Hartford Business Journal

www.HartfordBusiness.com • November 9, 2020 • GIVING GUIDE • Hartford Business Journal 31 ABOUT US Year established : 1903 Annual revenues (most recent fiscal year): $23,494,000 Total number of employees: 200 full time, 60 part time GEOGRAPHIC SERVICE AREA(S) State of Connecticut with concentration in Hartford, Tolland and Middlesex counties. GOALS • Continually improve service quality as we adapt to the effects of COVID-19. In our special education school, outpatient clinic, and community service programs, we seek to meet the needs of each child and family member. • Demonstrate and elevate our commitment to racial awareness and sensitivity. We continue to provide learning opportunities and additional communication to narrow the racial divide facing our country. • Closely evaluate the agency's financial health. Constant communication with foundations, sponsors, and donors is key to our ongoing financial health. The pandemic forced us to cancel our June fundraiser, causing a major hit to our income. For September we created a unique drive-thru Vintage Motorcar event. In 117 years Klingberg has faced world wars, pandemics, and economic crises. From the beginning, we have kept our eye on the goal: helping children and families. • Explore innovation and collaboration. Innovating to serve increased needs leads to new levels of service. Food instability has escalated during the pandemic. Those dependent on public assistance or who have lost work need help to feed their families. Klingberg joined with Foodshare to create the Klingberg Family Pantry, serving families right on our campus. We continuously seek opportunities to innovate and collaborate. How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted your organization? How have your organization's fundraising efforts, giving opportunities and volunteer opportunities changed as a result? With the pandemic shutdown, Klingberg experienced reduced income combined with increased expenses to continue to treat children and families who faced increasingly severe problems. We received emergency grants and government loans to keep us going. In addition, we reached out to our loyal individual donors who responded to help us close the gap. We continue to reach out to foundations and corporate sponsors to raise money to maintain our services to the community. Our volunteer efforts are now limited to three areas: mentoring children and youth ages 10-17, foster care families, and fundraising event helpers. Mentoring and foster care recruitment is conducted remotely and guidelines for safe distancing followed when in-person meetings are needed. Both mentoring and foster care volunteers are carefully matched to needy children with behavioral health challenges. The positive engagement of adults in their lives helps build self-confidence and a sense of worth in the children and youth we serve. How have the services you provide to the community changed in response to the COVID's impact? Have you developed new and far-reaching services/support? Our goal in all programs is to extend healing to children and families traumatized by severe family problems and mental health issues. Since COVID arrived, families have experienced increased trauma and Klingberg has met the challenge with current programs. Family hunger and the availability of food also became a major problem for our client families, so we opened the Klingberg Family Pantry to help provide needed food. This program will continue long after the COVID crisis diminishes. Klingberg Family Centers Main Campus: 370 Linwood Street, New Britain, CT 06052 | 860-224-9113 Hartford Office: 157 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106 | 860-243-4416 www.Klingberg.org OUR MISSION: To help build healing relationships that empower children and families to reach their full potential. Our core belief is that all children should be raised in a safe and loving home. Vice Chair Natalie Lynne Smith Glastonbury High School Secretary Kathleen Sullivan TD Bank (Retired) Treasurer William Woodman SpaceFitters Mary Jacques Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company Donald Jones CT State Trooper (Retired) Marijke Kehrhahn Independent Day School Kathy Kukowski Call A Doctor Plus Mary Murphy Liberty Bank (Retired) President/CEO Steven Girelli, Ph.D. Chair Waldemar Burzynski American Nuclear Insurers (Retired) BOARD OF DIRECTORS I believe that all children should have a family. I adopted my first daughter at Klingberg. She came to live with me when she was 8, and then the adoption was finalized when she was 13. Klingberg has been a supportive part of our family for years. – Natalie Lynne Smith , Bloomfield, Klingberg Family Centers, Vice Chair of Klingberg Family Centers Board and special education teacher, Glastonbury High School

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