Organizations Filed Purposes:
WISER Girls Secondary School: WISER provided fully funded secondary education, safe housing, leadership opportunities, skills development, mentorship, & psychosocial support to 240 girls in 2020, approximately 30% of whom are partial or total orphans, many due to HIV/AIDS-related illness. WISER provides girls with these opportunities as well as key resources that girls need to thrive, including clothes, books, mosquito nets, healthy meals, clean water, and essential health resources. In 2020, these services and resources were available to girls for approximately 6 months of the year due to mandated shutdowns in responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the remainder of 2020, WISER pivoted to a remote education model and was able to engage 90% of its student population via distance education initiatives that preserved student safety. All students, both on-campus pre-pandemic and off-campus post-lockdown were provided with access to menstrual pads and menstrual hygiene management education.
WISER Community Outreach: WISER provided sexual and reproductive (SRH) education and training to over 1,000 community youth in 2020 and nearly 1 in 5 WISER students were involved in the leadership and planning of this outreach. Throughout the year, WISER continued to confront water-borne disease through the use of its solar-powered community water system, which provides 15,000 people with clean water and serves as the main source of clean water for several schools and local businesses as well.
WISER COVID-19 Relief Efforts: Following the implementation of COVID-19 lockdown procedures, WISERs community outreach pivoted to provide food and relief packages to out-of-school girls and their families. These efforts distributed over 25,000 pounds of relief materials including grains, masks, sanitizer, and menstrual pads. WISER also installed more than 30 sanitation stations throughout and near its campus to encourage hand washing and disease prevention. To further lower the risk of COVID-19, modifications were made to student housing programs to allow for greater social distancing and lower student density in classroom and dormitory spaces.
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 |
|---|
| Zachary Fowler | Executive Director | 40 | $78,380 |
| Joseph Sanginiti | Treasurer | 3 | $0 |
| Carolyn Arndt | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
| Sherryl Broverman | Board Chair Founder | 5 | $0 |
| Michael Schreiber | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Steve Tremitiere | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Sara Benjamin Neelon | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Prashant Swaminathan | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Kristin Ashcraft | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Melissa Katz | Board Member | 2 | $0 |
| Hardy Vieux | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Frances Woodard | Board Member | 2 | $0 |
Data for this page was sourced from XML published by IRS (
public 990 form dataset) from:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202141289349300204_public.xml