Audit

The annual audit of the Stuttering Foundation financial reports for 2016 is still in progress. It is being performed by the accounting firm of Cannon and Company, Certified Public Accountants, Memphis, Tenn. Following is an unaudited recap of funds and expenditures for the year. The 5% of expenditures for administration and general expenses and 1% for fund raising are very low, and since we are fortunate to have an endowment which more than covers our overhead expenses, donors can be assured that their gifts will go directly to support our program services. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) private operating foundation which expends its funds on its own programs and operations and does not make grants to other institutions.

Funds expended for:
Creation, production, printing and distribution of educational materials $710,182 33.2%
Public information and education 719,794 33.7%
Research, treatment programs, and symposia 471,719 22.1%
Maintain Web site and toll-free information hotline 109,424 5.1%
Total for Program Services: $2,011,118 94.1%
Other expenditures:
Administration and general 105,978 5.0%
Fund-raising expense 20,652 1.0%
Total Expenditures: $2,137,748 100%

CELEBRITY FOCUS

Alan Rabinowitz

Alan Rabinowitz, Ph.D., is an explorer, wildlife conservationist, and author. He established the Hukawng Valley Tiger Reserve in northern Myanmar, which is about the size of the state of Vermont.

His love for animals began when he was very young.

Bob Love

Bob Love has dreamt about being a great public speaker since his early days in Bastrop Louisiana, even though, as a young man, he could barely put two words together, let alone speak a full sentence.

In spite of his severe stuttering disability, Bob Love, the son of a sharecropper, rose to become a Chicago Bulls NBA superstar, whose records were eventually surpassed by Michael Jordan. Throughout his entire athletic career, Bob Love kept his stuttering a secret from the fans who adored him, thinking he could do his “talking” on the basketball court.

Darren Sproles

Darren Sproles, now a running back for The Philadelphia Eagles, made history with the San Diego Chargers in 2007 when he became the first player in NFL history to return a kickoff and a punt for his first two NFL touchdowns in the same game.

After that game, Sproles was approached more often for interviews, which exacerbated his stuttering. “I had to talk to the media a lot, and once they put a camera in my face that's when it got bad," Sproles said. 'I just had to work on it. I couldn't really stress about it, because that's just me."

Mel Tillis

Country music star Mel Tillis has entertained audiences around the world. Mel still copes with stuttering, but it hasn't kept him from a highly successful career as an entertainer and recording artist

Lewis Carroll

The recent Disney version of Lewis Carroll’s classic, Alice in Wonderland, garnered a great deal of media hype. Even though the mainstream media has not made mention that Carroll was a person who stuttered, his family history gives credence to the discovery of the genetic link to stuttering. Carroll was born to parents who were first cousins; almost all of their eleven children, three girls and seven boys, struggled with stuttering past childhood.