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V O L . X X I N O. X X I I G I V I N G G U I D E 2 0 1 5 – 2 0 1 6 40 BOARD OFFICERS Ken Olson Executive Director, Maine Dr. Larry Bell First Vice Chair Gold Partners Dr. Scott Reines Second Vice Chair Independent Consultant BOARD MEMBERS Christian Bauer, Esq. Attorney, R B Legal Counsel LLC Dr. Ira Blake Asstistant Vice Chancellor, Bloomsburg University John Marsland Senior Vice President, Air Products John Moses President, Youth Services System Inc. Dr. Constance Porter Faculty, Rice University David Small Senior Vice President, Verizon Richard Tisinger Owner, Tisinger and Vance, Attorneys at Law Mary Jane Willis Public Education Administrator DE & W.VA. Andrew Werner, CPA Werner & Co. Established: Maine 1991; National 1882 Employees: Maine 240; National 2,023 Annual revenue: Maine $15,242,000; National $121,000,000 CONTACT Maine Administrative Headquarters 15 KidsPeace Way Ellsworth, ME 04605 (800) 992-9543 KidsPeace Inc. National Headquarters 4085 Independence Drive Schnecksville, PA 18010 (800) 257 3223 kidspeace.org | fostercare.com teencentral.net | parentcentral.net KidsPeace.org MISSION STATEMENT Our Mission: To give hope, help and healing to children, families and communities. Our Vision: To help people in need overcome challenges and transform their lives by providing emotional and physical health care and educational services in an atmosphere of teamwork, compassion and creativity. SERVICE LOCATION(S) Maine offices in Bangor, Biddeford, Ellsworth, Fort Kent, Lewiston and South Portland. Serving: Androscoggin, Aroostook, Cumberland, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec, Oxford, Penobscot and York counties. Foster family recruitment statewide. KidsPeace National Centers of New England Inc. 2016 GOALS e goals of KidsPeace in Maine are focused on achieving the mission and vision by responding to community needs in such a manner as to: f Help clients and students achieve desired outcomes. f Enhance the quality of the experience of all internal and external customers. f Accomplish the above at the most reasonable and aff ordable cost. KidsPeace is further committed to improving access to quality behavioral health, special education and foster care services in rural and traditionally underserved Maine communities. FUNDRAISING EVENTS/OPPORTUNITIES f Annual Ellsworth Bowl-a-thon – Held annually in March. Teams compete for awards and prizes donated by local businesses. f Annual Holiday Gift Giving Campaign – Funds raised to support the pur- chase of holiday gifts for youth and families served by KidsPeace in Maine. f A Family For ME – Help support KidsPeace's new program to increase the num- ber of foster families available for Maine foster youth in our statewide recruiting campaign. A partnership on behalf of the Maine Department of Health and Human services: our goal is a 10% increase in families in each county in Maine within one year. Volunteers needed to help make this project a success! Supporters can donate to these eff orts by check, online or through in-kind support (all proceeds support kids and families by providing otherwise unavailable funds) and/or help solicit sponsors, vendors and volunteers to help with marketing and coordinating each of these events. GIVING OPPORTUNITIES f By check: Simply mail your check made payable to the KidsPeace Children's Fund to: KidsPeace Advancement Offi ce, 4085 Independence Drive, Schnecksville, PA 18078. f Electronic transfers from your bank account by calling (800) 25-PEACE, Ext. 8326. f By credit card at www.kidspeace.org/Donation.aspx. f By phone: Gifts, pledges and payments may be made by calling Gina Stano at (610) 799-8071. American Express, Visa, MasterCard or Discover accepted. f Matching gifts or stock gifts, please call Patrick Slattery at (610) 799-8326. VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES e easiest way to volunteer is to contact your most local KidsPeace offi ce (easily found at www.kidspeace.org) where all of our locations are listed as well as all of our upcoming special-event fundraisers. Medicaid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56% State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38% Grants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3% Third party insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2% Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1% TOP FUNDING SOURCE(S) Will Isemann President and CEO L. Richard Plunkett Board Chair, Plunkett and Associates We respect our clients' privacy. The models represented in this publication are for illustrative purposes only and in no way represent or endorse KidsPeace. P H O T O / G E T T Y I M A G E S