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1984-1994 90’s

Starkey expands to 37 facilities

around the world

1990

Starkey hosted over 5,000 hearing

professionals on back-to-back trips

on the world’s largest cruise ship,

becoming the largest cruise event at

that time.

1995

1997 Mother Teresa fit with Starkey
hearing aids

Starkey Hearing Foundation

embarked on its first

international mission to

El Salvador, San Salvador

400 children fit 2001
to

2012

2001

The first fundraising gala for
Starkey Hearing Foundation
was held

2003

Bill Austin receives National Caring
Award for his generosity and

commitment to service

2004 2006

Elton John brings the gala to the Bill Austin named
Humanitarian Of The Year
tipping point by being the first
2007
attendee to bid on a mission trip
NFL Alumni partners with Starkey
Hearing Foundation to offer hearing
support in 2007

Warren Buffet visits CFE and offers to
purchase Starkey

2008 2012

Bill Austin receives Bill and Tani meet His Holiness the
Horatio Alger Award
14th Dalai Lama, for the first time in
Bill and Tani awarded Humanitarian
Honorees by Sir Elton John AIDS Mungod, India
Foundation

2009

Starkey Hearing Foundation has
delivered over 440,000 hearing
aids to deserving individuals
throughout the world in this
decade



1997 San Salvador, El Salvador

THE BEGINNING
OF SIMPLE,
SUSTAINABLE,
SCALABLE

SILVITA

SILVITA’S MOTHER SHARES HOW
STARKEY HEARING FOUNDATION
CHANGED HER DAUGHTERS LIFE

When I was pregnant the first two months I had
rubella. For this reason Silvita was born deaf and with

heart problems. When she was 7 years old she met
Dr. Carla Rondeau who determined Silvita had a
bilateral profound deaf, we became anxious to
know she needed hearing aids and
we could not afford them.
In 1997, Bill Austin traveled to El Salvador and

donated the first hearing aids, transforming her life.
Every year that Starkey Hearing Foundation came to
donate hearing aids, Silvita was always invited so she

could have a new set.
She is doing very well, giving lectures, participating
in activities and has also won a dance contest. Among
her favorite pastimes is dancing and playing music.

She graduated as the first female architect
in El Salvador.



2010

YEAR
OF THE
COMMITMENT

JANUARY 2010 MARCH 2010
8-9 Nashville, Tennessee Bill & Tani Brady Forseth appointed as the new
attend Teammates for Kids Executive Director of Starkey Hearing
Foundation (SHF)
FEBRUARY 2010
2 Arlington, Texas Super Bowl 1-5 Honduras mission (Tegucigalpa & San
Jones Audiology, Jordin Sparks, JoJo, Pedro Sula)
Honor Society, Jason Taylor, Larry
Fitzgerald Jr., Michael Irvin, Adrian 5-11 Bill & Tani attend Oscars in Los Angeles,
Peterson, Phil Hellmuth, Vernon Davis, California
Vontae Davis, Chris Smith, Johnny
Knox, Lem Barney, Elvin Bethea, Joe 19-21 Bill & Tani to Phoenix, Arizona for
DeLamielleure, Ted Hendricks, Kenny Celebrity Fight Night
Houston, Paul Krause, John Randall,
Mel Renfro, Jan Stenerud, Dave Wilcox 14-19 Mexico (Monterrey, Cuidad, Victoria,
San Luis Potisi, Mazatlan) DIF, Rotarians,
5-15 Nairobi, Kenya over a quick Lions Club, Pepsico Foundation, Kraff-Orlin
three day time frame, the team and Family, Keith and Cathy Nester
volunteers were able to deliver more
than 2,100 hearing instruments APRIL 2010
to those who needed them most. Mar 22-Apr 8 Bill & Tani in India and
Doug Pitt, Al and Jayen Hilde, John Nepal for missions (Delhi, Jaipur,
Bongiorno, Glen and Marilyn Nelson Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Kathmandu)
(Marrakech, Tanzania, Rwanda and 101 degree temperatures, eleven days,
Israel) 12,500 hearing aids, and thousands of
grateful smiles! In Delhi, we were so
21-28 Toluca, Mexico Bill attends efficient that we broke a record when
mission setting Single Visit, Single we were able to fit over 1,010 children
City Record with over 3,000 fit. in 1 day. Don Kendall, Chairman
Enrique Malpica, Joseph Garcia, of Emeritus of Pepsi and PepsiCo
Alejandro Valdez, Ariel Mancera, Foundation, ON Semiconductor, New
Starkey Canada, Starkey Mexico, Sound Hearing Aid Centers, Starkey
Sabritas Fundación/PepsiCo India, Board Member Dr. Paul Nash and
wife Dr. Mary Nash

2 Tani receives the “Call within the Call”,
Kolkata, India Mother Teresa’s House

8-11 Bill & Tani in Washington DC for Horatio
Alger Awards

19-20 Bill in New York City for Turkey 20-23 Bill & Tani to Zapopan,
meeting Guadalajara

24-25 Bill & Tani attend Teammates for Patient Story: 14 year old Lorena
kids in Denver, Colorado Sandoval contracted meningitis as an
infant and suffered from a severe
MAY 2010 degree of hearing loss ever since.
2-6 Bill in Panama (Panama City, “Although we have learned to
Santiago) First Lady of Panama communicate in other ways,”
Marta Linares de Martinelli, Knowles say’s her mother, Ofelia Sandoval,
Electronics, David Dent “her hearing my voice is like a dream
come true”. The Starkey Hearing
20 Tani in Minneapolis, Minnesota Foundation fit Lorena with a body
keynote speaker at Women in Business aid, the strongest hearing device with
Conference highest gain and output.

9-10 Charlotte, North Carolina, 22 Bill & Tani attend Elton John’s
Charlotte Motor Speedway, White Tie & Tiara Ball
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
champion Richard Petty, Love JULY 2010
and Theft, NASCAR Camping 2-5 Bill & Tani to Aspen, Colorado for
World Truck Series driver Brian Clinton Foundation meeting
Ickler, Tayler Malsam, Kyle Busch,
Speedway Children’s Charities 18 Bill to Mexico City, Mexico to
and NRA receive the Azteca Eagle Award

JUNE 2010
14-15 Bill & Tani to Washington DC for
NAB Award

25 So The World May Hear Gala
10th Anniversary at the RiverCentre in
St. Paul.

Honorees: Muhammad Ali, Steve George W. Bush Institute Meeting
Martin, Sam Moore, Harvey Mackay, Developing the WFA® Community-Based
Brad and Janet Anderson Hearing HealthCare Model
• At this meeting Steven introduced Bill
Performers: Steve Martin and the Austin to Barbara Bush Jr., who had
Steep Canyon Rangers, Frankie Valli recently co-founded the Global Health
and the Four Seasons, The Doobie Corps in East Africa. Bill and Barbara
Brothers, Jordin Sparks, the Canadian connected immediately and had
Tenors and 8-year-old violin prodigy, synergy on their common purpose
Brianna Kahane • Tani realizes community-based is the
answer
AUGUST 2010
14 Lexington, Kentucky 50th 20-27 Bill & Tani travel to NYC for
Anniversary of the Lexington Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Meeting
Hearing and Speech Center, Bill
Clinton commends Starkey Hearing Bill & Tani make a “Commitment
Foundation for helping the children of To Action” to fit more than 100,000
Kentucky and their work around the hearing aids to people in need
world annually, for a total of one million this
decade. 25 countries were listed as
SEPTEMBER 2010 projected to have direct impact
7-12 Extreme Home Makeover Edition • Tani attends Raj Panjabi meeting with
(EHME), Oregon 8 students travel to
Minneapolis, Minnesota for mission Tyatein Health (now Last Mile Health)
and reconnects with Barbara Bush Jr.,
Paul Farmer, Rwandan Health Minister
Dr. Agnes Binagwaho
• Bill meets with Paul Farmer and decided
to work in Haiti

28-30 Bill & Tani travel to Washington
D.C. for mission, National Association
of Broadcasters Education Foundation,
Caring Institute, NAB

28 Yankee Stadium, first mission with NY 11-21 Bill & Tani to Tanzania mission

Yankees, Minnesota Vikings, Wilf Family (Arusha, Ngorongoro Crater, Moshi,

Foundation, The Jewish Federations of Dodoma, Dar Es Salaam) Rayovac,

North America. Nearly 100 recipients Popp.com, Carlson Family Foundation,

ranged in age from 4 to 93 and included Rotary Club of Tanzania

15 Holocaust survivors. New York

Yankees manager Joe Girardi, former 21-24 Bill to Mozambique mission

Yankees players Tino Martinez and Lee (Nampula, Maputo) Hansen Family

Mazzilli, Vikings owners Mark and Lenny

Wilf, Ron Harper, Daymond John 24-27 Bill to South Africa (Free State,

Bloemfontein, Welkom) Hansen Family,

OCTOBER 2010 Medifix, Leigh Kassner Family,

7-18 Bill & Tani to Johannesburg, Africa Garth Brooks

230 students at Johannesburg’s School

of the Deaf, Minnesota Timberwolves, 28-30 Bill to Vancouver, Washington

Glen and Becky Taylor School for the Deaf, Joyce White

20 Bill & Tani to Botswana, Africa
(Gabarone, Maun, Kasane) Francis
Town School of the Deaf, Romatsia
School of the Deaf, Minnesota
Timberwolves, Glen and Becky Taylor,
Sire Ketumile, 2nd President of
Botswana

26 ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover,
Oregon School for the Deaf

NOVEMBER 2010 DECEMBER 2010
8-9 Bill & Tani to Nashville, Tennessee 2-7 Bill & Tani to Dominican Republic
for Country Music Award (CMA) (Santo Domingo, Santiago), Antigua & St
Mission, Richard Schulze Family Kitts/Nevis missions, Richard Brown with
Foundation, FedEx, United Healthcare, JNBA
Country Music Association,

Joe De Lamielleure, Raymond Berry,

Rick Evans, Emma Jacobs, Daisy

Mallory, Justin Moore, Ray Pillow,

Ronnie Reno, Scott Rouse, Lang Scott,

Jordyn Shellhart, Heather Whitestone

McCallum, Chuck Wicks



FEBRUARY 2010

Nairobi, Kenya

Glen and Marilyn Nelson, Doug Pitt,
The Hilde’s, John Bongiorno



MARCH 2010

Toluca, Mexico
First Single Visit, Single City Record

Starkey Canada, Starkey Mexico

MARCH - APRIL 2010

India
(Delhi, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Kolkata)

NFL 2008 MVP Arizona Cardinal,
Larry Fitzgerald, Jr.

Breaking Records
1,010 Children Fit

In One Day



APRIL 2010 Friday

Kolkata, India
Breaking Silence for
the Children of India
Mother Teresa’s House

TANI RECEIVES CALL
WITHIN THE CALL

Tani and Bill were in India for hearing missions March and April of 2010
giving the gift of hearing with the Starkey India team in Delhi, Jaipur,
Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Kathmandu.
On April 2nd, Good Friday during the Easter weekend we were
honored to visit Mother Teresa’s House, known in Kolkata as
“Mother’s House.” St. Mother Teresa opened this free hospice in
1952, next to the famous Kalighat Kali Temple in Kalighat, Calcutta.
With the help of Indian officials, she changed an abandoned building
which previously served as a temple for the Hindu goddess Kali into
the “Kalighat home for the dying”, a free hospice for the poor. Later
on she changed the name to “Kalighat the Home of the Pure Heart
(Nirmal Hriday)”. People who were brought to the home received
medical attention from the Missionaries of Charity and were given
the opportunity to die with dignity, according to the rituals of their
faith; Muslims were read the Quran, Hindus received water from the
Ganges, and Catholics received the Last Rites. “A beautiful death,”
she said, “is for people who lived like animals to die like angels —
loved and wanted.”
It was a double blessed outing to visit there during Holy Week. All of
the Sisters of Missionaries of Charity take a vow of silence during this
very special time. Upon arrival, our group was escorted immediately
into the room of Mother Teresa’s Tomb, a sense of humbleness
overtook all other thoughts. After all our prayers and blessings, we
were told Mother Superior Sister Preeman would like to receive us.
Bill and Tani and the team walked to the upper level of the house.

Sister Preeman greeted us and said “Thank you for breaking the
silence for the children of India. I know God would want me to break
my silence today, to say, Thank You.” This was a beautiful moment
with a very special and wise nun that touched us all. This was a very
special time for Tani as she was reading Mother Teresa’s biography
and it inspired her.
In 1946 Mother Teresa received what she would later describe as
a “call within a call.” She said Jesus spoke to her and told her to
abandon teaching to work in the slums of Calcutta aiding the city’s
poorest and sickest people.
Up until this time, Tani had been supporting Bill and believed it was
his life’s work. She would tell him what he needed to do but it wasn’t
really working. While at Mother Teresa’s Kolkata, Tani received her
“Call Within A Call”, realizing that this wasn’t just Bill’s work, God was
calling her to step up and lead.
From this day forward, Tani was committed to create Bill’s model into
a simple, scalable, sustainable program. On this day the WFA® Hearing
Healthcare Program seed was planted. From here on out she was
committed to changing the world.





ZARA

We Remember Zara.
Our patient with the Big Smile, Big Heart
in Charlotte. She lost her life a week after

she was fit with hearing aids.

MAY 2010

Charlotte, North Carolina,
Charlotte Motor Speedway

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Richard Petty,
Love and Theft, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

driver Brian Ickler, Tayler Malsam, Kyle Busch,
Speedway Childern’s Charities, NRA

JUNE 2010

London, England
Elton John White Tie & Tiara Ball

JULY 2010

Mexico City, Mexico
Azteca Eagle Award

Bill Austin receives Azteca Eagle Award
from President Felipe Calderon

RAISING THE BAR

A 2010 LETTER TO SUPPORTERS

Celebrating 10 years of caring, sharing and giving!
Since 2000, the Starkey Hearing Foundation has delivered over
440,000 hearing aids, in the past decade, to deserving individuals
throughout the world. Through our travels, we have never forgotten
the smiles of the children we have helped, nor the generous hearts
responsible for that joy. For 10 years, the Starkey Hearing Foundation‘s
So the World May Hear Awards Gala has provided the necessary
funding to support over 60 missions a year. It is a wonderful thing to
provide the gift of hearing to those who, otherwise, would not have
the resources. When we help someone it visibly changes their life, a

community and the world.
As we enter a new decade, we have made a personal

commitment to raise the bar and give more than
100,000 hearing aids annually,
over 1 million in this decade.

Thank you for helping us obtain this goal. In return, we promise that
the 10th anniversary awards gala will be an amazing event. We will
celebrate the spirit of giving by honoring humanitarians, Muhammad
Ali, Steve Martin, Harvey Mackay and Sam Moore. We celebrate
the gift of sound with performances from Frankie Valli and the Four

Seasons, the Doobie Brothers and Steve Martin and The Steep
Canyon Rangers. But most importantly, we will celebrate you, for being
a blessing in our life and the lives of so many. We hope you will enjoy

so we can say we really did something right for the world as a team!
Together we are providing a greater gift to mankind
than any of us could do alone.
So the World May Hear!
Bill and Tani







2010 SO THE WORLD
MAY HEAR AWARDS GALA

President Bill Clinton promoted a society of giving in his address to
nearly 1,400 guests at the So The World May Hear Awards Gala’s 10th
anniversary held at the RiverCenter in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Some of the world’s most celebrated personalities, Steve Martin,
Muhammad Ali and Sam Moore were honored for their contributions
to film, comedy, boxing and music. Author and renowned business
leader Harvey Macay, and former Best Buy CEO, Brad Anderson and
his wife Janet were also honored for their compassionate giving and
humanitarian acts.
Performers included Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers,
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, The Doobie Brothers, Jordin Sparks,
the Canadian Tenors and 8-year-old violin prodigy, Brianna Kahane.

In a moving presentation to Muhammad Ali,
Magic Johnson called football greats Adrian
Peterson and Larry Fitzgerald on stage to honor
and recognize Muhammad Ali for pioneering a new
level of acceptance and prominence for African

American athletes.

AUGUST 2010

Lexington, Kentucky

50th Anniversary of the Lexington
Hearing and Speech Center
Bill Clinton



SEPTEMBER 2010

GLOBAL HEALTH CHALLENGE

Starkey Hearing Foundation became a member of the
Clinton Global Initiative. At this time the Foundation
was fitting 50,000 hearing aids per year. However,
President Bill Clinton challenged Bill Austin to do more
and Bill Austin accepted the challenge and decided to
double the impact!
In September 2010, Bill Austin finalized Starkey Hearing
Foundation’s Commitment to Action, a Global Health
challenge called So the World May Hear.

THE COMMITMENT:
To fit more than 100,000 hearing aids to people in
need annually, for a total of one million this decade. In
the commitment to action, 25 countries were listed as
projected to have direct impact and Starkey Hearing
Foundation more than doubled this!



OCTOBER 2010

Africa (Johannesburg, Gabarone,
Maun, Kasane)

Johannesburg’s School of the Deaf, Africa Francis
Town School of the Deaf, Romatsia School of the
Deaf, Glen and Becky Taylor, Sire Ketumile, 2nd

President of Botswana







OCTOBER 2010

Oregon School for the Deaf
ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover



Alex was a cancer patient
from KK Gross

NOVEMBER 2010

Nashville, Tennessee
Country Music Awards

Richard Schultz Family

NOVEMBER 2010

Vancouver, Washington

Washington School for the Deaf



2011