The Retail Orphan Initiative ( www.RetailROI.org ) has been organized to raise awareness and bring real solutions to

2. The Retail Orphan Initiative (www.RetailROI.org) has been organized to raise awareness and bring real solutions to help the more than 400 Million vulnerable children worldwide.

3. 3 Primary Goals of the Retail Orphan Initiative • To raise awareness to the needs of 400 Million Vulnerable Children • To work with and encourage retailers, vendors and manufacturers to create internal programs to help with orphan/foster care • Mentors, no-interest loans for adoptions, overstocks, back to school drives • To fund existing charities that are on the forefront of orphan/foster care worldwide. • Grants that can double or triple existing work

4. RetailROI Groundwork • Birthed out of the passion and work of Paul Singer, CIO, SuperValu • Meeting between Paul and Greg Buzek at Oracle OpenWorld 9/08 • Calls and Discussions 10/08 • RetailROI Formed 11/15/2008 • Press Release 12/9/2008 • First face to face meeting 1/11/2009 • First Fundraisers January 2010

5. RetailROI – Board of Advisors • Donor Trustees • Paul Singer – fmr CIO Target, Supervalu • Marc Millstein – President RetailConnections • Greg Buzek – President IHL Group • Board of Advisors - Retailers • Timothy Kasbe – CIO Sears Holdings • Ed Collupy – VP IT The Pantry • Robert Fort – VP IT Guitar Center • Steve Bozzo – CIO 1-800 Flowers • Vickie Cantrell – CIO/COO Tory Burch • GiriDurbakhula – VP IT Charlotte Russe • Steve Katsirubas – CIO Clarks Companies NA • Steve Biondo – VP HR Family Christian Stores

6. RetailROI – Board of Advisors • Board of Advisors – Vendors/Analysts • Verlin Youd – SVP Trading SAP • Paula Paravecchio – EMEA Managing Dir. Microsoft • Jeff Roster – Research VP Gartner • Jeff Ketner – President Ketner Group • Barry Wise – Founder Wise Retail • Cathy Hotka – Cathy Hotka Associates • Rose Spicer – Sr Director Retail Marketing Oracle • Virginia Dickens – President Visions Advertising • Cathy Marder – Assoc. Publisher Edgell Communications • Ryan Sorley – VP Retail Strategies AMR Research • Ravi Bagal – VP Retail and Distribution Verizon Business • Kevin Sterneckert – Research Director Retail AMR Research • Diana McHenry – Director Global Retail – SAS Institute Inc.

7. RetailROI - Structure • Sub-Fund under The Giving Back Fund • Provides 501 (c) status • Low administration costs ($18k for year) • Dormant until funds are raised • Provides for foundations for athletes and entertainers (Ben Roethlisberger, Jalen Rose, Shane Battier, Carlos Boozer, John Thompson, Nancy Kerrigan, Yao Ming) • Leverage relationships and experience

8. Why Retail is the perfect vehicle • US Consumer – 20% of world economy • Extraordinary influence around the world through supply chain relationships. • Retail touches consumers every week. • One of largest employer bases in the world • A small portion of transactions can add up fast.

9. SuperSaturday/Auction • RetailROISuperSaturday • 108 attendees • CIOs representing 107,000 stores • Silent Auction at Retail Insider’s Party • Raised $115,000 ($98k net) • $80,000 distributed in grants

10. Real Return – What Can $1,000 Do? • Rescues 1 child off the streets • – clothes, educates, feeds, provides medical care in group home of 15 with 4 adult caregivers • …for a year. • Help the adoption of 8 children over 20 years • – Turns into $32,000 through no-interest loans, matching donations from family/friends • – essentially the adoption becomes a charity

11. 4 stories of grants being sent so far Old picture here, but in conjunction with this Safe House, ROI funds being used to create border station to rescue women/children in trafficking in Nepal Adoption. These kids came home from Ethiopia to US Family with the help of a grant from RetailROI through LifeSong. Through Warm Blankets, ROI funds being used to hire Haitian workers to build new orphan homes, thus providing jobs and safe housing. Pay for 9 children to be rescued from the streets of Cambodia and placed in a group home for a year.

12. Here at Home - Real Return – What Can $1,000 Do? • Save a Family and Over $1 Million Savings to Society • Avg. cost per child in state custody ($78,000 ) • 80% of foster kids become parents themselves by age 20 • 2-3 children on average by 22, with no extended family support • 90% chance of being on public assistance for up to 20 yrs or more • 75% of all US inmates are former foster children • Yet 50% sent to state custody for temporary circumstances at home • short term jail, surgery, temporary homelessness, drug treatments • But what if there was a Safety Net?

13. Safe Families provides a partnership between stable “Safe” families and an “at risk” family. • Outside of the “foster” system (but often with their support) • Mom or dad retains legal custody • Partnership or Co-Parenting (not an adoption program) • Safe Family gets temporary pwr of attorney for medical and education • Volunteer families are unpaid. $1,000 investment pays for screening. • Avg in-home placement is a 5 yr old for 45 days. • 85% of children return to stronger families with safety net vs 15% in state • 97% kept from going into State Custody • Long-term (safety net and mentoring relationship created)

14. History • Started 5 years ago in Chicago area by Lydia Home Project. • In last 2 years over 1,200 children placed in Chicago area alone. • In 2009 started in Indy, Atlanta, Southern California, and South Florida. • In 2010 starting in Nashville, Minneapolis, Tampa, Orlando) • Franchise model (no fees), run by state authorized organizations • Olive Crest (Southern California, Oregon, Washington) • 4Kids of South Florida (Miami, FLL, Palm Beach) • Bethany Christian Services (Nashville, ATL, Chattanooga, Orlando, Tampa) • Lydia Home (Chicago area, Minneapolis, Indianapolis) • Our opportunity? To fund the startups across the country

15. RetailROI Grants thus far – 45k • To fund start in Nashville, Minneapolis, and Miami/FLL • To continue the work in Chicago • The opportunity is to spread this across the country. • in first 4 months in FLL, 800 families signed up to be volunteer Safe Families and take children in. But need funding for home studies, background checks, fingerprint checks, etc. • Child experts believe that over the next 20 years, 50% of the children currently going into state systems can be prevented with program. • Without it, numbers from 520k today to 1.7 million by 2030 • RetailROI can make a HUGE difference by being seed funding to start programs

16. 3 Primary Goals of the Retail Orphan Initiative • To raise awareness to needs of 400 Million Vulnerable Children • To work with and encourage retailers, vendors and manufacturers to create internal programs to help with orphan/foster care • Mentors, no-interest loans for adoptions, overstocks, back to school drives, adopt a home • To fund existing charities that are on the forefront of orphan/foster care worldwide. • Grants that can double or triple existing work

17. Raise Awareness • Get the stats out to people in the industry • PowerPoint Templates • Mass video email campaign using popular retail technology people • Trade events/Trade Publications • “the Good News in Retail” • Social Media (Blogs, Facebook, Twitter) • Buttons, cards, elevator pitch. • Enlist famous adoptive parents or adoptees…

18. Help Companies Create Internal Programs • Mentors for Foster Kids • Be the one adult who doesn’t change in a child’s life. • Takes 4-7 hours a month • No-interest loans/grants to employees who adopt • Maternity benefits to adoptive/foster parents • Adoptive parents often need more time than birth parents to adjust to new child because of existing issues • Life-skills training for foster kids/orphans • Financial training, how to be good employee, cooking, integrity, micro-businesses, how to buy a car, put on makeup, get an apartment

19. Help Companies Create Internal Programs • Back-to-school drives for orphans/foster kids • Supplies, clothing, and even diapers are huge needs retail can meet for the foster system. • Utilize your organization’s core competencies • Building materials – construction/repairs for children’s homes. Clothing, school/office supplies, books, children’s toys, logistics, computers, S/W. • Donate overstocks intelligently to help provide needs for orphanages/foster kids • RetailROI building a database of children’s charities to help streamline this process.

20. Help Companies Create Internal Programs • Work with suppliers in China/India to support orphan related causes locally • Over half the world’s orphans live in the countries that “supply” Retail • Engage your local community/Brainstorm • This is not about building a big charity

21. Support “feet on street” charities • Provide grants to charities where real work is done • Focus on entrepreneurial charities • Hand ups, not just hand outs – provide hope via resources/training or safety net. • Where grants can double or triple the work, not just cover admin or advertising costs • Give 90% + away every year – get the money working • Bring the “World is Flat” mentality to Orphan Care • Lowering the cost, broadening the global reach

22. Fundraising in 2010 • RetailROI SuperSaturday • RetailROI Auction at Retail Insiders Party • Online Auction March 1-9th • Matching Donations from Companies/Foundations • Round-Up for Orphans at the POS • Allow consumers to round their transactions to the nearest $, Euro • Work with POS S/W groups to underwrite any software changes • A penny or two a transaction really adds up fast • Financial Goal is to raise $1M this year, give $940k away

23. Where We Need Help • Donations (personal and corporate/foundations) • Work to get ROI available for corporate match for donations • Become a company advocate • Work to drive RoundUp or other fundraiser (TekServePOS) • Work with HR on Mentoring program (or Other activities within your company.) • Help spread the word in the Industry • Twitter, Facebook, Presentations, Brochures, Ads, Buttons • Work with RetailROI Committees • Events, Messaging, Corporate Donations, Branded Products, Hospitality, Charity Database, Website

24. “There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo

25. Retail can make a HUGE Difference • YOU can make the difference Will you get involved?

26. Thank You, Thank You

27. Questions? • info@retailROI.org • greg@ihlservices.com • +1.615.591.2955