2016 has been an another exciting year!

Wings signed a contract with the New

Mexico Corrections Dept. to host up to 15

Prison Family Days in all 11 of our NM

prisons. In addition to the actual Family

Days, I did specific training for the inmates

attending each event about ways to cut

at-risk behaviors. Then during the discussion

time of each Family Day I shared with the family members

about Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets©, and it

always pleased me to see how interested the families were

to discover a language that could help them strengthen their

families and the relationship with their incarcerated loved

one. A short survey was given to everyone during meal time

about the assets and everyone’s comments can be found at:

http://wingsforlifeinternational.org/gallery/2016/2016.html

It’s wonderful to be able to give people concrete ways to make po s i t i ve change and see the hope and joy in their faces.

Wings hosted 2 prison Family Days in Colora-do, 4 prison Family Days in Ohio, and 3 community parties in

Albuquerque.

Wings ministered to and fed 3638 in prison and 1379 in

NM community parties.

2765 attended 43 Wings For L.I.F.E. (WFL) meetings in Albuquerque (Life-skills Imparted to Families through Education). After-dinner tutoring and Pre-K programming was offered to 652 children and youth. A healthy, nutritious meal was served to 2765 people.

8,457 people participated in Wings events in 2016.

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2016 Annual Report Wings For LIFE International

2270 D Wyoming Blvd NE #130

Albuquerque, NM 87112

505-291-6412

VISION: Transforming lives to reduce the world-wide generational cycle of incarceration since 1995.

Founded 1995

Wings Celebrates 21 Years! I could never do this by myself. In 2016 we had at

least 1741 volunteers who helped in the prisons and at

WFL in Albuquerque, and that doesn’t include the

hundreds of cookie bakers and other volunteers who

help us in the office, with fundraisers, and other events

throughout the year.

Of course we have a wonderful staff and Board of

Directors too, and without their help and support this all

would not be possible.

Wings was also recognized this year by NBC’s

Channel 4 Pay It 4ward.

Wings also won the Community Champions Award from

Molina Healthcare. What an honor both awards were!

It brings me the great joy and sense of fulfilling my call

to wake up each day and be able to minister to and

work with all our staff, volunteers, donors, inmates,

family members, and prison officials, and would like to

thank everyone for all they did to make 2016 such a

fantastic year!

Ann Edenfield Sweet, Founder/Executive Director

Wings For LIFE International (Wings) is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization. The two main programs are Wings prison and

community Family Days and Wings For L.I.F.E. (WFL) educational program. Combined gross income in 2016 was

$174,822.29. Wings primary fundraiser is the Celebration of Champions gala which accounted for $48,530.03 of their

income. Wings finished the year with $77,622.14 in cash, $9,742.41 in current assets which includes book inventory and

prepaid assets, and $17,395.50 in fixed assets and publishing rights. Wings’ only liabilities were $1,368.72 in expenses that

was paid in early January, 2017. The equity balance is $104,760.05.

Roger Riley, Contract Accountant Roger Riley, Contract Accountant

Wings For LIFE International Statement of Financial Income and Expense

January through December 2016 Ordinary Income/Expense

Income

Product sales income 441.60

Wings Publishing Income 610.00

Fundraising Income 67,067.56

Grant Income 57,706.63

Donations 48,996.50

Total Income 174,822.29

Gross Profit 174,822.29

Expense

Fundraising expenses 18,592.76

Wings Publishing expenses 37.80

Wings Party Expenses 31,955.09

Wings For L.I.F.E. expenses 110,969.69

Total Expense 161,555.34

Net Ordinary Income 13,266.95

Other Income/Expense

Other Income

Interest / Dividend income 69.50

Total Oth-er Income Total Other Income 69.50

Other Expense

In-kind Revenue 35,361.00

In-kind Expense -35,361.00

Total Oth-er Ex-pense Total Other Expense 0.00

Net Other Income Net Other Income 69.50

Net Income 13,336.45

Wings For LIFE International

Statement of Financial Position

As of Dec 31, 2016

ASSETS

Current Assets

Checking/Savings 77,622.14

Other Current Assets 9,742.41

Total Current Assets 87,364.55

Fixed Assets 12,922.91

Other Assets 4,472.59

TOTAL ASSETS 104,760.05

LIABILITIES & EQUITY

Liabilities 1,368.72

Equity

Unrestricted Net Assets 90,054.88

Net Income 13,336.45

Total Equity 103,391.33

TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY 104,760.05

Wings For LIFE International 2016 TOP-RATED NONPROFIT!

2nd Year in a Row!

GreatNonprofits.org Award is based on

Positive Online Reviews

We appreciate all of your comments & write more at http://

greatnonprofits.org/org/wings-ministry

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0.00% 10.00% 20.00% 30.00% 40.00% 50.00% 60.00% 70.00%

WFL Ethnicities for 2015

Series6 Series5 Series4 Series3 Series2 Series1

Repeat attendance at WFL proves program satisfaction.

2016 Statistics Inmates &

Staff

Adults

Guests

Teens &

Children Volunteers Total

Total In-kind

Donations

WFL Totals 0 1334 541 1111 2986 $112,894.16

Prison Family Days 1187 1504 1415 422 4528 $255,000.56

Community Parties 0 260 256 208 724 $60,947.04

Misc. Volunteer

Projects 0 0 0 219 219 $275,017.68

2016 TOTALS 1187 3098 2212 1960 8457 $703,859.44

National Award of Excellence for

Crime Prevention!

American Probation & Parole Association

WFL: Great Dinners—Speakers—Programs Great FUN with new friends

WFL 2016 Times

Attended

1 time 613 61.79%

2 - 5 times 219 22.08%

6 - 10 times 90 9.07%

11-15 times 26 2.62%

16 - 20 times 9 0.91%

21 - 25 times 13 1.31%

26 - 30 times 2 0.20%

31 - 35 times 9 0.91%

35 - 39 times 6 0.60%

40 or more times 5 0.50%

2016 Unique

Attendees 992 100%

43 WFL Meetings

• Dr. Seuss—Read across America • Back-To-School Fashion Show • Make a Difference Day ABQ • Mother’s Day Potluck • Keep Albuquerque Beautiful • Christmas Go Shopping • Manners, life skills, jobs, money, parenting, issues unique to prison

• Pre-K programs

• Tutoring

• Ukulele classes

70 people

average per meeting

Hispanic 56%

Native American 10%

African American 7%

Caucasian 24%

Asian 2%

Other 1%

2016 Wings Staff

Lt to rt: Dominic LeDeouz, Brigid Smith, Yolanda Mattison, Pam

Smyth, Michelle Cruz, Ann Edenfield Sweet

WFL Ethnicities for 2016

Genders Served 2016

Female

63%

Male

37%

Ages

Age 0-4 (early childhood) 22 2.22%

Age 5-10 (elementary school) 138 13.91%

Age 11-13 (middle school) 183 18.45%

Age 14-17 (high school) 42 4.23%

Age 18-24 269 27.12%

Age 25-64 305 30.75%

Age 65-84 32 3.23%

85+ Years 1 0.10%

THANKS to some

of our SPONSORS

Boeing Company

Bobby J’s Yamaha

Brycon Construction

Central United

Methodist Church

Car & Truck Gallery

Chic-Fil-A

Contact Wireless

Don Chalmers Ford

First National

Rio Grande Bank

Four Humours

Healthcare

French Mortuary

Gary Marques

Heritage Hotels & Resorts

High Noon

Restaurant & Saloon

KFLQ 91.5 FM

KNKT 107.1 FM

Molina Healthcare

NAI Maestas & Ward

Nicolas C. Nellos Memorial Fund for

at-risk Children of the Albuquerque

Community Foundation

NM Children’s

Community Foundation

Old Republic National

Title Insurance Co.

Panera Bread

PayDay, Inc.

PNM

Presbyterian Centennial

Rio Grande, Inc.

Rotary Club Del Norte Foundation

Sandia Labs— Lockheed Martin

Second Presbyterian Church

St. John’s United Methodist Church

Shelton Jewelers

Shidoni Foundry

Smidt, Reist & Keleher

PC

Starline Printing

United Way of CNM

Wells Fargo Bank

Workspace Dynamics

Zanios Family

And MANY More!

2016 Wings Board of Directors

Lt to rt: Carla Eyberg, Gary Pennington, Resa

Johnson, Tom Smidt, Alex Nellos, James Zanios

Seated: Andrea Christman & Don Shapiro Missing: Christy Waite & Sally Abella

I am Don Shapiro, Chairman of the Wings

Board of Directors, as well as a professional

who has worked in the field of community and

human services with a focus on youth and family

development for nearly 50 years in NY and NM.

I am also a professional counselor and program

developer employed by the NM Children, Youth

and Families Department (CYFD) providing

wraparound services for young people transitioning from the

State’s Juvenile Justice system to the community.

Through the tireless and effective work of its Executive Director,

Wing’s committed staff, its diverse group of volunteers, and its

professional Board of Directors, Wings is demonstrating that it

has evolved into a unique and highly effective vehicle for elimina-

tion of the generational cycle of incarceration. Greg Marcantel,

former NM Secretary of Corrections wrote, “Wings, through its

partnership with the Department, has effectively been preparing

inmates to become productive returning citizens when released to our

communities.”

Having become familiar over the past 20 years with the many

agencies comprising New Mexico’s health, behavioral health,

education and human service system, I am impressed with the

special professional, ethical, and organizational attributes of Wings

and I am convinced of its great potential to help make a meaningful

difference in NM and wherever it is. A unique aspect of Wings

programming is its ability to continuously engage community

participants from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and ethnicities. It

is no wonder that Wings has been honored with numerous

awards this year, including once again "Top Rated" by GREAT NON-

PROFITS.

Wings has, in my view, created an empowering vehicle for true

social and cultural change, while demonstrating the power of

unrelenting commitment to the well­being of the families who par-

ticipate in the program. Wings events are noted for the positive

and joyful spirit of activity, and it is remarkable that the weekly events

effectively attract, engage, and enable the growth of so many

diverse cultures; Hispanic, Native American, White, African Amer-

ican, Asian and Middle Eastern. It is also remarkable that in the

four years that I have attended Wings events, I have never expe-

rienced troubling tensions or interpersonal conflicts or any sort

of verbal or physical violence at these events. Wings has discov-

ered a way to build sustainable community in diversity.

From a methodological perspective, Search Institute has identified

40 Developmental Assets © that are necessary for healthy growth in

individuals, families and communities. Wings provides an arena

within all of its program activities for effectively building assets in

the lives of all who participate, which appears to be greatly

reducing or preventing their involvement in at risk behaviors. I

have witnessed this change among some of the youth from the

CYFD Transition program whom I have introduced to Wings.

One of my clients is a 19 year­old Puerto Rican/African American

youth who spent three years in the Juvenile Justice system. As the

child of a father spending 40 years in prison for a gang related

homicide, he and his 16 year­old brother had not seen their dad

for over a decade. Over this time he had made great strides in his

own life. He and his brother, who was beginning to show signs of

delinquency and drug abuse, attended a Wings Prison Family Day at the Santa Rosa prison where their father was incarcerated. The

experience was life changing in their own words. They spent an

entire day in conversation (and hugging!), prayer, games and a

shared dinner. Both brothers shared that they learned how

their father, whom they had previously harbored only negative

thoughts and feelings, was in fact now a man who had changed in

many positive ways. They also shared how their father was able to

express love for them and pride that they were living a better life

than he had. Wings Family Days continues to offer this life changing

experience to hundreds of young people and adults every year.

Wings has mentored hundreds of volunteers who have

had opportunities to contribute according to their talents

and skills, and to develop as compassionate and effective

human beings. Wings staff are consistently engaged in

studying and disseminating information about the trends

and events affecting NM families, children and young peo-

ple, and has continued to shape the Wings programs to

meet the current realities.

Within the families who attend, instead of anger, we see

loving family members; instead of chaos and disorganization,

we are seeing stability and hope. Instead of children walk-

ing in the footsteps of incarcerated parents, we are seeing a

recognition that education, and skillful living is desirable; Instead of substance abuse, depression and suicidal behav-

ior, we are seeing a search for a more meaningful life and

life­style. Instead of isolation, we see kids making positive

and enduring friendships. For example, an early elementary

Native American and a Caucasian girl who attend every

week, met as toddlers at Wings and have developed an

enduring friendship.

We have seen an expansion in the diversity of the Board

with new members coming from the business community,

arts and culture, adult and juvenile corrections, legal field,

education, courts, architecture, workforce training, and a

Miss New Mexico.

The Board has also been dedicated and instrumental in

organizing Wing’s major fundraising events this past year

and has worked closely with development consultants to

create innovative strategies for fund raising. Wings has also

developed an endowment fund that can accept assets such

as real estate, vehicles, jewelry, insurance policies, etc.

In sum, this has been a most productive year for Wings For

LIFE, International, and I am privileged to be of service to

this special organization, and its constituents.

I will end with a quote from one of our Board members,

Paula Burns, Retired Deputy Director, NM Corrections

Department.

“Wings continues to be a sincere passion of

mine. I appreciate what it represents… bringing

hope and love to those in need. I look forward to

another successful year with Wings!”

© 2016 Wings For LIFE Int’l All Rights Reserved

Wings Highlights for 2016

Ukulele Class

Make a Difference Day

Tutoring

Bully

Buddies

Christmas Angels

UNM Lobos visit WFL

Back-To-School Fashion Show

Back-To-School

Family-style meals

Celebration of Champions

Friends for Life

Dr. Seuss comes to WFL

Pay It Forward

21st Banquet

Reading

Volunteer’s of the Year

© 2016 Wings For LIFE Int’l

All Rights Reserved

Many THANKS to all

our volunteers &

donors!

Prison Family Days

Angels with wings!

Jesus is the friend next to you.

Bible story: Prodigal Son

Learning the 40 Assets©

Children join the band Going for the Gold Olympic Relay

Crafts

Reuniting

families

Many volunteers!

Christmas at new women’s facility at Springer