2026-05-07T09:55:57-06:00 2025-12-31 824700083 Pure Foods Management Mid Atlantic 7237 Hanover Pkwy Suite C Greenbelt MD 20770 990 2025-01-01 521541798 FRIENDS OF LIBERIA INC % Rebecca Martinez FRIE 5712173083 2440 Virginia Ave NW STE D1007 Washington DC 20037 REBECCA MARTINEZ President 8162078960 2026-04-15 false MUHAMMAD SHARF ELAHI P03239408 2405993605 2026-05-07 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Rebecca Martinez 3653 Redondo Drive Lafayette IN 47905 137481 false X https://fol.org/ X 1987 DC SUPPORT EDUCATION, HEALTH, AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS RELATING TO LIBERIA 15 15 0 28 0 0 120960 123834 0 13647 5380 0 126340 137481 112900 0 0 0 6449 57237 53115 57237 166015 69103 -28534 440104 411570 0 440104 411570 SUPPORT EDUCATION, HEALTH, AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS RELATING TO LIBERIA false false 112900 30994 The Friends of Liberia (FOL) Education Committee continued its support of WE-CARE International,a Liberian-led nonprofit based in the greater Monrovia area. The Committee provides technical guidance, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation support, and financial assistance for WE-CAREs Family Literacy Initiative (FLI).In 2025, FLI continued to serve 5 communities through its two components: the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) Home Visitors Program and the Adult Literacy Program (ALP) The HIPPY Home Visitors program uses a culturally adaptive HIPPY curriculum to provide parents with training, educational activity packets,and other resources to help improve theirchild/rens literacy and school readiness. The training and resources are delivered by home visitors employed by WE-CARE.In 2025, FLI celebrated its 10th year of The HIPPY Home Visiting Program,having 218 families complete the program.The program worked with 233 children, and an additional 76 children (siblings and relatives) in families benefited from the HIPPY at-home model. The Adult Literacy Program (ALP), which complements HIPPY complements, provided group-based instruction in English literacy and numeracy completed its 6th year of services. ALP provides two levels of services.Level one is for parents with very little literacy, and Level two is a continuation designed for parents who already have some basic literacy skills.In 2025, 84 learners successfully completed the program, including 60 in Level 1 and 24 in Level 2. FOLs Education Committee continued to expand its longitudinal tracking of program graduates and supported ongoing curriculum contextualization for Liberian learners. The program conducted graduation exercises for participating families and engaged an external evaluator to carry out endline assessments,including the Bracken School Readiness Assessment for children.These findings were shared in a a one-pager, and a chapter publication by 2025. The FLI program continues to expand access to early childhood education and strengthen family literacy in underserved communities through its partnership between WE-CARE International and Education Committee of Friends of Liberia. 39833 9287 In 2025, the Friends of Liberia Small Grants Committee played a critical role in strengthening Liberias local development ecosystem during a year marked by significant cuts to U.S. foreignassistance. The Committee received 172 applications and funded 15 community-led projects across six counties, awarding over $25,000 in grants and reaching more than 30,000 beneficiaries. Supported initiatives spanned education, health, economic empowerment, sanitation, infrastructure, peacebuilding, and psychosocial support, with measurable outcomes including increased school attendance, improved menstrual health knowledge, reduced waterborne illness, enhanced road safety compliance, strengthened agricultural livelihoods, and improved access to safe learning and healthcare environments. Beyond funding,Small Grantsdeepened its commitment to transparency and capacity building by implementing a structured evaluation rubric, strengthening its three-phase monitoring and evaluation framework, providing tailored applicant feedback and office hours, launching a quarterly newsletter distributed to 190 organizations, and creating a WhatsApp community for peer connection. Together, these efforts reflecta holistic approachthat combines flexible funding, accountability, and network-building to advance resilient, community-driven development in Liberia. 25811 Since 2020 the Liberian Health Team has been offering continuing professional development workshops with the financial support of Friends of Liberia.These continuing professional development workshops not only enable both faculty and clinical nurses and midwives around Liberia to continually update and expand their knowledge, skills,attitudes and enhance evidence-based practices throughout Liberia,it also allows them to lead efforts to improve the Liberian healthcare delivery system.Since 2022,it has been determined that a majority of workshop participants have shared workshop resources in their respective institutions either through uploading of workshop resources on to personal or institutional computers or more formally through organized workshops.This facilitates the circulation of evidence-based practices throughout the Liberian health care system. With the support of the US Health Team of the Friends of Liberia and Global Giving,FOLs Liberian Health Team (LHT) conducted a three-day workshop for nursing/midwifery faculty and a three-day workshop for practicing nurses/midwives in January 2025.The 2025 workshops were again held at Phebe Hospital from January 6 through January 10, 2025. FOLs Liberian Health Team (LHT) conducted a three-day workshop for nursing/midwifery faculty and a three-day workshop for practicing nurses/midwives in January 2025. In-service training was provided to nursing/midwifery faculty and practicing nurses/midwives to provide evidence-informed and context relevant continuing professional development (CPD) training to support their professional development and improve ongoing practice.In addition,the workshops offered the opportunity for health professionals from across Liberia to share experiences,concerns and successes in their work. Workship objectives included that the nursing/midwifery faculty would be competent in writing well formatted learning objectives and be knowledgeable and competent in evaluating their own institutional programs. Additionally,practicing nurses/midwives would be effective in handling postpartum hemorrhage,eclampsia, and birth aphasias which are among the causes of maternal-infantsmorbidities and mortalities in Liberia.These topics were the focus of the midwifery experts during our 2025 workshop.Through these efforts FOL,through the LHT,is helping the Liberian government in its objectives to reduce maternal-infantsmorbidities and mortalities in Liberia. An additional planned component of the workshop was that the participants would share what they had learned with the staff at the clinics and hospitals where they were based.Consequently,the LHT was able to report several follow-up training events: 1.At Kolahum Hospital in Upper Lofa County, during a day long training, 26 staff were provided refreshing training in pre-eclampsia and eclampsia. 2.At F J.Grant Hospital in Sinoe County,20 staff were provided an in-service training that included post-partum hemorrhage, eclampsia, and birth asphyxia. 3.At Government Hospital, Buchanan, Grand Bassa,25 staff were retrained in post-partum hemorrhage, eclampsia, and birth asphyxia. 4. 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Endowments are funds that an organization sets aside in investments where they can accrue value to ensure the long-term financial stability of the organization. It means that our endowment funds can help us plan for a more robust future that will help provide us financial security and flexibility. It is the hope with this stability and flexibility, FOL will be better able to fulfill our mission and programming in Liberia.The Friends of Liberia Legacy Circle FundThe primary mission of this Fund is To connect and engage interested parties in Liberia topositively affect Liberia and Liberians through education, economic,and humanitarian programs and through advocacy efforts.Friends of Liberia Emergency FundThis fund, will help Liberia in times of emergency such as Ebola, Covid, Civil War, environmental destruction, natural disasters, or such that provide challenges to daily living in Liberia. true Sub-Saharan Africa Program services EduHealthDevSm G 152733 152733 152733 Sub-Saharan Africa Family & Adult Literacy 112900 Bank EFT for exp false false false false false false Form 990 governing body review Part VI line 11 Before submission, a draft of the filing is circulated to the organizations officers and directors for review. This process ensures that all financial data and program service descriptions are thoroughly verified for accuracy and completeness Conflict of interest policy compliance Part VI line 12c Each year, the Board of Directors conducts a formal review to identify and address any actual or perceived conflicts of interest. In 2025, any such instances involving the CEO or CAO were promptly investigated and appropriately resolved by the Board, in alignment with the organizations commitment to transparency and ethical governance. CEO executive director top management comp Part VI line 15a As part of the annual review process, the Board of Directors thoroughly considers relevant matters, with all substantiation, deliberations, and decision-making procedures documented in the official board meeting minutes. No compensation was provided to board members in 2025 Other officer or key employee compensation Part VI line 15b The Board of Directors conducts an annual review, with all substantiation, deliberations, and decision-making processes carefully documented in the official meeting minutes. No compensation was provided to Board members in 2025. Form 990 availability to public Part VI line 18 Friends of Liberia (FOL) is a non-governmental, non-profit organization dedicated to making a positive impact on Liberia and its people through the funding of educational, social, economic, and humanitarian initiatives. The completed Form 990 is imaged and can be accessed for viewing on our website at www.fol.org. Governing documents etc available to public Part VI line 19 The governing documents of Friends of Liberia are available for review on our website at www.fol.org.