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Cash Gifts Your cash, check or credit card gift to Books For Africa can be designated for a specific program or directed to where the need is greatest. All gifts are tax deductible, as specified by law. For your convenience, gifts by credit card can be made directly online at www.booksforafrica.org.
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Statement of Activity 2017 2018SUPPORT AND REVENUES
Contributions 2,278,253 2,489,944
Interest Earned 53,358 21,025
Books Contributed 33,434,957 22,976,725
TOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUES 35,766,568 25,487,694
EXPENDITURES
Program Operating Expenses - Overseas 36,090,296 25,589,888
General and Administrative Expenses 103,038 102,412
Fundraising Expenses 223,412 220,913
TOTAL EXPENDITURES 36,416,746 25,913,213
Change in Net Monetary Assets $123,988 $(37,351)
Change in Book Inventory $(431,779) $(395,305)
Books For Africa Financial Information
July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018 2018 CONTRIBUTORS
SUMMIT SOCIETY
$45,000-$50,000AnonymousAndy Patel
$20,000-$30,000AnonymousRichard & Vivikka
DeLoachThomas Warth & Zantha
LaFon Warth
$10,000-$19,000AnonymousFrank BabkaThomas & Katherine
HarigDick SimpsonJim & Amy Wolford
$5,000-$9,999AnonymousVincent BartonEric & Elaine BucherEthel GillGordon GustafsonJack KabakNorm & Pat LinnellRebecca MarrDan & Linda MelinRichard MurphySundip NaikLuanne NybergLarry PattersonLeda RappSarah RatnerJohn Rupp & Stephanie
Laitala-RuppVal & Julie StokesSharon Thayer
KILIMANJARO SOCIETY
$1,000-$4,999Shawn AbdoolAtare & Omoyefe
AgbamuShantanu AgrawalAdeeyola & Oluade Ajayi
Oladipo & Mariam AjayiFrank AlloccaKojo & Erin Amoo-
GottfriedGayle AmosDonald AndersonAnonymous (8)Earl AppelNikhil AroraBarbara AstunoLane Ayres & Marion
McNurlenScott & Kathleen BalcomBradley & Lam BaumanEdward & Barbara
BeckerBarbara BenciniRobert & Pearl BergadSharon BigotBrenda BlairDouglas BlankeWalter BochenekJudith & David BrodyStanford BrownLouis BrownstoneLinda & Tim BurkettGavin & Sara BurnsKyrene ButtersEdouard CantinJean & Jon CarlsonJudy & Ronald CarterMary Ann ChristensonBill & Sharon ClappDaniel & Debra
ColombiniCarolyn & Harold
CommonsJill Cordes & Philip
JohnstonBrian CroegaertIngrid & Chris CulpJudge Michael Davis &
Sara WahlLamin DibbaDan DiFilippoKerry Dobson & Bruce
ReneaudLillian DurandRosalie DurkotaCharles & Diane EilersSusan EisnerMillion ElalaMark EllisJohn & Shelly ElstadMike & Stella Essien
Anthony FiorilloJohn FisherDavid Fletcher & Colleen
EnglishKevin Flynn & Patrice
KopistanskyTammie FollettThomas FooAlethia FuttrellVince GaborBruce GellerPhil & Carol GersmehlNancy GillisSandra GnegyChristian & Juana
GoergenEmily GoodsonJames GoshowMichael Henley & Randi Yoder
Sandra HirschbergDustin HollandBarbara HolmMartyn HowieYu-Chia HuangAdam HulbigJohn IngramLuka JacobowitzPrashant JeyaganeshRagui KamelWilliam & Marla KennedyHenry KerandiAida & Sanaa KhalafallaTom KivlahanLouise KlasJohn LeggRobyn LieseMarvin & Marcia
LindsethJanette MaherPatrick & Judy MandileCatherine & Rudi
MartignaccoKimberly MartinezBob & Shanna MarxArthur MatasBrad MattsonCatherine MayerJohn McCabePolly & Bob McCreaDavid McLaughlinKatarina MesarovichErin MeyerEllen Miller
Perry Mitchell & Pam Woodley
Michael MooreDennis MooreCarolyn Munson-BensonChristi MurrayPaul & Shartsi
MusherureAndrew & Rebecca
O’BrienGeorge & Martha OetzelJesse Okie & Mary
HarringtonByron & Alis OlsenKathryn OrmsbeeTitus OyeyemiPam Pappas StanochCarole PatrikakosTom & Betsy PfeiferSteven Pfeiffer & Kristin
ReaganSharon PittmanPatrick Plonski & Judy
HawkinsonHilton Pryce LewisThue & Uttara
RasmussenAngela RayChris RicheyMarie RobertsJosh RobinsonCatherine RyanPaul SackDaniel & Susan
SandagerDavid SandelsLaura & David SangreeJulia SchottDennis & Barbara
SennesethPhyllis SharpRobert & Melanie SharpeByron SimmonsWilliam SimpsonRachel SlySidonie SmithEvans SmithLeslie SwygertJote Taddese & Lali
GalanLegesse TebejgeKelly ThompsonKathleen TilfordNancy TraversyStan Trollip
Jay & Mary Van HookThomas Van SoelenDiane Virginia SmithSou WaiKitDavid & Marianne WardLawrence & Barbara
WhitePamela WilliamsChristian WolfDave & Becky WoodKaren WoodPenny & Alan WortmanLily YenOliver YostGretchen YoungDavide ZaccagniniAndy Zhu
MEMBERS
$500-$999Amber AhmadKwame AkotoKathie AlbertAnthony Albregts &
Kimberly KolarLindsay & Bradley AlgerRon AminzadeSarah & Richard AmosAnonymous (3)Casey AshKatia BartelsAndrea & Isaac BempongSusan BetzerMimi & Dick BitzanMolly BjorkmanStephen & Karen BoliverRobin & Gregg
BrooksbankDon BrownAndrew BrownLouis BuonomoBruce BuschoAlicia & Patrick ByrnesEva CannatelliLinda Cantrell RoyMarshia CarlinoKathryn CarrierMiriam ChaikenRobert ChavkoBandana ChawlaSylvia & Soong ChiangMary ClarkPatricia Clark
Jeanne CookStephen CravenColleen Davenport-Adiyia & Fred Adiyia
Richard DeuelJohn DiamondKeyur Dilip GovandeJennifer DonaldsonPenny EdgellPeter EggenbergerBryan EinwalterHeidi EliasonPeggy ElliotPaul EnghLeeAnn EttingerMatthew EubanksDavid FernstrumRobert FingersonViswanathan & Vasanthi
GajendranJaclyn GersteinRyan GiannettiStephen GladstoneRichard GluckMargaret GoodmanGlenda GordonWallace GorellJoseph GrecoKatey GreeneGary & Karen GuetzkoHermann & Joan
HabermannKathi HallBeth HansenKim & James HarmsKaren HarrisJames HartMary Louise HartmanDeanna HautzMichael & Kathy HaveyDon & Joan HawkinsonPaul HealyCindy HealyPatrice HenningJohn HofferRichard & Margaret
HoffmanChase HoffmanCheryl HubbardGeoffrey HutsonJennifer IceAdaora IfebighStuart IlerOrlando JaBeverly Jackson
Daniel JonesMichael JosephAbebe KebedeAndrea KerrIrvin KesslerGail KingBarbara & Paul KingCurt KinskyScott KirkwoodStuart & Mary Ellen
KnappmillerDiane KnightRajnish Kohli & Ishwari
StoreKikue KonoJune Kronholz & Edward
LanpherPaul KruegerRobert & Kathleen KulusAlfred LansanaLincoln LawRussell & Timothy
LeightonWilliam & Angela LevittRebecca LewisHerb & Corrine LundbergJanet & Eric LuttrellJeanne Maloney &
Andrew DowdyShawna MartellStephen MayerJohn McKennaC. MendoncaKent MerkeyTom & Rose Mary MeyerKrishna MorarJoe MoschillaJoseph MrkonichBradford NealSherry NealLinda NyquistMichael & Margaret
O’BrienJoan O’DonnellSarah OlsonDavid OrensteinJoAnn OttmanMichael OwuHarold & Melanie OysterAtul PanditLena PatelSarah Lynn PayneBrian PellerinBruce & Beverly PerryAdam Petryk
Jeanne PlonskiBevin RatnerTracie RaynhamWilliam Reid & Kathy
SchnareWendy Reiner & Stevan
GelinskeKenneth ReynoldsPatricia RileySteven RolstonGareth RosenauCarol & Greg RueppelArkaitz Ruiz AlvarezRobert & Matilda RuppTammy SantarsieroFadil Santosa & Jan
KleinmanLana SassiCynthia SaundersLorna SchlichtmannRoberta & Jeff SchreiberFrank SeidmanKaryn & Stephen
SenatoreLarry SharpeRaj SinghDiane SmithDavid & Cheryl SmithSunny SneddonCarol & Scott SokolRoland StaibRaphael SteinhagenJeffrey SturchioCharles & Mary SukupFrederick SutherlandEileen Vogel SytsmaRon & Margaret TabarWIlliam ThomasStephen TillisonJames TownsonGayle TurnerMarc & Heidi UnterhalterChristopher VanJohnsonNiti VillingerErik WaldmanTimothy WattsGary & Maryann
WeinsteinCheryl WhinnaHelen WimberlySusan & Terry
WolkerstorferKing Lok Yau
$250-$499Anthony AbbatelloJoylyn AbramsFausa AliuGene AllisonSarah & Robert AlsdorfLisa AndersonPamela AndradaJeanne AndreAnonymous (4)Miriam Arendt
Isabelle BadouxBonnie Baer & Jim
McCarnSusan BegelmanMichael BerardPaul BerryDonna Wells BlakeDiane BlocherJudith BookerNoel BradyJeremy BrinkleyBrad BrownElyse BrowsTerrence BurksRobert CampbellWilliam CanbyJulie CarlsonRonald CarpenterKay CeseraniJoseph ChristensonCassandra Christopher
John & Kathleen Christopherson
Timothy CiganekBrian ClarkMisa CoweeAntoni DabekCarol DarkJames DavisDennis DeaseSusan DobeshJanet Donaghy
Rena & John DragsethShawn & Dean DubachSherri DueRachel EcksteinTrigg EdwardsRebecca EdwardsSarah EilersDorothy EmigJean & Robert EvansRich & Rebecca FaatzMichael FairchildNorma Jean FalinkKeith FarralDianne FavreAlice FeretCharles FernandezMark FoleyRobert & Nancy FollettSolange FontanaChiara GaburriMarcus GanserCharlie Gill
Jonathan GoldmanSharry & Bruce GoldmanJoseph GonzalezErika GreenfieldPamelynn GreenwoodGarth GreimannTrevor GunnMercedes GutierrezAnne GuynnLowell & Norma HammerJill & Francois Hamze
Yaju HanAntoine & Karen HannaBenjamin HarrisDarin HawleyMary HeardRichard HesterJim HinmanCarol HussJeffrey IrwinGlenn JacobsKeith JamiesonSteven JeffBadri & Floyd JohnsonAnthony Johnson &
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Mary Kemen & Brian Randall
William KeyserCarolyn KingUriel KitronAmy Klobuchar & John
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Literacy: A Bridge to HopeB O O K S F O R A F R I C A 2 0 1 8 A N N U A L R E P O R T
Dear Friends,
2018 has been a historic year here at Books For Africa as we celebrated our 30th anniversary! Your generous support in 2018 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 2018:
• We shipped books by the millions (yet again): BFA continues as the world ’s largest shipper of donated books to the African continent, shipping over 43 million books and serving every single African country in our 30-year history. This has garnered us a perfect 100 out of 100 score from Charity Navigator, and a seventh consecutive top 4-star rating, putting Books For Africa in the top 5% of all U.S. charities for fiscal responsibility and transparency. In 2018 alone we shipped 2.3 million books, and 123 computers and e-readers containing 283,000 digital books, carrying a total value of $22 million. 29 countries were served this year. Thanks to supporters like you, more than $2.4 million in cash donations were raised in 2018 to ship these materials.
• We shared the wealth: In pursuit of our goal to serve every county in Africa, we are proud to have shipped containers this year to Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic, and Sao Tome & Principe. None of these countries had previously received a BFA shipment, and we are thrilled to share the wealth as we continue our work to end the book famine across the African continent. The end result is that we have now shipped books to every country in Africa! We celebrated at our Atlanta warehouse, seeing off a container of books to the Central African Republic (funded by Better World Books) with diplomatic representation from the Embassy of Central African Republic on hand!
• We traveled in the right circles: We interacted with numerous members of the African diplomatic corps in 2018 to coordinate our activities and secure advice on how best to meet needs in Africa. His Excellency Carlos Dos Santos, Ambassador from Mozambique to the U.S., hosted BFA’s annual Summit Society reception at Mozambique’s Embassy in Washington, D.C., with numerous African Ambassadors in attendance. In Minnesota, His Excellency Edward Sawerengera, Malawi ’s Ambassador to the U.S., delivered a keynote speech at our annual luncheon and helped us to honor the winners of the 2018 Minnesota Book Awards at a special book reading. Additionally, we honored Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kenyan author and giant of African literature, at this year’s Twin Cities Book Festival and also at the Minnesota African Awards. Our 30th Anniversary Gala was a huge success, keynoted by African Union Ambassador to the U.S., Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao and raising funds to ship hundreds of thousands of additional books. Finally, we were honored to host former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan for a special reception sponsored by our Law and Democracy Initiative. This was one of the Secretary-General ’s last public appearances before he passed away this year. Mr. Annan will be missed and well remembered by the BFA family.
• We connected with key partners: 2018 also saw Books For Africa participate in a large-scale USAID-funded project in Uganda, and finalize a new project in Mozambique which will result in our first ever custom-printed book initiative with the delivery of 300,000 children’s books to Mozambique. We also partnered with the Parliament of Egypt to deliver a law and human rights library to their offices. And most importantly, we established a new collaboration with the African Union which resulted in the shipment of a container of books to the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Books For Africa will participate in a special book distribution ceremony at the African Union in February of 2019 to celebrate this book shipment.
• We listened to our African partners: We also conducted on-site visits across Africa in 2018 to secure direct feedback in listening sessions with book recipients. We, along with board members, staff and volunteers, met this year with book recipients in South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, and the Seychelles. We also signed a partnership agreement to develop a librarian training program in Ethiopia to help ensure library patrons are being well-served and a culture of reading is being fostered. Finally, Books For Africa participated in interactive sessions this year at the World Literacy Summit at Oxford University, England. All of these activities were designed to help ensure that the books we send to Africa are useful, high quality, and meeting their intended purposes.
• We gave the people what they wanted: For the third year, we surveyed our book recipients to assess impacts of our activities. As with previous surveys, we are pleased to know that recipients overwhelming rate BFA books as high quality, and agree that the books will be very useful in promoting literacy in local communities. 43 recipient organizations from 25 African countries completed our post shipment
survey this year. Additional positive feedback was received from a book impact assessment of 514 schools in five countries conducted by partner organization BetterWorld Trust, and a focused five-year assessment conducted by the Nedjo Library Project in Oromia, Ethiopia, which showed dramatic increases in library use since the library’s restocking by BFA.
In 2018 we engaged our partners on all levels in order to deliver millions of books. This year marks our 30th Anniversary of working towards our vision of getting children reading in every African country. This was the dream of Kofi Annan, who stated, “Literacy is quite simply the bridge from misery to hope.” We are honored to have the opportunity to help bridge this gap, and we appreciate your help in making this happen. With best wishes for a happy and productive 2019,
Jote Taddese Patrick J. Plonski, PhDPresident Executive Director
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$200 provides an encyclopedia set for a school or community library
$1,000 provides enough books for an entire school
$10,300 supplies a full 40-foot sea container of 22,000 books – enough for 10 schools
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SUMMIT SOCIETY
$100,000-$200,000Merck & Co., Inc.
$65,000-$90,000Better World BooksOut of PrintRTI International
$55,000-$64,000The Estate of Genevieve &
Richard ConroyThe Estate of Lucy Gery
$30,000-$50,000AnonymousChristian Relief ServicesGhana Book TrustRotary Club of WoodburyThe Wasily Family FoundationThomson ReutersUSAID Ocean Freight
Reimbursement
$20,000-$29,000Aid for Africa*Canada Inc.Carlisle Investment &
Consultancy ServicesDodge & CoxFollett School SolutionsRoom to ReadThe Medtronic Foundation
$10,000-$19,999Better World TrustBurundi Friends InternationalChief C.I. Ezeh’s Ugwumba
Foundation, Nigeria
Course Hero, Inc.Education Development CenterEmbassy of the United Republic
of TanzaniaMonroe Energy LLCPageHabitPeachtree Presbyterian ChurchPerimeter ChurchRotary Club of Fort Collins
BreakfastRuaha Catholic University, Tanzania
Salem University, NigeriaTeofilo Kisanji University,
TanzaniaThe O’Shea Family FoundationWorld Vision
$5,000-$9,999Agralife Foundation, GhanaAllbeon MediaAmoud FoundationBorton OverseasCarl E. Kessler Family
FoundationDigital Access MediaDr. LaChapelle Family Fund
of the American Endowment Foundation
Ebundant LLCEducation Development Center
Inc.Goddard Family Foundation Intrepid Movement LLCMargaret Rivers FundMartha Charity FoundationNational Center for State CourtsRobins Kaplan Charitable
FoundationThe Conru FoundationVignan Educational Foundation
KILIMANJARO SOCIETY
$1,000-$4,999AdobeAfrica Classroom ConnectionAkokwa American Development
Association IncAnonymous (2)AnsultechBarefoot BooksBlue Cross Blue Shield of MNBremer BankCaraustarCentral Highlands FoundationCoughlan CompaniesDunn Boys Charitable FundEducate TanzaniaFife Family FoundationForty-One FoundationFreddie Mac FoundationFredrikson & Byron FoundationFredrikson & Byron, P.A.Good Steward Global InitiativeGoogle Matching Gifts ProgramGraywolf PressJames Boyce and Kristin Otis
Charitable TrustKelen Family FoundationKIM University, RwandaLand O’ LakesLerner FoundationLumwana International School, Zambia
Microsoft Matching Gifts Program
Minnesota Kenyan International Development Association
MshaleRafiki Foundation, Inc.Robert S. Starr FoundationRosemary Lehman via Schwab
Charitable FundRotary International District 5960
Savana SignaturesSlaggie Family FoundationSpirit of America Inc.Tealwood Asset Management,
Inc.The B & W Family FoundationThe Culp Family FoundationThe Ghana Association of
MinnesotaThe Hillswood FoundationThe MathWorks, IncThe Raynie FoundationThe Rust Family FoundationThe Sexton Family FoundationThe T. Rowe Price Program for
Charitable GivingThe U.S. Charitable Gift TrustThe Voglewede Walker Family
Charitable FoundationTimeless Grace LLCTulip and Petunia PublishingUniversity of St. Thomas U.S. TrustVarian Medical SystemsVector Global LogisticsVuitall Media LTDWarm Summer Nights LLC
MEMBERS
$500-$999Active Network, LLCEpiscopal Church of the Ascension
Greif Family Fund Hadley Family Charitable FundInternational Monetary FundLinkedinMaynard/Dirksen Giving Account
via FidelityPortland LibrarySamuel & Tillie D. Cheiffetz
FoundationSelect More Media LTDThe Chris and Barbara Exton
Fund of Fidelity CharitableThe Dante Moreira Gilbert Fund
of the Renaissance Charitable Foundation
The Dingwall/Fiore Family Charitable Fund
The Foundation of the Federal Bar Association
The White Bear Lake Rotary Foundation
Trendah FundWinston-Salem Foundation
MAJOR IN-KIND CONTRIBUTORS
Amphora WinesBetter World BooksDelta AirlinesFollett School SolutionsHands on AtlantaHey Man ProductionsLerner Publishing GroupLommen Abdo, P.A.McGraw HillMerck & Co.MshaleNational GeographicRand McNallyDavid StokesThe University Club of St. Paul/
John RuppThomson ReutersUnited Airlines
W.W. NortonWalker BookstoreWorld Vision
LEGACY SOCIETY**
Lane Ayres & Marion McNurlenFrank BabkaWin BarnardEstate of Susan BartonHenry A. BromelkampEstate of Genevieve & Richard
ConroyRichard DeuelEstate of Lucy GeryMichael Henley & Randi YoderNancy Johnson & Michael AddyWilliam Klaila & Barbara
LeibundguthRobert KraskeDr. Clark & Vonnie LaChapelleMarybeth NelsonCarole Patrikakos Patrick Plonski & Judy
HawkinsonKathleen TilfordThomas Warth & Zantha LaFon
Warth
*Denotes donations from large numbers of donors
**Legacy Society members have included Books For Africa in their estate planning
This list includes Kilimanjaro and Summit Society level donors to our 30th Anniversary Gala.
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.
