Aid for Orphans Relief Foundation

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1 Aid for Orphans Relief Foundation General Information Contact Information Nonprofit Aid for Orphans Relief Foundation Address 1952 Whitney Ave, 3rd Floor Hamden, CT Phone (475) Web Site Web Site Facebook Facebook Twitter Twitter At A Glance Year of Incorporation 2010 Organization's type of tax exempt status Public Supported Charity 1

2 Mission & Areas Served Statements Mission To provide orphans and other at risk children, around the globe and here in Connecticut, with proper healthcare, nutrition and wellness treatments that would otherwise be unavailable. A Great Opportunity Description Aid for Orphans Relief Foundation (AORF) is working with its partner, The John J. Driscoll United Labor Agency (ULA) to expand a weekend food assistance program at the Charles F. Hayden Day School at Boys and Girls Village in Milford. The school is a special education facility that assists over 90 children in crisis, ages 5-21 years, by providing comprehensive, therapeutic educational services. Our two organizations secured funds to offer the weekend food assistance program for 7 food insecure children and their families for academic year We are looking for funds to continue and expand the program to serve 10 families in the (2017/18) school year. A Great Opportunity Ending Date Aug Background Dr. Margaret Chustecki, M.D., MBA, started AORF after discovering firsthand the terrible plight of orphans in her homeland, Poland. From her internal medicine practice in Hamden, CT, she began reaching out to organizations to receive donated and reduced-cost products (medicines, medical products, vitamins, immunizations, nutritional products, and personal hygiene products) and getting them to Polish orphanages run by the Sister Servants of Many. Soon other organizations serving orphans or at-risk children were asking for help. Since 2010, AORF has distributed over $3M worth of medicines and medical supplies to thousands of impoverished and needy children around the world, serving children unlikely to be helped by bigger, more wellknown organizations like Save the Children. In 2014, AORF also began efforts to reduce food insecurity in Connecticut schoolchildren. We were deeply troubled by the fact that although Connecticut is among the richest states, one in five of our children live in a food insecure household. Although AORF began by serving orphans we have, almost from the beginning, broadened our mission to help not only orphans, but vulnerable children in general get the health-related supplies they need to survive and thrive. AORF is run out of Dr. Chustecki's internal medicine office and run by a small staff, thus keeping our overhead costs extremely low. Dr. Chustecki and four part-time employees (a grant-writer; an administrative assistant; a person who receives, sorts, tracks, packs and ships products; and a development person for special projects) do the work of the foundation. We reach out often to other nonprofits for advice and counsel and have partnered with two of them to accomplish our goals. For our work to help alleviate food insecurity in Connecticut schoolchildren we have partnered with the John J. Driscoll United Labor Agency (ULA) in Rocky Hill. Impact AORF has two arms: an international arm that distributes medicines, medical supplies, personal hygiene items, and/or nutritional products to impoverished orphans and other at-risk children around the world, and a local, Connecticut arm that provides weekend food assistance to schoolchildren and their families. Our top three accomplishments in the past year were: 1) Delivering over $1M of medical products to needy children in Poland, Ukraine, Philippines, and Africa (Kenya); 2) Maintaining our comprehensive food assistance programs at the SAND School in Hartford and Church Street School in Hamden for the 2016/17 school year; and 3) Starting a comprehensive weekend food assistance program at the Charles F. Hayden Day School at the Boys & Girls Village in Milford. AORF's top four goals for the current year are as follows: 1) To increase our Board of Directors and Advisory Board's influence on fund raising and shaping the direction of the organization; 2) To maintain the amount of product delivery for our international programs; 3) To continue our food assistance programs at Church Street School, SAND School, and the Hayden Day School in the 2017/18 school year; and 4) To open one, and possibly two, new weekend food assistance programs in New Haven in the 2017/18 school year. 2

3 Needs First, AORF needs to continue to raise the money needed to run our weekend food assistance programs. In academic year we ran two programs with our partner the John J. Driscoll United Labor Agency (one in Hartford (SAND School) and one in Hamden (Church Street School)). This academic year we continued to offer those programs and added one in Milford (the Charles F. Hayden Day School at Boys and Girls Village). Currently we are looking for funds to continue these three programs in and additionally, searching for funding for one, and possibly two New Haven schools. Secondly, AORF needs to continue to find funds to pay for operating costs that, at the moment, are heavily supported by donations from Dr. Margaret Chustecki. Included in these operating costs is the cost of shipping supplies in our international programs. Finally, we would like to continue to shape our Boards (Board of Directors and Advisory Board). We have made two important changes to our Boards this year and we continue to evaluate need for further changes. CEO Statement To date AORF goals have been relatively simple -- to get as many products as possible to impoverished children. We try each year to increase the help we give to our existing programs. Currently, in addition to our medical shipments programs, we are also committed to increasing the number of weekend food assistance programs in the state of Connecticut for food insecure schoolchildren. When this problem came to our attention we simply could not turn our backs. Although there are many weekend backpack programs in our state, the need far outstrips the availability of programs. Although most people are aware that poor children can get free or reduced-cost meals at school, many people do not realize that food insecure schoolchildren often do not have enough food when school is not in session, including weekends and summers. Service Categories Primary Organization Category Secondary Organization Category Health Care / Health (General and Financing) Food, Agriculture & Nutrition / Fund Raising & Fund Distribution Areas Served Hamden Milford State wide National International AORF serves orphans and other at-risk children in Connecticut (currently Hamden, Milford and Hartford) and Kentucky. Internationally we help children in Eastern Europe (Poland and Ukraine), Asia (Philippines), and Africa (Kenya and Cameroon). 3

4 Programs Programs Weekend Food Assistance Description In partnership with the John J. Driscoll United Labor Agency, AORF offers weekend food assistance programs at three Connecticut schools: Church Street School in Hamden, Charles F. Hayden Day School at Boys and Girls Village in Milford, and SAND School in Hartford. An additional program is being planned at the John C. Daniels Magnet School in New Haven. The programs involve a comprehensive approach to addressing food insecurity by 1) providing weekend food for the entire family, 2) providing as much fresh food as possible, 3) linking families to other food and social services for which they might be eligible, and 4) evaluating the effects of the program on family use of services, household food security, and child school attendance and grades. Budget $30, Category Food, Agriculture & Nutrition, General/Other / Population Served Program is linked to organization s mission and strategy Program Success Monitored By Children and Youth (0-19 years) / Poor,Economically Disadvantaged,Indigent / At-Risk Populations Yes Completion and compliance rates Parental report of level of food security Parental report of use of services/benefits School report of participant grades and attendance Product Distribution Description AORF distributes medicines, medical supplies, nutritional products, personal hygiene products, immunizations and vitamins to orphans and other at-risk children around the world. Currently we are helping children in Eastern Europe (Poland and Ukraine), Asia (Philippines), Africa (Kenya), and the U.S. (Connecticut and Kentucky). AORF maintains strong partnerships with agencies on the ground who distribute these items that are generously provided by organizations, companies and private donations in the United States. Budget $100, Category Population Served Program is linked to organization s mission and strategy Health Care, General/Other / Health Care, General/Other Children and Youth (0-19 years) / Poor,Economically Disadvantaged,Indigent / At-Risk Populations Yes 4

5 Leadership & Staff CEO/Executive Director Dr. Margaret Chustecki MD Term Start July Experience Dr. Chustecki is a staff physician for Yale New Haven Hospital, Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Medicine and the Managing Director of Internal Medicine of Greater New Haven. A native of Poland, she was inspired to establish the organization after visiting Polish orphanages and seeing firsthand the dire need for health and medical supplies. Staff Number of Full Time Staff 0 Number of Part Time Staff 3 Number of Volunteers 10 Number of Contract Staff 1 Staff Retention Rate 100% Staff Demographics - Ethnicity African American/Black 0 Asian American/Pacific Islander 0 Caucasian 4 Hispanic/Latino 0 Native American/American Indian 0 Other 0 0 Staff Demographics - Gender Male 0 Female 4 Unspecified 0 Plans & Policies Organization has a Fundraising Plan? Organization has a Strategic Plan? Years Strategic Plan Considers Management Succession Plan? Under Development Under Development N/A Under Development 5

6 Organization Policy and Procedures Nondiscrimination Policy Whistleblower Policy Yes Yes Yes Senior Staff Dr. Lynne S. Schilling PhD Title Experience/Biography Grant Writing Director Dr. Schilling has been writing grants for AORF for two years. Prior to that she was a career nursing academic at both Yale University School of Nursing and UMASS Worcester Graduate School of Nursing. Experience/Biography Lauragene joined AORF on a part-time basis in January, 2016 as a Consultant for Special Projects. A lawyer by training, Lauragene practiced law for twenty years before pursuing a career in development. She worked for 12 years in the development office at Yale University before opening a consulting practice. At present she is seeking funding sources for AORF s program treating malnutrition in an orphanage in Kenya. Collaborations AORF currently has one collaborator. In carrying out its work to provide weekend food assistance to Connecticut schoolchildren AORf collaborates with the John J. Driscoll United Labor Agency (ULA) in Rocky Hill. The ULA actually delivers the weekend food assistance programs. In this collaboration, AORF and ULA identify and communicate with the schools targeted to get a program, AORF writes the grants, both programs seek donations, and AORF oversees the programs to comply with donor requirements and conducts the program evaluations. Awards Award/Recognition Organization Year 2015 Community Champion Award State of Connecticut 2015 Comments CEO Comments I am pleased with what our organization has been able to do in just six years. Initially, all our efforts went into the product distribution aspect of our foundation, and we have been able to get over $4M worth of medicines and medical supplies to orphans and other at-risk children around the world since we began our work. We are also happy with our successes on the local front here in Connecticut where, since 2014, we have been able to fill an unmet need by starting three weekend food assistance programs to help food insecure schoolchildren/families. We hope to start a fourth (our first ion New Haven) in the 2017/18 school year. We found a partner who was already successfully delivering a weekend food program (the John J. Driscoll United Labor Agency in Rocky Hill) and who had the capacity to expand anywhere in the state if AORF could help find the funds to do so. Together we tweaked a model of weekend food assistance that not only provides the needed weekend food for the entire family, but also proposes to help families become more food secure over the long haul by linking them to other food assistance programs for which they might be eligible and services (mental health, employment, budget management, immigration, health care, heat assistance) that address the 6

7 underlying cause of food insecurity: poverty. I would also like to address the mistaken idea of some that we are duplicating weekend food assistance services. It is estimated that over 150,000 Connecticut children live in food insecure households. Food insecure schoolchildren have access to free or reduced-cost meals at school but remain vulnerable to hunger on weekends and during summers. Although there are weekend backpack programs in the state, our best estimate is that somewhere between 5-10% of the children who need a weekend backpack program are currently enrolled in one. In our part of the state, the Connecticut Food Bank fed 3300 schoolchildren last year, but have 18 schools on their list of schools waiting for a program. Our biggest issue is that the needs for both our programs (local and international) outstrip our resources. We are grateful to all our donors, yet we are constrained by the limits of our fundraising. We are continually looking for ways to become more adept and successful in competing for funds to support our work. Margaret Chustecki, MD, MBA Executive Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors 7

8 Board & Governance Board Chair Dr. Margaret I. Chustecki Company Affiliation Internal Medicine of Greater New Haven Term July 2016 to June 2019 Board of Directors Name Mr. Alex Cort Ms. Saira Malik Ms. Lisa A. Stanger Esq. Affiliation Clinical Insights, LLC Cool River Associates Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven Board Demographics - Ethnicity African American/Black 0 Asian American/Pacific Islander 0 Caucasian 4 Hispanic/Latino 0 Native American/American Indian 0 Other 0 0 Board Demographics - Gender Male 1 Female 3 Unspecified 0 Governance Board Term Lengths 3 Board Term Limits 0 Board Meeting Attendance % 0% Number of Full Board Meetings Annually 1 Written Conflict of Interest Policy Yes Percentage Making Monetary Contributions 100% Percentage Making In-Kind Contributions 50% Constituency Includes Client Representation No 8

9 Additional Board/s Members and Affiliations Name Mr. John Beirne Jr. Ms. Jan Bershtein Esq. Mr. John Esposito Esq. Ms. Robin French CPA Dr. Michael Imevbore Dr. Roman Khodzinskiy Ms. Sharon Merzwa Affiliation Beirne Wealth Management Bershtein Bershtein & Bershtein Esposito Law Firm T.M. Byxbee Co., P.C. Lung Associates of Connecticut Internal Medicine of Greater New Haven American Heart Association 9

10 Financials Financials Fiscal Year Start Jan Fiscal Year End Dec Projected Revenue $1,924, Projected Expenses $147, Endowment Value $0.00 Percentage (if selected) 0% Detailed Financials Prior Three Years Total Revenue and Expense Totals Chart Total Revenue $1,113,361 $1,070,466 $650,278 Total Expenses $1,120,113 $1,090,046 $624,237 Prior Three Years Revenue Sources Chart Foundation and Corporation $1,113,361 $1,070,466 $650,278 Contributions Government Contributions $0 $0 $0 Federal State Local Unspecified Individual Contributions Indirect Public Support Earned Revenue Investment Income, Net of Losses Membership Dues Special Events Revenue In-Kind Other Prior Three Years Expense Allocations Chart Program Expense $1,028,240 $973,445 $577,984 Administration Expense $25,525 $25,775 $3,833 Fundraising Expense $66,348 $90,826 $42,420 Payments to Affiliates Total Revenue/Total Expenses Program Expense/Total Expenses 92% 89% 93% Fundraising Expense/Contributed Revenue 6% 8% 7% 10

11 Prior Three Years Assets and Liabilities Chart Total Assets $7,768 $12,476 $30,742 Current Assets $7,768 $12,476 $30,742 Long-Term Liabilities Current Liabilities $4,078 $2,034 $720 Total Net Assets $3,690 $10,442 $33,022 Prior Three Years Top Three Funding Sources Top Funding Source & Dollar Amount Americares $554,505 Blessings Americares $386,050 International $52,020 Second Highest Funding Source & Dollar Amount Third Highest Funding Source & Dollar Amount Catholic Medical Missions Board $396,717 Brothers Brother Foundation $35,478 Grifols Worldwide Operations $14,522 Sasco Foundation $5,000 Catholic Medical Missions Board, Inc. $78, Solvency Short Term Solvency Current Ratio: Current Assets/Current Liabilities Long Term Solvency Long-Term Liabilities/Total Assets 0% 0% 0% Capital Campaign Currently in a Capital Campaign? No Goal $0.00 Comments Foundation Staff Comments This profile, including the financial summaries prepared and submitted by the organization based on its own independent and/or internal audit processes and regulatory submissions, has been read by the Foundation. Financial information is inputted by Foundation staff directly from the organization s IRS Form 990, audited financial statements or other financial documents approved by the nonprofit s board. The Foundation has not audited the organization s financial statements or tax filings, and makes no representations or warranties thereon. The Community Foundation is continuing to receive information submitted by the organization and may periodically update the organization s profile to reflect the most current financial and other information available. The organization has completed the fields required by The Community Foundation and updated their profile in the last year. To see if the organization has received a competitive grant from The Community Foundation in the last five years, please go to the General Information Tab of the profile. 11

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