes to children. This strong community
Strengthening
solidarity builds children’s resilience.
Every day another 15,000 children
lose their mother or father to
AIDS and other causes.
communities
to keep children
in families =
Remarkably, most orphans and vulnerable children in Africa live with families,
including surviving parents, extended family
members, or “foster” families in their communities.
The challenge is that most of these families
are living in poverty and struggling to
provide for their children’s care.
African communities are responding to this
need. Community members are working
together to strengthen the capacity of families
and communities to meet the needs of
children, helping children remain in families
where they grow best.
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The Need & The Solution
But the resources of these grassroots groups
are being stretched to the limit as the heavy toll
of HIV, AIDS, and poverty rises and the global
economy worsens, making affected children and
families more vulnerable.
Firelight seeks to overcome the two biggest obstacles
faced by community groups: a lack of recognition and
insufficient funding of their work. We are one of a very few
foundations that partners with small CBOs supporting
vulnerable children and families in the hardest-hit areas
of Africa.
Over 10 years of operation, we have seen that our
approach works. Building on the resources of African
communities and strengthening local organizations leaves
them better able to respond to the strains of HIV, AIDS,
and poverty.
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THE WAY WE WORK
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THE NEED
THE FIRELIGHT RESPONSE
HIV, AIDS, and poverty are taking a
heavy toll on children and families in
Sub-Saharan Africa, where too few
resources reach their communities.
Firelight directly funds CBOs and
helps build their capacity to reach
more vulnerable children and families
and to become self-sustaining.
3
CBOs improve the well-being of children
and families by deploying holistic, sustainable, and locally-tailored programs* that:
Meet basic material needs:
Material Assistance
Food/Nutrition/Agriculture
Economic Strengthening
Provide care, support & protection:
Psychosocial Support
Children’s Rights
Facilitate access to governmentprovided services:
Education
Health care/HIV
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The increased
well-being of
children
OUR THEORY OF CHANGE
THE COMMUNIT Y
SUPPORT SYSTEM
2
THE COMMUNIT Y RESPONSE
Communities identify the needs,
mobilize networks and resources,
and formalize efforts by creating
community-based organizations
(CBOs) that:
• Provide direct support to vulnerable
children and families
• Strengthen volunteer and caregiver
networks
• Advocate for improved government
policies and greater access to services.
* For a full list of Firelight’s grants and
grantee-partner program areas, go to
www.firelightfoundation.org.
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OUR PROGRAMS
Building on our strengths
“
e Firelight Foundation
Th
has been an amazing
example of how knowledge
is the most valuable
philanthropic tool. By
opening up their knowledge
to influence other donors’
grantmaking, they have
had an outsized impact.
Ten years ago, Firelight developed
a Grantmaking Program to
effectively channel resources to
small, local community-based
organizations (CBOs), with
guidance from our Africa-based
Advisory Council.
–Sean Stannard-Stockton,
CEO, Tactical Philanthropy
Advisors
Ten years later, our core programs
affirm what our grantee-partners
have told us from the beginning:
It is not just about the money. It
is also about partnership and
engagement, strengthening
organizations, and learning.
”
“
From its beginning, Firelight
has embodied the fundamentally important principle
that the safety and wellbeing of vulnerable children
are built—effectively and
sustainably—by supporting
and strengthening the
capacities of those closest
to them. Firelight has also
played critically important
leadership roles among both
technically-oriented and
faith-based organizations
in helping to conceptualize
the best collective way
forward for child protection
and care.
”
–John Williamson,
International Advisor on
Child Protection & Co-author
of “Children on the Brink”
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Programs
THE BUILDING BLOCKS
Firelight’s work has been built on
a set of core principles that inform
what we do and how we do it:
1 We believe that children
grow best in families.
Firelight partners with CBOs to
support community efforts to
strengthen families and improve
the lives of vulnerable children.
CBOs have the grounding to
work with their communities
to identify the most vulnerable
families and develop targeted
solutions to local problems.
SEVEN-YEAR PARTNERSHIPS
2 We understand that
improving the well-being of
children requires holistic and
integrated approaches that
meet the wide-ranging needs
of children and help facilitate
access to essential services.
Firelight recognizes that
improving the lives of children
and families takes time and
resources. We put most of our
resources into our Grantmaking
Program, which makes direct
grants to community organizations responding to the needs
of vulnerable children and
families.
Grassroots organizations work to
meet a wide range of children’s
needs by directly providing
material support, care, and
protection, as well as facilitating
access to government-provided
services such as education and
health care.
3 We recognize that community
resources are stretched to the
limit and focus on channeling
resources to CBOs.
Using a thorough review process,
we select grassroots groups that
work effectively to mobilize
community resources to meet
the needs of children. We develop
partnerships with them that
respect their local knowledge
and leadership. We keep our
grant sizes at levels that small
organizations can manage. We
fund both program and overhead costs so that organizations
can do their core work while
paying rent, salaries, and other
expenses.
The typical Firelight partnership
with a grantee-partner lasts from
five to seven years. This duration
of funding provides financial
stability to the organizations,
allowing them to plan for
the long term. By gradually
increasing grant sizes according
to the capacity of the granteepartner, we support measured
and sustainable growth. We aim
to provide larger grants in the
last two years of funding to help
organizations sustain their work
as they graduate from Firelight
funding.
In addition to directly funding
CBOs, we are expanding our
effort to build a network of
African grassroots grantmakers.
These established and experienced organizations are wellpositioned to reach smaller, more
remote, and informal emerging
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groups and provide them with
mentoring and support in the
early stages of development. A
new focus of our Grantmaking
Program is providing support to
grassroots organizations leading
national-level advocacy efforts,
giving them a platform to inform
and influence national policies
impacting children.
partner networks that provide
opportunities for organizations
to connect, share, and learn from
each other. Our local program
consultants provide ongoing
mentoring and guidance.
Firelight’s weekly newsletter
provides a forum for sharing
programming and funding information with grantee-partners.
STRENGTHENING
ORGANIZATIONS &
PROGRAMS
LEARNING TOGETHER
Driven by the desire to make a
tangible difference in children’s
lives, many grassroots organizations seek to improve their
programs and serve a greater
number of children. They realize
that this requires resourcefulness,
careful planning, and thoughtful
growth and expansion of programs.
Firelight’s Capacity Building
Program helps grantee-partners
meet these increased demands
by supporting efforts to build
the skills and knowledge of their
leaders, staff, and volunteers.
We fund community organizations to receive training in
organizational management,
program planning, implementation and evaluation, and
governance. We have developed
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Firelight has always learned by
doing, and has always learned
alongside our grantee-partners.
This approach has enhanced
our grantmaking strategy and
shaped the development of our
Capacity Building Program.
In recent years we have made
our learning about how CBOs
work more structured and
purposeful. Our Organizational
Learning Program employs both
formal and informal approaches
to learning. We observe and
document effective strategies,
coming together to learn and
reflect. We systematically analyze
the data we have collected over
the years and synthesize our
lessons into practical knowledge.
These strategies help us to more
effectively support our partners,
and in turn, assist them with
improving their own programs.
They also help us to inform and
persuade other donors about the
importance of getting resources
to the grassroots.
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ADVOCATING FOR
INCREASED RESOURCES &
EFFEC TIVE SUPPORT
Firelight understands that our
funding meets a very small
portion of the need on the
ground. Whenever possible, we
use our voice and the voices of
our grantee-partners to advocate
for more resources to support
the valuable work of grassroots
groups helping children and
families.
Using the knowledge from
our learning efforts, our
Communications Program raises
greater awareness and understanding of the efficacy of a
community-based approach.
Through our Advocacy Program,
we engage with government,
philanthropic, and faith-based
groups—which together
contribute more than $1 billion
a year for children affected by
HIV and AIDS—to encourage
them to increase the amount of
funding and support reaching
the grassroots.
Over the past 10 years, Firelight
has been a leader in grassroots grantmaking in Africa,
reaching communities and
strengthening organizations
overlooked by other funders.
American Jewish World
Service has always drawn
inspiration from Firelight’s
capacity to bring forward the
best caregivers and activists
working to protect children
from the effects of the HIV/
AIDS pandemic.
We have been honored to
partner with Firelight on
many occasions. As we say in
the Jewish tradition, ‘You are
not obligated to complete the
task, but you cannot refuse
to participate.’ That is the
challenge that Firelight has
accepted, and we wish you
many more decades of
success!
”
–Ruth Messinger, President,
American Jewish World Service
“
The Firelight Foundation has
done something extremely rare
in philanthropy: It has listened
and it has learned. I deeply
admire Firelight’s commitment
to serving those in need, rather
than its own preconceptions
and agendas.
”
–Timothy Ogden,
Founder & Editor-in-Chief,
Philanthropy Action
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In 10 years, Firelight awarded
more than 1,100 GRANTS
totaling nearly $14 MILLION
reaching 330
COMMUNITY-BASED
ORGANIZATIONS
serving an estimated
250,000 CHILDREN in
*
10 Sub-Saharan African
countries.
* Based on the average number of child beneficiaries per grant in 2009. In order to avoid inflation of beneficiary
numbers, we count children reached by multiple programs only once and do not include children who are
reached only through indirect, low-touch mass channels.
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2000–2010 Timeline
OUR CORE WORK
1999
After becoming beneficiaries of a
Silicon Valley public offering in 1999,
Kerry Olson and her husband, Dave
Katz, founded the Firelight Foundation
(FF) to support children affected by
HIV, AIDS, and poverty.
Initial Endowment: $12,678,000
Grantmaking and
Capacity Building:
Channeling resources
directly to the
grassroots; taking a
long-term approach
to our granteepartnerships; and
strengthening
community-based
organizations.
Equipping the
Foundation with
the legal, financial,
human, operational,
and knowledge
resources to be able
to conduct our core
work and leverage
our programs.
Firelight makes first
grant to the Elizabeth
Glaser Pediatric AIDS
Foundation to reduce
mother-to-child
transmission of AIDS
in Africa.
Outreach to raise
awareness about the
needs of vulnerable
children and families
starts early. At the
Council on Foundations’
Annual Conference,
Firelight hosts its first
roundtable on children
orphaned by AIDS
in Africa.
Firelight issues its first
call for proposals.
Program Director
Tammy Moody and
Advisory Council (AC)
member Suzi Peel
attend International
AIDS Conference in
Durban, South Africa,
and visit communitybased organizations
(CBOs) in 5 African
countries.
First Firelight AC
meeting in which first
round of proposals is
reviewed.
Firelight moves to its
first office in Santa
Cruz, CA. Tammy
Moody serves as
volunteer program
director. Cheryl TalleyMoon, administrative
assistant, becomes first
staff member.
FY* 2000:
$8,100 in
public
support
(individuals).
Firelight Advisory
Council (AC) is
established, including
founding members
Jen Astone, Natasha
Martin, and Suzi Peel.
Debra Evans and
Nancy Shallow join
Kerry Olson and Dave
Katz on the Firelight
Board of Directors.
FY* 2000: 2 grants
totaling $22,500
awarded.
Firelight website is
launched.
Firelight provides
seed funding for Rory
Kennedy’s film
Pandemic: Facing AIDS.
Firelight co-hosts
meeting in New York
City for 28 foundations
and NGOs on orphans
and vulnerable children
in Africa, timed to
coincide with the
Special Session of the
UN General Assembly
on HIV/AIDS.
Firelight’s grantmaking
focuses on 6 African
countries (Malawi,
Rwanda, South Africa,
Tanzania, Zambia, and
Zimbabwe) based on
HIV and AIDS rates, level
of need, and opportunity
for impact. Renewal
grants continue to
be made in Lesotho,
Kenya, and Uganda.
First Firelight granteepartner meetings in
Kenya, Rwanda,
Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
FY 2001: 47 grants totaling $636,300 awarded.
$134,130 in program
services** provided.
Firelight receives first
public donations
from individuals and
businesses.
2001
In December 1999, the Firelight
Foundation incorporated and was
endowed as a private foundation
with a mission to address the needs
of children orphaned and affected
by HIV, AIDS, and poverty in
Sub-Saharan Africa.
RESOURCING FIRELIGHT
Olson and Katz made their decision to
focus on this issue after a thoughtful
process including research of philanthropic opportunities focused on
children, AIDS, and Africa; participation
in numerous conferences, workshops,
and roundtables on the issue; and
being inspired by stories of African
grassroots initiatives serving children.
Increasing our
knowledge and
lessons learned,
and amplifying our
impact through
public outreach,
communications,
advocacy, and
strategic alliances.
Information gathering
and outreach to
organizations focused
on Africa, AIDS, and
children informs
Firelight’s programs.
2000
Throughout the 1990s
in regions hardest hit by
HIV, AIDS, and poverty,
African community-based
organizations began to
mobilize to respond to
the needs of an increasing
number of orphans and
vulnerable children.
LEVERAGING OUR WORK
FIRELIGHT FOUNDATION:
CELEBRATING 10 YEARS
Jen Astone becomes
Executive Director (ED)
and serves through
2007.
FY 2001: $700 in public
support (individuals).
Firelight hosts granteepartner and strategic
alliance meeting at
the International AIDS
Conference in Barcelona.
100th Grant Awarded
Firelight creates a privacy
and confidentiality
policy to respect and
protect the identities
of children and people
living with HIV and
AIDS in reports and
publications.
Lesotho becomes
Firelight’s seventh
focus country.
FY 2002: 46 grants
totaling $449,300
awarded. $263,800
in program services
provided.
Firelight moves to
larger offices. First two
program officers are
hired.
FY 2002: $14,300 in
public support
(individuals).
Additional endowment:
$476,700.
FF is featured in COF
publication: Successful
Small Grants Programs:
When A Little Goes a
Long Way (Caroline
D. Avery).
Firelight steps up
capacity building
support and launches
its “META” (Monitoring,
Evaluation, and
Technical Assistance)
Program.
First technical
assistance grant given:
Firelight funds GRACE
to conduct a five-day
organizational
development workshop
for 14 grantee-partners
from 5 countries.
Public support increases
as Firelight is recognized
as an effective
grantmaker. FF hosts
three donor outreach
events and receives
first foundation grant.
Donor Advised Fund
at Tides Foundation
is established.
2003
Dr. Geoff Foster
becomes first Africabased AC member.
Firelight presents at the
Global Philanthropy
Forum, Grantmakers
Without Borders, the
Council on Foundations
(COF), and World Bank
conferences.
FY 2003 Support:
$284,600 (individuals);
$317,300 (foundations);
and $107,500 (through
Tides Donor Advised
Fund).
2004
2002
FF convenes meeting
on “best practice” for
orphans and vulnerable
children in New York
City bringing together
23 representatives of
philanthropic, educational, civic, governmental, and religious
organizations.
First Firelight video,
“Stories from Kenya,”
produced by Firelight
donor and supporter,
Jim Hayes, and Firelight
co-founder Dave Katz.
First Annual Report
covering 2000-2003
is published and
later receives COF
Wilmer Shields Award
for Excellence in
Communications.
Kerry Olson and
Dave Katz receive the
Children Affected by
AIDS “Ribbon of Dreams”
award for founding
Firelight to support
First newsletter for
grantee-partners is
published.
FY 2003: 78 grants
totaling $720,800
awarded. $317,300
in program services
provided.
Firelight mentors other
foundations in a grassroots grantmaking
model, serving as a
resource to those
interested in working
with emerging CBOs. In
2004 alone, this results
in more than $150,000
given to granteepartners by other
foundations.
FF provides 15
grantee-partners with
“documentation and
dissemination” grants,
enabling them to
share their work more
broadly.
Firelight launches threeyear strategic plan
(2004-2007), with goal
of increasing grants to
grassroots groups.
FF receives grants
from the Flora Family
Foundation, the New
Field Foundation, and
its largest individual
donation to date
($300,000) from an
anonymous donor.
FF is featured in COF
publication: Making
A Difference in Africa:
Advice from Experienced
Grantmakers (Rob
Buchanan and Jayne
Booker).
FY 2004: 109 grants
totaling $825,400
awarded. In addition,
$307,500 granted
through the Tides
Donor Advised Fund.
$394,500 in program
services provided.
Firelight donor and
supporter, Cathy
Aronson, raises $13,000
for Firelight biking
across the US (and
raises thousands more
in 2006 and 2010).
FY 2004 Support:
Tides).
ED Jen Astone co-chairs
COF and European
Foundation Center
joint working group
to develop Principles
of Accountability for
International Philanthropy.
FF convenes “think-tank”
in London, bringing
together 17 researchers,
specialists, and
community-based
partners to explore
innovative and
community-driven
approaches to monitoring and evaluation.
Firelight publishes
Promise of a Future
advocacy paper to raise
awareness about the
importance of family
and community-based
care.
FF joins Bernard van
Leer Foundation,
International AIDS
Alliance, and Teresa
Group to form the
Coalition for Children
Affected by AIDS (CCABA)
to increase the visibility
of children’s issues at
International AIDS
Conferences.
Firelight awards first
intermediary grant to
Jerusalem Children and
Community Development Organization
(JeCCDO) to help
extend FF’s funding
to smaller CBOs in
Ethiopia.
FY 2005: 98 grants
totaling $1,277,800
awarded. $54,000
granted through the
Tides Donor Advised
Fund. $639,400 in
program services
provided.
FF moves into its
current office space
in downtown
Santa Cruz, CA.
FY 2005 Support:
Tides).
Firelight convenes
African community
leaders and key
stakeholders in Cape
Town, South Africa, for
second “think-tank” on
innovative approaches
to monitoring and
evaluation.
Two-year programs to
strengthen granteepartner monitoring and
evaluation are launched
in Lesotho, Malawi, and
Zambia.
Firelight publishes and
launches 30,000 copies
of From Faith to Action:
Strengthening Family
and Community-Based
Care for Orphans and
Vulnerable Children in
Sub-Saharan Africa, a
guide for faith-based
groups and donors.
Launched at the XVI
International AIDS
Conference in Toronto.
Firelight is featured in
Legacy and Innovation:
A Guidebook for Families
on Social Change Philanthropy (Stephanie Yang
and Changemakers).
FY 2006: 140 grants
totaling $1,800,300
awarded. $267,300
granted through the
Tides Donor Advised
Fund. $942,800 in
program services
provided.
Founder Kerry Olson
serves as founding
member and Chair of
the Better Care Network
Faith-Based Outreach
Committee (later renamed
Faith to Action Initiative),
a coalition promoting
best practice in orphan
care among US faithbased groups.
Firelight brings grassroots leader Mary
Balikungeri, from Rwanda
Women Community
Development, to speak
alongside Jeffrey Sachs
at the Foreign Policy
Roundtable meeting in
Los Angeles.
FF staff adapt newsletter
for grantee-partners
into weekly Newsflash
sharing information
on programs, resourcing, and organizational
development.
Monitoring & Evaluation
Coordinator Jennifer
Lentfer develops
capacity self-assessment
tool (“Building a Fire”)
for CBOs.
Firelight develops a
toolkit on organizational
management for
emerging CBOs.
Elton John AIDS
Foundation (EJAF) and
Nike Foundation Grassroots Girls Initiative
(GGI) begin funding FF.
18-year old Julia
Feinberg is awarded
$6,500 from Make-aWish Foundation and
chooses to give it all
to FF.
FY 2006 Support:
$2,624,200 (foundations);
Tides).
2007
2005
Firelight receives
multi-year grant from
Johnson & Johnson
and its first grant from
American Jewish World
Service (AJWS).
2006
Five-year anniversary
events and AC meeting
in Cape Town, South
Africa, featuring meetings
with Archbishop
Desmond Tutu and
with grantee-partners.
Firelight co-sponsors
launch of Voices and
Visions: Rights and
Realities exhibit created
by the Children’s Rights
Center.
Firelight Program
Officer Jennifer
Anderson-Bahr shares
Firelight’s work in
Lesotho with Britain’s
Prince Harry at Windsor
Great Park in London.
In Barron’s Magazine’s
Special Report on
Philanthropy, “Giving
Wisely,” Firelight’s work
is recognized when
founders Kerry Olson
and Dave Katz are
honored as being
among 10 of the most
“thoughtful and
effective donors in
the United States”.
Firelight holds special
AC session on economic
strengthening programs
with microenterprise
experts Jill Donahue
and Godfrey Kasozi
(from CETRUD, Uganda).
Firelight funds CETRUD
to facilitate a Uganda
grantee-partner study
tour on strengthening
income-generating
activities.
FY 2007: 181 grants
totaling $2,180,500
awarded. $10,000
granted through the Tides
Donor Advised Fund.
$1,306,000 in program
services provided.
Firelight strengthens its
organizational capacity,
creating the Director
of Programs, Director
of Communications &
Advocacy, and Director
of Development
positions.
FF meets its three-year
strategic goal of
increasing grantmaking
by an average $300,000
per year.
Firelight receives its first
grant from The ELMA
Foundation.
FY 2007 Support:
$937,900 (individuals)
and $1,866,500
(foundations).
Firelight conducts a
rapid assessment of
how the emergency
situation in Zimbabwe
affects grantee-partners,
and in response,
convenes a “Care for the
Caregivers” workshop.
Firelight formalizes
relationships with
country resource
people, who provide
local support to
grantee-partners and
field-based analysis
to FF’s Grantmaking
Program.
Naomi Natale’s Cradle
Project exhibition and
fundraiser is held in
Albuquerque, NM,
raising more than
$70,000 for Firelight.
FY 2008 Support:
and $3,194,400
(foundations).
Firelight’s new brand,
website, blog, and
social network presences
are launched.
Firelight convenes
three-day meeting on
child abuse and child
protection in Malawi
attended by 23 grantees
from 9 African countries.
FY 2008: 180 grants
totaling $1,970,500
awarded. $1,677,400
in program services
provided.
FF provides increased
funding, training, and
tools for emerging
intermediary organizations, helping them
build their capacity
to become grassroots
grantmakers.
Five-Year Strategic Plan
(2009-13) formalizes
multi-year partnerships
and comprehensive
approach to capacity
building.
During the economic
downturn, Firelight’s
major funders continue
to maintain their past
levels of support,
either increasing
funding or awarding
multi-year grants.
2009
Peter Laugharn
becomes FF’s Executive
Director.
Firelight adopts a
structured “learning
agenda” to distill
lessons learned to
improve Firelight
and grantee-partner
programming and to
advocate for channeling
more resources to
the grassroots.
FF is able to maintain
its grantmaking and
program work, and to
continue its level of
funding supporting
grantee-partners.
ED Peter Laugharn &
AC Member Howard
Kasiya brief US Congress
members on supporting
community action.
Firelight co-hosts the
Stanford Symposium
on Vulnerable Children
with presentations by
Firelight AC members.
Firelight holds annual
event on World
AIDS Day (Dec. 1st) at
the Museum of the
African Diaspora in
San Francisco. Firelight
grantee-partner and
“CNN Hero,” Betty
Makoni of the Girl
Child Network in
Zimbabwe, keynotes.
Firelight funds Justice
for Children Trust to
hold a workshop for all
Zimbabwean partners
on how to engage in
the constitutional
revision process to
enshrine children’s
rights in the constitution.
1,000th Grant
Awarded
FY 2009: 181 grants
totaling $1,675,600
awarded. $268,000
granted through the Tides
Donor Advised Fund.
$1,519,300 in program
services provided.
FY 2009 Support:
and $2,425,600
(foundations).
Firelight Special Edition
of the Vulnerable
Children and Youth
Studies (VCYS) Journal,
“Community Action:
Supporting Children
and Families Affected
by HIV/AIDS and
Poverty in Southern
Africa”, is launched at
the CCABA Symposium
in Vienna during the
XVIII International AIDS
Conference.
FF publishes its 10-Year
Anniversary Report
in celebration of a
decade of grantmaking
and incorporation as
a public charity.
Firelight staff and
country resource
people conduct “action
research” projects in
Malawi and Zimbabwe
on early childhood
development programs
and organizational
resilience. Findings are
shared at international
conferences.
Firelight conducts
a survey of granteepartners’ support of
children’s education
to inform FF’s
programming and
advocacy.
Firelight develops and
shares “Learning Circle”
guidelines to support
emerging partner networks and strengthen
cross-partner learning
in Malawi, Rwanda,
Tanzania, and Zambia.
Beginning of FY 2011*:
117 grants totaling
$1,401,000.
With growing public
support, the Firelight
Foundation becomes
a public charity.
FY 2010: 5 grants
totaling $23,000 awarded. $861,100 in program
services provided.
FY 2010 through the
beginning of FY 2011*
Support: $402,000
(individuals) and
$1,258,000
(foundations).
A public Board of
Directors is recruited.
Kerry Olson and
Dave Katz are joined
by Jonathan Lewis,
Barbara Fagan-Smith,
Geoff Foster, and Diana
Aubourg Millner.
* “FY” refers to Firelight’s “Fiscal Year”. Until recently, FF’s fiscal year began on October 1 and ended on September 30. With the transition to public charity in July 2010, FF’s fiscal year was shifted to begin on July 1 and end on June 30.
** “Program services” include all charitable expenses beyond direct grant awards (grantmaking, capacity building, organizational learning, and communications and advocacy expenses).
TOTAL GRANTS: $14 MILLION | TOTAL PROGRAM SERVICES: $8 MILLION | TOTAL PUBLIC SUPPORT: $17 MILLION
The second edition of
From Faith to Action is
published with supporting statements
from faith leaders and
a total of 32 endorsing
organizations.
Five-Year Strategic Plan
(2009-13) is launched.
New programs in
Communications,
Advocacy, and
Organizational Learning
increase impact.
2010
The Cradle Project
exhibit in Albuquerque,
NM, attracts more
than 1,000 visitors. The
Cradle Project book
is published to raise
awareness and funds.
2008
ED Peter Laugharn
chairs the Coalition on
Children Affected by
AIDS (CCABA).
Advisory Council
(AC) member Linda
Richter gives plenary
speech on solutions
for children affected
by AIDS—the first
at any International
AIDS Conference—in
Mexico City, launching
a broad discussion
of the importance
of family-centered
services.
PIRO (Tanzania) empowers
community committees
to monitor at-risk children,
remove them from child
labor, and support their
transition into school.
FEDOMA (Malawi)
educates NGOs and
service providers on
how to extend services to
children with disabilities.
FOCUS (Malawi) builds
the capacity of youth clubs
to champion children’s
rights and protect
children from abuse.
WOMEDA (Tanzania)
works with widows to
preserve their legal and
land rights.
NACC (Malawi) supports
FLP (South Africa)
community-based
provides health-based
childcare centers to
literacy training to lowcare for young children.
literacy families so that
children can succeed in
and out of school.
CETRUD (Uganda)
supports caregivers of
orphans to start their
own businesses and
organic gardens.
YOUTH FOR CHANGE
(Zambia) builds the
capacity of community
committees to prevent
and respond to violence
against children.
ASSOCIATION
TUVUGE TWIYUBAKA
(Rwanda) holds community
and school dialogues on
HIV, AIDS, and human
rights to overcome stigma
and discrimination in
the community.
JCT (Zimbabwe) provides
training to communitybased organizations to
advocate for the inclusion
of children’s rights in the
new Zimbabwean
constitution.
TUJIKOMBOE
(Tanzania) catalyzes
national-level advocacy
and policy changes and
conducts communitylevel legal training and
mobile birth registration
programs.
GOVERNMENT-PROVIDED SERVICES
TS’OSANE
(Lesotho) mentors
local support
groups to provide
care, support,
and protection to
RWN (Rwanda)
supports groups
that help children,
youth, and survivors
of sexual violence
by providing health
care, psychosocial
and socioeconomic
support, and human
rights training.
PIH/IMB (Rwanda)
works with the Rwandan
Ministry of Health and
local communities to
facilitate access to health
care and economic
empowerment.
CIVIL SOCIETY
FAMILY/CAREGIVERS
CHILDREN
OUR GRANTEES‘ WORK
MCC (Zambia) trains
guardians and deploys
community health
workers and nurses to
provide quality homebased health care to
children living with HIV.
JeCCDO (Ethiopia)
provides technical assistance and small grants to
emerging communitybased organizations
to support the direct
services they provide to
COMMUNITY GROUPS/MEMBERS
EMPILWENI
(South Africa) provides
individual and group
counseling to bereaved
and abused children.
YOCIC (Zimbabwe)
trains caregivers in
counseling skills to
better support orphaned
in their care.
FST (Zimbabwe) works
with government hospitals
to enhance their ability to
care for sexually-abused
children by establishing
specialized clinics.
INGALO ZOMUSA
(Zimbabwe ) assists the
Department of Social
Welfare to provide birth
certificates to children,
which are key to protecting
their political, legal, and
socioeconomic rights.
CETRUD: Centre for Environment Technology and Rural Development | FEDOMA: The Federation of Disability
Organizations in Malawi | FLP: Family Literacy Project | FOCUS: Foundation for Community Support Services |
FST: Family Support Trust | JCT: Justice for Children Trust | JeCCDO: Jerusalem Children and Community
Development Organization | MCC: Matero Care Center | NACC: Namwera AIDS Coordinating Committee |
PIH/IMB: Partners in Health/Inshuti Mu Buzima | PIRO: The Pemba Island Relief Organisation | RWN: Rwanda
Women Community Development Network | WOMEDA: Women Emancipation and Development Agency |
YOCIC: Youth for A Child in Christ
THE LIFE-CHANGING POWER OF THE GRASSROOTS A message from the Director of Programs, Zanele Sibanda
“Working with limited
resources, CBOs
harness the collective
power of communities
to drive social change.”
OVER THE LAST DECADE, FIRELIGHT HAS HAD THE
PRIVILEGE TO LISTEN, LEARN, SUPPORT, AND CHAMPION
THE WORK OF MORE THAN 300 COMMUNIT Y-BASED
ORGANIZATIONS (CBOs) WORKING TO IMPROVE THE LIVES
OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES.
Our partnerships are built on
trust and mutual respect. We
draw energy and inspiration from
these grassroots organizations
as they draw upon resources
and encouragement from us.
Although they are all too often
seen as peripheral to global
efforts to improve the well-being
of vulnerable children, their track
record tells a very different story.
Working with limited resources,
CBOs harness the collective
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power of communities to
drive social change. They show
courage and resilience in the
midst of adversity. They learn
and adapt to increase their
effectiveness.
These grassroots groups do
not work alone. They establish
linkages with government and
other organizations to access
additional support and resources
for the children and families
they serve.
They mobilize community
members to build up their volunteer corps, strengthen indigenous
community structures, and
create a vital safety net of care
and support for vulnerable
children and families.
The three organizations profiled
in this 10-Year Anniversary
Report are among the first CBOs
funded by Firelight. Each began
as a targeted effort to support a
small group of children in their
communities. Using a rigorous
review process, Firelight staff
selected these groups from
among hundreds. Benefitting from funding, training,
networking, and encouragement, all three have become
established organizations
transforming the lives of children
and families while continuing to
grow from strength to strength.
Multiply the remarkable impact
of these three organizations by
the thousands of other CBOs in
Sub-Saharan Africa working to
fulfill the promise of a brighter
future for children and families in
need. Their collective efforts have
created a positive sea change for
children all over Africa.
We are heartened and proud
to be supporting the unfolding
of a social movement working
to meet the needs and realize
the rights of children, even as it
changes thousands of children’s
lives, one child at a time.
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A COMMUNIT Y SUPPORT NE T WORK GIVES NEW LEASE ON LIFE
Bwafwano Community Home-Based Care Program
“All of this work is
made possible by a
cadre of more than
500 community-based
care volunteers.”
FIRELIGHT SUPPORTS COMMUNIT Y AC TION TO BRING
HOPE TO CHILDREN. BWAFWANO USED FIRELIGHT
FUNDING TO BUILD UP AN EXTENSIVE NET WORK OF
COMMUNIT Y SUPPORT AROUND CHILDREN, INCLUDING
PROGRAMS TARGETING THE NEEDS OF YOUTH. BECAUSE
THAT SUPPORT SYSTEM IS SO CENTRAL TO CHILDREN’S
EVERYDAY LIVES, BWAFWANO IS BET TER ABLE TO
IDENTIFY AND RESPOND TO CHILDREN’S NEEDS.
If it weren’t for Bwafwano
Community Home-Based Care
Program, Patrick Sinyangwe
might not have had the opportunity to get an education.
Patrick was only three years
old when his father died. His
mother could barely feed
Patrick and his four siblings. The
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Sinyangwe family found themselves struggling to survive.
Fortunately for them, not too
much time passed before
volunteers from Bwafwano—
a grassroots group located in
the Zambian capital of Lusaka—
identified and selected Patrick
and his family to participate in
its programs. Patrick’s mother
joined a support group where
she learned about micro-finance
and business development.
Patrick and his siblings participated in Bwafwano’s orphans
and vulnerable children support
program.
settlement in Lusaka, saw that
the clinic was sending most of
its patients home to die. Given
the extreme poverty, limited
public services, lack of medical
treatment, and stigma, most of
those patients faced difficult
and undignified deaths.
Even early on, the care and
support that Bwafwano’s volunteers gave to Patrick’s family
made a world of difference for
them, paving the way for their
future well-being and success.
In this community facing
poverty and a high rate of HIV
and AIDS, the need for care and
support was particularly acute.
Bwafwano (meaning “helping
one another”) was launched
in 1996 when Beatrice Chola, a
nurse working at a government
clinic in a high-density squatter
Responding to this need,
Beatrice started a home-based
care program to care for the
chronically ill and dying. Initially,
the program served individuals
living with HIV, AIDS, and
tuberculosis, but was soon
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expanded to support the
children they left behind.
Today, Bwafwano provides a
full range of integrated health
services, including a community
health clinic with a diagnostic
lab, HIV and AIDS testing and
counseling, as well as an antiretroviral treatment program.
The scale of Bwafwano’s reach
is evident in the number of
beneficiaries the group has
served. At its inception, the
group was caring for 180 HIV,
AIDS, and tuberculosis patients.
Today, Bwafwano serves more
than 4,000 adults through its
comprehensive programs.
The organization also offers
programs and services for
children and youth. Serving 125
children in 1998, today Bwafwano
reaches more than 11,500
children scattered throughout
seven communities. Through its
community committees network,
the group makes every effort
to meet the emotional, health,
nutritional, and educational
needs of children.
All of Bwafwano’s work is made
possible by a cadre of more
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than 500 community-based
care volunteers—trained and
deployed by Bwafwano staff.
More than 225 of these community volunteers are focused on
providing care and support to
young people; facilitating access
to government-provided services
such as education and health
services; and protecting children
and youth from violence.
Today, Bwafwano
serves more than
4,000 adults and
11,500 children.
Boys and girls benefit from a
recreation and life skills program,
and sexual reproductive health
and vocational training.
Graduates of the Bwafwano
program have gone on to
become youth leaders in other
organizations across Lusaka.
For Patrick and his family,
Bwafwano’s programs have
provided a new lease on life.
First, Patrick enrolled in Bwafwano’s community school, then
received support to attend a
government school to complete
his primary education. Today, he
is in the 11th grade, poised to
graduate from high school.
While going to school, Patrick
participated in Bwafwano’s
life skills program and was
trained as a peer educator.
Because of his leadership skills,
he was elected chairperson of
the Anti-AIDS Club in Kamwala
High School.
“I am very grateful to Bwafwano
for giving me opportunities that
have changed my life. I may face
challenges in life, but I have been
given the opportunity to make
something of myself,” Patrick said.
Bwafwano’s Community
Health Clinic brings
antiretroviral treatment to
the community, extending
the lives of parents.
In the 14 years since it opened
its doors, Bwafwano’s success
has been built on an effective
strategy of mobilizing community
volunteers and creating a strong
network of care and support for
children made vulnerable by HIV,
AIDS, and poverty. The remarkable
result is a brighter future for
Patrick, his family, and thousands
of other children and families.
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TRANSFORMING THE LIVES OF YOUNG GIRLS
WEM Integrated Health Services (wemihs)
“The RAY program
is focused on building
a support system that
serves as a catalyst
for change in the
girls’ lives.”
FIRELIGHT BELIEVES THAT THE NEEDS OF COMMUNITIES
SHOULD DRIVE THE PROGRAMS OF ITS GRANTEE-PARTNERS.
THAT RESPEC T FOR LOCAL LEADERSHIP ENABLED WEMIHS
TO DEVELOP LIFE-TRANSFORMING PROGRAMS THAT MEET
THE MATERIAL, EMOTIONAL, AND ESSENTIAL SERVICE
NEEDS OF YOUNG GIRLS AND THEIR FAMILIES.
What difference can an organization make in the life of a girl?
As it turns out, a huge difference.
Four young women—Julia, Jane,
Lucy, and Faith—participated in
the Responding to AIDS Among
Youth (RAY) program run by
WEM Integrated Health Services
(WEMIHS) in Kenya. Their stories
illustrate just how much the RAY
program has changed their lives.
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As the AIDS epidemic was hitting
the community of Thika in central
Kenya, three women founded
WEMIHS to prevent the spread of
HIV and AIDS by sharing information and encouraging increased
testing. They quickly realized
that the terminally ill needed
home-based health care services.
Through home visits, WEMIHS
staff saw that young women
carried most of the burden of
care—nursing, bathing, and
feeding the sick and dying
members of their families. At the
same time, the young women
were also responsible for
feeding their younger brothers
and sisters and getting them to
school. This left the girls little
time for school or friends.
To give them a chance for a
better life, WEMIHS designed
RAY, a support program that
addresses the multiple challenges that limit girls’ life
choices. To reduce the burden
carried by young women,
community volunteers provide
home-based care for the sick
adults and WEMIHS supplies
food packs to feed the families.
The heart of the RAY program is
focused on building a support
system that serves as a catalyst
for change in the girls’ lives.
Counseling, love, and support
from WEMIHS staff nurtures
self-confidence in the young
women. Youth clubs provide
a forum for peer mentoring
in which the girls learn about
sexual reproductive health, HIV
prevention, and other important
life skills.
As Julia, one of the four young
women, described it, “Through
the RAY program, we learned who
we are and identified our talents.
We learned how to prioritize and
manage our time.”
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The skills the young women
learned not only helped them to
make informed life choices, but
also to get and retain good jobs.
opportunities for the young
women with local businesses,
government, and nongovernmental organizations.
Jane explained: “I learned how to
work with all kinds of people and
to motivate them to take action
on community issues. These skills
got me my current job with a
nongovernmental organization
that works on improving access to
services like water.”
Over time, the girls saw a difference in the way their parents
treated them. As Lucy put it,
“After a forum organized by the
RAY program, parents began
to see us in a different light and
came to [not only rely on us but]
also trust us.”
Thanks to the information the
girls received about sexuality
and reproductive health, many
were able to avoid the double
trap of early pregnancy and
early marriage. At a time when
so many young people are living
with AIDS, these young women
are healthy and AIDS-free.
The RAY program
has changed the
lives of scores of
girls and young
women.
Enrollment in vocational training
programs, including tailoring,
secretarial skills, business
management, as well as leadership and advocacy courses
opened up new possibilities
for employment for the young
women. Instead of being limited
to domestic work, agricultural
labor, goods-hawking, and the
sex trade, the RAY program
opened up a new set of job
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The wider community also
started to treat the girls with
respect. “The RAY program helped
the community to understand
that youth can have a positive
impact on society,” said Faith.
“In the voluntary HIV/AIDS
counseling and testing clinic,
grown-ups saw us as people with
information and came to us to
help solve problems. When
someone my mother’s age came
and asked me for help, I felt this
was something. It made me feel
proud and important, and
wanting to learn more. It was
nice to know they had confidence
in us.”
Today, all four young women
are well-adjusted adults leading
stable and fulfilling lives. They
are making their own decisions
about who to marry and how
many children to have. One
of them is attending college;
another is married and staying
home with her child; and the
others are working in good jobs.
WEMIHS staff are proud of the
wonderful young women that
they have become.
For Julia, Jane, Lucy, Faith, and
all of the other girls and young
women, RAY isn’t just a program
they participated in.
By giving them the tools, skills,
and support they needed to
overcome great hardship and
explore new avenues, RAY has
changed the entire course of
these young women’s lives in
very positive and lasting ways.
At WEMIHS’ 2010
Intergenerational Conference,
young girls discuss the
issues they face in their
everyday lives.
Moved by the impact of
HIV and AIDS on their
community, Esther Gatua,
Wairimu Mungai, and
Florence Mwihaki Githiori
(pictured left to right) drew on
their professional experiences
and community ties to
establish WEMIHS.
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PROTECTING & NURTURING CHILDREN
The Child Protection Society (cps)
“CPS’ family-based
approach enables
the children to build
strong personal
relationships.”
FOUNDED ON A BELIEF IN THE FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE
OF FAMILY IN THE LIFE OF A CHILD, FIRELIGHT FUNDING
HELPED INITIATE THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CHILD
PROTEC TION SOCIET Y’S (CPS) APPROACH FROM
INSTITUTIONAL CARE TO FAMILY-ST YLE HOMES. TODAY,
CPS MOBILIZES COMMUNITIES TO SUPPORT FAMILIES SO
THAT FEWER CHILDREN ARE PLACED IN ORPHANAGES.
In a country like Zimbabwe,
where as many as 25 percent of
children are orphans, it is easy to
think that orphanages are
the answer.
But research confirms that children
who grow up in families have
a sense of hope and security.
Familial relationships provide
the essential ingredients that
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build a child’s self-esteem and
resilience to overcome life’s
challenges.
The community that surrounds
the family—aunts and uncles,
neighbors, and church groups—
provides children with a sense
of belonging, an opportunity to
learn life lessons, and a safety
net of support and protection.
While orphanages may provide
food and clothing, they are
often unable to give children the
things they most need: caring,
nurturing relationships, and a
sense of connectedness.
The Child Protection Society
(CPS)—one of the oldest
child welfare organizations in
Zimbabwe—has made it their
mission to ensure that, whenever possible, children without
families grow up within familytype settings.
CPS provides residential care for
abandoned, abused, disabled,
and terminally ill children. For
many years, the organization
operated “Chinyaradzo,” a large
dormitory-style home for
children who had been
separated from their families.
But over time, CPS learned that
life in a dormitory deprives
children of the kind of nurturing
and supportive relationships
that children typically experience
within a family.
CPS staff witnessed firsthand the
challenges that young people
faced as they left Chinyaradzo.
Isolation from family and the
larger community did little to
prepare them for life outside the
orphanage, making it difficult
for them to relate to other
people and integrate into the
society around them.
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External research and their own
experience compelled CPS to
transform Chinyaradzo from an
orphanage housing 60 children
into six family-modeled homes.
In each of the six homes, carefully selected and trained houseparents care for approximately
eight to ten children, ranging in
age from infancy to 18 years of
age. Two of the six homes are
completely integrated into the
community, with the children
attending local schools and
playing with other children in the
neighborhood.
In CPS’ nurturing family-style
homes, each child can build
personal relationships and learn
family roles and responsibilities.
The homes also teach children
how to become self-sufficient
and independent. Youth receive
training in livelihood skills such
as basic computing, graphic
design, tailoring, woodworking,
and screen-printing.
Since transitioning to a familymodel home, the children
are more emotionally secure
and have a greater sense of
belonging. In fact, CPS staff
members have noticed significant
increases in the children’s selfconfidence, overall well-being,
and happiness.
Daniel Lang has lived in
Chinyaradzo since he was four.
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Now 15 years old, he reflects on
his experience moving from a
dormitory to a family-style group
home: “When we were in dormitories, l did not have a sense of
responsibility as everything was
done for me. But that is different
now. I truly feel that l belong to
a family. Living in a family has
taught me important values.”
CPS works
to ensure that
children grow up
in the love, care,
and protection
of families.
CPS did not stop there. Through
research, the group learned
that 78 percent of children
in institutions have traceable
relatives. They realized that in
most of those cases, parents
and grandparents placed their
children in orphanages because
they were unable to feed them
or send them to school.
Recognizing that there was an
even greater opportunity to
ensure that more children
separated from their parents
grew up in nurturing families,
CPS decided to do something
about this problem.
from the 72 orphanages scattered
throughout Zimbabwe and reunite
them with their families. Their
thoughtfully designed process
provides support both to the
children and to the families to
ensure successful reunifications.
For those children who have no
other options, CPS makes every
effort to influence orphanages
to create environments that offer
children the kinds of relationships and way of life that they
would normally experience
growing up in a family.
CPS also works to prevent the
placement of children in orphanages by mobilizing communities
to strengthen families in a variety
of ways. Community volunteers
work with families to address the
issues that make it difficult for
them to take care of their children,
including HIV, AIDS, abuse, and
insufficient parenting skills. CPS
helps parents start gardens to
grow food and engage in incomegenerating activities so that they
can provide for their children.
As a result of these efforts,
families and communities have
become stronger and better
able to feed, clothe, and send
their children to school. But most
importantly, children are more
likely to grow up in the love, care,
and protection of families.
Tom is six years old and looks
to his grandmother for care
and love. Despite repeated
attempts, she had been
unsuccessful in obtaining a
birth certificate for Tom—
a document essential for him
to be able to get an education,
access health care and
inheritance rights, and
much more.
Fortunately, Tom enrolled in
one of CPS’ play centers for
young children. It was through
the center that Tom’s grandmother managed to get help.
Now very proud of his birth
certificate, Tom finally has
an official identity and a
recognized right to access
critical government-provided
services.
More than 2,500 other
children have benefitted from
this program.
Today, the group leads nationwide efforts to remove children
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SUPPORT FIRELIGHT
“
I have been a fan and
supporter of the Firelight
Foundation virtually since its
beginning. I am so moved by
the deep understanding and
sensitivity with which the
Foundation works in concert
with local, caring Africans to
assist thousands of children
in their own communities.
Firelight is a remarkable and
extremely effective organization that is making a very
large difference for children
in Africa. I see it as being a
model for us to follow in
trying to help people facing
challenging situations in
cultures far removed from our
own, with compassion, deep
respect, and the faith that all
of us, everywhere, can truly
make a difference in the lives
of our fellow human beings.
–Ali MacGraw, author,
actress, activist
“
”
Firelight’s impact has been
profound. Supporting community projects with small
grants in the low thousands
of dollars has shown donors
with multi-million dollar
budgets that the best way
to get results is to listen to
community leaders and
allow communities to set
the agenda—not the other
way around.
”
–John Donnelly, former
Boston Globe Africa
correspondent & Vice President,
Burness Communications
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WHY DONATE TO FIRELIGHT?
• Contributions to communitybased organizations have lifechanging impact on children’s
lives. These funds are often the
difference between a meal
before bed or sleeping on an
empty stomach. They enable
children to attend school,
opening opportunities for a
brighter future.
In July 2010, the Firelight
Foundation became a public
charity, building on the
momentum of public support
and recognition we have gained
over the last decade.
Firelight’s new public charity
status will open doors to new
partnerships, outreach, and
funding opportunities, enabling
us to increase our support to the
grassroots groups making such
a big difference in the lives of
children and families in need.
• Firelight is one of the few
funders that makes grants
directly to community-based
organizations.
We are grateful to all of our
dedicated donors who have
supported us over the years and
made our transition to public
charity possible.
Now more than ever, Firelight’s
work and our grantees’ programs
depend on the generosity of
people like you.
We hope that you will continue
to support Firelight or, if you
are new to us, will consider
joining our community of
dedicated donors.
• Firelight ensures that your
contributions reach grassroots
groups and local leaders who
intimately know and care for
children in need, but are too
often not reached by other
funders. For more than 30
percent of our grantees, we
are their first funder.
• Firelight’s grantee-partners
mobilize local volunteers and
resources that stretch your
donation even further.
• Firelight doesn’t just provide
funding. Throughout our
multi-year partnerships with
grantees, we build their
capacity to become sustainable
organizations.
2000 to 2010
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EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS
A little goes a long way. Donations to Firelight go a long way
in supporting our grantee-partners’ life-changing programs,
thanks to contributions from local communities and volunteers.
Communities know the best ways to reach children and families
in need. The following are just a few examples of how effectively
our grantees use Firelight funding:
Keep a child in school: $5 can transport a child with disabilities
to school for an entire school term. (ZIMBABWE PARENTS OF HANDICAPPED
CHILDREN, ZIMBABWE)
Help a family become self-sufficient and provide for their children:
$50 can purchase farm animals and provide business training
for a family. (WOMEN EMANCIPATION AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, TANZANIA)
Keep children warm at night and help protect them from malaria
and other diseases: $500 can supply 15 children with mosquito
nets, blankets, as well as supplies and training in basic hygiene.
(ASSOCIATION UBUMWE ST KISITO, RWANDA)
Train women to help them sustain themselves and their families:
$5,000 can purchase sewing machines and provide training to
help 30 women living with HIV earn livelihoods. (NETWORK OF ZAMBIA
PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV, ZAMBIA)
Provide children with access to essential services:
$10,000 can fund a one-year grant that supports multiple
programs, including sending children to school, providing them
with meals, and helping their guardians become economically
self-sufficient. (CHILDREN IN DISTRESS, ZAMBIA)
HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
DONATE ONLINE: (securely)
Make a one-time gift or arrange
for an automatic monthly
donation.
SEND A CHECK TO:
Firelight Foundation
740 Front Street, Suite 380
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
SHARE STOCK:
In a transfer to Firelight via
Northern Trust Bank.
GIVE INTO THE FUTURE:
With planned giving and
bequests.
SUBSCRIBE:
To our newsletter and
publications; read our blog; and
become our Facebook friend at:
QUESTIONS?
Please call: 831.429.8750 or
send an email to development@
firelightfoundation.org
Thank you for your support!
2000 to 2010
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DONOR PROFILE:
Cathy Aronson
In June 2010 Cathy Aronson
rode her bike 1,800 miles
from Washington to North
Dakota to raise funds for
Firelight and awareness
about children, AIDS, and
poverty in Africa. Her cycling
trip raised nearly $6,000
that will directly support
a grassroots organization
helping children and families
in Africa. Previous rides in
2004 and 2006 have brought
Cathy’s total funds raised
to more than $20,000, and
her total miles pedaled for
Firelight to 8,300.
“I get to do something I love
and also help people at the
same time. It’s a win-win,”
Cathy said. “In 2002 I found
out I have Multiple Sclerosis
and became determined to
stay in motion. I did my first
cross-country trip in 2003.
Then I watched a video about
one of Firelight’s Zambian
grantees. I was really taken
by their work and decided
that on my next ride I would
raise money for Firelight.”
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DONORS
The following lists are current through October 2010.
INDIVIDUALS
Nicholas Barthel
Caitlin Brune
Paula Clupper
Jennifer Delaney
Richard Fleming
Suzanne Abel
Tina Barzegar
Sheila & Joseph Brune Jr.
Shauna & Randy Della
Julie Flieder
Morton & Sheppie
Abramowitz
Katya Baslee
Alison Brush
Roberta Cohen &
David A. Korn
Caroline Flowers
Bilge Bassani
Lisa Brush
David Collins
Audrey DeLoache
Karen DeMorett
Kathleen Flynn-Barnett
Karim & Lisa Abuhamad
Jeri Battistoy & Sue Ann
Robertson
Daniela Bryan
Robert Devlin
Sara Flynn-Murphy
Terry Baugh
Barnabe Diarra
Megan Fogarty
Deborah Bryant
Emiliano Dias
Gregory Ford
Robert Dixon
Merry Foss
Ann & John Dizikes
Emily Fox-Penner
Gerald & Margaret E. Doty
Lynn & Michael C. Freeman
Jerry & Chris Doerr
Pat & Michael French
Aditi Dubey
Eric Friedman
Mary Lee Duff
Carolyn Froeberg
Brooke Dulaney
David & Betsy Fullagar
Joan Duncan
Doug & Janine Fullmer
Ester & Christopher
Ackerman
Suzanne Staver Adams
Judy Agid
Hossain & Joann Steck
Bayat
B.P. & Vimal Agrawal
Jill Bean
Nayna Agrawal
Rob Becker
Laurie Ahern
Beth Beckner
Cengiz Alaettinoglu
Michael Beesley
David Alcantar
Beverly Bell
Page Allen & Nat O. Owings
Isaac & Andrea Bempong
Nancy Alpert
Anne Bengtson
Uzoma B. Amuta
Michael Berkovec
Frances Anamosa
Susan Berlow
Karen Ande & Jeff Johnson
Marci Berman
Bev Anderson
Lisa Berry & Leslie F.
Johnson
Catherine Bryant
Hilary & Dave Bryant
Raquel Bueno
Keyna Bugner
Patrick & Linda Bujold
Tom & Lore Burger
Holly Burkhalter
John & Naomi E. Burns
Lindsey Collins
Mary & Kate Collins
Sue & Elizabeth Colton
Gabriel Constans &
Audrey Blumeneau
Mary Lou Cook
Pam Cook
Michelle Coons
Maggie Cooper
Wendy Cooper
Cheryl & Joseph Burrescia
Steven Corbato &
Susan Bratton
Glee Harrah Cady
Claudia Cornish
Marjorie & Howard Ebright
Gina Annette Gagnon
Eileen Campbell
Janet & Bill Cornyn
Terry & Cathleen Eckhardt
Ingrid M. Gain
Kelly Campbell
David & Deborah Cosby
Judy Edghill
Connie Gainer
Kevin & Patrice Campbell
Dorothy & Bob Courtney
Martha Egan
Betsy Gaiser
Rose Campbell
Janice Coury
Moira Egan
Gaby Gani
Lawrence Carbone &
David Takacs
Matthew Craner &
Lynn Ploch-Craner
Britt L. Ehrhardt
Marcel & Elisabeth Gani
David Carey
George Ehrhardt
Kenneth Crepea
Aviva Garrett &
David Doshay
Derek Carpenter
Peter Ehrhardt
Jill Croft
Paul Carpenter
Randle Ellington
Tim & Betsy Croft
Julie Blank
Cecilia Marie Carreon
Titia & Bill Ellis
Shannon & Jeffery Cronin
Cathy Aronson
Tony Carroll III
Michael & Jean Englade
Leo Blumberg-Woll &
Lisa Woll
Jason & Michaela Crooks
Patrice Engle
Pete Aronson
Elizabeth Boardman
Winston Carroo
& Mary Donovan
Peter Cross
Ingrid Erkman
Matthew & Carol Gilbert
Arozian
Marla Bobowick
Dave & Linda Carter
Carol Ann Crow
Catherine Etherton
Barry Bolink
Rita Carter
Prudence Crowther
Debra & David Evans
Nick & Fran Bongo
Peter & Denise Castro
Alan Crystal & Marilyn Uzan
Richard Everett IV
Caroljean Bongo
Mildred & Gerald D. Chaffin
Joanne Csete
Joris Evers
Jayne Booker
Ted Chaiban
Dennis Culp & Simone
Steinhaus-Culp
Julia Getzels &
Benjamin L. Fine
Arnab Ghatak
James Booth
Douglas Chamberlain
Barbara Fagan-Smith &
Colin Smith
John & Patty Curran
Peter Booth
Anand Chandrasekaran
Timothy & Larissa K. Fain
Ron Da Silva
Concepcion & Benito Falcon
Michael Astone &
Bettina Wromar
Gretchen Borchelt
Amee Chapman
Bill Dalo
Marie Martone Farrand
Nooshi Borhan
Thomas & Jo B. Chapman
Jay & Joanne Dalo
Blair Boudreau
Edith Chase Hardy
Sandy D. Fausone
Jessica Auchterlonie
Lewellyn Dameron
Roger & Carolyn Ayers
Andrea Dana-McCullough
Jeffrey Chow & Shirley Chen
Julia Feinberg
Russell & Anne R. Ayers
Jennifer Boulanger &
Bruce Schillo
Rick Cheever
Kylie Fauth
Paul Ciccolella
Robert & Sarah Feinerman
Barbara Ayotte
Peter Boutel
Lynn Danielson
Gloria Bowen
Claire & Robert M. Dankoff
Randall Clare
Terri Fette
Catherine Bacon
Steven Boyd & Meriko Tamaki
Joshua Dankoff
Elizabeth Clearwater
Bruce & Lucy Finch
Brook & Nicole Bailey
Lauren Bala
Jack Bradley
Bill & Elaine Darte
Sandra Clemens
Cindy Finks &
James Hermens
Eric Balog
Mary Braun
Christopher Davis
Judy Clement
Joseph Davis
Sara & Robert Fitch
Russell Gold
Robert Bardin &
B. Lyndall Callan
Nicola Brennan
Patsy Clement
Supriya Deas
William P. Fitzpatrick
Ethal Goldberg
Carol Jayne & Wayne Brucks
Amanda & Mark Clothier
Laureen DeBuono
James Flach
Howard Goldberg &
Marcia David
Gena Anderson
Lynn Anderson
Stacey Anderson
Teri & David Anderson
Laura Arntson
Brenda Aronowitz &
Raymond Dyck
Frances Ashcroft
Antonia Astone-Weissbein
Barbara & Robert Astone
Jennifer Astone
Judy Astone &
Donald Patten
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Donors
Debi Beyerbach
Kamalinee Bhatt
Leo Bicknell
David & Elizabeth
Birka-White
2000 to 2010
Des Gasper & Shanti George
Michelle Gavin
Mark Geiger
John & Elise Gerich
Kenneth Germer
Arlene Getchell
Vivian & Dominique
Gettliffe
Paola Gianturco
Sheila Giblin
Jennifer Gilbert &
Rob Fagen
Laelia Gilborn &
David Weller
Marya Gilborn &
Nicholas Miller
Melissa & Marc Ginsberg
Alexis & Marshall Girard
Soma Glick
Celia Goeckermann
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Sandra Golden
James Hepner
Nora Jimenez
Sally Klein
Tony Li & Lisa Bourgeault
Gina & John K. McDonald
Margery Goldman &
Marvin Naiman
Kathryn & Ian Hermann
Jill Johnson & Nigel Martin
Kristin Klempnauer
Mary Libbey
Annie McDonough
Julie Goldstein &
Eric J. Goodman
Pedro Hernandez-Ramos
Cassandra Johnson
Mark Knopper
Heidi Lidtke
Esther Hewlett
Judy & Denton Johnson
Nancy L. & Edward J. Kopf
Lynn Lim
Douglas & Christine
A. McGavin
Louise Heydt
Kristen & Jeremy T. Johnson
Sara Kopf
Joanna & Peter C. Linden
Robert Hickmott
Stephen Johnson
Sharon Kosecki
Eliza M. Linley
Tricia Hill
Adrienne Jones
Jacqueline Kovach
Laura Lo Castro
Yvonne Hines
Alan & Jacqueline Jones
Sandra & John Kovac
Kathlynn & James Lockard
Bonnie Ho
Stephanie Jones
Erik Kreil & Lucia Divenere
John Lohr
Bethany & Anthony
M. Hoang
Matt & Sarah Jordan
Randall Kruep
W. M. Ray & Patty L. Lollis
Blaise Judja-Sato
Michael Kruger
Merike Kaeo
Roxanne Kumagai
Fabien Lombard &
Liz Gilbreath
Sam McPherson
Lou Hochheiser
Herbert & Joy Dana Kaiser
Jay Kvam
John & Karin A. McQuillan
Myoung & Sung Mo Kang
Marilyn & Eric Lager
Joan Lombardi &
Neville Beharie
Alan Kanner
Laura Langdon
Muhammad Ashraf Kapadia
Aili Langseth
Mark Lorey &
Deborah Forbes
Sue Karant & Horace Small Jr.
Sandy Lansdale
Amy & Donald E. Low
Krishnan Kartha
Daniel LaPenta &
Janice Paran
Mike Lowrie
Yoine Goldstein
Vikki Golsh
Sally Goodis
W. Scott Gordon
Robert Graffam
Tom Graves
Linda Gray
David Grayson
Susan Clare Holliday
Melissa Greene
Wylie & Janet Greig
Shirley & Fred Griffiths
Adam Grosser
Victoria Holt
Becky Holtzman
Beverly Honchorek
Ann Gubser
Gretchen Gudenkauf
Richard & Judith H.
Guggenhime
Veronica Guiry
Karl Horn
Khristina Horn
Wayne Huang
Jeff Huber
Vernie & Kathleen G. Hubert
Marcy Haberkorn
Aaron Huges & Stacy Taylor
Florence Hable
Mary Humbaugh
Ted Haddock
Laura Hunter
Justine Harden
Robert Hall
Karen Halverson &
Steven Gilborn
Susan & Mark Hamlin
Ruthann & Jay Hammer
Jane Hancock
Glenn & Carin Hanna
Peggy & James Hanna
Cody Hanson
Jade Hargrave
Kate Harrison
Jane Hartman
Kari Hartwig
Bryan Hassemer
Susan & Chuck Hawley
James Hayes
Deborah Haynor &
Joyce Colman
Brenna & Dennis M. Healy
John & Tracy Heathcote
John & Susan Hebberger
Bob Heer
Kimberly Heldt
Edward & Cheryl Heneveld
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Dave Katz & Kerry Olson
A. Edward & Jeanette Katz
Bob & Susan Kealhofer
Jane Keckonen
Keven Keller
Suse Kelley
Sally Kempton
Jennifer & Sean Larkin
Belinda Latham
Laura & Gary Lauder
Marc, Lily & Kate Laugharn
Peter Laugharn & Marie
Kagaju Laugharn
Janelle London
Laura Lumpe
Matt MacDonald
Ali MacGraw
Keith & Evy Macklis
Charles & Terrie A. Mahala
Mary & Tom Malone
Sherrie & Brian McMahon
Philip McManus &
Betsy Fairbanks
Danny & Heather
McPherson
Gerry & Miriam McNearney
Mark Merrill
Miriam & Felicia
Messinger-Hayes
Kraig Meyer
Elone Miller
John Miller
Lisa Miller & Bryan Gaynor
Sheril Miller
Stanley & Eileen A. Miller
Cheryl & Richard C. Mills
Neeraj Mistry
Philip & Maribel Mitnick
Richard B. Laugharn &
Deb Hopkins
William Manning
Athi Mara
Edward Jr. & Katrina Kern
Richard G. & Dorothy
Laugharn
Paul & Elizabeth
Mockapetris
Anne Layshock
Judy Margolis
Larry Kerr & Jennifer Antrim
Kristin Molina
Kathy Keyes
Albert & Pearl Lee
David Margrave
Roma Montoya
David & Mara Khorram
Belinda Lee
Gina Annette & Alejandro
D. Marotta
Tammy & David Moody
Haideh Khorramabadi
Jenny Lee
Mitra Kianian
Jesse & Laura Lee
James Marsh &
Mary Ann Snow
Libby Moroff
Ronald Indra
Jonathan Kibera
Laura A. Lee
Natasha Martin
Elaine Infanger
Noreen Kilby
Matthew Iverson
Heather Kilner
Lewis Swift Lee &
Alison Howe Lee
John & Elizabeth B. Martin
Steven & Carol Martinez
Dana & Loreen Jackson
Ernest Kilton
Louis & Cassandra Lee
Elisa Massimino
Alverta Jean Jacob
Joyce Kim
Mary Lee
Lois & Greg Mastel
Thelma Mosbey &
Sherley Phillips
James Jacobson
Stacy Kim
Christina Lee-Simmons
Richard & Mary J. Masters
Ron Moskowitz
Ole Jacobsen
Paul & Kathleen Kimball
Arnold Leff M.D.
James & Teresa Matetich
Lowell Moulton
Janet Jaffke
Bill King
Tom & Sandy Lehmkuhl
Matt Mullin
Stevie Jagutis
James King & Mary Lou
Goodwin-King
Gordon & Brenda
B. Matheson
Elisha Huricks
Debbie Hall
2000 to 2010
Angie Holman
Monica McHenney &
Peter B. Kessler
Donald & Kathryn
Hutchinson
Elizabeth & Frank Huttinger
Laura Hyams
Alison & Razvan Ianculescu
Erica Ike
David Imboden &
Kathy Levy
Sigrid Jakob
Debbie Kennedy
Beth & Walter Kerley, Jr.
Jennifer Lentfer
Lillian & Jullius Lentfer
Lea Ann King
Patty Lentfer
Martin King
Wendy Leonard
Sherrie & Marc Kingsley
Anne & Harvey Levine
Paul & Sarah Janssens
Alan & Georgia Kingsley
Hilde Levine
Marti Jeffers
Dmitriy Kislovskiy
Sandra Jenkins
Ann Kjellberg
Ted Jankowski
Miebeth Janssens &
Austin O’Connor
Jennifer Mannshardt
Vishuranath Matthews
Dechonne McBride &
Phelicia Parker
Jody Lynn McBrien
Be’eri Moalem
Mary Morgan
David Morrell &
Kirsten Gruesz
Stephen & Susan Morriss
Bruce Morton
John & Nancy Munger
Franklin Mount
Dennis F. Murnyak
Grant & Holly Murphy
Anne McCarten-Gibbs
Paul & Ruth Murphy
Karen Anne Murray
John & Shari Levitt
John McCarthy &
Kathy Barnhart
Charles & Hilda Murray
Nicole Lewin
Joseph McCrate
Ghassan Nakad &
Judith M. Barsalou
Elizabeth Lewis
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DONORS
(Continued)
Lynne Nakata
Ted & Ann Palsgrove
Paul & Deborah S. Reilly
Raymond Samahu
Kathy Smith
Namrita Nanjappa
Jacques Pantazes
Danielle Sanchez-Witzel
Michaela Smith
Geeta Narayan
Geoff Parcell
Susan Rennie &
Catherine Chen
Pearish J. Smith
Timothy & Beata Terry
Christine Pareja
Sophie Reynolds
Bijal Sanghani
Cindy Nathan
Suzanne Savage
Malay & Beverley Thaker
Michael Nava
Hester Parker
Stacy Smith-Paynter &
Michael Paynter
Hariharan Thangarajah
Nancy Navarrette
Mary Parker
Eric & Monica Snellings
Jill Thomas
Peter Neal
Carolyn B. Parks
Jean Snyder
Moira Thomas
Robert & Tammy Snyder
Kathleen Thompson
Elisabeth Sommer
Jeff Thurston
Piya Sorcar
David & Elisa B. Tierno
Lori Spencer
Anna Tiran
Steve Spitalny
Bill Tod
Nancy Springer
Curtis Tom
Scott Staub
Rick Tra
Anne Staunton
Julie Traina
Marianne Steenken &
Jochen Gruber
Paul Traina
Charles Stein & Lynda Marin
Bill & Louisa Trigg
Robert Rhodehamel
C. Jane Rice
Dana Rice
Peter Rice
John Neary
Isabella Parks
Sharon Negri
Barbara Parlapiano
Karen & Tom Neier
Ruth & Dean Peabody
Emmy Neilson
Suzi Peel
Lisa Rinde
John Neilson
Stephen & Tracey
W. Peranich
Edith Ritz
Allen Robel
Elena & Ana Carvalho
Pereira
Lynn Roberts
Christine Perri
Teresa Roberts
Holly & Michael Nelson
Jackie Nelson
Michele Newell
Peggy Newell
Suzanne Newsome
Albert & Mary Nibbe
Alexandra Nicklas
Deirdre Peterson
Beth Pettengill-Riley
Cynthia Phillips
Leila Nimatallah
Elizabeth Pierotti &
Ikuharu Kawashita
Alene Nitzky
Victoria Pilate
Leslie Nobile
Marlene Pitkow
Nicole Noble
Richard & Jeanne Placone
Josh Novic & Jan L. Polon
Susanne Richards
Linda Richter
Rosalea Roberts
Mary Robertson
Will Robertson
Torea Rodriguez
Rachel Rogers &
Jimmy Lohman
Victoria L. Rogers
Michelle Roland
Jim Romary
Shirley Nuno
Annemarie &
Moises I. Plascencia
Zelda O’Brien Kelly
Michael & Joan Pokroy
Christopher O’Loughlin
Evelyn Polesny
Lester Olmstead-Rose
Peggy & Bob Pollard M.D.
Kristin Olson & Kevin Kruger
Marilyn & Edwin Pollock
John & Sabine Omvik
James Potash & Sally J. Scott
Doris & Shelley Orgel
Edward & Michelle Poulton
Donna Orr
Nick Pratt
Gayle Ortiz
Sharon Pratt
Janis Ost
Robert Press
Patrick & Kristen Osterkamp
David Priest
Joop L. Rubens &
Laura Marcus
Tasha Ostrander
Joseph Provo
Kathleen Rubens
Stephen Ott &
Jennifer Hubbell-Ott
Anne House Quinn &
T. Anthony Quinn
Robert & Hettie Rubens
Laura, Dean, & Lisa
Ottoman
Sasha Rabsey
Donors
Janet Rossi
Leah Taylor Roy
Marcie Rubardt
Anne Runow & Stanley
R. Andrulis
Mark Schneider
Stephen Schottman
Susan Schuhardt
Sally Scott & James Potash
Chad & Randee Scott
Linda Seal
Michael Seifert
Cliff & Leslie Sellery
Jacinta & Garry Selsky
Richard & Diane R. Seltzer
Kori Shadrick
Matthew Shafeek
Nancy & Kent Shallow
Marsha Shanle
Dan Shapiro
Geoffrey Stein
Amy Sibiga
Robert & Karen Simon
Hayward Simoneaux
Pradeep Sindhu &
Marie-Françoise Bertrand
Jon Singletary
Barbara Siracusa & Neil Katz
Suzanne Skees
Boyd & Vita G. Tucker
Peter & Sharron Stohrer
Matt & Liz Tucker
Judith Tumin
Fred Tung
Monique Van der Pauw
Robert Stratton
Rien Van Gendt
Lauren Suchman
Laura & Michael van
Lienden
Mary Suffoletta
Cindy Suh
Sharon Veltman
Bing Sun
Qing Sun
Virginia Vendrell &
Haywood G. May
Sheila Sundar
Nicholas Vergoth
Linda Sussman
Beth Verhey & Daniel Toole
Brent & Carolyn L. Sweeny
Ronald Vertrees
Christopher & Mary Szecsey
John Villesvik
Stephen Tanner &
Sophia Mellos
James & Sally Vittorio
Nafia Tasmin-Din
Cindy & John Von Kannon
Naomi Rutenberg &
Robert V. Burn
Pete & Sally Slicer
Cheryl Talley-Moon &
Bob Moon
Joanne Smalley
David & Nina H. Taylor
Rhonnie Reed
Hasanna Fletcher Ryan &
Dane Ryan
Stanford Smalley
Jeff Taylor
Jane Reid
Michael St. Johns
Allison G. Smith & Thomas
E. McManus
Kathryn Jo Lincoln Tee
Kim Reid
Emily & John Salcido
Jane Smith Ltd.
Laurence Ravat
Benita Tsao
Susan Stevick
Janis Stoner
Diane & James A. Shneer
Eric Troyer
Yolande Sterling
Constance Shaw-Plouffe &
George R. Plouffe Jr.
Jan & Caroline Shinpoch
Jean Trotzky
Jennifer Stenson
Chuck Shaw
Claire Sherwood
Phan Trinh
Tom & Christine Steinhaus
Don Stoll & Marianne
Kent-Stoll
David Tremblay
Randy Trigg
Juniper Stein
Kaki Rusmore
Charlotte Foulkes De
Romero & Hugo Romero
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Brandon Ross
Thomas & Tania S. Schlatter
Lee Slaff
Kelley Owen & Don Wixiott
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Beth Ross
Toni Schick
Richard Skurla
Thomas Raffa
Jim & Sandra J. Palmquist
Jonathan Rosenberg &
Beryl Grace
Katie Schenk
Emmanuel Rurema
Peggy & John Overcashier
Margaret Palm &
John Heffernan
Kim Rosa
Ellen Schell
Thomas Skibo
Susan Oursler
Nathaniel Owings
Jennifer Root
Rachel Scheer
Lauren Rusk & Eric Roberts
Monna Rae &
William G. Scheffer
Alysha Owens
Josette Romero
Patricia Sayler
Roslyn & Lawrence
Terfansky
Fufkin K. Vollmayer
Marc Tarpenning
Carol Ward
Howard Ward
Martha Ward
Timothy Warder &
Laurie A. Herraiz
Jim & Judy Warner
Janne Tee
Marion Wasserman
Paul & Mary Telford
2000 to 2010
Ed Waters
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William Watson
FUNDS & FOUNDATIONS
UNICEF
Tiffany’s Flowers and Boutique (Soquel, CA)
Audrey Webb
Aid for Africa
United Nations Children’s Fund
Tiny Toes (Costa Mesa, CA)
Amanda Weber &
Corinne Ball
Aloha Foundation
The William H. & Mattie Wattis Harris
Foundation
Yahoo Employee Giving Program
(Santa Clara, CA)
Ellen Weiss & Jonathon
J. Greenberg
The A. McDonald Family Foundation
Alpert & Alpert Foundation
Zaplin-Lampert Gallery (Santa Fe, NM)
BUSINESSES
Jessica Weiss & Vladislav Luskin
American Jewish World Service
Gail Wells Ordl & John Wells
Argentarius Foundation
Gloria H. Welsh
Bernard van Leer Foundation
Peter & Deborah Wexler
Bridgeway Foundation
Jane Whicher
California Community Foundation
David White
CARE USA
Lynton Dove White
Caris Foundation
Rob & Yuko Whitestone
Cars 4 Causes
Laura Widmar
Clarence Foundation
California Commercial Interiors
(Santa Cruz, CA)
Robbie Williams
The Community Foundation Serving
Boulder County
Carried Away Foods (Aptos, CA)
Kathleen & Keith Williams
Rayvon & Debra Williams
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
John & Jan Williamson
Eckhardt Chandler Fund at the Community
Foundation of Santa Cruz County
Bethany Willlbanks
The ELMA Foundation
Adobe on Green Street (Santa Cruz, CA)
Alpert & Alpert Iron & Metal, Inc.
(Los Angeles, CA)
Appleton Partners, Inc. (Boston, MA)
Astone’s Protea (Aptos, CA)
Bank of America Matching Gifts (Charlotte, NC)
Burness Communications (Bethesda, MD)
Casa Nova (Santa Fe, NM)
Community Printers (Santa Cruz, CA)
Coyote Vintage Aviation (Corona, CA)
Desert Son (Santa Fe, NM)
Doma Café and Gallery (New York, NY)
Chris & Nancy Wilson
Elton John AIDS Foundation–UK
Melissa Wilson
Elton John AIDS Foundation–US
Jennifer Windsor
Flora Family Foundation
Wendy Winkler
Global Action for Children
Kyle Wipp
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund
Susan Wishon
The Grand Street Foundation, Inc.
Ellen Wiss
The Hesperian Foundation
David Wittbrodt
JKW Foundation
Delene Wolf
Joel & Katherine L. Woodham
Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies
Contribution Fund
Sharon Woods
John Ashby Webb Living Trust
William Woodward &
Robin M. Blackwood
Lehmann Family Foundation of the Jewish
Community Endowment Fund
Elka Worner
Make-a-Wish Foundation
Rock Paper Gallery (Madrid, NM)
Russ & Nancy Wright
Marvin Naiman & Margery Goldman Fund
Rubio’s Fresh Mexican Grill (Carlsbad, CA)
Judi Wyant
New Field Foundation
SADZA (Santa Cruz, CA)
Marianne Wyllie & Tim Gilbert
New Mexico Community Foundation
SantaCafe (Santa Fe, NM)
Andrea Yaffe
Nike Foundation
Santa Cruz Home Finance (Santa Cruz, CA)
Alice Yang
P.E.O. Sisterhood
Sofre Catering (Oakland, CA)
Keith Yocam
Progressive Action Coalition
Stardust Visions, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA)
Elizabeth Yocam
Rotary Club of Santa Cruz Sunrise
Streeter Specialty (Boulder Creek, CA)
Robert N. & Florence Slinger Fund
at the Community Foundation of
Santa Cruz County
Sun Microsystems, Inc. Matching Gifts
Program (Andover, MA)
Mary Yoo
Irene Yoon
Donna Young
The Seattle Foundation, CGMK Fund
Irene Yung
Lynn Zachreson
Donna S. & Michael A. Zaldivar
Mark Zaplin & Richard Lampert
Leland & Marian Zeidler
Agust Di Zhan
2000 to 2010
French & French Fine Properties (Santa Fe, NM)
Gayle’s Bakery & Rosticceria (Capitola, CA)
Guchiebird’s (Driggs, ID)
Hewlett-Packard Matching Gift Program
(San Francisco, CA)
Jane Sauer Gallery (Santa Fe, NM)
Origins (Santa Fe, NM)
Owings Dewey Company (Santa Fe, NM)
Pachamama (Santa Fe, NM)
Partech International (San Francisco, CA)
Patina Gallery (Santa Fe, NM)
KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation (Chicago, IL)
Kidzana Ministries (Mukilteo, WA)
St. John The Baptist Episcopal Church
(Capitola, CA)
Sharptown United Methodist Church
(Pilesgrove, NJ)
Skyland Community Church (Los Gatos, CA)
Temple United Methodist Church
(San Francisco, CA)
The First Presbyterian Church (Charleston, WV)
SCHOOLS
A. P. Giannini Middle School
(San Francisco, CA)
Chadwick School (Palos Verdes, CA)
Friends’ Central School Corporation
(Wynnewood, PA)
Georgiana Bruce Kirby Prep School
(Santa Cruz, CA)
Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School
(Palo Alto, CA)
Hales Corners Lutheran Elementary School
(Hales Corners, WI)
Hamline University School of Law
(St. Paul, MN)
Louisiana School (Natchitoches, LA)
Pacific Collegiate School (Santa Cruz, CA)
Pearson Education (Livonia, MI)
Perrysburg High School (Perrysburg, OH)
Reevis Mountain School (Roosevelt, AZ)
UCSF Childcare Bright Horizons Preschool
(San Francisco, CA)
UC Santa Cruz Psychology 118B
(Santa Cruz, CA)
Western Michigan University
(Kalamazoo, MI)
York School (Monterey, CA)
Seeds of Empowerment
WE ARE GRATEFUL TO ALL OF OUR DONORS FOR THEIR
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
GENEROSIT Y. THEIR COMMITMENT TO FIRELIGHT MAKES
Tamaki Foundation
Tides Donor Advised Fund
IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO SUPPORT COMMUNITIES IN
Triskeles Foundation
AFRICA WORKING TO IMPROVE CHILDREN’S LIVES.
Tsadik Foundation
|
Eddison & Melrose (Pacific Grove, CA)
CONGREGATIONS & FAITHBASED ORGANIZATIONS
Donors
|
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BOARD OF DIREC TORS, ADVISORY COUNCIL & STAFF
The following lists are current through October 2010.
BOARD OF DIREC TORS
STAFF
Kerry Olson, Founder & President
Peter Laugharn, Executive Director
David Katz, Vice President
Gretchen Ellis, Program Assistant
Senior Software Engineer
Jonathan C. Lewis, Treasurer
Founder & CEO, Opportunity Collaboration
Barbara Fagan-Smith
BOARD MEMBER PROFILE:
Geoff Foster
Geoff Foster has served on the
Firelight Advisory Council
since 2002 and on the Firelight
Board of Directors since 2010.
“In 1987, I helped establish
FACT, a nonprofit in Zimbabwe,
after diagnosing children with
AIDS. I started treating
malnourished children
orphaned by AIDS, and
soon after began working
with grassroots partners to
develop community-based
responses. In 2000, I met
Board members from Firelight
and was impressed by their
energy and vision. Firelight
has pioneered flexible, small
grantmaking to support
vulnerable children that is
responsive to the needs of their
grantee-partners, especially
fledgling organizations. As a
result, some small volunteerdriven groups have developed
into larger, influential
organizations, while many
more have strengthened their
programs and services to
serve vulnerable children and
families more effectively.”
38
|
Board & Staff
Founder & CEO, ROI Communication
Geoff Foster, MD
Pediatrician, Ministry of Health; Consultant,
Family AIDS Caring Trust (FACT)
Diana Aubourg Millner
Senior Policy Analyst, Bread for the World Institute
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Geoff Foster, MD, Pediatrician,
Suzana Grego, Director of Communications & Advocacy
Sarah Jordan, Development Assistant
Aili Langseth, Program Officer
Lisa Palm, Development Officer
Dila Perera, Program Officer
Scott J. Pietka, Grants Administrator
Zanele Sibanda, Director of Programs
Cheryl Talley-Moon, Human Resources & Office Manager
Bridget Zwimpfer, Grantmaking Assistant
Dawn Weathersbee, Development Assistant
Ministry of Health; Consultant, Family
AIDS Caring Trust (FACT) (Zimbabwe)
Mulugeta Gebru, Founder & Executive Director,
Jerusalem Children and Community Development
Organization (JeCCDO) (Ethiopia)
Stefan Germann, World Vision International—
HIV and AIDS Hope Initiative (Switzerland)
Howard Kasiya, HIV/AIDS Programme Manager,
Evangelical Association of Malawi (EAM) (Malawi)
Wairimu Mungai, Program Director, WEM Integrated
Health Services (WEMIHS) (Kenya)
Linda Richter, PhD, Distinguished Research Fellow,
Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) & Senior Specialist
(Vulnerable Children), Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria (South Africa)
Cati Vawda, Director, Children’s Rights Centre (CRC)
(South Africa)
2000 to 2010
|
WE ARE DEEPLY GRATEFUL TO PAST AND
PRESENT BOARD MEMBERS, ADVISORY
COUNCIL MEMBERS, STAFF, INTERNS, AND
VOLUNTEERS FOR THEIR COMMITMENT
TO AND SUPPORT OF FIRELIGHT OVER
THE YEARS.
VOLUNTEERS &
INTERNS
(past & present)
Jim Hayes
Karen Ande
Michele Hutton
Cathy Aronson
Leslie Johnson
Judy Astone
Sara Keene
Tristan Bähr
Haideh Khorammabadi
Charles Baumann
Pamela King
Lisa Berry
Robyn Klopp
Melissa Booth
Jennie Konsella-Norene
Nooshi Borhan
Jenny Larken
Marilyn Breiling
John & Shari Levitt
Gail Brenner
Heidi Lidtke
Rachel Broshears
Aviva Longinotti
Patrick Bujold
Madeleine Linares
Holly Burkhalter
Walker Linares
Jessica Carsten
Ali MacGraw
Kristen Cheney
Katie Malloy
Olivier Corbet
Osha Maloney
Brian Corser
Laura Marcus
Cole Cottin
Judy Margolis
Claire Dankoff
Charlene McKowen
Tim Davis
Maggie McRae
Briana Dickinson
Cameron Miller
Famy Diener
Amanda Hill
Al Hudock
Donald Patten
STAFF MEMBERS
(past)
Charmaine Peck
Nayna Agrawal
Carmen Pegan
Jennifer Anderson-Bähr
Steven Rutherford
Jennifer Astone
Nancy & Kent Shallow
Joye Bretón
Amkela Sibanda
Caitlin Brune
Lee Slaff
Lisa Castellanos
Jennifer Smith
Amee Chapman
Darrell Steely
Janice Cook-Silva
Deb Steinkamp
Cole Cottin
Sam Sternlight
Joanne Csete
Adam Stieglitz
Josh Dankoff
Travis Swanson
Britt Ehrhardt
Jo Tams
Andrew Green
Gloria Taylor
Jim Hayes
Chuck Tremper
Anne Holmes
Marty Vaden
Sara Keene
Anita Vogel
Desirée Kosciulek
Laura Widmar
Angela Lee
David Wittbrodt
Jennifer Lentfer
Marianne Wyllie
Heidi Lidtke
Brandi Young
Neema Mgana
Bridget Zwimpfer
Lauren Maher
Jolly Ntungire
BOARD MEMBERS
(past)
Osha Maloney
Ron Maysenhalder
Neema Mgana
Jennifer Delaney
Tammy Moody
Debra Evans
Suzanne Newsome
Jim Hayes
Rosalie Nezien
Joan Lombardi
Alexandra Nicklas
Nancy Shallow
Gwendolyn Pogrowski
Christine Reyes
Anne-Marie Rosché
Grace Mnguni
ADVISORY COUNCIL
MEMBERS (past)
Angela Eisenstark
Tammy Moody
Tim Jackson
Joop Rubens
Gretchen Ellis
Bob Moon
Natasha Martin
Scott Staub
David Evans
Ryannon Moon
Suzi Peel
Stephanie Thompson
Pat French
Nancy Munger
Beatrice Were
Julie Furtado
Karen Anne Murray
Gaurav Garg & Khomal Shah
Alexandra Nicklas
Michael Hall
Kelsey Nocket
Rebecca Hall
Sydney North-Gerson
2000 to 2010
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Zoe Rowlandson
“
Children were once the
invisible face of the AIDS
pandemic. Thanks to the
Firelight Foundation and
many other partners, this is
no longer the case. Children
are at the very center of the
global and community
response. UNICEF and
Firelight share a common
commitment to supporting
the efforts of families and
communities affected by
AIDS to provide protection
and care for children.
Over the years, we’ve had the
pleasure of working together
on building evidence,
conducting advocacy,
engaging new partners, and
spreading best practices and
good results. As part of the
Inter-Agency Task Team and
with the Faith-to-Action
Initiative, Firelight has been
a knowledge leader on
children and AIDS.
The Foundation has brought
technical expertise, passion,
and an active commitment
to building bridges and
providing linkages between
families, communities, and
key services, and between
development practitioners,
communities, and faith-based
organizations. This is no easy
task. UNICEF appreciates
your contributions and looks
forward to many years of
continued collaboration.
”
–Jimmy Kolker,
Chief, HIV & AIDS, UNICEF
Board & Staff
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OUR VISION
Every child, regardless of race, creed, country, or other
factor is raised in a supportive family and community,
in a safe environment, with adequate food, shelter,
and health care, and a sound education.
Children’s rights are recognized, protected, and upheld
as an integral part of human rights.
The strengths of children and families are recognized
and their voices are valued and heard.
Community solidarity—one of Africa’s strengths and
assets—is widely recognized as vital to efforts to
improve children’s well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Communities take action to address issues that affect
vulnerable children and families.
There is a widespread belief and corresponding
investment in community-based organizations as
a strong and growing facet of civil society.
Governments, donors, nongovernmental organizations,
community-based organizations, communities, and
individuals work together to guarantee children’s
sustained quality of life.
There is global awareness and effective action to
address the severe impact of HIV, AIDS, and poverty
on Africa’s children.
2010
“All children deserve to have a
childhood. Programs that provide
children with the opportunity
to be children—to play, to learn,
to grow, and to dream—are the
programs that foster their sense
of trust and lay the groundwork
for their hope for the future.”
–Kerry Olson,
Founder & President
2020 VISION
Getting more
resources to the
grassroots means
better lives for
children.
2020
“If a child is given a supportive
environment, a child can
become someone. Give
children a chance and you
will discover great, great
heroes in them.”
–Moses Zulu,
Development Aid from
People to People
Children’s Town, Zambia
Stepping up our support
Over the next 10 years, Firelight will work hard to:
1
Reach greater numbers of children and families
affected by HIV, AIDS, and poverty by increasing
our funding to effective community-based
organizations.
2
rovide our grantee-partners greater financial
P
stability through multi-year grants, enabling
them to plan for the long term while doing their
daily work.
3
uild the capacity of our partners and strengthen
B
their organizations to become sustainable.
4
upport more African grassroots grantmakers
S
to reach even smaller, more remote, and informal
community-based organizations working with
5
L everage our impact by sharing what we have
learned about the efficacy of a community-based
approach and persuading larger funders and
other donors to channel their resources directly
to the grassroots.
You can help us make our 2020 vision a reality.
Visit www.firelightfoundation.org
“The photo of Promise smiling on
the cover was taken in December
2007 in Rwanda. Promise was
10 years old and one of five
siblings who lost both parents
a few years earlier. Their home
was empty except for a small mat
they shared at night.
Promise hardly talked to me, but
we did laugh together. She taught
me that people are strong and
that children find joy in life, even
in challenging situations.
740 Front Street, Suite 380
Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA
Tel: +1.831.429.8750
Fax: +1.831.429.2036
info@firelightfoundation.org
Writing and editing by Suzana Grego, Kerry Olson,
Zanele Sibanda, and other Firelight staff.
Photos by Joop Rubens, Zanele Sibanda,
and other photographers.
Design and production by one | em design.
Printed by Community Printers on paper made with
100% recycled fiber and bleached without the use
of chlorine compounds.
Copyright © 2010 Firelight Foundation.
All Rights Reserved.
A group of women in Promise’s
community founded the grassroots
organization Solidarité Femmes
3X3 (SOLF). They mobilized
community members to provide
Promise and her siblings with
regular care, and material and
emotional support.
Promise showed me that when
local communities band together
and are given a chance to help,
they change lives.”
–Joop Rubens, photographer &
former Firelight staff member

Anniversary Report 2010

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