Literacy Bridge

“The 990 is emailed to all Board Members after review and approval by the Finance Committee, before it is filed with the IRS.”

“The Bylaws require annual disclosure of conficts of interest, which are reviewed at the annual meeting.”

“Currently, the Compensation Committee has only determined the salary of the Executive Director. The Compensation Committee had a series of discussions in September of 2013 to set the Executive Director's current salary. As in 2010, the Committee chose to set the salary by benchmarking comparable Executive Director salaries of nonprofits. The Committee used the compensation information provided on the GuideStar website as in 2010. In 2013, however, the Committee shifted away from benchmarking nonprofits in the Remedial Reading and Encouragement and instead switched to an All Industries comparison. This was done because Literacy Bridge's focus has always been much broader than reading and encouragement and there are no easy ways to identify and compare nonprofits that leverage technology to solve multiple problems across education, health, and information sharing. Finally, using the chart for Washington State, the Committee recommended to the Board to set the Executive Director's salary based on projected 2013 revenue of $100,000 - $200,000 at the 60th percentile. There was no incresae in salary for the Executive Director in 2015.”

“Governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are available upon request.”

“For the UNICEF program in Ghana, we released 11 packages of content on over 1,100 Talking Books reaching an estimated 40,000 people in 49 communities. Cumulatively as of December 2015, users have listened to 101,000 hours of agriculture messaging and 152,000 hours of health messaging. In 2015, we completed a qualitative and quantitative mid-line survey and results indicate that the Talking Book Program has made a significant, measurable contribution to positive change in malaria prevention, hand washing with soap, kindergarten enrollment, birth registration, and child marriage prevention.Our MEDA program in Ghana released 4 packages of content on over 500 Talking Books reaching 16,500 women with messages on agriculture, marketing, financial services, gender issues, value chain, and nutrition. We trained MEDA staff, local partners, and Lead Farmers on the functioning of the Talking Book and trained local partners on using the Audio Content Manager (ACM) so that uploading Talking Books may be delegated to local partners, increasing efficiency and lowering costs.Our CARE program in Ghana works with 62 Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) groups who use the Talking Book to learn about and build their capacity in agriculture, value chains, marketing, and gender. 4 packages of content were released on 64 Talking Books, reaching over 600 beneficiaries in 22 communities. Talking Book users reported an increase in their knowledge on prevention of post-harvest losses prevention and that the Talking Book, as a medium for addressing gender issues, helped change both men and womens beliefs about roles within the household and community.”