2014 ANNUAL REPORT

Leadership Letter .......................................................2

Initiatives and Services ..........................................4

Financials .........................................................................8

Funders and Funded Partners ..........................10

Leadership ......................................................................11

collaborative initiatives and aligning resources to create lasting outcomes for children, families and communities. We have re-organized the way that we serve children to a continuum of service that can help them succeed over their entire lifespan – from before they are born until they graduate high school and transition to higher education and the workforce.

The plan also identifies three strategies: Strengthening Organizations, through funding and capacity building; Leading Collaborations, through our efforts to convene and collaborate partners; and Influencing Systems, through our work as a thought partner that aligns government systems and funders with initiatives on the ground.

These three strategies constitute the pillars on which we will build a new foundation to achieve our vision of a Baltimore where every child grows up in a family that thrives, and to reach a collective, ambitious goal that by 2030, all children in Baltimore will be born healthy, succeed in school, graduate high school and transition into higher education and the workforce.

The year 2014 was a big step forward for Family League. Along with the City, our partners and staff are working to build upon this new foundation for our future.

To our stakeholders:

We are pleased to present you with Family League of Baltimore’s annual report covering the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013 and ending June 30, 2014.

Over 2014, Family League continued to improve how we work to create lasting outcomes for Baltimore’s children, families and communities.

This organization has spent the last 23 years leading collaboration that effects lasting change for children and families in Baltimore. From our beginnings as the Family Preservation Initiative of Baltimore City in 1991, Family League has led, developed and implemented collaborative solutions to help struggling, hard-working Baltimore families and children achieve their dream of a better life.

The past fiscal year represented a new chapter in Family League’s history symbolized by building a new way forward for Baltimore’s children.

We continued our work in building healthy communities and great schools. With support from our signature funders, including the Mayor and City Council and the State of Maryland, Family League invested over $12 million in more than 50 community-based organizations. We further expanded our Community and School Engagement Strategy and served over a million afterschool meals and summer meals in the city. Over 35,000 Baltimore children benefitted from these investments and improvements.

And while we moved forward in our initiative areas, we developed a new strategic plan that will refocus our efforts in a way that will enhance our ability to meet the needs of Baltimore’s children.

Family League Board of Directors’ comprehensive, strategic plan sets out a renewed mission for Family League: to serve as an architect of change in Baltimore by promoting data-driven,

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Ginger MihalikChair, Board of Directors

Jonathon RondeauPresident & CEO

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Family League of Baltimore serves as an architect of change in Baltimore by promoting data-driven, collaborative initiatives and aligning resources to create lasting outcomes for children, families and communities.

OUR GOALBy 2030, all children in Baltimore will be born healthy, succeed in school, graduate high school and transition into higher education and the workforce.

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While the role of the organization has expanded in the 23 years since its founding, Family League still plays a major role in influencing systems through supporting policy change and championing initiatives both in and outside of the Family League’s portfolio of services. Family League aims to ensure every child has an equal opportunity to grow up healthy, learn, and graduate high school and enter higher education and the workforce.

Family League’s role in influencing systems in 2014 further expanded as it convened a new workgroup on summer learning (see page 5), supported a number of policy changes that would help children access healthy food and other learning activities, and worked to increase equity in the criminal justice system.

FOUNDATION:Influencing Systems

Family League aims to ensure every child has an equal opportunity to grow up healthy, learn, and graduate high school and enter higher education and the workforce.

HIGHLIGHTS: σ With significant support from the Mayor, City

Council and Baltimore City Public Schools, Family League increased the number of students served through Baltimore’s Community and School Engagement Strategy. This increase was achieved by re-designing the planning process to be more deliberate. The strategy added five new schools. Today, 45 community schools and 49 out of school time programs are breaking down barriers to academic achievement and help students gain access to the resources they need to succeed.

σ In an effort to boost school readiness for children in high-risk families and ensure a seamless early childhood system, Family League and B’more for Healthy Babies partners brokered a new policy with Head Start that prioritizes enrollment for home visiting families, resulting in a smoother transition when children turn three and enter Head Start.

σ Organized Baltimore City’s Food Day event, which gave urban farm tours to hundreds of children in afterschool programs and engaged local officials on the importace issue of sustainable, healthy local food.

σ Since the launch of B’more for Healthy Babies, Baltimore has seen a 37% drop in SIDS deaths. SLEEP SAFE messages have been viewed approximately 14 million times and 250,000 printed education materials have been disseminated citywide for all of the campaigns. Family League-funded community health workers have reached more than 30,000 people in the Upton/Druid Heights and Patterson Park North and East neighborhoods, and are changing norms for how Baltimore’s babies are put to sleep.

σ Family League re-committed to its investment in equity by adding a Social Justice office that works with local partners to ensure equitable treatment within the juvenile justice system.

σ Family League helped local public defenders who work with juveniles update their law libraries so that they can help more youth in the justice system achieve fair and just outcomes.

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Family League of Baltimore was created in 1991 as Baltimore’s Local Management Board to help influence and change the systems of service that exist to affect the lives of children, youth and families in the City.

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In Depth—Summer Systems Summer is an opportunity for children to explore, learn and play. But the long break in between school years can lead to up to two months in learning loss in both math and reading.

In partnership with the National Summer Learning Assocation and the Maryland Out of School Time Network, Family League completed an analysis of Baltimore’s summer programming capacity and found almost 22,000 summer programming opportunities available to 84,000 Baltimore City Public Schools students.

Concurrent with this assessment, Family League launched a Summer Workgroup, a collaborative of organizations which are stakeholders in Baltimore’s summer programming, to build a longterm, sustainable system around summer learning, enrichment and food access.

FOUNDATION:Influencing Systems

HIGHLIGHTS: σ With resources from the Mayor and City Council,

Family League of Baltimore invested $265,000 provided by the City of Baltimore in 14 agencies operating summer programs.

σ Family League Expanded Mobile Meals to three routes and served over 24,000 meals to children in Upton/Druid Heights, Cherry Hill and Lake Montebello.

σ In partnership, The Corporation for National Community Service, Maryland Out of School Time Network, and Family League placed 37 AmeriCorps Summer Associates, who served in one of three capacities as a service to the city: Mobile Meals servers, Summer READS program staff, and Literacy Volunteers in Summer programs.

σ Family League worked with the Mayor’s Office to relaunch and maintain the Baltimore City Super Summer website and marketing strategy, which included the distribution of more than 20,000 outreach fliers, the coordination of four neighborhood summer activity fairs, and targeted radio advertisement.

σ As co-convener of Baltimore Partnership to End Childhood Hunger, Family League advocated to increase access to summer meals by allowing open sites to serve three meals per day.

σ Along with Mobile Meals Expansion, Family League increased food access for children by partnering with Enoch Pratt Free Libraries to provide mobile summer meals at three libraries in Cherry Hill, Brooklyn, and Penn North.

σ Family League partnered with Baltimore City’s Read 15 initiative to get books from the Maryland Book Bank delivered books to mobile meal sites once a week.

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SUMMER PROGRAM CAPACITY

Grades Served Number of programs Number of seats

Elementary 74 7,359

Middle 24 2,764

High (Program) 14 1,148

High (YouthWorks) - 5,000

Elementary/Middle 64 3,626

Elementary/Middle/High 45 1,738

Middle/High 2 78

Pre-School 6 228

Total 229 21,941

...almost 22,000 summer programming opportunities available to 84,000 Baltimore City Public Schools students.

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FOUNDATION:Strengthening Organizations

HIGHLIGHTS: σ Within the Community & School Engagement

strategy, Family League offered 113 Professional Development opportunities totaling 365 hours, as well as 75 workshops delivered by contracted PD providers totaling 257 hours.

σ On exit surveys, participants in Family League professional development opportunities reported a 4.34 average quality score based on a 5-point scale.

σ Through its sponsorship Family League served over 3 million meals to Baltimore’s children after school and during the summer.

σ Provided technical assistance to programs including data collection, program quality and program design in all initiative areas.

σ Family League built capacity by training more than 30 facilitators and establishing Baby Basics programs in 20 prenatal care clinics. Baby Basics is a prenatal education program that is part of B’more for Healthy Babies, an initiative co-led by Family League and the Baltimore City Health Department.

σ Family League designed an infographic to illustrate Baltimore’s Community Schools for stakeholders in the Community and School Engagement Strategy to share and use in their work.

σ Created innovative outreach strategies to increase meals participation, including granting $10,000 to community leaders and champions to conduct on-the-ground summer meals outreach.

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In 2014, Family League invested more than $12 million in more than 50 community-based organizations supporting over 120 projects across the age span of a child, to help fulfill our mission of creating lasting outcomes for children and youth.

While Family League’s granting activity is one of the most visible ways we work within the community, we offer all of our community partners and providers high-quality professional

development opportunities. Family League also provides hundreds of hours of support to grantees and technical assistance to ensure that our investments can lead to lasting change in the community.

Strengthening organizations includes Family League’s focus on funding initiatives across the age span of a child and supporting capacity building efforts, such as professional development, technical assistance and coaching.

In 2014, Family League invested more than $12 million in more than 50 community-based organizations supporting over 120 projects across the age span of a child.

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FOUNDATION:Leading Collaboration

HIGHLIGHTS: σ In the summer of 2014, Healthy Families America

Home Visiting, a key component of B’more for Healthy Babies became available city-wide for the first time. This was an outcome of a year’s worth of planning and collaboration, and the alignment of more than $3.8 million from the Governor’s Office for Children, Maryland Department of Education, Baltimore City, and expanded federal funds. Family League’s partners are now able to serve an additional 120 families, bringing the total to more than 500 families served annually.

σ Family Literacy Coalition, which is housed at Family League as part of its co-leadership of B’more for Healthy Babies, began implementation of its strategic plan. The coalition serves as the school readiness workgroup for two citywide collective impact initiatives—B’more for Healthy Babies and the Baltimore Campaign for Grade-Level Reading.

σ Through a strong partnership with the Mayor’s Office, Baltimore City Public Schools and the Department of Planning, Family League is serving as the community facilitator for the 21st Century Schools buildings process in each of the Community Schools being updated in the first year of Baltimore’s $1 billion school reconstruction plan.

σ In partnership with the Department of Social Services, Reach Partnership, Ben Franklin High School and The Academies at Frederic Douglass High School hosted city wide college and career resource fairs open to students city-wide. Over 250 students and families participated in this opportunity.

σ As a key partner on Baltimore’s Campaign for Grade Level Reading, Family League connected partners to provide reading opportunities for its Mobile Meals stops as well as other summer programs (see page 5).

σ The Baltimore Partnership to End Childhood Hunger, which is housed at Family League, successfully advocated for additional state funding for healthy food, including $1 million for Neighborhood Business Works Fresh Food Financing, and $1.7 million for Maryland Meals for Achievement.

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Family League operates as a space for diverse partners to share knowledge and achieve effective outcomes for youth and children as a collective group.

Over the past year, Family League strengthened its collaborative work in a number of areas: As a co-lead of B’more for Healthy

Babies, on Community and School Engagement Strategy, in its summer work (see page 5) and as a key community partner in the 21st Century Building Process.

Family League strives toward collective impact through a strategic focus on convening, coordination, evaluation and the building of partnerships among community-based organizations, elected officials, governmental organizations and stakeholders united to achieve a common mission.

Family League operates as a space for diverse partners to share knowledge and achieve effective outcomes for youth and children as a collective group.

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2014 2013

Temporarily Temporarily

Unrestricted Restricted Total Unrestricted Restricted Total

Revenues and Other Support

Program Revenue

Community Partnership $ - $ 166,626 $ 166,626 $ - $ 166,626 $ 166,626

Education Initiative - 9,265,738 9,265,738 - 8,022,916 8,022,916

B’More for Healthy Babies - 3,255,717 3,255,717 - 3,553,210 3,553,210

Nutrition - 6,870,827 6,870,827 - 5,963,038 5,963,038

Directed Support - 1,451,887 1,451,887 - 2,984,537 2,984,537

Family Recovery - 1,828,783 1,828,783 - 1,719,452 1,719,452

General Support - 388,187 388,187 - 428,659 428,659

Interest income 1,548 - 1,548 3,752 - 3,752

Rental income 20,400 - 20,400 15,400 - 15,400

Contributions 5,583 - 5,583 855 - 855

Net assets released from restrictions 23,560,370 (23,560,370) - 22,846,765 (22,846,765) -

Total Revenues and Other Support 23,587,901 (332,605) 23,255,296 22,866,772 (8,690) 22,858,082

Expenses

Program services 11,908,982 - 11,908,982 12,637,097 - 12,637,097

Program administration 10,909,062 - 10,909,062 9,765,649 - 9,765,649

General and administrative 516,194 - 516,194 388,187 - 388,187

Total Expenses 23,334,238 - 23,334,238 22,790,933 - 22,790,933

Change in Net Assets 253,663 (332,605) (78,942) 75,839 (8,690) (67,149)

Net Assets at Beginning of Year 2,760,763 332,605 3,093,368 2,684,924 341,295 3,026,219

Net Assets at End of Year $ 3,014,426 $ - $ 3,014,426 $ 2,760,763 $ 332,605 $ 3,093,368

Statements of Activities and Changes in Net Assets For the Years Ended June 30, 2014 and 2013

As of June 30, 2014 2013

Assets

Current Assets

Cash and cash equivalents $ 4,200,659 $ 2,296,310

Marketable securities 45,952 542,579

Accounts receivable 2,431,003 3,658,741

Unbilled accounts receivable 680,761 674,310

Prepaid expenses 55,429 31,174

Total Current Assets 7,413,804 7,203,114

Property and Equipment

Computer equipment 135,585 105,827

Telephone equipment 16,658 16,658

Furniture and fixtures 143,204 131,938

Leasehold improvements 208,924 208,924

Total Property and Equipment 504,371 463,347

Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization (341,452) (288,436)

Property and Equiment, net 162,919 174,911

Total Assets $ 7,576,723 $ 7,378,025

As of June 30, 2014 2013

Liabilities and Net Assets

Current Liabilities

Current maturities of capital lease obligation $ 1,848 $ 4,039

Accounts payable 3,064,536 2,749,804

Accrued expenses 361,325 339,546

Deferred revenue 1,032,577 1,060,273

Total Current Liabilities 4,460,286 4,153,662

Long-Term Liabilities

Capital lease obligation, net of current maturities - 1,848

Deferred rent 102,011 129,147

Total Liabilities 4,562,297 4,284,657

Commitments and Contigencies (Note 6)

Net Assets

Unrestricted 3,014,426 2,760,763

Temporarily restricted - 332,605

Total Net Assets 3,014,426 3,093,368

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 7,576,723 $ 7,378,025

Statements of Financial Position

Financials

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DONORS*

The Abell Foundation

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

The Aspen Institute

Attendance Works

Baltimore City Health Department

Baltimore City Mayor’s Office

Baltimore City Mayor’s Office - Office of Human Services

Baltimore City Public Schools

Baltimore Police Department

Blaustein Philanthropic Group

Carefirst BlueCross BlueShield

Citigroup

Fund for Educational Excellence

Governor’s Office for Children

Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Charitable Foundation

Maryland Hunger Solutions

Maryland State Department of Education

Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Maryland State Department of Human Resources/Baltimore Department of Social Services

Maryland State Department of Juvenile Services

Mayor & City Council of Baltimore

National Football League Player Engagement

National League of Cities

National Summer Learning Association

Open Society Institute

Share Our Strength

The After-School Corporation (TASC)

The After-School Corporation (with funding from Every Hour Counts – formerly CBASS)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Office of Women’s Health

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs

The Wallace Foundation

Individuals

Susan Emfinger

Leanetta Jessie

Christi Kramer

Martha McKenna

Patrick O’Connor

Gena O’Keefe

Jonathon Rondeau

Jeff Walley

Crystal Washington

Lisa Wiseman

*July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014

FUNDED PARTNERS*

AARP Experience Corps

Abbottston Elementary School

Abilities Network

Access Art Inc.

Afya Baltimore Inc.

Baltimore Child First Authority Inc.

Baltimore City Health Department

Baltimore Curriculum Project

Baltimore Healthy Start Inc.

Baltimore Medical Systems Inc.

Baltimore Urban Leadership Foundation

BELL

Bon Secours Community Works

Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore

The Cambio Group

Civic Works

Comprehensive Housing Association Inc.

Creative Alliance

Digital Harbor Foundation

DRU/Mondawmin Healthy Families Maryland

Druid Heights Community Development Corporation

East Baltimore Community Corporation

East Baltimore Development Inc.

Education-Based Latino Outreach

Episcopal Community Services Maryland

Family Health Centers of Baltimore, Inc.

Family Recovery Program

Fitness, Fun and Games

Full Gospel Fellowship Church of Deliverance

Fusion Partnerships Inc.

Greater Homewood Community Corporation

Higher Achievement

Historic East Baltimore Community Action Center

Humanim Inc.

Johns Hopkins School of Education

Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Health Behavior & Society

Johns Hopkins University, Center for Communication Programs

Julie Community Center

Koinonia Baptist Church

Living Classrooms Foundation

Maryland Coalition of Families

Mayor’s Office of Employment Development

Park Heights Community Health Alliance

Park Heights Renaissance Inc.

Parks and People Foundation

Patterson Park Public Charter School

Reclaiming Our Children and Community Project

Sinai Hospital

Southeast Community Development Corporation

Teach for America

The Family Tree

Treatment Resources for Youth

U.S. Dream Academy

University of Maryland - Baltimore

University of Maryland - Extension

University of Maryland - School of Social Work, Promise Heights

University of Maryland - School of Social Work, Social Work Community Outreach Service

Village Learning Place

Y of Central Maryland

July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014

Donors and Funded PartnersBOARD OF DIRECTORS

Ginger Mihalik, ChairExecutive DirectorOutward Bound Baltimore

Dr. Marie Washington, Vice ChairPresidentEast Baltimore Community Corporation

Charles Werhane, TreasurerPresident & CEOEnterprise Community

Carl DeLorenzo, SecretaryDirector of Policy & ProgramsHoward County Government

Sophie DagenaisDirector, Baltimore Civic Site and InitiativesThe Annie E. Casey Foundation

Philip SymondsPrincipalPhilip Symonds, CPA

Kelsey JohnsonContract AdministratorState Highway Administration

Rev. Dr. Alvin HathawaySenior PastorUnion Baptist Church

Dr. Terris KingDeputy DirectorCenters for Medicare & Medicaid

Dr. Barry SolomonAssociate Professor of PediatricsMedical Director, Harriet Lane ClinicJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine

EX OFFICIO MEMBERS

A. Hassan CharlesExecutive Director, Office of EngagementBaltimore City Public Schools

Olivia Farrow, EsquireDeputy Health CommissionerBaltimore City Health Department

Dawn KirstaetterDeputy Mayor for Health, Human Services, Education & Youth

Dwain JohnsonExecutive Director, Baltimore RegionMaryland Department of Juvenile Services

Bernard McBrideCEOBehavioral Health System Baltimore

Molly McGrath-TierneyDirectorBaltimore City Department of Social Services

Jonathon Rondeau**President & CEOFamily League of Baltimore

LEADERSHIP TEAM

Jonathon RondeauPresident & CEO

Demaune A. MillardChief Operating Officer

Steven Herr, PhD.Chief Impact Officer

Jeff WalleyChief Financial Officer

Karen JanssenSenior Director of Funded Partnerships

Julia BaezSenior Director of Initiatives

*Current at time of printing

**Nonvoting Member

Board/Key Staff*

Thanks to our funded partners who submitted photos for this report:l Access Art Inc. l Education-Based Latino Outreachl Baltimore Child First Authority Inc. l Village Learning Place

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