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2012 Annual Report
The difference
YOU make:
A story of
HOPE
THANK YOU.
Dear Friend,
OUR VISION
NO CHILD
OR FAMILY
GOES TO BED
HUNGRY
Your support of Feed The Children makes such a difference for children and families here
in the U.S. and in countries around the world. You meet critical needs by providing food,
clean water, medical care, school supplies and more. Just as important is something less
tangible: HOPE.
Each meal, box of food, backpack of school supplies, bar of soap or toothbrush meets a
need AND lets someone know you care. It begins ‘A story of HOPE.’ And that’s why it’s the
title of our fiscal year 2012 Annual Report.
Part of Feed The Children’s story of hope this past fiscal year (July 2011-June 2012) was
our successful search for a new leader. We are thrilled that Kevin Hagan joined us as
President and CEO last June. He brings an impressive background in food distribution
and operational management to his new role. Just as important, Kevin is passionate
about helping children and families in need.
Most recently, he served as Chief Operating Officer for Good360, a nonprofit organization
dedicated to fulfilling the needs of nonprofits with corporate product donations. Before
Good360, Kevin honed his industry expertise at U.S. Foodservice, Inc., and also worked at
the U.S. Postal Service headquarters.
Kevin is immersed in the work to further strengthen Feed The Children, fully committed
to complete transparency and accountability, and having already achieved recertification
from the Better Business Bureau (BBB) for meeting all 20 standards of the BBB Wise
Giving Alliance.
Thanks to individual donors, corporate partners, partner agencies and our dedicated
staff and volunteers, 2012 was a great year of meeting needs and providing hope. I’m so
thankful for the important role you play in offering people in need ‘A story of HOPE.’
Sincerely,
Rick England, Chairman of the Board
Feed The Children
Our new President and CEO, Kevin Hagan,
is already traveling to see the work of Feed The
Children firsthand. While visiting Maparasha, Kenya,
in August 2012, Kevin jumped right in to help.
Year in Review: A New Day of HOPE
In 2012, the U.S. and global economies continued to struggle.
But thanks to generous individual and corporate donors, Feed
The Children helped meet critical physical needs and offered
hope to millions of children and their families both in the U.S.
and overseas. Here are a few highlights from the past year:
Americans Feeding Americans Caravan
The continuing downturn of the economy means the Caravan is more important
than ever. In the past year, much-needed food and other supplies were delivered to
approximately 129,000 families. This was made possible by generous friends like you,
partner agencies, corporate supporters and individuals.
Kids’ School Basics
Budget cuts and unfulfilled requests for federal funding have left schools in dire need
of education resources. Each semester, Feed The Children’s Kids’ School Basics targets
10 schools and shelters in need in every state and distributes bundles of books,
hygiene items, school supplies and more. Your cash donations or gifts-in-kind help us
provide Title I schools with the supplies and tools they need to succeed.
The Teacher Store
The cost of school supplies can be overwhelming for struggling families. Many
teachers reach into their own pockets to provide school supplies for their students,
but today’s economic challenges make that difficult. That’s why Feed The Children has
two Teacher Store locations to provide needed school supplies at no cost to teachers
from pre-K through 12th grade. In 2012, Feed The Children provided close to a million
American children with books and other needed school supplies, thanks to friends
like you and generous donations from corporate partners.
“Since April 2011, Grace Bridge Food Bank has
been able to meet the needs of over 500 families
in the North Dallas area through its relationship
with Feed The Children. It is a privilege to serve
families in our area during their time of need.”
— Carter Morris, Minister to Young Adults Prestonwood Baptist Church, North Campus
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Disaster Relief
Numerous corporate and church partners, along with many individual donors like
you, made Feed The Children’s disaster response possible through their generous
support. Staff and volunteers helped survivors of severe storms, flooding, wildfires,
tornadoes and Hurricane Irene. The Office Depot Foundation, Lowe’s, Guess, Inc.,
Teleperformance, YUM! Brands and many other corporate partners helped Feed The
Children deliver food, essentials and relief supplies to hard-hit areas.
International School and Community Feeding Programs
Our first step when we arrive in a poor community is to organize meal centers to feed
hungry children. We usually set up at a school or community center. Your support
provides wholesome food and nutrition education for 350,000 children around the world
like this. At the same time, you also contribute significantly to a child’s education. In a
2012 study, we were able to demonstrate that school attendance increased by 60% or
more when feeding programs were implemented.
Abandoned Babies and Children
At the Abandoned Babies and Children (ABC) Center in Nairobi, Kenya, Feed The
Children cares for more than 100 orphaned babies and children every day. In addition to
the ABC Center, there’s a feeding program, a center for rehabilitating children suffering
from disabilities and deformities, community outreach and more. A newer program is
the Hardy House, a special home for mentally- and physically-challenged young men
who grew up at the ABC Center.
A child thanks YOU
for a backpack filled with HOPE
Food
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United States: HOPE in our own backyard
FOOD, EDUCATION, ESSENTIALS
In 2012, Feed The Children partnered with over 1,000 local agencies, including food
pantries, churches and soup kitchens, to distribute meals and necessities to families
nationwide.
Additionally, Feed The Children supplied backpacks filled with ready-to-eat snacks,
toothbrushes, school supplies and age-appropriate books to 140,000 homeless students
enrolled in public schools.
Children also received school supplies or books through education-focused projects,
while the Teacher Store program provided much-needed school supplies and resources
to teachers, free of charge.
DISASTER
Because of our fleet of 40 semitrucks, Feed The Children is often one of the first relief
agencies to respond after a disaster. In 2012, our trucks traveled to areas affected by
flooding, tornadoes, wildfires and hurricanes.
In Fiscal Year 2012 alone, Feed The Children provided
$594 million worth of food and essentials to children and their
families across the U.S., thanks to friends like you.
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Ja’Quetta and her family
received much-needed food
and other essential items,
thanks to friends like you.
How you gave HOPE to a hungry
American family
Ja’Quetta’s Mississippi community has
government assistance,
been hit especially hard by the economy.
so they really needed
There are hundreds of parents, like her
these supplies.
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mom, who are without work.
Ja’Quetta and her
This 5 grader is a good helper,
family also met with
frequently taking on the daily chores,
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including cooking, so her mother can
a Feed The Children
look for a job. But cooking makes
partner agency in their community. In
Ja’Quetta sad because there often isn’t
the future, when they have emergency
enough food for her brothers and sister,
needs, they can get help through this
her mom and herself. She tries to save
partner agency to make ends meet. Feed
part of the meal for the next day because
The Children has delivered food and
they don’t know if there will be enough
other essentials to many in Ja’Quetta’s
food. But that means Ja’Quetta goes to
community, helping struggling families
bed hungry almost every night.
get back on their feet.
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Thankfully — because of caring friends
like you — Feed The Children staff
members visited Ja’Quetta and her family
at their home to provide food and other
essential items. The family doesn’t receive
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plenty, how can
so many go
hungry?
THANK YOU for giving HOPE to
American families like Ja’Quetta’s through
YOUR SUPPORT of Feed The Children.
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“I have had many parents during the course of
the school year come to us for support. When we
are able to give them some basic supplies such
as food, they are so grateful. One father broke
into tears because he couldn’t feed his children.
His toddler was smiling on his lap and wiped
the tears from his face. It was very touching and
made us all cry. We appreciate all the support
you are able to offer our students.”
— Food Pantry Coordinator, Arkansas
1 in 5
children in America is
at risk of hunger
— that’s 17 million
boys and girls.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Food Research Action Center
International: HOPE around the world
EL SALVADOR
PROBLEM: Hunger
Undernutrition contributes to
2.6 million deaths of children
under the age of five each year.
GUATEMALA
HAITI
HONDURAS
KENYA
MALAWI
NICARAGUA
PHILIPPINES
TANZANIA
UGANDA
SOLUTION: Food & Nutrition
PROBLEM: Disease
SOLUTION: Health & Education
Supplied nutritious meals to 350,000
children daily through school and
community-based feeding programs.
Every 20 seconds a child dies as
the result of poor sanitation.
Provided 14 million children with
deworming medications and treated
13,500 patients in medical clinics.
Every day 350,000 children around the world receive a nutritious
meal and HOPE because of caring friends like you.
PROBLEM:
Dirty Water
SOLUTION:
Clean Water & Sanitation
PROBLEM:
No Future
780 million people don’t have
access to clean water.
Implemented clean-water practices,
facilitated point-of-use purification, installed
community wells and constructed latrines.
67 million school-aged children can’t
attend school because their families
aren’t able to afford school fees and
they need their help at home.
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SOLUTION:
Livelihood Development
Engaged individuals and families in programs
that help them make money and reinvest it in
their community to create self-sufficiency.
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FOOD & EDUCATION to bring HOPE
John’s dream to have his own
boat could come true because he’s
receiving food and other assistance that’s
allowing him to stay in school, thanks to
friends like you.
You’re giving this family HOPE
for the future
John dreams of having his own boat
through a
someday to explore his homeland in the
feeding program.
Philippines. But right now, his biggest
In addition,
wish is for enough food to eat. His family
John receives
lives under a bridge, along with six other
assistance with
families. Their small space is only big
school fees,
enough to sleep in and hold their small
uniforms and
number of possessions.
supplies. Because
Philippines
of friends like you,
When they’re not in school, John and his
John has regular
four siblings help his parents scavenge
meals and can stay
for plastics and other recyclables. On
in school. As his mom
a good day, they bring in about $2. “It’s
knows, this can make all the difference
not enough for our daily needs,” says
for the family.
Christina, John’s mom. “Sometimes my
kids go to school with empty stomachs.”
“I hope that they can finish their studies
and get an education,” Christina says.
Thankfully, John now attends a school
“That’s the only thing that will lift them
where Feed The Children provides meals
out of this hardship and poverty.”
THANK YOU for giving HOPE to
struggling families like John’s in countries
around the world through YOUR SUPPORT
of Feed The Children.
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How YOUR gift ships food to
hungry families
This is how YOUR donation to feed hungry families gets to
children around the country:
1
Feed The Children
seeks donations from
food producers and
corporations.
2
3
Friends like YOU
give generously.
Your gifts send Feed The
Children trucks around the
country, distributing donated
food and other essentials to
families in need.
4
Hungry children and families
all over America receive
nutritious food.
THANK YOU
for giving HOPE.
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“In the time that NBTY has been working with Feed The Children, we
have been able to witness firsthand the commitment, love and care
with which Feed The Children operates. It is an organization that
is tied to health and wellness in every sense, and this ties directly
to our company’s mission. Seeing the profound difference that our
donated vitamins, food and nutrition drinks make in the lives of
these hungry children has been a rewarding experience for NBTY
and we look forward to our continued partnership.”
— NBTY, INC.
PARTNERS
Thank you to our Feed The Children partners!
Actavis
Avery
Avon
Barcel USA
Better World Books
Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
Colomer USA
Cott Beverages USA, Inc.
CVS
Dannon Company, Inc.
Davis Vision
Direct Brands, Inc.
Disney Publishing Worldwide
Energizer Personal Care
Esselte Corporation
Exel/Clorox
Ferrara Candy Company
FGX International
Filmyard Holdings, LLC
First Book
Frito-Lay, Inc.
Guess, Inc.
Hachette Book Group USA
Half Price Books
Hero USA
Hirzel Canning Co. & Farms
H.J. Heinz
Institution Recycling Network
International Masters Publishers
JAKKS Pacific
KAO USA
Lowe’s
Mars Chocolate N.A.
Nestle Prepared Foods
Niagara Bottling, LLC
Nourish The Children
Office Depot
One World Enterprises, LLC
Ora Optical
Penguin Random House, Inc.
Perfect Timing, Inc.
Pharmavite
Ralston
Rich Products Corp.
Teleperformance
TEVA Pharmaceuticals USA
TOMS
Tyson Foods, Inc.
Unilever
Vi-Jon Laboratories, Inc.
White Wave Foods
YUM! Brands
Feed The Children
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Rick England
Chairman
Leo B. Fundaro, Jr.
Vice Chairman
Dr. Mary Schrick, N.D., Ph.D.
Dr. C. Earnest Wyatt, D.V.M.
Gregg A. Yeilding
Secretary/Treasurer
EXECUTIVE STAFF
Kevin L. Hagan
President & CEO
Travis Arnold
Chief Operating Officer
Christy Tharp
Chief Financial Officer
Chris Cleghorn
Interim Chief Development Officer
This list represents the top corporate donors that gave gift-in-kind donations of $1 million or more in FY 2012.
“It means so much to know that you’ve
helped put food in somebody’s mouth,
and that they have a chance to become
something in the world someday. I think
there’s just too many kids out there that
just don’t have that chance, even in our
own country.”
— Hirzel Canning Co. & Farms
Going Green initiative saves energy
and money Feed The Children’s Going Green initiative has
Other energy-reducing improvements include
saved energy — and money — throughout
either partial- or full-roof replacements
2012. Changes included replacing older
at the corporate building, transportation
fixtures with energy-efficient lighting
building and two distribution centers.
throughout the Oklahoma City corporate
Paper, cardboard, and plastic recycling has
office. This has reduced electricity usage by
been implemented. In addition, changes in
25%. Half of the lighting in the transportation
plumbing and information technology have
building has also been replaced, and future
led to better energy efficiency and less waste
lighting replacements are scheduled for three
exposure for our environment.
distribution centers.
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FINANCIALS
YOU helped provide millions of hungry
people with food and essentials in 2012
Feed The Children Consolidated Statement of Activities For the Year Ended June 30, 2012
Gifts in Kind$545,570,833
OUR MISSION
Contributions$70,422,915
Government Grants $1,399,946
Investment Income
($974,783)
Other Revenue
$4,307,544
PROVIDING
Total Revenue: $620,726,455
Program Services:
Childcare, Food and Medical$493,844,076
Disaster Relief
Education and Community Development$117,541,321
HOPE AND
$7,777,248
Total Program Services: $619,162,645
Supporting Services:
Fundraising$37,354,685
RESOURCES
Management and General $19,503,133
Total Supporting Services: $56,857,818
Total Expenses $676,020,463
FOR THOSE
Change in Net Assets ($55,294,008)
Net Assets, Beginning of Year$179,686,057
Net Assets, End of Year$124,392,049
Through the combined efforts of our partner agencies, corporate supporters and generous friends
like you, Feed The Children is changing lives. We continue to work toward greater transparency and
accountability to ensure that every dollar is used wisely to accomplish the most good.
“TEVA is proud to be working with
Feed The Children. The partnership
has had a lasting impact on the lives
of many people, bringing tangible help
for today and hope for tomorrow. We
are grateful to continue working with
an organization that is always there to
help in times of need around the world,
and provide care in vulnerable and
underserved communities worldwide.”
— TEVA Pharmaceuticals USA
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2012 Allocation of Expenditures
92% Program Services
3%
Management
and General
5%
Fundraising
To see a full financial report, go to FeedTheChildren.org/2012.
WITHOUT LIFE’S
ESSENTIALS