Adult Life Training, Inc.

President’s Report 2012 has been published here http://alt-fw.org/public/?page_id=2645

Board of Directors meeting is Wednesday this week, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:30PM in the computer office, room 136. It will adjourn by 7:30.

Income Statement For Period Covering 01/01/2011 to 12/31/2011

My PHD Pretty House Designs started on their donation today: re-designing our office space as a modern office. Starting pictures are below, complete with holes in the wall.

OUR HEART-FELT THANKS TO OUR GREAT VOLUNTEERS WHO MADE OUR FANTASTIC PERFORMANCE THIS YEAR POSSIBLE! YOU ARE THE GREATEST! MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS!

In-Kind Giving:
John: 992 hours (plus) or $24,800
Jennifer: 300 hours or $7,500
Mary: 200 hours or $5,000
Cammy: 300 hours or $7,500
These volunteers gave their time without pay, but if they were paid they would have received the amounts shown above. With no funding for paid staff their volunteer time made our success possible.

Students served in classes: 1,416
Classes Documented: 248
Hours in classes: 992
Hours lab open to public outside of formal classes: 928

Certificates Earned: 33

DEMOGRAPHICS:
Male: 686, 48%
Female: 730, 52%
White: 205, 14%
Black: 688, 49%
Asian: 523, 37%

We are getting the Ad campaign together: Google has approved our ad, gave us $10,000/month for our advertising, and now we are finishing the web page people will see when they click the ad. Please take a look and provide constructive feedback. We haven’t found an artist to make us six original small graphics yet so our logo is in those slots. Click About Us / Welcome

Advisory Board Minutes http://alt-fw.org/public/?page_id=840

Next Board of Directors meeting is set for Wednesday, December 21, 2011 6:30 – 7:00 in ALC room 131-133.

December is the month where we review the past year’s performance and update our 5 and 10 year plans. There is substantial administrative work for us this month, so if we are not as responsive to your inquiries, please forgive. We close the fourth week of December and re-open the second week of January.

Christmas is coming. Think about these.

As you open your pockets for the next natural disaster, please keep these facts in mind:

• The American Red Cross President and CEO Marsha J. Evans salary for the year was $651,957 plus expenses
• The United Way President Brian Gallagher receives a $375,000 base salary along with numerous expense benefits.
• UNICEF CEO Caryl M. Stern receives $1,200,000 per year (100k per month) plus all expenses including a ROLLS ROYCE . Less than 5 cents of your donated dollar goes to the cause.

You should be able to look up this information in their Form 990s on www.irs.gov but when I made a call to IRS to ask 800-876-1715 told me that they do not have the information on their web site. I was accessing it there two or three years ago, so it has been removed. You can look it up on GuideStar.org but they are self-reporting there. We are verifying these salaries at this time.

OR YOU CAN PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE IT WILL DO SOME GOOD IN YOUR OWN LOCAL COMMUNITY:

• The Salvation Army’s Commissioner Todd Bassett receives a small salary of only $13,000 per year (plus housing) for managing this $2 billion dollar organization. 96 percent of donated dollars go to the cause.
• The American Legion National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary. Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!
• The Veterans of Foreign Wars National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary. Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!
• The Disabled American Veterans National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary. Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!
• The Military Order of Purple Hearts National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary. Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!
• The Vietnam Veterans Association National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary. Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!

And I might humbly add, The Adult Life Training public charity in Fort Wayne has been serving the community for almost a decade now, and they are and always have been an all volunteer organization. They help displaced workers, recovering addicts, wounded warriors, and any other community member who needs help getting the job skills they need to join or rejoin the workforce, for free. Neither the CEO nor the staff have ever been paid a salary, and helping them in their mission is a very appropriate way you can give a gift that outlasts the wrapping paper this year. http://alt-fw.org. You may designate the way you want your donation to be used, or leave it undesignated and it will be applied where needed most.

Let us hope we don’t see this drug in the US. A new mix of chemicals has started to sweep Russia as a cheaper substitute for Heroin. It is made from various pain killers, pain thinner, and other things:

The drug, whose name means ‘crocodile’ – reportedly a reference to the way it turns users’ skin scaly – also rots their brains.

Krokodil is a sickening cocktail of over the counter painkillers, paint thinner, acid and phosphorus. In some cases, petrol is also added.

The resulting mixture is called desomorphine – a derivative of morphine – and is extremely addictive.

The article says it is

A deadly drug which rots the flesh of users – and kills the majority of addicts within a year of their first hit – is spreading across Europe.

Krokodil originated in Russia but is now reportedly on sale in Germany – where several deaths have been blamed on its use – leading the Czech Republic’s national drug agency to warn of its dangers.

Dubbed ‘the drug that eats junkies’, it rots from the inside, causing such severe damage to tissue that users suffer from gangrenous sores which open all the way to the bone.

Link to the article follows.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063224/Curse-Krokodil-Fears-home-Heroin-thats-rotting-Russian-addicts-flesh-spreads-Europe.html