Yearly Financial Summary

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This year, we have received $2005 by January 10.

Past Donation and Support : with your generous support and trust, we have been able to support more and more needy students despite ever falling dollars. With more support, we might be able to offer high school students a little more financial support (uo to 1500 yuan from current 1000 yuan) in near future. High school education in China is actually quite expensive---minimal about 5000 yuan a year for students---including tuition (1500 yuan), book related fees (1500 yuan+), and board and meals (2000 yuan) as most students have to stay in school 6 days a week.

year 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
donation 8580 12105 17222 25959 28348 39212 48237 58266
#of supp. students 223 256 390 471 576+20 601+20 634+33 657+40

The number of supported students are joint work between us and our partner Ningguo City Zhong Mei Ai Xin. Nanjing Group joined our effort in 2007. We started to support students in Yushe High School, Shanxi Province in 2008 (the smaller number in the table). More sponsors continue their students through college in 2011.

Summary of Year 2011:

1: We have received $58256 generous donation BY December 31, 011---the first time our annual donation reaches $50000. In addition, we have just won $25000 grant from Chase Community Giving Program with 1684 votes on facebook (#34 over all). Please continue to support us and encourage your friends to support us too. Word of mouth is very important to us. Please make your donation by writing a check payable to The Hometown Education Foundation (HEF), and send it to

Hometown Education Foundation
c/o Tonghai Yang
9 W. Geneva Cir.
Madison, WI 53717

or simply use Google Checkout (left) to make an online donation(very simple and free).

2. We are able to support (together with our partner Ningguo Zhong Mei Ai Xin) 697 students this year, including 263 elementary school students (Anhui), 240 middle school students (Anhui), 120 high school students (Anhui) and 40 high school student (Shanxi), and 34 college students (Anhui). The college students (partially supported) were supported by people who have sponsored for several years. Your generous support have made a big difference to these kids! The total expense for this effort is about $62000 (402400 yuan, in Anhui)+ $5000 (Shanxi)=$67000. We supported Anhui students with $45000 and Shanxi students with $5000. The total $50,000 is basically the total donation we received in 2010.

3. With 1684 votes of our supporters (#34 in the ranking) on facebook, we won $25000 grant from Chase Community Giving. We are in the process of receiving the grant.

4. We started to use causemunity to raise fund for the poor kids by encouraging our supporters to shop through our website (left), mostly when shopping at Amazon.com, Macy.com, Dell.com, iTune, etc. late in 2010. It started to pick it up this year. We earned about 3% of the proceed if you click Amazon.com (and others ) from our website to do your shopping---very simple and free. Please try it and spread the words. We earned over $400 so far---enough to help 5 middle school kids!

5. I visited my hometown Ningguo twice last summer. I visited some students in June at their homes and others in their schools. Please check

http://www.hometowneducation.org/photos11-1.html

for my visit. In July, I met with about thirty students, their parents, and teachers at Ningguo City. I chated with them all. They all appreciated your generous support very much.

6. Quite a few high school students we supported went to college this year, including 16 gone to the first and second class universities---big achievement for them. This is also first year that we support more than just a couple of college students. This could happen mainly because a group of Nanjing sponsors decided to continue to support the college students they sponsored. One college student Liming Yan (sponsored by Prof. Li) became a graduate student at Zhejiang University (one of the most famous universities in China) this Fall.

 

Summary of Year 2010:

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1. Thank you all very much for your generous support of the Hometown Education Foundation. We have received 201 donations of total $48237 this year, up from last year's $39212. December is especially a heart warming month with a record of $14093 donation from 40 generous donors, including two anonyous donations of $2500 and $5000 respectively. This year, we have received multiple monthly donation and quite a few generous donations from Europe. Some of our generous donors went back to China and continue to support us through our partner Zhong Mei Ai Xin.

2. Together with our partner Ningguo Zhong Mei Ai Xin, we are able to support 634 needy students in Ningguo City (county) during 2010-11, including 107 high school students (10-12th graders), 258 middle school students (7-9th graders), 258 elementary school students (1st-6th graders), and 11 college students (donors' requests). We are also able to support 33 needy high school students in Yushe County High School, Shangxi Province.

3. Mr. Alec Johnson, a graduate student at UW-Madison, went to Ningguo in June to visit six students he sponsored and others. It was quite an event in Ningguo, and a lot of people were inspired and very impressed by his visit and good deed. Please check

http://www.hometowneducation.org/photos10.html

for a brief summary of his visit, and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i72wHGvy-Cw

for a local news report (Chinese).

4. Mr. Wayne Liu, creator of Causemunity, has created a special online shopping webpage

http://hef.causemunity.org/

and its widget in our webpage

http://www.hometowneducation.org/index.html

to benefit the HEF while you shop online. Just first go to our webpage above, and click the online store there, e.g., Amazon.com, Expedia, Dell, Macy, iTune, or search your favorite store there, it will take you where you want to shop. You shop as usual while we can get about 3% of the proceed for the poor kids. It is really worthy of the one extra click. Please try it out and encourage others to do it for us too. We have already received $34 in last couple of months. Thanks a lot for Wayne and your support.

5. Thanks a lot for using Goodsearch.com for your online search and GoodShop.com for your online shopping to benefit the HEF. We received $227 from Goodsearch for your online search and shopping. Thanks a lot for your support.

6. 11 volunteers from UW-Madison Chinese Undergraduate Students Association went to 3 middle schools in Ningguo during June 8-12 to teach English and introduce US to the students at a more presonal level. They also went to poor students' homes to investigate the situations. Local people were very impressed by their work, and they learned a lot from the experience.

We need your support to continue helping these and other students in similar dire conditions. Please make your donation by writing a check payable to The Hometown Education Foundation (HEF), and send it to

Hometown Education Foundation
c/o Tonghai Yang
9 W. Geneva Cir.
Madison, WI 53717

or simply use Google Checkout (left) to make an online donation(very simple).

Summary of Year 2009:

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1. Thank you all very much for your generous support. We received $39212.17 this year from about 200 generous donors like you. We received a record $10066 donation in November. We are very happy and grateful with the steady growth of this program (last year we receive about $28400 generous donation). It makes a big difference to the poor kids we are trying to help. We appreciate all your support very very much. Among the most notable and inspiring are an anonymous $5000 donation in November, 85 years old Mrs. Chen's sponsoring a middle school student Yaqin Zhang, and Dr. Xun Jiang's big effort to inform and get his friends to support us.

2. We are able to support 601 needy students (see list here--Chinese) in Ningguo during 2009-10 with about 319100 Yuans (a little more than $46000). We are also able to support 20 high school students in YuShe High School, YuShe County Shanxi Province with $3000. We shift more support to high school students (96 this year comparing to 50 last year in Ningguo). It is much more expensive to have a high school education which is not mandatory. Thank you very much for your generous support.

3. I visited five needy students' families on July 6, 2009, and saw direct impact of your support on these poor kids and their families. They (and the teachers) appreciated your support very much, and your support made real difference to them. Please check here for photos and brief description of their situations. It was a humbe and moving experience to me to see how they deal with such hardship.

4. 12 volunteers from UW-Madison Chinese Undergraduate Students Association went to 3 middle schools in Ningguo during June 8-12 to teach English and introduce US to the students at a more presonal level. They also went to poor students' homes to investigate the situations. Local people were very impressed by their work, and they learned a lot from the experience.

5. Mr. Bingzhi Zhao, an undergraduate at UW-Madison, has spent last summer to redesign the website of Hometown Education Foundation. Thanks a lot to his hard work, we now have a much nicer website.

We need your support to continue helping these and other students in similar dire conditions. Please make your donation by writing a check payable to The Hometown Education Foundation (HEF), and send it to

Hometown Education Foundation
c/o Tonghai Yang
9 W. Geneva Cir.
Madison, WI 53717

You are welcome to donate through the Google Checkout (left) if you prefer (very simple). All of your donation goes directly to the needy students 100 percent, and is tax deductible.

Summary of the Year 2008

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  1. Thank you very much for your generous support, we received more than $28348 this year in US and our partner in Ningguo received more than $20000 generous donation in China. We sent $24000 to Ningguo last July and we are able to support 600 needy students in Ningguo this year.
  2. Thanks a lot to Mr Yonghong Ren's and his friend Mr. Jianming Wang, a high school teacher at the YuShe County High School of Shan Xi Province, we have just established the second branch in China at this high school. We support 20 needy high school students in this high school (the only high school in the county) with $3000 generous donation from you.
  3. I visited the needy students in Ningguo twice this academic year, both in the Winter Break and Summer Break (click for photos). The needy students and their families appreciate your support very much. It really helped them a lot. Local volunteers did a very good job choosing needy students.
  4. Four students we supported were accepted to college this year. Fang Liu (girl) was accepted to the Beijing University of Science and Technology with very high score of 616 (out of 750). Cun Liu (girl) was accepted to the Shandong Univeristy of Science and Technology. Fei Jin (girl) was accepted to the Tong Ling Insitute (in Anhui), and Shuming Gao (boy) was accepted to the Xin Hua Institute (in Anhui). You can see their photos here.
  5. Chinese Government has made an effort recently to reduce the cost of elementary and middle school education for students by 1/3 for 5-9th graders and about 1/2 for 1-4th graders. Now the students in 1-9th grade don't need pay anything except for books and homework books. In theory, they don't need pay for textbooks. In practice, they have to pay for all kinds of books which are not textbooks in theory but in practice used in classrooms, e.g., homework books, extra exercise books, and books in subjects like biology, geography and so on. Books get more expensive due to inflation. High school students need more than 3000 yuans (about $500) a year for tuition, books, boarding, and other fees, not including food.
  6. We received more than $200 from `GoodSearch' and `GoodShop' by using them for searching and shopping on line. Please use them to help us. It is very simple, and totally free. Please enourage others to use it to help us too.

To help these poor kids and others in similar dire condition, we need your generous support. We hope to have earned your trust with our hard work. Please consider supporting us by sending your generous donation (payable to Hometown Education Foundation) to

Hometown Education Foundation
c/o Tonghai Yang
9 W. Geneva Cir.
Madison, WI 53717

or using Google Checkout (left) to make an online donation (very simple). Your donation goes to the needy students 100 percent! Please enourage your friends to support us too. Together we do make a difference.

Thanks a lot for your generous support in advance.

Best regards,

Tonghai Yang

Year 2008:

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$28348.71 by December 31st, 2008.

We are able to support 576 needy students (Chinese) in Ningguo during 2008-09 with about $40,000 (284000 Yuans), up from last year's 471 needy students. It includes 50 high school students, 249 middle school students, 290 elementary school students, and one college student who was supported by Professors Li and Liao. For the first time, we are able to support another 20 high school students outside Ningguo County, i.e., at YuShe High School, Shanxi Province thanks to big effort of Mr. Yonghon Ren(a generous donor from the area) and Mr. Jianmin Wang (at the school).

Year 2007:

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$25959 by December 30th, 2007.

We are able to support 471 needy students during 2007-08 thanks to your generous support, up from last year's 390 needy students. In addition, we help about 30 students in a high school get direct support from local bubsiness.

Year 2006:

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$17222.25 by December 31th, 2006.

We are able to support 390 needy students during 2006-07 thanks to your generous support.

Year 2005:

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$12105 by December 28th, 2005.

We are able to support 256 needy students during 2005-06 thanks to your generous support. We need your support to continue helping these and other students in similar dire conditions.

Year 2004:

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$8580.

We were able to support 223 needy students during 2004-05 thanks to your generous support.

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