Touch Foundation Inc

“Form 990, part i, line 1 and part iii, line 1 touch foundation inc. Is a secular non-profit organization committed to improving the health of the tanzanian population by strengthening the health system across different levels of care. Touch foundation expands its impact across tanzania and beyond by sharing the acquired knowledge with the local and international public health community.”

“Form 990, Part III, Line 4A Treat & Train Touch is strengthening the health system in Tanzania by establishing Treat & Train, an integrated healthcare and education network in the Lake Zone of Tanzania. Treat & Train focuses on two key elements of the system: 1) Increase the quantity and quality of the health workers; 2) Improve healthcare delivery mechanisms. The Treat & Train Network is built around two flagship institutions - Bugando Medical Centre (BMC), the specialty referral hospital for the Lake Zone of Tanzania, and its affiliated medical university, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences (CUHAS). Touch provides financial operational support (e.g. direct student costs, faculty salaries), capital/special projects funding (e.g. GIS mapping, community based research projects for students), and strategic advisory and capability building support (e.g. financial management, resource planning and allocation and fundraising). In the past 11 years, Touch has helped graduate 536 physicians (~17% of the country's total) and over 3,000 allied health care professionals. Each year Touch supports the education of ~2,700 students from CUHAS and BMC across 16 cadres including ~970 physicians, ~74 AMOs, and ~490 nurses. Through Touch's health system strengthening initiatives in the Lake Zone, it provides better care to more than 750,000 patients per year at Treat & Train Network facilities. Total Expenses - $2,189,247 Grants - $1,410,237 Revenue - $0”

“Form 990, Part III, Line 4B Mobilizing Maternal Health In FY15, Touch collaborated with Vodafone Foundation and Pathfinder International to implement the Mobilizing Maternal Health program and launch a closed-loop referral and transportation system between the rural communities and district facilities in the Sengerema district of Tanzania. Touch finalized the construction of a new C-section theatre and expanded maternity ward, and the renovation of the maternity waiting hostel at Sengerema district hospital. These facilities now provide care for high-risk deliveries as well as emergencies transported from the villages in the rural district. In FY15, Touch started replicating the program in Shinyanga District Council by setting up the transport and referral system across the different levels of care, building a new C-section theatre and expanding the maternity waiting hostel at the Shinyanga Regional Hospital. Total Expenses - $697,143 Grants - $420,706 Revenue - $0”

“Form 990, Part III, Line 4C Knowledge Management and Sharing In FY15, Touch continued to raise the profile of Health Systems Strengthening and Human Resources for Health within the national health community as well as across the global public health community. Touch continued to link its human resources for health and health systems strengthening efforts to national policy dialogue through regular participation in the Human Resources for Health (HRH) Technical Working Group and Reproductive and Child Health Safe Motherhood Working Group meetings at the Ministry of Health. Total Expenses - $225,982 Grants - $3,648 Revenue - $0”

“Form 990, Part III, Line 4D Other Program Services: Deployment and Retention In FY15, Touch worked closely with national level stakeholders to address the issues that prevent the government from deploying and retaining health workers in rural areas, where they are needed the most. Touch supported the government in developing a data-driven tool based on the World Health Organization (WHO) Workload Indicator of Staffing Needs (WISN) model for the analysis of staffing needs at the facility level. At the local level, Touch worked with the Sengerema and Shinyanga districts to produce HRH requests using the WISN tool and provided training on the tool itself. Touch also commenced work on retention with Sengerema and Shinyanga, with a review of the health worker onboarding processes and by the drafting of a New Starter Checklist designed to support Local Government Agencies in providing new workers with a positive first experience at their posting. Total Expenses - $195,820 Grants - $8,486 Revenue - $0 Other Programs (Program Development and Program General) Costs incurred in the support of current year programs and the development of future ones, including the development of a new e-Health program to strengthen BMC and CUHAS capacity to deliver high quality health services as well as training to health students. Total Expenses - $558,259 Grants - $177,205 Revenue - $0”

“Form 990, part vi, line 2 kevin curnin is a partner and david lowden is a special counsel of stroock & stroock & lavan llp.”

“Form 990, part vi, line 11b the form 990 was prepared by an independent accounting firm based on information provided by the organization and in consultation with touch foundation staff members and contracted accountants. The draft prepared by the accounting firm was then reviewed by touch foundation's legal counsel and by the foundation's finance, legal and audit committee. A copy of the form was provided to the board of directors prior to filing the form 990 with the irs.”

“Form 990, part vi, line 12c touch foundation has a well established conflict of interest policy. All of its directors, officers and key employees are required to review the policy annually and complete a notification of compliance form. Touch's legal counsel determines whether a conflict exists and resolves any actual conflicts. Any board member with a conflict in a matter requiring action by the board is prohibited from participating in the board's deliberations or decisions regarding the matter under consideration.”

“Form 990, part vi, line 15a and 15b compensation for senior management is determined and approved by the touch foundation board of directors on the recommendation of the independent compensation committee. No individuals with a conflict of interest may be involved in the compensation determination process. Comparability data for similarly qualified persons in functionally comparable positions at similarly situated organizations is prepared by the organization and reviewed annually by the compensation committee of the board of directors. The minutes of the board of directors and the compensation committee are contemporaneously documented with the board's and committee's deliberations and decisions regarding compensation.”

“Form 990, part vi, line 19 touch foundation does not currently make its governing documents or conflict of interest policy available to the public. The financial statements are available at www.touchfoundation.org.”