Annual Report First 4 Years:
2000–2003 Text-only Version
FINANCIALS & ABOUT US
Board of Directors
Kerry Olson, Ph.D., is co-founder and President of the Firelight Foundation. She and her husband, David Katz, founded the Firelight Foundation in 1999. Kerry has dedicated much of her life to supporting children’s rights and needs — as a mother, an early childhood educator, a child advocate, and a research social scientist.
David Katz, Vice President, Treasurer
Dave Katz is a senior software engineer at a Silicon Valley internet infrastructure company. Dave and his wife, Kerry Olson, established the Firelight Foundation out of their shared sense of social responsibility towards those in need.
Debra Evans, Secretary
Debra L. Evans, board secretary, has worked in the field of women’s and children’s health for over twenty years. She has published 21 books and numerous articles and is also a certified childbirth educator. She has served on many task forces and boards in her field at the state and national level. Debra is the sister of Kerry Olson.
Nancy Shallow, Member
Nancy Shallow, J.D., is a senior consultant specializing in employment practices risk management for a global human resources consulting firm. She is a strong advocate for children’s fundamental human rights, and is the sister of Kerry Olson.
Advisory Board
Geoff Foster, M.D., is an expert on healthcare and other forms of support for children affected by HIV/AIDS. He is the founder of the Family AIDS Caring Trust (FACT), one of the first AIDS service organizations in Africa. His programs are considered by UNICEF to be model approaches to community-based care for orphans. Dr. Foster consults with many international organizations on programming for orphans and vulnerable children.
Stefan Germann, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Stefan Germann is an innovator of programs that support children and youth affected by HIV/AIDS in southern Africa. He founded Masiye Camp, a program for the psychosocial support of orphans and vulnerable children through adventure-based learning. Mr. Germann helped found the Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative (REPSSI), an organization working to enhance and increase existing psychosocial support programs for children affected by AIDS throughout southern Africa.
Tim Jackson, London, England
Tim Jackson is a journalist and writer based in London who has also started a successful technology company and managed a venture capital fund. As founder of the Argentarius Foundation, a private charity, Mr. Jackson was introduced to the issues facing orphans and vulnerable children. His research into funding community-based projects led him to the Firelight Foundation. Business Week recently named Mr. Jackson one of “The 50 Most Influential People in Europe.”
Natasha Martin, Half Moon Bay, California
Natasha Martin, F.I.M.L.S., has 20 years of scientific research experience in genetics, endocrinology, and immunology, as well as extensive experience in interdisciplinary project management in HIV-related clinical research. She is co-founder and President of Grassroots Association for Community Education (GRACE), an organization that works to develop leadership within African communities to fight HIV/AIDS.
Suzi Peel, Boston, Massachusetts (2000-2002)
Suzi Peel, a long-time advocate for children affected by AIDS, is Associate Director for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Programs at Family Health International. She has worked as scientific coordinator of several international AIDS conferences and consulted widely for agencies such as UNAIDS and the International Federation of the Red Cross. She founded the Pendulum Project and served as Executive Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud US Foundation.
Beatrice Were, Kampala, Uganda
Beatrice Were is a member of the National Community of Women Living With
HIV/AIDS (NACWOLA) in Uganda. She served as its National Coordinator for
six years. While working with NACWOLA, Ms. Were initiated the Memory Book
Project, which enables women and their children to discuss HIV/AIDS and
death openly and save family histories and childhood memories by writing
them down in a book. Ms. Were is a mother living with HIV.
John Williamson, Washington, D.C. — Visiting Scholar, August
2003 Advisory Board Meeting
John Williamson is a senior technical advisor for the Displaced Children
and Orphans Fund (DCOF) of the U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID). After 10 years with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees
(UNHCR), he now consults for UNICEF and USAID. Mr. Williamson co-authored
Children Isolated by AIDS (1997) and Children on the Brink 2000: Updated
Estimates and Recommendations for Action.
Staff
Jennifer Astone, Ph.D., is an applied anthropologist who has been focused on human rights and community-based development in Sub-Saharan Africa since 1985. Prior to joining the Firelight Foundation in 2001, she worked for the Global Fund for Women and the African Development Foundation.
Jennifer Anderson-Bähr, Senior Program Officer
Jennifer Anderson-Bähr, M.I.A. has worked on HIV/AIDS and its impact
in Africa since 1988. From 1991-2000, she lived in South Africa and Lesotho,
working with international and indigenous organizations focused on community-based
HIV/AIDS prevention and care.
Caitlin Brune, Program Officer
Caitlin Brune, M.P.H., has focused on maternal and child community-based
healthcare since 1992, including work in Kenya, Ghana, and Zimbabwe. Her
previous experience includes work with a foundation in Zimbabwe on efforts
to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Tammy Moody (2000–2002)
Tammy Moody served on a volunteer basis as Firelight’s first Program
Director. She has worked for various nonprofit organizations and has a
special interest in those focusing on the needs of children affected by
AIDS. Prior to Firelight, Tammy was a volunteer caregiver to children
affected by HIV/AIDS at Bryan’s House in Dallas, Texas.
Cheryl Talley-Moon, Administrative Assistant
Cheryl Talley-Moon has worked in the field of alternative medicine and
with Alzheimer’s patients.
Lynn Brisson, Accountant
Lynn Brisson, C.P.A., has eight years of experience working with local
non-profit organizations.
Please note that this Annual Report covers the period from December 1,
1999 through September 30, 2003.
If you are interested in receiving a copy of this report, please send an email to Cheryl Talley-Moon at Cheryl@firelightfoundation.org.
