BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Social Services
Bethany Christian Services is a global family preservation and child welfare agency serving orphaned, abandoned, and vulnerable children in more than a dozen countries spanning five continents. For more than 70 years, Bethany has been reaching out to children and families in need through quality social services including family preservation, pregnancy counseling, adoption, post-adoption support, foster care, and refugee services.
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
Better Business Bureau 2005
Better Business Bureau 2020
InterAction 2020
Accord Network 2020
DEBO Alliance for Children 2020
Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development 2020
Faith to Action 2020
Changing the Way We Care 2020
Wells of Hope - Uganda 2020
Deaf Academy - Haiti 2020
Refugee Council USA 2020
Evangelical Immigration Table 2020
Alliance for Strong Families & Healthy Communities 2020
Barnabas Foundation 2020
National Christian Foundation 2020
External reviews
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Videos
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of refugees resettled
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
These numbers are directly impaced by Federal laws and guidelines. We are in the process of opening up these programs in other states and exponentially increasing our impact.
Number of children in foster care who have stable placements
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Social Services
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This number contains foster care placement, as well as other children, considered vulnerable in the U.S. Foster Care alone for 2022 is 1,473 children.
Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
Download strategic planLearn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Bethany's vision is a world where every child has a loving family. Our strategic goals over the next few years include serving tens of thousands of children and impacting hundreds of thousands of individuals by providing quality social services. Our goals also include improving the quality of customer service given to our children and families, and continuing Bethany's overall financial sustainability. We also hope to expand into more locations nationwide.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Bethany's strategies to achieve our goals come through several management tools to align our activities with our vision and to assure our performance meets our strategic goals.
Our priorities include empowering our workforce by supporting one another, through education on diversity and compassion. We are pursuing excellince in everything we are doing by looking for ways to refine and improve our services. Bethany is also committed to adapt our work to meet the greatest needs of children and families.
We are motived by our faith and prepared to enter the hard place with humility and confidence. We are deliberate in our consentration on sustainability, as we navigate during these changing times, but continue to champion justice for all populations, as we show the love of Jesus Christ.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Bethany Christian Services has been blessed with outstanding capabilities to serve children and families through our nearly 1,400 staff in more than 30 states and in 7 countries on four continents. Our staff include highly qualified and licensed social workers who demonstrate the love and compassion of Jesus Christ by providing comprehensive, quality social services to meet the best interest of each child in need of a loving family.
We continually receive our Accreditation for our industry, as one of our goals is to continually improve our services.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Over the last several years, Bethany Christian Services has made excellent progress in many areas as we strive to serve more children in the US and around the world, as well as being industry leaders, by offering cutting-edge social services.
A report of the lives impacted has been attached.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC
Board of directorsas of 11/06/2023
Mr. Mark Augustyn
Buiten & Associates LLC
Term: 2022 - 2024
Deborah Sturtevant
Larry Herring
Larry J. Herring, CPA, PA
Peter Kraslawsky
Vocera Communications
Daniel Rink
Buiten & Associates LLC
Mark Augustyn
Chair
Lori Hockema
Susanne Jordan
Joel Rahn
Treasurer
Marben Bland
Brian Britton
Vice Chair
Kafi Carrasco
Steven Mayer
Roger Shank
Maegan Schwindling
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
Gender identity
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Disability
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