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Nashville After Zone Alliance (NAZA) 1 Letter from the Chairman 2 Financial Statement the Contents 3 PENCIL Programs 4 PENCIL Partners 5 Reading Partners 5 Math Partners 6 LP PENCIL Box 7 Saint Thomas Science Scholars 8 Financial Literacy & Homebuyer Education 9 Art2STEM 10 Nashville After Zone Alliance (NAZA) 11 Family Resource Centers 12 Jobs for Tennessee Graduates 13 Career Exploration Program 14 College-Career Mentors 15 A LITTLE NIGHT of MUSIC 16 Donors 19 In-Kind Donors 21 Board of Directors 1 Letter from the Chairman Dear Friends, It’s hard to believe, but PENCIL is now celebrating 30 years of linking community resources with the public schools in our city. Let’s look back at our journey. Sue Spickard, founder and Lifetime Director, and some of her friends realized that public schools needed to be embraced by the community. That idea led to PENCIL opening its doors in 1982 with 37 businesses as PENCIL Partners in the first year. At the end of the 2011-2012 school year, that number had soared to 768. In its first year, PENCIL also became the regional administrator for the Jobs for Tennessee Graduates program to help students at risk of dropping out of high school. Next, PENCIL developed Reading and Math Partners to recruit tutors and mentors for elementary and middle school students. In 2005, PENCIL joined forces with LP Building Products to launch LP PENCIL Box, which has provided millions of dollars in free school supplies for teachers to use in their classrooms. With a sterling reputation for excellence and community connections, PENCIL then began to manage the Family Resource Center at Maplewood High – a role that has now grown to include the Centers at Bordeaux and Tusculum elementaries, Madison Middle and Glencliff High. In 2009, Mayor Karl Dean turned to PENCIL’s Career Exploration Program as his first partner in NAZA, a citywide initiative to create quality afterschool opportunities for middle school students. You’ll find many more programmatic accomplishments in this report, but there are two more accolades for the entire organization. In 2012, Mayor Karl Dean announced that PENCIL is among the inaugural recipients of the city’s Excellence in Volunteer Engagement certification award. And, PENCIL was once again voted among the 50 Best Nonprofit Organizations to Work For by The NonProfit Times for the third consecutive year. We are grateful for the 9,692 volunteers who spent more than 107,000 hours in our public schools, providing additional learning resources with an in-kind value of at least $2.3 million. I know PENCIL’s achievements will be no less impressive as we begin our 31st year. Thank you – partners, donors and volunteers – for making it all possible. Sincerely, John Gauder Board Chairman, 2011-2012 2 Financial Statement 6% 1% Interest 6% Shared Services TN Dept. of Ed REVENUE 9% Special Events Tennessee Department of Education Grant » $116,000 2% Metropolitan Government Occupancy of Nashville Grants » $619,145 Private Funding / Contributions » $609,615 United Way Grants, Allocations & Designations » $228,024 12% 32% Private Funding Reimbursement of United Way Occupancy Expenses » $31,644 Special Events » $170,641 Shared Services Revenue 32% (Fiscal/Grant Development) » $120,573 Metro Grants Interest Income » $17,697 3% EXPENSES Financial Literacy PENCIL » 250,358 10% 14% Partners PENCIL PENCIL Jobs for TN Graduates Partners (middle & high schools) » 596,931 Reading Partners » 119,104 16% Math » 109,236 NAZA Partners 32% Family Resource Jobs for Centers (FRC) » 132,955 TN Graduates PENCIL Box » 92,180 Nashville After 5% Zone Alliance » 302,672 PENCIL Box Financial 7% Literacy » 51,254 FRC PENCIL Foundation » 184,402 6% Math Partners 7% Reading Partners PENCIL recognized $52,500, $25,000 and $6,000 in 2012 Net Income: contributions during fiscal year 2012 that was $74,247 restricted for use in fiscal year 2013. 3 Our Programs On the following pages you will find overviews of our 2012 PENCIL Programs. MISSION STATEMENT OUR VISION Linking community resources with Community involvement and leadership Nashville public schools to help young in public education lead to academic people achieve academic success success and life-sustaining careers and prepare for life. for all Nashville citizens. 4 PENCIL Programs members tutored, helped struggling families PENCIL PARTNERS with lunch money and clothing and provided a $1,000 gift certificate for Standard School Attire. It has been another great year for PENCIL In partnership with Soles4Souls, the church also Partners. PENCIL now coordinates 768 provided a new pair of shoes to every student in partnerships across the district, including 153 the school. schools and 41 high school Career Academies. Each partnership, which includes businesses, organizations, universities and faith-based Honorable Mention communities who partner with one or more AMEC & McMurray Middle Metro schools to transcend the traditional notion Dollar General & Hattie Cotton Elementary of “adopt-a-school” by jointly developing and Vulcan Materials & Una Elementary implementing a partnership plan to match the business’s interests and resources to the needs of the students in a school. Deloitte received the Outstanding System- Wide Partnership Award for its contribution PENCIL celebrated 30 years of BRAVO! to PENCIL Partner Warner Elementary and for PENCIL Partners and volunteers at BRAVO!, its partnerships with Career Academies at both presented by Ford Partnership for Advanced Antioch and Overton High, mentoring for middle Studies and hosted by Lipscomb University, school girls in Art2STEM, and other contributions where more than 300 guests gathered to honor that reach across the district. Deloitte volunteers outstanding organizations and individuals who go provided 2,456 volunteer hours and $119,650 in above and beyond in support of Nashville public in-kind donations and other gifts. They provided a schools. $10,000 Dual Enrollment Scholarship for students Mayor Karl Dean presented the Mayor’s Award at Overton and Antioch high schools, hosted job for Outstanding School Partner to Donelson shadow days and presented 12 $100 scholarships Church of Christ for its partnership with to Academy Students of the Year. McGavock Elementary. In their first year, the church hit the ground running – volunteering, Honorable Mention providing financial and in-kind donations and Lipscomb University reaching out to McGavock families in need. Church 5 PENCIL Programs READING & MATH PARTNERS PENCIL’s Reading and Math Partners provide not only an academic benefit to students but also a mentor relationship that can often change a student’s attitude about school. PENCIL program directors recruit and train community volunteers to provide individual assistance to students who need extra practice and encouragement in reading or math. Reading Partners are paired one-on-one while Math Partners encourage a small group of 3-4 students. Both require weekly sessions of 30-45 minutes so that the student can rely on a consistent schedule and academic progress can be tracked. Reading Partners can also choose to read aloud to a classroom a few times a month, another great way to reinforce reading skills. Students made significant reading Reading Partners (2011-2012) progress as shown by an independent evaluation conducted by MNPS. Last year, 92% of students improved by 12 middle schools two or more reading levels – with an 45 average increase of 6 levels. And, 98% elementary of students improved in at least one 323 10,235 1,628 schools of six areas including comprehension, Reading Partners Hours Donated Students Tutored vocabulary, fluency, motivation to read, confidence in reading ability and bringing the total of students served in 12 years to: self-esteem – with an average increase 24,384 in at least four areas. Last year, in a sample group of Math Partners (2011-2012) students who received a minimum of eight math sessions, 86% improved their assessment scores by at least 16 20 points, which is equivalent to middle schools improving by one grade level. 14 elementary 240 5,800 725 schools Math Partners Hours Donated Students Tutored bringing the total of students served in 12 years to: 5,641 6 PENCIL Programs LP PENCIL BOX Purchasing school supplies is not part of a teacher’s job description but often it becomes necessary. With 75 percent of Metro students receiving free and reduced-price lunch, many families make some tough financial decisions throughout the year and can’t provide their children the tools they need to learn. The community solution to this hardship has been LP PENCIL Box. Every Metro teacher can shop free twice a school year at this store, which is stocked with donations of new and gently used supplies. With just one full-time employee operating the store, PENCIL relies heavily on volunteer support. Last year, volunteer individuals and groups contributed more than 2,500 hours. Our Accomplishments $400,000 worth of school supplies distributed to classrooms via teacher shopping. 2,500 teacher shopping visits recorded. More than 12,000 books went to Metro teachers during the annual LP PENCIL Box Book Fair. Received a Predators Foundation Grant to provide Physical Education equipment to 15 Metro high schools. Supply Drives Davidson County Kroger stores collected more than $23,000 worth of supplies! PENCIL again teamed up with the Tennessee Titans and LP Building Products to hold a supply drive at a September home game. Titans fans collected $20,000 in supplies! $2.9 million in school supplies have been distributed to Metro classrooms since 2005 7 PENCIL Programs SAINT THOMAS SCIENCE SCHOLARS Last year PENCIL awarded placement to 35 sophomores who have an interest in science and the healthcare professions. Thirty-six Saint Thomas staff members volunteered 144 hours to provide six Saturday sessions at Saint Thomas Hospital, allowing students to participate in hands-on activities and tour different areas of the hospital. Since 1994, 535 students have gone through the program and many are now practicing healthcare professionals.
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