ANNUAL REPORT 2015 A WORD FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR REPORT CARD Dear friends, alumni, and supporters: It is with the utmost gratitude and appreciation that I say thank you to each and every one of you! It is 40% 58% because of you that Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School is what it is today. INCREASE IN STUDENTS’ INCREASE IN CONFLICT As I sit writing this letter I am trying to figure out ABILITY TO MANAGE RESOLUTION SKILLS, EMOTIONS, REACT DRAMATICALLY IMPACTING how to summarize the success of 2015 in just a few NON-VIOLENTLY SOCIAL COPING sentences and I just don’t think it is possible. I could, however, probably write a novel! It has truly been an inspiring year. Financially, 2015 was a success. We far exceeded 35% 92% our budget expectations, ending the year with a surplus to reinvest and grow our capacity. MORE RESILIENT AND PARENTS REPORT THAT The year also saw an increase in the number of ABLE TO PERSIST IN THE THEIR CHILDREN ARE FACE OF CHALLENGE MORE CONFIDENT youth who experienced the magic of Outward Bound through our school. This is made even more tremendous by the fact that 77% of our students received financial assistance in order to participate, which was made possible by your generosity. STUDENTS SERVED In 2015, BCBOBS concluded a three-year study with the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health that sought to quantitatively prove what we all know already: Through opportunities to face challenges, Outward Bound enables students to 799 2,886 411 develop character traits such as perseverance, self-reliance, compassion, and confidence. The belief that our program truly does make a dierence in EXPEDITION INSIGHT PROFESSIONAL 13% GROWTH 28% GROWTH 33% GROWTH students’ character is now firmly rooted in science-backed evidence. In 2016, our 30th year serving students in the Chesapeake Bay region, we will continue to be a leading voice in character education, and the 9% important role it plays in the future of our 2% NOT REPORTED MULTI-ETHNIC community. 34% 4% WHITE / HISPANIC On behalf of all the students BCBOBS served in CAUCASIAN 2015, thank you! / LATINO 4% 2015 ASIAN ETHNIC Ginger Mihalik DISTRIBUTION GINGER MIHALIK EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR [email protected] 47% BLACK / AFRICAN AMERICAN © 2016 BALTIMORE CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL | PAGE 2 FINANCIALS Unaudited 9% 9% CAPITAL CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISING 13% 6% GENERAL DONATED GOOD & ADMINISTRATION & SERVICES 2015 2015 REVENUE EXPENSES 39% $2,294,835 CONTRIBUTIONS $1,792,007 & GRANTS 30% PROGRAM TUITION 78% PROGRAM 16% SCHOLARSHIPS 2015 2014 REVENUE Contributions & Grants $887,617 $829,335 Scholarships $363,422 $355,229 Program Tuition $699,622 $511,588 Donated Goods & Services $138,572 $62,808 Capital Campaign $205,602 - EXPENSES Program $1,398,762 $1,128,558 General & Administration $229,582 $148,702 Fundraising $163,662 $153,041 NET INCOME $502,828 $328,658 © 2016 BALTIMORE CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL | PAGE 3 FOCUSED ON MARYLAND’S CHARACTER SCHOLARSHIPS & TOTAL STUDENTS RECEIVING % OF STUDENTS RECEIVING FINANCIAL AID TOTAL FINANCIAL SUPPORT FINANCIAL SUPPORT $364,822 3,131 77% PUBLIC SCHOOLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS NONPROFITS 29 11 24 2015 CHARACTER EDUCATION PARTNERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS Independence School Local 1 NON-PROFITS Wide Angle Youth Media Anne Arundel County Public Schools Oce of Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter School Alternative Directions, Inc - CHIP Mentoring WILL Wilderness Leadership & Learning, Inc. Student Leadership Development Southwest Baltimore Charter School Program Armistead Gardens Elementary Middle School The Crossroads School Baltimore Child First Authority, Inc CORPORATIONS / Baltimore Freedom Academy Tunbridge Public Charter School Baltimore Clayworks GOVERNMENT Baltimore Liberation Diploma Plus High North East Middle School Baltimore Community Mediation School Allied First Bank Commodore John Rodgers Elementary Middle Baltimore Corps Benjamin Franklin High School at Masonville Baltimore City Department of Recreation and School Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust Cove Parks Friendship Preparatory Academy at Calverton (BEST) Brooklyn Park Elementary School Baltimore Police Department REACH Partnership School Baltimore SquashWise Calvin Rodwell Elementary School BB&T Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Digital Harbor High School Chesapeake Booz Allen Hamilton Empowerment Academy INDEPENDENT Boys Hope Girls Hope Clark Construction Frederick Douglass High School Baltimore Lab School Bridges Baltimore Greater Baltimore Committee Hamilton Elementary Middle School Boys Latin CASA de Maryland HealthCare Access Maryland Lakeland Elementary Middle School Bryn Mawr School Civic Works ReMax Mount Royal Elementary Middle School Calvert Hall College High School Dream & Flourish Mentoring Program Robert Half National Academy Foundation High School Episcopal High School Higher Achievement - Baltimore T.Rowe Price Paul Laurence Dunbar High School Gilman School Middle Grades Partnership Renaissance Academy Glenelg Country School My Sister's Circle Inc. Vanguard Collegiate Middle School Landon School Parks and People Foundation, Inc Windsor Hills Elementary Middle School Oldfields School PRAISE College Readiness Program Baltimore City Public Schools - Administration Saint Timothy's School Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women The Calvert School Southwest Success Mentoring Program City Neighbors High School Turnaround, Inc. Hampstead Hill Academy Washington Nationals Youth Baseball & Softball Academy © 2016 BALTIMORE CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL | PAGE 4 STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS POLICE YOUTH CHALLENGE (PYC) Shifting perceptions through challenge 8,389 90% Days building Of ocers felt they had the skills necessary to character in the field interact positively with youth after the PYC YOUTH PERCEPTION OF POLICE Miles 27,515 traveled by foot & boat RACIST TRUSTWORTHY Hours of 11,086 service POLICE PERCEPTION OF YOUTH projects Vertical feet climbed on 125,835 VIOLENT RESPECTFUL rocks or wall BEFORE AFTER Since 2008, Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School has been building a foundation to impact the relationships between police and youth in Baltimore. This commitment is matched by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 100% and their study to prove the program’s eectiveness. The Johns Hopkins team, funded by the Oce of Time students spent Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, discovered undeniable truths about the shift in accomplishing more than perceptions - seen above in a sample of their they thought possible. research findings from 2012-2015. © 2016 BALTIMORE CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL | PAGE 5 THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS $250,000 AND UP DLA Piper, LLP (US) Melvin Easley Catherine Smith Two Suns Charitable Fund Feather Foundation on behalf of James R. and David J. Eikenberg Margaret Storm Edith Garrett Epicscopal High School J. Richard Thomas Mark Fetting $100,000 - $249,999 ESD Associates Transamerica Life Insurance Company Gallagher, Evelius & Jones, LLP Maryland State Department of Education - E. Hervey Evans James Valerio State Aided Institutions Harbor Investment Advisory George C. Farrant Gordon R. Virgo Middendorf Foundation, Inc. Hardiman Family Foundation Ralph H. Ferrell, III Kathleen Westcoat Parks and People Foundation Hoerger Foundation Clay Fowler Cecilia Yazigi James Carter and Jean Wyman, Eective Matthew Franke $50,000 - $99,999 Leaders International IN-KIND Charles Crane Family Foundation Erin Frederick Johns Hopkins Medicine Alma Cocina Johns Hopkins University Friends of Gwynns Falls Leakin Park Lewis Contractors, LLC John Avirett Kahlert Family Foundation Peter L. C. George Lois and Philip Macht Family Fund B'More Organic James W. and Rosie K. Smith Patricia M. C. Brown & Joseph P. Gill MECU Foundation Bobby's Portable Restrooms Peter Gilmore Michael R. & Susan A. Ford Charitable Fund H. Stacey Boyer $20,000 - $49,999 Lewis Glenn John and Peggy Moag Constellation, an Exelon Company Aegon Transamerica Foundation Mitchell T. Goetze Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver Disney Theme Parks Annie E. Casey Foundation Granville Capital Richard and Lisa Rapuano Earth Treks Columbia Climbing Center Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation Amy Macht and George Grose Susquehanna Bank Sarah Fickins National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Julia C. Guth United Way of Central Maryland James R. and Edith Garrett Outward Bound, Inc. Donald R. Heacock Wells Fargo greiBO Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Martin Himeles Baltimore City Ed Woods Joseph R. Hardiman Becky and David Hornbeck Ziger/Snead Architects Heavy Seas Beer $10,000 - $19,999 Stephen and Walter M. Howard Henry Coe Anonymous $1,000 - $1,999 Howard L. Sollins and Barbara M. Resnick Family Fund L&H Business Consulting, LLC Baltimore National Heritage Area Abell Foundation Iredell W. and Jenny Iglehart, III Mahaey's Pub Mary Catherine Bunting Suzanne Avirett Ronald K. James Jock McGuirk Bunting Family Foundation Michael J. Batza, Jr. JAS Fund Edward Mullin Peter R. and Cynthia K. Kellogg Foundation Beatty Development Group Adrienne A. Jones Oce of the Mayor of Balitmore Sana and Andy Brooks Family Fund Richard O. Berndt Kent Family Foundation Patient First The Katie and Jon Friar Fund Denis J. Callaghan Georgette Kiser Radclie Jewelers Under Armour, Inc. Carefirst Bluecross Blueshield Kohler Co. Barry D. Richmond Charles and Sherry Fenwick Fund Frederick Lindahl Road Runner Sports, Inc. $5,000 - $9,999 Mark Furst Benjamen F. Lucas Salazon Chocolates BB&T Maryland Region Scott