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Statement of Activity 2015 2016SUPPORT AND REVENUES
Contributions 2,574,547 2,642,983
Interest Earned -19,633 51,482
Books Contributed 33,170,039 33,973,549
TOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUES 35,724,953 36,668,014
EXPENDITURES
Program Operating Expenses - Overseas 35,075,577 34,293,458
General and Administrative Expenses 76,760 88,940
Fundraising Expenses 164,219 232,907
TOTAL EXPENDITURES 35,316,556 34,615,305
Change in Net Monetary Assets $291,104 $293,498
Change in Book Inventory -$3,992,403 $1,718,210
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$30,000-$35,000AnonymousTom Warth & Zantha LaFon
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English Alethia FuttrelVince GaborStephen GladstoneJan GlenSandra K. GnegyRobert GrahamCarolyn GumermanCarl & Cynthia HammerPaul HealyMichael Henley & Randi
YoderMargaret HoffmanAdam Hulbig
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Community Foundation for NE Georgia
Baobob One VoiceBeckman-Matsui Family Foundation
via Charles SchwabBehavioral Criminology InternationalBremer BankBright Funds FoundationBUI Family Union IncCarl E. Kessler Family FoundationCelebration Education FundDirectorate of Public ProsecutionsDominion Resources, Inc.Elizabeth Campbell EstateEmergent BioSolutionsEquilarFalmouth Academy Student CouncilFirst Giving*Forty-One FoundationFredrikson & Byron FoundationGive Back FoundationGoldman Sachs & Co. Matching Gift
ProgramGoogle Matching Gifts Program
Greater Saint Louis Community Foundation
Haughey Family FoundationJohnson Charitable Gift FundJustGive.org*Kelen Family FoundationLaxmi CapitalLerner Publishing GroupRobert and Polly McCrea Fund of The
Minneapolis FoundationNew SBL Inc.Noor FoundationNorthfield Rotary ClubProject Zawadi IncorporatedReach the Unreached Mission, Inc.Register Lawrimore TeamRichard & Elda PhillipsRobert S. Starr FoundationThe Johnson Fund via Fidelity
CharitableSchwab Charitable FundSilicon Valley Community Foundation
TDS, Inc.Southern Sky AdventuresSSF Rotary ClubSt. Agnes ChurchThe Challenge Scholarship Fund of
The Saint Paul FoundationThe Culp Family FoundationThe Dorsey & Whitney FoundationThe Hyman Levine Family
Foundation:L’Dor V’DorThe Raynie FoundationThe RefineryThe Rust Family FoundationThe Sexton Family FoundationThe T. Rowe Price Program for
Charitable GivingThe University Club of St. PaulThe William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation Matching Gifts ProgramUnited Tegaru Youth NetworkUskudar American AcademyWhite Oak Community ChurchWidows & Orphans Empowerment
Organization, NigeriaYouths Friends AssociationZebra Consulting International LLC
AFFILIATES
$500-$999Anonymous 3M FoundationAlexandria Country Day SchoolAlston & Bird LLPCadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLPDaggett Family Fund of American
Endowment FoundationDelta Sigma Theta Sorority, IncEdison Township Board of EducationEpiscopal Church of the AscensionFederal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.Friends of Rwanda AssociationJocelyn Foundation LimitedMargaret Hearne SchoolThe Gabelli Foundation of Fidelity
CharitableMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Maynard/Dirksen Fund of Fidelity Charitable
Medtronic FoundationMGM Resorts Foundation
Michael & Jessica Whiman Family Foundation of U.S. Charitable Gift Trust
Michael Nelson Tamte & Megan Joy Tamte Donor Advised Fund of Covenant Trust
Microsoft Matching Gifts ProgramNorthwestern UniversityOak Ridge High SchoolOdaa Self Help AssociationRAS Realty CorpRead To Grow FoundationRenaissance Charitable Foundation,
Inc.R.J. Hutton Charitable Trust via
Fidelity CharitableSamuel & Tillie D. Cheiffetz
FoundationSanDisk Corporation Matching Gift
ProgramSchneider Electric North American
FoundationStarr’s Mill High SchoolSwarthmore Presbyterian ChurchThe Dante Moreira Gilbert Fund
of the Renaissance Charitable Foundation, Inc.
The Maple Hill Fund of The Foundation for Enhancing Communities
The Foundation of the Federal Bar Association
The GE FoundationThe Guilford Rotary ClubThe Pete and Rebecca Helme Fund of
Goldman SachsThe Prufrock FoundationThe Sparo CorpThe Voglewede Walker Family
Charitable Foundation of Fidelity Charitable
The Warrington FoundationThe Winfield FoundationToad Hall MotorbooksToledo Sister Cities Int. Toledo TangaTrendah Fund of The Saint Paul
FoundationWayne County School FoundationWilliam Huch Fund
MAJOR IN-KIND CONTRIBUTORS
Afro DeliAmara WinesBetter World BooksCadwalader, Wickersham & TaftCapstone PublishersClean Earth BooksCT RecyclingFollett Educational ServicesFollett Higher Education GroupGreif, Inc.Hands on AtlantaHartman Simons and Wood LLPHey Man ProductionsKalahari FoodsSam & Sylvia KaplanLerner Publishing GroupMcGraw HillMerck and CompanyMinnesota TwinsNational GeographicService Quality InstituteThomson ReutersThomson Reuters Trustlaw ProgramThe University Club of St. Paul/ John
Rupp John Wiley and SonsWorld VisionW.W. Norton
LEGACY SOCIETY**
Michael Addy & Nancy JohnsonAnonymousLane Ayres & Marion McNurlenFrank BabkaWin BarnardHenry A. BromelkampMichael Henley & Randi YoderRobert KraskeClark & Vonnie LaChapelleBarbara Leibundguth & William Klaila Marybeth NelsonCarole PatrikakosPatrick Plonski & Judy HawkinsonKathy TilfordTom Warth & Zantha LaFon Warth
*Denotes donations from large numbers of donors
**Legacy Society members have included Books For Africa in their estate planning
Dear Friends,
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for another outstanding year here at BFA! Your generous support in 2016 has allowed us to make great strides in fighting the African book famine. We are pleased to share with you some of what we achieved in 2016:
• We shipped books by the ton (yet again): BFA continues as the world ’s largest shipper of donated books to Africa, shipping over 37 million books to 49 African countries in our 28-year history. This has garnered us another “exceptional” 4-star rating from Charity Navigator (which named BFA the top U.S. charity under the Humanitarian Aid Category), and a Gold rating on the GuideStar Exchange. In 2016 alone, we shipped 2.4 million books, 154 computers and 62 e-readers valued at over $32 million to 25 countries. More than $2.5 million was raised in 2016 to ship these materials to Africa.
• We connected with recipients: 2016 kicked off with BFA site visits to Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda. This included attending the Corporate Council on Africa annual meeting (in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), BFA founder Tom Warth’s walk across Zanzibar, and a Peace Corps site visit in Uganda (including a stop at the first library ever served by BFA)! BFA representatives also visited recipients in The Gambia, Malawi, South Africa, Ethiopia, and Ghana throughout the year. David Robinson, son of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, joined Tom on his walk across Zanzibar, then visited Minnesota in September to promote BFA and raise funds to deliver books to Tanzania. In addition to these site visits, we implemented an improved recipient feedback process and collected data, allowing us to identify success points of our current programs, and help pinpoint where we can improve our systems.
• We met the right people: We interacted with numerous members of the African diplomatic corps in 2016 to coordinate on activities. Her Excellency Oliver Wonekha, Ambassador of Uganda to the U.S., hosted BFA’s annual Summit Society reception at the Ugandan Embassy in Washington, D.C. In May, the Kenyan Ambassador to the U.S., H.E. Robinson Njeru Githae, delivered a keynote speech at our annual fundraising luncheon emphasizing the critical role that books and literacy play in African development. Ambassador Githae also officially opened our new administrative office in St. Paul, MN during his visit. Our new Atlanta warehouse was formally opened with a dedication ceremony featuring South African Ambassador H.E. Mninwa Johannes Mahlangu. Our Minnesota warehouse hosted H.E. Wilson Masilingi, Tanzanian Ambassador to the U.S., to discuss ways to put high quality books in the hands of Tanzanian students.
• We met (even more of) the right people!: In addition to cultivating relationships with Ambassadors, we were honored to host 25 young African leaders from President Obama’s Mandela Washington Fellowship program, who volunteered at our Minnesota warehouse on Nelson Mandela International Day in July. We also established a partnership with Books For International Goodwill, a rotary-affiliated organization in Maryland, to put even more books in the hands of African students. In addition, presentations to the African diplomatic corps and the African Studies Association Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., as well as the American Library Association in Orlando, rounded out a great year of relationship-building.
• We are building for the future: With over half a billion children on the African continent, the need to put high-quality educational materials in the hands of tomorrow’s leaders is more pressing than ever. To make sure we can meet the ever-growing demand for books, we are building for the future. We moved to larger facilities in Georgia and Minnesota. We transitioned to a new, more robust donor database. We implemented website improvements to make our site more user-friendly for donors, volunteers, and recipients. We were excited to announce the launch of our e-reader program, with initial pilot sets going to recipients in East, West, and South Central Africa. With cultivated content specific to each region, the e-reader initiative will offer a unique opportunity to put African materials into the hands of students who are eager to read. Along with our improved feedback and evaluation process, this capacity building will accommodate future growth and allow us to better serve all of our partners.
In 2016 we worked hard to take things to a new level in order to end the book famine in Africa. Thanks to your support, the children of Africa will be able to pursue their dreams and lead their continent. This was the dream of Nelson Mandela, who stated, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” It is our dream-- and we know it is yours as well.
Sincerely,
Luanne Nyberg Patrick J. Plonski, PhDPresident Executive Director
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Due to limits on space in this report, we were unable to list all cash and book donors. BFA apologizes for any errors or unintended omissions. Please contact BFA if your name is misprinted or omitted.
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