Tayba Foundation

“An informed member of the board made appropriate inquiries and preformed adequate inspection as relaing to the preperation of the exempt organizations return contents and positions taken.”

“Compliance was assured by disclosure and review.”

“The board reviews the compensation of the president on an annual basis. Currently the compensation is much below the comparable data from similar organizations.”

“All officer performs their services voluntarily except the president as mentioned above.”

“The board is also considering other avenues, including making such documents available on the website of the tayba foundation.”

“Program expenses:course materials 24,743 course shipping 28,125 telephone expenses 849 security 429 staff training 13,205 marketing and promotion 200 cash gifts 350 internet 2,990meals and entertainment 254software subscription 2,129merchant fees 10,194books 4,951re-entry support 1,437marketing software 345grant payments 300 management expenses: auto expenses: gas 174 bank fees 286 grant payments 1,112 meals and entertainment 54 security 92 software subscription 1,196utilities 2,180 fundraising expenses: marketing printing 18,814 fundraising events 5,361 security 92 marketing email service 2,909 software eubscriptions 1,963 training education 124meals and entertainment 54”

“Achievements during the year 2019:-added 2041 unique students from prisons across america of 12/31/19. This is in addition to the thousands more registered in previous years who continue to receive material from us. -maintained a presence, through our programs in over 500 state and federal prisons across 42 states. -1068 courses mailed to 917 individual students for spring 2019. -1230 courses sent to 908 individual students for fall 2019.-in addition to those courses, over 1500 introductory courses (islam 99) sent for the year to new students. -developed fiqh 100 as an introduction to the study of fiqh (islamic rules of practice of islam). -hired an education expert to conduct an extensive review of some of our courses to amend the course structure, assignments, and assessments to increase the learning experience and outcome for the students. -expanded our email system so students can have more direct access to the instructors to ask any questions they may have as they are studying the text so they are able to get an answer within a day or two of asking.-opened a tayba office branch in san bernardino.-successful fundraising project to secure over $120,000 to be used as a down payment for the purchase of a permanent location for our head office. -hired a new teacher who is also starting a msw program. He will also help in course development and representing tayba in southern california. -hired a program manager for our life skills department. -increased our reference library for developing life skills courses-two more life skill courses added; leadership and financial intelligence. -continued offering previous life skills courses to incarcerated students: anger management, employment, contentious relationships, cognitive awareness. -two life skills courses on addiction developed by tayba students currently incarcerated and supported in their development by sending necessary reading and research materials. -two tayba faculty members attended the 5th annual black muslim psychology conference on july 19-21,2019 presenting their paper titled changing the narrative: how tayba foundations el hajj malik shabazz distance learning program has helped to liberate the incarcerated african-american muslim convert (pre and post-release).-one tayba reentry coach who is a peer mentor and instructor completed a 2-week training to be a certified peer specialist and was certified in the state of georgia. The same person also completed a 5-day facilitator course in april for a skill that is key in peer mentoring. He is now a certified facilitator for that program. -two tayba coaches completed a 5-day facilitator course in december for a skill that is key in peer mentoring. -we met our stated goals for 2019 which were to: grow our presence to more prisons across the u.s, maintain our current enrolment level of 1400 islamic course packets delivered, increase our faculty to serve our students, increase our student outreach capacity to improve course completion rates, develop a 12-steps addiction program, hire a life skills program coordinator and developer, increase our capacity to grade student course submissions and reduce the time to return graded work to students, develop an introduction to the study of fiqh, addressing the key questions we constantly receive from our students and have at least one peer coach complete two major certifications that are recognized in the forensic peer mentoring field. Goals:-hire a financial controller to maintain a more precise budget. -revamp our relationship management software to enhance our individualized service to our students and clients. -enhancing hr policies and procedures for staff members and volunteers.-increase our capacity for academic coaching of our students.-improving existing processes for effective and efficient grade capturing.-maximize students knowledge retention through developing and enhancing existing learning goals.-improving our response time to students questions in order to enhance th”