1988 – 2018 Intermountain Area Ronald McDonald House Charities® of the Intermountain Area 2018 Annual Report Intermountain Area The mission of Ronald McDonald House Charities® of the Intermountain Area (RMHC) is to surround families with the support they need to be near and care for their seriously ill or injured children. We provide a home-away-from-home to ease daily burdens and empower families of hospitalized children with meaningful experiences and quality time together. This annual report is dedicated to the 25 precious angels our Ronald McDonald House Family lost in 2018. They will forever remain in our hearts. Taelar • Watson Lincoln • Greyson • Noah Jordyn • Ashton B. • Kenneth John • Ashton D. • Nora • Sam Khloe • Bria • Kian • Alonso Macee • Evalette • Ryker • Mia Kallie • Santiago • Erik Tatum • Jonathan “If there ever comes a day where we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh Letter from the BOARD CHAIR & CEO Dear Friends, As many of you know, the doors of the first, 13-room Ronald McDonald House opened in Utah in 1988, and they haven’t closed since — not for a day or a minute. With your help we served more pediatric patient families than ever before in 2018. Our 72-room Ronald McDonald House® welcomed 4,107 guest families with 12,461 individual family members that called our House their ‘home’ for 25,557 nights — an average annual occupancy of 89%. At the Ronald McDonald Family Rooms® within Primary Children’s Hospital, we offered needed respite for 7,563 families, with 10,687 individuals that visited 111,108 times during the year! Our eight overnight retreat rooms within the hospital averaged 95% occupancy. Our Hospitality Carts at Ogden Regional Medical Center and Shriner’s Hospital for Children served 3,427 pediatric patient families. Remarkably, 1,204 Adopt a Meal groups lovingly prepared and served 60,200 meals for pediatric patient families at the House and Family Room, and a total of 20,944 volunteer hours were performed during the year! We were honored to receive Charity Navigator’s highest Four-Star Rating for nonprofit accountability and excellence and to be named the 2018 Best Charity to give to by Business.org. We received from an extraordinary legacy of love from Arlene Evelyn Otto with her $965,000 bequest toward our legacy fund to help ensure our mission thrives in perpetuity. We secured four adjacent properties located directly north of our Ronald McDonald House on M Street to “Not all of us can do great things. create a beautiful backyard greenspace and campus expansion. We were thrilled that extraordinary donors pledged But we can do small things with a total of $2.7 million toward the greenspace project by the end of the year. great love.” – MOTHER TERESA In 2018, we celebrated 30 years of gratitude! Thank you to our visionary founders. They witnessed families sleeping in hospital waiting rooms and cars and had a bold vision — and then worked hard to make it happen. Thank you to McDonald’s, our mission partner since the beginning, together with their owner operators, crews, and vendors. Your longstanding support has allowed our mission to grow and flourish. We extend heartfelt thanks to the board members that have provided truly exceptional mission-focused stewardship over the last 30 years; to our deeply dedicated staff members that have brought the mission to life every day for over 30 years; and to our honorably committed volunteers and generous donors that have fueled our mission. Most importantly, thank you to the families we serve — the inspiring child patients and warrior mothers, fathers and sisters and brothers. Thank you for teaching us how to live. Together we are surrounding families with the support they need to be near and care for their seriously ill or injured children. Thank you for making this possible. P. Matthew Cox Carrie Romano Ollie 2018 Board Chair Chief Executive Officer Chief Pawsitivity Officer 2 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES® OF THE INTERMOUNTAIN AREA 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2018 Heather Kahlert BOARD VOLUNTEER Don Lewon OF THE YEAR Mike Luedy Mariana Mavor Greg Bailey Mark Nichols Manuel Rodriguez-Davalos, MD e were delighted Jim Swayze W to honor Greg Lloyd Y. Tani, MD Bailey as the Board Jim Turnbull Volunteer of the Year. William (Bill) Whitaker Greg is a wonderfully dedicated RMHC board Non Voting Members member and proud McDonald’s Owner/Operator. Greg operates Executive Committee Paige Walton Tabitha Perkins Community Engagement Chair three McDonald’s restaurants in Western P. Matthew Cox Emeritus Members Wyoming. He currently serves as Finance Monica Whalen Chair Chair for RMHC, and regularly makes the 2–4 Nominating/Governance Cindy Bailey Co-Chair hour drive (depending on the winter weather) Greg Bailey Gayle Everest Finance Vice Chair to Salt Lake City to attend RMHC’s board Lynnie Zimmerli Lori Teske Hudson Past Chair and committee meetings. With his thoughtful Chris Droubay Paula Green Johnson Legal Counsel leadership, RMHC has achieved greater Carrie Romano Patrick O’Neal financial excellence and accountability. Each Peter M. Johnson Chief Executive Officer Susan L. Smith Finance Chair year Greg and his wife Cindy (former RMHC Charles (Chuck) Sparrer Members at Large Board Chair), host a posse of fantastically Pamela Larsen, Esq. Charles (Chip) P. Williams generous Wyoming cowboys that attend Secretary Mark Briesacher, MD 2019 Incoming RMHC’s gala to support our mission with their Mary Schubach McCarthey Doug Cardon Board Members remarkable kindness and donations. Greg’s Nominating/Governance Co-Chair Alison Flynn Gaffney commitment to RMHC is truly inspiring. Emmie Gardner Alan Regal Emily Fisher Programs Chair Maryellyn (Mimi) Gilfeather, MD Paula Green Johnson Tiffany Glasgow, MD Susan Petersen Chris Sparrer-Baer Development Chair Jody Heximer Sterling Poulson 2018 ANNUAL REPORT RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES® OF THE INTERMOUNTAIN AREA 3 2018 HIGHLIGHTS Good Men & KILTS CAMPAIGN Ronald McDonald Family Room ANNIVERSARY he Good Men & Kilts campaign T launched in 2016 and was supported by our youngest “Kilter” — Eli. Baby Eli has continued to inspire the good men in our community to wear kilts and raise funds for Ronald McDonald House Charities. This year, we were honored that 8 teams — including our own Ollie and his friend Suba Blue — donned kilts to raise money for us. During the month of October, e celebrated the 1st Anniversary you could see life-size photos, in-person W of the Primary Children’s Hospital meet-and-greets, media appearances and Level 2 Family Room on December 6, social media appeals from these teams to 2018. The room is designed to serve help in their fundraising efforts. Ultimately, parents and guardians of patients in the Jim Turnbull was crowned “King of the Pediatric Intensive Care, Cardiac Intensive Kilts” with the most funds raised. When Care, and Neuro Trauma Units. We have all was said and done — they raised already served over 2,000 families in this over $50,000 for our pediatric patients first year. Thank you to our major sponsors, and their families. They are good including Primary Children’s Hospital, the men indeed! Kahlert Family Foundation, and RMHC Global, for providing the original resources needed to open this room, allowing us to serve these pediatric patient families. 4 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES® OF THE INTERMOUNTAIN AREA 2018 ANNUAL REPORT CARS 4 KIDS 2018 FOUR STAR RATING oys Toys Toys Galore! Can you believe it T covers our floor? Every year Cars 4 Kids Foundation along with their participants, drive throughout Utah and collect new toys to donate to the House and Family Room. Because of this event we are able to stock our Magic Room for a full year!!!! The Magic Room is a place where kids can go to take a nce again, Ronald McDonald House break from thinking about their last treatment OCharities of the Intermountain Area or to prepare for the next one. They are able (RMHC) has been classified as a Four Star to pick out a toy to keep for their very own! Charity by Charity Navigator. This rating is based on dozens of metrics related This room truly is magic and the magicians to financial health, accountability and are the Cars 4 Kids team! transparency. To earn 4 stars means that Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area exceeds industry standards and outperforms most charities in our Cause. Additionally, RMHC was recognized by 5th Year CELEBRATION at Primary Children’s Hospital Business.org as the best charity to donate to in Utah. In June 2018, Ronald McDonald House Charities We work every day to be worthy of your celebrated the 5th Anniversary of the Primary investment and trust, and once again, we Children’s Hospital Level 3 Family Room. With have cause to celebrate! the amazing support from the community, in the last five years we have offered needed respite for Thank you for believing in us. It is because pediatric patients and their families. In 2018, the of you that we are able to fulfill our mission Ronald McDonald Level 3 Family Room served over of providing a home-away-from-home for our 5,400 families with over 90,100 individual visits. pediatric patient families. 2018 ANNUAL REPORT RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES® OF THE INTERMOUNTAIN AREA 5 2018 HIGHLIGHTS Honorary Grandparents FUND OGDEN Christmas Village Ronald McDonald House Charities Honorary Grandparents Fund Provides Once-in-a-Lifetime Experiences Special moments and experiences bring families together and create meaningful and lasting memories. This is especially true when time becomes precious and day-to-day life just isn’t routine anymore due to unforeseen medical diagnoses and the challenging health issues of a child.