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JUSOOR 2015

ANNUALREPORT

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05 Opening Letter

23Entrepreneurship

Program

30Jusoor Donors

07University Scholarship

Program

26Jusoor Awards

32Financial Statements

16Refugee Education

Program

28Jusoor Leadership

Team

Contents

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Building Bridges

Dear friends,

In 2011 we came together as a group of Syrian expatriates from different corners of the globe with a vision. We believed that by harnessing the capacity and expertise of the more than 20 million expatriate Syrians, and connecting them to the hard working youth inside the country, we could both mentor youth and invest in our country from abroad. That was when Jusoor - or bridges - was born.

Four years later, our mission is more important than ever before. We never imagined that the conflict in Syria would turn into the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. According to UNHCR, 4.9 million Syrians have been externally displaced, while another 6.6 million are internally displaced. This year, UNICEF warned that Syria’s youth are in danger of becoming a “lost generation” of war. An estimated 2-3 million Syrian children both inside Syria and in surrounding countries are not in school. And according to the Institute of International Education, more than 100,000 Syrian refugees are university-qualified students and roughly 120,000-140,000 internally displaced Syrians are university qualified.

The numbers are staggering. And it is hard to imagine how to raise enough money to help every child whose educational future is in jeopardy.

However, despite the odds, we see stories of hope in the work that we do every day. We are in awe of the extraordinary resilience of Syria’s children and youth and their ability to give back once they are on their feet and we are heartened by the commitment of so many Syrians to invest in their country.

Over the last four years, Jusoor has impacted the lives of Syrians around the world by:

• Establishing scholarship programs with world renowned universities• Supporting 74 students directly with scholarships and helping 317 students indirectly

procure funding through our partnership with the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) Syria Consortium for Higher Education in Crisis

• Working with over 2,500 children in our refugee education program in Lebanon• Mentoring 427 students on their academic careers

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In just 2015, we worked to secure the future of our programs by:

• Raising $1.5 million, a 228 percent increase over the previous year • Establishing employee matching programs with Goldman Sachs, Boeing and Google; while also continuing to strengthen our

partnership with the Chalhoub Group• Receiving our first major grant from the Varkey Foundation for $50,000 to train teachers to educate in an emergency context• Hiring our first full-time director, Maya Alkateb-Chami, to oversee our programs, employees and volunteers in 4 countries• Growing our base by holding events in eight cities across the world, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, New York,

Toronto, London, Lebanon, and Dubai

This year, after listening closely to the needs and stories of Syrian youth to add an entrepreneurship program to our lineup, which included an entrepreneurial competition featuring $65,000 in prizes and attracting over 200 Syrian participants, 57 percent of whom came from inside Syria. We also held an entrepreneurial boot camp for the top 15 winners to help hone and shape their ideas.

In this annual report, we will share with you many of the stories that have inspired us and touched our hearts. Thank you to every one of our 115,000 supporters around the world who made these stories possible—from our volunteers, to our donors, to our partners. Jusoor has grown faster and has had more of an impact than we ever could have imagined. And we hope that, with your help, we will continue to build bridges of experience, of innovation, of cooperation, and, most importantly, bridges of hope and understanding for a new and better Syria.

Sincerely, The Jusoor Leadership TeamAziza, Dania, Fadi, Iyad, JP, Leen, Maya, Rami, and Rania

74Scholarships funded by Jusoor

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University Scholarship ProgramBuilding Bridges… to the Future

Jusoor launched the University Scholarship Program in the fall of 2012. Since then, Jusoor has supported a total of 391 university students, which includes 74 students funded directly by Jusoor and 317 students enabled to continue their higher education through partnerships with other universities and institutions around the world.

In 2015, we ran six scholarship programs across North America, Europe and the Arab world. In particular, we focused on adding new programs in Europe and the Arab region to ensure that Syrian students have the option of attending universities around the globe.

74Scholarships funded by Jusoor

317Scholarships enabled by Jusoor

45%Female recipients of Jusoor scholarships

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IIE Syria Consortium for Higher Education in Crisis

The platform was founded in 2013 by the Institute of International Education (IIE), Jusoor, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Education USA. It encourages universities to commit to providing scholarships for Syrian students, as interested and eligible candidates apply to them directly. This program has supported 333 students to date to continue their higher education at American universities among others. These included the Jusoor-supported IIT students.

Jusoor-IIT Initiative for Syrian Students

Now in its fourth year, this program continues to be an astounding success. 43 Syrian students have attended IIT since we launched, 16 of whom Jusoor directly funded. Graduates have gone on to work at some of the leading companies around the world including Goldman Sachs, Intel, Google, Apple, and Motorola Solutions We are especially grateful to our partners on campus, Vice Provost Gerald Doyle and Program Directors Megan Mozina and Gladis Herst, who had the initial vision to establish this program and who have done so much to nurture and mentor the students.

Lebanon Scholarship Program

Thanks to the generous support of several Syrian donors, Jusoor helped educate 15 talented Syrians in Lebanon over the last two years, in fields including Banking, Interior Design, Biochemistry, and Education. Jusoor leaders also mentored students on CV writing, online work and navigating interviews, and helped provide them with the leadership skills they need to become the future leaders of Syria and in their communities.

From Camp to Campus

Jusoor partnered with the Institute of International Education (IIE) this year to help six Syrian university students who are currently living in Jordan to enroll at university. These students are seeking Bachelor Degrees in the fields of Education, Architecture, Journalism, Physics, and Medical Labs.

Jordan Scholarship Program

Jusoor partnered with Al-Quds College and Luminus Education to provide full scholarships to 10 Syrian refugee students in Jordan for the 2-year International Diploma program. Many Syrian students in Jordan have undergone the I’itilaf baccalaureate degree, which was not recognized by Jordanian universities in 2014. This program was was designed to allow these students to gain a higher education degree, and one which would enable them to continue their education further.

Jusoor-Cambridge Leadership Scholarship Program

Jusoor partnered with the University of Cambridge’s Global Leaders Scholarship Program and Clare Hall to provide a fully-funded one year scholarship to one Syrian graduate student to pursue his master’s degree. The scholarship aims to provide young Syrian women and men with the knowledge base and leadership they need to contribute positively to Syria’s future.

Chalhoub Scholarship Program

The Chalhoub Group enabled us to fund the education of six graduate students between 2014 and 2015. These students completed their degrees at top universities across Europe including University College London, Glasgow University, Warwick University, the University of St. Andrews, and SKEMA Business School, in fields ranging from Marketing and Entrepreneurship to Mechanical Engineering and Economics. They have gone on to hold remarkable positions including consulting for UN-ESCWA on the National Agenda for the Future of Syria, co-founding a nonprofit organization that focuses on teacher-training in conflict areas, and excelling in the private sector.

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IIE Syria Consortium for Higher Education in Crisis

Grants to 15 students at American University, DePaul University, Emporia State University, Monmouth College, Salve Regina University, University of Alberta, University of Evansville, and

University of Rochester.

Jusoor-IIT Initiative for Syrian Students

Illinois Institute of TechnologyBashar Alisber, Farah Abdul SamadJamal Eddin Kharrat, Marcelle HanaMazen Al Hourani, Mohamad Alaliwi

Mossa Hana, Munzer AwadOmar Alhaj Ibrahim, Raed TawilTony Law, Zeina Abdul Samad

Lebanon Scholarship Program

Lebanese International UniversityHadeel Hamed, Hala Berro, Hanan Al-kamel

Khaled Almeer, Marwa ArsheedNour Shahin, Nour Abrash, Younes Ashkial

Lebanese UniversityIbraheem Zuhoori, Hevin Abdullah

Mousa Talouzi

Lebanon Scholarship Program

Arts, Sciences, and TechnologyUniversity in Lebanon

Ehab Alwazzour, Zeina KufooziBekaa Technical Institute

Ali RajabImam Ouzai University

Ola Sharbaji

2015 Jusoor Scholarship Recipients

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Other Jusoor scholarships

Harvard UniversityLana Awad

Lebanese American UniversityMahmoud Khalil

Lebanese UniversityMustafa ZakreetThe New SchoolNadia Christidi

Universita CattolicaIlham Ksebi

Jusoor-Cambridge Leadership Scholarship Program

Cambridge UniversityHamed Masaood

From Camp to Campus

Al Beit UniversityAbdulqader Abu Houran

Hashemite UniversityWejdan Nahar

Yarmouk UniversityAhmad Al-Hassan, Husam AbazeidNosaiba Al-Hariri, Yasmine Oklah

Jordan Scholarship Program

Al Quds CollegeAlaa’ Khaiyrat, Amjad Hariri,

Bayan Mohammad, Do’aa Al Hamoud, Fatima Al Shibli, Hajar Al Awad,

Haneen Al Rahhal, Monzer Alkahel, Ra’eda Hmeidi, Yara Sabra

Chalhoub Scholarship Program

SKEMA Business SchoolHaneen Raslan

University College LondonTarek Sabbagh

University of GlasgowRami Zaatari

University of St. AndrewsReem Alkhateeb

University of WarwickLuna Ghannam, Yasmin Zidan

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George Batah, 24 years old, is a Jusoor graduate from the Illinois Institute of Technology with a degree in Finance. He credits a Jusoor mentor and the support of his fellow Jusoor students for his personal success and the success of the program.

In 2012 George Batah was finishing his final year studying Business Administration at Kalamoon University, just outside of Damascus, Syria, when clashes broke out around campus. Because of the fighting, the buses he took to school stopped running. Sometimes, while on campus, the fighting got so close, he thought missiles would rain down on his school.

Then, he remembers the day the fighting broke out on campus.

“This was when it became really dangerous,” explains George. “You saw your friends or people who you knew or recognized turning against one other.”

As the violence spread, George began missing classes. First, he missed a final exam; then, more classes and more exams. He had only two semesters left to graduate; but, at this rate, George began grappling with the reality that he might not be able to complete his degree. That’s when he started researching other options. He first came across Jusoor on social media.

“It’s not a decision that you make—it’s not like you decide to go to America and it just happens,” says George of his decision to pursue his education elsewhere. “There are so many people in the same situation, who also want to leave, who also want to pursue their education, especially since it is America. Then there’s the visa and money issues. So there are a lot of challenges.”

George applied to the joint Jusoor-Illinois Institute of Technology Initiative for Syrian Students and got in. But, as he started classes, he wondered how much he could really accomplish as an Arab and a Syrian in America.

A Jusoor mentor who appeared regularly on campus to advise the students almost immediately shattered all of George’s stereotypes. She advised the students to get involved on campus life, to expand their social circles beyond their Syrian cohort, and to just show up to anything and everything. “She was a role model in more ways than one,” he explains. “She had a successful career. She was both Syrian-American and as a Syrian—I could relate to that.

She got her degree from Harvard and she was working fiercely on Syria. I loved the way she organized things. From the very beginning, I knew that she was the person that I aspired to be in America.”

This year, we are truly inspired by the resilience of these students, by their determination to achieve personal success, and by their resolve to change the course of Syria’s future. Indeed, we have begun to notice a multiplier effect - that when you support one of these exceptional young Syrian women or men, they will then in turn impact the lives of hundreds of other Syrians during their lives. These young university graduates are demonstrating that they will not only be exceptional leaders one day in Syria, but will also become leaders of humanity at large. Below are a few examples of graduates who exemplify this multiplier effect.

You come with a lot of ideas and things you get from the movies— you assume that as a Syrian or as an Arab no one will care about you or no one will hire you.""

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By the end of his first year at IIT, George had procured a job as well as a teacher’s assistant position on campus and joined campus government as a student senator. In his second year, he was elected president of the university’s Undergraduate Business Council and led a team of students in a national competition sponsored by the Clinton Global Initiative University on the national debt. As one of the winners of the competition, George got the chance to meet former President Bill Clinton. When he graduated, George was even chosen as his department’s commencement speaker.

What may be most awe-inspiring about George’s story and the story of other Jusoor students at IIT is not their mere success; it’s what we have come to call the multiplier effect.

When the refugee crisis exploded in 2015, George felt like his time to give back had arrived. At the time, the U.S. had opened its doors to fewer than 1,000 refugees. With the help of a handful of other students, George led a drive to collect 100,000 signatures for a White House petition to request that the U.S. accept at least 65,000 Syrian refugees by 2016. In just a few weeks, George had gathered nearly 85,000 signatures,

appeared on countless news outlets, and received an invitation from President Barack Obama’s National Security team to discuss the issue at the White House. Two days after their meeting, the Obama administration announced that it would allow 35,000 refugees in, including 10,000 by the end of 2016.

George has not stopped working on Syria since. Recently, he and a few other Jusoor-IIT students started a new initiative called Syrian Youth Empowerment to help Syrian high school students get into U.S. colleges and procure funding for their education. So far, they are helping 21 students, 14 of whom reside inside Syria. They offer mentorship and SAT and TOEFL classes in three Syrian cities - Homs, Aleppo and Damascus, as well as individual tutoring and mentorship to student in Canada, Norway, Turkey, and the UK.

“If I would sum up all my feelings in one word, it would not be ambition – nothing like that,” says George. “It would be gratitude. I was very grateful. And every day I still am -- for everything that happened to me; for Jusoor, for the visa officer who gave me the visa, for the school, for the U.S.”

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Mariela Shaker, 25, received a partial scholarship from Jusoor to attend Monmouth College in Illinois to study Music Performance. She is now pursuing her Master’s degree at DePaul University in Chicago.

In 2012 Mariela Shaker thought her dream of becoming a professional violinist was finally coming true. She was in her last year of studying Business Administration at the University of Aleppo and had just returned from the UK, where she had auditioned for a spot in a graduate program in violin performance. Within weeks of returning to her hometown of Aleppo, she had been accepted into the program and had procured a scholarship to fund her entire way.

So Mariela only needed to finish her last class, graduate and then pack her bags for the U.K. But the conflict in Aleppo would prevent all that from happening. Because of the escalation in violence, the university canceled final exams three times. Without her bachelor’s degree in hand, the foundation that had offered her the scholarship was forced to rescind the offer. And without the scholarship, she could not attend the graduate program.

“I was so disappointed because it was not easy to get to London and do the live audition,” explains Mariela, who has played the violin since the age of 10.

As the bombings and fighting intensified, power outages began to plague the entire city for days on end. Mariela knew she had no other choice but to keep on trying.

“I would walk to teach at the music institute and just wouldn’t know if I would make it back home again because the bombs are falling randomly,” explains Mariela, who had been teaching at the Arabic Institute of Music in Aleppo for years. “I knew I needed to get back online again and try to figure out another way.”

But without electricity, Mariela found it difficult to communicate with the outside world. So she began taking daily risks to visit a local internet café so she could continue her search. That’s when she first heard of Jusoor through Facebook, and of its partnership with the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the IIE Syria Consortium for Higher Education in Crisis.

“I started to email every single university asking if they had either a master’s or a bachelor’s program in music, because

I knew it would be hard to get a master’s in music without a live audition,” says Mariela. Mariela was accepted into a bachelor’s program in music at Monmouth College in Illinois and was given a substantial scholarship. But, still, she knew that would not be enough. She still had to cover her room and board and her parents had lost their jobs because of the war.

“I went to Jusoor’s website and started to learn about the donors,” says Mariela. “One of them was a man from Saudi Arabia. I googled his name, and tried to find out as much as I could about him on Facebook and through others who he had funded. Then, I contacted him to tell him about my story. I sent him videos of my performances. At first, he told me that his foundation, Al Thuraya, only supported people in science, but he was really interested in how I got ahold of him.”

The donor ended up supporting Mariela. She also procured funding from a Dutch NGO. A friend in the United States purchased the plane ticket for her, leaving from Beirut a few weeks later. But still, she wasn’t done. The war in Aleppo had reached a new low. Every day barrel bombs and missiles seemed to rain down on the entire city. The main throughways in and out of the city were either closed or under constant bombardment. Mariela would spend hours watching harrowing videos on YouTube of cars that didn’t make it through. As her departure date neared, she once again began to feel like her dream was in danger of slipping away, and she refused to take the harrowing route that had taken so many other people’s lives. Then, just a couple days before her flight, she heard that a new route had opened. Mariela felt like she had no other option.

“There was just this random bus that was not affiliated with any company,” says Mariela, who took the journey along with her mom and about 30 others. “It was the first day of Ramadan. We were thirsty. The bus got lost because it was the first time it tried to go this way. There were like 50 to 60 checkpoints. It felt like someone was stopping us every 15 minutes. And, each time, they would search my violin case because they thought it was a gun. At one point, we got lost and we were scared to death. It took us about 17 hours to get to Beirut. Three or four days after we took that route, three buses on the same route were shot at.”

Mariella spent the night in Beirut and, the following day,

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left for the United States to begin her studies at Monmouth College. Although her first few months there were difficult, she knew some of the most difficult days were behind her.

“It was life changing,” says Mariela of her time at Monmouth, where she was one of nine Syrian students at the time. “It was really difficult at the beginning. The language was a challenge. Living away from my parents and my country was also difficult. But I did not think much of the difficulties. I just felt like I needed to work really hard. I was practicing about seven to eight hours a day.”

Mariela soon became the concertmaster of the orchestra. She started speaking and performing in cities around the

world for non-profit organizations dedicated to helping refugees—from Los Angeles, New York, New Jersey, Boston, and Chicago to Edinburgh and Geneva. In 2015, she was invited to play at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for World Refugee Day. She was also honored at the White House as a 2015 Champion of Change for World Refugees.

But her success has not distracted Mariela from her war-torn city of Aleppo. For now, she remains separated from her parents and brother, who remain in Aleppo. She thinks constantly about the role that music can have in healing those affected by war, and dreams of returning to the region to teach music to young children in refugee camps in Turkey and Lebanon.

It would be so great to convey to children that they can carry a musical instrument instead of carrying guns, especially after all the violence they have seen.""

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Refugee Education Program Building Bridges... of Hope

Nearly three years ago, Jusoor opened its first remedial schools in Lebanon to tackle the overwhelming needs of an estimated 300,000 Syrian student refugees. Today, the numbers are not much better. According to Human Rights Watch, more than half of the nearly 500,000 school-aged Syrian children registered in Lebanon are still not enrolled in formal education.

But months before opening their first school, the Jusoor team spent months traveling around Lebanon interviewing principals, teachers, parents, and children about the educational needs of Syrian students. We found that students were having difficulty even reaching Lebanese schools and that a large number were dropping out. So Jusoor developed an educational model to address the specific needs of Syrian children affected by the war, with the goal of getting these students reintegrated into Lebanon’s formal

educational system.

2500Students supported through Jusoor’s refugee education program

44Teachers employed in Jusoor’s schools

$677Average cost to educate each student per year

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A Discussion with Suha Tutunji, Academic Director, Refugee Education ProgramWe talked to Suha about Jusoor’s three educational centers in Lebanon (one based in Beirut, two in the Bekaa Valley in Jarahieh and Jeb Janine), their struggles, the progress that they have made over the last four years, and how Jusoor hopes to grow in the coming years.

Why did the Jusoor Refugee Education Program start three years ago? Why was it necessary?When we started the program, Syrian students were not yet attending Lebanese public schools and the majority of Syrian parents could not afford to enroll their children in private schools. By our second year of operation, the ministry of education opened an afternoon shift in Lebanese public schools to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugee children who were out of school.

But there were many challenges to the afternoon shift. The first challenge was how late the classes started. During winter, it would get dark by 4:30pm, and the students went to school at 3:00 and got back by 7:30 or 8:00pm. So mothers did not want to send their children. It was too far. There was no transportation. Some of them had to walk for half an hour to get to school. And in the mountain and the Bekaa, it snows and it is cold. Because the classes were held in the evening, girls especially stopped going.

The second challenge is that the curriculum was not modified. So a school would place a six-year-old in first grade and a seven-year-old in second grade, but these students couldn’t cope because they did not have the academic background or exposure to the language.

The third challenge was that the teachers who were teaching during the first shift were also teaching in the second one, so by the time they got to the second shift they were exhausted.

Lastly, the teaching techniques were very traditional. When you have emergency education, you have to think differently about the way you run your classroom and the way you teach. It’s not a regular mainstream school. It’s a totally different

situation. Additionally, there was no psycho-social help for the students. Most of them are traumatized. They have lost a mother or father, or another relative. Or even if they had not lost anyone, they left their homes, their rooms, their beds. All of this trauma needed to be correctly addressed, alongside their educational needs.

So how do Jusoor schools compare to Lebanese public schools?We are not an alternative to Lebanese schools. In our program, we try as much as possible not to keep students for more than two years. We have to send them to Lebanese schools. If they don’t get the formal schooling, then they won’t get the documents they need later to continue their education. A lot of them want to come back to our schools after two years, but we don’t receive them.

We were contacted by two principals in two different Lebanese schools—one in a Beirut school and one in the Bekaa. They told us that Jusoor students are standing out. That they know immediately these students attended Jusoor schools because of their level, their participation, the background they have, and the way they behave in the classroom. They were commending us. They were asking, what have you been doing? What can we do so that we get the same results? Tell us what you’re doing.. what’s working.

How did Jusoor tackle all the problems that these students were facing? It seems overwhelming. Before I started working with Jusoor, I conducted many interviews for the report titled “Widening Access to Quality Education for Syrian Refugees.” These were part of a needs analysis that we did before we started the schools. So I can tell everyone—I do say this now, that when we started the schools, we were one of the few NGOs that I know of, maybe the only one, that did an extensive study on education before we opened our schools. At that time, there was no access for Syrian students to Lebanese schools like there is now. You would find children on the streets selling roses and tissue paper or just hanging out.

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The classroom is full of life. Children love to come to school because they are playing and they are learning. It’s a child-centered educational model.""

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Because we conducted the needs analysis, we managed to avoid some of the challenges that others fell into. For example, one of the challenges was the language barrier, as schools in Lebanon either teach in English or French. Another challenge was that the teachers were all Lebanese and people I interviewed said that they could not relate to them. A third was that they could not afford the transportation cost to go to school. Many of them said they were only learning Math, English, Arabic and wondered why they couldn’t study science, physical education, art, and social sciences.

We took these needs and modified the Lebanese curriculum to suit the Syrian students. We taught subjects in Arabic, but started integrating English terminology. There were students who had never been to school. Seven-year-olds did not know how to hold the pen properly and their hand-eye coordination was not developed. So we started with exercises, games, and activities that would help develop fine and motor skills, which is something normally done with kindergarten students.

In the public system these students would either be placed in a grade-level corresponding to their age or they would be put with kindergarteners. In both cases, they would drop out. So we took these seven, eight or nine year olds, who had never been to school, and we modified the second grade program to suit them.

We also started developing a theme for each school year. In 2015, the theme was Safe Schools and Identity. What did we mean by that? A safe school is a place where we bring peace to the classrooms. We talked about anti-bullying since many of the children showed signs and acts of violence. I started observing that some of these children did not know where they came from, having moved out of Syria for several years and when they were very young. Therefore, we added the identity component: ‘My Identity’—’Hawiyati’ in Arabic. We taught the students twice a week in Arabic about Syria: The vegetation, the climate, the borders, history. The purpose of teaching them about Syria’s history is to plant in them a

sense of pride when speaking of Syria, because when they have a sense of pride in their country, they will want to go back and rebuild it.

Can you tell us about the teachers and people running Jusoor schools? How are Jusoor teachers coping with the difficulties of teaching students who have not been in school or have been delayed in their schooling? We have 44 teachers and the greatest majority are Syrian refugees themselves. We did a lot of training with these teachers and I am really extremely proud of the teachers and how far they have come. The methodology, the activities that they run—some are psycho-social activities, not just educational. The classroom is full of life. Children love to come to school because they are playing and they are learning. It’s a child-centered educational model.

I have had more than 30 years of experience in education. Not one time did a teacher say come and observe my classroom and tell me what I can change! These teachers ask me to observe them. It takes lots of courage and commitment to ask. They are fabulous and they are the reason why we are where we are.

What are your biggest obstacles and what do you need more of from the international community or from donors?We definitely need more resources. We need to hire more teachers. We need transportation. If we can reach villages that are even further away, then we can get more students. Some kids have learning difficulties or disabilities. Some start in the middle of the year because they just left Syria and we don’t have enough teachers to cater to them.

We also need more equipment. We make a lot of things ourselves. Educational toys are very expensive. Good quality books in Arabic are expensive. We need equipment for physical education classes, science resources, and more resources to teach English and Math.

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The VolunteersVolunteers make up the backbone of Jusoor’s educational system in Lebanon. Every summer, dozens of volunteers run camps for Syrian students where they focus on teaching English, sports, life skills, and art. Jusoor’s volunteers are our “ambassadors” to the world. Many have returned to their countries and helped fundraise, raising as much as $10,000 in one crowdfunding campaign. And many have taken home their own life lessons. In 2015, we had 18 summer volunteers who helped make the children’s summer both fun and educational. We thank them for their hard work and would like to share with you some of their personal experiences, in their own words.

Nour GhadanfarVolunteer Teacher, Summer 2015, Jarahiyeh SchoolThe class started off the way it always did: me, attempting to settle down the children to explain the art lesson for the day. We were going to be coloring a picture of butterflies and drawing one of the animals we had learned about in our previous English lesson. I passed out the papers and grabbed the bucket of colored pencils and gave each child one color. Because resources are limited, my rule states that each child receives one color, and if the child wants a different color, they have to politely ask their fellow classmates if they can switch colors. Of course, this is the ideal scenario. A successful day was one where I get over three quarters of the colored pencils back and the lesson goes by without me having to break up an argument. That particular day, the children were antsy and asking for more than one color at the same time. I was trying to explain to them that this would not be possible because we don’t have enough pencils for everyone let alone two pencils per student. This is when Ahmed, the beautiful 12-year-old boy with quite possibly the brightest smile I have ever seen, took out a clear plastic bag filled with 20-something colored pencils and said, “Miss! I have colors. They can borrow them from me.”

I was in utter disbelief. As Ahmed’s classmates crowded around him, I tried to digest what had just happened. How is it possible that a boy who has had everything taken away from him – his home, his friends, his country – be so giving? How is it possible that he so cheerily volunteered some of the few possessions he has left knowing that he might not get them back? I knew that Ahmed worked two jobs when he wasn’t in school: helping his mother make cheese in a factory and picking potatoes in the field. My young student was also a child laborer, and he did not care about how clean his pencils were or whether his classmates were going to press too hard on the pencils’ tips. He just gave because he saw that there was need.

Four and a half years after conflict and violence have all but destroyed my country, it is individuals like Ahmed that give me hope. Despite the war and poverty, the loss and displacement, the struggle and strife, there will always be a smiling boy who will be willing to give and to share what little he has. That is what is truly magical.

How is it possible that a boy who has had everything taken away from him – his home, his friends, his country – be so giving? ""

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Tarek TakieddineVolunteer Teacher, Summer 2015, Jeb Jennine School

During one of the revision sessions, I asked one of the kids a question and he did not know the answer because he was absent the day before. When I asked him why, he told me that he was working in the farm harvesting potato plants.

That’s made me feel very sorry and speechless because all these kids really deserve a normal life like any other kid in the world. This incident made me feel frustrated thinking about the 310,000 Syrian children in Lebanon who still have no sort of education. The international community holds a huge responsibility to improve the living conditions of the Syrian families in Lebanon, and facilitating their life. Communities also need to put more effort to move all the families in the Bekaa area who are still living in tents to better conditions and more comfortable places.

Tory BrykalskiVolunteer Teacher, 2015-2016, Jeb Janine SchoolAs the bus drove up the mountain through Chtoura across the Litani River into Jarahieh, and finally south to Jeb Janine, I could not help but think about the paths each of us — administration, teachers, volunteers, and students — had to take to get to school this morning. We were late because of Beirut’s traffic. Our students and the rest of the teachers were on time. Where did the students wake up this morning? Who helped them get ready? What was their bus ride, or walk perhaps, to school like?

Jusoor, in Arabic, means ‘bridges’, and, in many ways, these paths are like a kind of bridge. They connect one place — Beirut, our home, our family — to another, the Bekaa, the camps, school. The question I couldn’t help but ask myself as we finally arrived at the other side of the ‘bridge’ this morning was “what flows below?”

I am finishing up my classroom plans for tomorrow as I type this blog post and I wonder, given the distance between them, about the kinds of bridges that we can build between these two places. About the kinds of bridges that I can help support — as a foreigner with barely passable Arabic that happens to be living in the Bekaa — and the kinds of bridges that a Lebanese or Syrian teacher, or even a Syrian student, can help build.

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Entrepreneurship Program Building Bridges... of Innovation

Entrepreneurship is a cornerstone of any strong economy. And given Syria’s history at the crossroads of global trade routes, it’s a natural fit for Syrian youth. However, since the start of the conflict in Syria, and according to the Syrian Center for Policy Research, more than 2.1 million jobs in the country have been lost, nearly 53 percent are now unemployed, and the unemployment rate has reached an astounding 78 percent amongst youth.

To top that off, as the violence escalated across Syria over the years, the war not only wreaked havoc on the countries’ industries and jobs, it arguably turned into the country’s biggest employer amongst Syria’s youth.

This year, we added an Entrepreneurship Program to Jusoor’s line-up, to specifically target Syrian youth inside and outside the country and Syrian refugees who want to start a new business or tackle a social problem. Drawing on the skills of many renowned Arab and Syrian entrepreneurs from around the world, we are working to encourage young Syrians to develop compelling ideas and build strong businesses.

“We kick started this community in 2015,” says Dania Ismail, Director of Jusoor’s Entrepreneurship Program. “We now have a Facebook group of more than 2,000 people and a very active online community. Young Syrian startups looking for resources and support come to us for guidance and for the opportunity to enroll in our competition and bootcamps. We have built a strong network for them and provided a platform for young entrepreneurs, both male and female, to be inspired, seek knowledge, and get the push they need to grow their social projects and startups.”

According to Ahmad Sufian Bayram, a Jusoor volunteer and the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp Manager, entrepreneurship is especially critical to invest in during times of war and crisis.

“With a huge unemployment rate among youth, a lot of people are left with only two options, to join the conflict or to create their own ambition”, says Sufian, who also published a study on the needs of entrepreneurs in war zones. “Economic drivers are a key factor for many Syrians who decide to join armed groups that offer them the possibility of securing a regular income. Startups might be another way to pave their own way. This isn’t about just helping the entrepreneurs. It’s about helping to build stability and peace inside the country.”

In 2015, we held our first Entrepreneurship Competition. Thanks to support from our partners, the Asfari Foundation and a group of Arab and Syrian businessmen, we were able to feature $65,000 in cash prizes during the competition. Over a hundred teams applied from around the world, 57% from within Syria, with businesses focused on areas ranging from technology and education to healthcare and transportation.

In addition, we ran an Entrepreneurship Bootcamp in Beirut to help 10 selected teams better understand and pitch their business to investors by delving into topics like technology, branding and marketing, and building financial models. The groups received mentorship and training from some of the best experts around the world and in the region.

In 2015, Jusoor awarded three teams with financial prizes as part of its first annual Entrepreneurship Competition. The teams included Afkar Plus, which received the top place prize of $30,000, Sfkat, which received a $20,000 prize for second place, and Khatwa, the third place prize winner of $15,000.

A micro-incubator based in Hama that started in 2014, Afkar Plus provides a platform for entrepreneurs in Syria with the necessary support to help them turn their concepts into running and operational businesses. They aim to change the work cultures among youth and fresh graduates to break away from traditional employment in the public sector and other “safe” industries, while promoting creativity and risk taking. Afkar Plus now has four incubated projects since receiving Jusoor’s funding.

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Jusoor received 100+ applications from Syrian startups across the

Middle East, North Africa, Europe and North America

More than 200 young Syrians participated in our programs

10,000 votes were cast during the Entrepreneurship Competition

20 Syrians participated in the first training bootcamp in Lebanon

Over 57% of applications were from Syria alone, followed by 14% from Syrians

in Turkey, 7% in Lebanon and the Gulf, and a few in Europe and Asia

83% of applicants were male and 17% female

The majority of applicants (40%) were 24-27 years old,

followed by those aged 19-23 (21%)

The majority of startups represented were in the field of

technology (24%), followed by education

(22%), social and non-profit work (16%), and healthcare (10%)

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Afkar Plus founders Fadi Armoush and Samer Al Aswad explain the impact of the prize on their budding business.

“Winning Jusoor’s award had a big impact on Afkar Plus’s team and let us transform our idea into practice,” said Fadi “The funding was used to cover basic launch expenses and to support incubated projects by giving them seed funding to run their startups. Our goal is to give Syrian youth who have applicable business ideas the chance to nurture these ideas and grow them.”

Through the prize money, the team was able to launch Afkary, which means ‘My Ideas’ in Arabic, a program that invites young entrepreneurs to incubate their ideas within the Afkar Plus platform. “We ended up with more than 60 (ideas) for our Afkary program.” said Fadi about the exposure that the competition gave Afkar Plus, “We did not think we would get more than 30.”

A participatory online peer to peer e-commerce platform, Sfkat, the second place winner, provides an easy way for online trading with the aim of connecting buyers and sellers and facilitating transactions in an organized and efficient way. The objective is to open channels of communication between merchants and customers. The project focuses on small to medium-size businesses and offer them a large database of customers through the Sfkat platform.

Khatwa, a non-profit network, works with civil organizations to support Syrian youth in Egypt in the area of higher education. Since 2013, it helped nearly 1,500 Syrian students access university education, and received the Jusoor Entrepreneurship Competition third prize of $10,000.

“After winning in Jusoor’s entrepreneurship competition, we were encouraged to better organize our main office,” says Sami al-Ahmad, founder of Khatwa. “We increased our operating budget, opened a [new] branch in Alexandria, and provided more services for Syrian youth in Egypt. Jusoor helped us expand our network, and with its mentorship, the number of Syrian students we could help register in Egyptian universities almost doubled.”

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JUSOOR WINS

ACADEMIC FREEDOM

AWARD

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This year, Jusoor was awarded the prestigious 2015 Academic Freedom Award from the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA). Founded in 1966, MESA is a non-profit society that brings together scholars, educators and students who study the Middle East from all over the world. MESA presented the award during its 49th annual meeting in Denver, Colorado. In particular, MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF) recognized Jusoor’s focus on providing a large number of Syrian refugee children with a formal education, as well as the quality of instruction in Jusoor schools and the promising educational outcomes. “With more than half of the 4 million Syrian refugees under the age of 18, there is a pressing need to focus on their educational opportunities,” said Laurie Brand, the chair of the Committee on Academic Freedom during the award dinner. “Jusoor has responded to the humanitarian crisis with effective outreach and programs that engage a generous volunteer base and are making a real difference in the lives of young Syrians.” Maya Alkateb-Chami, Jusoor’s Director, accepted the award on behalf of the organization. “The need for more involvement to support education for Syrian students is increasingly urgent in response to the current crisis,” said Maya. “We believe that this support contributes to capacity building for the country and its peoples in the long run, in addition to helping individuals continue their education despite the emergency. Academia and academic institutions have a unique role to play and an opportunity to exemplify leadership on a global level.” CAF seeks to foster the free exchange of knowledge as a human right and to inhibit infringements on that right by government restrictions on scholars. “Colleagues of ours who are familiar with Jusoor uniformly characterized it as the most professional and effective of the NGOs assisting Syrian refugees with pursuing their education,” the Committee noted in recognizing Jusoor.

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Jusoor Leadership Team

Aziza Osman, Board MemberAziza is a social entrepreneur and startup advisor. She started a social enterprise in health and well-being across Dubai and holds idea cultivation workshops for startups in the region. Prior to pursuing entrepreneurship, she worked in marketing intelligence and strategy for Philips Middle East. At Jusoor, she runs the Career Development Program and works closely with the Entrepreneurship Program, mentoring social startups on scaling, and measuring impact in Syria.

Dania Ismail, Board MemberDania is the co-founder of Third Eye Agency, a performing arts-focused company based in Dubai. Prior to starting her own company, she held the position of Strategy and Business Development Manager at MBC Group for ten years. Dania is passionate about working with Syrian communities on projects that accelerate the growth and realize the potential of the country. She directs Jusoor’s Entrepreneurship Program.

Fadi Salem, Board MemberFadi is a PhD in Public Policy candidate at the University of Oxford. Previously, he was the Director of the Governance and Innovation Program at the Dubai School of Government, Associate with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School and Fellow with the I+I Policy Research Centre at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. He is a graduate from the London School of Economics and Aleppo University. His areas of expertise include digital transformation and contemporary governance as well as technology policy and new models of government-citizen interactions in the digital age.

Iyad Duwaji, Board MemberIyad is a business entrepreneur and managing partner of different investments vehicles. Prior to that, he was the CEO of SHUAA Capital, a publicly listed company in Dubai that won many distinctions. Iyad holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Texas at Arlington and has served as a director of different public and private companies in Europe and the UAE. He is a passionate supporter of community activities, education, and self-help initiatives.

JP Chilazi, Board MemberJP is an MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School. Prior to that, he worked as a Private Equity Associate at Bain Capital in Boston and as a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company in the New Jersey and Dubai offices. JP holds an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College. At Jusoor, he oversees the organization’s financial operations.

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Leen Al Zaibak, Board MemberLeen is a Senior Policy Advisor for Asia, North Africa and the Middle East in the Office of International Relations and Protocol for the province of Ontario. Previously, she served as a Policy Advisor to the Ontario Minister of Children and Youth Services. Leen holds an Honors Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto, Trinity College and a Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Manchester. She is a leader in supporting Syrian refugees resettled in Canada to succeed, and directs Jusoor’s partnerships and programs in Canada.

Maya Malas, Board MemberMaya is a Senior Development Manager at Majid Al Futtaim Properties in Dubai. Her areas of expertise include real-estate development, urban planning and community development. She is passionate about contemporary urban transformation in the MENA region, having worked in numerous projects in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi, Tunisia and the UAE. She holds a Master’s in Urban Development Planning from the Bartlett School, University College London and a B.Sc. in Architecture from Damascus University. Maya is engaged in philanthropic activities and passionate about progressive transformation through effective civic engagement.

Rami Zayat, Board MemberRami is a Senior Legal Consultant in the Abu Dhabi office of DLA Piper. He represents a broad range of clients from startups to mature publicly traded companies, IT companies, investment companies and private equity firms. Rami has a broad practice and has extensive experience advising clients across a range of industries in connection with local and cross-border commercial, general IT and services contracts, intellectual property, data protection and corporate matters. Rami is passionate about preserving Syrian cultural traditions while developing an educational system and economic forum that provides the structural basis for the development of youth.

Rania Succar, Board MemberRania recently joined Intuit to lead QuickBooks Financing. Prior to that, she held several roles at Google over the course of five years, most recently serving as the Director of Brand Solutions for North America at Google. Before joining Google, Rania worked with McKinsey & Company in the US and Dubai. Now based in San Francisco, Rania co-founded the Harvard Arab Alumni Association in 2001 and served as President until 2008. She received an MBA from the Harvard Business School, an MPA in International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and an BA in economics from Harvard College.

Maya Alkateb-Chami, DirectorPrior to joining Jusoor, Maya ran Al Makan Art Association, a cultural nonprofit in Syria, co-founded and led the UWC scholarship program for Syrian adolescents, and later joined UWC-USA as Director of Admissions. Prior to that, she served as a consultant and trainer for Maastricht School of Management and UNRWA in the areas of NGO capacity building and youth engagement. Maya has an an MSc in Education from Indiana University Bloomington and a BA in Political Science from Damascus University. Author of several books on cultural heritage, her Fulbright Scholarship-supported research focused on youth empowerment through the arts.

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Jusoor Donors

Angels ($500,000+)Chalhoub GroupSheikh Waleed Al Ibrahim

Benefactors ($100,000+)Asfari FoundationGoogle*Sulaiman and Amal NaimWafic Said

Patrons ($50,000-$99,000)Ali OjjehAmerican Syrian Arab Cultural Association (ASACA)BoeingHossam ShobokshiDania nad Kareem SakkaOmar SawafOsama AbbasiTalal Sawwaf and Family The Duwaji Family*Varkey Foundation

Sponsors ($20,000-$49,999)Abdul Hadi Debs FoundationAl-Madad FoundationAlexandra ChenAmer BoukaiAmerican Endowment FoundationAnonymous*Ayman AsfariBay Tree Foundation*Capital Guidance CorporationCrossroads FoundationDesert Crescent CompanyElazem Tayeb Issaf

* Including donations made to IIT for the Jusoor-IIT Initiative for Syrian Students

We would like to extend our gratitude to the hundreds of Jusoor donors who donated less than $5,000 and/or who have donated their time and expertise. Donations included above are accumulative up to September 2016.

Sponsors ($20,000-$49,999)Jameel AkhrassMaha SamawiMaher Touma*Mohammad and Najla Al ZaibakNadia ChattiPierre and Nawal Zayat*Rami Zayat*Rania Succar*Rasha Al-DuwaisanRezayat GroupSabah Al SabahSamer Daniel, Across Asset Management*Yasmin Alireza and Sharaf Yamani

Donors ($5,000-$19,999)Abdulaziz DadouchAhmed Tamer WaliAl Saud CompanyAlia El RousstomAlmutaz Wassif AlsawwafAmer KasmANERAAnonymous (9)Bashar SawafBassam BaraziCenter for Arab American Philanthropy*Charities TrustDaliah MerzabanDania Ismail David MahmaljiDeema Succar and Rami Adada*DS FederalFaleh and Alya HusseiniGhassan and Manal SaabGoldman Sachs

Donors ($5,000-$19,999)Habib LahlouhHoda and Bashar Succar*Howard MarksINTO GivingIsabella Ponta Und WernerJad Al-Aoun Saad AhmadKadah FoundationKhaled SamawiLady AlexanderMagdalena BoukaiMaha DebsMatthew William HollisMikati FoundationMohamed BashaarMohammad GawdatMohammad Wajih IsmailMohannad Malas*MyUSNadia JabriNina NasserNora and Ali DiabNuday SyriaSacred Heart CommunitySafingest InternationalSahar AbdullaSamar Sawaf SweidSami IdlibiSarah AbushaarSAWA for Development and AidSyrian American Women’s Charitable Association (SAWA)Walid Sami ZakariaYusuf KudsiZafer Gedeon Achi

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Donors ($5,000-$19,999)Habib LahlouhHoda and Bashar Succar*Howard MarksINTO GivingIsabella Ponta Und WernerJad Al-Aoun Saad AhmadKadah FoundationKhaled SamawiLady AlexanderMagdalena BoukaiMaha DebsMatthew William HollisMikati FoundationMohamed BashaarMohammad GawdatMohammad Wajih IsmailMohannad Malas*MyUSNadia JabriNina NasserNora and Ali DiabNuday SyriaSacred Heart CommunitySafingest InternationalSahar AbdullaSamar Sawaf SweidSami IdlibiSarah AbushaarSAWA for Development and AidSyrian American Women’s Charitable Association (SAWA)Walid Sami ZakariaYusuf KudsiZafer Gedeon Achi

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Jusoor Financial Statements for the Year Ending on December 31, 2015Combined for Jusoor (USA), Jusoor UK, and Jusoor CanadaPresented in US Dollars

Consolidated Statement of Financial Position

Assets Current Assets Bank Accounts 424,876.82 Fixed Assets 5,756.00Total Assets $430,632.82Liabilities And Equity Liabilities 0 Equity 208,425.35 Retained Earnings 29,846.21 Net Revenue 192,361.26Total Liabilities And Equity $430,632.82

Consolidated Statement Of Financial Activity

Revenue Direct Public Support Individual Contributions 697,655.50 Corporate Contributions 560,863.74 Foundation Contributions 183,352.04 Miscellaneous Revenue 1,000.00Total Revenue $1,442,871.28Expenditures Program Services Refugee Primary Education 717,205.00 Higher Education Scholarships 244,762.31 Entrepreneurship Training And Support 69,779.17 Annual Global Conference 9,826.05 Mentorship Activities 722 Total Program Services 1,042,294.53 General And Administrative Management And General 32,367.55 Accounting And Legal Services 11,264.26 Other Supporting Services 400 Total General And Administrative 44,109.70 Fundraising 90,864.16Total Expenditures $1,177,268.38Net Operating Revenue $265,602.89Net Revenue $265,602.89

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Consolidated Statement of Functional Expenses

Amortization Expense 3,412.67 722.00 4,134.67 4,134.67

Bank Service Charges 5,314.99 5,314.99 77.89 77.89 1,019.95 6,412.83

Business Expenses 666.67 666.67 110.75 110.75 777.42

Enrichment Activities for Students 4,593.49 30.67 4,624.16 4,624.16

Facilities, Utilities, and Equipment 92,942.86 5,066.81 98,009.67 219.01 219.01 26.88 98,255.56

Fundraising Costs* 80.00 280.00 360.00 86,766.96 87,126.96

Grants 21,000.00 1,930.75 53,560.00 76,490.75 76,490.75 76,490.75

IT Services 1,966.71 1,966.71 56.32 400.00 456.32 2,423.03

Personnel** 297,680.33 297,680.33 28,683.72 28,683.72 326,364.05

Professional Services 3,066.99 3,066.99 3,302.30 11,264.26 14,566.56 3,000.00 20,633.55

Scholarship, Travel, Books, and Fees 3,033.33 242,697.53 245,730.86 245,730.86 245,730.86

Training and Speaker Expenses 4,608.67 103.36 16,219.17 4,479.24 25,410.44 50.37 25,460.81

Transportation for Children 216,401.00 216,401.00 216,401.00 216,401.00

Transportation for Management 3,962.03 3,962.03 3,962.03 3,962.03

Miscellaneous and Other Expenses 58,475.26 58,475.26 -4.55 -4.55 58,470.71

Total Expenditures $717,205.00 $244,762.31 $69,779.17 $9,826.05 $722.00 $1,042,294.53 $32,367.55 $11,264.26 $400.00 $44,109.70 $90,864.16 $1,177,268.38

* These are mainly expenses associated with Jusoor’s Third Annual Conference and Fundraising Dinner in Los Angeles.

** Most of the personnel expense is spent on teacher salaries in Lebanon, under the Refugee Primary Education Program.

PROGRAM SERVICES

TotalMentorship

Activites

AnnualGlobal

Conference

EntrepreneurshipTraining and

SupportHigher Education

Scholarships

RefugeePrimary

Education

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Consolidated Statement of Functional Expenses

Amortization Expense 3,412.67 722.00 4,134.67 4,134.67

Bank Service Charges 5,314.99 5,314.99 77.89 77.89 1,019.95 6,412.83

Business Expenses 666.67 666.67 110.75 110.75 777.42

Enrichment Activities for Students 4,593.49 30.67 4,624.16 4,624.16

Facilities, Utilities, and Equipment 92,942.86 5,066.81 98,009.67 219.01 219.01 26.88 98,255.56

Fundraising Costs* 80.00 280.00 360.00 86,766.96 87,126.96

Grants 21,000.00 1,930.75 53,560.00 76,490.75 76,490.75 76,490.75

IT Services 1,966.71 1,966.71 56.32 400.00 456.32 2,423.03

Personnel** 297,680.33 297,680.33 28,683.72 28,683.72 326,364.05

Professional Services 3,066.99 3,066.99 3,302.30 11,264.26 14,566.56 3,000.00 20,633.55

Scholarship, Travel, Books, and Fees 3,033.33 242,697.53 245,730.86 245,730.86 245,730.86

Training and Speaker Expenses 4,608.67 103.36 16,219.17 4,479.24 25,410.44 50.37 25,460.81

Transportation for Children 216,401.00 216,401.00 216,401.00 216,401.00

Transportation for Management 3,962.03 3,962.03 3,962.03 3,962.03

Miscellaneous and Other Expenses 58,475.26 58,475.26 -4.55 -4.55 58,470.71

Total Expenditures $717,205.00 $244,762.31 $69,779.17 $9,826.05 $722.00 $1,042,294.53 $32,367.55 $11,264.26 $400.00 $44,109.70 $90,864.16 $1,177,268.38

* These are mainly expenses associated with Jusoor’s Third Annual Conference and Fundraising Dinner in Los Angeles.

** Most of the personnel expense is spent on teacher salaries in Lebanon, under the Refugee Primary Education Program.

TOTALFUNDRAISINGGENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE

Total

OtherSupporting

Services

Accountingand LegalServices

Managementand General

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2015 Expenses by Type

2015 Expenses by Program

7.7%FUNDRAISING

88.5%PROGRAM SERVICES

3.7%GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE

6.7%ENTREPRENEURSHIPTRAINING AND SUPPORT

1%OTHER

68.8%REFUGEE PRIMARYEDUCATION

23.5%HIGHER EDUCATIONSCHOLARSHIPS

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Donations per Amount up to September 2016: Number of Donations per Amount

Donations per Amount up to September 2016: Total Donated per Amount

0 150 300 450 600

$0 $400,000 $800,000 $1,200,000 $1,600,000

0 - 2021 - 50

51 - 100101 - 500

501 - 1,0001,001 - 2,5002,501 - 5,0005,001 - 7,500

7,501 - 10,00010,000 - 15,00015,001 - 25,00025,001 - 50,000

50,001 - 100,000>100,000

0 - 2021 - 50

51 - 100101 - 500

501 - 1,0001,001 - 2,5002,501 - 5,0005,001 - 7,500

7,501 - 10,00010,000 - 15,00015,001 - 25,00025,001 - 50,000

50,001 - 100,000>100,000

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Donations over Time

$220,545

$819,555

$443,105

$697,656 $560,864 $183,352

$0 $500,000 $1,000,000 $1,500,000

2015

2014

2013

2012

Total Contributions

Individual Contributions

Corporate Contributions

Foundation Contributions

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