Kinetic Kids 2019 Annual Report
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2019 YEAR IN REVIEW our mission is at the core of WHO WE ARE MISSION VISION REACH To enrich the lives of children To be the premier and We currently serve with special needs and their recognized leader for adaptive San Antonio, Schertz and families through sports, fine sports, fine arts and educational New Braunfels with seasonal arts and educational programs programming, serving children recreational programs, to foster the development of with intellectual and physical monthly competitive programs courage, confidence, fitness, challenges, in our community and one-day events. pride, joy and community. and beyond, so that all children can achieve new possibilities previously unimaginable. Key Staff Members 2019 Board of Directors Tracey Fontenot, PT Karl Pichler, President George Powers, MD CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TRINITY UNIVERSITY CHRISTUS SANTA ROSA HEALTH SYSTEM Kacey Wernli, PT Karen Martin, Secretary CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AMD FUSION Bill Robinson KRATOS DEFENSE Isabel Jones John Maguire, Treasurer DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY & VALERO Trey Tschirhart DONOR ENGAGEMENT ERNST & YOUNG LLP Ray Bissmeyer Andrew Garcia DYKEMA GOSSETT PLLC Lori Velasquez PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR BROADWAY BANK Alpa Patel-Challapalli Judy Mireles METHODIST CHILDREN’S Josh Zeller PROGRAM & COMMUNITY HOSPITAL REPUBLIC NATIONAL OUTREACH DIRECTOR DISTRIBUTING COMPANY Larry Cohen, MD Michelle Fuentes, PT PHYSICIAN, RETIRED ADAPTIVE SPORTS DIRECTOR ADVISORY BOARD Mario Fierro, MD Peggy Neal Carrie Valdez, OTR CHRISTUS SANTA ROSA Lew Moorman ADAPTIVE SPORTS DIRECTOR HEALTH SYSTEM Earl Stanley, MD Jenna Malsbury, MS Brad Gray ADAPTIVE SPORTS DIRECTOR GRAY DIGITAL GROUP INCOMING 2020 MEMBERS Elizabeth Magnabosco, MD Suzy Hill Grant Hogue, MD CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL HUMAN RESOURCES & UT HEALTH OF SAN ANTONIO FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR Aaron Leek Adriana Martinez SECURITY SERVICE FEDERAL COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER CREDIT UNION Tracy Roth Sheryl Moreno CAPITAL GROUP/AMERICAN FUND WESTON VENTURES Will Roth Nikhil Patel NUSTAR ENERGY 1 ATTORNEY AT LAW a message from our FOUNDERS Dear Kinetic Kids Family, Kinetic Kids changes lives for the better. We provide children with special needs options for health, friendship, team and inclusion. After 19 years, we continue to fulfill the hearts of children with special needs and their families by getting them off the sidelines and into the game. Some people think we are sisters, and others just call us “TraceyKacey.” But our biggest commonality is our love of sports. Tracey grew up on the soccer fields while Kacey hit the tennis courts. We both appreciate the impact sports had on our childhood as an avenue to unity, friendships, confidence and dreams fulfilled. TRACEY FONTENOT & KACEY WERNLI Physical therapy brought us together in 2001. Our goal has always been to see the child Working at Methodist Children’s Hospital, we saw first, and the diagnosis second which is why we first-hand the desire ALL children have to play have options for all ages and all goals. With our sports, whether you are short, tall, loud, non-verbal, continued use of licensed pediatric therapists, use a wheelchair, or run with a different movement sport-specific coaches, and trained volunteers, pattern. Every child wants to be the best they can be. we are able to adapt activities so every child may Belonging to a team, making friends, and having the play his or her favorite sport. chance to be “in the game” builds confidence and Looking back at 2019, we know our progress is inspires joy in athletes and their families. only possible through the generosity of our donors, As Kinetic Kids has grown, so have our goals. Our participants, sponsors, foundations, corporations, first baseball team in 2001 gave just one group of organizations and volunteers! Thank you for making children with special needs the opportunity to step up a difference. Together, we are keeping Kinetic Kids’ to the plate. But then they wanted to score goals. Run families off the sidelines and in the game! faster. Cheer louder. Swim longer. So as our Kinetic Sincerely, Kids’ dreams grew, so did the need for competitive programming! In addition to our recreational programs, we now offer two competitive divisions that Tracey Fontenot & Kacey Wernli compete in a variety of sports across our city, state Co-Executive Directors & Co-Founders and country. 2 recreational NEW BRAUNFELS EXPANSION RECAP We were thrilled to add Das Rec, Extreme Gymnastics, Dance by Design and Cemex Nature Center as new facility partners in 2019. These We offered 171 recreation programs in 2019, which partnerships meant we were able to offer multiple is a 4% increase over 2018 and included two new programs during both the fall and summer sports. Most of the increase occurred in south San seasons including basketball, swim, dance, CrossFit Antonio and New Braunfels. and a one-day outdoor explorer event. SOUTH SAN ANTONIO EXPANSION 2020 GOALS New partnerships with Palo Alto College and We are so proud of the additional opportunities Little Cowboys soccer fields allowed us to offer we are providing for children with special needs three additional programs in 2019 which bumped and plan to continue expanding in 2020. participation in south side programming by 52 percent with Kinetic Kids enjoying dance, soccer, basketball and baseball. We also served 800 students TWO NEW with special needs at our second annual Get Active Day PROGRAMS with partners: Believe It Foundation, Harlandale ISD and Edgewood ISD. volleyball yoga 3 We drive an hour to participate in Kinetic Kids and it is worth the joy that I see in him! — Kinetic Kids Parent 4 Featured as our “Paralympic pipeline,” SA Xtreme has made strides in 2019! This competitive division is designed for athletes who only have physical disabilities. We offer track & field, swimming, wheelchair basketball, archery, tennis, boccia and goalball. We are proud to have the very first adaptive youth archery team! Our team of 10 athletes competes both in and out of San Antonio. In our second year at Junior Nationals, we doubled the number of Kinetic Kids athletes who qualified and attended from four to nine. Some athletes set world records in track & field events, and all nine set new personal records in at least one event. My child has not only Our wheelchair basketball team was on fire at the Larry Turner learned all kinds of skills, Classic. EVERY athlete scored a but has gained confidence basket during the competition! along the way too!! 5 — Kinetic Kids Parent Appropriate for athletes with intellectual and/or physical disabilities, our Premier division includes gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, CrossFit, swimming, dive, basketball, and soccer. Though our gymnastic team has previously competed in Special Olympics, in 2019 we debuted basketball and soccer at the games with both advancing to state competition. Our basketball team also sealed several victories in Dallas. Dancing her way through it all! Sammi Haney has osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle To a mother, whose doctors could not even bone disease, a lifelong condition resulting in bones guarantee her daughter would make it through that break easily. Sammi’s case is so severe that she birth, these achievements are reason to be thankful. was born with 19 fractures. Now nine years old, “She feels like she is part of a team. In her last Sammi has endured over 100 fractures and too many performance I could see how excited and proud she surgeries to count, but none of that stops her! was that they worked all season,” Priscilla described through tears. “She felt like a winner. She felt like she Sammi’s first Kinetic Kids program was dance, and won. And I can’t wait for her to do it again.” she now competes with SA Premier dance team! According to her mom, Priscilla, dance is Sammi’s Dancing is just one of Sammi’s passions. She is favorite activity because it gives her independence also an actress and entrepreneur! She performs as and the opportunity to socialize: “by the second Esperanza on the Netflix Original series Raising Dion class, she went in on her own, took off her shoes by and she serves as CEO of Disability Shirts, a t-shirt herself, and I got to sit in the waiting room with the company her dad created to spread awareness and other parents while she danced with new friends.” acceptance of the special needs community. 6 IMPACT STATEMENT 6877 participants Kinetic Kids Participants Kinetic Kids Community Outreach 16% 4% 200% 20% increase increase increase increase overall number of recreational programs SA Premier competitive SA Xtreme competitive participants participants participants participants PARTIC NTS BY M IP PA D RA A I IV N IC IS G T T I O S R O R 2,60 A N P P 2,16 62 809 27 ,066 68 Sports Programs Recreational Divisions Discovering Disabilities Day SA Premier Competitive Educational Programs SA Xtreme Competitive Fine Arts Programs IAGNOSE THNICIT D S E Y 27% 2% 9% 9% 6% 12% 5% 5% 0% 5% 247 Physical Down syndrome Caucasian Autism Developmental Hispanic ADHD Visual Impairments African American Asian and other 7 FINANCIAL STATEMENT UE: $ S: $1, EN 1,2 SE 241 V 2 N ,7 E 5, E 9 R 0 P 6 1 X 170,2 L 3 E A 00,2 T O 191,592 T 169,08 65,65 879,762 1,007 Contributions Program Services Special Events Fundraising Programs Administration Other S: S: $ ENT $40 ION 654 V 0, T ,3 E 23 U 6 L 3 IB 5 IA R 97,588 T 11,587 C 297,072 N E O P S C 126,80 16,50 8,75 12,82 9,519 2, Hootenanny Grants Big Give SA Individual Donors Wal.Run.Roll 5K/10K Corporate Donors Birdies for Charity In-Kind Donations EXPO 8 VOLUNTEERS are the heart of Kinetic Kids $289,088 the value of 759 volunteer service 11,368 volunteers *The estimated value of volunteer time volunteer hours according to the Independent Sector.