Impact Report

Impact Report
Keeping middle grade students engaged,
on track and ready for success!
Creating Meaningful Impact
Spark re-engages underserved seventh and eighth grade students, keeping them on track and ready
for success in high school and beyond through workplace-based apprenticeships that uniquely
combine mentoring, project-based learning, skill building and career exploration.
Our Impact
93%
of Spark students score highly on measures of attitudes such as feeling that hard
work will make them more intelligent or school is important.
85%
of Spark students meet or exceed expectations in skills such as working in teams,
problem solving & communication.
73% of Spark students improve their engagement in the classroom, attendance or grades.
93% of Spark students finish the program on track for high school graduation.
92% of Spark students nationally have graduated or are on track to graduate on time.
Doubling Our Reach
Discovery Night
Due to the generous support of investors and multiyear funders such as The Lenfest Foundation, Spark
Discovery Night is Spark’s largest annual event in
which students and their mentors showcase their
unique career-discovery projects and celebrate the
culmination of the program year.
Philadelphia public schools, putting us on track to
double our number of students served in 2016.
Strategic Investments and Growth
and sustainability. Commitments by several multi-year funders are allowing Spark to make
strategic investments in growing corporate and individual funding streams.
Revenue
42% Increase
Fiscal Year 2016: Projected Revenue
Fiscal Year 2015: Total Revenue
$247,456
$423,000
Earned Income
Individual
$5,000
$21,000
Earned Income
Individual
$3,440
$30,589
62% will be
Direct Board
Giving
Corporate
30% was via
Direct Board
Giving
Corporate
$48,224
$90,000
Foundation
$307,000
$165,204
45% was
multiyear
commitments
Corporate Champions Program
with the goal of building Spark’s community of partners
that provide core program and operating support each year.
Corporate Champions invest mission-critical human capital
Foundation
60% is pledged
multiyear
funding
Penn and Lea:
Exemplifying the
Impact of Large-Scale Collaboration
Due to the strategic collaboration between Henry
C. Lea Elementary School and the University of
Pennsylvania, Spark is excited to expand services
volunteer with Spark are talented employees driven by
a sense of personal and professional advancement. This
propensity for high performance and giving back creates
powerful alignment and meaningful impact for Spark
students, mentors and Corporate Champions!
90% of mentors found that participating in Spark
challenged them and helped them learn new skills.
their Spark experience and would recommend mentoring.
capital investment, and to the Lea School and
“
Spark will teach you anything
you want to know!
”
- Fode, Spark student at Lea
Thank You Spark Donors!
Spark Philadelphia is supported by donations and driven by our volunteer mentors. We
year 2015. Thank you for investing in Spark and the students we serve!
Multi-year
Commitments
Accelerate Growth
$20,000+
$1,000-$4,999
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and
Allen Hilles Fund
Joseph Kennard Skilling Trust
Spark recently marked the
Southern New Jersey*
Patrick Assini
Karen and Jack Schroder
Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation*
Lindback Foundation
welcome support of six new
Amy Chen
McGrory Glass, Inc.
multi-year funders. Spark is
$10,000-$19,999
Cancer Treatment Centers of America
PREIT Charitable Trust
proud to receive this level of
Grace S. & W. Linton Nelson Foundation
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
SEER Interactive
consistent investment as a
Christopher Ludwick Foundation
Seybert Foundation
testament to the faith these
Samuel S. Fels Fund
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP
funders have in our mission
William M. King Charitable Foundation
Susan Taylor
and the value of our program.
Patricia Kind Family Foundation*
Duane Morris LLP
$5,000-$9,999
First Niagara Foundation
Aberdeen Charitable Foundation
Gensler
Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family
Foundation
$500-$999
Abraham El
Allen Hilles Fund
Patrick Assini
Knoll, Inc.
Amy Chen
Rick Martin
Hamilton Family Foundation
Henry E. Niles Foundation
Lumpkin Family Foundation
Pennoni
Spark students!
CFI
$1,000-$4,999
The Claneil Foundation*
Thank you for investing in
Reed Smith LLP
The Claneil Foundation
The Lenfest Foundation
Patricia Kind Family
Caesarstone USA
Roberta Petusky
Cancer Treatment Centers of America
Sean Sullivan
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
University City Science Center
United Way of Greater
Christopher Ludwick Foundation
Michael Zullo
Philadelphia and Southern
Remmel Foundation
Foundation
New Jersey
Scholler Foundation
Subaru of America Foundation
Western Association of Ladies for the
Relief & Employment
Duane Morris LLP
* multi-year donation
First Niagara Foundation
Gensler
of the Poor
Spark Philadelphia Board
Executive Board
Advisory Board
Jacquelyn Alber: Project Director,
GlaxoSmithKline
Michael Zullo, Chair: Partner, Duane Morris LLP
Abraham El
Amy Chen: Senior Market Director -
Valerie Eifert: Associate, Reed Smith LLP
Development, Cancer Treatment
Centers of America - Eastern Regional
Medical Center
Atul Deshmukh: Software Development Manager, Educational
Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
Sandra Hunt: Senior Manager, Wharton Social Impact
Ky’a Jackson: Project Manager, High Potential Talent
Development, Comcast University
Sara Rochette: Customer Success Manager, Workday
Relations, WHYY
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Virginia Cretella Mars
Foundation