Ubuntu Education Fund Inc

“Draft of form 990 is delivered to jacob lief for distribution and review by all members of the board of directors.”

“Conflict of interest policy is reviewed periodically by board members. All parties are educated on such policy for disclosure is mandatory.”

“Ubuntu education fund's board of directors has a compensation committee made up of three individuals. The committee meets three times a year to discuss and review the performance criteria and compensation levels of the company's executives, as well as to review the salary structure for the entire organization. The committee bases its decisions on objective, documented and comparable data. The primary responsibilities of the committee are listed below: 1. Establish and review the organization's overall managment compensation philosophy and policy. 2. Review and approve the organization's goals and objectives relevant to the compensation of the organization's key executives, including annual performance goals and objectives. 3. Oversee compliance with the compensation policies and procedures and the terms of employment contracts. 4. Review and authorize employment, compensation, benefit and severance agreements with key executives. 5. Evaluate, at least annually, the performance of the key executives against the organization's goals and objectives, including the annual performance objectives, and based upon this evaluation, determine and approve (or recommend to the board for approval in the case of the ceo) the compensation level (including incentive awards and material perquisites) for the key executives, reviewing as appropriate, any agreement or understanding relating to their employment, incentive compensation, or other benefits based on this evaluation. 6. Determine and approve the compensation level (including incentive awards and perquisites) for other members of management of the organization as the committtee or the board may from time to time determine to be appropriate. 7. Review on a periodic basis the organization's management compensation programs, including management incentive compensation plans, as well as plans and policies pertaining to perquisites, to determine that they are appropriate, properly coordinated and achieve their intended purpose(s). Recommend to the board any appropriate modifications or new plans or programs. 8. Review and recommend to the board incentive compensation plans of the organization and any modifications of such plans, and review, at least annually, the awards made pursuant to such plans. 9. Review and recommend to the board any changes in employee retirement plans and programs, or other employee benefit plans and programs. 10. Maintain minutes of meetings and regularly report to the board on committee findings, recommendations, actions, and other matters the committee deems appropriate or the board requests.”

“Financial statements available upon request and on website”

“Mission ubuntu provides world-class health and educational support to orphaned and vulnerable children of port elizabeth, south africa, ensuring they can access higher education and employment. Ubuntu's mission is simple, all-encompassing and radical: to help raise township children by providing what all children deserve - everything.”

“Ubuntu transforms the lives of 2,000 children and their families. Health 1. Develop the province's leading hiv health clinic for vulnerable children and their caregivers. 2. Increase access to life-saving medicine for hiv-positive children and their caregivers. 3. Ensure hiv-positive pregnant women have access to drugs that prevent transmission of the virus to their children. 4. Provide access to hiv testing for children and their families. 5. Ensure each child in our program is regularly seen by a doctor.”

“Education: preschool-grade 12 1. Provide intensive, high quality education from early childhood through grade 12 through the organization's own independent primary school, the ubuntu school, to ensure access to university and employment. 2. Improve school attendence. 3. Improve academic performance. 4. Provide after-school and weekend programming as well as holiday camps to ensure our children are both safe and learning during non- school hours. 5. Improve student level of life skills and self-confidence. 6. Increase the number of vulnerable children graduating from high school and university. 7. Ensure our students secure employment upon graduating. Education: university and training programs 1. Strengthen our university scholarship program. 2. Ensure our high school program prepares students to make informed decisions about their futures. 3. Provide more than 30 scholarships per year. 4. Provide financial, emotional, social and medical support for our children throughout the university. 5. Ensure students are paired with peer mentors from their communities to assist with difficult life choices.”

“Household stability 1. Strengthen our household stability initiative providing comprehensive social, medical and nutritional interventions in all our children's homes. 2. Ensure the homes of our children are helathy, clean, safe and tb-free. 3. Improve food security for vulnerable households. 4. Decrease levels of transactional sex for girls in vulnerable households. 5. Ensure all child-headed households are secure and have adequate resources to support the family.sustainability 1. Invest in ubuntu's institutional capacity to ensure that we develop into a truly sustainable organization. 2. Create a foundation of systems, policies and protocols to further strengthen the hr department and inculcate our unique mangagement culture. 3. Empower our team and ensure succession planning by further developing and training our staff. 4. Rebrand ubuntu and launch a digital platform to further mobilize a community of global supporters. 5. Complete physical upgrades and renovations of the ubuntu center. 6. Transform the complex into a world-class health and education campus. Recent achievements and recognition internal achievements: 1. Ubuntu continues to provide comprehensive services to 2,000 orphaned and vulnerable children, ensuring that they are stabilized on our "cradle to career" pathway. 2. 100% of ubuntu's expecting hiv-positive mothers gave birth to hiv-negative babies in our prevention of mother-to-child transmission program. 3. 90% of students in our future leaders program passed the matric exam, meaning they are eligible to apply for university. 4. Our mother and child hiv treatment clinic continues to be a bastion of safety for our community - our retention rate in our clinical programs remained above 92%. 5. Our ubuntu pathways program, which targets non-university track students, had a second successful year with 66% of our participants having secured steady employment. 6. We saw a 99% retension rate in our early childhood development program. 7. Our household stability program is the core of everything we do at ubuntu. Over the past year, we conducted home assessments and developed individual case management plans for over 250 families which included services like child protection support and security upgrades to ensure homes were safe. External achievements 1. We hosted an incredibly successful gala in new york city raising over $900,000. 2. Ubuntu partnered with the university of pennsylvania's center for high impact philanthropy to produce and launch the philanthropy unfiltered podcast series, hosted by jacob lief. 3. Ubuntu hosted highly successful social events in new york, london and los angeles raising over $100,000. 4. Ubuntu was highlighted at the 2016 clinton global initiative annual meeting.”

“Draft financial statements are presented to the board of directors for review and comments.”

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