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Name:	Global AIDS Alliance
Address:	1121 14th Street NW, Suite 200
	Washington, DC 20005
Phone:	202-789-0432
Web Address:	www.globalaidsalliance.org

Global AIDS Alliance (GAA) does not meet the following Standard 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. GAA does not meet this Standard because: It did not produce a written report outlining the results of its most recent effectiveness assessment.

Global AIDS Alliance (GAA) meets the remaining 19 Standards for Charity Accountability.

GAA seeks to mobilize a comprehensive response to global HIV/AIDS and address the epidemic’s fundamental links to social justice issues such as poverty and gender inequity. Specifically, GAA works to ensure universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care by 2010; advance children’s well-being, with a focus on prevention and treatment of pediatric HIV/AIDS, care and support for orphans and vulnerable children, and universal basic education; accelerate women’s equality, with a focus on integrating sexual and reproductive health and HIV services and preventing violence against women and girls; and secure increased financial resources and ensure they are utilized to maximize on-the-ground results. GAA combines media outreach and public education with targeted coalition-building and grassroots mobilization in order to raise awareness and inspire activism in support of advocacy to advance these policy goals.

For the year ended December 31, 2008, GAA's program expenses were:

Program services	1,594,448
Total Program Expenses:	$1,594,448

Chief Executive : Dr. Paul Zeitz, Executive Director

Compensation*:

$180,855

Chair of the Board: Charles C. Stephenson, Jr.
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Director of Federal Affairs, City of Oakland, California

Board Size: 9

Paid Staff Size: 15

*2008 compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:

Grant proposals and Internet appeals.

Fund raising costs were 10% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $1,754,947, 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 GAA's audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2008.

Source of Funds
Grants	1,722,494
Contributions	32,453
Interest income	8,129
Total Income	$1,763,076

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 84%  Fund Raising: 9%  Administrative: 7%

Total income				$1,763,076
	Program expenses			$1,594,448
	Fund raising expenses			169,317
	Administrative expenses			124,354
Total expenses				$1,888,119
Expenses in Excess of Income				(125,043)
Beginning net assets				1,058,859
Ending net assets				933,816
Total liabilities				56,826
Total assets				$990,642