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The Dr. Annise Mabry Foundation, Inc.

aka Tiers Free Academy   |   Porterdale, GA   |  http://www.drannisemabry.com

Mission

The Dr. Annise Mabry Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization specializing in community development. The Foundation operates Tiers Free Academy and the Southwest Georgia Community Police Resource Center (CPRC). The CPRC provides support in the areas of community policing initiatives for rural police departments. Tiers Free Academy provides an alternative diploma program for sex trafficking survivors, homeless LGBTQ youth, and high school dropouts.

Ruling year info

2016

Principal Officer

Dr. Annise Mabry

Main address

P.O. Box 114

Porterdale, GA 30070 USA

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EIN

81-1923905

NTEE code info

Adult, Continuing Education (B60)

Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (R01)

Public, Society Benefit - Multipurpose and Other N.E.C. (W99)

IRS filing requirement

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Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

The specific issues that the Dr. Annise Mabry Foundation addresses are generational illiteracy and improving rural community-police engagement. Many of the graduates in our alternative diploma programs are the first in their families to graduate from high school. The target population of the Dr. Annise Mabry Foundation are homeless LGBTQ youth, sex trafficking survivors, high school dropouts, and rural police departments. The location for the Cops in Community program are the 36 counties in Southwest and Central GA.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Cops in Community

Provides support to rural law enforcement agencies who want to implement community policing initiatives such as Christmas with a Cop, Backpack with a Cop, National Night Out, and Chief's Diploma Program.

Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Adults

Tiers Free Academy allows high school dropouts, homeless LGBTQ youth, and sex trafficking survivors an opportunity to earn a high school diploma.

Population(s) Served
Adults
Economically disadvantaged people

Where we work

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Number of students registered for online courses

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Gender and sexual identity, Age groups, Social and economic status

Type of Metric

Input - describing resources we use

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of program participants who receive a secondary school diploma or GED

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of students enrolled in service-learning courses

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Tiers Free Academy

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of students enrolled

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Our Sustainable Development Goals

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

Georgia has the 9th highest rate for 18-64 year olds without a high school diploma and ranks 17th in the nation for sex trafficking. In the 37 counties served by the Dr. Annise Mabry Foundation, some areas have more than 53% of their population without a high school diploma or GED. While having a high school diploma alone doesn’t stop sex trafficking it does disrupt a trafficker’s pipeline for potential employees. By creating a Cops in Community partnership with local police departments and providing outreach projects such as Backpack with A Cop, Christmas with A Cop, National Night Out, Candy with a Cop, and the Chief’s Diploma Program, families build relationships with officers in their community so they see the officers as an extension of their support system and not a threat to their family unit. These relationships transform communities. Our programs have three goals: (1) to reduce the number of working age adults without a high school diploma by 10% in rural communities; (2) to build police-community relationships through on-going outreach activities; and, (3) to provide a pathway to post-secondary training programs at the technical college.
The Dr. Annise Mabry Foundation has technical college partnerships with South Georgia Technical College and Athens Technical College and a university partnership with Albany State University.

Dr. Annise Mabry founded Tiers Free Academy for her daughter who was diagnosed with a mental illness. After her daughter graduated, Tiers Free Academy became Georgia’s only nonprofit alternative high school diploma program designed for homeless LGBTQ youth, sex trafficking survivors, and high school dropouts. Tiers Free Academy has awarded more than 200 diplomas since graduating the first student in 2015. In 2016, Tiers Free Academy partnered with 4Sarah and LostNFound Youth. In 2018, Tiers Free Academy launched The Chiefs’ Diploma Program with four police departments as a pilot program in Macon County Georgia and graduated 22 students.
Students in the alternative diploma program don't start over, they simply restart.

Our capabilities for doing this for our Cops in Community program are toy donations from For the Kid in All of Us Atlanta, Toys for Tots and The Human Factor; school supply donations from For the Kid in All of Us and The Villacci Family; and, Chief's Diploma Program online curriculum support from Flint Energies, State Farm, and International Paper.

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The Dr. Annise Mabry Foundation has assisted 300 former high school dropouts in becoming high school graduates; and, through the Cops in Community programming was able to provide the Oglethorpe Police Department with community policing programming to reduce their crime rate from 69.4% to 16.4%.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We shared information about our current feedback practices.

  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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The Dr. Annise Mabry Foundation, Inc.

Board of directors
as of 01/26/2023
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Dr. Annise Mabry

The Dr. Annise Mabry Foundation Inc

Term: 2019 - 2024

Sheva Quinn

QSteam University

Eli Strong

Mary Bell

Col (Retired) Jesse Barber

Board leadership practices

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? No
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? No
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 1/26/2023
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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
Black/African American
Gender identity
Female, Not transgender (cisgender)
Sexual orientation
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, or other sexual orientations in the LGBTQIA+ community
Disability status
Person with a disability

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

 

Sexual orientation

Disability

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Equity strategies

Last updated: 02/08/2020

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Data
  • We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
  • We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
  • We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
  • We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
Policies and processes
  • We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
  • We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
  • We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
  • We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
  • We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
  • We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
  • We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.