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Who We Are

Intercambio is a diverse group of 400 dedicated volunteers teaching life-skills based English classes to 1,000 immigrants working to elevate themselves. Since 2001, our independent nonprofi t organization has been fulfi lling its mission by steadily increasing the number of volunteers and students we work with.

Our Mission

Intercambio de Comunidades’ mission is to build respectful communities and broaden opportunities for immigrants through language education, cultural exchange, and friendship. We provide:

1. Low-cost/no-cost individualized English classes, taught by volunteers at students’ homes, places of work, or public buildings.

2. Community resource information and workshops.

3. Intercultural social events.

Th ese activities foster the sharing of languages, cultures and friendship. Our vision is to create more respectful and inclusive communities where all members can com-municate, participate, and contribute.

“Learning English restores the ability to communicate.” Guillermo Valenzuela, Intercambio Student

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Th e best way to learn about cultural diff erences is to experience and discuss them with people from diff erent back-grounds, but this rarely happens in most of society without a catalyst like Intercambio. We take people out of their comfort zones and use an effi cient system of language learning, trainings, and curriculum focused on cross-cultural learning that bring people together and break down cultural barriers. In addition, we are extremely intentional in our services and values about how we can learn from and deepen our respect of cultural diff erences. It is this intentional-ity that makes cross-cultural learning happen.

Intercambio makes it possible for understanding, kind, and welcoming people to play a concrete role in helping to ef-fectively guide motivated immigrants through the extremely diffi cult process of acculturation and learning English.

Supporting Intercambio or participating as a student, volunteer, or donor is a peaceful, positive, and concrete way to take action and help build respect and social capital between cultures. Th ank you for your support and your invest-ment in our community.

Lee ShainisExecutive Director

A Message from the Executive Director

THE NATIVE COUNTRIES OF OUR STUDENTS

Mexico El Salvador Peru

Colombia Ecuador Argentina

Brazil Chile Honduras Indonesia

Paraguay Cuba Guatemala Bulgaria

Nepal Israel Russia

Afghanistan Turkey Iraq France

Canada Uruguay Nicaragua Tibet

Venezuela Iran Vietnam Bolivia

Cambodia China Costa Rica Taiwan

Dominican Republic Korea Spain

Ukraine Japan Puerto Rico Sudan

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Whether it’s cleaning up a park or learn-ing in the classroom, the interaction between people from many cultures is what Intercambio is all about. In 2008, we had numerous successes in all areas of the organization.

CLASSESIntercambio increased student enroll-ment and added new class locations.

975 students enrolled.

710 completed at least one term.

420 advanced one level or more in English skills.

400 wonderful and dedicated volun-teers contributed approximately 45,000 in-kind teaching hours.

Intercambio off ers English classes across Boulder County. In addition to teaching English in over 150 individuals’ homes, Intercambio also provided classes in the following places in Boulder County:

• Casey Middle School• Parenting Place• Uni Hill Elementary• University of Colorado• Columbine Elementary• Boulder County Head Start• Boulder High School• HENNA• Longmont Senior Center• Left Hand Nursery• Casa de Esperanza• Longmont Library• Coff man St. Apartments• Angevine Middle School• Lafayette Public Library• Community Montessori• Safehouse

Innovations and Successes in 2008

“My dad was sick and in the hospital, and there was no interpreter. I was able to explain the problem to the doctor.”

Lorena Sanchez, Intercambio Student

“Now when I have meetings at school, I’m the one helping translate for other

people.” Guillermina Perez, Intercambio Student

“Thanks to Intercambio’s English classes, I am now able to communicate

with American people, make new friends, and participate in events at my children’s

school.” Marisol Lave, Intercambio Student

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COMMUNITY ACTIVITIESIn 2008, Intercambio hosted many diverse intercultural activities to help integrate our community and build social capital.

• Th e 7th Annual La Fiesta attracted a diverse crowd of 1,100 happy attendees!

• We hosted potlucks and picnics for 400 people throughout the year.

• 50 people attended our second fi t-ness event at the North Boulder Rec Center!

• We hosted 2 Volunteer Apprecia-tion events for our 400 volunteer teachers.

• Staff and students helped clean up Scott Carpenter Park during the City of Boulder Park Clean Up.

• Weekly dance classes encourage fi tness and friendship.

WORKSHOPSOur staff and volunteers facilitated workshops that provided much-needed information and assistance to 350 stu-dents and their families regarding:

• Mortgages and Housing• Financial Skills & Budgeting• Knowing Your Rights• Nutrition• Emotional Health• Children’s Oral Health• Cross Cultural Understanding• Energy Conservation

SUCCESSESWe strive to be innovative and are always working to strengthen our long-term sustainability as an organization. Last year, we:

• Strengthened our partnership with a student group at CU Boulder, matching 100 CU students with 120 CU workers to teach English and create a more respectful campus community.

• Started our fi rst successful affi liate in Denver, which offi cially received its own nonprofi t status in Decem-ber 2008.

• Taught computer classes to 80 in-dividuals who set up new email ac-counts and learned how to navigate the internet.

• Developed a 45-page guide in Eng-lish and Spanish titled What Every Immigrant Needs to Know that we are distributing nationally.

• Sold our six-level English curricu-lum to groups serving like popula-tions.

• Completed a 5-minute professional promotional video, thanks to the in-kind work of People Productions.

“As my English skills improve, my life in Boulder becomes

more delightful, and I have more friends.”

Kaye Lee, Intercambio Student

“Learning English has helped me develop good relationships with my neighbors and to feel more confi dent going places in my

community.”Phillippe Bolzed,

Intercambio Student

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STUDENTS

80% feel more comfortable living in their community.

66% gained a better understanding of U.S. culture.

66% can better communicate with co-workers, bosses, and clients who speak English.

62% are better able to talk to their children’s teachers and help with school-work.

55% are better able to talk to doctors, nurses, and dentists without an inter-preter.

36% got a better job, a promotion, or a salary increase.

VOLUNTEERS

82% have gained a better understand-ing of other cultures.

80% have a better understanding of immigrant struggles.

76% have formed intercultural friend-ships.

32% have had their career goals im-pacted by their Intercambio experience.

Our students complete goal questionnaires at the beginning and end of each semester, and our volunteers provide online feedback twice a year about their experience with Intercambio. Th ese results tell us that our mission is being accomplished.

Students and Volunteers

“As our volunteers and students work together toward the goal of learning English, they demonstrate the aspects of real community, things like self-sacrifi ce, dedication

to a vision, compassion, understanding, compromise, and fl exibility. It is these pieces that make the whole of the Intercambio experience for me one to cherish and, more

importantly, one to impart on others.”Eliberto Mendoza, Intercambio Program Director, Longmont

“I have been tutoring my student, Veronica, for nearly a year now. What started off as bi-weekly

English assignments became a friendship of conversation including politics, history, the state of health care in the U.S., cultural diversity, etc. What I have learned from my Intercambio experience is that it is essential to reach outside of

our usual circumstances to gain a greater understanding of each other. Intercambio does that in a way that not only provides English

to new immigrants, but also creates an environment which fosters

friendship, cultural understanding, and enriches lives.”

Christine Berg, Intercambio Volunteer

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ASSETSCURRENT ASSETSCash and Cash EquivalentsGrants and Contributions ReceivableDue from Denver Affi liatePrepaid Expenses

Total Current Assets

PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENTTotal Property & Equipment

NON-CURRENT ASSETSSecurity DepositEndowment

Total Non-Current Assets

TOTAL ASSETS

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETSCURRENT LIABILITIESAccrued Payroll and liabilitiesAccrued Compensated Absences

Total Current Liabilities

NET ASSETSUnrestrictedTemporarily Restricted

Total Net Assets

TOTAL LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS

$291,83763,0504,6053,073

362,565

591,548

1,10047,30748,407

$1,002,520

$1808,3488,528

906,22887,764

993,992

$1,002,520

PUBLIC SUPPORT AND REVENUEPublic Support Grants Contributions Special Events In-Kind Contributions Total Public Support

Revenue Registration Fees Book Sales Interest Income Change in Benefi cial Income Rental Income Other Income Total Revenue

TOTAL PUBLIC SUPPORT AND REVENUE

EXPENSES Program Services Management and General Fundraising

TOTAL EXPENSES

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS

NET ASSETS - BEGINNING OF YEARNET ASSETS - END OF YEAR

$286,679212,49734,93568,105

602,216

13,76112,036

9,763-12,693

6,7122,53332,112

$634,328

$511,39829,4626

29,195

$570,056

$64,272

$929,720$993,992

A copy of the complete audited fi nancial statements with an audi-tors’ report by Middlemist Crouch & Company, CPA’s PC, our independent auditor, may be obtained upon request.

Statement of Activities and Change in Net AssetsFor the Year Ended December 31, 2008

Statement of Financial PositionDecember 31, 2008

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Aaron & Betsy ShainisAlan CogenAlex & Jenna Saldaña Alison & Trevor RhodesAndrea RayAndy & Audrey Fishman FranklinAndy & Genny HorningAngela RobertsonAnn & Gary WederspahnBarbara HanstBetina & Scott KoskiBobby Pelz & Erna MajBrad Armstrong & Julie DolinBrad Feld & Amy BatchelorBrenda & Bobby AveryCassidy & John LeeburgCherie & Steve WilsonChristy & Doug Speirn-SmithCindy Carlisle & Baine Kerr

Claudia & Kevin GilbertClaudio MalloCraig LachmanDale AychmanDan & Robin CatlinDan & Tara PowersDavid Carrick & Pam ChandlerDavid Carter & Geneva AustinDebbie Lane & Steve SzaboDeborah & Clay ElliottDeborah Malden & Michael DonovanDeborah Senkier & Joel GreenbergDeborah WakemanDenny & Libby Berry Diane FasselDonna McCraithDouglas & Laura HoustonEleanor CrowEllen & Adam TschidaElsa AngristEmily Andrews & Brian RossFrank & Jean DubofskyGene MaineGil & Sherry SaenzHaven HowellHenrietta RothmanHetal Mehta & Niraj NaikJames HootenJames & Ann ScarboroJane ArmstrongJane ButcherJayne & Robert Kenyon

Jeff & Stephanie HoltzmanJennifer KurtzJim & Audrey RothschildJim & Judy WarnerJim & Laura FerencJoan Brett & Robert GoltenJoan HayJoel & Angela GlazerJohn Horning & Terry FlanaganJohnathan & Annie KilgourJonathan & Hayden WilliamsonJonathan Roderick & Margarita Pantoja-GomezJosh RothschildJudith LembergerJudy & Neil FinnKaren & Marc BernardiKarla Rikansrud & Diane WildKate Th omsonKaye HoweKen & Jane SalomonKenneth & Britta SingerLara ShainisLaura HundleyLee ShainisLinda KellyLinda Smith & Larry DresslerLiz Armstrong & Michelle Alford Louise RobertsMargery GoldmanMarian Dines & Joanne ChristensenMark Handschy & Terri Vernon

Mark WildingMarvin Yudkovitz & Fancine LanarMary & Michael YoungMary Kraus & David UhlirMelissa MichaelsMelody OlsonMidge Korczak & Hal OsteenMiya MurataMr. & Mrs. Philip NicholsonNoel Marie EdsonNoelle NicholsonPat & Chuck ReavisPat Nielsen Patti GuilfordPaul Heff ronPaula & Christopher BlumPhoebe NortonRandall DavisRay, Marsha, Paul & Gina AgostinelliRich & Robin GribbonRichard RothRichard Wilshusen & Virginia PoolRick & Rebecca WhiteRobert BunnenRobert HammondRobert Morehouse & Noel MayeRobert & Kathleen NorrisRobert H. MillerRodrigo & Mercedes OrdoñezRussell & Mary MusilekSally Powell-Ashby

Intercambio gives our heartfelt thanks to all the individuals, businesses, and foundations that contribute monetary and in-kind-donations to the operation and success of our organization. We could not do it without you. Th ank you.

Our Generous 2008 Donors

INDIVIDUALS

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Sandra YounghansSangeeta NaikShirley RobertsStuart & Lauren KingsberyStuart & Marty BindemanStuart SchareSue AndersonSue SandsonSusan & Paul RiedererSusan & Steve FreimanSusan BeckerTerry GoldTh omas & Laurel DestitoTJ Heyman & Jane McConnellTK Smith & Connie HoldenTom & Claire JoyceTom Plant & Dawn DennisonVicky HoldridgeVirginia Molloy LucyWayne & Janet FarlowWendy DuBowWendy Dinner

FOUNDATIONSAnschutz Family FoundationApril FundAV Hunter Trust, IncBoulder Valley RotaryBrett Family FoundationCollins FoundationComcast FoundationCommunity Foundation Serving Boulder CountyDollar General Literacy FoundationEliot Street FundEntreprenuer Foundation of ColoradoFoothills United WayGay & Lesbian Fund for ColoradoGreenfi eld FoundationIME Fellowship ProgramTh e Israel and Mollie Myers FoundationIsrael Family FoundationJared Polis FoundationJay and Rose Phillips Family FoundationJohn G. Duncan Charitable TrustJohn S. and James L. Knight FoundationKirk FoundationLongmont Community Foundation

Louis & Harold Price FoundationLove and Prosperity Gift FundLP Brown FoundationMedtronic FoundationMillennium TrustPublic Interest Projects, IncRed Empress FoundationSadie Gift FundSocial Venture Partners - Boulder CountySteff ens FoundationSunshine FundTh e Denver Foundation

BUSINESSES515 Kimbark, LLCAllstate Insurance CompanyBernardi GroupBoulder Area Realtor AssociationDaily CameraFresh Produce SportswearGood TimesHolland & HartIBMIgnite Boulder CountyMountain Sun Pub & BreweryPasta Jay’sPeople ProductionsRE/MAX of Boulder IncRoche ColoradoSignature Off set

Sterling Rice GroupWells Fargo

GOVERNMENTBoulder CountyBoulder Valley School DistrictCity of BoulderCity of Longmont

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“I feel more capable to do things for me and for others.” David Hernández, Intercambio Student

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Andy Horning, Chair, Head Basketball Coach, Centaurus High School

Kate Diaz Th omson, Vice ChairResearch Manager, Sterling Rice Group

Niraj Naik, SecretaryDirector of Research, J.D. Powers and Associates

Claudia Gilbert, TreasurerElectrical/Computer Engineer

Rodrigo OrdoñezConsultant, K2 Audio, LLC

Dan PowersCommunity Aff airs Manager, Boulder Chamber of Commerce

Gil SaenzRetired, IBM Corp

Pat Nielson Founder of Nielsen & Company, CPA’s & Consultants

Audrey Fishman-Franklin Community Volunteer

Angela RobertsonCustomer Service Manager, Xilinx

Scott AndrewsCEO, Picosecond Pulselabs

Brad ArmstrongDirector, Bamboo Fund

Karen BernardiBroker/Owner, Th e Bernardi Group

Alberto GarciaGarcia Law, L.L.C., Solo Practitioner

*See our website for our 2009 Staff and Board of Directors.

Lesly Fajardo Feaux/Maria Velasco, Program Coordinator, Boulder/Lafayette

Vicky Holdridge/Rachel Fuchs, Academic Coordinator

Norma Fuentes, Longmont Program Assistant

Kathy Damas, Office Manager

Jenna Saldaña, Development Director

Maria Elena Evans, Program Assistant Boulder/Lafayette

Shawn Camden, Director of Program Expansion and Co-Founder

Lee Shainis, Executive Director and Co-Founder

Eliberto Mendoza, Program Director, Longmont

2008 Board of Directors*

2008 Intercambio Staff*

“What surprises me most about Intercambio is not how much our students learn from our teachers, but how much

our teachers learn from our students. It’s exciting to hear our volunteers share what they have learned about a culture or community they may have otherwise never

experienced.”Niraj Naik, Board Member

Language education and cultural exchange are needed in many communities, and Intercambio offers a transformational approach to meet these needs on a small budget. In Boulder County we serve 975 immigrants per year with a budget of $503,000 by leveraging 45,000 hours of volunteer time.

With cultural rifts further dividing our country and financial resources diminishing, we need to spread efficient programs like Intercambio. For more information about how to help us expand our model into other communities, contact us or visit our website: www.intercambioweb.org. With more people involved, we can build more respectful communities. Thank you!

Our Exciting Future

“English helped me to ask for a raise at work.”

Moisés Castro, Intercambio Student

“English has helped me to speak out when something isn’t right. I do not stay quiet like I used to. I

ask for my rights.” Marisela Grijalva,

Intercambio Student

“My self-esteem has gotten better; I feel more secure about myself.”

Nancy Rivas, Intercambio Student

“When my baby was born, I did not need an interpreter.”

Adriana Estrada, Intercambio Student

“I learned how to open an e-mail account, and now I send e-mails to [my teacher]

practicing my English.”Jesus Leyva,

Intercambio Student

Intercambio de Comunidades4735 Walnut St, Suite BBoulder, Colorado 80301P: (303) 996-0275F: (303) 444-2632www.intercambioweb.orginfo@intercambioweb.org