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Name:	Communities In Schools Houston, Inc.
Address:	1235 North Loop West, Suite 300
	Houston, TX 77008
Phone:	713-654-1515
Web Address:	www.cishouston.org

Communities In Schools Houston, Inc. meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

Each year, CIS reaches nearly 40,000 students on over 110 school campuses in 5 school districts. CIS delivers social services designed to help at-risk students overcome the many academic, emotional, and social obstacles that hinder their success in school. CIS coordinates a personalized response to meet the needs of at-risk children on the school campus. Often times, access to community resources and aid is fragmented, impersonal, and hard to access. Families in need of assistance frequently struggle to identify agencies that can help and find the transportation and time to receive services. CIS resolves this problem by bringing services to the family through their children, and when they are most accessible—during the school day. CIS partners with over 300 community agencies and brings them onto the school campus to match the need to the resource. CIS believes that every child needs the Five Basics to achieve success. Children require a one-on-one relationship with a caring adult, a safe place to learn and grow, a healthy start and future, a marketable skill upon graduation, and a chance to give back to the community. By meeting students' critical needs, CIS has become the nation's leading dropout prevention organization and the only one proven to both decrease dropout rates and increase graduation rates.

For the fiscal year ended August 31, 2010, Communities In Schools Houston, Inc.'s program expenses were:

Supportive guidance	2,964,660
Academic enhancement	2,174,084
Cultural enrichment	1,877,618
Parental involvement	1,778,796
Health and human services	790,576
Employment, pre-employment	296,466
Total Program Expenses:	$9,882,200

Chief Executive : Cynthia Clay Briggs, Executive Director

Compensation*:

$177,246

Chair of the Board: Charles W. Duncan III
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Duncan Interests, Investment Banking

Board Size: 49

Paid Staff Size: 143

*Compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:

direct mail, invitations to fund raising events, television, grant proposals, internet

Fund raising costs were 6% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $11,163,326, are donations received as a result of fund raising activities.)

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on Communities In Schools Houston, Inc.'s audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2010.

Source of Funds
Contributions and grants: governmental agencies	6,894,544
Contributions and grants: foundations	1,406,300
Contributions and grants: corporations	1,263,753
Non-cash contributions and donations	1,132,146
Contributions and grants: individuals	466,583
Other income	45,037
Total Income	$11,208,363

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 87%  Fund Raising: 6%  Administrative: 7%

Total income				$11,208,363
	Program expenses			$9,882,200
	Fund raising expenses			649,423
	Administrative expenses			802,914
Total expenses				$11,334,537
Expenses in Excess of Income				(126,174)
Beginning net assets				3,304,019
Ending net assets				3,178,345
Total liabilities				290,810
Total assets				$3,469,155