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Mission

MADRE is an international women''s human rights organization that partners with women who have survived human rights violations and resolved to rebuild their lives and communities. Using a human rights framework, MADRE works to meet urgent needs and ultimately, change conditions that give rise to human rights abuses. And MADRE advocates alternatives to destructive policies of governments and other centers of power.
MADRE works in the areas of peace building, women''s health/combating violence against women, and economic and environmental justice.
MADRE implements these programs through four primary strategies: partnerships with community-based women''s organizations; public education and media work; human rights advocacy; and resource mobilization (see guiding principles of strategies).
Through these strategies, MADRE promotes rights, provides resources, and delivers results for women worldwide.

Programs

Health is not only the absence of disease or infirmity, but also a state of physical, mental and social well-being. The strongest determinants of health are the social, political and economic forces in our lives. How healthy we are depends enormously on our access to nutritious food, clean water and medical care, on the levels of violence and stress in our lives, on our working conditions and on the opportunities we have for love, pleasure and fulfillment. Health, then, is inextricably linked to human rights.

In fact, social and economic inequality, both between men and women and among different groups of women, is the biggest obstacle to good health for women around the world.

Program / Activities (NTEE Code)

International Human Rights
Women's Rights
Disaster Preparedness and Relief Services

Accomplishments for Fiscal Year Ending 12/31/2007

1. MADRE worked with sister organizations to implement various programs benefiting women around the world: through our overseas volunteer program Sisters Without Borders, MADRE was able to provide critical volunteer support, including trainings, advocacy, and administrative work for CADPI, our sister organization in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, for a five-month period ending in February; in March, MADRE and our Colombian partner LIMPAL conducted a workshop for 15 women displaced by war in Cartagena, Colombia, which focused on their urgent need for safety and security, and the legal instruments available to them to demand those rights. As part of the same project, the women worked with 30 young girls and boys, with the aim of strengthening the young peoples' identity and self-esteem; in April, MADRE conducted a delegation, led by Mónica Alemán and Vivian Stromberg, to Managua, Puerto Cabezas, and Waspam, Nicaragua; in June, MADRE facilitated the participation of two activists from the Nicaraguan chapter of Red LAC Trans in the session of the Organization of American States in Panama City, where trans activists presented the recommendations of the LBTTTGI community to the government representatives from countries throughout the Americas; in July, MADRE and our Iraqi partner, the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, held Freedom Space 7, an Art Action for Peace event featuring poetry, rhetoric, live music, and dancing amongst young Iraqi artists; in November, Executive Director Vivian Stromberg traveled to the Umoja village in Kenya where she visited with teachers and schoolchildren, bought livestock for the community's use, and consulted with village leaders about plans for the implementation of a village water project; and over the course of 2007, MADRE and our Iraqi partner, the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, provided ongoing services to women and girls fleeing domestic violence.
2. MADRE had a number of public education accomplishments in 2007: in March, MADRE released Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-based Violence and the US War on Iraq, a report documenting gender-based violence in Iraq; in May, MADRE published and distributed its Spring 2007 Newsletter, entitled Indigenous Women: Fighting for Rights, Creating Change, which raised awareness of issues key to the Indigenous women's movement, such as economic and environmental policies that encroach upon their lands and traditions; in September, "Hurricane Felix's First Responders," an op-ed piece by MADRE's Communications Director Yifat Susskind, was published on CounterPunch, ZNet, Portside, and Common Dreams, and linked to the Washington Post website; in October, AlterNet published Communications Director Yifat Susskind's 11 Solutions to Halting the Environmental Crisis, which was reprinted in World Pulse and distributed widely in the blogosphere; and in November, MADRE published and distributed its Fall 2007 Newsletter. This issue, Food for Life: Your Lunch's Link to Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Global Justice, challenged the use of biofuels, called for a reshaping of food aid, and illustrated to MADRE members the many ways that climate change affects women around the world disproportionately.

1. Promote the economic and social rights of women and their families in poor and marginalized communities in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
2. Advocate for just and humane U.S. policies both domestically and abroad.
3. Promote respect, understanding, and peace through women-to-women programs, interaction, and cooperation.

Our ongoing evaluation processes take into account the importance of evaluations of effort and evaluations of impact, and enable MADRE to identify lessons learned, and assess the quality of our interventions in diverse spaces. Our evaluation methodology includes site visits, interviews with participants, and ongoing monitoring of projects' progress toward stated goals. Some critical areas that we regularly evaluate include:
* Project's ability to meet expressed needs within the target community;
* Participation of local leaders and community members in the project's planning and implementation;
* Replicability in other communities;
* Efficiency of fund allocation; and
* Scope of project's influence, including impact through public education mechanisms and effects on policy-making.

Chief Executive Profile

MADRE's Executive Director, Vivian Stromberg, has worked for over 40 years as an activist in the peace and justice movement. Her areas of expertise include women's economic development, U.S. foreign policy, health care, popular education, sexual violence, human rights, and child development. Ms. Stromberg has received awards from the New York City Council Women of Achievement, the Committee for a Democratic Palestine, Gloria Steinem Women of Vision, United Bronx Parents, Haitian Women in Solidarity, and many others.

Additional Comments

To see audio-slide shows or other visual presentations, visit our website: http://www.madre.org/

Financial Data
From the organization's FORM 990

Revenue and Expenses: Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2007

Revenue			Expenses
Contributions $1,453,088 Government Grants $269,962 Program Services $0 Investments $121,731 Special Events $0 Sales $0 Other $84,456			Program Services $1,690,557 Administration $135,787 Other $98,944 Total Expenditures $1,925,288
Total Revenue	$1,929,237		NET GAIN/LOSS	$3,949

Balance Sheet: Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2007

Notes
The balance sheet gives a snapshot of the financial health of an organization at a particular point in time. An organization's total assets should generally exceed its total liabilities, or it cannot long survive, but the types of assets and liabilities also must be considered. For instance, an organization's current assets (cash, receivables, securities, etc.) should be sufficient to cover its current liabilities (payables, deferred revenue, current year loan and note payments). Otherwise, the organization may face solvency problems. On the other hand, an organization whose cash and equivalents greatly exceed its current liabilities might not be putting its money to best use.

Assets	Jan 1, 2007	Dec 31, 2007	Change
Cash & Equivalent	$226,933	$407,535	$180,602
Accounts Receivable	$0	$0	$0
Pledges & Grants Receivable	$91,398	$152,360	$60,962
Receivables/Other	$0	$0	$0
Inventories for Sale or Use	$5,150	$3,462	$(1,688)
Investments/Securities	$1,403,764	$1,225,496	$(178,268)
Investments/Other	$0	$0	$0
Fixed Assets	$23,024	$18,457	$(4,567)
Other	$59,467	$107,290	$47,823
Total Assets	$1,809,736	$1,914,600	$104,864
Liabilities	Jan 1, 2007	Dec 31, 2007	Change
Accounts Payable	$71,299	$153,410	$82,111
Grants Payable	$0	$0	$0
Deferred Revenue	$11,280	$8,025	$(3,255)
Loans and Notes	$0	$0	$0
Tax-Exempt Bond Liabilities	$0	$0	$0
Other	$25,643	$51,644	$26,001
Total Liabilities	$108,222	$213,079	$104,857
FUND BALANCE	$1,701,514	$1,701,521	$7

Comments from the organization
Please note that we have recently changed our Fiscal Year terms to correspond to the beginning and end of the calendar year. FY2005 figures reflect a transitional six-month period (July - December 2005).

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