Smile Train Inc.

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

May 5, 2012

Return Version

2012v2.3

Gross Receipts

$98,974,055

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAM: Every year, people in developing countries isolate or abandon their newborn babies because they don't know a cleft is a simple birth defect and not a "curse from God." Thousands of children with clefts are never brought to hospitals for treatment because their parents don't know clefts are treatable. Thousands of people in developing countries come to Smile Train for information on how to find a good cleft team and how to take care of their newborn babies with clefts. Through direct mail, websites, newspapers, radio, TV, public service announcements, documentaries, public relations, social media, etc., we raise public awareness about clefts in developing countries and in the United States.

Activity 3

Training program: Smile Train provides free training and education to cleft care professionals in 75+ countries around the world. Access to education and training opportunities is critical to Smile Train's mission of empowering local medical teams to provide safe, high-quality cleft care. Over the past 14 years, we have provided support for more than 1,485 medical conferences and training opportunities to improve cleft treatment in the developing world. Smile Train supports hands-on and workshop-based training opportunities to improve the skill level of cleft care professionals in the developing world. Recent initiatives have focused on supporting training programs for cleft care nurses and anesthesiologists, including the development of the Smile Train Safe Nursing Care Saves Lives program in Africa. This course was piloted in six countries in Africa and will now be scaled in more regions around the world. Smile train is innovative in its approach to provide quality training to medical professionals worldwide. In the developing world, surgeons often do not have access to the latest innovative techniques and updated protocols for cleft surgery. Smile Train partners have conducted over 900,000 surgeries worldwide and lacking access to such resources can be a barrier to their continuing education and quality improvement. Smile Train recognized this problem and since 1999 has distributed free virtual surgery training materials to 40,000+ medical professionals in 149 countries around the world. Smile Train took this technology to the next level and in May 2013, released the first open-access, web-based, interactive Virtual Surgery Simulator designed to enhance training for surgeons on how to repair clefts. The Simulator links state-of-art surgical resources to the most remote parts of the world, and changes the paradigm of surgical training internationally. The Simulator was distributed to 1100+ Smile Train partner surgeons worldwide. In Fiscal Year 2013, Smile Train confirmed users of the system in 43 countries around the world, including places where over half the population lives below the poverty level and where the per capital annual income is less than $500 per year. Through this unique approach Smile Train has leveraged technology to change the course of medical education while also improving the lives of children born with cleft in the developing world.

Filer

EIN

13-3661416