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The mission of SIL LEAD is to serve minority language communities and support the purposes and ends of SIL International, primarily through a focus on language and its role in education and development in minority language communities.
During FY19, SIL LEAD participated as a subcontractor on 11 education projects funded by USAID. SIL LEAD continued its work on several multi-year contracts in Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guatemala, Nepal, the Philippines and Senegal. SIL LEAD took on new work in Kenya, Mozambique, the Philippines and Washington DC. Work on these projects was performed as a subcontractor to a number of organizations, including: Chemonics International, Creative Associates International, FHI 360, Juarez and Associates, RTI International, University Research Co and World Vision. Each of these projects is designed to improve the quality of education in the respective countries and is often carried out in collaboration with the host country through its Ministry of Education (MoE). SIL LEAD's involvement in these projects generally involves technical assistance in curriculum review, evaluation, and design; policy review and support; enhancement of local capacity through training and consultation; development and production of instructional materials; the training of writers, teachers, and trainers; and/or facilitation and support of workshops in each of these areas. Specific FY19 accomplishments include: 1) Afghanistan ACR (Creative Associates International): SIL LEAD completed final revision of grades 2-3 materials (student book and teacher guides) in Dari and Pashto; supported the drafting, field testing and revising of 168 readers for grades 1-3; adapted software tools to support local development of additional reading materials; helped to develop a plan to create an Early Grade Toolkit to enable local teachers and education departments to create additional reading materials; recruited and trained local reading lab specialists to build the capacity of the Afghan MoEd and provincial departments of education for ongoing creation of new reading material; completed the training of one cohort of trainees through the Occupational Capacity Development Program and began training for a second cohort; helped train core teacher training staff in two pre-service teacher training courses and developed materials for one additional course; and contributed to research on struggling readers and how to identify and support them in the Afghan context; 2) Senegal ACR (Chemonics International): SIL LEAD's consultants provided technical assistance for developing grades 1-3 materials in the Seereer language with a particular focus this year on grade 3; facilitated numerous teacher training, coaching and supervision workshops in Dakar, Fatick and Kaolack; provided assistance with Early Grade Reading Assessment tools development; produced a technical document on "How to Teach Writing" for teachers; helped to develop coaching tools on digitized survey solutions; and conducted 2 Bloom software training workshops in Dakar; 3) Nepal EGRP (RTI International): SIL LEAD continued to support RTI International in its efforts to develop teaching-learning materials in Awadhi, Maithili and Rana Tharu. Further progress was made on grades 2-3 materials for each of these languages; 4) Chemonics DRC ACCELERE! (Chemonics International): SIL LEAD consultants provided additional analysis of Ciluba, Lingala, and Kiswahili text and updated the SynPhony software based on this analysis; prepared the linguistic survey research findings for presentation at the provincial level; made further revisions to the sociolinguistics study report; and contributed toward the project's final report. SIL LEAD's sociolinguistics consultant presented the findings of the sociolinguistic survey at the Comparative International Education Society meetings in San Francisco in April 2019; 5) REACH Enabling Writers Project (University Research Co.): SIL LEAD was contracted to provide additional remote support through November 2018 for project awardees who had not yet completed and uploaded their books to bloomlibrary.org. In total, the awardees in Bangladesh, Haiti, Indonesia, Nepal, Nigeria and the Philippines successfully created and uploaded approximately 200 books for each of 15 languages to bloomlibrary.org. In turn, these books were also uploaded to the Global Digital Library; 6) Guatemala Leer y Aprender (Juarez and Associates): SIL LEAD continued supporting the Leer y Aprender project during FY19 by providing Bloom training workshops to staff from the MoE's headquarters and information technology staff in order to train them on how to use Bloom in schools to create books. SIL LEAD also provided technical support to the successful effort to localize Bloom into K'iche and Mam. The project was successfully completed in March 2019; 7) All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development-Grand Prize Winner-Bloom Book Boost (World Vision): SIL LEAD completed its project deliverables in September 2019. Our pilot project successfully demonstrated the ability of our local partner, Resources for the Blind (RBI), to produce 40 books (each in Filipino and Cebuano) that are accessible to the visually impaired. SIL LEAD consultants led Bloom software and materials development workshops to train RBI staff and school teachers to produce digital books that image descriptions for all images and audio recordings of all text; 8) Bloom Training Workshop in Washington DC (FHI 360): SIL LEAD provided capacity building for Bloom software to NGO partner FHI 360 so that they could adopt the technology for use in their educational programs; 9) Family Planning Booklets (FHI 360): FHI 360 and project partner Christian Connections for International Health engaged SIL LEAD to assist with adapting a booklet on family planning into 4 Kenyan languages. SIL LEAD partnered with BTL, a Kenyan NGO, to provide those translations and create new, online versions of the booklet; 10) Mozambique Let's Read Project (Creative Associates International): SIL LEAD was engaged by Creative Associates to analyze 15 Mozambican languages using SynPhony software, provide a SynPhony database and setup for each language; lead a training workshop on the use of SynPhony; and to provide post-workshop support; 11) Philippines ABC+ (RTI International): SIL LEAD began working on this project in late July 2019. Initial involvement by SIL LEAD consultants included participation in the project launch, regional consultation meetings in Iloilo and Legazpi and work planning meetings; leading a bridging workshop for the DepEd for 19 languages; and preparing and delivering a written report analyzing the languages and locations selected for the first year of project implementation.
SIL LEAD has a vision to assist community-based organizations in their language development efforts through charitable donations received on their behalf for projects that align with SIL LEAD's mission. To support such community-based programs, SIL LEAD has been strengthening its fundraising from individual donors and foundation grants. In FY19, SIL LEAD sent funds to 6 organizations. In addition to the 2 with project work that began prior to FY19, SIL LEAD selected 4 new organizations in November 2019 to receive small project grants. Each of these new projects is expected to be completed within 2 years of inception and all 4 grantees received initial disbursements and began implementation during FY19. All 6 grantees are NGOs or community-based organizations that work for charitable, not-for-profit purposes and share SIL LEAD's mission and vision. Details on each grantee and the programs SIL LEAD supports are as follows: 1) ARIAP (Asociación Raíces Indigenas Amazónicas Peruanas): SIL LEAD continued to monitor the progress of 21 indigenous teacher scholarship recipients. A total of 13 women and 8 men from 8 different language communities received scholarships to help finance the cost of completing their títulos (teaching credentials); 2) Literacy and Development through Partnership (LDP): In 2018, SIL LEAD signed an agreement with LDP, a non-profit organization in northern Ghana working in early childhood education. Disbursements began in FY18 and have continued through FY19 to support LDP's mother tongue based multilingual education effort impacting approximately 1,600 pupils in 50 rural schools; 3) Fraternidad de Asociaciones de Iglesias Evangélicas Nativas de la Amazonía Peruana (FAIENAP): SIL LEAD entered an agreement with FAIENAP to support their goal of establishing vernacular reading clubs in 12 indigenous languages of Peru. FAIENAP provides training for literacy facilitators and teachers and works with them to create and publish vernacular language materials to teach and encourage reading among children and adults. The organization held 2 workshops in FY19; 4) Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi (IBT): SIL LEAD supported the work of IBT on their project aimed at strengthening literacy and cultural identity among the Torwali-speaking community. The project focuses on the production of animated comics for digital and print publication based on Torwali folktales to increase children's literacy & awareness; 5) SIL LEAD supports the work of an organization in India in the creation and publication of trilingual dictionaries in 10 languages in Rajasthan, plus Hindi and English. The project also supports website creation using these 10 mother tongues for the language communities involved in the dictionary creation; 6) Language and Social Development Organization (LSDO): SIL LEAD supports LSDO's project entitled "Developing Reading Materials and Strengthening Local Community Capacity." 3 workshops were implemented in 2019 to train literacy facilitators and teachers from 3 minority language communities in Myanmar. Project outcomes included the professional development and training of LSDO staff for literacy work.
Bloom book creation software continues to be one of SIL LEAD's primary service areas. SIL LEAD updates and expands Bloom training resources on an ongoing basis and continues to enhance the Bloom Enterprise subscription service, which provides organizations with additional features and capabilities related to Bloom beyond what is available in the regular free version.
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 |
|---|
| Valori Maresco - 9 Mos - Incoming | Treasurer, Controller | 40 | $48,352 |
| Paul Stephen Frank | Executive Director | 40 | $44,050 |
| Jeanne Thum - 3 Mos - Outgoing | Treasurer, CFO | 4 | $39,683 |
| Valerie Lynn Moore | Secretary | 1 | $23,942 |
| Samantha Custer | Director | 0.7 | $0 |
| Carletta Lahn | Director | 0.7 | $0 |
| Nelis Van Den Berg | Director | 0.7 | $0 |
| Catherine Young | Director | 0.7 | $0 |
| Joy Peyton | Director | 0.7 | $0 |
| Margaret Muthwii | Director | 0.7 | $0 |
| Serge Duss | Director | 0.7 | $0 |
| Mark Taylor | Board Chair | 0.7 | $0 |
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