2016 Q1 Report - Stoller Foundation

Report for the
Board of Trustees
Quarter 1, 2016
Nabor House Community
Quality Early Childhood Education for Low-Income Children and Families
Grant: Operational and program funds, based on
monthly budgetary needs, Feb - Dec 2016.
Grant Goals Achieved This Cycle (Jan - March
2016):
ELEVATE - quality affordable childcare is provided
for children and families so parents can work or go to
school. The first SLAM event was held and every family
went home with a science kit that supports Science,
Literacy, Arts, and Math learning at home. Enrollment
is less than 90% because we are not replacing students
as they leave Harvest Bend in preparation of the move
to St. Thomas.
EDUCATE - children are engaged in hands on learning
provided by Innovations, High Scope and SET for
Life curriculum. Assessments will be performed in
May with comparative data analyzed for growth and
development in children.
At a Glance:
Volunteers:
283
Repeat Volunteers:
27 individuals,
several groups (First
Baptist Academy,
YES Prep, Fort Bend
Christian Academy)
MOTIVATE - Teachers are proceeding through the
Innovations modules by completing two a month.
An in-service day was held in the first quarter and
all employees received 8 of the 24 required training
hours. Thirteen teachers are completing the CDA and
preparing to apply for a scholarship.
A Life Impacted:
“Tawanna loves working for Nabor House Commmunity. She
has dreams and goals and is working hard to fullfill them and
reach them. She called her old college the other day to see what
outstanding debts she had and what needed to be done so that
she could sign up for classes to begin completing her B.A. She
hopes to complete her degree, get her director’s certificate, and
be ready for whenever Nabor House opens a third location. She
loves working with the infants, but told our Harvest Bend director
recently that when she does their lesson plans,she thinks about
how they would work for older groups. She is planning for her
future and the future of her family and wants to follow the path
that she believes our Lord has planned for her. “
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Volunteer Hours:
1,724
Beneficiaries:
117 families
144 students
On this page: photos
from a student volunteer
day at an NHC center
Grant Goals in Progress:
All goals are operational goals and activities that
NHC continues to set as a priority and achieve.
How the Stoller Foundation Helped:
The foundation provided funding, office space,
meeting space, office support, accounting
support, and communications support. Nabor
House Community’s objective is to invest in the
growth and development of low income children
and families by providing quality affordable early
childhood centers in a Christian environment so
parents can work or go to school. This elevates
low-income families with a path out of poverty,
educates young children in developmentally
appropriate ways, and motivates entry level early
childhood employees to provide high quality
environments for students while furthering their
professional development.
More Lives Impacted:
“For many years Ms. Jimenez worked at the
Family Thrift across the street from NHC. She is
a single mother with a daughter named Desley
that is currently a preschooler at Nabor House.
Recently, Ms. Jimenez found a better job at a
resturant where she met her future husband,
David. Before meeting David, there were many
mornings that Desley would come in tired and
would fall asleep as soon as she entered the
classroom. But now, the Faith Center staff has
observed how happy and well rested Desley has
become with a new dad in her life. Desley talks
about David all the time in class. We’re thrilled
to see how a single mother of one, was able to
find true love, and a better family life while at
Nabor House Community. We are grateful to be
a part of the Jimenez family’s journey.”
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All Nations Sports Academy
Transforming and Empowering Youth and Their Families of All Nations Through Soccer.
Grant: $460,000, July 2015 - June 2016
Grant Goals Achieved This Cycle (Jan - March
2016):
ANSA continues to hold weekly training sessions
and soccer matches, share the Gospel through the
Ubabalo sports discipleship curriculum, and train and
develop a sustainable volunteer base.
Grant Goals in Progress:
*Board orientation/training -- We have established a
board policy manual and have increased our board by
one member. Thus, the more appropriate term here
would be “board development.”
At a Glance:
Volunteers:
79
Repeat Volunteers:
How the Stoller Foundation Helped:
ANSA continues to seek out strategic community
partnerships that allow us to enter into the most
needy communities to fulfill our mission. This
quarter we have also begun focusing on fundraising
in order to be sustainable in the long-term. The
Foundation has helped significantly by providing
excellent facilities for office space and meetings,
which has enabled us to host development
committee and other important meetings on-site.
This aids in establishing a professional image.
A Life Impacted:
“Nancy is a single mom from Honduras, who separated
from an abusive husband, and who has two sons currently
playing with ANSA. The boys started playing this semester,
and she is so happy. One of her sons used to often get in
trouble at school and since coming to ANSA, she has seen
much improvement.”
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41
Volunteer Hours:
1011
Beneficiaries:
430
On this page:
ANSA players in action
A Life Impacted:
“At one of our sites where we
serve mainly immigrant and
refugee children, the kids had
Good Friday off from school,
but they didn’t know why. This
provided a perfect opportunity
for our ANSA coaches to share
about why Good Friday and
Easter are celebrated. One
young player, Aung Aung, then
shared this with his friends in his
neighborhood.”
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SpringSpirit Soccer Program
A Strategic Soccer Partnership with All Nations Sports Academy
Grant: $63,650, Dec. 2015 - August 2016
Grant Goals Achieved This Cycle (Jan - March
2016):
We are currently operating at 4 schools and the B&G
Club as planned. We are also working with ANSA
per the governance guidelines that were outlined.
All participants take part in devotionals/UBABALO
curriculum based on location and during all ANSA
tournaments.
Grant Goals in Progress:
We are adding participants to our program as other
programs end at the B&G Club. We will reach the
250 participant goal. We lost quite a few participants
from the fall to other programs/sports and are
implementing a recruiting strategy to pull additional
participants into the ANSA league. We are also
planning our summer program.
At a Glance:
Volunteers:
22
Repeat Volunteers:
3
Volunteer Hours:
How the Stoller Foundation Helped:
We continue to work with ANSA to develop a
consistently good experience for the participants
so they will want to return. We are also developing
a competitive offering with ANSA so that players
will have more options for development. The
Foundation’s financial support is the reason we are
able to provide programming for these participants.
A Life Impacted:
Angeles Mendez, mother of Victor Velasquez, operates a
small business that did not allow her to spend much time
with her son in the sport that he loves. She is greatly appreciative of the staff of SpringSpirit for giving her son the
opportunity to be engaged in a soccer offering in a fun and
safe environment. Seeing the impact that soccer has had in
her sons life, Mrs. Mendez now makes it a priority to arrange
her weekend work schedule around Victor’s soccer activities
to be able to watch her son play.
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131.5
Beneficiaries:
244
On this page: photos from
SpringSpirit games and a Dynamo trip
A Life Impacted:
Eder Serrano was a shy
soccer player who did
not mingle with other
participants. Since joining
our soccer program, Eder
has built social skills that
has helped him make new
friends and he is becoming
more actively involved in
team decision making.
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Serve Houston
Connecting Skilled Volunteers with Difference-Making Nonprofits in Greater Houston
Grant: $282,000, July 2015 - June 2016
Grant Goals Achieved This Cycle (Jan - March
2016):
Developed a fundraising sustainability plan in
regards to fundraisers, individual donors, grants,
merchandise sales, created 3 capacity building tools.
Grant Goals in Progress:
We are finalizing details on a strategy to provide
Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR] opportunities
to corporations, to aid with our sustanability. Also,
we are continuing to work on a strategic plan that
outlines 5 year goals.
Lessons Learned:
The format for monthly gatherings changed in late
2015. We host individual meetings, group skills
deck meetings, speed dating for non-profits with
volunteers and non-profit essentials workshops.
These have all proved to be more efficient and
productive.
At a Glance:
Volunteers:
92
Repeat Volunteers:
16
Volunteer Hours:
379.2
Beneficiaries:
12 non-profits and
their beneficiaries
How the Stoller Foundation Helped:
This quarter, our objectives changed slightly
and the foundation staff was instrumental in
helping us review these changes and encourage
implementation. Our goal is to be the best volunteer
mobilization organization in Houston and we are increasingly improving. The corporate
strategy piece has been the most difficult but the foundation staff has helped develop that
framework.
A Life Impacted:
“The Serve Houston Social Media Workshop was
fantastic! Not only did we learn how to post timely,
relevant, and creative content- we went a step further
and learned how to present our ministry in a distinctive
voice that caters to the culture and message of our
mission!”
- Danielle Trent, Volunteer Coordinator, Mission of
Yahweh.
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-Serve Houston Social Media Workshop
participants, posing for an after-session gag photo.
A Life Impacted:
“Our work with Joy is enabling us to
communicate and structure both highlevel and detailed processes for the entire
Client Services Department at The Source
for Women. Her expertise, professionalism,
heart and tenacity to serve the Life cause
are deeply appreciated, and the project
we are on will have great impact on our
organization. She’s such a gift!!! Bravo and
thank you, Serve Houston. Joy Jarrell’s
service to The Source is a testament to the
high-caliber volunteers you provide to
support real community change.”
- Tiffany Pardue, Creative Director, The
Source for Women.
-Joy Jarrell,
Serve Houston Volunteer
(mentioned above)
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Eyes on Me, Inc.
Urban Hip-Hop Ministries Focused on Reproducible Discipleship
Grant: $302,000, December 2015 - November 2016
Grant Goals Achieved This Cycle (Jan - March
2016):
• Launched one new Hip Hop Hope location
• Launched two Out Tha Box Church sites
• Hired two part-time Coordinators
• Hired two part-time community leaders
• Hired director for Disciple The Streets program
• Increased Vol. coordinator to full-time status
• Trained 234 in Discipleship process
• 776 attending body of Christ gatherings
• 138 Professions of faith
• 49 Baptisms
Grant Goals in Progress:
Eyes on Me is working to train 20 at-risk students in
discipleship principles. They plan to achieve this by
gathering their core students and doing a workshop
where they will have one-on-one training, then have
the opportunity to apply it.
A Life Impacted:
“Anastasia Edwards, an at-risk Brookshire
TX teen, has been attending Hip Hop Hope
and Out Tha Box Church faithfully for more
than a year. She decided to make known
her public profession of faith in Jesus
Christ through baptism. Her friend Dakota
joined her, and we are proud of these
teens for stepping out and into the body of
Christ!”
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At a Glance:
Volunteers:
1,101
Repeat Volunteers:
598
Volunteer Hours:
2,650
Beneficiaries:
3,933
One of Eyes on Me’s
events, from earlier this year
How the Stoller Foundation Helped:
“We’ve planted three new churches this
period that are meeting with the people we
disciple on a weekly basis. We’ve launched
two new Hip Hop Hope outreach locations.
Neither of these things could be possible
without our staff intentionally measuring
results and implementing new strategies. The
Stoller grant allowed us the staff necessary to
take on more responsibility and in turn grow
our capacity.”
A Life Impacted:
“Our Disciple The
Streets Director,
PyRexx, led Mathew
Whitfield to Christ
while in the Harris
County jail in January.
Upon his release,
Matthew immediately
plugged into the
ministry and is now
discipling the streets
with Eyes on Me. He
lives with PyRexx
while in transition”
A recent horse-trough
baptism; one of EoM’s
signature program elements
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LifeTree Ministries
Apartment Ministry to Bhutanese (and Other International) Refugees
Grant: $40,000, June 2015 - June 2016
Grant Goals Achieved This Cycle (Jan March 2016):
•The message of salvation has been given in
all programs.
•23 new volunteers were recruited.
•A volunteer training was provided in the first
quarter of 2016.
•Burmese Baptist Church participates in the
LTM.
•More than 50% of children participating in
LTM activities have been retained across all
after-school programs.
At a Glance:
Volunteers:
48
Repeat Volunteers:
Grant Goals in Progress:
•Two more churches will be contacted for
participation in LTM.
•We will continue to tell our clients’ neighbors
Bible messages and encourage them to go to
church.
All goals will be attained by June 14, 2016.
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Volunteer Hours:
1,004
Beneficiaries:
141
How the Stoller Foundation Helped:
“God calls us to serve others. All this is God’s
work; glory to God. We diligently pray for His
guidance and minister these refugee people
through educational program. The Foundation’s financial support helps us carry out this
important mission. Your continued prayer and support is greatly appreciated.”
A Life Impacted:
“We had our first parent/teacher meeting. Several
parents showed a lot of interest and told us that their
children benefit from the LTM ministry. We helped
them understand what their children may go through
in school and how the parents can provide moral and
spiritual support.”
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Here and below:
LifeTree programming in action
Lives Impacted:
“We issued the first LTM
newsletter. It states
the purpose of our
ministry and describes
activities of the
ministry. We distributed
the newsletter to
LTM volunteers and
financial sponsors.
Through the newsletter,
we will keep all LTM
friends posted of
our progress and
encourage their
continued support.”
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Portal Houston
Biblical Reentry Coaching and Mentoring for Recently-Incarcerated Women
Grant: $30,000, June 2015 - June 2016
Grant Goals Achieved This Cycle (Jan - March 2016):
•The training manual and online supportive services
for coaches has been completed. We have mobilized
155 volunteers over the entire grant period (June 2015 present), exceeding our expectations.
•Two community engagement events have been held,
as budgeted. Working relationships with community
partners have been established through these meetings,
increasing our capacity to provide services to participants
in our program.
•The Resource Data Base (a tool to help volunteer coaches
support women returning home from prison) is underway
and will be completed this quarter.
•As discussed, some of the budget for the above category
has been shifted to the building of an updated website,
which will help to tell our story to the public.
At a Glance:
Volunteers:
53
Repeat Volunteers:
11
Volunteer Hours:
269.5
Grant Goals in Progress:
Beneficiaries:
•Although we have ministered to over 2,000 in prisons,
and mobilized a total of 155 volunteers this year, the
Reentry Initiative has not reached its ambitious goals of
100 women with coaches in the communities. At this
point, we have had 31 in pre-release reentry programs
with coaches, and have 12 who have been released with
coaches continuing their discipleship and helping them
navigate reentry. A total of 39 coaches have been trained, but not all are yet mobilized. We
are planning an event that will bring all the coaches together with the women who have been
released. Each of the coaches will bring at least one friend who is interested in becoming
a coach. The over 100 volunteers who participate in church services in prisons will also be
invited. This will occur in Aug. before our next Reentry Coach Training as an aggressive
recruitment event. The Event is called “Welcome Home”, and will include women making
welcome home baskets of needed items for the women who are being released.
•The tracking system is still underway. The designated computer
and software has been purchased. We are not yet operating at
a capacity that makes this crucial, but we are projecting growth
that will require automated evaluation. The Director has tracked
the following outcomes for the 12 participants in Post-Release
Coaching: Safe Housing-11, Employed-10, Church Home - 11,
Substance Use Total Abstinence-10, Continuing Education-2.
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Portal Houston Executive Director
Rhonda Arias (second from left) and associates.
Lessons Learned:
The main thing Portal Houston would have done differently would be to project different
outcomes until more funding was procured. Our organization is presently operating at capacity,
given our funding level. Additional volunteers will expand our capacity to serve more women.
Until funds are raised to increase administrative capacity, we are limited in the increase of
number of women and families we can serve. We have trained re-entry coaches now that cannot
be mobilized because of administrative limitations. We are in need of an office from which to
operate, and an administrative assistant to the Director. Current funding projects are underway
to increase our capacity. They include:
• An RFP will be submitted next week for a community development grant that will help fund
the cost of our Welcome Home Event this summer.
• Our board is planning a donor appreciation banquet, and an RFP will be submitted in the
second quarter to an additional foundation with whom we are ideologically aligned.
• We would like to request an additional $30,000 from the Stoller Foundation for the next grant
period (see below).
How the Stoller Foundation Helped:
“We have mobilized more volunteers than expected. Reentry coaches are recruited from this
volunteer base. We have trained 39 Reentry Coaches, but not all are mobilized. Once the women
are released into the community, our administrative expenses per participant increases.
Monthly income, not counting Stoller funds, has increased by 54% over QTR 1 2015 figures.
We also received a smaller grant from the Covenant Foundation this year. We believe that the
funds we’ve received from the Stoller Foundation have allowed us to become more visible and
consistent in accomplishing our mission. This, in turn, has helped to strengthen our donor base
through additional individual giving.
By working with the women pre-release, we are doing something that no one has ever
done before. We are bridging the gap between salvation in the prison and discipleship in the
community. I now know more about what is required in terms of finances and volunteer
commitment. I believe in a volunteer-driven organization, because the desire to serve
exemplifies the Christian life. Case management in the community makes the volunteers’ jobs
of befriending and discipleing women manageable. I need a part-time administrative assistant
to help build my capacity to do this. We need a work space where returning citizens in our
program can come for follow-up services. As soon as I know that I have funding for an assistant,
I can pursue a shared workspace with any number of community partners.”
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Casa El Buen Samaritano
Free Clinically-Based Health Services and Evangelism for the Uninsured and Underresourced
Grant: $28,000, June 2015 - May 2016
Grant Goals Achieved This Cycle (Jan - March
2016):
• For the first quarter of 2016 we attended several
events to help recruit new providers to expand
capacity and replace providers that have taken
time off for professional or personal reasons. To
increase our capacity we reached 193+ people
as potential clinical, ministry and childcare
volunteers through marketing and outreach
events.
• Additionally, a full-time clinic manager
and physician’s assistant, Joy Vonk, started
in January. Joy splits her time between
administrative duties for the clinic and seeing
patients during clinic hours.
• Since January 2016, we have processed 17 new
clinical and interpreter volunteers who will now
be available to help meet Casa’s scheduling
needs.
At a Glance:
Volunteers:
262
Repeat Volunteers:
Grant Goals in Progress:
Casa continues to work toward increasing
Total Patient Visits and New Patient Visits. The
projections that were made almost a year ago were
very ambitious. As Casa progress through this
growth year, we learn more and more about our
capacity and strategies for engaging patients and
families.
A Life Impacted:
Sandra, a patient and ESL class member, lives across the
street from the clinic. One month last fall she needed food
for her family. We were able to supply her and her children
with two boxes of food. In the spring, this relationship led
to her involvement in a parenting Sunday school class
at Iglesia Bautista Horeb, one of Casa’s partner churches,
where Sandra is now learning through a Christ-centered
focus to be a better parent to her teenage daughter and
special-needs toddler.
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Volunteer Hours:
793.25
Beneficiaries:
508
Sandra (far right) and her family (see
“A Life Impacted” on previous page) at Casa.
Grant Goals in Progress (continued):
Since Casa relies heavily on volunteer support, one key has been increasing the number
of health care professionals and bilingual volunteers able and willing to serve. In 2015,
Casa launched two initiatives that have borne fruit in this quarter. First, Casa attended a
global medical missions conference in February 2016, which introduced Casa to a host
of potential volunteers interested in serving in Houston (over 50 attendees expressed
interest in touring Casa and some have already begun to serve as volunteers). Casa also
launched a program to partner with local area churches interested in organizing and
sponsoring teams of volunteers to serve together at Casa. We recently met with two
such churches to discuss what we could do to make that happen. Adding new teams of
volunteers will go a long way to enabling Casa to meet its total patient and new patient
goals.
Lessons Learned:
Casa has made substantial progress toward meeting its total patient and new patient
goals which, in turn, affects its ability to meet its spiritual goals. However, Casa does not
know whether it will achieve the growth it projected before the agreement concludes.
In retrospect, Casa recognizes that its goals were overly ambitious. However, these
ambitious goals have been instrumental in motivating Casa’s volunteers and staff to do
what has been needed to achieve the progress it has already made over this past year.
Casa thanks the Stoller Foundation for the role it played in helping Casa identify and keep
focused on those goals.
How the Stoller Foundation Helped:
Due to the initiative discussed above and in prior reports, Casa’s total patient numbers
are growing. In addition, with more regular staff to support this growth, Casa’s medically
complex patients have enjoyed increased continuity of care and higher levels of patient
supervision. Volunteer healthcare professional education and engagement have also
improved. Accordingly, not only has this grant funding allowed Casa to increase
capacity, it has also enabled Casa to improve the quality of care it provides to both its new
and recurring patients.
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Summer Camp Grants
For the third year in a row, the Foundation is scholarshipping multiple
underpriviledged children to Christian summer camps, in partnership with multiple
churches and ministries. And for the first time, we’re supporting kids outside of the
Houston area. Read on for more:
Total grant amount: $247,710
Number of scholarships sponsored: 575
Returning Church/Ministry Partners (all from the Houston area):
• The FORGE for Families
• Fellowship of Christian Athletes of Greater Houston
• 20/20 Vision CDC
• 713 Community Service Organization • Agape Development • All Nations Sports Academy
• Carverdale Church of God in Christ
• C-Cubed, Inc.
• Cornerstone Family Ministries
• Cy-Hope
• Eyes on Me, Inc.
• Good Shepherd Baptist Church
• Hope for Youth
• Light of the World Christian Fellowship
• Mission Centers of Houston
• Mt. Moriah MBC
• SpringSpirit Baseball
• St. James MBC
• Yellowstone Academy
• Generation One
• Tallowood Baptist Church
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New Church/Ministry Partners:
• Woven Covenant Church (Katy, TX)
• LifeTree Ministries (Houston, TX)
• The Mentoring Alliance (Tyler, TX)
• Believe Church (Corpus Christi, TX)
• CrossBridge Fellowship (Corpus Christi, TX)
• Family First Church (Corpus Christi, TX)
• Waldron Road Baptist Church (Corpus Christi, TX)
• Young Life of San Antonio (San Antonio, TX)
• Boys and Girls Harbor (Houston, TX)
• Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church (Houston, TX)
• Letting Everyone Achieve Dreams/”L.E.A.D” (Houston,
TX)
• Mission Brenham (Brenham, TX)
Total Church Ministry Partners: 33
Camp Partners:
• Pine Cove Christian Camps: Recieved 23% of funds, 15%
of campers
• Stoney Creek Ranch: Recieved 49% of funds, 63% of
campers
• T Bar M Christian Camps: Recieved 7% of funds, 3% of
campers
• Still Water Sports Camps: Recieved 14% of funds, 11% of
campers
• Other (Denominational Camps, Camp Tallowood):
Recieved 7% of funds, 8% of campers
Comparisons with 2015 numbers: (2015 compared to
2016):
• Total Funding: $278,066 to $247,710
• Organizations: 26 to 33
• Scholarships: 674 to 575
Discipleship afterward: As per ususal, partner
organizations are required to track how they disciple their
students and maintain the spiritual momentum gained at
camp. In additional, all campers (and parents, if possible)
will be volunteering in service with their ministry or
church in return for camp attendance. We will provide
follow-up reports on both the volunteer service and
discipleship in the next quarter of this year.
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