Organizations Filed Purposes:
SIL serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for sustainable language development, by means of research, translation, training, and materials development.
SIL International works alongside ethnolinguistic communities as they discover how language development addresses the challenging areas of their daily lives. SIL's service is founded on the principle that communities should be able to pursue their goals without sacrificing their ethnolinguistic identity.
Language Development and Translation Programs-- SIL works with 2,000 ethnolinguistic minority communities around the world as they build their capacity for the sustainable development of their own languages. Language development is the series of ongoing planned actions that a language community takes to ensure that its language continues to serve its changing social, cultural, political, economic and spiritual needs and goals. SIL's expertise related to language development includes training and consulting for activities such as linguistic analysis, orthography and writing systems development, literature development (including translation) and multilingual education and literacy.
Logistics -- SIL serves minority language communities who may reside in very remote locations. It is often necessary for SIL to provide services to its staff that are not available in the local economy, such as housing, transportation, and food.
Training in Language Development and Multilingual Education-- SIL offers technical expertise and training to support the decisions of local communities about how to maintain their cultures and use their languages in new ways to address their changing needs. To do this, SIL assists with multilingual education programs to help students learn effectively through both their mother tongues and other languages. In addition to working with communities at the local level, SIL is an acknowledged leader in formal academic programs for the components of cross-cultural language development work. SIL works in partnership with more than 25 institutions around the world to offer classroom and online training in applied linguistics.
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 |
|---|
| Fredrick A Boswell | Executive Director (outgoing) | 40 | $80,527 |
| Michel Kenmogne | Executive Director (incoming) | 40 | $67,756 |
| Andrew Clark | Director (outgoing) | 40 | $63,804 |
| David T Cram | Treasurer (outgoing) | 40 | $58,670 |
| Mark Robinson | Director | 40 | $54,522 |
| Barbara Grimes | Director | 40 | $36,965 |
| John R Watters | President (outgoing) | 40 | $35,607 |
| Doug Baughman | Director (outgoing) | 40 | $33,614 |
| Daniel M Agee | Director | 40 | $31,999 |
| Eleanor Berry | Chief Financial Officer (outgoing) | 36 | $30,676 |
| Elizabeth Thomson | Vice Chair | 40 | $29,629 |
| Bonnie Nystrom | Director (outgoing) | 8 | $25,964 |
| Yuko Takata | Director | 40 | $25,486 |
| Dave Pearson | Director (outgoing) | 40 | $24,721 |
| Hans Combrink | Vice President (outgoing) | 40 | $22,897 |
| Don Buhler | Treasurer (incoming), Chief Financial Officer (incoming) | 40 | $22,606 |
| Mary Pearce | Director | 40 | $20,664 |
| George Shultz | Director (outgoing)/Secretary (incoming) | 40 | $14,558 |
| Eugene C Burnham | Secretary (outgoing) | 40 | $6,772 |
| Karel Van Der Mast | Board Chairman | 1 | $0 |
| Kohima Daring | Director (outgoing) | 1 | $0 |
| Sherwood Lingenfelter | Director (outgoing) | 1 | $0 |
| Reniel Nebab | Director (outgoing) | 1 | $0 |
| Michael Welles | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Andy Warren-Rothlin | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Roberto Carlos Laver | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Andrew Kwimberi | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Saju George John | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Paul Opoku-Mensah | Director | 1 | $0 |
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