2015 Annual Report - Agros International

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With gratitude for your partne
Alberto Solano
Executive Director, AG RO S
Have you heard? Skip Li, Agros
founder, has rejoined our board. We’re
thrilled to have his wisdom and visionary
commitment to ending rural poverty
back on our leadership team.
Helping landless farmers
develop thriving communities
How does my investment transform
families’ lives with Agros?
Our work with families is uniquely holistic and
participatory, helping them sustainably change
their trajectory from poverty to prosperity and
build better futures for
generations to come.
BUILD
RECOVER
We stabilize
desperately poor families
in new villages with shelter,
clean water, food, and
basic healthcare.
Families begin
developing their community
and livelihoods, accessing
education and basic credit,
and working for themselves
for the first time.
LAND
Land is the foundation
of our approach to
ending poverty. We help the
rural poor gain access to land
and launch agriculturally-based
businesses, empowering families
to acquire productive assets and
generate income.
AGROS 2015 GRATITUDE REPORT
PROSPER
GROW
At this stage our
focus shifts to economic
development as families grow
more valuable crops, develop
business skills, and harvest
a predictable crop surplus to
sell within established
markets.
At the culmination of
5-7 years, families manage
profitable agribusinesses with strong,
independent market connections to
provide consistent, year-round income.
Families become titled land-owners
within a self-governing
community.
MARKET-LED
AGRICULTURE
HEALTH &
WELL-BEING
FINANCIAL
EMPOWERMENT
Highly-skilled
agronomists provide
families with the technical expertise,
business development, and market
information needed to successfully
cultivate, harvest and market their
crops. This enables families to
integrate with the economic value
chain for true wealth creation.
Human development
officers provide emotional,
psychological and spiritual
support while fostering
community ownership of
preventive healthcare, good
nutrition and proper sanitation
and hygiene.
Credit officers customize
financial products to meet
the cash flow and seasonal needs
of the families to ensure business
success and to teach basic
financial literacy like budgeting,
saving and investing.
EDUCATION
Our educational
and adult training
programs focus on lifting
an entire family out of poverty
through knowledge. Education for
children reduces poverty, ends wasted
potential, and creates a pathway
for civic participation, and economic
choice for the next generation.
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La Bendición
This spring, with your help,
we partnered with 50 families
to launch La Bendición, our
first new community since
Tierra Nueva.
La Bendición launches 50 new families
on the path out of poverty
The master plan for La Bendicion incorporates 30 years of
learning into a model that tackles past challenges, like lack of
water and family attrition. This spring The Global Studio, our
design partner, helped us select fertile, well-positioned land
and engage families in a participatory design process. Families
helped make key decisions around lot size and housing
placement in one of the final community layouts, shown here.
They’ve nearly completed housing, water, and community
infrastructure construction, laying the foundation to build
the community of their dreams.
NICARAGUA REGIONAL PROJECT
BECOMES LA BENDICIÓN
After weighing our resources and commitments, we have
curtailed our work with regional families to focus on the families
in La Bendición. Rather than overreach, we’re committed in
2016 to delivering quantifiable results to you and our families.
By focusing this next year on agricultural market development,
we can help our six current villages develop sustainable
farming businesses and develop a more sustainable
funding model by treating crop cycles as investments.
“I’m so happy to be here,” says Walter, one
of the founding partners of La Bendición.
“This is a fertile land… We know that if
we plant corn we will harvest corn and if
we plant beans we will harvest beans. It is
a blessing. I feel happy and at peace here.”
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Tierra Nueva Beneficio
We partnered with Engineers Without Borders this year to build a
beneficio so families can efficiently depulp, ferment, wash, and dry
their own coffee. The more farmers process their coffee, the higher a
price they can command in the market for their crop. Plus dried coffee
beans can be sorted by quality and size, allowing farmers to sell their
best beans for a premium. Advances in technology like this beneficio
leverage community resources to help farmers move up the value
chain from survival subsistence farming to profitable and dignified
agribusiness ownership.
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Beneficio means
“benefit” in Spanish.
Thanks to you, that’s
just what this new
beneficio – a coffee
wet mill – will do
for Tierra Nueva’s
150 coffee-growing
families.
Victor’s wife Candida worked in
the coffee fields from age 14.
For his three children, Tierra
Nueva offers a different life:
village school, playtime with
neighbors, and the promise of
inheriting land and a thriving
agricultural business.
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Piedra de Horeb
Nueva Esperanza
Healthy babies in
Nueva Esperanza
Fishy business in Piedra de Horeb
Five years ago, farmers in Piedra de Horeb like Germán
were forced to work for giant haciendas, without any control
over their futures. Now, well-organized, they’ve created
their own sustainable, registered and profitable business.
They consistently supply in-demand tilapia to markets that
guarantee a steady income. That stable income, combined
with safe housing, healthcare access, and education for their
children, has changed the trajectory of these families’ lives.
Witnessing the success
of Piedra’s small scale
business operation is
an encouraging and
promising glimpse at what
the future can look like for
all of our communities if
we implement this marketdriven strategy on a much
larger scale in 2016.
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Fish farmers in Piedra are
generating a prosperous living
through the business of fish
– a market-driven model that
we’re ready to replicate.
When Carlito was born, his
mother Yaris knew breastfeeding was crucial to ensure
healthy development. But
her milk made him sick.
Agros staff helped Yaris
identify that Carlito was
allergic to breast milk and
taught her how to use a
powder to make soy milk
instead. It worked. Carlito’s
chubby cheeks are evidence
of Nueva Esperanza’s low
rate of child malnutrition –
the result of a holistic
program of maternity
support, child weighings,
nutrition training, and
help accessing resources
like powdered soy milk
for Carlito.
The proof is in the pudge – Carlito
is one of more than 50 healthy
children in Nueva Esperanza,
where your support has
beaten back child malnutrition.
“We didn’t have the opportunity to
grow up in a good environment,
to study or to have nice things,”
remembers Carlos, Carlito’s father.
“Our dream is to give these things
to our children.”
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Where are Agros communities?
This year you partnered with 755 families in 11 communities and supported the
transition of four villages from direct Agros support to full self-governance.
San Pedro Sula is the murder
capital of the world. Our
Honduran communities help
families escape urban violence
as well as rural poverty.
NICARAGUA:
Nueva Esperanza, 33 families*
San José, 29 families
Tierra Nueva, 150 families
San Marcos, 15 families**
Luz del Mañana, 25 families
La Bendición, 50 families
Nicaragua Regional, 218 families
Source: NAUH: Violence Observatory,
National Autonomous University of Honduras
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GUATEMALA
San Pedro Sula
HONDURAS
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Guatemala City
HONDURAS:
Piedra de Horeb, 24 families
Bella Vista, 32 families
Nuevo Amanecer, 10 families**
Tegucigalpa
San Salvador
The average corn harvest
in Nicaraguan Agros
communities was 4x the
national average this year.
Source: FAO: Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations.
EL SALVADOR
NICARAGUA
GUATEMALA:
La Providencia, 150 families
MEXICO:
Nueva Ilusión, 19 families*
*Transitioned from direct support in 2015.
**Transitioned from full support in 2014.
Agros provided technical agricultural
assistance through 2015.
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Managua
“Land isn’t just a seed from an economic point
of view. It is also a seed of hope. I believe that
hope is the first thing that must be planted in
people so that we can have a better future.”
– Jaime Arauz, Mayor of El Tuma-La Dalia, Nicaragua, where Tierra
Nueva, Nueva Esperanza, San José and La Bendición are located
A family living outside
of Nueva Esperanza is 4x
more likely to experience
domestic violence than a
family within the village.
Source: INIDE: National Institute
of Development Information
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Agros Fiscal Year 2015 Financials
2015 SOURCES OF REVENUE
OPERATING REVENUES
Unrestricted Gifts
$1,517,103
Gifts released from restrictions
$ 2,028,347
In-Kind contributions
$
38,689
Other income
$
48,607
Total Operating Revenues
$3,632,746
6%
Businesses
63%
8%
Individuals
OPERATING EXPENSES
Program
$2,319,471
Resource Development
$ 870,392
Administration and General
$ 323,544
Total Operating Expenses
$3,513,407
Churches
20%
Foundations
NET ASSETS AT JUNE 30, 2015*
Unrestricted net assets, invested in land & equipment
$ 142,719
Unrestricted net assets, designated for land purchases
$ 169,094
Other unrestricted net assets
$ 455,083
Temporarily restricted net assets
$1,989,063
Permanently restricted net assets
$ 692,667
Total Net Assets
$3,448,626
3%
Other Income
Our fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30.
*Net Assets include the net assets of Land Hope Life, an affiliate of Agros,
which holds recent land investments on behalf of Agros.
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Thank you. Agros is deeply grateful for the generous support of our individual, corporate, and foundation donors.
In addition, our families benefit from partnerships with local governments, hospitals, and businesses in Central America.
INDIVIDUAL DONORS
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Dan Nyblad
Phil and Phyllis Nyce
Michael and Cindy
O’Brien
Jim and Mariette
O’Donnell
William and Rebekah
O’Donnell
Dennis O’Grady and
Tino Venezia
Sumee Oh
Pam Okano
Gregg and Cathy Oliver
Jennifer Olsen
Steven and Debra Olson
Carol and John Overbeck
Dr. Christian and Kathy
Overman
Diane Palachek
Harry Pallick
Larissa Palmer
Alexa Parker
Eric Parker
Ronnie and Nancy Patton
Mark and Andrea Patzer
Amy and Jun
Paulson Young
Jan and Virgil Pearce
Daniel and Nola Pearson
David and Susan Pease
Marian Peiffer
Michael and Rebecca
Pelletier
Steve and Alicia Pelton
Matt Penning
Kevin and Annie Pepper
Rosemary Perera
Christopher and Brooke
Perisho
Bill Perman
Bill and Barbara Perman
Robert Perman
Jenna Perryman
Tim and Margaret
Petersen
Susan Peterson
George and Alyssa Petrie
Ligia Pettit
Jill M. Phillips
Lance and Monica Piatt
Alissa and Norm Picker
Paul Picton
Noah Pieper
Stan and Wilma Pilon
Geoffrey and Stephanie
Piper
Skylar Piro
Jay Pittenger
Craig and Gail Poindexter
Priscilla Pope-Levison
Clyde Powers and
Betty Dean
Terry and Kathy Proctor
William Pugh
Kristie Putnam
Joel Quaid
Caroline and Tom Quinn
Dennis Quiring and
Susan Carrier
Jack and Marilyn Rafn
James and Rose Ragan
Rebecca Barrett and
Pat Rawson
Dorothy Redick
Michael and Kathryn
Redman
Benjamin Reed
Steven and Cynthia Reed
Randall Reedy
Jeffrey Reid and
Dawn White
Sam and Sara Reid
David Reigel
Jim and Jan Rettig
Arliss and Eric Rey
Richard Reynolds
Randy and Tina Rhoads
Ginger Rich
Judy Richards
Carl B. Richards
Christopher and Crystal
Rieger
Heather and Dan
Ringoen
Kathy and John Riper
Rachel and DJ Rippl
Annie and Driscoll
Robbins
Kostia Robert
Paul and Kathy Robinson
George and Holly Roe
Ruth Roetcisoender
Brian and Veronica
Roetcisoender
Michael and Jean Rogers
Stuart and Lee Rolfe
Ervin and Andrea Roorda
Cheryl Rosato
Gerry and Doris Rosellini
Henry and Charlotte
Rosenberger
Julie and Kent Ross
Tom and Ruth Ross
Barry and Linda Rowan
Robert and Mary Russell
Daphne Ryan
Bill and Janet Safstrom
John and Harriet Salathe
Perry and Melinda
Satterlee
Chuck Schilling and
Laura Giddings
Evan Schmidt
Sara Schmidt
Peter and Judy Schnebele
Tim and Melissa Schober
Mary Jo Schrade
David and Frances
Schroedl
Greg and Kay Schroedl
Bruce and Suzanne
Schwarze
Heidi Scott
Tania Scutt
Paul and Jaime Seibert
Joan and Dave Selvig
Paul Serenbetz
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Rebecca Settlemyer
Paul and Barbara
Shackelford
Martha and David
Shearer
Steve Shearer
Ray and Barbara Shiffer
Craig and Signe Shuck
Jennifer and Brian Shuck
Shannon Sigler
Todd and Teresa Silver
Basant and Sheila Singh
Martin and Marilyn
Sippy
Stephen and Amy Sirich
Stephen and Litishia
Skatrud
Kevin Skillestad
Amanda Smith
Bradley and Deborah
Smith
Dan Smith
Julie and Sam Smith
Justin and Sarye Smith
Kathy Smith
Ken Smith
Norma Creighton Smith
Sharon Smith
Barbara and Stan Snow
Janice and Arthur Snyder
Lyle and Andrea Snyder
Alberto Solano
Angela and Brian Solecki
Adrian Solis
Charles Somerville
and Billie EiffertSomerville
Stephen Spare and
Susannah Taylor
Heath and Cynthia
Spencer
Dave and Marti Spicer
Mick Spillane and
Phyllis Stabeno
David and Abby St.
Hilaire
Thomas and Marilyn
Stacy
Janet and Jon Stafford
Todd Staheli
Benjamin Stangland
Deborah Starr
Brad Stave
Alberta and David Stave
Esther and Timothy
Steege
Ken and Betty Steffa
Nancy Steiner
Eva Stender
Sharon Sterling
Bradley Stevenson
Hannah Stinson
Katie Stock
Melyssa Stone
Leslie Studdard
Christopher and Wei
Sturman
Renee and Henry Suhr
Jill and Sean Sullivan
Scott and Heather Sund
Ken and Sarah Sundin
Lee Sundquist
Robert Sutton
Paul and Heidi Sweeney
Robert and Elizabeth
Swenson
Dan Taylor
Daniel Taylor
Jennifer Taylor
Steve and DeYonne
Tegman
Tiffany Teichrow
Ellen Tennis
Daniel and Carla Thieme
Arun and Julie Thomas
John and Misty Thomas
Ryan and Alysson
Thomas
Kim and Geoffrey
Thompson
Trent Thompson
Jacqueline Thompson
Jennifer and Brad
Thompson
Lynn Tienken
Jennifer and Matthew
Tilghman-Havens
Charles and Janice
Timbers
Maryann and Charles
Timchalk
John and Teresa Tippett
Rick and Susan Titcomb
Chris Tobey and
Jalayne Boni
Raymond Tong
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Mark Torrance
Steve and Patricia Trainer
David Tschetter
Richard Tschetter
Robert and Cindy
Tulloch
Johnny Valencia
Heather Valencia
Eric and Meg Valentine
George and Dee
Van Leeuwen
Michael Van Maren
Judith Van Nice
Keith Vandegrift and
Lana Bell
Martha VanGenderen
Tony and Becky Vaught
Milton Vine and
Janet Barstow-Vine
Dacia Wagnon
Debra and Alan Wahl
Wayne and Florence
Waldal
John and Madeline Wall
Gary and Barbara Waller
Magdalena Wallhoff
Don and Janet Wallis
Richard and Leslie Wallis
Lisa Wallis
Lance and Kelly Walrad
Douglas and Susan
Waltar
Rebecca and Brad
Watkins
Carol Watson
Jack Watson
Bill and Mary Watts
Marilyn Weber
Karen and Mark Weber
Mark and Connie
Weiseth
Jeremy Welch
Janet West
Bradley Wheeler and
Elizabeth Westburg
Scott and Anna White
Paul and Erica White
William and Suellen
White
Brad and Janice Whitney
Richard and Anne
Wiedenheft
John and Remy Wilcox
Jesse and Tara Williams
Kathy and John Willson
Cliff and Carol Wisman
Justin Withrow
Greg Witter and Anne
McGonigle
Susan Worthen
Laura Wright
Aaron and Kimberley
Wun
Anna Wyckoff
Michael Yates and
Jennifer Nusse
Julie Yates
Jeremy and Brigette Yates
Mitch and Gail Yockey
Robert and Carrie Young
Jay and Leslie Young
Bill and Brenda Younger
William and Michelle
Youngsman
Jeff and Amy Youngstrom
Al and Kerei Yuen
Christine Yukevich
Kelly and Michael
Yukevich
Suzanne Zahr
Brenda Zavala
Elliot Zeelander
Chip and Cindy Zimmer
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who made gifts between
January 1 and December 31,
2015. We are deeply grateful
for all of our supporters.
Please contact us if you feel
we’ve made an error.
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AAA Water Purification and
Drainfield Design
Accelerator Industries
Alderfer Auction Co.
Alex McMillan Family Foundation
AMB Foundation
American Ironworks
& Erectors, Inc.
Anderson Family Foundation
Andrew R. and Dorothy L.
Cochrane Foundation
Ball Corporation
Bashey, Hutchinson
& Walter PLLC
Bethany Presbyterian Church
Bidwell Memorial
Presbyterian Church
Bluehawk Consulting
Broetje Orchards, LLC
The Caster Family Trust
Christine Cochrane
Family Foundation
Churchwomen of St. Stephen’s
Clifton Family Fund
Colson Foundation
Community Covenant Church
of the Methow Valley
Costco Wholesale
D.A. Davidson & Co.
Daniel Nyblad Trust
David and Carol Myers
Foundation
David Owen Hastings Design
Driscoll Foundation
Edwards Family Foundation
Ellis, Li & McKinstry PLLC
First Presbyterian Church
of Boulder
Foundry Vineyards
Global Studio, LLC
Greenwood Christian Church
The 2010 James D Groat
Rev Trust
Hayman Family Trust
Holy Spirit Lutheran Church
Impact Assets, c/o
Calvert Foundation
International Foundation
The Joshua Green Foundation
Juniper Foundation
KF Events LLC
Lake Grove Presbyterian Church
Lakeside Industries
LEED, LLLP
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
Mark Torrance Foundation
Mary, Queen Of Peace Parish
Maverick Chocolate Company
Mazagran Photography
Meadowbrook Church
National Christian Foundation
Seattle
New Community Church
The New Horizons
Foundation, Inc.
North Valley Community
Foundation
The O’Donnell Family
Charitable Foundation
Pacific Continental Bank
Payline Data, LLC
Peter Hawkins Dobberpuhl
Foundation
Presbyterian Church
of Jackson Hole
ProAquaculture, Inc.
PS Flyers Production LLC
Puget Sound Bank
Rescue Response Gear Inc.
Ringoen Family Foundation
Riviere & Associates
Sammamish Rotary Club
Schober Foundation
The Seattle Foundation
Shadle Park Presbyterian Church
Shilshole Development LLC
The Sister Fund
Stewardship Foundation
SWAT Systems
Terex Corporation
TEW Foundation
The Atizan Group, INC.
The Tschetter Group
UBS Financial Services Inc.
University Presbyterian Church
The Valencia Foundation
WaterStone
Weber Marketing Group
ZUM Communications
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generous, and faithful supporters
by making a monthly gift. Your
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journey toward prosperity. Sign up
at agros.org/donate.
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Drop in on our quarterly
webinar series to hear directly
from Agros families in Central
America as well as from
development experts. Look
for invitations in your email
and our website.
Legacy Giving: With only one lifetime
to walk this earth, what legacy will
you leave? Leaving a planned gift in
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powerful way to extend your impact
beyond your lifetime. Making a
planned gift may even offer tax
benefits for you and your children.
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Engage Together:
What causes poverty?
Can we change it? The
Engage Together program helps
you connect your daily life with
the reality of families living in
poverty through discussion, learning,
travel, and giving. Contact Kelly
McDonald, Donor Engagement
Manager, at kellym@agros.org or
206.528.1066 x216 to learn more.
Share Your Passion: Your words
and experiences are a powerful
tool to spread the movement for
opportunity for Central American
families. Host an introduction to
Agros for your friends, colleagues,
or faith community. Contact us
to learn how.
“In San Pedro Sula, we lived without
any future. Since we are here [in
Bella Vista], my husband learned
to love me. There he came home
from work only to change his
clothes, then bought alcohol and
played cards. Now, we are working
together, the whole family. Our
dream is to pay off the land and
see our children graduate.”
– GLORIA, BELLA VISTA, HONDURAS
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EMAIL: donor.services@agros.org
CALL: 206.528.1066
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