FOCUS 2020 Boys & Girls Club of Muncie

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FOCUS 2020 BUILDING TOMORROW’S LEADERS

OUR CLUB

Meet Onnie Adams.

He’s a Club Kid. Onnie is smart, determined, influential and a leader among his peers. He came to the Club through one of its newest community partnerships – the ICE league.

The ICE League is an exciting new academically focused inner city basketball program and it fits perfectly with the Club’s initiatives to reach more kids in more ways.

The Boys & Girls Club of Muncie, with 850 annual volunteers in 2014, is making big plans to pave a path for tomorrow’s leaders.

We’re well on our way, but we need your help to make a difference in the lives of young people like Onnie Adams and his 2020 graduating class: Our focus, our mission, our future.

Twelve-year-old Onnie had always wanted to come to the Boys & Girls Club. This seventh-grader, with a perfect 4.0 GPA, was on his middle school’s basketball team, but spent game time on the bench. He wasn’t quite good enough to compete athletically, but he loved the game.

Onnie was drafted this winter to play on the Boys & Girls Club new ICE league team, where academic values trump athletic prowess. Onnie flourished here and immediately discovered new friends and made connections with adult mentors. Today, he is a regular and has even joined Keystone Club, a teen leadership program.

FROM THE DIRECTOR Every day after school, kids like Onnie and his peers need someplace to go where they are safe, guided, and supported. While the Boys & Girls Club of Muncie provides that place for many kids locally, one out of four still have no Micah Maxwell place to go when school is out. That number leaps to three out of four kids during the summer. To provide these kids with a Boys & Girls Club program, we need your help.

For more than 82 years, the Boys & Girls Club of Muncie has stood strong in providing quality programs, professional caring staff and a safe supportive environment to help kids learn, grow and lead. In today’s ever-changing social environment, kids need more support guidance and mentoring than ever before. As we look to serve more kids, more often, we invite you to invest in the Boys & Girls Club of Muncie.

Our board and staff are committed to ensuring every kid in East Central Indiana has a place to go when school is out, where they are safe, supported, and guided. We do this through traditional clubhouse programming, intentional outreach and strategic partnerships. When people invest in kids, they’re investing in the long-term wellness and sustainability of a community. In 2020, our current eighth-grade students will graduate from high school. We have the opportunity, now, to impact their future. Please join us in enabling these young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens.

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OUR MISSION We seek

to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most.

With our help, they are far more likely to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens.

We instill character traits in Club Kids that carry them through life; traits like respect,

responsibility, empowerment, self-esteem and integrity.

The Boys & Girls Club of Muncie is not just providing a place for kids to hang out. Carefully developed programming, in concert with a national brand that provides guidance and support, is unmatched by any other nonprofit in the area.

We leverage these national resources to best serve our kids and their families locally.

As we move toward 2020, we need your help to take the Boys & Girls Club of Muncie to a heightened level of community engagement and Club empowerment.

BY THE NUMBERS: 2014

1,622 youth

835 volunteers 21,062

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increase in membership over 2013 to 821

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OUR COMMUNITY In Delaware County, population 110,000, there are more than 1,000 nonprofits. It could be difficult to stand out, but the Boys & Girls Club of Muncie fills a unique niche.

While there are hundreds of thoughtful nonprofits tending to our community’s needs and desires, we see an ongoing unmet need for out-of-school programs; programs that meet afterschool, in the summertime and over scheduled breaks.

When schools are out, Clubs are in. Children need a safe haven, a place to go where they can be supervised and nourished.

The Boys & Girls Club of Muncie represents the only Club in a five-county surrounding area. Henry, Randolph, Jay, Blackford and Madison counties have no local Club. We know the potential to grow the Boys and Girls Club of Muncie is great.

The latest available data from the Chronicle of Philanthropy shows: ▶ Delaware County’s individual giving: $36 million. ▶ Delaware County family giving ratio: 3.8 percent. ▶ Delaware County median gift: $4,157. ▶ Delaware County median adjusted gross income: $76,000.

These numbers represent our target demographic. The level of programming, activities, staffing, and therefore,

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funding, must rise to this challenge. The Boys & Girls Club of Muncie must be even more intentional about directing attention to what we do and why it is critical that everyone support the cause.

In 2014, the Boys & Girls Club of Muncie recorded an 84.7 percent increase in income year-over-year, but the majority of that income came from government and grant resources.

OUR FUTURE Our 2020 focus will increase corporate and individual donations at a pace that represents 70 percent of our income needs and the remainder will come from government and grant resources.

By 2020, a conservative forecast shows our Club serving 3,500 kids throughout the year in multiple locations.

To afford this rapid growth means we need increased funding and support. Our capacity, staff and building, will need to grow along with the demand.

To serve 3,500 kids, the Boys & Girls Club needs an operating budget close to $1 million, or nearly three times what it is today.

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We know the most effective organizations drive a higher level of community engagement. Our five-year plan does just that.

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OUR FOCUS Teen programs The Boys & Girls Club of Muncie serves 300 teenagers, but they have to wait until 6 p.m. Monday through Friday when the Kindergarten through 6th-grade kids have left for the day to come to the Club.

We do not have dedicated space for these teenagers, and it is greatly needed.

Meanwhile, programming like the Keystone Club, a unique leadership development program made up of teens ages 14-18, is active and engaged locally. These students focus on academic success, career preparation and community service. With your help, we can do better.

Our campus The Boys & Girls Club of Muncie facility is aging and repairs are becoming more costly and more frequent. It’s time for a careful review of what we need to better serve our constituencies.

Beyond the Madison Street location, we see opportunities to expand to satellite locations throughout Delaware County and into surrounding counties. We are the only nationally affiliated Boys & Girls Club in a five-county area.

There is a bigger community vision for the building and land occupied by the Boys & Girls Club of Muncie. In consultation and collaboration with community partners, we see a better facility with a broader reach in our future.

OUR PLEDGE

Our programming, our community partnerships and our expanding fund development initiatives will advance the Boys & Girls Club of Muncie at a methodical and sustainable pace.

Our focus is to find a series of communityengaging events that raise awareness and financial support. We have started with modest events, including “friend raisers,” a recognition program and an end-of-the-year celebration.

As stewards of your generosity, our staff and board priorities are taking a tighter focus than ever on areas that we think will generate the community awareness needed to deliver the programming to key parts of our community, where needs are the greatest.

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Corporate donors We expect to increase financial backing from business and corporate supporters.

We’re looking for community organizations that match our purpose and our focus.

We’re meeting one-on-one with corporate donors to enhance and build new partnerships.

These are among our most important objectives in Focus 2020.

Enhancing community partnerships In the spring of 2015, the Boys & Girls Club joined forces with the ICE league, Muncie’s first Inner City Educational youth basketball tourney.

It is where Onnie was introduced to the Club. We believe it is these kind of collaborative enterprises across the community that become touchstones for the Club.

Similarly, in the summer of 2015, BGCM was integral in starting Muncie’s premier summer youth enrichment program. In this endeavor we partnered with the Buley Community Center, Motivate Our Minds and the Ross Community Center to provide summer academic enrichment exercises for children K-12.

Individual donors We are establishing a responsive donor base, one that embraces Focus 2020. We’re inviting more individuals, more families, and more alumni than ever to invest in the financial future of the Club. All board members are engaged in a giving strategy. We’re proud to say that we have 100 percent giving among our Board of Directors, and each is participating at some level of solicitation. Additionally, we’re actively pursuing key community stakeholders to the Board of Directors.

What does this have to do with kids like Onnie?

In 2020, Onnie and his classmates graduate from high school. The Boys & Girls Club of Muncie must remain vigilant and stand by Onnie and his friends, pushing for high academic achievement while building character and leadership skills.

Just as we stand next to Onnie, we need you along side us to ensure this and future classes of Boys & Girls Club kids get every opportunity they deserve. Every time you donate, you give kids access to the tools they need to plan their future.

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OUR BOARD

President Juli Metzger Coordinator for Unified Media at Ball State University Vice-President Jon Miller Supply Chain Manager at Muncie Power Products Secretary Angela Beck Assistant Vice President at Old National Bank

Past-President Mark McKinney Partner at McKinney & Malapit Law Treasurer Ben Smith Vice-President /CIO at Estep Doctor & Co.

OUR STAFF

Micah Maxwell Executive Director

Antonio Benford Unit Director Karli Davis Program Director

Members Kelsey Batten Executive Director, Marketing & Enrollment at Ivy Tech Community College Pat Botts President / COO at MutualBank Tim Heller Retired Superintendent at Muncie Community Schools Jamie Matthews Commercial Banker at First Merchants Bank Brian McKay CEO at The Arsenal LLC/Muncie Crossfit Todd Merickel Real Estate Broker at Wagner Auctioneering and Real Estate Andre Mitchell Pastor at Deliverance Temple Church James Mitchell Associate Director at Ball State University Career Center

Treneese Davis Front Desk Coordinator Rosie Joyce Kitchen Coordinator

Myron Anthony Program Leader JJ Brown Program Leader

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