Leading to Impact

2011 ANNUAL REPORT

LEADING TO impact

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Contents

3 LEADING TO IMPACT

4 OUR MISSION

5 HOW WE WORK

7 GLOBAL PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

8 ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

10 HUMAN RIGHTS

12 POLITICAL AND PUBLIC LEADERSHIP

14 LEADERSHIP AND MENTORING

19 REGIONAL IMPACT

20 AFRICA

22 LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

24 MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

27 LEVERAGING YOUR INVESTMENT

28 MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS

34 IMPACT THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS

36 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

40 LEADERSHIP

Cover: Sunitha Krishnan, India

Above: Adi Tafuna’i, Samoa


LEADING to impact


Dear Friends,

2011 was a year of irreversible shifts in politics, economics and culture around the world. Old leadership scrambled to hold on to power as new leadership sought to redistribute it. Crisis yields opportunity, and the year proved that our new world requires fresh thinking and new partners. Sustainable leadership is more than a catch phrase. It is a mandate for a fair, just and equitable future.

Vital Voices sees a solution in women. Long excluded from traditional power structures, women lead differently. Collaboration, inclusion with conviction, integrity and creativity are hallmarks of women leaders who have shaped our world. From our beginnings as a U.S. State Department initiative in 1997, through today, we have documented this model of leadership within our Global Leadership Network. These women — entrepreneurs, rights advocates, and parliamentarians among them — use their power to inspire collective empowerment. They are leading to impact.

This year, our programs in economic empowerment, human rights and political and public leadership changed the lives of 1,543 women (and men) in 77 countries. In Cameroon, we taught a law enforcement officer to identify human trafficking, leading to the rescue of 98 child victims. In the Middle East and North Africa, we convened 40 leading civil society advocates for training in Jordan just a week after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was removed from power. The Vital Voices Nicaragua chapter helped women realize their own power in making change. Women in the Pacific Islands are pursuing career-track employment, and families are thriving with sustainable business projects that allow them to earn a living where they live.

THIS WORK IS GUIDED BY THE BELIEF THAT THE IMPACT OF WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP IS A FORCE THAT CAN AND MUST BE HARNESSED FOR THE GLOBAL GOOD.

It is also a key to global financial recovery. Released in September 2011, the 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development finds that women with decision-making power accelerate positive development outcomes. Studies from the World Economic Forum also confirm a strong correlation between an increase in gender equality and an increase in gross domestic product per capita.

This report captures the achievements made possible by our global community of supporters. We pledge to continually innovate. We will always ask ourselves “What impact are we driving toward?” as we evaluate new programs and measure their success.

Now more than ever, it is critical that we work together to remove barriers to access and opportunity for the women who risk their livelihoods and their lives every day to bring justice, peace and greater prosperity to the world.

With our deepest gratitude,

Susan Ann Davis Bobbie Greene McCarthy Alyse Nelson CHAIR VICE CHAIR PRESIDENT AND CEO

LEADING to impact


WE IDENTIFY, INVEST IN AND BRING VISIBILITY

TO EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN AROUND THE

WORLD BY UNLEASHING THEIR LEADERSHIP

POTENTIAL TO TRANSFORM LIVES AND ACCELERATE

PEACE AND PROSPERITY IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.

FOUNDED BY U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY

CLINTON IN 1997, WE TRAIN AND MENTOR WOMEN

LEADERS AS AGENTS OF TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE

IN ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS AND

POLITICAL AND PUBLIC LEADERSHIP. THE VITAL VOICES

GLOBAL LEADERSHIP NETWORK INCLUDES MORE THAN

12,000 LEADERS REPRESENTING 144 COUNTRIES WHO

HAVE TRAINED AND MENTORED 500,000 ADDITIONAL

WOMEN AND GIRLS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.

OUR mission


HOW we workWe work with established and rising entrepreneurs, advocates and policymakers committed to making positive

change in their communities. Our training, mentoring and leadership programs confer new skills needed for greater impact at scale. We shine a spotlight on their successes through media and events, and integrate them into our

powerful Global Leadership Network of women leaders.

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VITAL VOICES MEETS HER AND IS IMPRESSED

BY HER WORK.

WE INVEST IN HER OUR TIME, RESOURCES, TRAINING AND MENTORSHIP.

HER WORK IS EXPANDED AND HER IMPACT IS DEEPER. SHE IS RECOGNIZED IN HER COMMUNITY.

SHE REALIZES THAT SHE CAN SUPPORT MANY MORE WOMEN IN HER COMMUNITY. SHE BUILDS A NETWORK, ANDPAYS FORWARD THE INVESTMENT MADE IN HER. SHE BECOMES A MENTOR AND INSPIRES

NEW WOMEN LEADERS.

THE WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE, MORE RECEPTIVE TO WOMEN LEADERS. SHE HAS

INSPIRED OTHERS TO CREATE CHANGE.

SHE BECOMES MORE POWERFUL, MORE CONNECTED, AND MORE EFFECTIVE. SHE GAINS VISIBILITY.

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AN EMERGING LEADER.


In 2011 we were able to identify, invest in and bring visibility to extraordinary women around the world by unleashing their leadership potential to transform lives

and accelerate peace and prosperity in their communities.

We were at the forefront of international coalitions to combat human trafficking and other forms of violence

against women and girls.

We enabled women to become change agents in their governments, advocates for social justice, and supporters

of democracy and the rule of law.

We equipped women with management, business development, marketing and communications skills to expand their enterprises, provide for their families, and

create jobs in their communities.

THEY ARE THE VITAL VOICES OF OUR TIME.

GLOBAL PROGRAM highlights


ECONOMIC empowerment

The Entrepreneurs in Handcrafts program helps women business

leaders to advance their businesses and to create economic growth

and positive social change in their communities. Our trainers

conduct five-day intensive workshops on best practices in business

management, access to markets and product development.

TO DATE

High potential/high performing entrepreneurs from 37 countries were trained by Vital Voices.

The average number of employees our graduates engage in handcraft sector work.

Percent increase in sales is reported by graduates of our program.

Percent increase in the number of artisan workers employed as reported by graduates of our programs.

Percent increase in salary of our graduates reported after the program.

Percent of handcraft sector workers are women.

Women drive broad-based social and economic benefits for society. Research from a range of institutions — from the World Bank to the UN, and from the World Economic Forum to Goldman Sachs — shows that investments in women are directly correlated to a country’s greater prosperity, poverty alleviation and reduction in corruption. To break down disproportionate barriers they face — legal, institutional and cultural — now is the time to strengthen our investment

in women’s economic opportunity.

Opposite page:Samburu artisan,

Kenya

FOCUS

Vital Voices has created an innovative strategy to accelerate women’s integration into the global economy and develop the next generation of women business leaders by:

IMPACT

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Businesswomen’s Networks around the globe — Middle East

and North Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Africa

— support established and emerging business leaders through

training, mentoring and business-to-business opportunities.

Women Members

Member Countries

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Investing in networks of professionals and

business owners

Investing in entrepreneurs

in the handcraft sector

Investing in women entrepreneurs at the SME level (small and medium enterprise)


Entrepreneurs in HandcraftsAgnes Mhlongo and Carey Moran are handcraft entrepreneurs who completed Vital Voices trainings in Ghana and Uganda. They met in 2010 through business circles, and quickly became friends. Mutual admiration for each other’s designs led to a rewarding mentoring relationship. They shared a booth at the Design Indaba Trade Show in Cape Town and continue to collaborate.

“I think after time the mentor/mentee distinction blurs and what remains is a strong and loyal relationship committed to seeing success and progress in the work we do and making a difference in our community.” – Carey Moran

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Violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread violations of human rights, cutting across boundaries of age, race, culture, wealth and geography. There is no “typical” victim for these crimes —

the risk factor is simply being born female.

Women leaders often spearhead the effort to solve the problem of violence against women — they advocate for the passage of legislation, they pursue effective implementation of laws and policies, and provide shelter and services to survivors. Yet, too often these leaders work in isolation, without adequate resources or supportive networks, and

frequently at great personal risk to themselves.

HUMAN rights

Opposite page:Rural and

urban Cameroon

FOCUS

In 2011, Vital Voices works with human rights leaders to:

IMPACT

Women and men trained by the Vital Voices human

rights team.

Percent of participants at the Cameroon Human Trafficking

Institute who gave the highest ranking to the statement,

“The Institute has inspired me to start a dialogue on human

trafficking at work.”

Months after government officials participated in Vital Voices’

Cameroon human trafficking Institute, Cameroon’s Parliament

adopted a revised human trafficking law.

Child victims of human trafficking rescued by police

officer Sadou Lemenkreo using the skills he learned at the

Cameroon Human Trafficking Institute.

Percentage of participants who felt very high or

moderately high level of comfort, skill and experience

with their creativity and capacity to provide services

to survivors of sexual assault, after the Africa Regional

Program: Sexual Violence Institute.

LAUNCHED: Violence against women awareness campaign by Maria

Gabriela Hoch (delegate to Global Partnership to End Violence

Against Women) in Buenos Aires using a small grant from Vital Voices

and the Avon Foundation.

ADOPTED: Vital Voices’ recommended language that all United

States Attorneys Offices be required to designate one Assistant U.S.

Attorney as the “Point of Contact” for all Human Trafficking issues.

The requirement became effective in 2011.

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Connect them to other human rights leaders

around the world, potential funders and necessary partners in their own community including government

Provide training and technical assistance which enhance their professional development, the work of their respective NGOs and their ability to support the

broader communities they serve


SP TLIGHT: CameroonSadou Lemankreo, a police officer from the Maroua Region of Cameroon, attended Vital Voices’ Anti-Trafficking Institute for criminal justice professionals and NGO women leaders. Concerned about children in his region made to beg for money from passing motorists instead of attending school, Sadou opened an investigation and gathered evidence. Working with traditional rulers and local authorities, he created a task force that led to the successful rescue of 98 child victims of human trafficking.

With new strategies learned at the training, Sadou knew to call in social affairs officials to ensure that the children received medical treatment. All of the children have now been reunited with their families. Sadou convinced his boss at the police department to give him a vehicle so that he and his team can travel to all of the children’s communities and further educate their parents about the issue of human trafficking.


POLITICAL & public leadershipFrom national parliaments to local councils, women are internationally underrepresented in politics and policymaking.

Women’s global share in parliament representation is 19 percent. A growing body of research indicates that the advantages of women’s increased presence in the public sphere — greater transparency, education reform, health

reform, social development, higher standards of living — are too significant to be ignored. The World Bank’s 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development finds that inequalities in women’s representation undermine

development efforts and impede effective governance.

Opposite page:Participants in Emerging

Pacific Women’s

Leadership Program

– PACIFIC ISLANDS

FOCUS

Vital Voices concentrates its political programming on increasing women’s civil society engagement and removing barriers to women’s effective political participation.

We create opportunities for women’s full participation through trainings in policy advocacy, campaign organizing, coalition-building, and conflict resolution and peace building.

IMPACT

Global women leaders from Cambodia, Argentina,

Morocco, Liberia, Nigeria, East Timor, and Haiti convened

for the Global Women’s Leadership and Public Policy

Program, a two-day strategy session led by Vital Voices

to identify the needs of women government leaders and

map potential strategies and mechanisms to enhance

their capacity to govern effectively.

Year commitment was made with the New Zealand

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Australian

Agency for International Development to conduct a

program that trains women leaders from 12 Pacific

Island countries to advocate for women’s economic

opportunities and increased leadership in civil society.

Delegations comprised of 4 women each were trained

in Port Vila, Vanuatu to design and implement advocacy

campaigns to improve women’s economic opportunities

and leadership in their respective countries. The goals

of the various projects range from striving to influence

legislative and policy change to improve women’s labor

force participation to removing barriers to women’s

entrepreneurship.

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Samoa In December 2011, Vital Voices launched a 19-month program in Port Vila, Vanuatu, to train delegations from 12 Pacific Island countries to advocate for women’s economic opportunities and increased leadership in civil society. After the training, the Samoan delegation addressed rising unemployment and migration of women in the domestic work sector by building a program to professionalize, increase the status of, and certify training in domestic service work, at both residential and industrial levels. Twenty trainees have been recruited, graduated and placed in quality, career-track jobs.

This serves as a civic engagement model for expanding opportunities for more women in the region, and as noted by the Hon. Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi:

“The initiative of this project for women makes it an important addition to the collective efforts by the government, private sector, the church and civil society to promote and support the development and empowerment of women.”

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GLOBAL LEADERSHIP NETWORK FORMALIZED

In April 2011, Vital Voices held its inaugural Global Leadership Network (GLN) retreat in Washington, D.C. The GLN’s top women leaders from a range of experiences and geographies came together to chart a course for formalized collaboration and integration with Vital Voices. Priority areas were identified for strengthening the Network through targeted support. A fully staffed Global Leadership Network department was a direct outcome of the retreat, set up to provide high-touch individual support, networking and leadership and mentoring opportunities to accelerate their work.

FORTUNE/U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT GLOBAL WOMEN’S MENTORING PARTNERSHIP

Twenty-five women from 16 countries participated in the sixth year of the Fortune/U.S. State Department Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership. The program serves as a catalyst for rising women business leaders, and Vital Voices worked to integrate them into the Global Leadership Network, connecting alumnae internationally, and supporting their professional development through online education.

LEADERSHIP & mentoringMENTORING IS A CRITICAL PATH TO LEADERSHIP

Studies have proven how mentoring can impact decision-making power by providing leaders with tools to build their capacity in areas that will make them more effective. Leaders — women and men — must “pay it forward” by investing in women leaders: those whom are already in positions of power, and those on the cusp of reaching them. Mentorship can enable these women leaders to follow their instincts, make their voices heard, and drive

forward initiatives that channel the best talent up the leadership pipeline.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma was named Global Trailblazer – Voice of the Decade, at the 10th Annual Global Leadership Awards at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The award was presented by Vital Voices co-founder and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and celebrated onstage by many honorees from years past who represent the Vital Voices Global Leadership Network. Other women leaders honored for advancing economic empowerment, human rights and public leadership included:

• Sunitha Krishnan (India)

• Liron Peleg-Hadomi and

Noha Khatieb (Israel)

• Kah Walla (Cameroon)

• Fatema Akbari (Afghanistan)

2011 Global Leadership Awards

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TOP TO BOTTOM

Past honoree Mu Sochua pays tribute

to Global Trailblazer Aung San Suu

Kyi (silhouetted on screen); Global

Leadership Awards participants;

Bobbie Greene McCarthy, Sally Field,

Liron Peleg-Hadomi.


LEADERSHIP & mentoring

GLOBAL MENTORING WALKS

On November 19, 2011, Mentoring Walks in 10 countries drew established and rising women leaders to walk together in their communities. The Mentoring Walk unifies the Global Leadership Network while creating an opportunity to highlight the importance of women’s leadership, and accelerate the impact of women leaders through mentoring.

VITAL VOICES LEADERSHIP MODEL

Innovative Teaching Tool Launched

The leadership model is a blueprint drawn from 15 years of work with 12,000 women in 144 countries. It points to five key characteristics of successful women leaders shared by entrepreneurs, human rights advocates and policymakers who have demonstrated unique ways of leading and inspiring change in their communities. The model serves as the foundation of Alyse Nelson’s book, “Vital Voices: The Power of Women Leading Change Around the World,” and is taught in every one of our global programs. A modular curriculum will soon be available to allow for wider dissemination of the model’s practical application.

ANNpower

The ANNpower Vital Voices Initiative launched, empowering young women from across the United States to lead change in their communities and around the world. Vital Voices awarded 10 grants to fund projects such as a mentoring program for at-risk youth, an awareness campaign on teen dating violence, and an international feminist literary magazine.

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Nada Abandah, Jordan;

Mentoring Walk, Panama


Our international staff and team of over 1,000 partners, pro bono experts and leaders, including senior government, corporate and NGO executives, have trained and mentored more than 12,000 emerging women leaders from over 144 countries in Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East since 1997. These women have gone on to train and mentor more than 500,000 additional women and girls in their communities.

REGIONAL impact


FOCUS

African women leaders are changing this reality. Working with them, Vital Voices has created an innovative strategy to remove barriers to women’s inequality and accelerate women’s leadership in three ways:

IMPACT

Africa Businesswomen’s Network (ABWN)* leadership programs.

Grants made to ABWN Hubs for entrepreneurship

and supplier readiness programs.

Technical assistance days provided to Hubs for organizational

development and ensuring grant compliance.

Days in technical assistance provided to Hubs for

organizational development, training, & grant compliance

ABWN Hubs trained in Entrepreneurs in Handcrafts curriculum

and 3 trainings held.

African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program (AWEP)** leadership

and business development programs.

Women’s Entrepreneurship Development (WED) advocacy

workshops in Ghana and South Africa, serving 30 women leaders.

Corporate Ambassadors Programs in Nigeria and Uganda,

serving 400 women leaders.

Global Leadership Network members named finalists in the One

World Top 100 Unseen Power Women Changing the World:

Adelaide Foute, Marceline Kongolo-Bice and Fanny Chirisa.

*To accelerate economic growth for women to improve the quality of life on the continent, the ABWN was set up as a partnership between local African businesswomen’s associations (Hubs), Vital Voices and the ExxonMobilFoundation.

**To support African women business leaders, AWEP was launched as a United States Government International Visitors Program alongside the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum.

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Africa is poised to emerge as a leader in economic, political and social development in the coming decade. The continent boasts several of the world’s fastest growing economies; its civil societies are becoming increasingly

participatory. Yet, vast inequality threatens this potential, with women in sub-Saharan Africa facing the most extreme levels of gender inequality in the world.

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Opposite page:Jacqueline Ndongmo,

Cameroon;

Matshepo Msibi, South

Africa

Connect women leaders in

a regional network

Invest in women businessleaders Provide a platform for

women leaders’perspectives


Africa Businesswomen’s Network (ABWN)

SUPPLIER DIVERSITY PROGRAM SUCCESS

Joy Lwanga of Uganda, a farmer and member of Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association Limited (UWEAL), was a participant in the Vital Voices-led 2010 ABWN Supplier Diversity Program. By November 2011, Joy reported that she had increased the number of local and regional supermarkets she supplies to, doubled her sales, increased her staff by 33%, and increased to 10 the number of small farms producing for her business. She is pursuing financing to purchase land and equipment to increase production, and to begin to supply additional supermarket chains within Uganda and in Kenya and South Africa.

WOMEN BUSINESS LEADERS PAYING IT FORWARD

Betsy Ings, member of the Businesswomen’s Association of South Africa (BWASA), attended the Women’s Entrepreneurship Development (WED) Training of Trainers which led to specialized training through our partnership with the International Labor Organization (ILO). Armed with new knowledge and skills she personally trained 144 women in business development and entrepreneurship in 2011.

Says Betsy: “If Vital Voices did not support BWA and have a relationship with the ILO I would never had the privilege to become a WED-accredited provider and support my fellow businesswomen. It was great to share with ladies from Haiti, Hawaii and Africa and tell them the importance of partners like Vital Voices — who make the difference to women on the ground impacting our businesses and investing in us on a personal level.”

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Vital Voices chapters throughout LAC offer robust

leadership, mentoring and entrepreneurship training in

Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua,

Panama, and Peru.

Vital Voices affiliates offer support to women leaders in

Brazil, Haiti and Venezuela.

Women and men who benefited from Vital

Voices and chapter programming.

LATIN AMERICA & the caribbeanOur work in Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC) is guided by the belief that investing in women-owned enterprises is an investment in human capital that will help drive sustainable regional growth. Vital

Voices and its local chapters provide training workshops and mentoring programs to support women leaders accelerating progress in their communities.

FOCUS

Vital Voices has created an innovative strategy to accelerate women’s integration into the global and regional economy and develop the next generation of women business leaders:

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Invest in local chapters and in

networks

Invest in women entrepreneurs at the SME level (small and medium enterprise)

Opposite page:Panmela Castro, Brazil;

Ana Zavala, Nicaragua

LAUNCHEDThe LAC Businesswomen’s Network — piloted in Argentina,

Guatemala and Nicaragua


NicaraguaAna Zavala’s eyes were opened to the plight of Nicaraguan women by the first leadership training program she led. “Twenty-five women from Managua participated, and during one self-esteem program, several of these women began to cry,” recalls Ana. “I was suddenly aware of the needs of women in my country, especially the need for support. I realized that sometimes people live in their own bubble and don’t realize what others are facing in life.”

For Ana, serving those needs meant helping them to overcome challenges — discrimination, lack of economic and educational opportunities, and pressures of family and career complicated by single motherhood or domestic abuse.

“Women are already becoming more conscious of their importance to society, especially in areas where there is more oppression. Communication networks have contributed to open spaces for women worldwide,” says Ana.

Ana Zavala is executive director of Voces Vitales Nicaragua.

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MIDDLE EAST & north africaThe transitions taking place in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region today present new opportunities

for women. The political and social landscape is shifting to allow for expanded civic participation, greater economic opportunities and promotion of human rights.

Vital Voices works with regional networks of women to increase opportunities in economic development and public life. Our capacity-building workshops and mentoring programs empower women leaders across the region.

FOCUS

Working with women in the MENA region, Vital Voices has created an innovative strategy to:

IMPACT

ADVOCACY

Percent of workshop participants are engaged in advocacy

campaigns.

Percent of workshop participants are active in civil society

organizations.

Number of people reached by MENA programming.

The Advocacy and Public-Private Dialogue Toolkit was launched

to provide advocates with a practical guide to create and manage

advocacy campaigns and utilize public-private dialogue as a means

to achieving positive outcomes.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTWorking with Vital Voices’ support through 2011, the MENA BWN

implemented a total of 78 activities and nine direct grants across

10 participating countries and reaching over 6,100 individuals.

The events ranged from small scale local debates aimed at raising

awareness of the importance of women’s economic participation, to

large scale Corporate Ambassador conferences.

KEY OUTCOMES FROM JANUARY 2010 THROUGH JUNE 2011:

New businesses started by female participants of the

MENA BWN.

Percentage of MENA BWN program participants

reporting increase in business revenue.

Members of MENA BWN Hubs.

Percentage of MENA BWN program participants

reporting new business-to-business contacts.

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Build and strengthen women’s regional

networks

Provide global visibility to

women in the region

Bring partnerships, trainings and

resources to address women’s issues

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Economic Development and AdvocacyMIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA BUSINESSWOMAN’S NETWORK (MENA BWN)

With funding from the U.S. Department of State, Vital Voices began establishing the MENA BWN and growing its Hubs in 2007, guiding it to independence as its own NGO registered in Bahrain. We now work in partnership with the MENA BWN to cultivate women business leaders, catalyze growth of high impact businesses, and contribute to a more enabling environment for women’s economic engagement.

The desire for economic opportunity and growth was among the reasons propelling the 2011 Arab Spring. Vital Voices’ partnership with the MENA BWN proved crucial in supporting the regions’ immediate needs of entrepreneurship and job creation.

The Association for Women’s Total Advancement and Development (AWTAD), the Egypt MENA BWN hub, never shut its doors to women in Egypt during protests in early 2011. In fact, the community of business owners and professional women persevered and increased its membership by 32 percent through program and mentoring services for its constituencies, including workshops, seminars, collective bargaining training, debates, and networking opportunities. AWTAD leveraged the MENA BWN to expand its outreach to targeted communities while running programs in a politically unstable and insecure environment.

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ADVOCACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

In 2011, Vital Voices was working with women advocates as fundamental shifts were occurring throughout the region. From Algeria to Yemen, Vital Voices supported women during a time of uncertainty and change. Fewer than 10 days after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power, Vital Voices brought together 40 leaders from 10 countries to Amman, Jordan for the first Policy Advocates Network workshop.

The attendees shared their successes, found strength in each other, drew inspiration and ideas, and created a bond that could not be broken. By providing them advocacy training, a network to draw on, and worldwide support from Vital Voices Global Leadership Network, Vital Voices supported them in designing advocacy campaigns to address pressing issues in each country. For the rest of this challenging year, Vital Voices worked side by side with the advocates to navigate their changing environments and support them through risk and reward.

“It’s important to see women’s rights as political rights. But we don’t expect it to be easy. Tahrir Square was a utopia, and society doesn’t change in 15 minutes.” – MOZN HASSAN, EGYPTIAN ACTIVIST


Vital Voices is grateful for the public and private partners who are a key component of our success. With critical

financial support, many of our partners also lend world-class industry expertise that we can leverage to help advance

women in the countries where we work.

Ever since then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton founded Vital Voices and through its transition to a nonprofit, non-governmental organization, we have thrived with strong

financial support and partnerships with both Republican and Democratic administrations.

LEVERAGING your investment


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ANN INC.Bank of AmericaCH2M HILLDiller - von Furstenberg Family FoundationExxonMobil FoundationGoldman Sachs Humanity UnitedPaul E. Singer FoundationThe Boeing CompanyTracy and Jay Snyder

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Abbott LaboratoriesClinton Family FoundationEmbassy of the United Arab EmiratesMicrosoftStandard Chartered BankSymantecThe Buffin FoundationWells Fargo

$25,000 – $49,999

Avon Products, Inc.Charles Stewart Mott FoundationChevronDeloitteSonnie and Bill Dockser, The Dockser Family FoundationErnst & YoungSamia and A. Huda FaroukiGoogleING Intel FoundationLexisNexisMarlene and Fred MalekMarathon Oil CorporationVicki and Roger SantSusie Tompkins Buell FoundationThe Coca-Cola CompanyThe Jenzabar FoundationWalmart

$10,000 – $24,999

Bingham McCutchen LLPSusan ChambersCathy CoughlinSusan Ann DavisDHLEmergent Bio Solutions Nancy FolgerDina Habib PowellHilton WorldwideDr. Karen Otazo and John HofmeisterCurtis HuffAmbassador Craig JohnstoneMary K. FordMarchon EyewearDonna and Mack McLartyNewsweek/Daily BeastOakwood FoundationPaul Hastings LLPDeborah RoseAndrea Stern FerrisSusan Bacher FundRoselyne Chroman SwigThe Marshall Family FoundationTupperware Brands CorporationUnited Nations FoundationVerizonXO Communications

MAJOR contributorsThank you to our major contributors who helped to support our programs in 2011. Every effort has been made to

ensure a complete and accurate list. We regret any errors or omissions and ask that they be brought to the attention of the Washington, DC office.


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4AWoman Akbaraly Foundation Iman M. AbdulmajidTracy and Adam BernsteinCommunity Foundation for the National Capital RegionDina and Irl Cramer Mary Davis HoltGeller & CompanyBaroness Mary GoudieHewlett PackardDavid R. JonesCindi LeiveSusan and John MageeJoy Miranne-ManganoKristin MuhlnerQualcommFrederic RandallJane E. ShawSusan G. Komen for the Cure The Austin Hearst FoundationThe McCall Family FoundationJoan and Fred Weisman

$2,500 – $4,999

Amgen, Inc.Tauba AuerbachBuffy CafritzCarl E. Kessler Family FoundationPaul R. Charron Julie DobsonThe Honorable and Mrs. Melvyn J. EstrinGeorge Family FoundationFerman Family Charitable Foundation Stephenie Foster Elizabeth Frawley BagleyHarman Family FoundationHolly Peterson FoundationMary Lynn and Nick Kotz

Patrick and Bobbie Greene McCarthyMegan MirzaV. Sue MolinaSusan NittmannPorter NovelliThe Charles S. Curry and Molly M. Davenport FundThe Leon FoundationThomson ReutersSara J. VandepeuteLarry WhitlowWomenetics

$1,000 – $2,499

Jessica AbrahamsAmerican Beverage Association APCO WorldwideAst Partnership for Brighter Tomorrows Janet B. AbramsRita Braver and Robert B. BarnettWendy Benchley and John JeppsonLisa BernsteinWilma and Stuart BernsteinSandra BertschJaspal BindraNina BlackwellLynn & Wolf BlitzerCarol and John BoocheverLorraine BraccoKatherine and David BradleyChris and James BridgemanCarolyn BrodyBinta Niambi BrownElsa BruleBetty BumpersBunny Klein Family Fund Calvin KleinJulia Carpenter-HubinSusan E. CarterCellarius Shelvey Family Charitable Fund

Center for Women Policy StudiesJoan ChallinorAudra ChristieSeth CohenDebra Lerner CohenKatherine CollinsElizabeth L. ColtonAmy ConroyDeb and Steve ConverCreative Artists AgencyGeena DavisAlexandra and Arnaud de BorchgraveEllen DirenfeldVirgina Dondy GreenJackie and Ken DubersteinThelma DugginAnita DunnSusan E. TreesMark EinElliott Family FundSarah G. Epstein and Donald A. Collins EpsteinSusan Esserman and Andy MarksEdie FraserFrontier CommunicationsJerilyn GallowayHeide Gardner Norma GernonGerson Family FoundationGifts In Kind InternationalAlma and Joseph GildenhornGlamour MagazineCynthia and Leonard GlassmanSusan GlendinningSari GluckinCarol Brown GoldbergRuth Y. GoldwaySusan GoodallDeborah GreenLudy and Joseph GreenEliza GriswoldPeter HaleviAnn and Lloyd Hand

MAJOR contributors


Deborah L. HarmonHolly HassettKathleen HendrixLori HollandHenrietta Holsman ForeHolly HornBetty HudsonNola HuffmanLarry IrvingLisa Kountoupes and Jack SavaFariba JahanbaniChristine JahnkeJBS InternationalNancy Kassebaum BakerMarianne KelerAnn and Tom KorologosJudy and Peter Kovler, Kovler Family FoundationJill KramerCarolyn Lamm and Peter HalleCarol LancasterAngela Lancaster and C.F. Muckenfuss IIIJames LawrenceDebra Lehman-SmithBarbara LeitermanStephanie and Keith LemerAnnette and Theodore Lerner FoundationAnn Lewis and Mike SponderBeth and Daryl LibowDianne Chasen LipseySusan M. LissTheresa Loar and Richard BonsignorePatricia and Kenneth LoreCarol and Eugene LudwigMary M. RaiserCarol and Peter MackMary MacPhersonEmily MadanShaista Mahmood and Ambassador Rafat Mahmood

Kathleen ManattDaniel MarkwalderSusan MarsGiselle MazierAnita McBrideSara McCrackenCynthia McFaddenMary Lou and Bob McGeeDebby and Dan McGinnSusan and Lee McIntireBeverly McKeeFaye MehrespandBarbara MillerGerrish MillikenCarolyn and Jim MillsteinLilly Liu MinkoveJulia MooneyNancy & Bruce MorrisonLissa Muscatine and Bradley GrahamNational Women’s Law CenterAlyse NelsonLynne Nelson and Sarah Kate FishbackSusan Ness and Larry SchneiderBeth Newburger and Richard SchwartzSarah NixonHilda Ochoa-BrillemborgKaren O’ConnorNgozi Okonjo-IwealaDiane Orentlicher and Morton H. HalperinSheri L. OrlowitzMaureen OrthPacific Trade International, Inc.Sharon PatrickSusan K. PatrickElizabeth PeabodyGreg PellegrinoCarol and David PenskyMarjorie PetersonPeter Peterson

Sally PetersonThomas and Alice PickeringJan PiercyDeborah PiltchNancy Prager-Kamel and Dr. Ahmed KamelHonorable Donald Rappaport and Susan RappaportEileen White Read and Charles C. ReadPamela ReevesMimi and Lorin ReisnerElaine ReubenRobbie RichAlva RoaneAndrea RoaneJoseph F. RodaVictoria and Thomas RollinsSherrie Rollins WestinLois Romano and the Honorable Sven Holmes Annette Roque LauerNancy and Miles RubinKaren RuckmanKausar SaeedXimena and Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada Kristy Le and Howard SchiffmanJaime and Andrew SchwartzbergDaniel SharfmanJane E. ShawJoan and Clyde ShoreyAnne Simmons-BentonLuba and O. John SkubiakTamara SlawyczLiz SmithJane Watson Stetson and Eugene William Stetson IIIElizabeth G. StevensAnn and Stuart StockLauren and Curtis Stone Patty Stonesifer & Michael KinsleyConnie Sullivan


Sunny’s Worldwide Chauffered TransportationDeborah Tannen and Michael MacovskiSandra TaylorAmy TercekThe Benlinda Stronach FoundationThe George C. Marshall FoundationThe Hester GroupThe Kean FoundationThe Mayo Charitable FoundationThe Northern Trust CompanyTia Cudahy & Redmond WalshRicki Tigert Helfer and Michael S. HelferChristine TranNancy TuorJudy and Howard UdellRuth B. UsemToni G. VerstandigAmbassadors Melanne and Phillip VerveerMartha and Robert VicasVital Choice Wild Seafood & OrganicsSusan WagnerElizabeth WaltersJulie WentzNancy WergelesStuart WesslerCarol & Tom WheelerWilkinson, Barker, Knauer, LLPConstance WilliamsJane WilnerWomen and Politics Institute Women’s Foreign Policy GroupElizabeth and Kevin WregeMary and John YerrickJay Zimmerman & Margaret ChildWilliam Zysblat

$500 – $999

Whitney & Alvin AllgoodBeulah AmsterdamGene BarndtBender Foundation, Inc.Lisa and Jeff BennettEleanor BergsteinKathy BonkVictoria BranderRoss BremnerScott BrunjesRabab ButtiLisa Caputo and Rick MorrisBetty ChadwickAnna ChaveValerie ColemanConde Nast PublicationsDeborah Finlay ConverRoberta CooperBarbara CoopermanSarah CristobalGordon CrovitzSheryl CulverJanice CurtinKiran DalviChar DavidsonGulnar DjeddaouiColleen DoylePaula FeeneyFidelity Charitable Gift FundFirst GivingLauri Fitz-PegadoKathleen FoxMarie FrickMeg Galloway PearceThe Traveler’s CollectionGE Foundation Matching DonationGeorge Straley Foundation William GerritySusan Goodall Gayle GreeneSusan Griffin

Neil GrossmanLaura Handman and Harold IckesNicole HauspurgRonald HerringKori HigginsPatricia Foley HinnenMichele and Brian HolawayLaura HutchisonDeborah JalladAusra KaminskasHeeral KotaJoanne KrantzKevin LambertJanet P. LaneRobert LehrmanDavid LittMichael MacLeodPhyllis MakovskyKaren and George MarcouJill MaysMelissa McGooganMcKenna Long & Aldridge, LLPAndrea MitchellDavid MoffittSusan MorrisJulian MulveyCarol and Ali NasrPamela NelsonJohn NeumannCarmen NiethammerKathryn O’L HigginsRobert OverbeckLaura PasternakCheryl PattersonPerl-Goldman Family FundJoan Pollitt and Mike BarnesShelly PorgesDawn PorterDaniel PulsDeborah RosenCandace RossCathie and Rob RossBetty Sams

MAJOR contributors


Aditya SanyalMyles SeidemanBarbara ShaneSheku SheikholeslamiSusan SmithSoroptimist International of CalistogaLaurie SpenglerElizabeth StantonDianne StebbinsAnna StewartPamela TakiffPeng Geok TanLisa and Charles TeixeiraMonika TorreyMarjolein van der MeulenDiane and Joe VandepeuteNancy VickWilliam WalterPatricia WebbWomen Alone Together


IMPACT through partnershipsVital Voices supports a global network of 12,000 women in 144 countries. In 2011, we trained and mentored 1,543 women from 77 countries. This was made possible with generous financial support from individuals, foundations, corporations and government agencies. We also work through programmatic and advocacy

partnerships with academic and research institutions, non-governmental organizations, the diplomatic community, design and retail outlets, and media.

CORPORATIONSANN INC. Avon Foundation for WomenBank of America Merrill LynchBloomingdale’sBridge for AfricaCarolina HerreraChevronDiane von Furstenberg ExxonMobil FoundationWalmartFairwinds TradingFedExSymantec

GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT BANKSAustralian Agency for International Development (AusAID)Embassy of CanadaEmbassy of NorwayEmbassy of SwedenHaitian Chamber of CommerceInternational Labour Organization (ILO)New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and TradeSecretariat of the Economy of MexicoUnited States Agency for International Development (USAID)United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

U.S. Department of StateU.S. Department of State – Middle East Partnership InitiativeU.S. Chamber of Commerce The World Bank GroupWorld Bank Women in Business and World Bank Africa Region

NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONSThe Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST)Al Gisr for Civil SocietyAl Hayat for Civil Society DevelopmentAlaoun Social Association for DevelopmentArab American Institute (AAI)Baghdad Women’s AssociationBahrain Women’s UnionThe Brookings InstitutionBusiness Civic Leadership CenterCouncil of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)Dubai DebatesThe EldersFoundation for the FutureGirls Not BridesHumanity UnitedThe Institute for Inclusive Security - Hunt Alternatives Fund

International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)ISIS Center for Women and DevelopmentLa Pietra CoalitionMeridian International CenterNational Museum for Women in the Arts (NMWA)The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV)Nes AmmimNkumu Fed FedRise with the PrizeSHATILWomen in the World FoundationWomenetics The World Justice Project

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONSArizona State University New York UniversityUniversity of ArkansasUniversity of Miami

MEDIAChange Your World!—Yahoo! Business & Human Rights Summit on Women, Technology and Social/Digital MediaThe Economist Intelligence Unit FORTUNE

2011


Glamour Newsweek and The Daily BeastThomson ReutersWashingtonianWomen, War & Peace

VITAL VOICES CHAPTERSVoces Vitales ArgentinaVoces Vitales El SalvadorVoces Vitales GuatemalaVoces Vitales HondurasVoces Vitales NicaraguaVoces Vitales PanamaVoces Vitales PeruVital Voices Poland

VITAL VOICES AFFILIATES Voces Vitales VenezuelaElas por Elas: Vozes e Ações das Mulheres (Brazil)Femmes en Démocratie (Haiti)

AFRICA BUSINESSWOMEN’S NETWORK HUBSBusinesswomen’s Association of South Africa (BWASA)Kenya Association of Women Business Owners (KAWBO)Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ)

Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association Limited (UWEAL)

MENA BUSINESSWOMEN’S NETWORK HUBSAssociation des Algériennes Managers et EntrepreneursAssociation des Femmes Chefs d’Entreprises du Maroc Association for Women’s Total Advancement & Development Bahraini Business Women Society (BBS)Business and Professional Women – Amman Business Women Forum – Palestine Chambre Nationale des Femmes Chefs d’EntreprisesDubai Business Women’s Council Lebanese League for Women in Business Qatar Businesswomen Association

LEGALPaul Hastings LLP


FINANCIAL statements

INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT TO THE BOARD OFDIRECTORS OF VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP

We have audited the accompanying statement of financial position of Vital VoicesGlobal Partnership, Inc. (Vital Voices) as of December 31, 2011, and the relatedstatements of activities, functional expenses and cash flows for the year then ended.These financial statements are the responsibility of Vital Voices’ management. Ourresponsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.The prior year summarized comparative information has been derived from VitalVoices’ 2010 financial statements and, in our report dated August 11, 2011, we expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements.

We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of Vital Voices’ internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and the significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Vital Voices Global Partnership, Inc. as of December 31, 2011, and the changes in its net assets and its cash flows for the year then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

RAFFA, P.C.Washington, DCJuly 29, 2012


REVENUE SOURCES 2011

EXPENSES 2011*

Women’s Global Leadership Network32.94%

Fundraising- Cost of Direct Benefit to Donors.93%

Development and Fundraising7.12%

Public Engagement and Awareness3.01%

Human Rights and Anti-Trafficking

12.21%

Leadership Training27.17%

Management and General17.62%

Grants and Contributions66.23%

Other Revenue .07%

Donated Services.58%

Federal Grants and Contracts17.55%

Special Events Revenue15.57%

*Prior to Management and General Expense Allocation


STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

DECEMBER 31, 2011

ASSETS

Cash and cash equivalents $ 3,734,037Contributions receivable, net 2,733,774Federal grants and contracts receivable 258,780Accounts receivable 58,011Inventory 17,576Prepaid expenses 178,850Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation andamortization of $203,437 as of December 31, 2011 54,625

TOTAL ASSETS $ 7,035,653

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

LIABILITIESAccounts payable and accrued expenses $ 498,035Accrued leave 58,885Federal refundable advances -Deferred revenue 53,333Funds held on behalf of others 3,828Deferred rent 144,106

TOTAL LIABILITIES 758,187

NET ASSETSUnrestricted 1,525,047Temporarily restricted 4,752,419

TOTAL NET ASSETS 6,277,466

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $ 7,035,653


STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

DECEMBER 31, 2011

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES

FOR THE YEAR END DECEMBER 31, 2011

REVENUE AND SUPPORT

UNRESTRICTED TEMPORARILY 2011 RESTRICTED TOTAL

Grants and contributions $488,115 $5,154,796 $5,642,911Federal grants and contracts 1,495,714 - 1,495,714Special events revenue 1,271,383 55,000 1,326,383Donated services 49,584 - 49,584Interest income 351 - 351Other revenue 5,652 - 5,652Release from restrictions:Satisfaction of program restrictions 6,664,755 (6,664, 755) -Satisfaction oftime restrictions 250,000 (250,000) -

TOTAL REVENUE AND SUPPORT 10,225,554 (1,704,959) 8,520,595

EXPENSES

PROGRAM SERVICES:Women’s Global Leadership Network 3,974,744 - 3,974,744Leadership Training 3,154,708 - 3,154,708Human Rights and Anti-Trafficking 1,473,780 - 1,473,780Public Engagement and Awareness 362,883 - 362,883Monitoring and Evaluation - - -

TOTAL PROGRAM SERVICES 8,966,115 - 8,966,115

SUPPORTING SERVICES:Management and general 43,078 - 43,078Development and fundraising 877,583 - 877,583Fundraising - cost of direct benefit to donors 92,790 - 92,790

TOTAL SUPPORTING SERVICES 1,013,451 - 1,013,451

TOTAL EXPENSES 9,979,566 - 9,979,566

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS 245,988 (1,704,959) (I,458,971)

NET ASSETS, BEGINNlNG OF YEAR 1,279,059 6,457,378 7,736,437

NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR $1,525,047 $4,752,419 $6,277,466


LEADERSHIP

VITAL VOICES FOUNDER

THE HONORABLEHILLARY RODHAM CLINTONU.S. Secretary of State VITAL VOICES HONORARY CHAIRS

THE HONORABLE NANCY KASSEBAUM BAKERFormer United States Senator (R-KS) THE HONORABLE KAY BAILEY HUTCHISONUnited States Senator (R-TX)

Vital Voices owes its success to the commitment and guidance of talented professionals drawn from a range of expertise and experiences. Our diverse Board of Directors provides the leadership, skills and passion we

rely on to advance women’s leadership around the world.

Opposite page:Vital Voices

2011 Board

of Directors


Jaspal BindraBeth BrookePaul CharronTia CudahyDeborah DingellAmbassador Paula J. DobrianskySonnie DockserSamia FaroukiSally FieldCarly FiorinaMary C. FoersterNancy FolgerBaroness Mary GoudieLorie JacksonKate JamesAmbassador Craig JohnstoneDr. Alice KandellDr. Carol Lancaster Marlene MalekJudith McHale

Donna Cochran McLartyV. Sue MolinaSusan NessDr. Karen Otazo HofmeisterDina Habib PowellNancy Prager-KamelVictoria SantRoselyne SwigKathleen VaughanDiane von FurstenbergMary Daley Yerrick

Emeriti:Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley BagleyBetty BumpersDr. Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaJan PiercyAmbassador Melanne Verveer

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Susan Ann DavisCHAIR

Bobbie Greene McCarthyVICE CHAIR

Alyse NelsonPRESIDENT AND CEO


VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP

1625 Massachusetts Ave., NW

Washington, D.C. 20036

202.861.2625 (main)

202.296.4142 (fax)

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www.vitalvoices.org

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