2012 Annual Report

2012 ANNUAL REPORT Celebrating 40 Years of Mentoring A LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Happy 40th Anniversary! YOUR efforts and success did not go unrecognized! In 2012, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America again recognized us as the “Agency 2012 was a great year for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Year”. For those keeping score, that’s three times (2006, 2009 and a terrific way to conclude four decades of and 2012) in the last 10 years! And for the first time ever, our Board providing children with positive, caring role models. of Directors was honored as the national Board of the Year. This As the year closed, we made final preparations for was a much deserved recognition as we have been blessed with our move into a new, larger and more efficient exceptionally talented, hard-working and generous board members! headquarters. It was exciting and poignant to They ensure that your donated dollars are spent wisely and efficiently watch our founder, Don Wolf, assist in introducing the community and that the tens of thousands of volunteer hours produce to our new location at The Summit on the former Taylor University measurable positive outcomes for the children we serve. campus. The mentoring program that Don started 40 years ago served almost 2000 area children last year, and it was very fitting that And I must add a special congratulations to Big Sister Alyssa Ivanson, he be present to announce our move into a more modern and better and her Little Sister Jordain. Of all of the thousands of women who equipped facility and our plans to further grow what we consider to serve as Big Sisters across the United States, Alyssa was selected to be the most successful mentoring program in the country. be the 2012 national Big Sister of the Year! Alyssa and Jordain were honored in June at the National conference and you will be reading I hope that each of you will have a chance to visit us at our new and hearing more about this incredible and inspirational match. office, located at 1005 West Rudisill Boulevard. We will be planning Congratulations Alyssa! lots of events and activities there and you are welcome to schedule a visit for any convenient time. Through our collaboration with While we celebrate the awards, we never forget the core achievement: Ambassador Enterprises who developed “The Summit” building we with your generous contribution of time and money, we create now occupy, we now have a headquarters space prepared specifically and provide professionally supervised mentoring relationships for with intentional mentoring programs and initiatives in mind. This hundreds and hundreds of area children who need a safe and Agency has been an innovator in developing cost-effective and positive “match” with a caring adult. When we include the parents, quality-enhancing procedures and practices, and we now have guardians, siblings, teachers and spouses directly impacted by our a facility designed to fully utilize those innovations. work, literally thousands of new, life-changing relationships are created through your support of Big Brothers Big Sisters. We are With the help of you- the best volunteers, most generous supporters fully committed to being the “best” at what we do! and most dedicated Bigs, we enjoyed a very successful 2012. We continued to expand our school and education-based mentoring- through our Bigs In Schools and College Success Mentoring programs, and created more of our traditional community-based matches. We served a record-setting total of 1,993 children in 2012! Josette Rider, Chief Executive Officer We provided programming for the hundreds of children still on our waiting list through our First Friends program and we introduced area high school students to mentoring and community service through our First Mentors program. 2012 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Troy Smith, President Dave Dietz Michael McCaffrey Rod Schoon Doug Schenkel, Vice President Matt Fortney Norman Meintel Allen Seely Tim Wagner, Vice President Steve Goodman Sherri Milton Randy Simmons Dane Boykins, Secretary Troy Hartman Beth Munk Dr. Andrew O’Shaughnessy, Past Board President Seth Kierns, Treasurer Gary Horton Doug Nelson Ed Baker Jimmy Knight Paige Pyle Morgan Boudler Corinna Ladd Jeff Rodgers Debbie Branfield Tyler Lehman Carey Roth GREETINGS FROM YOUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS! FINANCIAL STATEMENT 2% One of the truly enjoyable responsibilities INCOME 9% of the Board President is preparing a short message to our volunteers, donors and • Foundations & Grants supporters for inclusion in the Annual Fundraising Report. It’s a special honor to prepare • 18% 43% a message for the 40th Anniversary year • Contributions of Big Brothers Big Sisters in Northeast United Way Indiana and Southcentral Michigan- a year that was filled • with celebrations, successes, accomplishments and awards! • Other Income It’s important to remember that awards and milestones are noteworthy only to the degree they reflect our success in 28% bringing the life-changing mentoring programs of Big Brothers Foundations & Grants $776,270 Big Sisters to area children. I am happy to report that Big Fundraising Events $511,461 Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana is one of the premiere Contributions $318,069 Agencies in the United States, providing more one-to-one matches, at lower cost, with greater efficiency and more United Way $167,820 demonstrated success than almost any of our peers. For you, Other Income $28,548 our donors and volunteers, this means that your contributions Total: $1,802,168 of money and of time go farther and accomplish more than 6% they would most anywhere else. EXPENSES These aren’t just the opinions of one proud Board President. Programs 13% At the recent Big Brothers Big Sisters of America national • conference, our Agency was recognized as the national • Fundraising “Agency of the Year” for 2012, the third time that we have • Management / received this recognition in the past 10 years! This award General recognizes the high number of children we served (a record breaking 1,993 matches were made in 2012), the high 81% quality of those matches, the experience and training of our staff and the large number of dedicated volunteers with whom we work. It also recognizes the practices and processes developed here over the last decade to provide Programs $1,325,001 high quality, cost-effective mentoring programs with Fundraising Events $218,598 measurable results. Many of the “best practices” developed Management / General $91,993 here locally are now in use throughout the Big Brothers Big Sisters network across the Nation. Total: $1,635,592 As we closed 2012, we completed our efforts to move to a new facility- “The Summit” on the former Taylor WE SERVE CHILDREN WITH THE GREATEST NEED University campus. This was a move made possible through AND LEAST OPPORTUNITY our collaboration with Ambassador Enterprises. Our new location is not only larger and more modern, our offices PROGRAM TYPE were designed to best and most efficiently incorporate the Site Based: Bigs In School ...........................................................................890 practices and processes that we have developed over the Community Based: Traditional Match ................................................. 1103 past decade. We are now well situated for the next decade of growth, of building life-long relationships and of success. Gender Female: 57% Male: 43% Finally, I want to recognize our Big Sister Alyssa Ivanson and her Little Sister Jordan and my fellow Board members. 5-12 Years: 69% 13-20 Years: 31% Alyssa was named the 2012 National Big Sister of the Year, Age recognizing her 6 year match with Jordain. Our Board of Hispanic: 9% Other: 4% Directors received a similar honor, being named the National White: 53% Black: 23% Multi: Ethnicity 11% Board of the Year for 2012. While my fellow Board members are certainly worthy of some recognition, any success this 0 20 40 60 80 100 Board has achieved is a direct reflection of the work performed by our predecessors and of the strong Single-Parent Home ............. 76% Household Income Of Less Than $30K ................................ 83% procedures and practices that govern our operation. Minority Children .................. 47% Incarcerate Parent ....................1% Household Income Of Less My sincere thanks to all of you for a great 40th year! Than $10K ................................ 30% Troy Smith, 2012 Board President TOTAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN SERVED IN 2012: 1,993 DONATIONS John and Lesley Kintz Fifth Third Bank Allen L and Cecilia M Brandon and Colleen Oleary Clifford and Tamra Smith Donnie Barton DREAM MAKER Josette M Rider First Bank of Berne Dennison Brenda and Gregory Noel Clunette Elevator Co., Inc. Dorie Sitko ($10,000+) K and H Distributing Co., Inc. GE Medical Protective Allen R. Graber Brenda Harlin CME - Mark H Hellinger Doris E. Wentzel AT&T Kathryn D. Callen H. Kenneth and Brenda Cole Allison Marigny Brent and Carrie Stuckey Coil Specialist Inc. Dorothy Sauter Ashley Industrial Molding Kathy S Ensley Haller and Colvin, P.C. Alycia Poulson Brent Davis Colleen Petras Doug Gast BKD CPAs and Advisors Kelley Automotive- Hal-Mark Sales and Rental Amanda and Adam Brent Ronson Complete Custom Heating Douglas and Laureen Coca-Cola Refreshments Tom Kelley Havel Brothers Heckaman Brett and Polly Hagedorn and Air Thomas DeKalb Molded Plastics Kevin and Karla Rahn InfiniSource Amanda Kinneman Brian and Mariah Walker Conviction Martial Arts Inc. Douglas Schenkel Do It Best Corp. Kevin Martin Jennifer and Shaun Loveless Amanda Parker Brian and Cynthia Lursen Cori Reuile Doug’s Sports Clips Indiana Physical Therapy Labov and Beyond, Inc. Jeremy Carnahan Amanda Zimmerman Brian and Heather Corunna Volunteer Fire Dr. Thomas and Donna Jeff and Shari Rodgers Live Nation Worldwide Inc. Jim and Jill Best Amatha A. Davison Reichenbch Department Stevens JP Morgan Chase Bank Medtronic, Inc. John and Deborah Groulik Amber Smith Brian and Kay Mapes Coy and Ann Lickliter Drew Helmer Kohl’s Metal Technologies, Inc.

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