Our Mission

To prevent pain and provide hope. To empower individuals to make informed decisions about their family planning, health and wellbeing and uplift communities in crisis through education and self-sustaining employment. This work will prevent unplanned pregnancies, increase quality of life and end human trafficking, child poverty and abuse.

Needs We Address

Prevent Unplanned Pregnancies Reproductive Health Wellbeing Education Family Planning Foster Care After Care Sex Education Preventative Education Puberty Education Women's Empowerment Health Education Child Abuse Child Poverty Women's Health Low-income Education Empowerment Human Trafficking Child Trafficking Sustainable Employment Nutrition Education Mental Health Education Healthy Environment Education International Instructor Training International Education Programs LETS Educational Services Philanthropy Charity & Voluntarism Promotion

Website

www.letsempower.org

Phone

+1 7313431829

Email

info@letsempower.org

Offices

54 Brackenhouse Sq
Jackson, TN 38305-9606
United States

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DBA

Nonprofit/Charity Since

2019

Registered Country

United States

EIN

82-4454278

NTEE Category

T50 - Philanthropy, Charity & Voluntarism Promotion ? Organizations concerned with civil society, philanthropy, and the nonprofit sector who seek to promote the practice of charitable giving and voluntarism through a variety of strategies including advocacy, disclosure, information exchange, and research. (rev. 1/05)

B90 - Educational Services ? Organizations that provide educational programs within the formal educational system or offered as an adjunct to the traditional school curriculum which help students succeed in school and prepare for life. Includes organizations that partner parents, families, schools, business and/or community leaders to broker resources for the benefit of local schools.

Mission

To prevent pain and provide hope. To empower individuals to make informed decisions about their family planning, health and wellbeing and uplift communities in crisis through education and self-sustaining employment. This work will prevent unplanned pregnancies, increase quality of life and end human trafficking, child poverty and abuse.

Vision

A world without human trafficking, child poverty and abuse.

Short-term Goals

- Expand the BOD by 3.
- Hire 3 new executive team members.
-Secure an additional 500k in consistent donor and grant funding.
- Fully fund and launch curriculum partnership with the Amal Foundation in Bangladesh reaching 1000 women and their families in our joint beta project.
- Translation into Bengali
- Expand current Port Salut program into the greater Les Cayes region including five new communities and Ile a Vache. This entails community directors and education staff jobs and increasing our farming and manufacturing jobs by 15.
- Launch the 9-11 year old Your Amazing Body program in the USA to schools and foster care programs.

Long-term Goals

- Have our curriculum and Instructors in all Haitian communities.
- Gain sustainable financial support to expand our educational programs into more countries and communities in crisis.
- Increase the impact of the LETS Training Program by expanding the program to further countries.
- Support parents with tools to communicate successfully with children and each other.
- Partnering with further organizations and their staff to make a difference.
- Increasing public awareness of fertility, infertility and hormonal harmony, empowering women, couples and families.
- Help men to understand their role and co-responsibility in understanding menstruation and and how they can better partner.

- Expand our partnering network of non-profits and NGO's to create sustainable change.

- Your Amazing Body course utilized as a common curriculum in US national foster care, safe house and public/private school programs.

Value Statement

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Elevator Speech

We prevent pain and provide hope. We empower individuals to make informed decisions about their family planning, health and wellbeing and uplift communities in crisis through education and self-sustaining employment. This work and education will prevent unplanned pregnancies, increase quality of life and prevent human trafficking, child poverty and abuse.

Total Volunteers

10

Website

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Yearly Volunteer Hours

5000

Strengths

Proven successful reproductive health, human development and basic health and wellbeing program that reduces unplanned pregnancies in communities in crisis. Experience in delivering training and support for this program and working with partners to deliver. We have a committed, capable and passionate staff and leadership team.
Data that supports the success of the program in developing countries.

Weaknesses

A need for more funding to support our efforts to help us raise awareness of our preventative education and support the growth of the team to deliver and expand initiatives.
Need additional leadership to expand our growth.

Opportunities

Partnerships we are in negotiation with at the moment
Curriculum translation into Bengali - 6th spoken language globally

990 Forms

2022 - None

2021 - None

2020 - 990

2019 - 990EZ

Financial Statements

2022 - None

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Revenue

$88,999

Expenses

$109,966

Funds Spent on Salaries

$42,015

1-Year Financial Goals

$500,000 in additional funding for operational costs

5-Year Financial Goals

$5 million in secure yearly operation funds

Top 5 Funders in Past Year

dōTERRA
GreenAir
Essentials First
Oil Magic Book
Individual Donor

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Successes

- We have translated all materials into Creole and have a fully duplicatable educational system from the ground up in Haiti. - We have launched 40 new Instructors and partnered with multiple NGO's/Nonprofits to integrate our materials into Haiti. - We launched a pilot program into Bangladesh with the Amal Foundation which will bring our LETS curriculum to 55k women and their families over the course of the next 2-5 years. - We have revised and expanded our online LETS certification training program in English which allows us to partner with NGO's, nonprofits and individuals with a heart to educate and empower. - We educated over 1900 students in the South of Haiti alone, during covid and under significant trials of gangs, earthquakes, tropical storms and government shutdowns. We have dedicated staff who love the impact their work contributes to their communities. - We have collected pre and post class (over 3 months since their last class) data from our students which allows us to refine the program and demonstrate our impact. - We launched our first beta project of the Your Amazing Body curriculum for 9-11 olds with excellent feedback from parents, teachers and students.

Funders

We've had very generous donors, particularly dōTERRA Healing Hands Foundation, GreenAir, Oil Magic, Essentials First and Eddleman and Eddleman as well as private donors. It has allowed us to create a robust and duplicatable model into both the developing and developed world communities. Our materials from all administrative to educational materials to marketing and outreach are now able to launch in any country or community outside of new translations. All materials were also professionally translated and graphically designed in Creole. Much of the Creole program was automated and the next round of funding will allow it to go live. We revised and created a robust website. We are strong and experienced and very grateful for the support we've been given to helps us prepare to have a larger global reach.

Challenges

Our growth has been larger and faster than our funding can keep up. We needed funding to hire executive positions to specialize in particular Department needs. Some of the countries we work in have significant government and gang issues as well as natural disasters that have inhibited where we can travel. Our operation costs have exponentially increased to inflation such as gas, power and basic operational expenses. Water was scarce in our major fields which created challenges with production. Our staff have been personally impacted by incredible hardships, yet they endure and continue to expand our mission through their passion in this solution.

Partnerships

We train the staff of other organizations in the LETS curriculum. All organizations have a need for our training for their staff and/or organizations within their reach and families. We love extending our own mission by working with those who have established relationships of trust in their communities. We have a three day in person Instructor Training Program in Haiti and our Advanced Instructors prepare and launch partnering staff to integrate our 6 lessons on: reproductive and sexual health, family planning, personal safety and trafficking, having a healthy mind, body, spirit and environment into their programs. We offer this same training in English online, providing all materials and tools to orgs outside out in person locations. We partner with parents and individuals who want to become certified to bring our materials into their local English speaking communities and projects. Collaboration and unifying missions is an excellent way to grow together.