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What it reported doing in 2024

1)OPT FOR OPTIMISM PROGRAM The optimism program has been operational in the Eugene, Oregon area for more than two years. It emerged in response to the community schisms caused by presidential candidate political maneuvering using hate and misogynist arguments, that put minority populations in peril. A volunteer stepped up to remind the community of its happiness and connectedness, by appealing creating a road-side music-hub for the community to Elect Dance. The central message of the Optimism program is radical self-acceptance and respect for others and their differences. The CONNECT Board believes that this program helps reduce interpersonal violence of all kinds. The Opt for Optimism movement grows as its message of increased inter-connection as a better response to harmful messages that incite division, is embraced. Its brand is on t-shirts and sweatshirts around the world. CONNECT sees the Optimism movement as a key connector of all other programs CONNECT may offer, as Opt for Optimism is a perfect, positive path into the hearts and minds of the average person and the oppressed. It builds our common ground and connectedness. 2)EDUCATE THE FUTURE PROGRAM This program emerged in response to the repeated stalling of known-to-be-necessary upgrades to public high school health classes, including the need to teach healthy relationship dynamics and recognition of controlling behaviors/domestic violence. Many non-profits including Domestic Violence Safe Dialogue and SCARS worked hard to plan and accomplish meetings with law, enforcement, DHS and school districts to persuade the powers that be that inasmuch as it is still the case that 1 in 3 households report experiencing domestic violence and inasmuch as victims indicate that the time period in which they might have been able to avoid becoming the target of abuse is high school at the latest, all parties agreed that teaching these subjects needed to change and then nothing changed. Educate the Future is CONNECTs answer to the stubborn status quo its mission is to craft the necessary, new teaching materials and offer them to public high schools as ready-made courses. MENTORSHIP Educate the Future has the primary goal of crafting and implementing a secondary education (high school level) health class that addresses current inadequacies, especially education around domestic violence/power and control dynamics. Educate the Future will work with multiple curriculum providers and specialists to arrive at its final product and it is expected that some side-interests might emerge and seek CONNECT collaboration. CONNECT to offer this collaboration under an MOU-agreement, under each of its programs but specifically to begin under the Educate the Future program. 3)BELOVED HOME PROGRAM By far, the number one obstacle to leaving an abuser is lack of housing, even after decades of consolidation of DV programs into county hubs for efficiency. Nearly all families that approach county DV hubs for help are not removed from their danger. The BeLoved Home program intends to provide the social system and program support for the other entities with exempt purpose to offer 24-month grant housing for families escaping or recovering from domestic violence, including programs for assessment of the post-abuse new normal, facilitation toward most-safe divorce decrees as the victims are not forced to expose their children as a way to gain agreement for child support, some trauma-informed relearning of basic home skills, as many DV survivors cannot feed or dress themselves or their children, having done so under threat for extended periods of time. 4)POST SEPARATION ABUSE SERVICES, CLASSES and RETREATS After a victim escapes domestic violence, the victim can sometimes continue to be abused in what is called Post Separation Abuse, which can include financial persecution (withholding funds, controlling the victim through financial oppression) court abuse (charging the victim with crimes or with allegations for

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: Limited
• Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

• Operating margin: Limited
• Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
• Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
• Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

• Program expense growth: Limited
• Revenue growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -28.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings