The Malala Fund

“Ziauddin yousafzai, board member and co-founder, is the father of malala yousafzai, board chair and co-founder.”

“After the form 990 is prepared by the malala fund's independent audit firm, it is reviewed by the management. A final version of the form is presented to the board of directors prior to filing. The form 990 is filed with the irs following final sign off by the board of directors.”

“Every year, all malala fund board members, officers and employees in decision-making positions must sign an official statement affirming that each person has received, read and understands the organization's conflict of interest policy and fully agrees to comply with the policy. Board members, officers and key employees must disclose in writing any and all items of actual or potential conflicts of interest and this list becomes widely available to all board members and the employees necessary to track and enforce compliance. Whenever any director, officer or key employee of the organization becomes aware that the malala fund is considering a transaction that could potentially create a conflict of interest, he or she is obligated to notify the board and to disclose all material facts relating to their interest in the transaction. Malala fund representatives are not permitted to be involved in decisions that could raise conflict of interest concerns, either perceived or actual.”

“Per malala fund's compensation policy, in determining the compensation level for the ceo of the organization and other covered persons, the board of directors must defer to comparability data demonstrating the reasonableness of a proposed compensation level. This data must include documentation of compensation levels paid by similarly positioned organizations for functionally comparable positions and can be pulled from independent reports and/or information obtained from irs form 990 filings of comparable organizations. The board must document how it reached its decision regarding compensation of the ceo and similarly covered persons, including the data on which it relied. The most recent evaluation of the ceo's salary by the board took place in october 2019. In january 2022, the organization engaged an external to evaluate our ceo compensation policies and practices. Malala fund implemented a new policy based on that firm's recommendations effective in the 2022-2023 fiscal year. Malala fund employee salaries are benchmarked against multiple independent surveys from similar organizations with the objective of ensuring competitive compensation that is still reasonable and in keeping with malala fund's status as a charity. In early 2023 malala fund's leadership and human resources staff performed a formal review of compatibility data along with help from an outside consultant to inform the salary levels of all other malala fund staff. This project was continued in late 2023 and into 2024 to ensure equity across all country offices in terms of compensations, benefits, and opportunities for growth.”

“The malala fund's governing documents, conflict of interest policy and audited financial statements are available to the public upon request. Its audited financial statements are also available on the organization's website.”

“Tanzania: our partners advocate for policies to reduce tanzania's high rates of early marriage and ensure adolescent mothers can complete their education. Kinnapa are working with village elders and local government officials in pastoral communities in northeastern tanzania to develop bylaws, or local laws, that help keep girls in school. The bylaws forbid parents from receiving marriage payments for their daughters if they have not completed secondary school and are under 18. Kinnapa have helped create these laws in 19 villages so far, raising awareness of the importance of girls' education and reducing girls dropout rates. Six of our partner organisations in tanzania jointly ran a campaign to raise awareness of law changes that allow pregnant girls and young mothers to return to school. Additionally, msichana organisation initiative trained 120 education stakeholders from across three regions on the "re-entry guidelines and supported them to implement and raise awareness of the guidelines in their communities to enable young mothers to continue their education. Girl programme fellowship: girls have bold visions for the future - and strong opinions about what leaders should do to achieve them. Through our girl programme fellowship and assembly publication, malala fund puts girls at the forefront of our work, providing them with training to hone their advocacy skills and a platform to deliver their message. Our girl fellows shared their experiences and challenges with accessing and completing their education at the women deliver conference in rwanda in july 2023. Our fellows joined malala in connecting with activists and decision-makers from around the world, and met with other young activists to build connection, community and knowledge. At the forum for african women educationalists' conference on girls' education in kenya, our fellows met with researchers, students, governments and innovators from across africa who are advancing girls' education. They provided recommendations on how teachers and other stakeholders can better support girls in and through school. As part of their 18-month programme, girl fellows choose and carry out a project to benefit girls in their communities. Here are some highlights from this year: - tamilore omojola's project equipped girls in nigeria with skills to improve their confidence and independence. She hosted weekly sessions with girls and young women in her community in ibadan on topics like financial literacy, continuing education, climate change and sexual and reproductive health. She also organised an advocacy event where they voiced their perspectives. - dr. Ayesha kareem, who focuses on climate justice, conducted extensive research around climate change in some of pakistan's most populated provinces, including punjab, khyber pakhtunkhwa, gilgit and sindh. She reached 12 schools and completed 140 interviews, resulting in a framework to introduce climate education in pakistan that she now advocates for. Assembly: our digital publication and newsletter gives girls the space to articulate their challenges, needs and opinions on today's issues, including education access, mental health and gender apartheid in afghanistan. Assembly is a publication by girls, for girls. From april 1, 2023 to march 31, 2024, assembly's instagram (on.assembly) audience grew by 9%. We published 36 videos featuring assembly contributors with 3.2 million total video views. Global advocacy: keeping the world's attention on girls' education is an important part of malala fund's mission to see all girls in school. At global events this year, we spoke out for the need to expand the international right to education to 12 years. We continued to call for global leaders to act on the taliban's increasing, systematic oppression of women and girls and their ban on girls' secondary education in afghanistan. We championed and supported afghan activists' efforts to get gender apartheid recognised in international law. We built”

“Professional services - communication: program service expenses 147,647. Management and general expenses 50,926. Fundraising expenses 2,752. Total expenses 201,325. Professional services - digital: program service expenses 160,517. Management and general expenses 55,365. Fundraising expenses 2,991. Total expenses 218,873. Professional services - graphic design: program service expenses 50,608. Management and general expenses 17,456. Fundraising expenses 943. Total expenses 69,007. Professional services - media/content: program service expenses 7,874. Management and general expenses 2,716. Fundraising expenses 147. Total expenses 10,737. Professional services - human resources: program service expenses 220,610. Management and general expenses 76,092. Fundraising expenses 4,111. Total expenses 300,813. Professional services - research: program service expenses 86,741. Management and general expenses 29,918. Fundraising expenses 1,617. Total expenses 118,276. Professional services- security: program service expenses 52,162. Management and general expenses 17,992. Fundraising expenses 972. Total expenses 71,126. Professional services - state solicitations: program service expenses 11,308. Management and general expenses 3,900. Fundraising expenses 211. Total expenses 15,419. Professional services - in country reps: program service expenses 464,098. Management and general expenses 160,076. Fundraising expenses 8,649. Total expenses 632,823. Professional services - general: program service expenses 1,176,227. Management and general expenses 405,701. Fundraising expenses 21,920. Total expenses 1,603,848.”