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2017-2018 FISCAL YEAR REPORT

Dear Friends,

As the new calendar year begins, we would like to take a moment to reflect on all that was accomplished in the last fiscal year now that all our counting and accounting has been completed. It’s most important to note at the outset that our growing outreach and impact simply wouldn’t be possible without your generous volunteer and financial support. So let’s take a look at what we were able to accomplish together.One unique thing about Disability Advocates of Kent County is that we are able to serve everyone we can regardless of disability type, age, race, gender, and or any other demographic category. As a result, our programs cover a wide range of services, from Family Support Services to Systems Change Advocacy. This year we’re taking a closer look at the part of our mission that focuses on access to home. Let’s reflect together on how we’ve successfully created more independence homes in our community this past year.

This year, our Information & Referral team took in 5,833 calls, up 32% from last year. These callers were directed to one of our numerous programs if applicable, or provided with the appropriate information and connections to help them elsewhere. Many of these programs are focused on making the home as accessible as possible.

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An important part of living independently is learning the skills required to do so. Independent Living Supports offers tools to those who need them. Dozens of consumers benefited from services like benefits navigation and soft skills training this year, which allows them to keep their home and take care of themselves.

Lastly, we look at our continually expanding Occupational Therapy program, which provided 278 home assessments last fiscal year alone. As one of our most direct in home services, it follows through the process of assessing the problem, creating a plan, and implementing the solution.

We were able to assist 227 individuals and families with housing, home modifications, and shelter services this year. Each of these services are provided with the help of community partners, donors, volunteers, and others who believe in our mission with us. We thank you for your continued support in these efforts, and we can’t wait for how much we will grow in the year to come.

Dave Bulkowski Executive Director

Dave Shatto Board President

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PROGRAMMINGIMPACTFUL

Over the past year, Disability Advocates of Kent County has helped approximately 5,535 people with Disabilities.

Advocacy/Legal

Services

Housing, Home

Modifications & Shelter Services

CommunicationServices

Information & Referral Services

Youth/Transition Services

AssistiveTechnology

Services

IL Skills Training & Life Skills Training

Transportation Services

Peer Counseling

Services

Other Services

Vocational Services

Family Services

Physical Restoration

Services

35 295 5 24 227

54 4,623 615

73

11

2165

Age

Ethnicity

Gender

Disability

60+25-59

20-245 -19

Asian, Native American/Alaskan Native, or 2 or more races

Hispanic/Latino

Not Disclosed

African American

White

Mental/Emotional

Hearing

Cognitive

Vision

Physical

Multiple Disabilities

MaleFemale

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Access to Home can mean so much more than getting in and out of the house. Such was the case for Terry Rozanski, who worked with our Occupational Therapy program last year. Terry uses a power chair, but the four stairs leading up to his mobile home’s front door became a barrier restricting him from using it away from home. “I had to crawl up and down the stairs to get into my house,” he recalled, “and in the wintertime it was terrible.” We often focus on the practicality of accommodations, but it’s important also to realize what a difference it can make to an individual’s mental health and quality of life. Now, he says, “I can come or go as I please, anytime I want, day or night, without having to call anyone.”

Terry contacted a few places with a goal to get a ramp built. “I was referred to Disability Advocates,” he says, “[and] they referred me to Home Repair Services. Within two weeks of the application they were building my ramp.” When Terry’s need came to us, we knew exactly how to get him the help he needed as fast as possible. Judy Morris, our OT Program Manager, expressed, “all of us just really enjoy what we do and the fact that we can make a difference for someone...really struggling with a problem we know can be solved.”

In addition to the ramp, our extensive and evidence-based home assessment revealed that more could be done to make his home more accessible. We provided a shower chair, foam inserts for silverware, and other pieces of adaptive equipment that suited his needs. Terry commented, “it’s just the little things, too, that make a big difference.” We were able to provide these items that the assessment recommended in order to help him be more independent.

Our mission is not only to give people tools to reach their goals, but to make sure that the tools we supply work over the long term. “They call and check on me every couple months, ask me if I need anything, or how I’m doing,” Terry explained. Working with us allowed Terry to live independently when he was losing hope of his ability to do so. “Without Disability Advocates and a couple organizations, I wouldn’t be here. I’d be in a home. And I didn’t sign up for that,” he said. We’re all about finding solutions, and we are so glad to have had the opportunity to work with Terry to find his.

PROFILETERRY ROZANSKI

I can come or go as I please, anytime I want, day or night,

without having to call anyone.

– Terry Rozanski

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Fee for Service & Miscellaneous $1,163,694

Foundation & Corporate Support $733,115

Government Grant Support (Federal, State, Local) $486,705

Individual Support $64,602

In-Kind Gifts $86,260

TOTAL REVENUE $2,534,376

Personnel & Contractual Expense $1,734,755

Equipment & Goods for Consumers $253,657

Occupancy & Operations $192,861

In-Kind Gifts $86,260

Supplies $30,325

Fundraising Events and Marketing $29,503

Travel $45,583

TOTAL EXPENSES $2,372,944

FINANCIALSREVENUE EXPENSES

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AssetsCurrent AssetsCash & Cash Equivalents $678,477Pledges & Accounts Receivable $700,662Pre-paid Expense $35,047Total Current Assets $1,414,186Other AssetsOffice Lease Deposit $1,889Total Other Assets $1,889TOTAL ASSETS $1,416,075

Liabilities & NET AssetsCurrent LiabilitiesAccounts Payable $16,646Accrued Compensation & Withholdings $90,917Deferred Revenue $58,925Total Current Liabilities $166,488Net AssetsUnrestricted $603,477Temp Restricted $634,805Perm Restricted $11,305Total Net Assets $1,249,587LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS $1,416,075

Net Assets Beginning of the Year $1,088,155Net Assets End of the Year $1,249,587

Total Change in Net Assets $161,432Revenue Temporarily Restricted for Future Years $(294,164)TOTAL OPERATING CHANGE IN NET ASSETS $(132,732)

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$2,501 – $5,000

$50,001 – $100,000

Edward N. & Della L. Thome Memorial Foundation

DONORSThank you for the generosity of ourdonors, sponsors, and grantors.

$100,001 – $250,000

Kate Pew Wolters

$25,001 – $50,000

$25,001 – $50,000

$5,001 – $10,000

James & Jane Welch Foundation

Jandernoa Foundation

Jon Botsford

Bill & Jillane Payne

Standale Lumber

Dick & Barbara Young

Laurie Murphy & Ed Manderfeld

Mary Free Bed Guild

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$1,000 – $2,499 Betz Industries City of Grand Rapids Comerica Bank Consumers Energy Ferris State University FirstLight Home Care GE United Way Campaign GR Puddle Of The Blue Goose Grand Rapids Community College

Grand Rapids Community Foundation Grand Rapids Public Schools Heart of West Michigan United Way IKUS Life Enrichment Services Irwin Seating Company Metro Health Network For Good Ambassador Peter & Joan SecchiaJenny & Carl Shangraw

Sinas, Dramis, Brake, Broughton & McIntyre, PC

Susan K SmithSpectrum Health Steelcase, Inc. The Griswold Group Elizabeth Welch

$500 – $999 Anonymous Area Agency on Aging of West

Michigan Robert & Michelle DossExperience Grand Rapids Grand Rapids Fire Department John Hunting

Win & Kyle IrwinRich & Cindy KogelschatzTom & Beth KosterLake Michigan Credit Union Scott & Betsy MeltonMiller Johnson Robert & Margaret Nault

Doug & Beth ParkerBrenda PrattMar, Blair & Denise SmithSara SprikThe Kendall Group/Galloup Brian Vanee

$250 – $499 Airway Oxygen Richard & Monica AppJan BabbSteve & Cheryl BoshovenDoug BowerDave Bulkowski & Melissa BudzynskiGordon & Marcia CappendykCascade Engineering Celebration Cinema Covenant Village of the Great Lakes Jocelyn Dettloff

Edward & Ruth DeVriesDavid EllisGrand Rapids Police Department Pat HillBill & Mary FallonFoster Swift Collins & Smith PC Debra HinesDick HostBill & Karen LawrenceGordon & Jan MoellerSue Omedian

Rev. Mark PrzybyszMichael & Monica SekulichSiegel Jewelers Linda StaffordPhilip TowerUnited Way (Campaign Contributions) Werner & Marianne VeitWatermark Country Club Wines For Humanity Bruce & Susan YoungDoug & Kim Young

$100 – $249 Lori AmbroseJoel & Kathleen AndersonMelissa AndersonAnne Armstrong-Cusack &

Tom CusackJohn & June AtsmaWebb BaileyBonnie BlandfordBrewery Vivant James BrunoMax & Tammy Jo BudzynskiCare Granted LLC Mark & Eileen ChamberlinChateau Chantal Coldbreak Brewing Equipment Consumers Energy Foundation Paige CornetetDave & Kathie CramerThomas CunninghamSusan DickinsonLindsey English Founders Brewing Company Michael & Valerie FeehanKaren FerrellRobert FramptonKathleen FreemanTwink FreyDana Friis-HansenThomas Geelhoed

Robert GoodrichGrand Rapids Griffins Sarah HallSarah HarrisJim HavemanKen & Gail HeffnerJames & Mary HogensonRaymond & Barbara HoltJames & Sharon HumphriesGordon KoetjeChristine LindemanElizabeth McCarthy MusilMike MalinowskiGwendolyn MoffittGordy & Karen MouwWayne & Cynthia MullerLarry MulliganJeffrey OxfordNancy & Rick PantaleoSteven & Alicia PestkaLaura PuffJohn & Gail QuinnTony & Jane RichtsmeierLee RiedlCarol RottmanJohn & Therese RowerdinkMichael & Glynn Ann RuggeriDavid SarneTamara Sevenski-Popma

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