Organizations Filed Purposes:
SEE STATEMENT ATTACHEDHESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDES DEVELOPS AND DISTRIBUTES HEALTH EDUCATION RESOURCES THAT HELP ALL PEOPLE TAKE GREATER CONTROL OVER THEIR HEALTH. HESPERIAN MATERIALS, INCLUDING THE CLASSIC WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR, ARE AVAILABLE IN OVER 80 LANGUAGES AND IN PRINT AND DIGITAL FORMATS.
DIGITAL COMMONS/ MOBILE APPS: IN 2020 HESPERIAN LAUNCHED TWO MULTI-LINGUAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH APPS WHICH HAVE SINCE BEEN USED IN 170 COUNTRIES. HESPERIAN WORKED WITH PARTNERS IN 10 COUNTRIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND AFRICA TO COLLECT FEEDBACK ON USE OF THE APPS TO EXTEND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INFORMATION AND SERVICES TO ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG WOMEN. HESPERIAN'S ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION IS NOW AVAILABLE IN 32 LANGUAGES ON OUR HEALTHWIKI, A MOBILE-FRIENDLY PLATFORM ACCESSIBLE EVEN IN LOCATIONS WITH LOW BANDWIDTH AND USED BY 6400 PEOPLE A DAY. HESPERIAN ADDED 685 PAGES OF NEW CONTENT TO THE HEALTHWIKI IN 2020. PDF VERSIONS OF HESPERIAN BOOKS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE IN 50 LANGUAGES FOR FREE DOWNLOAD
HEALTH OUTREACH: BROAD AND TARGETED OUTREACH ASSURES THAT HESPERIAN RESOURCES REACH THE MOST UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES WORLDWIDE. DURING 2020 HESPERIAN, WITH PARTNERS, USED SOCIAL MEDIA, WEBINARS, INDIVIDUAL EMAILS, PRINTED POSTCARDS, FLYERS, WHAT'SAPP MESSAGES AND MANY OTHER CREATIVE MEANS TO SHARE VITAL HEALTH INFORMATION TO PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. IN ADDITION TO MAKING INFORMATION AVAILABLE DIGITALLY TO MILLIONS, HESPERIAN DISTRIBUTED 1,300 FREE BOOKS TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS, SUPPORT NETWORKS, MIDWIVES, COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS, AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION WORKERS, LIBRARIANS, SCHOOLTEACHERS, AND VOLUNTEERS IN 61 COUNTRIES. HESPERIAN STAFF SUPPORTED PARTNERS WORKING ON ADAPTATIONS OF HESPERIAN MATERIALS INTO 30 LANGUAGES INCLUDING BAMBARA, BANGLA, CHICHEWA, CHINESE, FRENCH, HAITIAN KREYOL, IGBO, KHMER, LAO, MONGOLIAN, NEPALI, PORTUGUESE, SPANISH, SWAHILI, URDU, YORUBA, AND MANY OTHERS.
CONTENT DEVELOPMENT: HESPERIAN RAPIDLY CREATED A COVID-19 FACT SHEET IN EARLY MARCH 2020. WITH PARTNERS, THE FACT SHEET WAS RELEASED ONLINE AND AS PRINTABLE FLYERS IN 32 LANGUAGES. SIX ADDITIONAL COVID-19 RESOURCES WERE CREATED AND RELEASED IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES. PEOPLE USE THEM IN 163 COUNTRIES. IN THE UNITED STATES, ORGANIZATIONS IN ALL 50 STATES AND WASHINGTON, DC PROMOTE THEM AS MULTILINGUAL SOURCES OF RELIABLE INFORMATION. HESPERIAN ALSO CREATED A SPANISH LANGUAGE TRAINING CURRICULUM FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS ON DIABETES AND HEART DISEASE, AND PRODUCED AND RELEASED 6 NEW WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR BOOKLETS IN BAHASA INDONESIA, ENGLISH, HAITIAN CREOLE AND SPANISH. SIX OF HESPERIAN'S ENGLISH AND FRENCH PUBLICATIONS WERE EXTENSIVELY UPDATED AND REPRINTED.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Sarah Shannon | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | 40 | $95,227 |
| Kathleen Tandy | BOARD MEMBER | 40 | $57,170 |
| Rick Solomon | BOARD MEMBER | 40 | $48,943 |
| Madhavi Kathanur | BOARD MEMBER | 40 | $13,641 |
| Samantha Heep | BOARD MEMBER | 40 | $9,289 |
| Sarah Jane Holcome | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Trupthi Basavaraj | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Purnima Mane | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Prentice Zinn | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Jon Katz | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Garrett Brown | OMBUNDSPERSON | 1 | $0 |
| Melissa Smith | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Larry Kressley | SECRETARY | 1 | $0 |
| Susan Weissert | CO-CHAIR | 1 | $0 |
| Ellen Vor Der Bruegge | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Linda Spangler | TREASURER | 1 | $0 |
| Eva Harris | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Pauline Butcher | BOARD MEMBER | 1 | $0 |
| Bill Lankford | CO-CHAIR | 1 | $0 |
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