A Message From the Executive Director

Special Needs Support Center
Annual Report
2014-2015
CELEBRATING 35 YEARS
Photos Taken From This Year’s Annual Meeting
Our Mission
To help children and adults with any type of special need, and their families,
meet their unique challenges through advocacy and program support.
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Call us at 603-448-6311, or email [email protected]
A Message From the President
The SNSC Team
2015 Board of Directors
Ann Bracken, Co-President
Barbara van Hoff, Co-President
Vince Mennona, Vice President
Jo-Anne Unruh, Secretary
Nancy Barrington, Treasurer
Peter Garland
Melanie Huston
Anthea Lavallee
Kate Medeiros
Risa Mornis
Codie Rockwood
Amy Schaeffler
Meg Seely
Sherry Sousa
Annual Giving
Committee
Jim Adler
Pete Bleyler
Philip Eller
Agnes Guay
Dave Harris
Kathy Marshall
Vince Mennona, Chair
Miriam Osofsky
Ann Raynolds
Kathy Westwood
Peter White
Staff
This past year the Board has focused on revising and clarifying the roles
and responsibilities of Board members, and that of the Executive Director. Keeping the mission statement and vision of the Special Needs Support Center in the
foreground, we attempted to form a well-functioning Board with the knowledge
that we will be undergoing a major transition in this coming year as Phil retires
from the Executive Directorship.
We met for a day-long retreat and looked at areas of strengths and weaknesses for us as a board, for the Executive Director, and for SNSC as an organization. We have met with the staff to talk about the transition, and to assess what
their needs will be. We are looking at financial information, and trying to find
ways to not only survive the transition time, but to become more sustainable as we
move forward.
The major fundraisers were well-attended and well-received. The dates for
this fall have been set for the Blue Lip Golf Tournament (October 24), and the
Delicious Art – Wine, Chocolate and Cheese Tasting at AVA Gallery (November
1). The Simon Pearce Dinner and Mother’s Day Raffle will be early next year.
Finally, the job description for the new Executive Director will be posted
this fall, with the hopes of either a January, or a June, start date. If you, or someone
you know, is interested in applying for the job, please contact one of the board
members.
Sincerely,
Barbara van Hoff
President, Board of Directors
Philip Eller
Executive Director
Pam Blair
Programs Coordinator
Shelley Geoghegan
Fundarising Manager
Nicki Thrall
Administrative Assistant
Lynn VanNatta
Murray Ngoima
Sylvia Dow
ART LAB Facilitators
Anna Dulac
Carolina Alvarez-Correa
Esther Wu
ASPIRE Coordinators
Volunteers are integral to everything that SNSC
does. Thank you to each and every one of you.
We couldn’t do it without you. At least 96 people
helped this year including:
STAR (17)
ASPIRE (25+)
Connections (12)
ART LAB (3+)
Board of Directors (14)
AGC (9+)
Other committees (2+)
Nathan Hall Library (2)
Happenings (12+)
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A Message From the Executive Director
FY’15 marked our 35th year of service in the Upper Valley to children and
adults with ANY kind of special need, and to their families. Two composite
examples demonstrate the value of our work. One: a parent of a child with autism
in a local elementary school was assisted in understanding the complexities of
the special education process and in understanding the technical language of
evaluations completed for her child. Several school meetings were attended with
her with the result that her child was finally able to receive appropriate services to
ensure academic success. Another: a young lady with a developmental disability
trying to live on her own and create a meaningful life for herself participated
Philip Eller, Executive Director
in most of our Happenings events, the weekly ART LAB, and two of the
Educational Classes. These interesting social and creative activities, in addition to her part time work and part time volunteer
commitments, provided her opportunities to interact with others with whom she felt comfortable. These activities enhanced
not only her quality of life but also her self-esteem, and helped her become a more productive member of her community.
Several special activities marked this 35th year of SNSC. In the fall a former Board member, Maedi Tanham Carney
presented two workshops for parents and caregivers: one in the morning at Zack’s Place in Woodstock on “Navigating the
Financial World of the Family with Special Needs” and in the afternoon at the Kilton Library on “The Basics of Housing
for Individuals with Disabilities.” In each workshop ten or so people got the benefit of Maedi’s expertise that is recognized
nationally and which she presents through her organization: www.specialneedsplanning.net based in Washington DC.
As part of SNSC’s outreach and wider professional responsibilities I participated as a member of the Vermont Autism
Task Force, a state-wide group of parents and professionals advocating and educating the public about the issues surrounding
people, especially children on the autism spectrum. Each year the VATF presents an Autism Awareness Day at the Vermont
Statehouse with a special speaker, activities for families and children, and contacts with legislators. This year SNSC acted as
the fiscal agent to handle a grant from the Vermont Developmental Disabilities Council to fund a presentation by Dr. Steven
Shore, a nationally known self-advocate for autism. Over 100 parents, professionals, and legislators attended the event. As part
of this day, April 1 of Autism Awareness Month, several members of the VATF Special Education Committee presented a major
concern to the Senate Education Committee and through subsequent testimony introduced the basics of a bill that would
change the Vermont eligibility guidelines of special education - to the Adverse Effect requirement that often rules out services
for students on the higher end of autism spectrum. In collaboration with the Special Education Advocates Coalition (SPEAC),
of which I am also a member, we raised significant awareness and concern among the Senate Committee members, and while
the new legislation was proposed too late in the legislative session we laid the groundwork for the re-introduction of a bill in
the 2016 legislature. Vermont is the only state in the nation with such a stringent eligibility requirement. SPEAC is a group of
lawyers, and recently other advocates, who meet to discuss and address concerns regarding special education issues in Vermont.
We are confident that working together, we will achieve success next year in this important area of Adverse Effect eligibility, and
thus ensure the special education services that too many students (with autism, ADHD, and emotional disabilities) are denied.
Unfortunately, New Hampshire does not have an equivalent group to SPEAC.
Another major professional activity this year was SNSC’s involvement in helping the Early Childhood Mental Health
Network (ECMHN) bring an international neuroscientist, Dr. Allan Schore to northern New England for four days in May of
presentations to a wide variety of professionals working with children and adults that suffer from early childhood trauma and
impaired relationships capabilities. For many years, SNSC has served as the fiscal agent for ECMHN, and for these events, we
worked with Dr. Miriam Voran, (a member of ECMHN) to write grants and make arrangements with multiple organizations to
raise the almost $30,000 for two of these days of workshops (110 attendees), Pediatric Grand Rounds at DHMC (attended by
over 80 doctors, etc.) and an evening public lecture by Dr. Schore (attended by 75+ parents and professionals). We collaborated
with NFI, a Burlington based psychiatric organization, who hosted over 300 attendees at another day-long workshop. We also
collaborated with the NH chapter of the National Association of Social Workers to include a day-long workshop in Manchester
NH attended by 46 professionals. These events involved extensive development and administrative contacts and background
work by myself and our talented Administrative Assistant, Nicki Thrall. Other collaboraors included the Geisel Medical School,
Department of Pediatrics, the Child Care Project, Let’s Grow Kids, and the Dartmouth Trauma Intervention Research Center.
Grants were received from the Byrne Foundation, NH Endowment for Health, Let’s Grow Kids, and the Dwinell Family Trust.
This effort was a significant activity for SNSC and brought us a lot of recognition and awareness around both states.
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Another major effort this year was working with others to create the Special Needs Coalition of the Upper Valley
(SNC) that includes Spark! Community Center, Global Campuses, Zack’s Place, and High Horses in addition to SNSC. These
five organizations serve people with all kinds of special needs and differing abilities. The Coalition received a small start up grant
from the NH Charitable Foundation, and our efforts have been facilitated by Alice Ely from the Public Health Council. Our
goals are to enhance the coordination of program efforts of our organizations (in order to reduce any unintended redundancies
in services – while at the same time giving our population appropriate choices of activities), to serve as a central place for
information and referral as well education to the general public about disabilities rights and needs, and to join together on
possible large fundraising events and larger grant opportunities. SNC grew out of several workshops last year for a wider group
of professionals in a Special Needs Provider Forum. Also, Pam Blair, our Programs Coordinator is working closely with staff
from Spark! to coordinate activities and programs.
Finally, Shelley Geoghegan, our Fundraising Manager worked hard in this her second year by connecting with numerous
businesses and corporate staff in the Upper Valley to raise awareness of SNSC (we are still ‘low on the radar’ of many people
in the Upper Valley) and to solicit either direct donations to SNSC and/or co-sponsorships of our fund raising events. She has
developed great databases of potential donors, set up standard form letters of appeal, and with Nicki created computer tracking
systems for future business and corporate contacts. In addition, Shelley created the framework for an SNSC Planned Giving
program that will bear much fruit in future years. She also provided staff support to the Special Events Committee of the Board.
SUMMARY OF PROGRAM ACTVITIES
Our small full time staff of two combined with several consultants to provide 17 services and programs to more than 624 in the
wider Upper Valley in the past year. Some of our unique and valuable contacts were short term like a Information & Referral
call to a year- long use of our Educational Advocacy or the ART LAB. Some of our programs reached only a small targeted audience but the newsletter reached about 1000 people and our website and Facebook page to many others. Our Family Support
Services include 11 different ones and our Community Partners program total six unique ones.
Family Support Services (FSS)
Services primarily to and for parents and families
Educational Advocacy – This service is one-of-a-kind in the Upper Valley and for the 35 years of SNC existence been one of
our more valuable and important offerings. This year we worked with 199 families-111 from NH,4 8 from VT, and 40 from
outside the Upper Valley. There were 73 new referrals received this year – from other parents, from mental health professionals, the Internet, etc. We made at least (we can’t track all of them) 825 contacts (by phone, email, in-person) with parents.
We attended 128 school meetings – 80 in NH and 48 in VT. Another 30-40 school meetings might have been attended but
for scheduling conflicts. With Google and the Internet we also get calls and emails from parents outside the Upper Valley as
SNSC comes up high on a search list for educational advocacy in both New Hampshire and Vermont. We have considerable
knowledge of the resources in both states and can make appropriate referrals for these parents. We also had 92 contacts of various types with professionals regarding these advocacy situations. This year we were able to do more consultation with parents
who were then able to adequately advocate by themselves at school meetings. Each school meeting involves at least 3 hours
direct time (including travel time) plus all the parent contacts and time involved in reading evaluations, IEPs, etc. SNSC’s long
history of positive working relationships with all schools in the wider Upper Valley (from Bradford and Haverhill in the north
to Springfield and Charleston in the south, from New London in the east and Stockbridge in the west) – 20 to 30+ schools in
each state – plus our collaborative philosophy and approach result in significant success on behalf of students needing special
education services in public schools.
Information & Referral – At least 91 contacts were made this year – by email, phone, or in-person for this service for which
SNSC staff have special expertise. A number of these contacts also include emotional support (a ‘listening ear’) to parents dealing 24/7 with a child having a special need. Some of these I&R contacts come from parents moving to the Upper Valley and
some from other professionals ‘picking out brain’ about resources.
Quarterly Newsletter – Unfortunately, due to time constraints we only published three newsletters this year. They go 277
by email and 661 by snail mail. We hope to expand the email list in the next year. Nicki does a fantastic job with her creative
layouts of the newsletters.
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Educational Workshops – As noted above, we organized two workshops in November presented by Maedi and each was
attended by 10 parents and professionals.
Nathan Hall Library – Our catalog of available books, tapes, etc. is listed on our website using the computer program, Library
World. This year we received six boxes of books that are still be catalogued and will soon be on the website.
Parent to Parent Matching – We matched up six parents at least this year, plus a number of informal type of connections.
Respite Child Care Program – With only limited funds (a $5,000 grant from the HOPE Foundation and $1,000 from the
Hanover Rotary Club), Pam was still able to provide respite support money to a total of 7 families – including 16 children
and 11 adults. A total 390 hours of care were funded, with 2 families able to make some contribution to the total cost. This
service provides valuable time to “take a break” from the 24/7 responsibilities of caring for a child with a special need. With
other respite-providing agencies facing financial cutbacks, our program is more and more important. We continue to seek for
additional funding sources for this program.
Enhanced Family Support – This unique service provides a Board Certified Behavioral Analyst to families who have a child
recently diagnosed with autism, or dealing with a developmental or behavioral crisis – for 10 to 12 hours of consultation and
education - to get the family going on the journey of dealing with this challenging condition. We contract with S.D. Associates
for this service. This year 4 families have been worked with and 7 referrals are in process.
Website and Facebook – Nicki does a fabulous job keeping our site and Facebook up to date and looking good and adding
informational links on a regular basis. She worked withChisel and Brand staff, who created the website for us, in an annual
update.
Photos of ART LAB Participants
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Community Partners (CP) - Programs primarily for children,
Teens, younger and older adults with special needs
Happenings – One of our favorite and much anticipated programs serves older teens and adults
with any kind of special need with a monthly social/recreational activity, including 3 dances,
Pizza & Bingo nights, picnic, apple picking, etc. This year total attendance at 11 events was 653
(duplicated) involving 109 client participants in 107 families.
ART LAB – One of our most special programs and especially loved by the staff at AVA Gallery
where the 42 weeks art classes are held. Led at the beginning of the year by Lynn VanNatta, art
educator who retired to full time art work herself in the fall, we welcomed back Murray Ngoima,
our original educator. Assisted ably by founder and parent, Sylvia Dow, 45 adults participated
in most of the four terms this year. Volunteers – Bryan Upton, Anne Webster-Grant, and Josh
Yunger – were integral to the success of the class. We had another art display this year of 40+ pieces
at DHMC. Some of the art works were also displayed during the Delicious Art fundraiser held at
Pam Blair, Programs Coordinator AVA in November.
Connections – Our Big Sibling program that matches Dartmouth College volunteers with kids having a special need for weekly
contacts made 12 connections this year, with one other request pending. At the end of the academic year, 5 of these matches
ended due to the graduation of the Dartmouth student, and one of them will be re-matched next year.
ASPIRE (Assisting Special People thru Integration, Recreation and Education) - These three playgroups for kids on the autism
spectrum are organized and led by Dartmouth College students and meet weekly during the college terms. At least 25 volunteers
rotate their assistance to the younger group that was attended by 10 kids and 2 sibs, the older group that was attended by 6 kids
and 3 siblings, and a swim group held at the Upper Valley Aquatics Center that was attended by 5 kids and 2 siblings. SNSC
provided a Consulting Coordinator, Anna Dulac to the group for training, consultation, and activities resources.
STAR (Steps Toward Adult Responsibility) – This small but extremely valuable program provides monthly meetings for teens
with a chronic health condition to meet with Dartmouth College students who are also dealing with a chronic health condition
- for supper and discussion group led by Pam and a D.C. student. Parents also attend the supper and then meet in their own
support group led by Philip. The teens and mentors also meet once a term on their own to attend a college sport event or
similar activity. A special and important aspect of STAR this year was the significant bonding the mentors did this year among
themselves that provided their own support group network. Six teens, 8 parents, and 17 mentors participated this year.
Education Classes – We offered three classes again this year, with Gloria Murray leading two on “American History Made Easy”
and the annual cooking class held at the UV Senior Center led by Sylvia Dow on “Healthy Twist on Casseroles” and ably assisted
by Tim Rockwood, a parent of a student. The three classes had a total of 23 students with 16 of them unduplicated.
Photos From Our Annual Happenings Cookout
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2014-2015 Grants and Contracts
The Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation
Kettering Family Foundation
The Lane and Elizabeth C. Dwinell Charitable Trust
Cogswell Foundation
Ledyard Bank
HOPE Foundation
Couch Family Foundation
Claremont Savings Bank
Hanover Rotary Club
Granite United Way
PathWays of the River Valley
John M. Shapiro Charitable Trust
A Very Special Thank You To Our Leadership Circle of Donors!
These donors have either donated $500 or more or have increased their donation by $200 or more
Jim and Brooke Adler
Barbara Hall
Susan Williamson
Anonymous (6)
David and Joanne Harris
Vince and Lucia Mennona
Pete and Ruth Bleyler
Charlotte Harris
James and Tanya Callan
Ann Bracken
Kevin and Punam Keller
Meg and Bruce Seely
Jean-Anne Brown
Father Francis Belanger, OP
Adam Cole
Jo-Anne Unruh and Ken
Kramburg
Hans Copeland
Bill and Geraldine North
Tracy and Zane Rodriguez
Mary Cunningham
Marilyn Paganucci
Rick Elsner
Tricia Lanter-Dufty and Kirk
Dufty
Roger Phillips and Robin
Cushman Phillips
Barbara and Jack van Hoff
Philip and Janet Eller
Rick and Linda Roesch
Bob and Joyce Fieldsteel
Jim Rose
Wayne Griffin
Lori and Mike Shipulski
Michael Guay
Peter and Jill White
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Win Piper
Neal Corbett
Kelly McCarthy
Elizabeth Masure
Lauren and Don Sharkey
Thanks to the 289 People Who Contributed To The 2014-2015 AGC
If we missed your name, please let us know. We want to honor all donors unless you’ve requested to remain anonymous.
Tony and Barbara Abbate
Jim and Brooke Adler
Susan Almy
Anonymous (30)
Pat Appleton
Maren Ardell
Peter Armstrong
Larry and Jane Armstrong
Winslow and Nancy Arnold
Julie Arnold
Kenneth Baker
Bronwen and Bob Ballou
Stephen Bartels and
Elizabeth Tomlinson
Bob Bauman
Mark and Amy Belaire
Father Francis Belanger, OP
Clif Below
Sue and Jim Berg
James and Judith Bernat
Janet Bernier
Pete and Ruth Bleyler
Brooke Blicher
Tom Blinkhorn
Put and Marion Blodgett
Karin Bonnett
Paul and Karen Boucher
Robert Boyes
Bill and Susan Boyle
Virginia Brack and Clay
Block
Ann Bracken
Marilyn and Jerry Bracken
Dan Brand
Patricia Briggs and Sekhar
Ramanathan
Sharon and Matthew Brown
Jean-Anne Brown
Barbara Brown
Ann Bunnell
James and Tanya Callan
Deb Cantlin
Samuel Casella and Danielle
Basta
Jon and Katy Chaffee
Joe and Amy Cheevers
Ann Christiano
David and Ann Cioffi
Ray and Tina Clark
Marion and Delbert Cloud
Adam Cole
John and Leslie Connolly
Hans Copeland
Neal Corbett
Elizabeth Coulter
Mary Cunningham
Karen Currier Shepard
Cindy Dale and Alice
Murphy
Norman and Susan Dame
Larry and Beth Danyluk
Robert and Mary Ann
Darnall
Emily Davis
Robert and Susan Deluca
Adina and George
Desaulniers
Allen Dietrich and Ardis
Olson
Bobbye and Paul Donohue
Rodney and Carol Dubois
Patricia Eckels
Emily and David Eckels
Kirsten Elin
Philip and Janet Eller
Jeff and Sally Elsner
Rick Elsner
John Engelman
Charles and Charlotte
Faulkner
Mike and Sue Ferrick
Bob and Joyce Fieldsteel
David and Barbara Fittro
Sheila and John Fleming
Cheryl and Tom Foote
Deb Ford
Carolyn and Milton Frye
Stephen Fucini
Jessica and Chris Gilbert
John and Catherine Girard
Amanda Gleason
Paul Glover
Michelle and Steve
Goldsmith
Dennis and Laura Beth
Goodman
Gail and David Goodness
Bill and Joan Grant
Alan and Frances Green
Glen and Christine
Greenough
Wayne Griffin
James and Debbie Griffiths
Clark and Happy Griffiths
Bobbi Gross
David and Agnes Guay
Michael Guay
Pete and Diane Guay
Barbara Hall
Charlotte Harris
David Harris and Joanne
Blais
Constance Helfat
Dave Herrell
David and Kate Hewitt
Elizabeth Hoffman
Roberta and Jeff Hollinger
Jack Hoopes
Marjorie Hudgens
Peter Isquith
Jim and Ann James
Ron and Pam Jaynes
Christian and Margaret
Jernstedt
Jim Jerry
David and Marilyn Johnson
Stuart and Penny Johnson
Jennifer Johnson
Stephen and Amy Jurewicz
Dick and Ann Justice
Gene Kadish and Karen
Fryer
Jeff and Rachel Kahn
Dennis and Sue Kaufman
Denis Kelemen and Joanne
Foulk
Kevin and Punam Keller
Robert Kerin-Herrick
Robert and Carrie Kibbie
Paul and Joyce Killebrew
Bruce and Mary King
Frank Klymn
Roy and Ellen Knights
Mark Knott and Rachel
Hochman
Debra Kraemer and Robert
Walker
Angela Krapovicky and Lisa
and Quinn Chartier
Toni LaMonica and Larry
Young
Patricia Lanter-Dufty and
Kirk Dufty
Philip Lapp
John and Sheila Larsson
Maria Laskaris
Anthea Lavallee
Barbara and Joel Lazar
George and Carol Little
Susan Lloyd
Edith Loeb
Steve and Margot Maddock
David and Ann Malenka
Carolyn Maloney
Kathy Marshall
Peter and Lu Martin
Jim and Pat Martin
Peter Mason and Laurie
Harding
Lee and Linda Masten
Elizabeth Masure
Barbara McCarthy
Kelly McCarthy
Audrey McCollum
ElizabethMcCormack
Scott and Catherine McGee
James McGlinn
Phyllis and Timothy
McKenna
Ann McKinney
Jayne McLaughlin
Bruce McLaughry
Erin McNeely
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Hugh and Barbara Mellert
Ron and Jenny Menning
Vince and Lucia Mennona
Mary Lou and Vincent
Mennona
Peg and Ed Merrens
Debra Merone and Ed
Patriquin
David Millstone and
Sheila Moran
Lianne Moccia and Allyn
Field
David and Joyce Milne
Bill and Maggie
Montgomery
Susan Mooney
Mike and Carol Moriarity
Winifred Morrissey
Rita Murdoch
Jim and Wendy Murphy
Henry and Amy Nachman
Donald Neely
Julia and Jeff Neily
Dick and Sharon Nordgren
Bill and Geraldine North
Helen and Emmett Norton
Karalyn Obey
Ernst and Linda Oidtmann
David and Mary Otto
Marilyn Paganucci
Chad Pasho
Beth Pastor
Barbara and Henry Payson
Don and Abbie Penfield
Sue Perry
Robert Phillips, DMD and
Robin Cushman Phillips
Bill and Liz Pierce
Win Piper
Robert and Sharon Racusin
Jennifer and John Randolph
Athos Rassias and Marcia
Procopio
Ann Raynolds
Mark and Laurie Reed
John Reese
Timothy and Karen
Reynolds
Margaret and Matt
Rightmire
Joanne and Frank Roberts
Walter Rockwood
Tracy and Zane Rodriguez
Rick and Linda Roesch
Jim Rose
Andy and Cynthia Roth
Alan Rozycki and Diane
Kittredge
Paul and Sue Rump
Fred and Mary Ann
Salvatoriello
John and Karen Sanders
Carl Sandin
John and Jill Schiffman
Ben Schore
Meg and Bruce Seely
Anne Segal
Lauren and Don Sharkey
Bernice Shaw
Patti Shaw
Jim and Patti Shaw
Pam and Robert Sherman
Lori and Mike Shipulski
Michael and Marion
Simpson
Nancy Smith
Kate Soule
Sherry Sousa
Patricia and Thomas Spencer
Orson St. John, Jr.
David Stiger
Marybeth and Phillip
Stocken
Tom and Sally Stone
Skip and Marilyn Sturman
Robert and Maryellen
Sullivan
Cindy and Pete Swart
Thomas and Nancy Tantillo
Sheila Tanzer
David and Mark Taraboulos
Toni and Andy Taylor
Martha and Mark Tecca
Joel Teenyanoff and Jill
Glassmith
Jean and Chuck Townsend
Nancee Tracy
Michael and Joanne Truell
John Trummel and Arifa
Toor
Jo-Anne Unruh and Kenneth
Kramburg
Mark and Susan Valence
Miriam Voran and Andrew
Faunce
Timothy and Susan Wagg
Michael Wagner and Laura
Rice
Carol Weingeist
Kathy Westwood
Bob Wetzel
Huntley and Lynne Whitacre
Peter and Jill White
Susan Williamson
Martin and Yolanda Witschi
Jim and Susan Wright
Bill and Sarah Young
Art and Jeanne Young
Mary Ella and Paul Zietz
Financial Information
SNSC Pyramid of Giving
2015 Annual Giving Campaign
Financial Summary July 1, 2014-June 30, 2015
REVENUE
Local/State Contracts
AGC
Special Events Corporate Foundations
Granite United Way
Program Income, etc.
Other
TOTAL REVENUE
$15,000
$54,404
$17,695
$808
$64,500
$13,250
$9,660
$2,271
$177,548
EXPENSES
Staff Expenses
Professional Services/Contractors
Occupancy
Office Expenses/ Staff Support
Program Expenses
TOTAL EXPENSES
$109,284
$17,616
$15,742
$22,182
$28,604
$193,428
Total # of givers - 289
Cash on hand 7/1/14
$65,548
14-15 Corporate Donors
Gallagher, Flynn & Co.
Shaker Hill Bed & Breakfast
Black Diamond General Contracting
Granite Value Capital, LLC
The Carriage House
Cole Electric, Inc.
Griffin Electric, Inc.
The Help for People Foundation
Deer Creek Psychological Associates
HDR Architecture, Inc.
The Helping Hands/St. Denis Rectory
Delta Dental
Lang McLaughry Real Estate
Timken Aerospace
Engelberth Construction, Inc.
Mascoma Dental Associates LLC
TomTom
Evergreen Capital Partners, LLC
14-15 Corporate Co-Sponsors
MG Electric LLC
Gernard Associates
Upper Valley Endodontics
RedRock Farm
AVA Gallery and Art Center
Good News Training
Rockwood Agency
Goodwin Groundskeeping
Rockwood Land Services
Goodwin Properties
Systems Plus
Indeco, North America
The Frazer Agency
Family Pharmacy
Lake Sunapee Bank, FSB
Tyler, Simms, & St. Sauvuer
Farnsworth Surveys
Special Event Supporters
Ledyard National Bank
Eastman Community Center
Vanessa Stone Real Estate
Rum Brook Market
(In-Kind and Product Donations)
ForeUGolf Center
S.G. Jewelry Design
Blue Sky Restaurant Group/Jesse’s
Co-op Food Stores
Crown Point Country Club
Eastern Mountain Sports
Golf & Ski Warehouse
Von Bargen’s
Mascoma Savings Bank
VT Farmstead Cheese Company
Country Real Estate
Dutille’s Jewelry
My Brigadeiro, LLC
& Castleton Crackers
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Woodstock Inn & Resort
River Valley Club
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A Look Ahead to 2016 Fiscal Year
Next year is expected to hold significant challenges and changes for SNSC. In its first 35 years SNSC has had only four
Executive Directors, the present one since 2006. Philip will be retiring from this full time job toward the end of this year and
the hunt for a suitable replacement will occupy a lot of time and effort by the Board of Directors and staff. The Board is working
diligently on this task having already created a Strategic Planning Committee to update the strategic plan made in 2013 – that
will include this task. A new Executive Director job description has been written - that will incorporate many of the duties of
Shelley Geoghegan’s Fundraising Manager position of the past two years. With this tentative plan made it was decided to end
Shelley’s official position on June 30, 2015. We will miss her hard work, expertise, dedication to SNSC, and her team work
efforts – Best wishes Shelley in your future professional endeavors. We enjoyed working with you.
The Board is developing time lines for recruiting a new Executive Director and planning for an appropriate overlap
of time for the challenging transition; discussing new responsibilities for Pam and Nicki; and the ways for re-allocating the
significant Educational Advocacy duties – including the possible need for a part time person to cover at least part of this
important SNSC service. The SNSC family will be kept informed of all these plans in the quarterly newsletters and other means
of communication.
One new program will be started in the fall 2015 – a social thinking group (yet to be named) for junior high aged youth
with higher functioning autism conditions. The group will meet bi-weekly and be led by Deb Campbell, a speech pathologist
with years of experience using the Social Thinking curriculum created by Michelle Garcia Winner, the ‘best practices’ approach
to assist these students with the challenging social issues of young adolescence. This group will address a long recognized
program gap for this population.
In the fall SNSC will be hosting a Dartmouth College psychology practicum student, Christian Ledesma, who will be
introduced to our unique services by observing a number of our programs and activities, and will especially focus as an assistant
in the Social Thinking group.
Finally, we will be working closely with the new Spark! Community Center to appropriately coordinate some of our
two programs and activities and possibly passing the torch in some of the Educational Class work. Pam will be leading this
effort and in collaboration with the new Special Needs Coalition.
So – FY’16 will be a time of change and challenge for SNSC. We request support from all our SNSC family and
welcome your input, ideas, and commitment during this year of transition to a renewed and revised SNSC.
We look forward to carrying on the SNSC legacy in the 2016 fiscal year!
2016 Board Of Directors
Barbara van Hoff, President
Nancy Barrington, Treasurer
Vince Mennona, Vice President
Ann Bracken
Jo-Anne Unruh, Secretary
Anthea Lavallee
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Kate Medeiros
Risa Mornis
Meg Seely
Sherry Sousa