ANNIECANNONS INC
340 S Lemon Ave 7802, Walnut, CA 91789 www.anniecannons.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: TRAINING SURVIVORS OF TRAFFICKING AND VIOLENCE TO BUILD SOFTWARE, AND OPERATING AN AGENCY WITHIN WHICH THEY EARN INCOME.

Earning Program: Once students pass their web development qualifications, they become eligible to work on projects for AnnieCannons clients. Students have the opportunity to make $75/hour or more on paid client projects managed by our development shop while receiving further skills training and on-the-job job coaching as professional engineers. Alongside a curriculum of increasingly rigorous software development coursework, each student first completes a structured series of progressively more difficult, paid client projects to build confidence and efficiency. Throughout 2019, data quality and software testing work was made available to students who completed the first phase of our training program (described above) at a rate of roughly $20 per hour. Students have the flexibility to work the number of hours they wish each week based on their needs and availability. They can also choose to work on the projects that interest them most including development and data work. This flexibility allows for time they can spend with their families and on personal goals and interests. Many of our students care for children or other dependents and manage other obligations which means that some of our students only work a few hours per week through our program, while others choose to take on significantly more work. As an example, one of our graduates earned an average of $4,700/month in 2019 working on a variety of data, web and app development projects and averaging nearly $80/hour, while another took occasional data quality work at $19-20/hour to help support her while she earns her undergraduate degree. By giving students the flexibility to work when they want, where they want and at the frequency that fits their lives, we give them greater power in managing their various priorities and goals.At its core, our earning program is dedicated to (i) acquiring economic power in the form of software development funds from clients and NGOs and (ii) delivering that economic power to our qualified graduates, all of whom are survivors of human trafficking and gender-based violence, for completing the associated software development projects. In 2019, we are working towards our goal of becoming a self-sustained service organization, and plan to use our commission model to cover an increasingly higher percentage of our operational expenses over time. The earning program sources data and development work from paying clients and brought in $277,022.80 in gross revenue in 2019.

Training program: AnnieCannons is a six-month coding bootcamp, advanced training program and development shop that trains all of its engineers in-house following their referral from service providers who serve survivors of human trafficking and gender-based violence. The goal of the program is to create a viable exit ramp from cyclical violence and exploitation through sustainable access to economic power by providing in-demand and lucrative job skills to survivors. The program is free to attend and provides assistance to students in the form of childcare, transportation assistance and service referrals.In 2019, we graduated our fifth cohort of students while graduates from all previous cohorts continued to work with us through advanced workshops and as developers in our earning program (see "earning program" below). Throughout the year, AnnieCannons touched the lives of 25 individuals, including both students and their children, through our training program. We added additional curriculum materials and distributed them open source to other organizations serving marginalized populations. AnnieCannons also created new curriculum modules and designed new training "sprints" that helped our students learn more advanced concepts. Of the students who finished our front-end web development training program in 2019, 90% of them continue to work with us on projects throughout the year and develop new technology skills including react and react native. 55% of students in AnnieCannons fifth cohort have qualified to do web development work and transitioned to our development shop, earning incomes while building advanced skills in a variety of technology industry areas. The objective of our training program is to support students to build software development skills that help graduates earn economic power through our earning program or in an independent employment role. We strive to ensure that every student who qualifies for web development work with us has enough of it to earn a solid living and build their income over time by training on more complex topics.

Impact Technology Program: In both the classroom and the workspace, students, graduates, and staff brainstorm ideas of how to make the world better, and solve the problems that lead to human exploitation and abuse. The programs goal is to solve the problems that lead to human exploitation and gender-based violence via survivor-ideated and survivor-built technology. This program is similar to the earning program in that students and graduates are paid to work on web and app development projects. They continue to gain skills and receive job coaching while accessing economic power. However these projects have the added impact of reaching users of the technology who are also survivors and/or members of marginalized communities. In 2019, we worked on three different impact technology projects. These development projects are grant-funded, and so have not brought in earned revenue of their own. In 2019, $344,283.18 in grant funds were received to support the impact technology program.Work on these projects is paid, and is often used to train students in new technology skills in a low-pressure development environment. These projects range from being in the design phase to having an alpha prototype live and launched. Informed by lived experience in human trafficking and gender-based violence, as well as their software development skills, students, graduates and the AnnieCannons team can offer impact technology with the potential to serve millions more individuals who are vulnerable to and survivors of trafficking and gender-based violence.

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