We are very pleased that in 2007 we were able to fund more small grants than ever before. This was made possible because of funds
available from the Smith trust fund reported in last year’s annual report, by the donors to a memorial fund for one of our founding
trustees James Bausch, by our board members, and by other generous donors.
Funding for our Innovative Small Grants was provided to a program in the United States (Los Angeles), Lesotho, Ghana, Uganda, Pakistan,
Kenya, and three in India, following the reviews of over a hundred letters of intent and 63 proposals. We also funded three humanitarian
proposals, that is, those we felt were not innovative, but yet worthy of supporting. Details of these proposals are found in this Annual
Report.
We are very pleased with the many reports we are receiving which confirm the value of our small grant programs. They also are outlined
in this report.
Ms. Esther Lazarson is continuing to provide funds for provision of safe water for mothers and children in Bangladesh, work which is
being carried out by EPRC, an NGO directed by Dr. Bilqis Haque. To date, they have provided safe water for almost 17,000 families.
We have invited two new members to join the Board of Trustees. One is Alex Lilavois, Vice-President of Vyalex Global, Inc, a local
business and Nand Wadhwani, a native of India who founded Rehydration Project, a self-funded non-profit organization. We expect great
things from them.
The Foundation is continuing to provide logistic support for the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research (ICDDR,B) and an
NIH-funded cholera project, both in Bangladesh, and continues to facilitate funding to the Centre in Bangladesh. This past year the
Centre experienced the worst flood ever, leading to an escalation of patients coming to the hospital with severe diarrhea. They needed
to work fast to provide all the materials needed for up to 1000 patients a day. Their success in saving so many lives is a tribute to
their experience and competence.
We trust you will continue to support our activities with your interest and financial contributions.
Sincerely,
R. Bradley Sack, M.D., ScD.,
Chairman, Board of Directors
Child Health Foundation
Innovative Small Grants
The Innovative Small Grants Program allows donors of gifts to have broad geographic impact on a
wide spectrum of topic areas, with the Foundation performing the administrative oversight. An amount
of up to $5,000 is granted, through a competitive procedure conducted by our panel of experts, to
health workers, investigators, and community organizations who submit proposals using our
guidelines. All grantees exemplify our mission “to save the greatest number of children’s lives at the
lowest possible cost.” Lessons learned ultimately benefit children everywhere. We grant as many
as we are able with the funds available to projects involving infants and children. In 2007 we were
happy to award nine of them through gifts from the Leonard D. Andrew Family Fund, the James
Bausch Memorial, Trustees William B. Greenough, III., and R. Bradley Sack, and other generous
donors. They, as well as brief reports from the completed projects of the previous years, are described here.
Complete reports of all the projects within this report are available upon request.
2007 Small Grants Awards
Family Health and Development, Andhra Pradesh, India A trial of micronutrient fortified salt
Crescent Education Society, Andhra Pradesh, India Teaching hygiene in a mother’s club
Mothers Union Orphan Program, Kenya Water purification training
Blue Veins, Pakistan A mother’s support group encouraging breastfeeding
Haritika, Uttar Pradesh, India Improve water supply, build latrines, teach hygiene
Rhythm Africa, Uganda Malaria prevention
Boston University, U.S. with project in Lesotho HIV/AIDS prevention
Ghanaian Mother’s Hope, U.S., project in Ghana Sanitation in Schools
Public Health Department of Los Angeles, U. S Support breastfeeding among African-Americans.
Beginning last year, we decided to grant some funds for purely humanitarian purposes, that is, not innovative, but meeting the needs of hunger, illiteracy,
and disease, especially in the time of natural disasters. These four organizations each received a grant of $1,500.
SEWA, West Bengal, India
CARE Trust, Andhra Pradesh India
Poor Peoples Foundation Society, Andhra Pradesh, India
Precious Child Education Centre, Uganda
2006 Project Updates
We learned in the last report from the Community Empowerment Initiative (CEI) that
in their area in Western Uganda, sanitation in the public schools was not a high priority, so they aimed to change that in order to reduce illness from
water-borne and hygiene related diseases with a 2006 Small Grant.
The project was established in 25 schools where workshops were held focusing on such subjects as hand-washing, using latrines, and covering food.
Facilities for these activities were put in place and the students themselves were incorporated into the cleaning-up by forming “sanitation clubs.”
They also held workshops for teachers and child leaders in how to promote personal hygiene and thus the students themselves enforced the practices.
Such projects are of course sustainable, communicable and reach out to other communities. It was a very successful effort.
Eclipse Development Initiatives in Nigeria (2006 grant) is conducting what they call Sweet Mother Program,
empowering parents and families with knowledge, resources, skills and behavior to ensure safe motherhood, healthy children and a good start in life for newborns.
They use counseling sessions and visual and auditory aids to promote breastfeeding, immunizations, oral rehydration therapy, and treated bed nets to prevent malaria.
Their work was recently featured in a Lagos
newspaper, in which Child Health Foundation was
given credit for financing the project. We look
forward to their final report.
Dus Bhola in Bangladesh set out to improve the
health status of poor children through facilitating affordable
environmental sanitation projects. They hoped to
achieve the 100% sanitation coverage of 15 villages. By
involving community based organization, they trained
leaders in basic health and hygiene practices such as
washing hands, using safe water, and covering food.
They discouraged open defecation, encouraging instead
the building and use of low-cost latrines, which were
demonstrated on site.
As a result of their efforts, 15 villages reached the
100% use of hygienic latrines and maintained them well.
They also abided by the instruction to follow the other
health practices. The important thing, they say, is that
the people see themselves as a community whose members
affect and support each other. And now those communities
act as facilitators for other communities.
The Millennium Poverty Eradication Programme
in Uganda was instituted to help the United Nations
reach their goals by 2015. The project consisted of a 3-day workshop attended by 36 community members and
a follow-up evaluation.
In the workshop the volunteers were trained on the
nutritional needs of the community. They aimed, among
other things, to encourage breastfeeding and to reduce
Vitamin A deficiency by raising household rich fruits
and vegetables. They also gave instruction that would
help reduce acute respiratory infection (ARI), malaria,
and diarrhea, which are the major causes of illness
among infants and children.
The participants were then instructed to take the information
and instruct the parents in their communities.
The survey included 5 data-collection periods of 3
months each. Sixty children were evaluated and the incidence
of ARI had already decreased from 49.5% to
11.2%, and 150 children under age 10 suffering from
measles, malnutrition and malaria benefited directly
from the program through timely detection and children
were eating more nutritious foods. Mothers knowledge
had increased and their children were eating more
nutritious foods. Over time this improvement will no
doubt increase and spread.
Umoja Women’s Group, in Kenya, has submitted
their final report, though it hasn’t been easy. But
whereas they lack the technical equipment for writing
reports, their project was a great success.
As reported before, 30 children living with grandparents
were the beneficiaries of this project. The
caregivers were trained in health issues of the children
and they in turn are able to train others.
The group built a cow
shed, now have four
cows, and learned that
keeping them safely in the
barn protects them from
ticks and tsetse flies.
These are providing milk
for the children. Three
acres of grassland provides
feed for the cows.
An already existing chicken farm was increased by
100 additional chickens. The community began
bringing in their eggs to be hatched by the farm and
then collect the chicks later leaving behind 3 of them
as payment. The hatchery, however needs better
equipment to handle more eggs in order to better
serve the needs of the community.
The needs in this area are great and this project has
helped, but they are hoping to get funds to expand.
Because worms in children cause uncomfortable
symptoms, the Center of Research in Food and Development
(CIAD) in Mexico, initiated a study to
discover the impact of an education model on the
prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections in school children
during a deworming campaign.
Thus far, they have collected the necessary equipment,
trained 3 chemist-biologist students and sent
them to sample 150 children and distribute questionnaires.
They found 25% of them infected with the
worms and they were treated. The study continues.
Kossoye Project in Ethiopia gave tetracycline eye ointment treatment to everyone in the village for 6 days/month for 6 months, and taught them to wash regularly around the eyes/nostrils and to maintain sanitary latrines
to control the flies that spread the infections. They have completed another year (2005 Small Grants also) of their
intervention to reduce the prevalence of eye infections (especially trachoma) by 50% in children under age 10.
Their other objectives were to establish early use of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) for diarrheal disease, to train
child care givers in preventing malnutrition and to prepare older elementary girls in the ways to prevent sexually
transmitted diseases.
The project was a great success, reduction of trachoma prevalence from 94% to 26%, widespread use of ORT,
and improved knowledge of STD among students in the school. The only disappointment has been signs that
severe stunting malnutrition has become worse. Hope is that the new interest in vegetable gardens that have been
planted will help with this problem. They also provide income for other family needs and are a sustainable way to
help families help themselves.
Humanitarian Grant Updates 2006
Mir Jaffar Khan Jamali (MJKJ) Foundation
in Pakistan implemented a project
in their area to provide
curative and preventive health
services for children. In this
locale, as many as 87 of every
one thousand children die annually
from such diseases as diarrhea,
pneumonia, malnutrition,
malaria, and hepatitis. And while this project was
underway, an epidemic of leishmaniasis hit the region
by way of sand flies and required mobilizing a
treatment program. Notice the lesions on this child’s
face caused by this tropical disease.
To accomplish their goals, with a 2006 Small
Grant, the organization established a clinic and supplied
it with medicines to treat and immunize 1608
children, as well as other members of their families.
They also trained and equipped 10 health workers
from various locales in remote areas of the district to
serve by informing their communities about basic
hygiene practices and family planning. Thus they spread the good news.
In an orphanage in the Sunderbans in northern
India, the demand was great for
some way to meet the health
needs of the children pictured
here—some 28 of them. Dr.
Bradley Sack, Child Health
Foundation President visited the
orphanage of SEED Welfare
Society in June, arriving there
from Calcutta by car, boat and
wagon, and was much impressed with how much
could be done with so little.
The nearest medical resource previously 4 hours
drive away, the children now are much more secure
with facilities to combat such frequent medical
problems as diarrhea, respiratory diseases, typhoid,
and snake bites. The clinic has regular visits from
qualified medical technicians.
The orphan children are fed well and given a
happy environment which is totally opposite the
general village situation, wrought with lack of good
soil for growing vegetables and polluted water.
Honey is the prized source of livelihood, but the
men who hunt for it in this forested area are often
killed by tigers or crocodiles, leaving their wives
widowed and their children “orphaned.”
Community Support Initiatives in Kenya set out in
November to improve the health of orphans and other
needy children by producing honey and edible oil from
sunflowers. They successfully trained caregivers in bee
-keeping and sunflower production to create a
sustainable program of healthy foods. Thirty beehives
have been purchased.
Already, 2,000 litres of edible sunflower oil have
been produced benefiting 30 households. Soon they
will begin selling the surplus oil to improve household
income by 20%.
Another outcome of the endeavor is that the family
goats are fed the seed cakes from the sunflowers and
then give nutritious milk for the children. Two hundred
children have benefited from this.
The organization discovered that, in fact, three
villages have reported a reduction in visits to local
health facilities. And they say 50 other community
members have made inquiries about running these
projects.
Other Project Reports
Butoke, a 2005 recipient of a Small Grant in the
Democratic Republic of Congo, submitted a final report
on a program creating a core of resource persons
and trainers embedded in the base communities to become
competent to enlighten youth and adults on responsible
sexuality in the light of faith and science.
HIV/AIDS is a very prevalent problem there.
The number of workshops jumped to 16 from a previous
4 with a total of 1400 participants, and they are
very well accepted and promote lively discussion. The
discussions have also alerted them to the link between
human rights of both women and children and the contradictions
between the customs and these rights.
They feel that for now they have an adequate number
of trainers to go back to their parishes and temples
to give sound advice to teens.
Focusing on the prevention of HIV/AIDS and other
sexually transmitted diseases among young people,
through peer groups and mass education in the schools
and community, the Rural People’s Development
Society in South India (2004 Small Grant) has submitted
their final report.
About a thousand teenagers in ten schools were visited
30 times to educate them about the harmful effects
of sexually transmitted diseases. In addition, 20 villages
held 3 meetings per month plus messages given
in the market place; condoms were distributed to
commercial sex workers. And forty programs were
broadcast on television.
All this was done by folks trained by the organization to
reduce the rate of infection as well as counsel victims and
reduce the stigma which causes communication barriers in
the community and the family.
Other Activities
Update on Water Program
Environmental and Population Research Centre
(EPRC), Bangladesh
EPRC set out in 2002 to develop appropriate techniques
for management of safe drinking water for children in
relation to floods in areas which experience these
annually. It continues because of the generous donations
from Miss Esther Lazarson of New York City.
There has been unfortunately a lack of information about
appropriate ways to manage safe water for children
during flood seasons, which occur annually. And the
precautions that are known by scientists are usually not
carried out by the families, nor is the simple oral
rehydration therapy always known and used by
children’s caregivers when diarrhea occurs.
During the latest phase, activities commenced in four
villages. All the previously installed water wells were
inspected and found to be in full use and arsenic-safe.
Twenty-one more tube wells providing safe water were
installed serving a total of 2,322 people, almost a
thousand of them children, bringing the total number
served to 16,939. Arsenic above the safe level was found
in 18 of the 39 tube wells bored, leaving only 21 useable.
The community is also asked for a small financial
contribution for their water to give them an investment in
it. The money received is used to buy books and pay
teachers for four nursery and Class I schools, which have
a total of 132 children. The teachers were given a refresher
course by the EPRC supervisor.
Because much time has been saved with the new
water availability, it seemed appropriate for the EPRC to
use that time to begin a women’s empowerment program
in 2006. Women’s clubs continue successfully at the
schools where the mothers were encouraged to get
involved in homestead gardening, literacy and health
education (HIV/AIDS prevention, family planning, etc.).
There are now four clubs with at total of 69 women.
Evaluation of this program was carried out:
100% of the women learned signature and alphabet
writing.
Most could report proper hand-washing method.
Most knew the impact of using a sanitary latrine.
61% ate the vegetables grown by the club.
21% sold vegetables from their garden.
Ceralyte Distribution
In 2007, communities in Liberia,India, Guyana, Honduras, Rumania,
Bolivia, Cambodia, and
others, received the oral
rehydration product. CeraLyte is
manufactured by Cera Products,
Inc. of Columbia, Maryland and
donated by Cumberland
Pharmaceuticals in Nashville, Tennessee.
Direct Relief International delivered the product
which saves children's lives by rehydrating them
when they have severe diarrhea.
The donation to Child Health Foundation totaled
almost $475,000. The benefit to the international
public however is not possible to calculate. A hospital
pharmacist in Guyana said of CeraLyte: It is
easier to tolerate than other ORS’s we have used,
hence it is easy for children to use.” All of the locations
receiving it report good results and need more.
We are grateful to Cera Products, Cumberland and
Direct Relief for their dedicated service.
Anemia and HIV
Forty-five children have so
far been enrolled in a study by St. Johns National Academy
of Health Sciences in Bangalore,
India, to assess the role
of anemia among HIV-infected children, aged 2-12. They found that the effect of antiretroviral
therapy on the anemia was marked, i.e., 17 of the
28 children who did not receive the therapy had
high rates of anemia while only one of the ones
on therapy was anemic.
Another finding was that iron supplements and
dietary advice made only a minor difference,
therefore further study is required to learn the
cause of the anemia. We look forward to their
final report.
ICDDR,B Collaboration
The International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research,
Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) in Dhaka, Bangladesh is an
international institution for research, training and services in
child health and reproductive health. The Foundation and the
Centre share the vision of a world where the use of cost-effective health technologies reduces
preventable child deaths and improves the lives of millions around the globe. Child Health
Foundation is the US. office for the Centre where we, make it possible for Americans to donate tax-deductible
dollars. We also do the mailing of their periodical, both to the Centre and from them to
their U.S. readers, and make orders and send them scientific materials.
Centre Fund Program
The Centre Fund is a program which assists the ICDDR,B in raising
funds which insure continued vital contributions to health worldwide
by:
attracting the best scientists and researchers from both
developed and developing countries;
expanding health education and training for professionals,
policymakers and trainers;
maintaining state-of-the-art hospital, laboratory, and computer
equipment;
carrying out rapid response to international refugee crises and
new epidemics;
establishing new research initiatives;
sponsoring scientific conferences and lectures;
detecting new emerging diseases;
strengthening the library; and
providing free, life-saving care
Endowment is essential since project funds are restricted to the specific tasks for which they are provided.
Important to the overall goals of ICDDR,B are activities that build for long term growth and productivity as
well as immediate urgent needs of serving those who are ill and poor and turn to the Centre for care. There
are three separate categories for which endowment funds are raised. The first is the Hospital fund to which
the Swiss Government has given impetus with generous gifts. This provides care for those afflicted with
diarrheal diseases and their complications. The Centre itself has also been successful in raising support
locally for this fund. The second fund is for child survival with a broader perspective and represents a major
donation by USAID to this end. The third fund is a general endowment to which many donors have
contributed over the years. It is to make possible education, communications, and scientific and
humanitarian exchanges that could not be supported from project or programmatic funds.
From its inception in 1985, Child Health Foundation has assisted the Centre in many activities, including
fundraising, project assistance and public relations. In 1994, we initiated the Centre Fund effort in the United
States and since then have been assisting in the effort to raise endowment and insure careful stewardship,
monitoring the way it is invested. A Centre Fund committee serves in an advisory capacity to the Centre's
Director and Board of Trustees. Members of this committee as of 12/31/07: William B. Greenough, Rita
Colwell, Norman D'Cruz, David Sack, Aniruddha Neogi, Terence H. Hull, and David A. Weisbrod. At the
end of 2007, the total endowment was valued at $10,388,812 (9,933,014 at the end of 2006) and is managed
by TIAA/CREF of St. Louis, Missouri. During 2007, Child Health Foundation expended $71,402 of its
resources on behalf of the Centre’s work; the Centre provided $25,000 to assist us in this effort. Other
contributions that the Foundation received for the Centre’s endowment in 2007 totaled $32,934.
Donors 2007
Individual Donors
Bernardo Acosta
Rodi Adema
Sonia Afrin
Qazi Alam
Mehrab Ali
John S. Anderson
Rita Anderson
Leonard D. Andrew
Catharina Armstrong
Geoffrey M. Arrowsmith
Mohammed Ashab
George and Gloria Babb
Carolyn Ball
John and Louise Ballard
Mary Ann Banerji
Mary E. Barrows
Schantz and Nasser Basir
Janet E. Bausch
Maureen M. Black
Gordon Brown
Marty Burke
Mayra Buvinic
Malaka Calloway
Adrian Cameron
Antonio Campos Dominguez
Jose Carabantes Cortez
Louise F. Carlson
Charles Carpenter
Slawomir Cebulski
Colette Chabbott
J. Chang
Nevetta Chapman
Ahmad Z. Chaudhury
Tom Cheasty
William Chinnock
Reina Choi
Patrick and Judith Clancy
P. Kristen Coghlan
Ronald Coleman
Carol B. Collado
Patricia Collins
Jack and Rita Colwell
Rebecca Cook
Therris Copeland
Steven Crosby
Richard Daniel
Andrew Dannenberg
Janet Davis
Joseph Deltito
Morris S. Dixon, Jr.
John Eckstein
Anne Ellsworth
Cyril R. Emery
John J. Evans, Jr.
Michael Field
Brandon Figueroa
Thomas E. Finucane
Gilbert Fisher
Apourva Gandmi
Eugene Gangarosa
Hatim Gazaz
Elvin Geng
Robert and Barbara George
Robert and Lorraine Ghia
Johnny Gilbert
Genevie Gold
Johanna Grant
Richard Greene
William and Quaneta Greenough
Edgar M. Greville
Marek Grzelinski
Rhiannon Gwyn
Munawar Hafiz
Ali Haj-Hassan
Sara Haj-Hassan
Tanya Haj-Hassan
Albelee Haque
Brandon Hardin
Katherine Harris
Briana Haynes
Shijie He
Elizabeth Herman
Douglas Hernandez
Bruce and Susan Holbrook
Md. Hossain
Md. Sakawat Hossain
Samina Hossain
Sonia Hossain
Amy Hovdestad
Teresa Hoyt
Donald S. Huber
Nancy Hughart
Terrence Hull
Mary Inabinett
Shamsi Iqbal
Khandaker Islam
Sabina Islam
Magdy Issa
M. Iwamoto
Benjamin Jakuben
Daniel Hawkins
Pamela R. Johnson
David Jones
Norge W. Jerome
Aza Kabilovic
Mazbaul Kabir
Ann Kaiser Stearns
Mohammad Kamal
Min Joo Kang
Karen Katz
Omar Khan
Beth Kirkpatrick
Michael Kitchen
Ronald E. Kleinman
George and Collette Kokinos
Esther C. Krasevac
Michael D. Krause
David Lane
Mary Ann Lansang
Ann Larson
Charles Larson
Peter Law
Esther Lazarson
Alan Lee
Brian Lee
M. Lee
Erik Lensch
Francoise Lepine
Kathy Lintker
Nicolaus Lorenz
Georg and Harriet Luck
Adolfo MacCragh
Paul Maddox
Verna Manni
Helen G. Martin
America Martinez
Donald Marvel
Marie May
Timothy McNamara
Hans Peter Melby
Rebecca Meyer
Mohommed Mia
Carl E. Miller
Nasheed Moqueet
Andrew, Nicholson
Sandra Nieves-Mendez
Robert Northrup
Rachel O’Neill
Peter and Katarina Ottis
Martha Page Beach
Karthikeyan Paranthaman
Rodondo Parks
Jinal patel
Craig Pattenaude
Loraine M. Pease
Kieran Pechter
Jorge Pereira
Henry B. Perry, III
Joseph f. Perz
Jeanne F. Petruzziello
Nathaniel F. Pierce
Sharon Pincus
Jocelyn Popinchalk
Mathew Price
Pavani Ram
Alvan and Leslie Ramler
Siefredo Ramos
Janet Rasmus
Charlene Reinke
Anthony Renna
Kate G. Richardson
Charles Richter
Esko and Charlene Riikonen
Jonathan Rivera
Michael J. Rocco
E. Rosario
Sharon Rubinstein
Edward T. Ryan
David and Joanna Sachar
Daniel and Katherine Sack
David and Jean Sack
James Sack
Jonathan A. Sack
R. Bradley and Josephine Sack
Robert and Corinna Sack
William and Susan Sack
Henry L. Safer
Taher Saif
Mireille Sajous
Jose Ignacio Santos
Katherine Santos
Kazi Sayeem
Jane and David Schachter
Barba Schrier
Michael and Debra Schwartz
Sylvia Scotland
Linda Seidel
Thomas and Nancy Shryock
Stewart Simonson
Claudia Simpson
Richard Lee Skolnik
Gary and Suzanne Smuckler
Robert Sorrell
Bonita Stanton
Ann Kaiser Stearns
Brian Stein
T. R. Steiner
Peter Stevens
Jonathan W. Stewart
Bruce and Terry S. Strand
Emily Sun
Rafiqul Talukder
Robert C. Terry, Jr.
Angela Tetmeyer
Sarah Thomas
Theodore H. Thomas
Cynthia S. Tice
Khin U
Rudy Ventura
Javier Villasenor
Chelsea T. Wald
P. Watthanawes
Jonathan Weinberg
Jason Weisfeld
David a. Weisbrod
Joachim A. Weissfeld
Julie Welch
Tabitha West
James J. Winiarski
Donna Wolfe
Colette Woodards
Sara and Spofford Woodruff
Erica Worhatch
Yongning Yu
Laura Zachary
Sm. Zaman
Xuueyan Zheng
Steve Zilliacus
Nahid Zodjadji
Corporate Contributions
Cera Products, Inc.
Children’s Charities of America
Combined Federal Campaign
Franklin Memorial Hospital (Maine)
Independent Charities of America
Internet Marketing Solutions
Lehman Brothers
M. Benefit Solutions
Maryland Charity Campaign
Maryland Presbyterian Church
Network for Good
Omidyar Network Services
Progressive Casualty Insurance Co.
REI – Recreational Equipment, Inc.
Riverside Computer Consultants, Inc.
Rotary Club of Columbia-Patuxent
Temple Beth-El
The Columbia Bank
The Progressive Insurance Foundation
United Way of Central Maryland
United Way of Delaware
United Way of Rhode Island
Vyalex, Inc.
Financial Statement
Year Ending December 31, 2007
Unrestricted
Temporarily
Restricted
Total
Revenue and other support
Grants
$
43,933
121,468
165,401
Grants-in-kind
474,676
-
474,676
Corporate contributions
34,071
-
34,071
Individual contributions
18,752
-
18,752
CFC/United Way
20,085
-
20,085
Interest, dividends and other investment
6,330
-
6,330
Miscellaneous
560
-
560
Satisfaction of program restrictions
143,468
(143,468)
-
Total revenues and other support
741,875
22,000
719,875
Expenses
Program services
749,110
-
749,110
General and administrative
27,870
-
27,870
Total expenses
776,980
-
776,980
Change in net assets
(35,105)
(22,000)
57,105
Net assets—beginning of year
254,959
33,431
288,390
Net assets—end of year
$
219,854
11,431
231,285
This report prepared by independent auditors: Goodman and Company, L.L.P.
Full audit available on request
"In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly in all material aspects the financial position of Child Health Foundation as
of December 31, 2007, and the results of its activities and its cash flows for the year then ended are in conformity with generally
accepted accounting principles."
—Goodman & Company, L.L.P. Certified Public Accountants
Income Summary
Donations
38,837
Grants
640,077
Corporate Contributions
34,071
Miscellaneous Income, Interest, Dividends, etc.
6890
Total Support
719,875
Expense Summary
Program
749,110
Administration
27,870
Total Expenses
776,980
Percentage of Income Spent on Administration
3.8%
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feeling for knowing that they have saved children's lives and made them happier, also improves their
own and their children's lives. You see, research done in regions where disease is prevalent helps to
prevent those organisms from spreading. Furthermore, it gives local medical practitioners the
expertise to combat emerging infections when they do escape.
Everyone also benefits from our efforts to educate the general public about low-cost ways to prevent
and treat common childhood diseases and promote better nutrition. So stay with us, read our
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