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Name:	Stand for Children Leadership Center
Address:	516 SE Morrison Street, Suite 420
	Portland, OR 97214
Phone:	800-663-4032 503-235-2305
Web Address:	www.standleadershipcenter.org

Stand for Children Leadership Center (SFCLC) does not meet the following 2 Standards for Charity Accountability.

Standard 7: Board Approval of Written Report on Effectiveness - Submit to the organization's governing body, for its approval, a written report that outlines the results of the aforementioned performance and effectiveness assessment and recommendations for future actions. SFCLC does not meet this Standard because: It did not produce a written report for the board outlining the results of its most recent effectiveness assessment. Standard 14: Budget - Have a board-approved annual budget for its current fiscal year, outlining projected expenses for major program activities, fund raising, and administration. SFCLC does not meet this Standard because, when the organization provided budget information, it indicated that the budget: Did not identify total projected program service expenses. Did not identify total projected fund raising expenses. Did not identify total projected administrative expenses.

Stand for Children Leadership Center (SFCLC) meets the remaining 18 Standards for Charity Accountability.

SFCLC strives to teach people how to join together in an effective grassroots voice to win concrete, long lasting improvements for children at both local and state levels. The organization provides parents and others with tools to achieve improvements for children by convincing elected officials and voters to invest in and reform children’s programs. SFCLC provides advocacy and educational efforts for children and supports increased funding for schools, more and better after-school programs, and improved early childhood education. The organization conducted outreach efforts which included one-on-one conversations in over 40 communities to gauge support for five research-backed strategies to improve student achievement as well as telephone and on-line surveys focused on determining the most promising education reforms. The organization's annual Beat the Odds scholarship awards three Oregon students with laptop computers and scholarship assistance. Massachusetts staff played a key role in the Working Group on Educator Excellence that advocated for the prioritization of teaching quality policy improvements in Massachusetts’s Race to the Top application. SFCLC also mobilized education supporters in over 100 communities in support of the Education Reform Act of 2009. This legislation protected school funding, provided districts and superintendents with new tools to innovate and turn around failing schools, and gave students in the lowest-performing 10% of districts greater access to charter school programs.

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

Program services	4,420,282
Total Program Expenses:	$4,420,282

Chief Executive : Jonah Edelman, Chief Executive Officer

Compensation*:

$165,658

Chair of the Board: Eliza Leighton
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Public interest attorney

Board Size: 9

Paid Staff Size: 90

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

Method(s) Used:

Direct mail, telemarketing, special events, grant proposals, Internet appeals, and face-to-face appeals.

Fund raising costs were 7% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $5,506,288, 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 SFCLC's audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2009.

Source of Funds
Grants and contributions	5,302,557
Special events	133,900
Other income	88,077
In-kind donations	69,831
Invesment income	1,236
Total Income	$5,595,601

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 87%  Fund Raising: 8%  Administrative: 5%

Total income				$5,595,601
	Program expenses			$4,420,282
	Fund raising expenses			395,032
	Administrative expenses			242,375
Total expenses				$5,057,689
Income in Excess of Expenses				537,912
Beginning net assets				1,665,470
Ending net assets				2,203,382
Total liabilities				184,501
Total assets				$2,387,883