Charlotte Rescue Mission's 2015 Annual Report

2015 NEW GIVING BOARD OFFINANCIALS OPPORTUNITY DIRECTORSFUNDING SOURCES CONTRIBUTIONS After 78 years of serving the Charlotte community, we have Jeff Owen – President 75% of Individuals & Grants 2015 2014 launched an endowment that will build a reserve to create financial Mike Metcalf – Vice President Capital Campaign Contributions 4,572,992 4,312,676 stability for our organization long term.contributions Special Events (net) In addition, an endowment provides an opportunity for donors to Lisa Bell – Secretary come from Gifts-in-Kind 5,118 507,053 make a gift that builds a legacy. A family name can live on, changing Edward Doughty – Treasurer people like Program Service Revenue 118,108 114,272 the lives of people in future generations. Any donors who make a you. Other Income 525,084 704,793 gift of $5,000 or more in the first year of the endowment (2016) will Chase Estep 88,746 74,502 be recognized as Founding Funders and will receive an invitation Scott Foster Total 21,185 35,381 to a special event as well as permanent recognition at the mission. Brett Gray Jesus said, “The poor will always be with us.” A gift to the Charlotte Patrick Harkleroad EXPENSES 5,611,155 5,748,677 Rescue Mission Endowment guarantees that your love for hurting Graeme M. Keith, III people in our community will go on forever. Marcus LeeIndividuals Foundations Program Services 2015 2014 To make a gift to the Charlotte Rescue Mission Endowment, please Michael MoloneyCorporations Churches General & Administrative 4,778,291 4,279,503 contact EJ Underwood at 704-333-4673 ext. 204 or EJ.Underwood@ William “Butch” Robertson, Jr.Other Fundraising charlotterescuemission.org. Anna Tartak 562,388 733,412 Michael Vander Baan Zack Zitsos 1,007,771 857,418*We do not receive any governement funding. For a full Total 6,348,450* 5,870,333copy of our audited financial statements, please visitwww.charlotterescuemission.org/financial-information. *Financial results reflect a planned net deficit covered by current cash reserves.SUCCESS FROM YOUR 2015 SUPPORT Program Cost Per Resident646 70% OUR MISSION STAY CONNECTEDMen & women served Sober 6+ months $64 after graduation per day Charlotte Rescue Mission is transforming lives in the name of64,860 Christ by serving people struggling with addiction, poverty,Nights of safe shelter 73% $447 or hopelessness with the goal of returning them to society as Stable housing 6 months per week productive, self-sufficient citizens.194,580 after graduationHot meals $1,936 HOPE FOR TODAY 68% per month10,572 Financially stable The men and women we serve need your help every day. CharlotteHours of 6 months after $6,707 Rescue Mission offers many ways for individuals and groups intutoring & GED classes graduation per graduate the community to get involved. To learn more about how to get connected, visit our website www.charlotterescuemission.org or call9,434 60% 704.333.HOPE.Hours of recreational Connected totherapy community 6 months 907 West 1st Street • PO Box 33000 after graduation Charlotte, NC 28233-3000 • (704) 333-HOPE (4673)55,566 www.charlotterescuemission.orgHours of counseling All financial data and program statistics reflect fiscal year totals from July 1, 2014-June 30, 2015. Changing Lives by God’s Grace

A LETTER Christian programming that programs for generations to SUCCESS truly works to break the cycle of come. You can read more about STORIES FROM REV. MARCIANO addiction and hopelessness in it in the following pages. Charlotte. Over 600 men, women, “God saw fit and children received professional This report is full of numbers. for me to land When I arrived at the Dove’s Nest, I had very few services and the opportunity to Numbers that represent dollars on Dove’s Nest’s values. I thought I was a good mom, but now I know rebuild their lives. A few highlights raised, dollars spent, outcome doorstep, and that during my time in addiction I was physically there from the year are: statistics, and numbers of people they took us in.” for my kids, but I wasn’t really present. Dove’s Nest served. We take your investment taught me how to be a mother and to let go of the guilt • We created new transitional seriously, and we want to be and shame I felt for my mistakes with my children. Charlotte Rescue Mission’s Circle of Giving honors our most distinguished individual donors who I am pleased to share with you the programming that prepares accountable to you. In addition to Now we have a really healthy relationship and I’m able provide crucial support for men, women, and children in our community each year. Your generous 2015 Annual Report. residents at Dove’s Nest and the numbers here, we also publish to teach and educate them about the things I’ve gone gifts at any level within the Circle of Giving place you in a group with others who are committed to Rebound for educational and our IRS 990 form and a copy of our through so that they won’t make the same mistakes. helping our residents break the cycle of poverty, addiction, and hopelessness. Below is a list of our most Your support is an investment vocational opportunities upon audited financial statements on our The spiritual component of the Dove’s Nest program distinguished individual donors from our 2015 fiscal year. To learn more about the Circle of Giving, in the lives of people struggling graduation. strengthened me. I always knew God was real, but I contact Sharon Bremer at [email protected] or 704.333.4673 ext 222. website. didn’t think He wanted me. Staff and volunteers kept with addiction, poverty, and telling me that I was loved by a God who is bigger than hopelessness. Unable to care • At Dove’s Nest, we built a strong Despite all the numbers in this any of my problems, and that I was worth something. Visionaries for themselves, they come to us Families Program that works report, the most important number Life will always show up, but the Dove’s Nest program seeking a new life. Our goal is to to rebuild healthy relationships is “one.” It’s about one person, one filled a toolbox for me full of things I can pull out return graduates to our community between a mother and her individual, one man, one woman, whenever something happens so that I know I never Anonymous Mr. Roy B. Cook III Mr. & Mrs. James L. Keffer as productive, self-sufficient children and restore what one child who wants tomorrow have to use again. Mr. & Mrs. Darren W. Ash Mrs. Christine B. Fazzi Mr. & Mrs. James E. McMahan citizens. You may encounter them addiction has stripped away to be better than yesterday. -Julie (Dove’s Nest program graduate) Mr. & Mrs. Mark Heinemann Mr. & Mrs. Michael Tarwater in your daily lives - serving in a from the family. Their prayer is that today, while Mrs. Joan Brown residing in Charlotte Rescue Mr. & Mrs. Wilfred L. Coers Champions restaurant, behind a retail counter, Mission’s Rebound and Dove’s Nest or in your office building. You may • At Rebound, we launched programs, they will receive the Anonymous (4) Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Farley Mr. & Mrs. Carl E. Lee, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Matt A. Rollins never know their stories, but they a wellness initiative and have tools necessary to make substance Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Applegate Mr. & Mrs. Peter S. Galloway Rev. & Mrs. Anthony Marciano II Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Salamone found new life at the Mission. renovated our gym for a new abuse a part of their past. Your Mr. & Mrs. Melvin F. Graham While treating addiction fitness program led by volunteer gift is changing broken hearts and Mr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Bell Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Hickman Mr. & Mrs. Harry Meeth Mr. & Mrs. Jon E. Shumate remains at the forefront of our coaches and trainers from the hurting lives, one person at a time. Mr. & Mrs. J.D. Bennett Mrs. Jean E. Millikan Mr. & Mrs. Paul P. Stamler community. Mr. & Mrs. Ivan Hinrichs Mr. & Mrs. Rick Brightwell Mr. David Hostetler Ms. Maureen Mischinski Mr. Gary Stickley priorities, a crucial factor in the • And, we are excited to Thank you for your impact. Joe Brown is a Rebound graduate who uses his talent “The darkness had faded, and Mr. & Mrs. H. Keith Brunnemer, Jr. Mr. Marc A. Houle Mr. & Mrs. Bart Palmer Mr. & Mrs. Walter Taylor maintenance of long-term sobriety announce the new Charlotte Rev. Tony Marciano for slam poetry to share his powerful story of how the devil had ran, ‘cause Jesus Mr. & Mrs. Rocky Key Mr. & Mrs. Eric M. Pillmore Mrs. Vickie VanWingerden is a solid foundation of physical, Rescue Mission Endowment. Executive Director Jesus delivered him from addiction and a life of gang was here and He was my friend.” Mr. & Mrs. George V. Core Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Reasons Mr. & Mrs. Jay D. Westmoreland psychological, and spiritual health. This fund will provide long- violence. Mr. & Mrs. William T. Crowder, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Lapenta Mr. & Mrs. Chris Richardson This past fiscal year, with your term sustainable funding for our Excerpt from “The Will on My Car,” an original slam support, we provided holistic poem by Joe Brown: Mr. & Mrs. Keith Driscoll OUR PROGRAMS Samaritans Rebound men’s program provides 90 days of comprehensive substance abuse “On the road up ahead all I saw was a void, Anonymous (10) Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Efird Mr. & Mrs. Chris Livingston Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth R. Samuelson recovery services for approximately 400 men each year. then I looked in my rearview and I got paranoid Mr. & Mrs. Michael S. Adams Mr. & Mrs. Tom Ellis Mr. & Mrs. Clement R. Marshall Mr. & Mrs. Daniel C. Schuster ‘cause all I could see was the darkness of death Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Adams Dr. Patrick McElgunn & Dr. Karen Scully Dove’s Nest women’s program provides 120 days of comprehensive substance coming up on me fast, tryin’ to put me to rest. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Beaty Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Foreman Mr. & Mrs. Marcus Smith abuse recovery services for approximately 200 women and 20 of their children Then from up ahead someone came into sight, Mr. & Mrs. Steven G. Boehm Mr. & Mrs. Scott P. Foster Mr. & Mrs. Dennis McGarry Mrs. Margaret Spitzhoff each year. He said follow me, I am the Truth and the Light. Mr. & Mrs. W. S. Gantt Mrs. Kami McGuire Mr. Robert C. Stamper, Jr. The darkness had faded, and the devil had ran, Mrs. Jean C. Boggs Mr. & Mrs. J. D. Gibbs Mr. & Mrs. Fred H. Stubblefield III Families Program restores the relationship between mothers and their children ‘cause Jesus was here and He was my friend. Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Brand Mr. & Mrs. Coy Gibbs Mr. & Mrs. Donald A. McMullen, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Stuck with a goal of teaching new parenting skills and healthy relationships. I give Him the honor and I give Him the praise, Mr. & Mrs. Phillip S. Braswell Mr. & Mrs. Greg A. Gombar Mr. & Mrs. Sam E. Mitchum Mr. & Mrs. Mark B. Thompson That not mine, but His will be done every day.” Mr. & Mrs. Todd Buelow Mr. Clay Gordon Mr. & Mrs. Stephen S. Nelson Transitional Services provides assistance to residents and graduates as they Mr. & Mrs. Carl S. Carande Mr. & Mrs. J. Dennis Gowan Mr. & Mrs. John G. Noblitt Mr. Ray Van Vynckt seek educational and vocational opportunities. Our focus is for them to return Mr. & Mrs. Louis E. Pfeiffer Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Verhagen to society equipped for long-term success and sobriety. Mr. Scott Carr Mr. & Mrs. Jay H. Higginbotham IV Mr. and Mrs. M. Lee Pigg, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Hannibal G. Warren, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James H. L. Chambers Mrs. Patty M. Hostetler Mr. & Mrs. G. Provenzano Community Outreach allows us to serve the greater Charlotte community Mr. & Mrs. Bob Jones Mr. & Mrs. Daniel A. Reppert Mr. Kevin B. Welch through our holiday meals program and provide awareness and assistance to Mr. William P. Cirillo Mr. & Mrs. John Jordan Mrs. Margaret S. Rice Mr. & Mrs. Jerry S. Williford those impacted by addiction. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Clark, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Joy Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Rice, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Gregory R. Corallo Mr. & Mrs. Allen Roes Mr. Jeffrey B. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Terry S. Lisenby Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Yates Mr. & Mrs. John A. Dail (view entire video on our Youtube page) *Giving levels are based on FY2015 total giving. To see a list of our Partners and Advocates, please visit charlotterescuemission.org/COG.