Hobbs Foundation 2014 Annual Report

Contents Grantmaking Portfolio Overview Our Grantees: Mission and Strategic Giving 3 Grantees at A Glance: 2014-2015 Projects 4-9 Charitable Investments by Geographic Region 10

Charitable Investing Strategy: 11-20 2014 Program Highlights and Impact

2014-2015 Grantee Profiles and Selected Programs 22-61 Trustees and Staff 63 About the Hobbs Foundation 64

OUR GRANTEES: Mission and Strategic Giving In 2014, the Hobbs Foundation invested in a total of 40 nonprofit organizations whose work seeks to improve the wellbeing of at-risk children; foster children and children of low-income families, across the state of Florida. Our grant-restricted funding supports direct-impact projects that strive to effectively promote the healthy growth and development of disadvantaged children that would otherwise be unaffordable. Our projects yield meaningful impact in improving access at-risk children have to educational, social and developmental enrichment opportunities that foster academic success, positive character development, self-sufficiency and responsible decision making, enabling socioeconomically disadvantaged youth to reach their full potential and break the cycle of poverty, abuse and instability. Our nonprofit partners include child welfare and social services agencies, residential group homes (children’s homes), emergency care shelters, adoption agencies, youth development, and philanthropic organizations, concentrating primarily on programs serving foster children. The majority of our partners serve youth within our Tampa Bay area community. As our grantmaking portfolio grew, we expanded our reach to nonprofits serving at-risk children throughout the state of Florida, focusing our funding in regions with the greatest need and population of at-risk children, including Southeast, Central, and Northeast Florida. Each of our grantees were awarded funding in the amount of $10,000 in support of their selected projects. After expanding with 12 new grant-funded projects in 2013 to those serving children outside of the Tampa Bay region and working to build upon outreach to underserved children on a state-wide level, the Foundation leveled off its giving with 2 new grant recipients in 2014; that includes an expanded partnership with two of our most valued charities; the Salvation Army, now serving both Tampa and St. Petersburg area locations, with the addition of programs targeting the impoverished Tampa Heights community, where 48.0 percent of children live below the poverty level and the other, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Palm Beach serving children in South Florida, with 42.0 percent of children living in low-income households. The Hobbs Foundation’s nonprofit partner organizations served children by way of a program enhancement and/or special opportunity that has a direct, positive impact on children in need, ranging from those providing clothing and other basic needs, academic tutoring and literacy education to afterschool activities and field trips. The Foundation continues to make long-term investments that promote the growth and development of our multi-year projects with the goal of strengthening community impact, minimizing the barriers to stability and economic mobility for at-risk children.

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The geographic priorities of the Foundation has expanded our grantmaking portfolio over the past five grant cycles to support at-risk children across the state of Florida. Our geographic focus has been determined through an evidence-based due-diligence process with a needs-assessment of children based on child welfare and socio-economic wellbeing. Among the 40 nonprofit organizations selected for direct-program funding from the Hobbs Foundation this year: 17 grantees reached underserved children in our Tampa Bay community and surrounding areas in the West Central Florida region, representing Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando Counties; with a total investment of $170,000 in funding 6 grantees support children in East Central Florida; Polk, Lake, Flagler, Volusia, Seminole, Orange, Osceola, and Brevard Counties; $60,000 in funding 6 grantees support children in South Florida; Broward, Monroe and Miami-Dade Counties; $60,000 in funding 4 grantees support children in Southeast Florida; Indian River, Okeechobee, St. Lucie, Martin and Palm Beach Counties; $40,000 in funding 3 grantees support children in Southwest Florida; Charlotte, Lee, Collier, Glades and Hendry Counties; $30,000 in funding 2 grantees support children in North Florida; Duval, Nassau, St. Johns, Baker and Clay Counties; $20,000 in funding 2 grantees support children in Northwest Florida (Panhandle); Leon, Gadsden, Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton Counties; $20,000 in funding

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Our grantmaking strategy over the 2014-2015 grant cycles concentrated our project-specific investments in conjunction with a needs-based assessment, factoring in levels of poverty and income gap, stagnant economic growth and mobility, public assistance dependency, housing cost burden, and involvement in the child welfare system, concentrating in regions with the greatest number and concentration of children in need. Since the Great Recession, at-risk children lived predominantly in Central Florida with the heaviest concentration of children in need in Orange County and the Orlando Metropolitan area, branching out to surrounding counties including Lake, Seminole, Brevard, Osceola and Polk. Hillsborough County and the Tampa Bay Metropolitan area had an equally higher saturation of at-risk children with 56.0 percent of public school students qualifying for the free and reduced lunch program. Northeast Florida, namely the Jacksonville area, also ranks towards the top in number of children living in low-income households and receiving public assistance. The highest number of children living in poverty and at-risk of being removed from their home was in South Florida, more so in Miami-Dade, also including Broward and Palm Beach counties, according to the KIDS COUNT Data demonstrated by the Annie E Casey Foundation. This year, we were successful in developing new partnerships with regional nonprofit organizations serving at-risk children in regions where a greater number of children had restricted access to basic needs, educational opportunities, social and character enrichment experiences that promote academic achievement and healthy development. In Central Florida, we have partnered with the Orlando-based Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Florida. With a stellar record of financial sustainability, funding source diversification, state-of-the-art facility, and innovative after-school educational programming for at-risk children, The Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Florida is rapidly expanding to now 30 locations that target impoverished areas in both Orlando and surrounding counties, providing low-income students with a safe, productive and creative environment to learn and grow. The Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Florida launched their 21st Century Community Learning Center Program in collaboration with the Hobbs Foundation designed to help low-income students boost their academic performance in the areas of math, science, technology and the arts. In a changing economy driven in large part by technological and research innovation in healthcare, business and professional services, multimedia, manufacturing and other industries, there is an increasing demand for graduates with computer, web development, engineering and other technical skills. The Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Florida engaged school-age students in after-school activities that promote active learning in math, science, technology, engineering and the digital arts. The 21st century program targets intellectual development and higher-order reasoning in all core subject areas emphasizing the creative, critical thinking process. With our funding, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Florida has implemented a new component of the STEM education program in the high-poverty, high-crime neighborhood of Pine Hills, located in the Northwest region of the Orlando metro area. Child development research suggests that students living in poverty and unsafe environments creates levels of stress and emotional instability that inhibits cognitive growth and results in a lowered capacity for intellectual resources and academic achievement. Among Orlando’s low-income public school students, 65.0 percent of 8th graders do not perform at grade-level reading proficiency, among 10th graders it rises to 71.0 percent.

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Providing a constructive, active learning environment is key to the healthy cognitive, social and emotional development of at-risk children. The Friday Night LIVE program in Pine Hills created a fun, safe and productive space during out-of-school time where at-risk students engage in a variety of hands-on STEM learning activities that inspire creativity and curiosity, including robotics, digital music production, multimedia & digital arts technology. In 2014, we helped to expand the Friday Night LIVE program with an enhanced technology center where students can develop their interests in graphic design, web design, video production, digital publishing, software development and industrial design. Their sports and fitness program gave children the opportunity to engage in healthy physical activity, encourage teamwork and cooperation and gain self-discipline and goal setting skills. The Friday night club creates a sense of community where at-risk children can develop healthy relationships with mentors and peers, learning, playing, going on outings and field trips and enjoying a Friday night dinner together. Friday night dinners became a time when children and mentors bonded, shared their stories and challenges of the day and worked as a team in preparing a meal. This year the Club recognized an opportunity for their kids to learn cooking skills and the importance of good nutrition. The Friday Night LIVE Cooking Club engages teams of kids in planning, preparing and improving their culinary skills in cooking a meal for the Club. Under the guidance of the Boys and Girls Clubs youth development professionals and mentors, public school students in Pine Hills discovered a newfound sense of belonging, a personal responsibility to change their lives and became a positive role model to their peers. By 2014, our home Tampa Bay; Hillsborough, Pinellas and Polk County, represents about half of our total philanthropic giving, including a portfolio of nonprofit partnerships that span all of our targeted initiatives, including funding to child welfare and community-based care agencies, group foster homes, or children’s homes, emergency shelters, youth development organizations, and adoption agencies. In Tampa Bay, as well as South Florida, the child welfare system underwent dramatic changes in leadership, policy and strategy and a shortage of foster parents.

Friday Night LIVE Club kids at play in the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Florida, Pine Hills Club Recreation Center, 2014

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In collaboration with the Heart Gallery and the Children’s Board of Hillsborough County, a community partnership council agency overseeing funding and programming on behalf of the county’s services to children and families, we expanded into our second year of the Video Recruitment Program in both Hillsborough and Pinellas County to increase outreach and awareness to prospective foster parents about children awaiting adoption. For some children long-awaiting adoption, traditional recruitment channels don’t bring them to their forever family soon enough. The Video Recruitment Project expanded the Heart Gallery’s storytelling medium to one that brings each child’s unique qualities, character and personality to life. In 2014, funding from the Foundation helped to produce videos of 40 children awaiting adoption, 20 in Hillsborough County and 20 in Pinellas. Each child is captured in a mini-interview where they can share their story, their wishes, their dreams and what they hope to find in a forever family. Videos can go where photo galleries can’t, streaming online on the agency’s website, social media sites, on their new YouTube channel, and community outreach events in a digital format that can reach a broader audience. The video format has proved to create a powerful bonding experience, touching the hearts of prospective foster parents and increasing the rate of adoption in both Hillsborough and Pinellas County. Web analytics has helped the organization track outcomes for the project, monitoring traffic, click-through rates, flow visualization and in-page activity. Their website registers high-interest users in a database and allows Heart Gallery to identify targeted approaches in reaching prospective parents. The project has been so successful, the Heart Gallery of Tampa Bay’s Video Recruitment Program has been featured on the Today Show during November’s National Adoption Month with highlights from just some of the children that have been a part of the adoption facilitation efforts of our Tampa Bay partner. Over the Hobbs Foundation’s decade of charitable investment in Florida we have supported children in foster care, facilitating access to resources that improve quality of life and outcomes for success. Beginning in 2013 and continued in 2014, we grew our support, aiding children in the child welfare system during the difficult time in transition to foster care or other out-of-home placement. Children in the county court’s dependency system who have been abruptly removed from their homes as a result of abuse, neglect or abandonment, often go without. With a growing need and constrained state budgets, many of these children are not afforded basic needs like clothing, shoes, books, and school supplies and are unable to participate in childhood activities like after-school sports and summer camp. The Foundation forged a new partnership with Hillsborough County’s Guardian ad Litem program and Voices For Children that serves children in the child welfare system awaiting placement. The Guardian ad Litem program coordinates a group of dedicated volunteers who stand up for the rights of children who experience emotional distress, uncertainty and instability as they are shuffled through the child welfare system. Voices For Children works in conjunction with Guardian Ad Litem to help fill the resource gap for children awaiting out-of-home placement to augment support for personal, educational, medical and legal of children in state care. With 2,875 children in Hillsborough County’s child welfare system, Voices For Children is currently able to provide supplemental financial support for 68 percent of children in need.

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A grant from the Hobbs Foundation has allowed the organization to serve an additional 100 children during their time in protective care. In 2014, The Children’s Needs Fund at Voices For Children, with funding from the Foundation, supplied much-needed clothing, personal items, schoolbooks, allowed them to participate in after-school sports, music lessons and other activities, go to summer camp and have the items they need for their new room when they transition to a new home, things like furniture, bedding and books. In 2013, Voices For Children, recognizing the unique psychological and emotional needs of children entering foster care, the organization became the first in the state to introduce an animal therapy program they call the Courthouse Dog Project for children during their time in the court system. Guardian ad Litem volunteer and dog trainer, Brenda Kocher, with the help of her devoted golden retriever, Tibet, with her calm and gentle demeanor has been trained since she was a few weeks old as a therapy-assist dog that provides comfort and an unthreatening bonding experience to children that have experienced trauma and emotional distress, working to reduce anxiety and uncertainty that children experience during the legal process. Voices For Children has continued to increase their funding and grow their support to children in Hillsborough County and has created a lasting impact in minimizing the physical and emotional affects of foster care placement for thousands of children. With a newly expanded partnership with the Salvation Army, Hobbs Foundation, starting in 2015, will now support both the St. Petersburg and Tampa campuses. The Salvation Army’s St. Petersburg area command center focuses on providing a safe haven for children in foster care with an emergency shelter and long-term children’s home on campus for those children in the bay area and beyond who have been removed from their homes due to abuse, neglect or abandonment. The Tampa area command facility is a community-based initiative centered in the Tampa Heights neighborhood, north of Tampa’s downtown business district, where a greater population of minority immigrants and low-income families with significantly higher crime rates and homelessness. This area of Tampa is home to a segment of the city’s population where half of children live below the poverty line and median household income is half that of the median income for Tampa. In Tampa and throughout Hillsborough County, the rate of homelessness among families and children has been steadily increasing since 2009.

Tibet, the Courthouse dog, on court day with a young girl under the care of Hillsborough County’s Guardian ad Litem Program

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The Salvation Army, Tampa operates a family services center that aims to provide families with children transitional housing and support services that guide families on the path to self-sufficiency. Each family is assigned a case plan. Parents must undergo weekly counseling, skills training, self-help programs and job placement meetings. Children receive after-school tutoring assistance while they attend a local public school, participate in after-school recreational activities and spend a week at Camp Keystone where they can play, learn and grow in a safe, positive environment. In 2014, The Salvation Army of Tampa sought to provide a safe outdoor recreation space for the population of at-risk children throughout the Tampa Heights community in addition to children of homeless families living in their transitional housing program. This year The Salvation Army partnered with KaBOOM for a match grant that will purchase and build a playground space for the children of Tampa Heights. With match funding from the Hobbs Foundation, the organization will construct the playground space that promotes healthy physical and social activity with friends and mentors, giving them the opportunity to form positive relationships and fulfilling childhood memories. The Sustainable Living Project, in conjunction with Tampa Bay Harvest, an organization working to create sustainable garden spaces that produce organically grown food that serves the hungry, including families and children, in the Tampa Bay area, will produce a community impact garden adjacent to the new playground area to serve children who suffer from food insecurity who come to live in The Salvation Army’s residential program and those in Tampa Heights that they hope will encourage community engagement for the revitalization of the neighborhood. The Sustainable Living Project will also serve as a therapeutic and constructive learning tool for children that engages them in the hands-on nurturing process of their garden. The program acts as a teamwork activity for at-risk children encouraging a sense of personal responsibility and delayed gratification in the care of the garden and seeing it grow.

Samples of KaBoom match-grant playgrounds for Salvation Army site

Actual site for the new KaBoom playground at the Salvation Army Tampa Area Command; 1603 N Florida Avenue, Tampa

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In Jacksonville, we completed our first round of funding this year with another branch in the network of Boys and Girls Clubs, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida, serving low-income children in Duval, Nassau and St. Johns County. Highly recommended by Charity Navigator and now directed by Dr. Shannon Perry, a former executive committee member on the organization’s board of directors who demonstrates strong leadership and over 20 years of management experience in children and family services, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida fulfills a critical need for after-school education and character enrichment opportunities for at-risk children in a region with limited economic and social resources for families in need. The Northeast Florida Clubs operate 14 facilities across the Jacksonville and surrounding area to help low-income children build a brighter future. The Club helps young people achieve positive life outcomes using a holistic, research-based, nationally developed youth development program that promotes leadership, character, health and career development. Their Club ensures that disadvantaged youth in our community have access to quality after-school programs for children at-risk for lower educational outcomes due to risk factors; poverty, violence and abuse. This year, The Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida was able to enhance their Project Learn Program at the Woodland Acres Club located in this high-poverty, high-crime region of Jacksonville. Among those 169 low-income children served at this Club, 69.0 percent live in households headed by a single parent, 71.0 percent have a family income of $28,000 or less. Many parents in this area lack a high school diploma, work long hours in low-wage jobs and do not have the financial, emotional or cognitive resources to engage their children in active learning and enrichment experiences. School underachievement has long been a chronic and multi-generational outcome for low-income youth who lose their ability to engage, garner curiosity and develop cognitive faculties under the anxiety and distraction of an unstable home life. The Project Learn Program at the Boys and Girls Clubs works to minimize the barriers to academic success by exposing low-income children to homework help and tutoring, high-yield learning and leisure activities, parental involvement, school collaboration and learning incentives. This year, Hobbs Foundation funding supported the purchase of program supplies to expand their classroom learning activities and enhance computer labs, mobilizing these resources to help children succeed in school and inspire them to become life-long learners. Power Hour helps Club members gain proficiency in math, grammar, science or social studies. These learning sessions help the members become self-directed learners. High yield learning activities help students apply classroom learning to everyday activities: reading an article in the newspaper and discussing current events, helping to create and plan a meal for their friends, writing a letter to their parent or mentor, etc. Games such as Scrabble, Chess or computer competitions that sharpen cognitive skills are commonplace. These activities engage a large number of members, promote sportsmanship and good character and make the Club a total learning environment. The Project Learn Program has successfully increased school attendance rates, improved grades and FCAT scores of the children who participated. Teacher assessments suggest that middle school students in the program are now better prepared for high school and will be on track to completing their high school diploma, nearly all of whom were promoted to the next grade level even among those who entered the Club underperforming their grade level in reading and math. In the coming year, we will continue our support of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida with program supplies and equipment to enhance their after-school arts program at their Beaches Club location, Seagate Avenue in Jacksonville Beach.

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Over the past five years, South Florida has a significant increase in children living in economically-disadvantaged households and a higher rate of homelessness among children and families. With South Florida’s economy prone to swings in tourism and hospitality and experiencing one of the state’s most severe housing market collapses, the Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach metro areas have seen an unstable recovery in unemployment, income growth and income disparity. As tourism and hospitality, one of the region’s largest economic drivers began to bounce back, foreign investors, high-price condos and the finance and other business services sectors returned and began to move the metro’s economy back in the right direction. As such, cost of living and rental rates ticked up. For those low-wage earners, largely in hospitality and service-oriented industries, income growth has not yet rebounded, leaving many low-income families with wages that have not paced the rising cost of living in South Florida. This is especially prevalent among the region’s growing number of low-skilled immigrant families with little education. According to research by the Shimberg Center for Housing Studies and the Miami Coalition for the Homeless, median rental rates in the Miami-Dade area have been increasing at a staggering pace leaving more than half of families experiencing rent-burden by 2013 and contributing to an increase in the incidence of homelessness for low-income children and families. This year the Hobbs Foundation completed its first project in collaboration with the 4-star rated, Chapman Partnership, South Florida’s foremost, privately operated, social services provider whose mission is to provide education, economic opportunity and stability to homeless families and children. Serving as the primary private sector partner to Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust, the official coordinator for homeless services and housing in South Florida, Chapman Partnership is commissioned by the County Homeless Trust to manage and operate two homeless assistance centers located in Downtown Miami and Homestead, where approximately 80.0 percent of the Miami-Dade County’s families in crisis are served. In Miami-Dade, the rate of homelessness among children and families increased by 130.0 percent between January 2013 and January 2014. Chapman Partnership provides case management services, job training and employment placement assistance and healthcare to homeless families that has yielded a 71.0 percent success rate in outplaced housing stability. In 2013 a grant from the Hobbs Foundation helped Chapman Partnership to launch the Me and My Family Program this year that offered 700 children of homeless families the opportunity to participate in educational and social enrichment experiences with their parents and youth development staff that broadened their mind, boosted cognitive development and increased social bonding with peers, family and mentors, creating memorable childhood moments that shape healthy growth and development. Their on-site Family Resource Center provides quality educational and enrichment activities to children during after-school hours that facilitate positive behaviors and social interaction, a constructive learning environment and foster engagement and curiosity. The Me and My Family Program in collaboration with Womenade, a women’s volunteer fundraising committee for the organization, tied each children’s activity, field trip or special event with a community-wide collection campaign of much-needed items for the children residing in the emergency shelter. These included clothing, baby bottles and formula, diapers, cribs, car seats, strollers, back-to-school supplies, toiletries, toys, holiday gifts and more. Children had the opportunity to engage in family-fun activities

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like a visit to Zoo Miami, a Valentine’s dance, an Easter Egg hunt at Lummus Park, summer camp, arts and science museums, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas activities. Chapman Partnership successfully collected donation items for children during these events that have been valued at over $100,000 and has contributed to the overall health and well-being of underserved children in South Florida. In partnership with the 4-star rated Boys and Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade, the Hobbs Foundation grew its support of the Project Learn Program in their Kendall Club, a South Miami neighborhood where 82.0 percent of public schools students live in low-income households and qualify for the free and reduced lunch program. The Boys and Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade provides a safe, structured after-school learning environment for at-risk children that guides youth who have little opportunity to build cognitive and social competencies. Structured after-school programs instill in children healthy behavioral disciplines; selective attention, goal-setting, impulse regulation, language and problem solving, that are linked to future outcomes like high school graduation, economic mobility and maintaining stable relationships. The Kendall Club provides homework assistance, organized sports and physical fitness, literacy classes, computer skills training, arts and crafts, dance club and more. Economic impact

A young toddler residing at Chapman Partnership’s transitional housing center dressed for trick-or-treating at the Spooktacular Bash Children’s Event bringing Halloween fun to 120 children

Volunteers at Chapman Partnership’s Children’s Holiday Party who collected over $5,000 in Christmas gifts for the 150 homeless children at their shelter

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studies conducted by Damooei Global Research Group found that the Boys and Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade not only provided emotional and social benefits to at-risk children but had a lasting impact on the overall economic health of the community, guiding children to become self-sufficient, contributing members of society. Club members when compared with their low-income peers were more likely to complete their high school education and less likely to engage in risky behaviors resulting in involvement with the juvenile justice system, teenage motherhood, or substance abuse. By having access to a safe and nurturing environment, Club youth were more likely to avoid negative influences that translated into long-term academic success. The Boys and Girls Clubs engagement with youth in high-yield learning activities improved their decision-making skills, reduced drop-out rate and gave them a greater chance of securing a living-wage job. The Kendall Club after-school program occupies idle time for at-risk youth that teaches them to channel their energies into productive activities that increases mental and physical health and wellbeing. This year the Hobbs Foundation helped to introduce the Club’s Reader’s Theatre Project to their existing education programs. Middle school reading comprehension has a direct correlation to FCAT score and high school graduation. Among low-income students in South Florida many are children whose families have low-education or are representative of a growing population of immigrant, or foreign-born parents where English is a second language. Reader’s Theatre utilizes an evidence-based literacy curriculum where students are assigned a character role and read their part with expression, meaning and enthusiasm that encourages reading comprehension as well as public speaking skills, leadership and creative thinking. Reader’s Theatre is a documented fluency building strategy that engages and entertains students while they learn and improve their skills. In 2014, a total 523 students participated in the program. Literacy instructors administered pre, mid and post-course tests to assess each student’s progress in their reading comprehension, language and communication skills and found that 99.8 percent of students improved at least one reading grade level. Reader’s Theatre is a strategy that combines reading practice and performing with the goal of enhancing students’ reading skills and confidence by having them practice reading with a directed purpose, reading aloud and exploring the character and theme of the story much like a play. The re-reading component of the Reader’s Theatre model increases fluency and understanding, engaging student’s active participation in lively narration and inspires a more thoughtful cognitive process. In addition to the Reader’s Theatre Program, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade boosted their Dance Club at their Hank Kline Club to encourage more young girls to participate in after-school athletic programs. Each dance production provides a structured, work-intensive outlet for girls to express their creativity and learn the value of self-discipline. Foundation funding supported the purchase of dance attire, footwear and equipment for children who would otherwise be unable to afford to participate in after-school activities. Boys and Girls Club program coordinators have seen a positive impact on participating students, demonstrating an increased awareness in teambuilding skills, self-esteem and focused attention in developing their interests and feeling a sense of personal achievement.

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With a new partnership in 2014-2015, the Foundation worked to expand its support of socioeconomically disadvantaged children in the South Florida area with the addition of after-school programming at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Palm Beach. Central Delray Beach, Florida encompasses a demographic makeup where nearly half of families live below the poverty line, the majority of whom are unemployed and/or dependent on public assistance, and where addressing educational, social and developmental gaps is critical for young residents. Like their partner in Central Florida, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County, a charity with an exceptional 4-star rating, they recognize the importance of after-school STEM education that build technical, analytical and problem solving skills in a digital-driven economy. The majority of Club members in Palm Beach County live in families who earn incomes at or below the poverty level that makes engagement in educational and youth development activities limited. For many young children, the chronic stress and disengagement in healthy activity associated with growing up in an economically unstable household can lead to a lower capacity for developing cognitive assets and behavioral management skills. The Boys and Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County works to provide a constructive, achievement-driven environment that instills a positive attitude toward learning and self-discipline, with daily after-school tutoring and homework assistance, literacy instruction, computer training, arts and cultural activities, and sports and recreation that promotes teamwork and a strong work ethic. In 2014, the Foundation will award a grant to the Club to support an updated technology center fit for their new STEM education program. The Club Tech Program will provide a platform for digital technology literacy with workshops in art, photography, music composition and movie making that inspires creative fun as students improve their math, science, technology and computer skills. Tech workshops like the clay animation, robotics, and video game design tap into students’ imaginations where they can discover new interests, increase academic performance and inspire vulnerable children to reach their full potential.

With support from the Hobbs Foundation, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade’s Hank Kline Club Dance Team performs at the charity’s Sixth Annual “Wild About Kids” Gala

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Alpha House of Tampa Tampa, FL Serves: Hillsborough County www.alphahouseoftampa.org Alpha House of Tampa offers homeless, pregnant women and young mothers with children, many of whom are former foster teens, safe housing and the tools they need to become self-sufficient, effective, and responsible parents. Service delivery is based on a case plan comprised of 5 components of care including mental health counseling, social rehabilitative counseling, life skills management, vocational assistance, and collateral services. School-age mothers are required to complete their academic studies while in the program. The remaining curriculum of programs offers a wide variety of classes that address critical education and tools for new mothers including labor and delivery, nutrition, motivational classes, individual and group trauma counseling, women’s health issues, child care and parenting skills. The Parents as Teachers Program offers young mothers and their children a best-practice early child-development curriculum that includes parenting education and training, early detection of developmental delays and health issues, and the tools to achieve measureable successes toward self-sufficiency and school readiness. Since 2012, Alpha House has expanded their PAT Program with additions like the Parent Café, Todos Juntos and Time Share that serve as topic-centered group experiences that provide a vehicle for parenting information exchange and a support network for new mothers. Group discussions and community-connectedness offers disadvantaged mothers and their children the opportunity to share observations and experiences, gain new perspectives and practices in their role as a successful parent and form supportive relationships that promote their child’s healthy growth and development. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $1,519,100 Other Revenue $29,068 Total Revenue $1,548,168 Program Expenses $1,219,477 Administrative Expenses $152,194 Fundraising Expenses $113,975 Total Expenses $1,485,646 Program Expenses 82.1% Administrative Expenses 10.2% Fundraising Expenses 7.7%

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay Tampa, FL Serves: Hillsborough County www.bbbsfl.org Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay facilitates positive mentorship relationships for at-risk children that contribute to brighter futures and stronger communities, serving as role models for children that increase self-esteem and responsible decision-making The Annual Big for a Day Match Event at MacDill Air Force Base allows unmatched children to be matched with an Air Force service member and esteemed role model and participate in a day of fun, bonding activities including sports, recreation and an educational tour of the base. Funding also supports the Spring Match Picnic with match activities at a Florida State Park; summer arts activities at the Straz Center; boys and girls group activities; Fall and Halloween Festival; a day at Adventure Island for Littles and their Bigs; and the Annual Holiday Match Party for approximately 200 children per activity. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $2,245,949 Other Revenue $918 Total Revenue $2,246,867 Program Expenses $1,732,477 Administrative Expenses $139,403 Fundraising Expenses $278,937 Total Expenses $2,150,817 Program Expenses 80.5% Administrative Expenses 6.5% Fundraising Expenses 13.0%

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Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Florida Orlando, FL Serves: Brevard, Osceola, Orange and Seminole Counties

www.bgccf.org Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Florida provides a safe, after-school environment for low-income students with specialized educational and character development activities that enable young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens. The Boys and Girls Clubs strive to empower youth to support and influence their club and community by sustaining positive, meaningful relationships with others, develop a healthy self-image, develop educational disciplines and the skills to achieve life-long success. The Friday Night LIVE Program enables students at the Disney World Club who live in the low-income, high-crime neighborhood of Pine Hills to participate in the Friday Night expansion of teen services with a wide range of programming including Lego Robotics, Digital Music Production, Multimedia & Digital Arts Technology, and Sports & Fitness. These programs were designed to harness creativity, critical thinking and problem solving skills that strengthen academic performance, create a positive outlet and allow for the development of special interests for students with limited exposure to after-school programs. The Friday Night LIVE programs work to foster curiosity, self-discipline and leadership. Funding purchases equipment and supplies for each course as well as transportation and admission fees for after-school outings and field trips, such as movie nights, skating, bowling, and more for approximately 140 children. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $10,347,256 Other Revenue $872,737 Total Revenue $11,219,993 Program Expenses $8,482,565 Administrative Expenses $1,233,298 Fundraising Expenses $566,398 Total Expenses $10,282,261 Program Expenses 82.5% Administrative Expenses 12% Fundraising Expenses 5.5% 18  

Boys and Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade Miami, FL Serves: Miami-Dade County www.bgcmia.org Boys and Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade provides a safe, after-school environment for low-income students with specialized educational and character development activities that enable young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens. The Boys and Girls Clubs strive to empower youth to support and influence their club and community by sustaining positive, meaningful relationships with others, develop a healthy self-image, develop educational disciplines and the skills to achieve life-long success. The Boys and Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade expand their Project Learn Program utilizing Playbook’s Reader’s Theatre, an evidence-based curriculum where children act out each story and engage in the reading materials in a way that is expressive, meaningful and enthusiastic. The Reader’s Theatre Program encourages the development of reading comprehension, self-expression, public speaking and active learning. The interactive reading method helps students build fluency and oral communication skills, critical thinking competencies and leadership skills in a fun, captivating learning environment. Remaining funds allow the Club to boost their after-school activities program that includes dance, arts & crafts, debate, photography and home economics with additional supplies; dance attire and props, craft materials, Photoshop software, cameras, tablets and sewing machines. The after-school program allows approximately 700 children of low-income families to explore their interests, develop intellectual and creative aptitudes and learn the importance of self-discipline and personal achievement. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $3,360,272 Other Revenue $718,992 Total Revenue $4,079,264 Program Expenses $3,031,336 Administrative Expenses $382,779 Fundraising Expenses $91,044 Total Expenses $3,505,159 Program Expenses 86.5% Administrative Expenses 10.9% Fundraising Expenses 2.6%

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Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida Jacksonville, FL Serves: Duval, Nassau and St. Johns Counties www.bgcnf.org Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida provides a safe, after-school environment for low-income students with specialized educational and character development activities that enable young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens. The Boys and Girls Clubs strive to empower youth to support and influence their club and community by sustaining positive, meaningful relationships with others, develop a healthy self-image, develop educational disciplines and the skills to achieve life-long success. The Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida’s Beaches Club expands their after-school arts programming with the opportunity for low-income children to be exposed to structured, active learning that improves social and cognitive development, academic performance and emphasizes the importance of skill-building, creativity and goal-setting. The arts education program gives students a positive outlet that boosts critical thinking, verbal skills and cultural awareness. With significant funding cuts to arts programs in public schools, many at-risk children are now unable to participate in extracurricular activities that help to motivate students to explore their talents and interests, and build the skills needed to become inventive thinkers and creators. The expanded arts program at the Beaches Club gives children the opportunity to participate in dance, music, sound and video production with the purchase of dance equipment and shoes, sound and video equipment. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $4,359,397 Other Revenue $-33,993 Total Revenue $4,325,404 Program Expenses $4,183,931 Administrative Expenses $326,069 Fundraising Expenses $167,539 Total Expenses $4,677,539 Program Expenses 89.4% Administrative Expenses 7.0% Fundraising Expenses 3.6%

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Boys and Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County West Palm Beach, FL Serves: Palm Beach County www.bgcpbc.org Boys and Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County provides a safe, after-school environment for low-income students with specialized educational and character development activities that enable young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens. The Boys and Girls Clubs strive to empower youth to support and influence their club and community by sustaining positive, meaningful relationships with others, develop a healthy self-image, develop educational disciplines and the skills to achieve life-long success. The Boys and Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County enhances its after-school STEM program serving low-income, at-risk children that augments the Club Tech digital literacy program and lab that enables children with limited educational opportunities to participate in interactive learning experiences that illustrate science, technology, engineering and mathematics concepts with increased awareness and engagement. The STEM program increases each child’s understanding of practical scientific theories, boosting cognitive development, problem-solving and critical thinking skills. The program exposes economically-disadvantaged students to education and career development opportunities, character and leadership development, computer and digital design skills that build academic competencies, literacy and creativity. Funding supports STEM lab equipment; computers printer, projector and screen. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $9,958,106 Other Revenue $646,631 Total Revenue $10,604,737 Program Expenses $6,323,366 Administrative Expenses $499,716 Fundraising Expenses $496,865 Total Expenses $7,319,947 Program Expenses 86.4% Administrative Expenses 6.8% Fundraising Expenses 6.8% 21  

Brookwood Florida St. Petersburg, FL Serves: Pinellas County, surrounding areas www.brookwoodflorida.org Brookwood Florida provides a therapeutic community-based residential group home for adolescent foster girls who have been removed from their homes due to abuse, neglect and abandonment or those at-risk and placed by low-income families under severe hardship. Their holistic program provides education, job skills and independent living skills training and counseling in coping with self-defeating behavior and work to instill strength of character and responsible decision-making to maintain a stable living environment upon transition to independence. The Recreational and Cultural Activities Program offers approximately 100 foster girls, ages 13-18, access to experiential learning opportunities and after-school activities that encourage social and intellectual development, creativity and positive character development. Activities including swimming lessons, skating, bowling, hiking, art appreciation exhibits and nature center outings. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $1,625,531 Other Revenue $-255,586 Total Revenue $1,369,945 Program Expenses $1,388,014 Administrative Expenses $259,138 Fundraising Expenses $117,617 Total Expenses $1,764,769 Program Expenses 78.7% Administrative Expenses 14.6% Fundraising Expenses 6.7%

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Caring Children Clothing Children Stuart, FL Serves: Martin County www.the4cclub.com Caring Children Clothing Children collects and distributes gently-used clothing, new shoes, socks, underwear, books and educational materials to children of socio-economically disadvantaged families. Additionally, the literacy program offers younger children in preparation for Pre-K and Kindergarten, individual tutoring, assisted reading sessions and interactive learning activities that enhance cognitive development and reading comprehension skills. Approximately 1,220 children of low-income families receive new shoes, socks and underwear that improve self-esteem and healthy functionality in the school setting. 120 preschool age children receive books and learning materials that include Brainy Baby books, learning boards and puzzles as part of the literacy education program. The literacy program instructs children and their parent of the value of reading and education and provide them with the foundation they need to identify and promote intellectual and developmental gains in their child. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $165,279 Other Revenue $37,723 Total Revenue $203,002 Program Expenses $143,390 Administrative Expenses $20,217 Fundraising Expenses $18,932 Total Expenses $182,539 Program Expenses 78.5% Administrative Expenses 11.1% Fundraising Expenses 10.4%

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Chapman Partnership Miami, FL Serves: Miami-Dade County www.chapmanpartnership.org Chapman Partnership provides comprehensive services to support stability and self-sufficiency for homeless families and their children with temporary housing, economic and educational opportunities that work to reduce the cycle of poverty and allows children to grow and thrive in a safe and supportive environment. Their goal for the youth development program for children living in the emergency shelter care is to expose them to positive social, learning activities that enhance their intellectual and emotional development and create fun-filled childhood memories for children who have had limited opportunities for healthy stimulation and engagement in education and special interests. The Me and My Family Program will offer children of homeless families to engage in quality time with their family in after-school and holiday activities/events that will be held in conjunction with collection drives that provide clothing and personal items for each child. These include a Halloween children’s party with costume making, magician and haunted house activities for the children; a Thanksgiving children’s party that will encourage children to give thanks and participate in acts of kindness to others and learn the value of honor, respect and gratitude; a Holiday children’s party with food, games, Santa Claus and toys for each child; a Valentine’s Day craft party where children make their own valentines and bake cookies with family and mentors; and the Easter family event at Jungle Island will host an egg hunt and animal show for the children. Other activities include field trips for children and families to the Miami Zoo and Sea Aquarium and a 4-week summer camp with the Miami Children’s Museum that includes interactive exhibits and learning programs related to arts, culture, community and communication along with outdoor recreational activities on the playgrounds, rock climbing wall, water play area and in the dance and fitness program. Funding supports the supplies, materials, admission fees and travel expenses of each activity serving a total of approximately 500 children. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $14,691,769 Other Revenue $523,249 Total Revenue $15,215,018 Program Expenses $11,020,144 Administrative Expenses $1,755,663 Fundraising Expenses $731,580 Total Expenses $13,507,387 Program Expenses 81.6% Administrative Expenses 13.0% Fundraising Expenses 5.4%

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Charity Navigator Glen Rock, NJ Serves: U.S. www.charitynavigator.org Charity Navigator is the largest and most-utilized evaluator of charities and intelligent guide to philanthropic giving by gathering and analyzing data that reflects the financial health, transparency and accountability of charitable organizations. Charity Navigator provides information as to the efficiency and effectiveness of operational sustainability and utilization of funding dollars of qualified nonprofit organizations. The financial and organizational analysis of 20 additional charities whose missions are in line with the Hobbs Foundation’s charitable focus, those benefitting socio-economically disadvantaged children in Florida and throughout the U.S., is conducted with costs that include obtaining financial data from the IRS and communicating with charities for additional research as well as maintaining and developing the charity evaluator database and website. Charity Navigator provides research analysis to nonprofits and grantmakers nationwide in evaluating the sustainability and long-term impact of their programs that ensures the growth and development of charitable missions. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $1,620,713 Other Revenue $0 Total Revenue $1,620,713 Program Expenses $1,059,372 Administrative Expenses $149,600 Fundraising Expenses $204,026 Total Expenses $1,412,998 Program Expenses 75.0% Administrative Expenses 10.6% Fundraising Expenses 14.4%

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Children in Crisis Fort Walton Beach, FL Serves: Escambia, Santa Rosa, www.childrenincrisisfl.org Okaloosa and Walton Counties Children in Crisis was established to raise and manage funds to build, staff and operate The Children’s Neighborhood, a residential group home and emergency shelter for abused, neglected and abandoned children. Teen transitional housing provides shelter and care for independent living youth transitioning out of the foster care system. Children in need of long-term foster care are offered a structured, family-style home environment cared for by a set of dedicated house parents in one of each of their 4 homes, housing 8-10 children. The Children’s Neighborhood’s emergency shelter allows for the immediate placement of children removed from their homes with a capacity to care for up to 16 children for a maximum stay of 30 days until permanent placement can be established. The Summer Enrichment Program offers approximately 50 foster children exposure to comprehensive educational activities that foster intellectual and social development, team building, and provide a healthy outlet in promoting personal growth and exploration. The children’s exposure to hands-on learning experiences will seek to expand their minds and lead to new ways of thinking, living and seeing the world around them. Activities will explore STEM learning projects, the arts, culture and history with field trips to Wonder Works Hands On Science Museum, The Gulfarium, The E.O. Wilson Biophilia, The Gulf Breeze Zoo, Adventure Unlimited, Dragonfly Yoga Studies, The Heritage Park and Cultural Center, Abrakadoodle, Full Circle Gallery, Gaytowne Wharf, The National Navel Aviation Museum, The Northwest Florida Symphony, and the Seaside Repertory Theatre. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $1,284,282 Other Revenue $65,683 Total Revenue $1,349,965 Program Expenses $1,259,038 Administrative Expenses $83,141 Fundraising Expenses $73,632 Total Expenses $1,415,811 Program Expenses 88.9% Administrative Expenses 5.9% Fundraising Expenses 5.2%

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Children’s Harbor Pembroke Pines, FL Serves: Broward County, surrounding areas

www.childrensharbor.org Children’s Harbor provides a residential, family-style group home for long-term foster children in addition to community-based outreach services for the prevention of abuse and neglect. The residential program provides a home for 34 children, accommodating large sibling groups, pregnant and parenting teen foster care mothers and their babies, and focuses on keeping family networks together and support systems in tact during a time of crisis in a child’s life. The children’s homes utilize a house parent model that provides a consistent, stable home-like environment encouraging children to build safe, trusting relationships with adults and their peers and reduce the social and emotional barriers of trauma. The Academic and Life Skills Program allows Children’s Harbor mentors to work with each child individually to determine their needs for personal growth and development as well as academic competencies that provides every child with the tools they need to succeed. Children meet with their life coach each week and participate in after-school educational activities based on the results of evidence-based assessments that work to identify gaps in academic, psychological and social skills. The program model works to improve coping skills, increase self-esteem and confidence that increases knowledge of and demonstration of appropriate skill development in maintaining a healthy lifestyle and responsible decision-making. Funding supports participation fees and travel expenses for educational field trips and after-school activities, school supplies, school uniforms, clothing, shoes, and other supplementary educational materials. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $2,161,237 Other Revenue $2,270 Total Revenue $2,163,507 Program Expenses $1,853,393 Administrative Expenses $135,893 Fundraising Expenses $162,693 Total Expenses $2,151,979 Program Expenses 86.1% Administrative Expenses 6.3% Fundraising Expenses 7.6%

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The Children’s Home Tampa, FL Serves: Hillsborough County, surrounding areas

www.childrenshome.org The Children’s Home provides a faith-based, family-centered residential group home for children who have suffered from abuse, neglect and abandonment. The Children’s Home seeks to create a home-like community that promotes a loving, nurturing environment that serves as a source of strength and stability for 100 foster children each year. Their comprehensive program addresses the needs of children who have experienced chronic trauma, negative social behaviors and self-esteem issues and works to help children develop healthy coping skills and build positive relationships. Their individualized counseling model encourages children to discover their interests, develop their curiosities and build coping skills with caring support and positive mentorship. The residential treatment program provides a safe home, counseling, nutrition, healthcare, educational support, and enrichment activities for residential care children. The Explore After 4 Program seeks to build developmental assets through recreational programming during after-school and out-of-school time based on a therapeutic children’s development model using evidence-based practices from the Search Institute designed to address the social and emotional needs of foster children intended to improve gaps in healthy relationship-building, resiliency, self-awareness and responsible decision-making. These activities include outdoor team sports, biking, swimming, leadership council, music & art, dance, birthday parties and community service projects. Participation in structured learning activities that encourage peer bonding, positive goal setting and self-discipline helps approximately 150 children who have suffered from trauma to build character, integrity, personal responsibility and a sense of purpose. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $8,912,712 Other Revenue $500,287 Total Revenue $9,412,999 Program Expenses $7,932,521 Administrative Expenses $1,413,228 Fundraising Expenses $476,434 Total Expenses 9,822,183 Program Expenses 80.8% Administrative Expenses 14.4% Fundraising Expenses 4.9%

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Clothes To Kids Clearwater, St. Petersburg, FL Serves: Pinellas County

www.clothestokids.org Clothes To Kids provides quality new and used clothing free of charge to school-age children of low-income families. The organization conducts its operations on the basis of four core values including compassion, respect, self-esteem and service. Clothes To Kids strives to provide a friendly, welcoming atmosphere to disadvantaged children that instill a sense of self-worth and dignity. Qualifying children are referred by a case worker or social worker employed by a local social service agency, a school teacher, administrator or guidance counselor with the school district, or a church leader in their place of worship. Financial need is determined by Title I or public school free lunch program enrollment. Children may shop in the Clothes To Kids store and receive clothing up to 2 times per year based on need. A complete week’s worth of new school uniform clothing is provided to an additional 200 children of low-income families that helps to remove the barriers socio-economically disadvantaged children have to participating fully in their academic studies, relating to their peers and benefitting from a positive educational experience. Each child receives 2 polo tops and pants, 5 pairs of socks, and 5 pairs of underwear during their visit to Clothes To Kids. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $1,293,416 Other Revenue $16,732 Total Revenue $1,310,148 Program Expenses $1,117,419 Administrative Expenses $78,930 Fundraising Expenses $88,645 Total Expenses $1,284,994 Program Expenses 87.0% Administrative Expenses 6.0% Fundraising Expenses 7.0%

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Computer Mentors Group Tampa, FL Serves: Hillsborough County www.computermentors.org

Computer Mentors Group provides computer technology skills training and information access to students of low-income families that bolsters academic achievement and employment readiness. The Computer Mentors youth development programs examine both hardware and software competencies; component identification and functions, Word and Excel processing and Internet search functions. The program offers hands-on, self-paced instruction with one-on-one tutoring assistance that maximizes every student’s mastery of critical skills sets on an individual basis and encourages each student’s talents and special interests. The STEM Corps Youth Program (formerly the Youth Computer Certification & Ownership Program) has been revamped to bridge a structured afterschool STEM educational program and their IT computer skills training, linking science exploration and discovery with technology, enhancing student’s critical thinking and problem solving skills with context learning and hands-on experiments to captivate students and increase understanding. Additionally, students participate in a service-learning program that involves technology-related projects for nonprofit and community organizations to allow youth to gain experience with on-the-job tasks such as web design, web programming, e-marketing, database development, etc. Approximately 30 advanced-level students receive tutoring instruction from USF masters-level IT interns for a 6-month intensive program. Funding supports student incentives for their participation and satisfactory completion of courses including broadband Internet service, computer hardware/software components that allows them to continue their education at home in preparation for college coursework and/or employment in the IT industry. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $1,112,478 Other Revenue $90,191 Total Revenue $1,202,669 Program Expenses $969,258 Administrative Expenses $172,118 Fundraising Expenses $0 Total Expenses $1,141,376 Program Expenses 85.0% Administrative Expenses 15.9% Fundraising Expenses 0.0%

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Covenant House Florida Fort Lauderdale/Orlando, FL Serves: Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and

Orange Counties www.covenanthousefl.org

Covenant House Florida provides emergency shelter care and vital relief services in helping homeless, at-risk youth escape a life on the streets, combating abandonment, abuse, trafficking and exploitation. The Covenant House program model strives to combat chronic homelessness and destructive lifestyles with an array of in-house services and educational opportunities including healthcare, GED preparation, job readiness and career training, drug abuse treatment and prevention, life skills training and continuing after care. The YES (Youth Enrichment Services) Program offers disadvantaged youth, struggling with homelessness, lack of education and the emotional burden of abandonment, the opportunity to participate in cultural education activities and events, field trips and arts performances that facilitates a greater perspective of new opportunities and new ways of life, increasing cognitive development and socio-cultural awareness. Activities include field trips and weekend outings at science and natural environment education centers, visual and performance art events and local cultural events. Funds support admission fees and transportation expenses for approximately 600 children. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $7,573,008 Other Revenue $64,676 Total Revenue $7,637,684 Program Expenses $7,072,933 Administrative Expenses $599,338 Fundraising Expenses $412,328 Total Expenses $8,084,599 Program Expenses 87.5% Administrative Expenses 7.4% Fundraising Expenses 5.1%

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Dignity U Wear Jacksonville, FL Serves: Duval, Clay and Baker Counties

www.dignityuwear.org

Dignity U Wear provides new clothing to a network of social services agencies, children’s homes, child welfare organizations throughout Florida as well as low-income school districts in their Duval County and surrounding community through strategic partnerships in the apparel industry. Dignity U Wear fulfills specific requests to meet the clothing needs of disadvantaged children with a target approach, providing clothing tailored to the individual needs of children rather than relying on those collected through clothing drives and donation boxes that may not bring clothing appropriate to each child’s needs. The Dignity U Wear warehouse works to distribute new clothing to children living in poverty or in the foster care system that brings a sense of dignity and self-worth, and fulfill the basic needs for underserved children to remove the barriers to education and the potential for a stable, healthy life and a promising future. Funding supports the expansion of a clothing distribution program to low-income school children in the impoverished area of Baker County where more than 50% of public school students are enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program and live below the poverty line in a rural community where resources, public transportation and access to social services is limited. Dignity U Wear works with local social workers, educators and school counselors in the county’s public school system to identify children in need of clothing and distribute new clothing to approximately 1,500 low-income students, including pants, shirts, polos, shorts, dresses, underwear and socks. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $5,515,357 Other Revenue $13,150 Total Revenue $5,528,507 Program Expenses $4,785,369 Administrative Expenses $133,619 Fundraising Expenses $199,375 Total Expenses $5,118,363 Program Expenses 93.5% Administrative Expenses 2.6% Fundraising Expenses 3.9%

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The Florida Baptist Children’s Homes Lakeland, FL (Main Campus) Serves: Milton, Pensacola, Tallahassee, Jacksonville,

Gainesville, New Smyrna Beach, Orlando, Clearwater, Bradenton, Fort Myers, Broward County, Miami www.fbchomes.org

The Florida Baptist Children’s Homes provide faith-based residential group home and emergency shelter care to abused, neglected and abandoned children, teen pregnancy care and in-house foster care placement. Florida Baptist Children’s Homes work to fulfill the role as advocate on behalf of each child’s developmental, emotional and spiritual needs during a time of crisis. By instilling in children strong Christian values and the support of a dedicated, loving family, they have the opportunity to exemplify positive relationships, healthy lifestyles and achieve personal growth. The Youth on a Mission Program offers approximately 200 foster care children the opportunity, with the support of the Florida Baptist Children’s Homes associated rescue missions and shelters serving disadvantaged families and their children, to engage in community service efforts and experience the value of giving selflessly to others in need that encourages positive character development and trusting relationships. The program is designed to teach children about the importance of giving back and opening their eyes to the needs of their own communities, and to gain perspective on their own personal struggles with the knowledge that there are others with less fortune in need of physical and emotional support. Funds support lodging, fuel, food and supplies in traveling both throughout the state and abroad volunteering their time to contribute to mission projects to benefit the poor, homeless families and children. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $17,186,932 Other Revenue $228,793 Total Revenue $17,415,725 Program Expenses $10,583,248 Administrative Expenses $1,373,065 Fundraising Expenses $882,330 Total Expenses $12,838,643 Program Expenses 87.5% Administrative Expenses 7.4% Fundraising Expenses 5.1%

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Florida United Methodist Children’s Home Enterprise, FL Serves: Volusia, Flagler, Putnam and St. Johns Counties

www.fumch.org

Florida United Methodist Children’s Home provides faith-based residential group home care, independent living services, foster care placement and adoption services to abused, abandoned and neglected children. The Florida United Methodist Children’s Home utilizes a house parent model with campus programs that attend to each child’s educational, recreational, healthcare and therapeutic counseling needs during their healing process, facilitating the development of life management skills and emotional wellbeing that will carry them to successful, independent living. The Independent Living Program  offers ongoing educational and job readiness skills training for adolescent foster care children in preparation for their transition to self-sufficiency. The program consists of 5 key learning components, transitional living, life skills, mentoring, career development and aftercare services that benefits approximately 90 children each year. Florida United Methodist Children’s Home will be expanded the program with the therapeutic horticulture component, promoting a holistic multi-disciplinary learning experience that engages young people in the hands-on nurturing process. The program will act as a teamwork activity that encourages a sense of personal responsibility for the care of their garden while advancing knowledge and critical thinking skills in the environmental sciences. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $16,483,944 Other Revenue $3,197,023 Total Revenue $19,680,967 Program Expenses $11,607,273 Administrative Expenses $1,114,154 Fundraising Expenses $1,975,151 Total Expenses $14,696,578 Program Expenses 79.0% Administrative Expenses 7.6% Fundraising Expenses 13.4%

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Friends of Joshua House Tampa, FL Serves: Hillsborough County www.friendsofjoshuahouse.org

Joshua House provides therapeutic emergency shelter care and a safe, permanent residential group home for abused, neglected and abandoned children, offering them a stable and nurturing, family-like environment during a time of recovery and personal growth. Their comprehensive program offers individual counseling, life skills training, educational opportunities and transitional support services. Joshua House offers a safe, family-like environment with a caring and dedicated staff that provides nurturing home for foster children in Hillsborough County. Friends of Joshua House provides funding directly to support the children at Joshua House for non-operational funds not covered by DCF contract stipends per child, including restoration of cottages, clothing, nutritional foods, allowances, activities, life skills training, and independent living transitional services. Funding supports the Joshua House Activities Program that will allow children to participate in after-school sports, animal therapy activities, prom and homecoming dances, birthday parties, vocational skills training, cooking classes, and community service. The younger children have had the chance to participate in summer and after-school extracurricular activities including little league baseball, football league, soccer, dance, and computer training courses. Joshua House seeks to provide quality of life enhancing, constructive, learning experiences that encourage structure, discipline, creativity and personal achievement. Their children will continue to develop their skills and talents that improve healthy and emotional wellbeing and interact with their peers to develop positive interpersonal relationships that heal trauma and emotional struggle. Costs include support for membership fees, equipment, supplies and transportation for the children's participation in after-school activities and summer camps for approximately 150 children. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $483,075 Other Revenue $-512 Total Revenue $483,587 Program Expenses $261,129 Administrative Expenses $27,255 Fundraising Expenses $81,825 Total Expenses $370,209 Program Expenses 70.5% Administrative Expenses 7.4% Fundraising Expenses 22.1%

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Grace Place for Children and Families Golden Gate City, FL Serves: Golden Gate City, surrounding neighborhoods

www.graceplacenaples.org

Grace Place for Children and Families provides quality, faith-based after-school educational and youth development opportunities including literacy, language and life skill development programming to at-risk children of low-income families with a focus on the Golden Gate City and surrounding area that represents the most financially needy and underserved children in Southwest Florida. Their School-Age Children’s Program offers tutoring, homework assistance, structured cognitive and social enrichment activities, and career exploration field trips. Grace Place encourages families to become actively involved in the healthy growth and development, and academic pursuits of their children emphasizing the importance of raising the standard of academic achievement for their child. The AP Leadership Program is a three-tiered program that encompasses all high school grade levels, requiring students to participate in an after-school program focusing on college and career preparation activities, college visits, ACT preparation assistance and financial literacy workshops. In the final stages of the program, students will be offered part-time employment as teaching assistants in the Academy of Leaders after-school program along with additional mentorship opportunities. Students learn and practice essential skills such as effective communication, problem solving, conflict management, managing tasks and leadership skills. Leadership and mentorship opportunities incorporate weekly participation in the Teen Outreach Program that includes professional training, team-building and role-playing activities that reduce the risk of problem-behavior, promote healthy choices and empower teens to actively engage in their educational experience, strive for active career development and build stronger communities. Funding supports fees for college preparation workshops and high school counselor coordination, supplies and materials for meetings and retreats, college visits and mentorship events for approximately 100 children. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $1,539,836 Other Revenue $30,328 Total Revenue $1,570,164 Program Expenses $923,625 Administrative Expenses $117,666 Fundraising Expenses $131,189 Program Expenses 78.8% Administrative Expenses 10.0% Fundraising Expenses 11.2%

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Heart Gallery of Pinellas & Pasco St. Petersburg, FL Serves: Pinellas and Pasco Counties www.heartgallerykids.org

The Heart Gallery of Pinellas & Pasco manages adoption services that enable children living in foster care to realize the dream of finding a permanent, loving family while raising awareness and fostering education about foster children in need of a stable, nurturing home. The Heart Gallery exhibit brings the community closer to the faces and voices of foster children with photography and personal information on each child in search of a family. The Heart Gallery of Pinellas & Pasco was created in partnership with Eckerd Community Alternatives, the leading, licensed foster care provider in Pinellas and Pasco County with a mission of providing innovative programs that help to promote the adoption and enrichment of foster care children. The Video Recruitment Project gives children long-awaiting adoption due to age, sibling group, length of stay or a troubling family history the opportunity to play a role in their own recruitment and a personally connected vehicle for reaching potential adoptive parents that is made available online, at exhibits and through care managers. Each child has the opportunity to share their thoughts, wishes, and hopes and develop a personal relationship with potential families that provides insight to each child's personality and personal needs. Funding supports expenses associated with production and editing, DVD and digital media copies and website accessibility for approximately 20 children awaiting adoption. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $542,002 Other Revenue $0 Total Revenue $542,002 Program Expenses $413,774 Administrative Expenses $52,774 Fundraising Expenses $43,403 Total Expenses $509,951 Program Expenses 81.1% Administrative Expenses 10.3% Fundraising Expenses 8.5% 37  

Heart Gallery of Tampa Bay St. Petersburg, FL Serves: Hillsborough County www.heartgallerytampabay.org

The Heart Gallery of Tampa Bay manages adoption services that enable children living in foster care to realize the dream of finding a permanent, loving family while raising awareness and fostering education about foster children in need of a stable, nurturing home. The Heart Gallery exhibit brings the community closer to the faces and voices of foster children with photography and personal information on each child in search of a family. The Heart Gallery of Tampa Bay is a collaborative effort of the Children’s Board and Camelot Community Care, Tampa Bay’s leading child welfare and behavioral health agency providing foster care services, case management, adoptions and therapeutic counseling with the goal of achieving permanency and a successful transition to independent living for foster children in Hillsborough County. The Video Recruitment Project gives children long-awaiting adoption due to age, sibling group, length of stay or a troubling family history the opportunity to play a role in their own recruitment and a personally connected vehicle for reaching potential adoptive parents that is made available online, at exhibits and through care managers. Each child has the opportunity to share their thoughts, wishes, and hopes and develop a personal relationship with potential families that provides insight to each child's personality and personal needs. Funding supports expenses associated with production and editing, DVD and digital media copies and website accessibility for approximately 20 children awaiting adoption. Financial Performance Metrics (Camelot Community Care) Primary Revenue $51,217,258 Other Revenue $0 Total Revenue $51,217,258 Program Expenses $45,827,786 Administrative Expenses $5,472,559 Fundraising Expenses $0 Total Expenses $51,300,345 Program Expenses 89.3% Administrative Expenses 10.7% Fundraising Expenses 0%

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Heartland for Children Bartow, FL Serves: Polk, Hardee and Highlands Counties

www.heartlandforchildren.org

Heartland for Children is a community-based care child welfare agency that provides child welfare management for the regional foster care system, overseeing the provision of services for abused, neglected and abandoned children including case management, adoption, individual and family counseling services and independent living. Heartland strives to improve the standard of safety, permanency and wellbeing of foster care youth, providing additional resources for a well-rounded, high-quality of life for the typically underserved children living within the foster care system. The Foster Family Appreciation Program holds activities, celebrations and achievement recognition events for foster children and their families with fun-filled field trips including a day at a local theme park (Busch Gardens, Lego Land, Sea World and Universal Studios) and the opportunity for foster parents, children and their, often separated, siblings to nurture their relationship, spend quality time enjoying each other and create lasting memories as well as engaging in crucial learning experiences that help to build a mentoring relationship bond. Building trusting relationships with positive role models allows children who have experienced trauma find the social and emotional support they need to develop coping skills and make healthy choices. A supplementary portion of funds supports the My First Home Basket Program to benefit adolescent youth preparing for their transition to independent living who have little to no support as they enter the workforce or post-secondary education that goes to purchase household items to help them get started on their own in their dorm room or first apartment. Programs benefit approximately 150 children. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $41,873,993 Other Revenue $77,437 Total Revenue $41,951,430 Program Expenses $39,495,339 Administrative Expenses $2,337,710 Fundraising Expenses $0 Total Expenses $41,833,049 Program Expenses 94.4% Administrative Expenses 5.6% Fundraising Expenses 0.0%

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Helping Abused Neglected Disadvantaged Youth (HANDY) Fort Lauderdale, FL Serves: Broward County www.handyinc.org

Helping Abused Neglected Disadvantaged Youth (HANDY) provides education and empowerment opportunities to abused, neglected and abandoned foster care youth ages birth-23 with comprehensive programming that focuses on youth development, positive mentoring, and financial self-sufficiency upon transition to independence. HANDY offers vulnerable youth in need of positive attention and care with personalized case management, educational support services, recreational activities and life skills counseling. HANDY’s Stars for Life Program gives struggling at-risk youth tutoring and afterschool activities in middle and high school to improve academic performance and motivate each student to reach their full potential, pursue higher education and build self confidence. The Stars for Life Program provides 100 middle school and high school foster care youth the opportunity to improve literacy and encourage foster children to pursue continued education opportunities, explore academic and potential career interests, and to develop the skills needed to reach for a brighter future and economic stability. Activities include weekly instruction from certified teachers, educational specialists and community volunteers that provide individualized academic evaluation, tutoring, case management, prevention education, book club and tours to state college and vocational schools to serve as a source of inspiration and real-world perspective to the importance of learning, personal success and the college experience that helps to guide HANDY youth on their options for post-secondary education and a career path best suited for their individual needs. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $1,923,746 Other Revenue $113,821 Total Revenue $2,037,567 Program Expenses $1,442,048 Administrative Expenses $235,618 Fundraising Expenses $205,266 Total Expenses $1,882,932 Program Expenses 76.6% Administrative Expenses 12.5% Fundraising Expenses 10.9%

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Hope Children’s Home Tampa, FL Serves: Hillsborough County www.hopechildrenshome.org

Hope Children’s Home provides private, faith-based, long-term residential group home care and Christian education to abused, neglected and abandoned children, acting as an advocate on behalf of each child’s developmental, emotional and spiritual needs, molding them into happy, high-functioning and capable members of their Christian community. Children are raised in a structured, loving family atmosphere with live-in house parents who support their best interests and give the guidance and encouragement every child deserves. Their new campus addition, with 2 single family homes, and plans for an additional 4 homes, allows long-term foster care children to thrive and grow in a warm, family home like a traditional family unit. With a restructuring of Florida’s child welfare system minimizing the placement of children under 12 in group homes, privately licensed children’s home like Hope Children’s Home have seen a marked increase in their population of younger children. As such, Hope Children’s Home has since created a dedicated space for a day care center to care for those children ages 6 and younger. Hope requests funding to purchase and create an age-appropriate playground area for their day care children that provides them with a safe, fun and inspiring outdoor space to play, learn and grow for approximately 50 children. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $2,791,326 Other Revenue $35,839 Total Revenue $2,827,165 Program Expenses $1,800,167 Administrative Expenses $626,182 Fundraising Expenses $213,458 Total Expenses $2,639,807 Program Expenses 68.2% Administrative Expenses 23.7% Fundraising Expenses 8.1%

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Jack & Jill Children’s Center Fort Lauderdale, FL Serves: Broward County www.jackandjillcenter.org

Jack & Jill Children’s Center is dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty for children of low-income, hard-working families through the provision of quality early childhood education, family intervention and support services. With a unique, holistic approach that combines high-quality early education with caring and structured family support, Jack & Jill Children’s Center works to provide a strong educational and emotional foundation for at-risk children that allows them to explore and experience their world with creativity and discovery. The early childhood education curriculum supports cognitive, social, emotional and physical development, their goal is to provide opportunities for children of working families with hands-on instruction and activities that promote language and literacy skills, and core competencies in social studies, science, mathematics and the arts. Funding provides scholarships to support the enrollment of 50 additional low-income children into the early childhood education program that supports learning opportunities that remove the gap for underserved in areas such as language, social and emotional aptitude that inhibit academic performance, high school and college completion rates, as well as economic mobility and lower rates of incarceration. Jack & Jill Children’s Center utilizes Creative Curriculum, a comprehensive, research-based assessment system that supports effective teaching approaches and children’s cognitive development designed for preschool-age children. Funding supports the cost of admission, educational materials and snack. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $2,002,135 Other Revenue $15,255 Total Revenue $2,017,390 Program Expenses $1,521,767 Administrative Expenses $332,055 Fundraising Expenses $219,593 Total Expenses $2,073,415 Program Expenses 73.4% Administrative Expenses 16.0% Fundraising Expenses 10.6% 42  

Liberty Youth Ranch Bonita Springs, FL Serves: Lee County www.libertyyouthranch.org

Liberty Youth Ranch provides long-term, faith-based residential group home care in a safe, family-like environment for abused, neglected and abandoned children whose biological parents have had their rights terminated. Liberty Youth Ranch promotes the uniqueness, dignity and inherent worth of every child and imparts a higher standard of achievement with high-quality educational opportunities, guidance and support they need to reach their full potential. The board and staff work to raise the bar in serving the needs of orphaned children with specialized education and counseling services, the development of healthy social skills and positive self-image. The Tutoring and Academic Enrichment Program provides their 16 resident children with the tools necessary to ensure academic achievement and bridge the gap of educational deficiency that plagues socio-economically disadvantaged children. Tutoring assistance works to bridge the educational deficit for foster children and demonstrate the importance of education as a daily commitment to their future. After-school activities offer children the opportunity to pursue their interests, encouraging teamwork, confidence building, commitment and a disciplined work ethic that translate to real-world applications. These include team sports and recreation, art and summer camp experiences. Funds support tutoring services fees, field trip admission fees and transportation expenses. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $641,915 Other Revenue $220,432 Total Revenue $862,347 Program Expenses $699,117 Administrative Expenses $85,090 Fundraising Expenses $77,251 Total Expenses $861,458 Program Expenses 81.2% Administrative Expenses 9.9% Fundraising Expenses 9.0% 43  

Lighthouse Ministries Lakeland, FL Serves: Polk County www.lighthousemin.org

Lighthouse Ministries provides faith-based emergency shelter care to aid children and families who have been the victims of domestic abuse, homelessness and severe financial hardship. Lighthouse Ministries programs offer guidance, support and stability during critical stages of growth and development and work to minimize the affects of trauma and abuse. Children fives years and younger have the opportunity to attend their on-campus community pre-school while older children attend a local public school. All children in the emergency care program participate in the Lighthouse KIDCARE program that provides specialized counseling, pediatric healthcare, case management and academic assistance to overcome declines in cognitive and social development for at-risk children. The Hobbs Foundation’s KIDCARE Technology Center area includes a computer lab and social play area where children can interact with peers and mentors in a safe, productive environment, build a strong support system with Lighthouse staff, parents and other children, build goal-setting and life skills plans, receive academic tutoring and gain computer skills. Elementary school-age children are engaged in team building exercises that promote healthy relationships, self-assuredness and positive coping skills. Lighthouse Ministries requests funding to update the technology center to continue to expose disadvantaged children to comprehensive, hands-on educational activities that empower children to pursue their interests and academic pursuits and have a healthy outlet for personal growth and exploration. Funding supports the purchase of computer, printer, computer desks, and furnishings as well as playground equipment for the children’s outdoor play area to support approximately 200 children. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $4,211,569 Other Revenue $129,768 Total Revenue $4,341,337 Program Expenses $3,272,915 Administrative Expenses $410,503 Fundraising Expenses $286,332 Total Expenses $3,969,750 Program Expenses 82.4% Administrative Expenses 10.3% Fundraising Expenses 7.2%

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Metropolitan Ministries Tampa, FL Serves: Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Polk Counties

www.metromin.org

Metropolitan Ministries provides emergency shelter care to children and families who have been victims of homelessness and severe financial hardship with comprehensive programming that aims to alleviate suffering, promote dignity and instill self-sufficiency. Metropolitan Ministries provides temporary shelter, meals, clothing, education and counseling services to bring wealth of resources to families in need. The PromiseLand Childcare Center and Partnership School provides education and socio-cognitive development services for children of homeless families with small class sizes, individualized tutoring and a targeted development plan to suit each child’s unique needs along with constructive afterschool activities and summer programs. The PromiseLand Program for pre-school children addresses the need for a high-quality, individualized education program that offers an interactive learning environment with age-appropriate activities that give children the best chance for elementary school success and a brighter future. The recently expanded classrooms at the new PromiseLand facility at MiraclePlace, designed for children 6 weeks to age 3, enhance the instruction with their new program model in conjunction with their pre-K education program, Trauma Informed Care, that seeks to heal the affects of experiences of violence, damaging relationships and emotional trauma through creative forms of expression and healthy communication channels that fosters emotional wellbeing, the development of coping mechanisms and a sense of self-reliance. Funding supports educational materials including reading tablets, educational books, toys and learning materials for approximately 70 preschool children. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $18,843,176 Other Revenue $1,085,427 Total Revenue $19,928,603 Program Expenses $13,011,465 Administrative Expenses $481,478 Fundraising Expenses $1,938,857 Total Expenses $15,431,800 Program Expenses 84.3% Administrative Expenses 3.1% Fundraising Expenses 12.6%

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Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI) Tampa, FL Serves: Hillsborough County www.mosi.org

MOSI is a community-based educational institution dedicated to advancing public interest, knowledge and an understanding of science, industry and technology with innovative exhibitions and interactive experiences to engage diverse audiences. MOSI’s children’s programs supplement the academic curriculum with a wide variety of hands-on programming engineered to make learning fun and stimulate interest in science that inspires the future leaders of 21st century industry. The Summer Science Camp Program offers a variety of hands-on learning experiences that promote creative discovery, invention and critical thinking skills. By combining real science with the tools and technology used by science professionals, MOSI exposes children to exciting experiments, simulations, explorations and inventions that help children discover their innovator within. Funding provides 40-45 economically disadvantaged students with scholarships to participate in a summer science camp. Qualified students must demonstrate Title I eligibility in the Hillsborough County school system. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $9,640,495 Other Revenue $509,361 Total Revenue $10,149,856 Program Expenses $8,419,129 Administrative Expenses $891,875 Fundraising Expenses $304,588 Total Expenses $9,615,592 Program Expenses 87.6% Administrative Expenses 9.3% Fundraising Expenses 3.2%

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Neat Stuff Miami, FL Serves: Miami-Dade County www.neatstuffhelpskids.org

Neat Stuff provides new clothing, shoes, backpacks and toys to at-risk children that instill a sense of pride and dignity to young victims of crime, poverty and homelessness. Neat Stuff strives to fill the gap that separates underserved children from those living in healthy, stable households and inspire a sense of self-worth and support needed to overcome their struggles, participate fully in their education and fulfill their ambitions for a better life. The School Preparedness Program distributes school uniforms to economically disadvantaged students, aiming to increase these students’ opportunity for academic achievement and self-esteem by eliminating the financial burden that may prevent a child’s ability to attend school regularly, receive a quality education and prepare for successful, independent living. Funding provides a one-week supply of school uniforms including 5 polo tops, 3 khaki pants, 5 sets of underwear, 5 pair of socks and a backpack for approximately 200 children. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $1,177,816 Other Revenue $18,730 Total Revenue $1,196,546 Program Expenses $1,496,580 Administrative Expenses $113,735 Fundraising Expenses $30,802 Total Expenses $1,641,117 Program Expenses 91.2% Administrative Expenses 6.9% Fundraising Expenses 1.9%

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OASIS Network of Tampa Tampa, FL Serves: Hillsborough County www.oasis-network.org

OASIS Network of Tampa provides new and gently used clothing and personal items to low-income public school students by way of school system administrators and social workers in order to meet the basic needs of students and limit the barriers that economic hardship has on the potential for academic success and healthy development of underserved children. Donated items are acquired through a variety of local partnerships with the YMCA, schools, churches and Publix stores. With increases in the number of public school students in Hillsborough County living at or below the poverty line, qualifying for the free and reduced lunch program, OASIS Network is opening a 4th facility in the Seffner area that will serve the east side of Hillsborough County’s school children. Many Hillsborough County schools have implemented a uniform policy for students that helps to eliminate any distractions in the classroom environment and any peer-to peer divide based on socio-economic status. As such, OASIS Network is expanding their uniform program to address the growing uniform needs among the county’s poorest schools. Funding supports the purchase of 2 sets of uniform clothing; 2 shirts and 2 shorts at an average of $2.75 and $4.00 each for 740 low-income students in public schools identified by county social workers as the area’s most needy schools. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $114,252 Other Revenue $0 Total Revenue $114,252 Program Expenses $83,900 Administrative Expenses $5,721 Fundraising Expenses $0 Total Expenses $89,621 Program Expenses 93.6% Administrative Expenses 6.4% Fundraising Expenses 0.0%

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Place of Hope Palm Beach Gardens, FL Serves: Palm Beach County, surrounding areas

www.placeofhope.com

Place of Hope is a faith-based child welfare agency with an array of services for children in need including emergency shelter care, family-style residential group home care for foster children, traditional foster care and adoption services, family outreach and intervention services, transitional housing and a stable, nurturing home environment for abused, neglected and abandoned children, and now, the addition of Hope House, FL, a safe house that offers professional case management, independent living services and educational opportunities for children who are victims of human sex trafficking. The Place of Hope program model strives to instill a consistent, structured alternative home where children who have experienced trauma or abuse can learn core values in forming healthy relationships, demonstrating personal responsibility and character development. Place of Hope requests funding support to purchase clothing and undergarments for a significant increase in incoming foster children placed in their family cottages, and emergency shelter and assessment center, approximately 150 children. The organization works to provide a stable, loving home that maintains a sense of permanency that enables personal growth and healthy development, minimizing the trauma and stress associated with the transition to foster care by addressing their basic needs. Children entering foster care often come from an unstable living situation with no clothing or personal belongings. Each child receives their necessary clothing and a “blessing bag” that includes a Bible, blanket, toy, and toiletries. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $4,518,915 Other Revenue $446,942 Total Revenue $4,965,857 Program Expenses $3,961,425 Administrative Expenses $254,260 Fundraising Expenses $239,205 Total Expenses $4,454,890 Program Expenses 88.9% Administrative Expenses 5.7% Fundraising Expenses 5.4%

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Real Life Children’s Ranch Okeechobee, FL Serves: Okeechobee County, surrounding areas

www.rlcr.org

Real Life Children’s Ranch provides faith-based residential group home care for abused, neglected and abandoned children with a family atmosphere and nurturing home environment needed for a fulfilling and productive future. The team at Real Life Children’s Ranch works to provide ongoing support and teach children about the richness of a well-rounded life with the consistency that emulates a healthy family home. The ranch offers children a variety of after-school, recreational activities on a 30- acre property that includes playgrounds, horseback riding, sports, 4-H, dance and drama. The Outdoor Adventure Program provides a safe and educational camping experience that promotes personal growth, self-discovery, teamwork and leadership skills at regional parks and campsites. Activities include backpacking, whitewater rafting, zip line excursions, biking, skiing, snowboarding, etc. The program seeks to give disadvantaged children a fun and memorable experience that builds character and self-confidence. Funding supports admission fees, supplies and travel expenses for approximately 30 children living at the ranch. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $943,936 Other Revenue $1,215 Total Revenue $945,151 Program Expenses $794,026 Administrative Expenses $67,462 Fundraising Expenses $14,947 Total Expenses $876,435 Program Expenses 90.6% Administrative Expenses 7.7% Fundraising Expenses 1.7%

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Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tampa Bay Tampa, FL Serves: Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco Counties

www.rmhctampabay.com

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tampa Bay provides a home-away-from-home for families with children receiving medical treatment in bay area hospitals and allows parents and guardians to stay in close proximity to provide comfort and loving care to their child during a critical time of need. The Ronald McDonald House Charities’ Care Mobile Program, in partnership with the University of South Florida Department of Pediatric Medicine, manages and operates a mobile healthcare van that houses medical and dental examination rooms, reception and medical records area with state-of-the-art digital radiology and screening equipment. Care Mobile is designed to deliver high-quality medical and dental care to at-risk children of low-income families attending Title I public schools. The Care Mobile Program in Partnership with USF and other community partner agencies supports operations in providing quality healthcare to underserved children in the Tampa Bay area. The Care Mobile van houses patient examination rooms, laboratory, reception and medical records area designed to delivery pediatric health and dental care services that bridges the gap for low-income children and teens receiving immunizations, physical exams, prenatal care, health screenings, diagnosis and treatment of chronic disease and health education. Care Mobile continues serving children in high poverty school districts as well as those living in emergency shelter care at Metropolitan Ministries and The Salvation Army. Funding supports operational expenses including fuel, office and medical supplies, Internet access and digital filing system to serve approximately 800 children. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $1,863,138 Other Revenue $942,469 Total Revenue $2,805,607 Program Expenses $2,188,270 Administrative Expenses $143,118 Fundraising Expenses $314,436 Total Expenses $2,645,824 Program Expenses 82.7% Administrative Expenses 5.4% Fundraising Expenses 11.9%

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The Salvation Army, St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, FL Serves: Pinellas County

www.salvationarmyflorida.org/stpetersburg

The Salvation Army, St. Petersburg provides family-style residential group home, emergency shelter care and child-focused counseling services to abused, neglected and abandoned children with a diverse team of community volunteers, officers and staff who are passionately committed to meeting the urgent human needs; encouraging salvation and offering hope, dignity and the opportunity to achieve self-reliance. Children’s Village offers long-term foster children a stable, caring living environment in traditional single family homes where they can learn to count on family, friends, school, church and their community with a dedicated support system in place to guide them as learn and grow. Sallie House is a safe haven for emergency shelter care for children who have been removed from their homes until a more permanent placement can be established. The Enrichment Experiences Project provides foster children with the opportunity to experience and be exposed to positive social and cultural influences that lead to a greater sense of perspective, purpose and self-esteem while increasing critical thinking and problem solving skills necessary for higher academic performance. Activities include educational field trips and after-school outings to parks, zoos, movies, museums, sporting events etc. Remaining funds support the Community Outreach Center where children served in both Sallie House and Children’s Village have a space for organized sports and other recreational activities that promote a productive, safe outlet for children to grow socially, emotionally and physically, learning the importance of team work, goal-setting and discipline. Grant funds purchase equipment and supplies for weekly and seasonal community events at the Community Outreach Center in addition to a media center in the Family Shelter that serves homeless mothers and children, engaging them in family bonding and relationship-building activities, serving approximately 100 children. Financial Performance Metrics (Children’s Village) Primary Revenue $1,034,306 Other Revenue $0 Total Revenue $1,034,306 Program Expenses $986,834 Administrative Expenses $13,000 Fundraising Expenses $1,565 Total Expenses $986,834 Program Expenses 98.5% Administrative Expenses 1.3% Fundraising Expenses 0.2%

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The Salvation Army, Tampa Tampa, FL Serves: Hillsborough County

www.salvationarmyflorida.org/tampa The Salvation Army, Tampa provides transitional housing and emergency shelter care for homeless families and children with social support services including education and job placement assistance, weekly counseling, and self-help programs that give at-risk families the tools they need to regain independence and self-sufficiency, care for their family and give their children the opportunity for a stable, healthy life. Their children’s programs provide academic tutoring, structured recreational activities and camping experiences that support cognitive development and emotional wellbeing for children with limited access to positive and engaging educational opportunities. With a diverse team of community volunteers, officers and staff, The Salvation Army is passionately committed to meeting the urgent human needs; encouraging salvation and offering hope, dignity and the opportunity to achieve self-reliance. The Dare to Dream Playground Project creates a safe, fun play area for both children residing in the emergency shelter and in the community outreach program in the low-income, high-crime neighborhood of Tampa Heights. Through a partnership with Kaboom and other private funders, The Salvation Army, Tampa designs and builds a playground space where children can engage in positive recreational and social activity with their peers and mentors, minimize negative behaviors and have a constructive outlet in which to play, learn and grow. The adjacent space features a therapeutic garden space where children can engage in hands-on outdoor activity that reduces stress and anxiety, encourages positive character development and personal responsibility for the care of their garden. Funding supports matching funds for playground equipment and the construction of the playground and garden area to benefit approximately 100 children. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $3,033,320 Other Revenue $4,546,048 Total Revenue $7,579,368 Program Expenses $7,055,404 Administrative Expenses $536,354 Fundraising Expenses $521,223 Total Expenses $8,112,981 Program Expenses 87.0% Administrative Expenses 6.6% Fundraising Expenses 6.4%

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Voices For Children Tampa, FL Serves: Hillsborough County www.vfcgal.org

Voices For Children provides support for abused, neglected and abandoned children in the Tampa Bay community while the judicial system searches for a safe and healthy permanent foster home to place those children removed from their homes. The state child welfare system does not have the resources to fully address all of the needs of children in care. The goal of Voices For Children is to augment the supportive services by providing personal, educational, medical and legal support and appointing a Guardian ad Litem to act in each child’s individual interests, identifying and developing additional resources in order to ease the transition of children to foster care. The Children’s Needs Fund provides children placed in emergency care under the state child welfare system with the basic needs that allows them the opportunity for a higher quality of life and a feeling of normalcy that eases their adjustment to their new environment, facilitates their involvement in everyday childhood activities and emotional stability that prepares them for placement with a foster family or group home. Funding is used to provide clothing, personal items, toiletries, school supplies, furniture, and bedding to fulfill the basic needs of children who have been abruptly removed from their homes, often times, with no personal belongings with them. Remaining funds supports the costs of foster family recruitment efforts that help connect each child to the Heart Gallery and Eckerd Youth Alternatives to facilitate their adoption with a forever family. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $188,319 Other Revenue $31,091 Total Revenue $219,410 Program Expenses $188,479 Administrative Expenses $13,644 Fundraising Expenses $43,557 Total Expenses $245,680 Program Expenses 76.7% Administrative Expenses 5.6% Fundraising Expenses 17.7% 54  

Youth Haven Naples, FL Serves: Collier County www.youthhaven.net

Youth Haven provides a residential group home, emergency shelter care, and social support services to abused, neglected and abandoned children including life skills education, child and substance abuse prevention, homelessness and crisis intervention, and individual and group counseling services. Youth Haven’s comprehensive continuum of care offers children a safe and caring home environment with the inspiration, guidance and support needed for healthy growth and development. Their secluded campus affords children who have suffered from trauma and abuse a sense of comfort and security with a range of outdoor recreational and social activities. Youth Haven’s Art and Dance Therapy Program allows 200 resident children who have suffered from trauma and abuse to respond with non-verbal communication that channels positive emotional expression, increases psychological wellbeing while developing creative thinking and problem-solving skills. Children engage in community-based arts and cultural experiences that serve as a healthy outlet for feelings of isolation, sadness, anger or loss as a result of trauma, develop coping skills and trusting relationships with mentors. The Art and Dance Therapy Program works to resolve traumatic experiences by reducing stress and anxiety with positive sensory stimulation and encouraging interpersonal growth. Funding supports arts supplies, dance and fitness instruction fees, and admission costs to cultural outings to galleries, museums and performances. Financial Performance Metrics Primary Revenue $2,015,348 Other Revenue $56,939 Total Revenue $2,072,287 Program Expenses $1,667,015 Administrative Expenses $768,153 Fundraising Expenses $156,328 Program Expenses 64.3% Administrative Expenses 29.6% Fundraising Expenses 6.0%

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2202 N West Shore Blvd Suite 200 Tampa, FL 33607 Amanda Long, Senior Portfolio Manager 813.230.8491 hobbsfoundation@gmail.com www.hobbsfoundation.org

The Hobbs Foundation is a private, family foundation based in Tampa Bay that is committed to improving the lives of disadvantaged children throughout the state of Florida. Our strategic giving seeks to improve the access that socio-economically vulnerable children have to educational, social and character enrichment opportunities that gives them the tools they need to reach their full potential. Our nonprofit partners demonstrate effective program outcomes relevant to the critical needs of at-risk children, engaged leadership that provides a clear plan of action in addressing the educational, social and developmental gaps for foster children and children of low-income families, with sound financial health and program development that leads to long-term impact for children in need.