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Clear Global Inc
DANBURY, CT
Total revenue
$4.7M
Total expenses
$4.3M
Net assets
$562K
Grants received
$1.9M
17 grants
EIN
273840123
Tax year
2023
Mission
Helping people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak. We accomplish this mission through innovative global research and programs, language technology, language service platforms, an experienced, professional staff, and a community of over 60,000 linguists in 148 countries. Whether it's a covid-19 chatbot in nigeria, translator training in kenya or linguistic research in rohingya refugee camps, our work helps organizations communicate more effectively, so they can reach more people, listen harder and accelerate impact.
Programs
2 programs
Language services - clear global language service programs provide language support for aid programs worldwide, facilitating effective communication between humanitarian workers and the populations they serve. Clear global focuses on the most vulnerable by translating life-saving information and building local language translation capacity for underserved languages or where no translation capacity exists. The development and preparedness language service program relies on clear global's custom translation platform to deliver the majority of its work. The platform is a managed, crowd-sourced system connecting the clear global community of approximately 60,000 volunteer translators and language professionals directly with non-profit partners. In 2022, clear global delivered nearly 25 million words in 140 language pairs for approximately 150 non-governmental organizations partners, amplifying the reach and impact of their work. Clear global also advises aid organizations on the most effective approach to multilingual communication in specific contexts and develops custom workflows and technologies. Beyond written translation, clear global also provides a range of other language services including plain language editing, audio translation, localization and multimedia support (transcription, subtitling, voiceovers.
Program technology - leveraging the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence, clear global has crafted language technology solutions tailored to support marginalized languages, enabling 2-way communication for vulnerable people. Our expertise includes the creation of machine translation models and automated speech recognition (asr) systems. Through natural language understanding, we implement these solutions for specific use cases, employing a human-centered design approach to ensure that what we do is appropriate and effective. We collaborate with local technology partners to extend our reach to communities worldwide, facilitating access to these vital communication tools. Clear global developed 11 cutting-edge language technology solutions including: 'shehu': supporting access to information during the covid-19 pandemic we reintroduced shehu, a chatbot designed to disseminate accurate and reliable covid-19 vaccination information in english, hausa and kanuri through facebook messenger and whatsapp using natural language understanding. Shehu engaged in over 86,000 conversations with more than 6,000 individuals, earning a remarkable trust rating of 93.3%. This is a relatively unconnected part of nigeria, so we were pleasantly surprised by the number of users and the 90% satisfaction rate. 'yasno': a search engine for refugees from ukraine. Yasno means clear in ukrainian. We designed, developed, and deployed an intelligent search engine tailored to meet the urgent information needs of ukrainian refugees. During the ukraine crisis, particularly the first year, the problem was not the lack of information but too much information. Yasno significantly reduced the time spent accessing vital information, and has a relevancy score of over 70%.
Financials
FY 2023
Revenue
Expenses
People
9 listed
AIMEE ANSARI
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
$127K
40 hrs/wk
ANDREW BREDENKAMP
CHAIR
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1 hrs/wk
DONNA PARRISH
SECRETARY
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1 hrs/wk
SALVATORE GIAMMARRESI
BOARD MEMBER
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1 hrs/wk
FRANCIS TSANG
BOARD MEMBER
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1 hrs/wk
LESLEY-ANNE LONG
BOARD MEMBER
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1 hrs/wk
MAGNUS CONTEH
BOARD MEMBER
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1 hrs/wk
OLUWATOYIN ADEJUMO
BOARD MEMBER
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1 hrs/wk
LINDA RYAN
TREASURER
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2 hrs/wk
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