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Name:	Empowering Lives International
Address:	422 North 2nd Avenue
	Upland, CA 91786
Phone:	909-931-1311
Web Address:	www.empoweringlives.org

Empowering Lives International (ELI) meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

ELI has established strategic responses towards the effort of breaking the cycle of poverty. The organization has training centers in Kenya, DR Congo, Sudan, and Tanzania. People from these four countries come to the organization's training centers to learn skills they can bring back to their home communities. ELI works alongside national leadership in teaching agriculture skills, reforestation, animal raising, and primary health care including HIV/AIDS prevention. ELI also reports training and educating over 200 children through two children's homes and an elementary school in Kenya, about 500 children at the Christian Academy in the Keredi Slum of DR Congo, and about 200 children through an elementary school in war-torn southern Sudan. The organization is also working to create communities that are self-sustainable and physically, emotionally and spiritually empowered.

For the year ended December 31, 2009, ELI's program expenses were:

Program services	1,451,284
Total Program Expenses:	$1,451,284

Chief Executive : Donald Rogers, International Director

Compensation*:

$109,565

Chair of the Board: Ronald Higgins
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Architect

Board Size: 5

Paid Staff Size: 8

*2009 compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:

Direct mail, telemarketing, grant proposals, Internet appeals, and planned giving.

Fund raising costs were 12% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $1,690,097, 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 ELI's audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2009.

Source of Funds
Contributions	1,690,097
Investment income	2,918
Other income	1,247
Total Income	$1,694,262

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 78%  Fund Raising: 11%  Administrative: 11%

Total income				$1,694,262
	Program expenses			$1,451,284
	Fund raising expenses			201,681
	Administrative expenses			199,809
Total expenses				$1,852,774
Expenses in Excess of Income				(158,512)
Beginning net assets				347,793
Ending net assets				189,281
Total liabilities				20,992
Total assets				$210,273