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Name:	Children's Hope International
Address:	11780 Borman Drive
	Saint Louis, MO 63146
Phone:	314-890-0086
Web Address:	http://orphan.childrenshope.net

Children's Hope International (CHI) meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

•Foster Care: This program allows orphans to wake up each day in a home, rather than an institution. CHI provides training, oversight, and supplies for in-country foster parents, ensuring that orphans will receive the nurture than cannot be easily obtained in an orphanage setting. •Medical Services: Through this program, CHI reaches out to orphans who are in dire need of medical assistance. Each year, it sponsors dozens of surgeries to correct such issues as congenital heart defects and cleft lips/palates, and also provide medicine and special needs equipment to orphanages. •Education Services: As they age out of the orphanage systems, mere survival becomes a struggle for many orphans. Education programs are the key to preparing these children to enter society with the skills and knowledge they will need to live a life of dignity and purpose. •Nutrition Services: These programs provide life's basic essentials - adequate food and clean water - to vulnerable orphans who would otherwise go hungry. •Material Aid: Through these programs, it supplies daily necessities such as diapers, appliances, and clothing and bedding needs. On a larger scale, it is able to make building improvements to orphanages (including improvements to make facilities safer and more accessible to children with disabilities) and construct playgrounds. •Emergency Relief: These programs provide assistance for victims of natural disasters and other tragic events.

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006, CHI's program expenses were:

Programs	9,788,216
Total Program Expenses:	$9,788,216

Chief Executive : Dwyatt Gantt, Executive Director

Compensation*:

$126,115

Chair of the Board: Dwyatt Gant
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Executive Director

Board Size: 8

Paid Staff Size: 5

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

Method(s) Used:

direct mail, invitations to fund raising events, print advertisements, grant proposals, internet

Fund raising costs were 21% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $831,636, 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 CHI's audited financial statements for the year ended December, 31 2006.

Source of Funds
Adoption Fees	10,264,069
Home Study and Post-Placement Fees	751,361
Net Investment Income	358,964
Gain on Disposal of Property	199,086
Net Assets Released from Restrictions	141,587
Contributions	80,275
Other	54,179
Total Income	$11,849,521

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 84%  Fund Raising: 1%  Administrative: 15%

Total income				$11,849,521
	Program expenses			$9,788,216
	Fund raising expenses			173,482
	Administrative expenses			1,790,663
Total expenses				$11,752,361
Income in Excess of Expenses				97,160
Beginning net assets				7,905,127
Ending net assets				8,423,141
Total liabilities				1,062,699
Total assets				$9,485,840