informed families 2012 annual report

2012 ANNUAL REPORT®

Helping Kids Grow Up Safe, Hea lthy & Drug-Free S ince 1982.

Empowering Parents . Drug Prevention . Saving Lives . School Programs . Educating Families Community Awareness . Positive Social Norms . Spreading Healthy Messages . Protecting Children . Lock Your Meds . Safe Homes Safe Parties . Engaging Teens . Red Ribbon Campaign Celebrating Family Day . Helpful Tools . Latest Drug Trends . Fostering Communication Science Based Programs . Drug Free Living . Empowering Parents . Drug Prevention . Saving Lives . School Programs . Educating Families . Community Awareness . Positive Social Norms Spreading Healthy Messages . Protecting Children . Lock Your Meds . Safe Homes Safe Parties Engaging Teens . Red Ribbon Campaign . Celebrating Family Day . Helpful Tools . Latest Drug

Trends . Fostering Communication . Science Based Programs . Drug Free Living . Empowering Parents . Drug Prevention . Saving Lives . School Programs . Educating Families . Community Awareness . Positive Social Norms . Spreading Healthy Messages . Protecting Children . Lock Your Meds . Safe Homes Safe Parties . Engaging Teens . Red Ribbon Campaign . Celebrating Family Day . Helpful Tools . Latest Drug Trends . Fostering Communication . Science Based Programs . Drug Free Living . Empowering Parents . Drug Prevention . Saving Lives . School Programs . Educating Families . Community Awareness . Positive Social Norms . Spreading Healthy Messages . Protecting Children . Lock Your Meds . Safe Homes Safe Parties . Engaging Teens . Red Ribbon Campaign . Celebrating Family Day . Helpful Tools . Latest Drug Trends

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Chairman Of The Board

Dear Friends of Informed Families,Thank you for allowing me to serve as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Informed Families. It has truly been a privilege.

It is the mission created thirty one years ago by Peggy Sapp and a concerned group of parents which keeps Informed

Families forging ahead. We all have a responsibility to protect our children - and help them grow up in a safe, healthy and drug free environment. Informed Families’ four primary programs are the core to accomplishing our mission. The Red Ribbon Campaign®, Safe Home Safe Parties®, Lock Your Meds®, and Family Day all help communicate our mission and protect our children.

Informed Families communicates its mission by providing community connections and educational materials for students, parents and educators. Our strength lies in integrating community, professionals and government organizations to communicate one message.

Current societal trends provide new challenges in carrying out our

mission. Whether you are for or against the legalization of medical marijuana, or whether or not you believe marijuana has any medicinal benefit, there is one fact on which everybody agrees: drug use, of any sort, is hazardous for a child. The society as a whole has a responsibility to protect children from the possible use of drugs, including marijuana. Any law that threatens our children from growing up in a safe, healthy, and drug free environment cannot be tolerated.

The valuable programs that Informed Families provides cannot survive without direct community support. Our annual fundraising dinner at Joe’s Stone Crab Restaurant continues to be our primary source for raising discretionary funds. The future of Informed Families depends on identifying additional sources for funding and our growth of discretionary dollars.

Informed Families is about providing a better life for children. Its success lies within the dedication of the people who commit their time, talent, and treasure. Thank you to each and every person involved with Informed Families for your support.

Sincerely,

John L. Hofmann

John L. Hofmann

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Letter From The President It’s hard to believe we just completed Informed Families’ 30th year of helping kids grow up safe, healthy and drug free. We’ve sure come a long way from six volunteers around a kitchen table. Now, with the launch of our brand new, interactive, engaging and informative website; our monthly Lunch & Learn webinar series; and new creative ways of gaining more participation like our text to pledge program, we are reaching parents across the State of Florida and beyond at

the convenience of their own kitchen tables. We continue to work in homes, schools and communities at the local, statewide and national level, focusing on effective prevention, resulting in behavior change. Our delivery of 3.5 million healthy messages through media outlets is certainly something to be proud of, but we know that true change requires not just awareness, but your understanding, acceptance and making a change. Our four universal prevention campaigns are designed to lead families, schools and communities through that very process.

We directly reached over fifty thousand students and families through our prevention programs in 2012, but we have so many more people to reach and the problem is not getting smaller. In 2010, there were 189,060 visits to the emergency room due to underage drinking, 76,918 of which were kids between 12 and 17 years old. It’s no wonder the CDC calls underage drinking “a major public health problem. That in addition to the prescription drug abuse problem and new synthetic drugs entering the market faster than the blink of an eye, reminds us that we really have our work cut out for us. Sitting around and waiting for someone else to fix the issue is not going to work; the solution requires YOUR participation. Informed Families looks forward to working together with YOU in 2013 to help kids grow up safe, healthy and drug free because our children have the right to grow up drug free – and WE (that includes you!) have the responsibility to make that happen... right here, right now.

Sincerely,

Peggy B. Sapp

Peggy B. Sapp

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Helping Kids Grow Up Safe, Healthy & Drug Free

To Be The Most Recognized Prevention Resource Supporting & Connecting Families In The State of Florida

• Developing a prevention safety net for children and parents• Reducing underage drinking and drug use through education and parent involvement• Creating environmental change by disseminating healthy messages • Building The Parent Network to educate, empower and connect parents

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Officers

TrusteesEddy BareaPat BartonJames Boink

Marino CarbonellCalvina L. FayRegine Jean-Pierre Joly

John McLaughlinDeborah MontillaJames Pfleger

Mark Trouville

Executive CommitteeMaria Baluja, RN, CDERaymond Estefania

Bertram “Chico” GoldsmithGeorgee Kluck

Rona LevittJudge Norma Lindsey

Fabian Thurston

Our 2012 Board Leadership Team

Vice ChairmanNeca Logan

SecretaryElena Jakubowicz

TreasurerMarc Breslow, CPA

President & CEOPeggy B. Sapp

ChairmanJohn L. Hofmann, CPA


Grants $2,530,690.00Grants $1,232,052.00 Development $1,564,587.00Development $371,037.00 Sale of Goods and Services $349,091.00Sale of Goods and Services $97,106.00 In-kind Contributions $119,583.00In-kind Contributions $235,058.00 Grants $497,429.00

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Grants $1,232,052 Development $371,037Sale of Goods and Services $97,106In-kind Contributions $235,058Total $1,935,253

Community Action Teams (CATs) $489,820 25% Regional CATs $387,155 19% Universal Campaigns $300,363 15%Parent Training $162,175 8%Red Ribbon Certified Schools® $175,764 9%Administration $218,865 11% Development $263,757 13%

Total $1,997,899

Where Our Resources Went

Financials

Where Our Resources Came


ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Red Ribbon Week® is the oldest and largest drug prevention campaign in the nation. Informed Families is the Statewide Sponsor of the Florida Red Ribbon Campaign®, reaching 2.9 million students in over 6,300 schools.

Red Ribbon Campaign®

• Red Ribbon planning information was delivered to all Florida Schools, complete with information about the 2012 theme, “The Best Me Is Drug Free,” the Red Ribbon Photo Contest and creative ways to participate in the campaign.

• President & CEO Peggy Sapp served as keynote speaker at the Drug Enforcement Administration’s annual Red Ribbon Rally in Washington DC. Other speakers included Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and James Cole, Deputy Attorney General.

• 47,886 votes were cast in support of Florida entries in the 2nd Annual Red Ribbon Photo Contest, where students bring the Red Ribbon message home to their families and together decorate their door, fence or mailbox with a drug free message. The winning Florida family with the most votes in support of their entry, the Kennedy Family in Boynton Beach, received an iPad and $1,000 for Poinciana Elementary School from the National Family Partnership and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Recognition ceremony featured Senator Jeff Clemens and representatives from the Department of Children & Families and the Department of Juvenile Justice.

• The Third Annual Miami Gardens Red Ribbon Week® Parade attracted 700 community members, families and supporters.

• Red Ribbon sign-up pledge banners were incorporated into Red Ribbon Week® school curriculum at several schools in Miami, Orlando and Pensacola. Students, parents, teachers and school administrators participated in pledging to live drug free.

• 15,511 visits were recorded during the months of September and October from parents and educators seeking to obtain information about ways to participate in the Red Ribbon Campaign®.

• Informed Families participated in various community presentations and events throughout the State of Florida to celebrate Red Ribbon.

“I’m really excited that the Red Ribbon Campaign® has extended to our families’ homes. When we do things together as a community, that’s when we really see change.”Lisa Lee, PrincipalPoinciana Elementary School Winning School – 2012 Red Ribbon Photo ContestBoynton Beach, FL

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Sponsored by National Family Partnership


Red Ribbon Certified Schools® (RRCS) is a “Good Housekeeping Seal” for prevention in schools, evaluating schools in four areas:

In 2012, 9 schools received Red Ribbon Certification.

Miami-Dade, FloridaAspira South Charter School

Hialeah Gardens Middle School

West Miami Middle School

Orange County, FloridaEdgewater High School

Howard Middle School

South Creek Middle School

Escambia County, FloridaR.C. Lipscomb Elementary School

Ransom Middle School

Workman Middle School

Red Ribbon Certified Schools®

• School Environment

• Use of Best Practices in Education and Prevention

• Parental Engagement

• Year-Round Commitment To Prevention

“The Red Ribbon Certified Schools® Program is a way to let your parents and community know that you are serious about your commitment to children’s lives. If we can do the work of prevention during middle school, we save students years and years of trouble. We are educating them, but more than that we are preparing students for life and we take that very seriously.”Brent BrummetPrincipal, Ransom Middle School 2012 Red Ribbon Certified SchoolPensacola, FL

“The Red Ribbon Certified Schools® Program is a way to let your parents and community know that you are serious about your commitment to children’s lives. If we can do the work of prevention during middle school, we save students years and years of trouble. We are educating them, but more than that we are preparing students for life and we take that very seriously.”Brent BrummetPrincipal, Ransom Middle School 2012 Red Ribbon Certified SchoolPensacola, FL

Red Ribbon Certified Schools®


• Informed Families delivered 3.5 million prevention messages through print and electronic media.• 2,196 Parents pledged their support for the Lock Your Meds®, Safe Homes/Safe Parties®, Family Day™

and Red Ribbon® Campaigns. • 488,000 students (duplicated) received prevention messages through Safe Homes/Safe Parties®,

Family Day™, Lock Your Meds® and Red Ribbon Campaign® prevention activities as part of the statewide Community Action Team program.

• Informed Families participated in several statewide drug take-back events in 2012, helping to minimize the amount of unused medication falling into the hands of youth.

• Over 500 people attended our Family Day event in Orlando, in collaboration with the Orange County Drug Free Coalition. Other Family Day events took place in schools and community locations throughout the State of Florida.

• Three and a half times likelier to say, “it’s okay for teens my age to get drunk;” and Twice as likely to say that they expect to try drugs (including marijuana and prescription drugs without a prescription to get high) in the future.

INFORMING & INVOLVING FAMILIES

FAMILY DAY™Informed Families promotes the Family Day™ campaign, which is based on more than a decade of research from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) that has proven that kids who eat dinner with their families are less likely to smoke, drink or use drugs. For the third year in a row, Informed Families sponsored a Florida Family Day Photo Contest. This year, we also hosted a Family Day Webinar featuring a representative from CASA during the month of September.

Compared to teens who have frequent family dinners, those who have infrequent family dinners are:

Delivering Year-Round Healthy Messages

“I like promoting the [Informed Families Universal] Campaigns because they raise awareness on important topics. We often see celebrities doing drugs.

They may not be intending to say, ‘I think you should do it too,’ but it may

come off that way. I don’t want my friends to become statistics.”

Malik Williams Sophomore, Apopka High School, Orlando


LOCK YOUR MEDS®

SAFE HOMES/SAFE PARTIES®

FaCT: Seven Floridians die each day from prescription drug overdosesLock Your Meds® is a national prevention campaign designed to reduce prescription drug abuse by making adults aware that they are often the unintentional suppliers of prescription medications being abused by young people.

FaCT: Every year, nearly 5,000 young people under the age of 21 die from binge drinking. Prom and graduation season is a peak time for tragedies. The Safe Homes/Safe Parties Campaign® is a statewide initiative developed by Informed Families/The Florida Family Partnership and implemented by parents of teens and pre-teens to ensure that drugs, alcohol and cigarettes will not be permitted at parties held in their homes and discouraged at parties in the community.

Adults are asked to: • Secure, monitor and take inventory of their medicine cabinets regularly. • Set clear rules such as no sharing medications and always following proper dosages.• Talk to children about the dangers of abusing prescription medication• Properly dispose of old or unused medicine.

Delivering Year-Round Healthy Messages

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Empowering Parents

• In 2012, Informed Families launched an online monthly parent webinar series, featuring the latest research, trends and relevant topics in the field of prevention.

• 298 Parents enrolled in our school based parenting programs.

• 1145 (duplicated) seniors participated in our Grandparents Raising Grandchildren program.

• 97% of parents in our programs maintained or increased their knowledge of parenting for prevention and awareness of children’s substance abuse.

• 90 parents graduated from the Triple P Positive Parenting Program in the Miami Gardens Community after attending eight educational sessions. Informed Families utilized the Triple P program to provide parents with positive parenting education and skills training, including ways to manage misbehavior, budgeting family time and bonding. Triple P is designed to prevent social, emotional, behavioral, and developmental problems in children by enhancing parents’ knowledge, skills, and confidence.

• With generous funding from the Woman’s Relief Association and the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration’s Drug Free Communities Mentoring Grant, Informed Families continued to provide parenting services and offer prevention programs in the Greater Miami Shores Area.

DEVELOPING PARENT LEADERS

Parenting Programs


The award-winning Parent Peer Group Program, developed by parents for parents, educates and unites proactive parents seeking to work together to prevent underage drinking and youth substance abuse. The program, which utilizes Informed Families’ Parent Pilot Kit® book, helps parents learn to set boundaries and monitor behavior.

Empowering Parents

PARENT PEER GROUPS

The Grandparents raising Grandchildren program in the Informed Families offers educational and supportive classes covering a variety of topics, including parenting, drug prevention, exercise and nutrition.

GRANDPARENTS RAISING GRANDCHILDREN

With funding from The Children’s Trust, Informed Families offers an international award-winning evidence-based program, providing simple solutions to issues ranging from temper tantrums to disobedience, bedtime dramas to homework battles, schoolyard bullying to teenage rebellion.

TRIPLE P POSITIVE PARENTING PROGRAM

“The Informed Families Parent Peer Group trainings we’ve held at our school have been very inspiring and fortifying for us as parents. Sometimes we might become cynical about parenting or think that we don’t want someone giving us a lot of impossible rules for raising our teens, but this program

has taught us new techniques and has served as a reminder that we each have a voice - and together we can prevent our

children from getting involved with alcohol and drugs.”Elaine Morgan

PTSA Volunteer, Mother of sevenEdgewater High School, Orlando

Topics include: • Brain development • Combating harmful media • Social norms • How to form parent peer groups


The Community Action Team (CAT), an all encompassing prevention program developed by Informed Families, provides youth substance abuse prevention activities, services and strategies, targeting middle school youth and their parents, schools and neighborhoods.

• Over 20,000 students and 30,000 parents were reached by direct school based prevention programs statewide.

• CATs promoted prevention through Universal Campaigns and other prevention strategies in four schools in Miami-Dade County, six schools in Escambia County and ten schools in Orange County. Additionally schools were reached through distance learning ambassadors, who received tool kits with everything needed to roll out the four prevention campaigns in their schools.

• Through the CAT program, 425 Escambia County school teachers were trained on tobacco prevention. 185 students were then trained to deliver the message to their peers, reaching 798 elementary, middle and high schools students in seven schools total. Pre/Post tests showed a 14% gain in knowledge among the students.

• 591 students in Miami and Orlando were trained in the Alcohol Literacy Challenge. Students learn about how alcohol expectancies influence behavior and gain skills in media literacy.

• 57 students participated in CAT youth groups in Miami and Pensacola.• 99% of CAT youth group participants maintained their lack of use or decreased their use of drugs. • 92% of CAT Youth group participants maintained or increased their disapproval of drugs.• An Online Scavenger Hunt program for teens to learn the facts about underage drinking and drug use in a fun and engaging way was developed.

316 participants took part in the adventure, representing 34 schools across 11 states.

COMMUNITY ACTION TEAMS “West Miami Middle School is so fortunate to have a Community Action Team program at our school. Every day, I see the positive

impact of the program on our students and I can’t thank Informed Families enough for their unwavering dedication to

helping kids grow up safe, healthy and drug free.” Helena Garcia

Community Involvement SpecialistWest Miami Middle School

Environmental Change In Schools

COMMUNITY ACTION TEAMS


Founded in 2003 by Informed Families, the South Miami Drug-Free Coalition’s mission is to reduce drinking and drug use in the community, particularly among youth. Coalition members represent business, government, health care, law enforcement, media, schools, faith community, youth, parents and others. The Coalition is funded by the Drug Free Communities Support Program Grant,Office of National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President, and the STOP Act Grant.

• Delivered social norms and other prevention messages to 2,400 students at South Miami Senior High.

• Past 30 day use of alcohol among area high school students down 8% since 2008.

• Led four prevention programs in three area schools, serving approximately 2,700 students.

• Hosted a Youth Dialogue Day event attended by 81 students and community leaders to give students a voice in the decisions affecting their community.

• Conducted Project Sticker Shock in cooperation with the South Miami Police Explorers, a project to remind adults not to provide alcohol to minors.

• 11,000 South Miami residents reached with over 80,000 prevention messages.

• Four prevention activities targeting local businesses reached approximately 3,000 residents.

• Signature event, 4th Annual King Pins Challenge, raised over $20,000 with 272 attendees.

South Miami Coalition“It is an invaluable experience to be a member of the South

Miami Drug-Free Coalition. The meetings provide me with excellent information to share with my faculty, staff, students

and parents to help promote a healthier drug-free community. Through my work with the coalition, I have been motivated to apply for Informed Families’ Red Ribbon School Certification,

to be trained by Informed Families in the Alcohol Literacy Challenge Program, to begin Parent Peer Groups and to help

facilitate a Community Safety Night at the Gibson-Bethel Community Center in South Miami.”

Pat LevyCounselor, Ludlam Elementary School, South Miami

Member, South Miami Drug-Free Coalition

Transforming Communities

South Miami Drug-Free Coalition


Outreach & Education

• Informed Families launched a brand new website in March 2012, offering the latest technology and interactive educational opportunities for parents throughout the State of Florida and beyond. 144,000 web visits were recorded in 2012.

• Parent webinar series created to educate parents who are unable to attend in-person trainings. 369 participants viewed webinars independently or at viewing parties. Topics included:

• Teen Drinking & Learning: What Every Parent Needs To Know

• Family Dinners & Other Simple, Timesaving Tools To Protect Kids

• Red Ribbon: Creating a Drug Free Community

• Listen UP: Teen Mistakes & Their Unexpected, Permanent Consequences

• 95% of Informed Families Webinar participants would recommend the webinar series to a friend.

• 192,551 CATalyst and eCATalyst newsletters were delivered, offering parents helpful tips along with the latest prevention education information.

• Informed Families worked with Judge Beth Bloom and her teenager son Jacob Stern to promote and grow their Listen Up Program in South Florida schools and communities, educating parents and teens about the long-term consequences of common teen mistakes, such as underage drinking, owning a fake ID, or unsafe driving.

Educating Communities

“The September Webinar was of the best webinars I have ever attended.

The information was very helpful and we will be using it.”

Beverly ClayChildren & Family Services, Inc.

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G E T I N F O R M E D. G E T I N VO LV E D. B E C O M E A L E A D E R . SUMMER 2012

Whether you are ten, forty or eighty years old, we are all impacted in a variety of ways by family. Let’s face it: at one time or another,

our families drive us crazy. Why do you think we eat so much during Thanksgiving? As the saying goes, “If you think you are so enlightened, go and spend a week with your parents.” But, it’s not just parents. It’s siblings, cousins, in-laws and sometimes our own children, too!

Much of the internal conflict experienced within families occurs as a result of clashing needs, motivations and values. Age related issues are huge. For example, while parents are concerned about keeping their teens safe, kids crave independence, socializing and are prone to taking risks. Siblings often vie for their parents’ attention and affection. This type of competitive behavior can start in early childhood and continue throughout their lives. No individual is immune from their own box of nuts we call “family.” Why? Because each family member is in their own age, stage, or phase of life and reality doesn’t look the same to each of us. Trying to communicate requires that we have some understanding and appreciation of where each person is in their life cycle.

Here are some tips from Parents: The Anti-Drug for staying sane this summer with your tweens and teens:

• Establish a summertime curfew for your tween/teen • Help plan activities to keep your tween/teen busy • Schedule time together to do something fun as a family • Check in with adult supervisors, such as coaches and employers • Meet your child’s friends, especially those that your tween/teen hangs out with regularly • Set some kind of check-in system, such as an established call time when they get home

Enjoy your summer,

Peggy B. Sapp President & CEO

If Life Is A Box of Chocolates, Then Family Is A Box Of Nuts

Informed Families’ Dinner at Joe’s: A Crabulous Success Generous sponsors and over 400 guests participated in the organization’s 27th Annual Fundraising Dinner at Joe’s. Turn to page 2 for more…

Myth Vs Fact The latest teen drug use survey is in.Is Marijuana a gateway drug?Turn to page 3 to find out…

7 Creative Ideas for Safe Summer Fun Research shows that kids with nothing else to do are more likely to use drugs. Check out our tips for keeping your tweens/teens safe this summer on page 3…

Congratulations to Scott Ginchereau of Orlando, Safe Homes Safe Parties Contest Winner Kudos to you and everyone who took the online pledge to protect your children from

underage drinking. We hope you enjoy your $100 Publix Gift Card!

CATalyst Sponsor – Thank You

Donor of the Year for

7 Years THANK YOU

For the latest prevention news and tips, visit us online atwww.InformedFamilies.org

“I discovered the Informed Families website when I was seeking ideas and information about Red Ribbon Week activities. After doing some research, I learned more about the Family Day

Campaign and was inspired to implement a Family Day program in my school. We were thrilled by the positive results of our program; 50 parents attended, learning the connection between family

dinners and prevention, and the kids were very excited about having regular family dinners.” Kristina Longino

School Counselor

“I discovered the Informed Families website when I was seeking ideas and information about Red Ribbon Week activities. After doing some research, I learned more about the Family Day

Campaign and was inspired to implement a Family Day program in my school. We were thrilled by the positive results of our program; 50 parents attended, learning the connection between family

dinners and prevention, and the kids were very excited about having regular family dinners.” Kristina Longino

School Counselor


In Memorium

Marian Krutulis Ethel Beckham

Informed Families mourns the loss of our esteemed donor, volunteer and friend, Marian Krutulis, founder of Gulliver Schools. Mrs. Krutulis, fondly known by her students as “Mrs. K,” proudly supported Informed Families from the very beginning and its mission of helping kids grow up safe, healthy and drug free. The very first Informed Families Community Action Team (CAT) took place at Gulliver Schools, thanks to the support of Mrs. K. She was also involved in Red Ribbon

Week since its inception.

“Mrs. K” and Gulliver have been steadfast, generous and loyal supporters of our annual fundraiser since the very first “Joe’s” dinner! We are tremendously grateful to her son, John Krutulis, for continuing the tradition of promoting prevention at Gulliver and in the community and continuing Mrs. K’s interest and

devotion to Informed Families.

Informed Families is deeply saddened by the loss of long-time supporter and activist, Ethel Beckham. As a member of the Miami Dade County School Board, Ethel made it possible for Informed Families to be funded to provide school prevention and parent programs to Miami Dade County Public Schools. Ethel was also an enthusiastic supporter of the Red Ribbon

Campaign (October 23-31st).

Long-time donors of Informed Families, Ethel, her late husband Walter, and her children attended the first Informed Families Fundraising Dinner at Joe’s and have continued to support Joe’s every year. We are proud that her grandson Justin and wife Melissa are carrying on that tradition. The Beckham Family created a tradition of giving to the betterment of the Miami community and for that we will always be

grateful. We miss Ethel tremendously.


Donors of the Year$20,000+Baptist Health South FloridaThe Batchelor FoundationFlorida Blue

$10,000 -$15,000Carnival FoundationCrispin Porter & Bogusky AdvertisingGulliver Schools Health Foundation of South Florida

$7,500-$10,000Harry Kramer Memorial Fund

$5,000-$7499Peter & Kerrin Bermont/Bermont Advisory GroupJohn & Stacy BolducDeborah & Jim Davidson/ Coral Gables Trust Paul “Butch” & Tammy DavisPaula & Michael Fay/Colliers International South FloridaThe Goldsmith Family Foundation

Cindy & Mike MoranMorgan Keegan & Company, Inc.Kim & Kevin SmithJerry Sokol/McDermott, Will & Emery, LLPVillage of Miami Shores Police Department

$2,500 -4,999Paul Arango/Credit SuisseRichard Bermont & Adam Carlin/The Bermont/Carlin GroupJordan BockGreg Cesarano/Carlton FieldsOfe & Louis ChiavacciDougan Clarke/Tucci WorldwideAshley & James CusackMary & Joel EatonStuart Grossman/Grossman Roth, PAJohn & Ivette Hofmann Laurie Huseby/Team FootworksChristopher Knight Neca LoganMead Family FoundationMercedez Benz of Coral GablesJohn M. Montgomery, Inc.

Charles & Marabel Morgan/The Chatlos FoundationRichard Morgan/Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PCDorothy & Aaron Podhurst/Podhurst Orseck, PAPolice Officer Assistance Trust Jeff & Laura RobertsMelissa Medina-Schnur/Medina Family Foundation EWM Realty International/Christie’s International Real EstateLouis Wolfson

$1,000-$2499Sergio & Julee AkselradRuth Admire/The Ruth Anderson FoundationRaphael Bastian & James Boink DeFabio Beckham SolisMarc & Diane Breslow/Rachlin FoundationCity of South MiamiCobb Family Foundation Mary Lou Cokl Robert D. Cole, CPA, P.A.

The Community Foundation, Inc.Marilyn Correa-GonzalezRay & Sarai Estefania/Family Recovery Specialists Horace FeliuArthur A. FinkleFirst National Bank of South MiamiJessie Trice Community Health CenterKatz Barron Suitero FaustR. Kirk Landon & Pamela GarrisonRene Landa Eugene & The Honorable Norma LindseyDerek McDowellJoe MendezMiami Shores Mayor’s Community Task ForceWilliam & Jan MorrisonPennekamp LawJim & Jennifer PflegerRed Sunset Merchants AssociationCheri Rosenthal Rotary Foundation of South MiamiMauricio & Monica QuirchVerdeja & de Armas, LLP

Thank You To Our Generous Donors


$500 -$999Patrick & Michele Battle Maria BeguiristainThomas V. & Hillary CashDade County Police Benevolent AssociationSevery GautierHenry GuzmanHouse of Houston FoundationJohn HusebyElena & Roberto JakubowiczLAZ ParkingCharlie & Georgee Kluck Merrill & Elizabeth Freeman FoundationCommissioner Sally HeymanRoymi MembielaCity of MiamiThe Honorable Bronwyn MillerDeborah MontillaDr. Linda NeiderNorth Dade Community Federal Credit UnionDoug & Ellen OppenheimerBud & Betty Park/Performance Miguel & Cybelle Santo Domingo

Greg & Andrea Heuson SharpJohn Edward SmithSouth Miami Hometown Inc.Katherine SpargerPaul & Linda Sugrue Robert & Jessica White

$250-$499Steven ArchThe Honorable Beth BloomMario CaponeSissy De MariaEnchanting CreationsPriscilla Greenfield

Diane LandsbergMaggie MaceirasLarry MalbogMarhaba Food, Inc.Mary MarkThomas MarkCarmen Layne PowersRodriguez FT Studios 2Lynda Carson ScheuermannMitchell & Nancy SmallMargaret SothamMarsha StantonVila, Padron and Diaz, PAWestminster Christian School

Sally WiseRonald Yacoub

$101 - $249Arthur AgatstonChristopher L. AmioneScott Baumann/Fitness TogetherHelen BentleyChristine BlackburnAlvaro BustosCollege of Business & TechnologyKristin ConnorCopy ExpressJoseph CorradinoFox’s Sherron InnBarry GivnerRaquel HickeyRichard & Carole HrebikMichael KaiserKenneth KistnerSimone Brown KnightMaritza LandaRona LevittKelly LedermanBianca MartinezJoseph Mendez

Restricted GrantsPublic

Escambia County Public SchoolsSenior Resource Alliance/State of Florida

Department of Elder Affairs – OrlandoSouth Florida Behavioral Health Network

State of Florida Department of Children & FamiliesThe Children’s Trust

US Dept. of Health & Human Services – SAMHSA/CSAP

PrivateThe Health Foundation of South Florida

Woman’s Relief Association



Paul MerkerHector L. RiveraJennifer RodriguezMary Scott RussellPeggy B. SappSouth Miami Senior High SchoolSouth Miami Senior High School StudentsKenneth SpellWhisk GourmetZami’s Coffee & Tea Co.Sara Zamikoff

$100 or lessKevin AcevedoCarol AdamsKerrie AlbertFreddie AmbroseWilliam ArataTerry ArangoMarisol ArceoGisele ArmourRene AtkinsonAna M. Bajos

Diane BalceiroEileen BandelJuan BattleChristine BlackburnLisa BowersScott BreitkopfMichael BrodieTyrone BurtonDavid CarlisleJohn ClarkKeri-Lyn ColemanJoanna CornideLuis CornideAnthony CortinaMelby CortinaJames C. CosmidesCheyenne DaraujoRoxanne DaviesEileen DepaloNila DepaloLisette DiazShelley DimitrievicPatricia DomenechSebastian EilertRosie Felipe

Ana Cristina FerroBettina FerroConnie FreelandDoug FryeJoseph GallagherAmy GoldsteinIrma GomezJessie GomezVictoria GonzalezHenry GuzmanWilfred HallSusan HannanBrian A. HartBill HarveyAndraisa HernandezJan HurleyInsourceYvonne IturraldeJohn Janette/Town KitchenCyrus JollivetteEdgar JonesFerne KalstoneMarjorie KatzCourt Keeley

Dan KlineMaria KrutulisGeorge KyparisisCynthia LamaaDiane LandsbergJoe LaneHenry LangstonJanet LoganEduardo LombardGilbert LorenzoM Cycle Gym, LLCMary Jane MarkCarlos MartinezMayor Philip K. StoddardJohn McLaughlinJessica MedinaCorey MershonMiami Dade ChapterCheryl MillerPeter H. MonroeBill MurphyBarbara PerezJody PerlmutterMaria PrietoPeter Prieto

Jack QuistJoan RamingtonRamon RascoReba Americas, LLCManny RieraDelfin RiveraPatrick RobinsonHector RodriguezTerry RodriguezYesenia RomanMindy RosenthalConstance RyanLuis SalhuanaJeffrey ShapiroChip ShepardSheryl ShoupNancy SmallMargaret SothamEdward StoneBarbara TaylorFabian ThurstonBenjamin & Jay TurnbullMaury UdellEnrique VillamorMaida Watson



Marta Weeks Jeanne WiggMichael WilsonMary YoungNelson ZaldivarJooy Zeder

In Kind DonorsAd2 OrlandoAll Star AuctionsAll Star Event PhotographyBaptist Hospital Biscayne ElementaryBJ’s WholesaleBlu by Best FriendsCarmela BechtelCarrabbasChamber SouthCitrus Grove ElementaryCommunity NewspapersCool de SacCopy ExpressCoral Oaks TennisCorrea & Co.Cream

Designworks Miami, IncD.Find@SunsetDMS Studio Inc.Earth Learning Elks MagicianEmilio’s Casa ToscanaEscambia School DistrictExotica DesignFienberg Fisher K-8 CenterFitness TogetherGarden GateGeorge’s on SunsetGoogle AdwordsHand and Stone Massage and Facial SpaInterval InternationalJES CommunicationsJohn & Stacy BolducKathy SpargerLa Ley Sports Training CenterLaurie WeldonLVS Salon GroupMack Cycle and FitnessMarahaMargaret Sotham

Margarita SocietyMargie TabakMiami Disc Golf AssociationMelby CortinaMexiZan GourmetMiami MarlinsMiami Shores Drug Free CoalitionMichael KaiserNational Family PartnershipNautica Design GalleryNautilus Middle Non-Violence ProjectOld LisbonOutside the Huddle FoundationPlus 3Roasters and ToastersRobert ParenteRocklake Community CenterRockway MiddleShenandoah ElementaryShops at Sunset PlaceShula’s 347 GrillSkintiqueSouth Beach Diet

South Miami Drug-Free CoalitionSouth Miami HospitalSouth Miami Police DepartmentSouth Miami Police Department ExplorersSouth Miami Senior HighSouth Miami Senior High StudentsSouth Pointe ElementarySplitsvilleStatler MediaSunset QuickprintThe Dressing RoomTown Kitchen & BarTrattoria SoleTUUCI WorldwideUnique D’litesvenue.btqVerdeja & de Armas, LLPVida Day SpaWest Miami MiddleWinn Dixie

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Peggy B. SappPresident & CEO

Michael KaiserDirector of Finance & Operations

Carmela Bechtel Pensacola Regional Director

Simone Brown Knight Marketing Director

Amy GoldsteinCommunications Director

Margaret Sotham South Miami Coalition Director

Christine Stilwell Orlando Regional Director

David Williams, Jr. Community Relations Director

2012 ANNUAL REPORT

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