Dean AguillenBoard Chairman

Richard J. NoriegaPresident & CEO

Dear Friends, As we approach AVANCE’s 40th Anniversary, this annual report focuses on our mutual achievements and our new exciting national partnerships.

This year AVANCE experienced landmark growth and expansion. Our chapters in Texas and our Regional Office in New Mexico continued serving more families and children. AVANCE continued its’ “Unlocking America’s Potential” research project with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation which has extended to 10 states and the District of Columbia. The preliminary findings of this project conducted by The National Institute of Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers University suggested that the Parent-Child Education Program (PCEP) can be easily and effectively enacted across various cultural backgrounds. The PCEP was recognized as a national leader in dual-generation models during NBC’s nationally televised Education Nation Summit. AVANCE played a key role as an invitee to the Aspen Institute, the Clinton Global Initiative and the White House Initiative for Hispanic Educational Excellence. AVANCE was also awarded the 2012 Simmons Luminary Awards by the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development, Southern Methodist University for pioneering new ways of improving children’s education.

Our new partnerships with New Profit, Inc., the Bezos Foundation, the Social Impact Exchange and WGBH, will greatly expand AVANCE’s reach and impact while serving more families. AVANCE has partnered with the Intercultural Research and Development Association (IDRA) and Texas State University to conduct a longitudinal study of AVANCE graduates over a 15-year period. This year-long study will evaluate the changes that AVANCE has made in their lives.

This next year is equally promising as we refine our program model, expand to serve more families, and work toward achieving our AVANCE vision. Stay tuned for our exciting announcements leading to AVANCE’s 40th Anniversary. Thank you again for your continued support.

Sincerely,

Unlocking America’s potential

by strengthening families in

at-risk communities through

effective parent education

and support programs

Our Mission

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We envision a future where we

live in a world where children

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full potential, transforming the

communities in which we live

Our Vision

LETTER FROMTHE CHAIRMAN

Officers

EXPENSES

Total Expenses

$55,104,435

FINANCIALINFORMATION

Dean AguillenChairman

Olga Llamas RodriguezVice Chairwoman

Jorge HerreraParliamentarian

Berthy Aguirre-CorralSecretary

Nicolas MedinaTreasurer

Dean AguillenOgilvy Government Relations

Berthy Aguirre-CorralHIBU US Hispanic

Pete CarrilloSilicon Valley Advisors LLC

Ana (Cha) Guzman, PhDSanta Fe Community College

Jorge HerreraHerrera Law Firm

Olga Llamas Rodriguez Port of Houston Authority

Nicolas MedinaExxon-Mobil Corporation

Steven A. RamosMedeoLinx LLC

Isaac ReyesTarget

Thomas I. StantonBernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation

Kim SymanNew Profit Inc.

Jimmy TranCBRE-Global Corporate Services

Maria Luisa VelozLos Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP)

National Boardof Directors2012 - 2013

Program Services

Family Support & Education Programs $12,744,891 23% AVANCE Parent Child Education Program & Adult Literacy Education

School Readiness Programs $34,210,521 62% Head Start & Early Head Start

Nutrition Programs $964,241 2% Texas Department of Health & Human Services Food Program

General & Administrative Expenses $6,588,637 12%

Fundraising Expenses $596,145 1%

Annual Financial Information, FYE June 2012

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50%89%

Objective I

99%

Objective IV

86%

Objective II

85%

Objective III

Participants will Become

Active Readers to TheirChildren

Participants will Plan to Enroll in Adult Education

Classes

Participants will Demonstrate

Satisfaction with Program Services

Participants will Increase Knowledge of

Child Growth & Development

AVANCE PCEP Objectives

Source:2011-2012 End of Year Report. A total of 960 graduating participants from chapters, partners and licensees across the nation, excluding AVANCE Dallas, completed both the pre- and post- AVANCE Parenting Questionnaire evaluations as well as the Exit Interview.

Licensees First 5 Santa Barbara County (4 sites), First 5 Sonoma County (4 sites), and Centro La Familia in Fresno (2 sites) continued to offer the PCEP for the second year in California. The mayor of Rohnert Park, CA personally handed out certificates to each graduate at the Community Action Partnership, First 5 Santa Barbara County graduation. Dr. Frank Chong, Superintendent and President, Sonoma County Junior College, also issued a “Ticket to College” to AVANCE child graduates in Sonoma County. The ticket to college guarantees the children will be automatically accepted into Santa Rosa Junior College upon graduating from high school and meeting all admission requirements. The Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative (ELNC) in Grand Rapids, MI also became an AVANCE licensee. ELNC was established to create and provide targeted neighborhood partnerships with technical, developmental, and educational support in order to increase the accessibility of early educational resources for vulnerable families.

AVANCE fosters parenting knowledge and skills that directly impact children’s development, while also empowering parents to achieve their own educational and professional goals. Specifically dedicated to serving vulnerable communities, AVANCE empowers families to break the cycle of poverty through a proven dual-generation approach combining early childhood development and parenting education.

Recognized by the White House, three First Ladies, and numerous media sources as an effective model to be replicated nationally, AVANCE has assisted over one million people across the country since 1973. The National Office provides administrative support, education and training; acts as the research arm for chapters and licensees; and oversees the expansion of the AVANCE Parent-Child Education program. In the 2011-2012 program year AVANCE reached over 20,000 families and for the fifth consecutive year AVANCE ranked 10th in Hispanic Business Magazine’s Top 25 Hispanic Nonprofit Organizations in the country.

Unlocking America’s Potential Project (UAPP)Research Partner sites Excellence Baby Academy in New York, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in Minnesota and La Casa de Don Pedro in New Jersey, implemented the PCEP successfully. The National Institute of Early Education Research (NIEER) released their preliminary findings indicating the AVANCE PCEP is adaptable in African-American, American Indian and Hispanic of non-Mexican descent communities. The second year of the UAPP also brought three new partners into the AVANCE family: Amistades in Tucson, AZ; ASPIRA of Florida in Miami; and The Family Place in Washington, D.C.

AVANCEAT A GLANCE

AVANCEPROGRAM EXPANSION

PCEP Graduates from the Excellence Baby Academy

Because your parents have successfully completed the AVANCE Parent-Child Education Program and understand their role as your first and most important teacher, you,

_________________________, are entitled to this Ticket to College.

Upon graduation from high school and meeting the admission requirements,

you will be admitted to Santa Rosa Junior College.

Dated Dr. Frank Chong, Superintendent/President Sonoma County Junior College District

AVANCE-AustinFor the 14th consecutive year, AVANCE-Austin continued to provide Parent-Child Education programming to some of Austin’s neediest communities. Their PCEP program operated at four sites: Palm Elementary (South Austin), Allan Elementary (East Austin), Grace Community Resource Center (North East Austin), and Wooldridge Elementary (North Austin), while exceeding enrollment goals by serving 99 families. AVANCE-Austin was the recipient of much public recognition for the strength of their dual generation model in response to demographic changes and growing educational disparities. Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell highlighted AVANCE-Austin during his State of City address and the agency won two highly competitive grant competitions, FuturoFund and Impact Austin, both providing earmarked funding to expand services to underserved communities struggling with high levels of child poverty.

AVANCE-Corpus ChristiAVANCE-Corpus Christi continued to help families in the Costal Bend Area through the AVANCE PCEP and Cadena de Madres (prenatal education program). They served over 1600 families through Cadena de Madres baby showers aimed at informing parents how to best care for and know more about their infant and child development. Cadena de Madres is a free value added service offered to enrollees in Driscoll Children’s Health Plan (DCHP).

AVANCE-DallasCelebrating their 16th anniversary, AVANCE-Dallas expanded from 25 to 33 site cohorts located throughout the four quadrants of Dallas County. As a result of this expansion and several new volunteer initiatives, AVANCE-Dallas served a record number of families with a total of 3,615 children and parents. Once again, AVANCE-Dallas graduates attending DISD scored higher in the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) tests than other students. The agency also welcomed Anne Thomas on board as the new Executive Director.

AVANCECHAPTERS

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TAKS Math

AVANCE-Dallas2010-2011 TAKS Passing Rate Scores

TAKS Reading

Dallas ISDTexas

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The above chart shows the latest findings of how AVANCE-Dallas child graduates compare with their peers in the Dallas Independent School District and the state of Texas.

AVANCE-El Paso

AVANCE-Houston

AVANCE-New Mexico

AVANCE-Rio Grande Valley

AVANCE-El Paso has served the El Paso region for 14 years, and this past year alone, they helped over 556 families, 587 parents and 648 children. AVANCE-El Paso proudly received $796,493 grant from AmeriCorps and the Onestar Foundation, $45,000 grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, a $15,000 grant from Dollar General and The Hunt Family Foundation donated $12,500 as well as numerous computers to be used in their GED classrooms. The El Paso Chapter also partnered with local school districts and Region XIX to obtain classroom space and track AVANCE graduates.

The Houston chapter served approximately 6,000 families in the 2011-2012 Program Year by expanding their program offerings to 23 sites. For the first time in many years, AVANCE-Houston offered the PCEP in English-only and targeted pre-dominantly African American Communities in the Acres Homes neighborhood. Through the creation of GED on the Move and the Community Empowerment Program (CEP), AVANCE-Houston recruited C-PALS (Corporate Partners for Adult Literacy Success) mentors who guided their GED students throughout their entire journey in the program. AVANCE-Houston also received a four-year grant award of $3.2 million to operate the CEP program focusing on Healthy Marriage/Healthy Relationships and coupling the relationship curriculum with employment, job preparation, training and placement services. With support from the AVANCE-National Office, AVANCE-Houston also provided home-based Early Head Start (EHS) programing to 100 Hispanic pregnant women and children in two of the poorest Texas counties bordering Mexico, Hidalgo and Val Verde. AVANCE-Houston has been ranked among the top 20 non-profits in Houston and received multiple donated vehicles for AVANCE parents through the Recycled Rides Program.

AVANCE-New Mexico served a total of 100 participants through their PCEP at ten sites in southern New Mexico, with 63 participants graduating at the commencement of the program in their 5th year of operation. The New Mexico Commission of Community Volunteerism gave AVANCE-New Mexico commendation for its AmeriCorps program and approved 16 AmeriCorps Members for the 2011-12 program year. AVANCE-NM also received grant awards from United Way of Southern New Mexico and Doña Ana County. The GRADS Program at Hatch High School invited AVANCE-NM to provide the PCEP to teen parents at their school. Telemundo Affiliate, KTDO Channel 48, also featured the work of AVANCE-NM during a news segment and on the show “Que No Ves, Somos Tres.” As a testament to the success of AVANCE-New Mexico, their PCEP was recognized by Senators Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman and US Representative Steven Pearce who praised AVANCE as being experts in child development and caring mentors.

AVANCE-Rio Grande Valley serves approximately 1,500 families and over 3,000 children throughout four counties in South Texas along the Mexican border. Many of the families they serve reside in Colonias, unincorporated settlements or makeshift subdivisions typically lacking the most basic services, such as water and sewer, paved roads and electrical utility service. With support from Driscoll Health Plan, they began offering the Cadena de Madres (Chain of Mothers) service, to provide culturally appropriate information and a supportive environment for pregnant women through a series of baby showers at various sites

every week. The Cadena de Madres program recently expanded to serve both Webb and Zapata Counties. In addition, they continued to support families through ChildFund International Services, YES (Youth Education Service) Clubs and EL Civics (English Literacy classes).

AVANCE-San Antonio AVANCE-WacoOperating for 39 years, AVANCE-San Antonio is the oldest site to date and continues to perform strongly every year. In 2012, a total of 219 parents and 259 children successfully completed their Parent-Child Education Program (PCEP). AVANCE-San Antonio proudly received the H-E-B Excellence in Education Award and was awarded a grant of $25,000. In addition, the San Antonio Chapter was also the proud recipient of the Genevieve and Ward Orsinger Foundation grant, which awarded the chapter $10,000 for PCEP operations. On May 7th, 2012 AVANCE-San Antonio was one of several entities notified that it had been selected as the Head Start/Early Head Start Replacement Grantee for what is commonly referred to as, the Wintergarden Head Start Service Area, to provide direct family support and educational school readiness services to 612 Head Start and 68 Early Head Start eligible children and their families in a center and home-based option setting in Uvalde, Zavala, Edwards, Kinney and Real counties.

AVANCE-Waco celebrated their tenth year anniversary and was noted by the Baylor University School of Social Work to be one of three key agencies making a difference in Waco. AVANCE-Waco graduated almost 95% of their enrolled mothers and their children from the PCEP. Through a partnership with McLennan Community College, AVANCE-Waco offers English as a Second Language (ESL) and General Educational Development (GED) to parent graduates and current participants of their PCEP. AVANCE-Waco hosted several successful fundraisers with support from AVANCE National, including a Radio-a-thon with local radio station, La Ley 104.1. AVANCE-Waco also launched new Community Coffees, inviting people from the community to come and have the opportunity to see the program in action. In lieu of drastic budget cuts at the state level, AVANCE-Waco’s sustainability efforts enabled them to continue offering services to the Waco community.

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FOLLOWDIRECTIONS

KNOWLETTERS

KNOWNUMBERS

EXPRESSTHEMSELVES

EXTENDEDVOCABULARY

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Source:AVANCE- San AntonioEarly Learning Assessment Profile (E-LAP)

School Readiness Pre-K Results

You can help AVANCE unlock America’s potential.There are numerous ways you can do so:

Tell a FriendHelp spread the word. Tell your friends about AVANCE, about our work which positively changes lives every day.

VolunteerContact us about ways you and your family and friends can help advance the lives of children and their families in the communities where we live and work.

DonateGifts of any size to AVANCE enable us to expand our quality programs, strengthen our outreach efforts to vulnerable children and their families, and ensure America’s children will raise our nation to become all it should be.

TESTIMONIALS

YOU CAN HELP

“With the help of organizations like AVANCE children who do not read today can still become the Doctors, Entrepreneurs and Teachers of tomorrow. Please take the time to think about how you can spread the word about AVANCE.”Laura Bush, 43rd First Lady, United States of America

“We want to change the trajectory of the entire family and ensure that parents are prepared and engaged, and that’s where AVANCE comes in.”Julian Castro, Mayor of San Antonio

“I learned how to be a better parent, to make toys and play with my daughter. After AVANCE, my daughter was ready for Pre-K. Her teachers trust her to do errands and she knows all her colors, numbers and letters. I am very proud of her.”Angelica Mendez, 2011 AVANCE-Austin Parent Graduate

“As a toy making instructor it is a joy to share with others what AVANCE has taught me. It is rewarding to see how our parents are always eager to learn and their enthusiasm when making the toys for their children.”Ofelia Garcia, 2012 Michael T. Villalobos Employee of the Year Award Recipient