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IN YOUR LIFE MENTORING..

A HOLISTIC APPROACH

TO IMPACTING YOUTH

The Dubuque Dream Center strategy — to Impact Youth and Strengthen Families — begins with our In Your Life Mentoring model. On the foundation of genuine relationships, In Your Life Mentors are strategically connected around an individualized plan to provide a child with the assets they need to be successful in school and life. In Your Life Mentoring is connecting caring adults to impact academic and character development outcomes of youth. The Dream Center’s long-term vision includes holistic initiatives to benefit the entire family. However, for our first 3–5 years we have initiated our vision to impact youth.

This year’s Annual Report will highlight our D.R.E.A.M. Center In Your Life Mentoring system and impact for 2017–2018.

DIVERSE

RELATIONSHIPS

EDUCATION

ACTIVITIES

MISSION DRIVEN

IN YOUR

LIFE MENTORING

REFLECTING THE COMMUNITY

We are intentional in recruiting staff, mentors, and volunteers that reflect the community we serve. We seek to put our youth in position to build relationships across racial and social-economic lines. Youth we serve will observe and experience the diversity in volunteers and leadership that reflect the community in which they live and the world they will experience.

DREAM CENTER IMPACT

In 2017-2018, the Dubuque Dream Center trained over 40 volunteers who served an average of once per week for the entire school year and 6 volunteers for summer.

Meet our staff and volunteer team that includes Dream Center School Connectors, Dubuque School Teachers, para-professionals, and community members.

DIVERSE

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VOLUNTEERS

2017--2018

CARING (IN)

COMMUNITY

We seek to recruit 50% or more of our staff, mentors, and volunteers who are IN (Engage) the community. When our program hours end, our impact only begins. Our mentors impact youth outside the walls of the Dream Center.

DREAM CENTER

IMPACT

Over 50% of our mentors include school teachers, parents, and community neighbors who live and work in the radius of the kids we serve. We connect these caring adults in the child’s life to build a systematic community structure of people who genuinely care. It’s not just programs, it’s PERSONAL.

RELATION-SHIPS

50%OF OUR MENTORS

LIVE AND WORK IN

THE RADIUS OF THE

KIDS WE SERVE

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SCHOOL CONNECTORS

School Connectors are Dream Center staff members who are trained in reading prescriptions and math improvement strategies, utilized by District educators, to continue teaching what is applied to students during the school day.

School Connectors visit students during the school day to encourage student success in the classroom and support the Dubuque School Teachers.

78% of students increased or stayed the same on the Reading MAP test from Fall 2017 to Spring 2018.

100% of students increased their score on the Reading FAST test from Fall 2017 to Fall 2018.

84% of students increased or stayed the same on the Math MAP test from Fall 2017 to Spring 2018.

EDUCATION

100%INCREASED THEIR

SCORE ON THE

READING FAST TEST

DREAM CENTER IMPACT

– 150 youth participated in the 2017-2018 school year programming

– 127 youth participated in the 2018 summer programming

– For summer learning, Dream Center participants continued school day curriculum that includes Imagine It, Lexia, reading fluency protocol, ST Math, and Rocket Math to assist students in progressing towards grade level reading and math proficiency.

– Other educational and enrichment opportunities students participated in over the summer were weekly STEM activities (Floating Toy, Water Bucket, Ping Pong, Flag Chain, Root Beer Making, Robots, and Gas Balloon), and a week long Four Mounds Adventure Camp.

THE JOHN HAUPERT ACADEMIC CENTER AND DUBUQUE SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP:

The Dubuque Dream Center partners with the child’s school and parents to develop an individualized plan to improve academic achievement and character development. Together the child’s parents, teachers, and school connector develop a plan to help improve academic knowledge, increase school and DC attendance, and behavior. The child’s school connector does weekly visits to the child’s classroom to see what the child is doing well with and what they need to improve on. School connectors build positive relationships with the child’s teacher.

We’d like to extend a special thank you to the following organizations

who partnered with us for 2017–2018 summer activities:

Hillcrest

Mississippi River Museum

Sinsinawa Mounds

Four Mounds

The Canticle of Creation Center-the Sisters of

St. Francis

Skate Country

Derby Grange

78%INCREASED

THEIR READING

MAP SCORE

84%INCREASED

THEIR MATH

MAP SCORE

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SAFE COMMUNITY

Providing youth with structured and meaningful activities contributes to a safe community. Our goals are to decrease the number of unsupervised youth in our community, provide them with quality activities that instill character and motivation towards academic achievement, and connect caring adults in the child’s life through our activities.

DREAM CENTER IMPACT

We provide Club Sports and Performing Arts Activities. These are group or team activities that provide underserved youth structure, discipline, responsibility, and purpose beyond what they see on the surface.

Dream Center activities include basketball, boxing, and choir. In 2016 the Dream Center expanded our services for girls with the inclusion of girls basketball.

Participants will be expected to maintain school attendance and academic achievement goals as part of our program structure in order to participate in activities. Participants will enjoy fun field trips throughout the school year and an end- of-year awards ceremony. Families are encouraged to volunteer and get involved in program activities to develop a sense of community.

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ACTIVITIES

MEAL MENTORING

Dream Center participants are served a meal each program day. Dream Center mentors strategically engage youth during meal time to build relationships and reinforce values. During the summer, participants are served breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

DREAM CENTER HISTORY

The Dubuque Dream Center began in 2013 serving 15 boys in 3rd to 6th grade. We have expanded our club activities, staff, and volunteers to serve more youth. In 2017–2018, the Dubuque Dream Center served 150 1st–9th grade girls and boys. Our goal is to serve 200 youth.

150YOUTH WERE

SERVED THIS

YEAR

BUILDING COMMUNITY

Our goal is to recruit staff, mentors, and volunteers who are mission driven. Connected caring adults who are unified in purpose can transform a community.

Our mission is to impact youth, strengthen families, and ultimately build community. In Your Life Dream Center mentors have a passion for community impact.

DESIRED DREAM CENTER IMPACT

UNIFIED AND SAFE COMMUNITY

Our desired outcomes for building community include contributing to a unified and safe community. We believe our In Your Life Mentoring model and focus will result in mission driven outcomes.

The Dubuque Dream Center will seek to increase our volunteer numbers by engaging more community members to volunteer and contribute to the Mission.

MISSION DRIVEN

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VOLUNTEERS

END OF

2019 GOAL..

GAIL KUTSCH

Volunteer

JEANNE HARRINGTON

Volunteer

SHARON KRESS

Volunteer

DOUG BAUSCH

Volunteer

ROBERTO DOMINGUEZ

Technical Support

WE'D LIKE TO EXTEND A SPECIAL THANK YOU

TO ALL OUR DREAM CENTER VOLUNTEERS FOR

THEIR GENEROUS GIFTS OF TIME AND TALENT.

Meet some of the volunteers who have served at the Dream Center for 2 years or more:

VOLUNTEERS

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP CORE TEAM LEADERSHIP

CORE TEAM LEADERSHIPCORE TEAM LEADERSHIP

CORE TEAM LEADERSHIP CORE TEAM LEADERSHIP

CORE TEAM LEADERSHIP CORE TEAM LEADERSHIP

1 ROBERT KIMBLE Executive Director

2 GABBY SULLIVAN Academic Center Coordinator

3 RICARDO CUNNINGHAM Finance Coordinator

4 BRIDGETT BOONE Music and Arts Coordinator

5 NELLIE KIMBLE Operations and Kitchen Manager

6 RACQUEL MCCLELLAN Donor Relations and Executive Assistant

7 CORI LIEB Marketing and Technology Administrator

8 MOLLY HUHN Grant Writer and Fundraising Coordinator

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LEADERSHIP

1 BOARD CHAIR/PRESIDENT Tim Conlon President and CEO, Conlon Construction

2 TREASURER Ricardo Cunningham Business & Accounting Department Head, University of Dubuque

3 SECRETARY Anderson Sainci Resource Management Coordinator, City of Dubuque

4 MEMBER Robert Kimble Executive Director, The Dubuque Dream Center

5 MEMBER Andy DeWitt, DDS Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Great River Oral

6 MEMBER Racquel McClellan Executive Assistant, Dubuque Dream Center

7 MEMBER Dave Cushman Executive VP, Morrison Brothers Company and Owner, Park Farm Winery

8 MEMBER Donnelle Fuerste Chief Executive Officer, The Metrix Company

9 MEMBER Maggie Blaser Owner, Dubuque Fire Equipment

10 MEMBER Chad Chandlee Vice Chair, Kendall Hunt Publishing

11 MEMBER Bjorn Hill Principal, IT Consulting, RSM

12 MEMBER Phil Ruppel Parco Ltd (Retired)

We’re grateful for the involvement and oversight of these community leaders serving on the Dubuque Dream Center’s Board of Directors.

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BOARD

Alt, Ed & Pat

Bausch, Doug

The Bullock Family

The Butler Family Foundation

Chandlee, Chad and Laura

Conlon, Tim and Christine

Cook, Keith & Kress, Sharon

Cunningham, Ricardo

Dalton, Dr. Michael and Molly

DeWitt, Andy and Anna

Dubuque Bank & Trust

Fuerste, Donnelle & Rommel

Gilloon, Penny & Art

Great River Learning

Haupert, Carolyn

Hill, B’jorn & Sarah

Hillary, Dan & Luann

Hoefer, Bob and Marilyn

Horstmann, Doug and Karen

Hudek, Karen

McKeag, Bryan & Linda

Mozena, Jeff & Janet

Nilles, Keith

Ottavi, John and Stephanie

Parco, LTD. (Wendy’s)

Premier Bank

Rhomberg, Janet

Ruppel, Phil & Judy

Ryan, Steve & Tami

Sanders, Cynthia and Ray

Schatz, Brian and Lynette

Schiesl, Michael & Christine

Schmid, Mary

The Sirk Family Foundation

Taylor, Scott & Rhonda

Weitzel Second Pledge

Weitzel, Tim & Diane

Zuccaro, Joseph and Teri

DREAM TEAM DONORS

The Dream Team is composed of a group of dedicated donors who have pledged to donate $1,000 or more annually for 3-5 years. The Dream Center’s goal is to have $300,000 pledged by December 2018.

SUPPORT

DREAM TEAM

100+ Women Who Care

100+ Men Who Care

Dubuque Community Schools

DARSP (Dubuque Area Retired School Personnel)

Dubuque Fire Equipment

Haupert Family Foundation

John Deere Dubuque Works

Mathis -Pfohl Foundation

McDonough Foundation

McGraw-Hill Education

Radius Church — South Carolina

Sister’s of St. Francis Grant

The Wahlert Foundation

USDA Food Grant

United Way of Tri-State Area

Department of Human Services DCAT Grant

Community Foundation

Dubuque Food Pantry

Dubuque County

McCullough Creative

Ed & Patricia Alt

Kori Cherney

Mary Coan

Randy & Joni Decker

Norma Delinger

Dr. Peter Alt

Charlie & Linda Giese

Charlie & Vicki Glab

Community Foundation--Days of Caring

Carolyn Haupert

David & Jane Heiar

Daniel & Luann Hillary

Elaine Holthaus

Galena Bible Church

David & Shirley Horstmann

Ernest & Peggy Jackson

Brian & Kathleen Kane

Katherine Kelly

Barbara Kruse

Joy McCarthy

Mike & Judy McCoy

David Naylor

Robin & Terri Nichols

Keith Nilles

Venice & Jim Richardson

Carolyn Schmid

Dick & Joyce Smith

Phil Steffen & Laurie Garms,M.D.

Scott & Rhonda Taylor

Jim & Marita Theisen

Unitarian Universalist Church

Mike & Nancy VanMilligan

Kathleen Weber

Megan Weston

Dupaco Community Credit Union

Fraternal Order of Eagles

Grand River Medical Group

The Metrix Co.

Uncle Ike’s Music & Sound

RSM

Schoen Family Charitable Trust

Domino’s Pizza

Independent Insurance Agents of Dubuque

Mississippi Valley Running Association (MVRA)

PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS AND GRANTS INDIVIDUAL DONORS AND CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS

We would like to thank all our 2017-2018 community partners and donors, including the many generous contributions from those not named here.

SUPPORTCOMMUNITY

PARTNERSHIPS

AND GRANTS

GOALS

– Expand Girls programming and numbers served

– Expand transportation by adding four 12-15 passenger vans

– Facility Renovations

NEEDS

$2,700 PER CHILD

The children we assist:

1 Are identified and registered with the assistance of area school administrators and teachers

2 Receive academic assistance

3 Participate in structured activities, including a character-development curriculum

4 Are provided an evening meal each day.

2018-2019

Our programming expense needs include, but are not limited to:

Building upkeep, office supplies, administrative expense, training supplies, activity equipment, uniforms, tournament and league fees, program attire, transportation expenses, computers, meals, Dream Center School Connectors, and an Academic Center Coordinator.

GOALS & NEEDS

$300K

$236K

OUR 2018

FUNDRAISING GOAL..

CURRENT AMOUNT

RAISED TO DATE..

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Submit payments to: Dubuque Dream Center, 1600 White Street, Dubuque, IA 52001 or pay via PayPal at www.dubuquedre amcenter.com by clicking on the PayPal icon.

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Dubuque Dream Center Donation Card

Yes- I would like to join the Dream Team by contributing:

$1,000 $5,000 $10,000 Other _______

$……………… / year (………… / month) for 2 3 5 years starting on (date/year) ______________ No - I am not interested in joining the Dream Team. I would like to give a one-time donation:

One-time donation: $1,000 $5,000 $10,000 Other _______

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Submit payments to: Dubuque Dream Center, 1600 White Street, Dubuque, IA 52001 or pay via PayPal at www.dubuquedre amcenter.com by clicking on the PayPal icon.

Name Date__________

Address City/State/Zip_______________

Phone Email____________________________________

Please add me to your email newsletter list. I would like to be contacted about volunteering at the Dream Center. I am ok with Dream Team public recognition I would like my donation to remain anonymous

The Dream Center is a tax-exempt organization as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

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If you would like to make a donation by mail, please fill out the form to the right and mail this page to:

Dubuque Dream Center1600 White StreetDubuque, IA 52001