Saturday, May 5, 2012

9 AM- 1PM

-“A Day of Hope” UNITY IN THE Community Event

One day, dedicated to three great organizations

Organizations/Locations

Services Of Hope

City Of Dallas- KB Polk Recreation Center

North Park Community Development Corporation

Day Sponsor

$1-$999

• Recognition in event program

Hope Sponsor

$1,000-$4,999

• Placard with your name
• Reserved parking
• Recognition in event program

Day Of Hope “Presenting Sponsor”

$5,000+

• Reserved parking
• Golf cart ride for event
• Recognition with company logo in event program
• Full screen ad next to center stage
• Full screen ad at each venue
• Preferential seating
• Recognition in E-Newsletter
• Recognition on website
• Tickets to private reception

Goal: Raise $30,000 for after school, summer and community programming.

Contact Services Of Hope: 214-276-0234 or kford@servicesofhope.org

www.servicesofhope.org

Please visit our event sponsor page.

Please complete and send our Day of Hope Silent Auction Donation Form.

2012 Strategic Plan Update

“We Are The Change We Seek “

1) Revenue sources:

Foundations make up 80% of revenue sources, we would like to move that to 40% by increasing corporations, individual donors, and fee for services income.

12/31/11                   New DISD After School Contract                          $ 50,000                            9%

03/30/12                   Sublease SOH building                                        $ 24,000                             4%

06/30/12                  Summer Fee for Service contracts (2)                 $30,000                              5%

09/30/12                  Big Thought Contract – 3 campuses                   $30,000                              5%

02/30/12                  Fee for Service and Other Income                        $230,000                          40%

2) Communication-Donor/Client event:

Relationships – put first priority on building empathetic relationships with our clients, donors, and volunteers.

SOH has less than five consistent monthly donors. They give an average of $11,400 per month.  The goal is to increase this to 25 monthly donors by the end of year, giving an average of $25,000. This will be done by, Social Media, hosting quarterly lunches and workday events.

12/31/11                                Thanksgiving Basket program            30 volunteers

3/30/12                                  1^st qtr newsletter                                     5 new donors

6/30/12                                  Summer camp tour                                 5 new donors

9/30/12                                  Fall Program lunch                                 5 new Donors

12/30/12                                Christmas Program                               10 new donors

3) After- school sites certified by Dallas After School Network (DASN):

SOH currently has no after school sites certified under the new standard of DASN.  The goal is to have two campuses certified by end of 2012.

12/31/11                     Tier 1                                          JW Ray & Birdie Alexander, KB Polk,

                                                                                          Julian Salivar and Miss Endys

3/30/12                      Teir-2                                           JW Ray & Birdie Alexander

6/30/12                      Tier 3                                           JW Ray & Birdie Alexander

9/30/12                      Certified Site                             JW Ray & Birdie Alexander

12/30/12                    Renewal of certification         JW Ray & Birdie Alexander

4) Become a staff managed organization:

The objective is to hire and/or train staff to be intentional and directed by organizational directives and values.

12/31/11          Improve staff professional development              8 hours monthly

03/30/12          Update all Job Descriptions                                   Approved by board

06/30/12         Team building                                                             First annual staff retreat

09/30/12         New Operations manager                                       Hire experienced non-profit executive

12/30/12          New employee handbook                                       New employee orientation process

Thursday, September 15^th was North Texas Giving Day, and in honor of the special day Donorbridge made a commitment to match a percentage of the donations made to non-profits such as Services of Hope.  This is a great opportunity for Services of Hope to maximize the donations we receive, so we try each year to make it a special day for the community and our donors who continue to give so generously to support our efforts.  

In honor of this year’s theme of “Get Up and Give”, Donorbridge added some extra excitement and opportunity to earn additional matching funds by sponsoring a fun competition. In order to win the additional funds, each organization was encouraged to throw a party.  The organization that seemed to have the most fun (judged via pictures on our website) received an additional $2,500 match from Donorbridge.

Services of Hope joined in on the fun and threw an all day pajama party here at our offices.  We were joined by members of our community and sponsors, and celebrated the day with food, games, dancing, and prizes to raise money for our Literacy, Character, and Connection after-school programs. While receiving gifts for our cause, SOH continued to give back to our community as well, giving over 40 bags of groceries from our food pantry.

Regrettably, we did not win the additional monetary prize from Donorbridge, but we had a lot of fun celebrating the day together anyway.

Overall, the day was a great success! In fact, due to the excessive number of positive supporters across North Texas, Donorbridge even got overwhelmed! They were still counting donations early this week and we have just heard our final amount raised for Services of Hope is $11,048!!!  We here at Services of Hope are celebrating again, as a result – but without the pajamas this time.

Thank you to all, for prayers, contributions, and overall support. Every thought or penny made the difference.

Services of Hope had the honor of working with Quinn Chandler, a Life Scout of Unit T261, in the Great Plains District on his Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project.

On Saturday August 27, 2011, Services of Hope collaborated with Quinn  and his Boy Scout Troop to fulfill a critical need in our community. The neighborhood teenagers needed a safe, secure, and friendly place to have fun.

At 8 am, approximately 20 Members of Unit T261, Services of Hope Staff Members, Friends, and Family from as far as Pittsburg, TX, all joined together to build a basketball half-court, with benches in the Services of Hope Parking lot.

What is an Eagle Scout Project?  The Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project, known as the Eagle Scout Project or more simply as the Eagle Project, is the opportunity for a Scout in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to demonstrate leadership of others while performing a project for the benefit of his community. This is the culmination of the Eagle Scout candidate’s leadership training, and it requires a significant effort on his part. The project must benefit an organization other than BSA, but it cannot be performed for an individual or a business, be solely a fundraising project, or be commercial in nature.

Services of Hope is very thankful, to Quinn for picking our organization; the community will benefit greatly from his Eagle Scout Project. Having this basketball Court at our center will help the youth of our community by providing a place to socialize, exercise, and just have fun.

We at Services of Hope would like to send out the biggest Thank you, to Quinn, Boy Scout Troop T261, and all of their Volunteers for making this Basketball Court happen.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2011

5th – 8th graders from Highland Park Presbyterian
Church volunteer at Services of Hope April 9th.

On Saturday, April 9, 2011, we had 30 children from Highland Park Presbyterian Church (HPPC) here at Services of Hope for a youth volunteer day of service. SOH prepared a continental breakfast, which the children and their leaders really enjoyed.

After eating breakfast, we had introductions and a brief SOH overview, explaining SOH and what services our organization provides to the community. We introduced the Literacy Character Connections program.  Anthony White of SOH presented the Literacy component, Keerica Ford presented the Character component, and Donna Patterson concluded with the Connections component of the LCC programming.

Once we came back together, we held a feedback session with the children to see what they enjoyed most and what they would like to see on their next youth day at SOH. There were several children that came up to speak and told us how much they enjoyed being at SOH, and would like to come back. One of the young men prayed for us and we dismissed.

Ms. Teresa, SOH chief culinary provider, could not help herself and fed everyone lunch! The children enjoyed their meal and really appreciated Ms. Teresa for taking the time to prepare lunch for them. It was a joy and pleasure having the youth of HPPC take out time to volunteer with the staff of Services of Hope. A good day was had by all!!!!