2012-05-11T09:40:05-05:00 2011-12-31 521511275 Raffa PC 1899 L Street NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20036 990 2011-01-01 522277575 ActionAid USA ACTI 2028351240 1420 K Street NW No 900 Washington DC 200052507 Isaac Mintz 2028351240 2012-05-10 1 Frank H Smith P00639053 2028225000 2012-05-10 2011 2016-02-24 21:20:13Z Heather Paul 1420 K Street NW No 900 Washington DC 200052507 8024682 0 X www.actionaidusa.org X 2000 DC An international agency working with poor people to end poverty and injustice together. 10 10 27 14 0 0 3371463 7895862 0 0 15088 15482 67236 105665 3453787 8017009 3921423 2747486 0 0 912912 1014141 577121 1064225 1820229 936159 1165682 6347615 5991534 -2893828 2025475 3587008 7137424 1138286 2663227 2448722 4474197 X ActionAid USA's mission is to work with poor and marginalized people to eradicate poverty by overcoming the injustice and inequality that cause it. 0 0 3132437 2450997 Education and Advocacy for More and Better Aid to Agriculture to Benefit Women Smallholder Farmers: ActionAid USA continued to serve as the Northern CSO representative on the Board of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), an innovative multi-donor fund to support agricultural development in poor nations. ActionaAid USA has been using its seat on the fund to help ensure that civil societies from Africa and Asia have a strong voice in the governance of this new fund and in shaping the projects that the fund supports so that smallholder farmers and their organizations can benefit from the investment. ActionAid USA led efforts to develop innovative and strong criteria to help ensure broad-based civil society participation in the development of GAFSP projects. These guidelines are included in the new GAFSP call for proposals launched in January 2012.ActionAid USA conducted extensive outreach to policymakers on the importance of sustained US support for global hunger and agricultural development programs. ActionAid USA led a broad-based coalition on more than a dozen hill visits, organized two call-in days for grassroots participants, developed educational materials and fact sheets, and engaged with both traditional and social media. 296489 296489 Education and Advocacy for Public Finance to Help Poor Countries to Adapt to Climate Change: Our climate program led major education and advocacy efforts in the lead up to the December 2011 Durban UNFCCC climate talks and helped to catalyze a broad network of organizations to engage in more coordinated and effective climate campaigning to shift the political debate towards solutions.In late July, ActionAid USA hosted Abdi Omar Farah, a pastoralist from Northeastern Kenya, and Augustine Njamnshi, an organizer with the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), on a US education and advocacy tour. In partnership with the NAACP and PACJA, ActionAid USA organized 3 public events (1 in Los Angeles, CA, during the NAACP annual convention and 2 in Washington, DC), 13 meetings with policy makers, and 4 media interviews on the impacts of climate change on communities living in poverty and communities of color and the urgency of action.In 2011, ActionAid USA advocated that Green Climate Fund funding be based on transparent and nationally-led adaptation and mitigation strategies. ActionAid USA advocated for active participation of civil society from the local and national levels to the board level, mechanisms to ensure that programs funded through the private sector facility adhere to national priorities, for streamlined and direct access to funding, and more.ActionAid USA led a global process to draft fifteen key recommendations to the Transitional Committee (TC) which is the body designing the Green Climate Fund rules. The recommendations, which were signed by more than 80 local, national, and international organizations, became the basis for our direct engagement with members of the TC and with the United States Government (USG), representatives to the TC.As a result of the recommendations made by ActionAid USA, and due in part to the advocacy of the climate program, the final decisions taken by the UNFCC on the Green Climate Fund includes many of the points ActionAid USA has advocated for over the years. Funding to the Green Climate Fund will be based on transparent country-owned adaptation and mitigation plans, countries will have direct access to Green Climate Fund resources, and there will be active CSO observers on the board of the Green Climate Fund. Additionally, as ActionAid USA advocated, the Green Climate Fund outcomes includes a commitment to a gender-sensitive approach and checks on the private sector window. 77704 Education and Advocacy to Reform US Biofuels Policy, Address Global Food Price Volatility, and Secure Land Rights for Impoverished People: ActionAid USA worked with the Environmental Working Group to release a new food price map on March 3, 2011 that shows which countries are most vulnerable to a food crisis and why. The narrative explains the causes and consequences of price volatility and makes linkages to US biofuel policy. See our website:actionaidusa.org/news/pr/new_map_reveals_hot_spots_in_global_food_crisis/ActionAid USA co-led a coalition of impacted industries and a broad range of environmental organizations, budget groups, and others in a successful campaign to convince the US Congress to eliminate a $6 billion subsidy to the corn ethanol industry. The subsidy had served as a powerful incentive for US farmers to divert their corn harvests for the production of ethanol (for fuel) rather than for food. This was a major contributor to rising food prices that impacted impoverished communities across the globe in 2007-2008 and again in 2011. ActionAid USA was the primary organization in the coalition making the case from a food rights perspective. ActionAid USA was uniquely positioned to shine a spotlight on how biofuels policies contributed to food crises, which elevated the issue in the media. Growing concern by constituents, and in the press, of the impact of turning food into fuel combined with a time of fiscal austerity compelled Congress to end the subsidy. On December 31, 2011 the subsidy officially expired. 3506630 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 0 1 27 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 MD VA X X Isaac M Mintz 2023709914 1420 K Street NW Suite 900 Washington DC 200052507 Jeff Whisenant 6.00 X X 0 0 0 Leslie Allen 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Eleanor Cicerchi 2.00 X X 0 0 0 Luis Guardia 2.50 X X 0 0 0 Kumiki Gibson 1.00 X 0 0 0 Jean Kamau 2.00 X 0 0 0 Richard Miller 1.00 X 0 0 0 Mohan Natarajan 2.00 X 0 0 0 Michael Rooney 1.00 X 0 0 0 Ellen Teller 2.00 X 0 0 0 Melissa Wyers 20.00 X 0 0 0 Peter O' Driscoll 37.50 X 83887 0 9462 Isaac M Mintz 37.50 X 92000 0 15853 Heather Paul 37.50 X 50461 0 2814 226348 0 28129 0 0 0 0 Fundraising Initiatives Inc 3120 13th Street North 2nd FL Arlington VA 22201 Face to face fundraising 621703 1 7895862 7673 7895862 15482 15482 7673 7673 0 0 Management fee 900099 105665 105665 105665 8017009 0 0 121147 2747486 2747486 254477 239705 14772 547568 231588 26150 289830 9399 3664 2599 3136 134291 54977 304 79010 68406 22727 20380 25299 3453 462 2991 36710 36710 36201 36201 1064225 1064225 523511 216990 164572 141949 185560 32856 64971 87733 126589 37636 39400 49553 201914 93952 57950 50012 27435 27435 14142 859 4318 8965 5823 5823 Other expenses 4344 259 1331 2754 5991534 3506630 664675 1820229 844541 1076366 2007844 3844986 663408 2121201 42404 64669 1942 17475 206530 204174 16498 2356 10371 10371 3587008 7137424 152739 450231 985547 2212996 1138286 2663227 X 1623522 1176738 825200 3297459 2448722 4474197 3587008 7137424 2025475 0 X 0 1 1 X 0 X 4632523 4922840 4789570 3371463 7834389 25550785 4632523 4922840 4789570 3371463 7834389 25550785 14205252 11345533 12196 26373 27486 31934 15482 113471 4061 50390 167138 221589 25885845 0.43830 0.35670 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 36201 0 36201 0 4891108 4927309 0 396365 0 99091 0 0 0 446880 546510 438525 396365 1828280 2742420 5814 11449 20619 36201 74083 111720 136628 109631 99091 457070 685605 987 1097 14431 36201 52716 70708 68352 2356 135822 135822 0 2356 Deferred rent and leasehold incentive liability 3601 Due to affiliate 2209395 2212996 8017009 5991534 2025475 2025475 8017009 0 8017009 0 8017009 5991534 0 5991534 0 5991534 Description of Uncertain Tax Positions Under FIN 48: Part X: ActionAid USA performed an evaluation of uncertain tax positions for the year ended December 31, 2011, and determined that there were no matters that would require recognition in the financial statements or that may have any effect on its tax-exempt status. 1 Europe (including Iceland and Greenland) 0 0 Grantmaking 1007331 Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 Grantmaking 1623060 South America 0 0 Grantmaking 25000 Central America and the Caribbean 0 0 Grantmaking 92095 0 0 0 0 0 0 2747486 0 2747486 Central America and the Caribbean Impact of biofuel in the Americas 92095 I/C Transfer Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) Advocacy for HIV & AIDS; catalyze increased public investment in agriculture; right to education; advocacy for international climate finance, and supporting child sponsorship 1007331 I/C Transfer South America Right to land and housing right 25000 i/C Transfer Sub-Saharan Africa Girls education and agriculture; catalyze increased public investment in agriculture; research on biofuels; preventing violence against women 1623060 I/C Transfer 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Procedure for Monitoring Grants Outside the U.S.: Schedule F, Part I, Line 2: ActionAid USA's core purpose is to raise money in the US to support antipoverty projects in developing countries. These projects are implemented by ActionAid USA's associates and partners. Each project is monitored by a project accountability group involving ActionAid USA finance and program staff from the implementing country. The project accountability group meets quarterly to discuss the progress of the grant and budget vs. expenses and analysis. ActionAid USA then reviews all program and finance reports with implementing partners to ensure compliance with grant provisions. X X 1 Fundraising Initiatives Inc 3120 13th Street North 2nd FL Arlington VA 22201 Face to face fundraising 1 192249 992095 -799846 Grass Roots Campaign Inc 1888 Sherman Street Suite 210 Denver CO 80203 Face to face fundraising 0 82398 72130 10238 274647 1064225 -789608 AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DC FL GA IL KS KY ME MD MA MI MN MS MO NH NJ NM NY NC OH OK OR PA RI SC TN UT VA WA WV WI Explanation of Fundraising Payments Schedule G, Part I, Line 2b, Column (v) Fundraising Initiatives, Inc. makes daily direct deposits into a joint account with ActionAid USA. Grass Root Campaign mails donations to ActionAid USA on a weekly basis. Fundraising Initiatives, Inc. conducted a test program for ActionAid USA to secure ongoing, multi-year gifts and pledges including child sponsorships. This one time investment is meant to secure future payments and we expect to recoup this investment over time. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11 The Form 990 is first reviewed by the CFO and Treasurer. Then it is reviewed by the Executive Director. Finally it is reviewed by the Audit Committee before it is presented to the Board of Directors for approval before being submitted to the Internal Revenue Service. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c A full written disclosure by every employee, of all material facts of any transaction which has or appears to have, or may involve a conflict of interest by the employee with ActionAid USA shall be made to the Executive Director or Chief Financial Officer upon the learning of such conflict, be it an actual or potential conflict, before executing any such transaction. A full written disclosure by every board member, of all material facts of any transaction which has or appears to have, a conflict of interest by a member of ActionAid USA's board shall be made to the Board Chair upon the learning of such conflict before executing any such transaction. These are updated annually. The Governance Committee reviews all potential conflicts of interest that may arise. Each manager and staff member of ActionAid USA shall disclose a real or potential conflict of interest. They must abstain from the discussion, voting, resolution or action(s) proposed regarding the matter. It would be expected that any interested manager or staff would disqualify themselves. This shall occur prior to discussion at any meeting of the Board or managers of ActionAid USA, or a committee of the Board. Any such abstention from voting (or the like) and the reason given for it shall be recorded in the official minutes of the meeting. A majority of the managers present at any meeting may disqualify a manager from discussing and/or voting on any matter as to which they determine a conflict of interest exists. After full disclosure, however, and with due deliberation, a majority of the disinterested managers may approve or ratify a transaction which involves a conflict of interest with a manager, officer, or employee of ActionAid USA, provided such transaction is fair to ActionAid USA. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 ActionAid USA uses a salary consultant to first draft a proposal for fair compensation using comparability data. It is then reviewed by the audit committee before being submitted to the Board of Directors for approval. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 ActionAid USA makes its annual reports, audited financial statements and the Form 990 available on its website. Governance policies are also available on the website.