Monday starts our long awaited renovation project - Built Upon a Dream. WMAR ABC2 news selected us to get a mini extreme makeover. With some great partners on board (CAM construction, GBA Architects and a host of others - websites coming soon) we will transform our building and our look.
Our lobby and conference room will receive some much needed love - new paint, floors, repaired marble, improved lighting, lots of furniture, new bathrooms - it will enable us to greet the families we serve with the same level of dignity and cheerfulness our 4th floor offices provide.
up on our floor, we are getting new furniture, paint, new HVACs, new kitchenettes, cabinets, flooring - it will look great.
frankly - i can't wait to see it come real. stay posted for pictures. and stay tuned for some great announcements as to how you can help!
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Dealing with tough economic times
The news shouldn't surprise anyone. It's tough out there. 76,000 jobs were cut nationwide yesterday and those are just the ones that make the newspaper. I hear of countless other people losing jobs, getting furloughed, and preparing for the worst which most people say is still to come.
BCAC is no different. Cases are up, interest in what we do is high, but everyone from donors, to the State, to corporations, to foundations are watching their bottom line as well. A perfect storm isn't the right word for it, but its a bad confluence of events that just hurt small not for profits like us.
What to do? The BCAC Board of Directors agreed last Thursday to initiate a Task Force to deal with these issues - they intend over the next 2 months to meet and look at the organization top to bottom. How can we economize, how can we re-organize, and where else should we look for funding? Additionally, the board agreed its time to step up the ask - we plan on calling our past supporters and people who have been interested in BCAC to invite them to help us once again.
Every dollar matters - every gift counts. $230 provides a new beginning for a sexually abused child. $18 pays for to transport one family to BCAC.
What else are we doing? BoardSource just put up a list of 10 smart things a board can do NOW to prepare for financial crisis. Read it here: http://www.boardsource.org/Spotlight.asp?ID=14.412
We'll keep you posted on our plan as it develops - share with us your thoughts as well as how to make it through these tough times. But rest assured, the lights are on, and we're here to protect children, now more than ever.
BCAC is no different. Cases are up, interest in what we do is high, but everyone from donors, to the State, to corporations, to foundations are watching their bottom line as well. A perfect storm isn't the right word for it, but its a bad confluence of events that just hurt small not for profits like us.
What to do? The BCAC Board of Directors agreed last Thursday to initiate a Task Force to deal with these issues - they intend over the next 2 months to meet and look at the organization top to bottom. How can we economize, how can we re-organize, and where else should we look for funding? Additionally, the board agreed its time to step up the ask - we plan on calling our past supporters and people who have been interested in BCAC to invite them to help us once again.
Every dollar matters - every gift counts. $230 provides a new beginning for a sexually abused child. $18 pays for to transport one family to BCAC.
What else are we doing? BoardSource just put up a list of 10 smart things a board can do NOW to prepare for financial crisis. Read it here: http://www.boardsource.org/Spotlight.asp?ID=14.412
We'll keep you posted on our plan as it develops - share with us your thoughts as well as how to make it through these tough times. But rest assured, the lights are on, and we're here to protect children, now more than ever.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Welcome
So here it is, the first post in an informal dialogue and forum on how we all can best advocate on behalf of Baltimore's children - first and foremost in preventing sexual child abuse and in bettering their lives as a whole.
We are the Baltimore Child Abuse Center (www.BaltimoreChildAbuseCenter.org) and for 20 years we've been fighting to make sure that when a child reports sexual child abuse, she or he is listened to, gets the attention and treatment they need and begin the process of healing. We are a not for profit 501c3 designed to act rapidly and work on behalf of families experiencing trauma.
Here at this blog we intend to take the conversation public - get people to start talking about how we begin to end abuse; provide solutions and ideas; provoke discussion; change attitudes.
At this page we'll post articles, discussions, links, strategies, and information about organizations. It's a call to action for you the reader to become an advocate as well. We want it to be current, written by all of us at BCAC - staff, board, partners, and families. It may have typos and be more stream of consciousness, but that's web 2.0 and we want to be a part of the discussion.
This is a companion piece to our webpage and we intend to link back and forth between the two.
If you don't know BCAC, check out our site. If you don't realize abuse is happening to children, right now, start reading and begin to do something about it. Now.
We are the Baltimore Child Abuse Center (www.BaltimoreChildAbuseCenter.org) and for 20 years we've been fighting to make sure that when a child reports sexual child abuse, she or he is listened to, gets the attention and treatment they need and begin the process of healing. We are a not for profit 501c3 designed to act rapidly and work on behalf of families experiencing trauma.
Here at this blog we intend to take the conversation public - get people to start talking about how we begin to end abuse; provide solutions and ideas; provoke discussion; change attitudes.
At this page we'll post articles, discussions, links, strategies, and information about organizations. It's a call to action for you the reader to become an advocate as well. We want it to be current, written by all of us at BCAC - staff, board, partners, and families. It may have typos and be more stream of consciousness, but that's web 2.0 and we want to be a part of the discussion.
This is a companion piece to our webpage and we intend to link back and forth between the two.
If you don't know BCAC, check out our site. If you don't realize abuse is happening to children, right now, start reading and begin to do something about it. Now.
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