2015-10-12T07:22:14-07:00 2014-12-31 MID-AMERICA AUDIT & TAX INC 7212 N SHADELAND AVE STE 103 INDIANAPOLIS IN 46250 990 2014-01-01 272393582 Circle of Sisterhood Foundation Inc CIRC 3177759488 8137 Menlo Court East Drive Indianapolis IN 46240 Virgina Carroll Executive Dir. 2015-10-12 true David H Cropper CPA P00851370 3172840200 2014 2016-03-07 17:11:31Z Virgina Carroll 8137 Menlo Court East Drive Indianapolis IN 46240 324722 false false X www.circleofsisterhood.org X 2010 IN Uplifting women from poverty through education 6 6 0 112 0 323955 0 17 750 324722 226547 0 51996 0 88772 55007 333550 -8828 158853 191729 956 55040 157897 136689 X Uplifting women from poverty through education false false 162000 162000 BuildOn's Global School Construction Program works with local Ministries of Education and rural villages in the developing world to build primary schools and run adut literacy programs. With the help of our donors, the Circle of Sisterhood has funded schools in Senegal Africa and Nicaragua. 5000 5000 Girl Forward grant is supporting 20 refugee girls to Camp Girl Forward. The camp provides summer English, math, computer skills instruction and enrichment activities that foster confidence and leadership in Chicago, Illinois, United States. 5000 5000 EGBOK (Everything's Gonna be OK Mission) training scholarships for three young women of the world's most at-risk populatons of Cambodia to receive the highest level of training and support possible in their country so they can support themselves working in the hospitality industry. 54547 54547 226547 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 2 0 false 0 false false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false X 6 6 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true false true true false false false IN X Virginia Carroll 3177759488 8137 Menlo Court East Drive Indianapolis IN 46240 Christina Flynn Chairman 8.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Christina Rajmaira Vice Chairman 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Mary Marbaugh Treasurer 3.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Elizabeth Stathos Secretary 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Karyn Nishimura Sneath Trustee 3.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Bethany Deines Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Virgina Carroll Executive Dir. 10.00 0.00 X 47633 0 0 47633 0 false false false 0 323955 323955 0 17 17 0 0 0 0 750 750 0 0 0 324722 17 226547 226547 0 0 0 51996 51996 0 0 0 0 0 9235 7940 1295 268 268 0 0 0 0 0 7629 7629 3063 3063 0 0 0 13118 13118 0 7890 7890 0 0 3669 3669 1213 1213 State registration fees 2078 2078 Printing and Publications 1769 1769 Postage and Shipping 1693 1693 Bank Fees 1437 1437 1945 1945 333550 226547 18231 88772 157635 143580 0 23508 1218 6293 0 0 0 0 0 22017 3669 18348 0 0 0 0 0 158853 191729 956 11840 43200 956 55040 X 157897 90922 45767 157897 136689 158853 191729 -8828 -12380 X false true X true false X 21039 75575 105885 174251 323995 700745 0 0 21039 75575 105885 174251 323995 700745 0 700745 17 17 0 750 750 701512 X 0.00000 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 642 107 535 21375 3562 17813 18348 X 324722 324722 324722 333550 333550 333550 Part X : FIN48 Footnote The Foundation has adopted the provisions of FASB ASC 740-10 (FASB Interpretation No. 48), Accounting for Income Taxes, effective January 1, 2009. The Foundation does not believe it has any unrecognized tax benefits or tax liabilities (tax positions) for either Federal or State taxing authorities that require disclosure in accordance with FASB ASC 740-10. The Foundation continually monitors and evaluates expiring statutes of limitations, audits, proposed settlements, changes in tax law and new authoritative rulings, as determined relative to the Foundations operations. The Foundations management believes it is no longer subject to income tax examinations prior to 2011. Penalties and interest assessed by income taxing authorities are included in operating expenses. false buildOn P O Box 16741 Stamford CT 06905 162000 0 1 0 Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Anchal project merges design, business and education to empower marginalized and exploited women living in India. Anchal Project shares Circle of Sisterhood's belief that educating women is central to poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Anchal manifests this conviction through a multi-faceted program that provides commercial sex workers in India the tools for personal empowerment and economic independence. Anchal partners with establised NGO's in India to offer design and vocational training in textiles, fair wages through safe employment, health services and monthly educational workshops. Anchal currently employees over 50 artisans, ultimately giving the women opportunity to rediscover their dignity and rise from exploitation and poverty. Our $5,000 grant will support 12 monthly educational workshops and a 7 day intense traing workshop for women. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Girls for a Change (GFC) is a national organization that empowers girls from low-income communities to become agents of social change. GFC inspires girls to have the voice, ability and problem-solving capacity to become decision-makers, create visionary change and realize their full potential. Girls Action Team, GFC's conerstone program, is designed to give young women a leadership role in their community. A part of the team, girls create, lead and implement a social change project over a 14 week period under the guidance of two adult women coaches. Girls Action Teams have demonstateed an overwhelmingly positive impact on participants' academic achievements and career development. Our $5,000 grant will support expansion of the Girls Action Team program in Richmond, Virginia. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: Like the Circle of Sisterhood, Girls inc. believes that all girls deserve an opportunity to pursue their educational dreams. Because of their congruent missions, Girls, Inc. is the recipient of a $5,000 grant in support of their Smart College and Career Planning program. This program includes Lunch Brunch programs where girls interact with professional women from fields such as public health, medicene, computer software, politics, fundraising and education. These women encourage girls to pursue an education and to set big goals for their future. Together we are empowering today's girls to grow into health, educated and independent young women. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 7: Heshima Kenya specializes in identifying and protecting unaccompanied and separated refugee children and youth, especially girls, young women and their children living in Nairobi, Kenya. By providing shelter, eduacation and community outreach services, Heshima Kenya is empowering this population to live healthy lives. With long term support these girls and young women become catalysts for strengthening networks creating sustainable change within the local and global communiites. In 2014, Heshoima Kenya will provide 80 girls and young women with access to education and livelihood support through its Girls' Empowerment Project. Our $5,000 grant will support this program, which offers the holistic education and skills these girls and young women need to empower them to reach their potential. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 8: Lift Up Africa is a U.S. based nonprofit with an extensive network of partners and projects in East Africa. Its mission is to connect knowledge, resources and needs. The HELGA rescue center provides a safe haven for rescued girls from early marriage, to ensure retention and participation in their education and reconciliation with their families. The 40 girls at HELGA will not only benefit from gaining their education and escaping oppression, the whole community will become enriched through the new educated adults that have completed their studies through a sustainable rescue center. Our $5,000 grant supports 10 young girls at HELGA for a year. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 9: Malini Foundation is a nonprofit social enterprise that advances the interests of girls and women in Sri Lanka throguh quality education, empowerment and by bringing their voices to the international community. Malini Foundation seeks to nurture a positive perspective of educating girls in communities where girls' education is not valued. The foundation's primary program is the Malini Home for Gifted Orphaned Girls, where girls with no other options for care are provided a safe, healthy and sustainable living environment. Our $5,000 grant will support four girls entering the home. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 10: The EKARI Foundation's mission is to provide the resources necessary for the poor and excluded to emerge from poverty on their own. EKARI believes that supporting families with small businesses and supporting students with education equals sustainable and empowered families supporting sustainable and empowered students.Our grant in 2012 provided six girls in Malawi with tuition, boarding fees, meal program, uniforms, transport home during holidays, basics necessities such as soap, feminine products, notebooks and an allowance for school needs/supplies. We are please to continue our support of the EKARI Foundation through the awarding of a second grant of $5,000. This grant will support one year of school for seven girls including the six girls we funded through the 2012-2013 school year. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 11: Hope for Justice's (formerly Transitions global) mission is to restore young girls through the power of a dream. Hope for Justice provide comprehensive restorative aftercare for Cambodian girls rescued from sex trafficking. Each girl receives personalized care to heal her past and provide opportunities for her future. A girl who finds her home at Hope for Justice finds new beginning. She finds hope, and with holistic trauma therapy, life skills and sustainable career training, she finds a dream for her future. Hope for Justice has been awarded a $5,000 grant to support the Shine Career School program, which provides a rigorous education curriculum in a trauma-informed environment. In addition to core classes, girls receive vocational training opportunities, life skills training and enrichment classes, allowing them to explore their creativity while pursuing their dreams and, ultimately, helping them gain sustainable job skills. The Shine Career School tutoring program will supplement, extend and undergird what the girls learn in the public school system and help them to become successful students, lifelong learners and high school graduates. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 12: Women's Institute for Secondary Education and Research's(WISER)mission is the social empowerment of underprivileged girls by improving health and education. WISER removes the gender-based violence found in many Kenyan schools and has psychosocial support and leadership training built into the curriculum at its free boarding school. Through its unique and holistic model, ISER eliminates the root causes of underachievement of girls. By creating a gender-safe space where girls have everything they need (food, accommodation, clean drinking water, health care, books, uniforms, school supplies and samitary pads) they are able to reach their full potential. Our $5,000 will help fund teacher salaries at the WISER school. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 13: Bead for Life's mission is to eradicate extreme poverty by creating bridges of understanding between impoverished Africans and concerned citizens of the world. This grant is funding the secondary education of 6 girls in Northern Uganda - tuition, school supplies, mattress, uniform, staff support and empowerment activites. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 14: Many Hopes builds homes and schools for girls and boys in Kenya and then creates local business to sustain them. One of Many Hopes' founding principles is the belief that loving and educating those who have suffered the worst of injustice will enable them to defeat the causes of what they have endured. They identify, rescue and raise in a family environment girls in some of the most vulnerable conditions. They provide often desperately needed medical attention, implement a nutritious diet and enroll them in school (when of age). We share Many Hopes' belief that education is the driving force of empowerment for girls and change for their community and country. To this end, our grant will support the cost of an academic tutor for the girls currently in Many Hopes' homes so that they receive ample support in their academic pursuits. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process The Board receives a copy of the Federal Form 990 and all the schedules. All of the board's questions are answered to the Board's satisfaction before filing. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Copies of the audited financial statements and the form 990 are made available upon request. The Form 990 is available on Guidestar - a third party website.