Beverly's Birthdays
Spreading birthday cheer 365 days a year
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?
Birthday Cheer Bin (Presents)
The Birthday Cheer Bin program provides birthday presents and seasonal birthday celebrations for youth housed in emergeny shelters. Beverly's Birthdays handles the cost of the presents and parties.
Monthly/Seasonal Birthday Party Model
The Transitional Shelter program provides birthday presents and monthly birthday celebrations for homeless children living in transitional shelters. Beverly's Birthdays works with our agency partners to provide each child with his/her own birthday present and we host a monthly birthday party at the shelter for the children who have birthdays that select month. The other children living in the program are the guests.
Classroom Cheer
We are currently working on a program where we partner with school districts to provide birthday treat bags to low income students who are unable to pass out birthday treats to their classmates on their birthday.
Itty Bitty Birthday Cheer
We offer providing birthday cheer bins and baby showers to new young/teen moms (group homes, shelters, etc.) for when their baby is born. The very first birthday!
Birthday in a Bag
The Birthday in a Bag programming model is in partnership with local area food banks and food pantries to provide them with all of the supplies they need, packaged up, so that families requesting birthday party supplies can be provided for.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Cheer Bins distributed
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Birthday Cheer Bin (Presents)
Birthdays-in-a-Bag distributed
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Birthday in a Bag
Group Birthday Celebrations
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Monthly/Seasonal Birthday Party Model
New births celebrated (baby showers)
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Itty Bitty Birthday Cheer
Classroom birthdays recognized
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Classroom Cheer
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
It is our goal to make sure that all children experiencing homelessness in the Greater Pittsburgh area are celebrated on their birthday in some way that makes them know that they are special and not forgotten.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Beverly's Birthdays currently celebrates children through our five programs:
Monthly/Seasonal Model: With this model, Beverly's Birthdays hosts a birthday celebration at the agency for children who have a birthday during that month/season. The birthday celebration guests are the other children in the housing program and their families (if applicable). Every birthday recipient also receives a birthday cheer bin (present) either on their actual birthday or at the party (depending on the needs of the agency). Beverly's Birthdays celebrations are staffed by volunteers and the parties include food, dessert, games/entertainment, and treat bags, which are provided by Beverly's Birthdays.
Birthday Cheer Bins Only: Some agencies opt to just receive birthday presents to be distributed to their youth as they do not have the space to accommodate birthday parties.
Classroom Cheer: In many classrooms it is an ongoing tradition for the students to bring a treat to share with their classmates on their birthdays. Families facing financial hardship may not have the means to provide this special experience for their children to share with peers. Beverly's Birthdays will work with your school to provide pre-assembled treat bags for qualified children to distribute to their peers on their birthday.
Itty Bitty Birthday Cheer: This program provides birthday cheer bins (filled with essential newborn items) for newborn babies. We also partner with agencies to provide group baby showers. Help support this program by purchasing an item off of our baby shower registry.
Birthday-in-a-Bag: Beverly's Birthdays also helps spread birthday cheer by providing pre-assembled bags filled with all of the necessary items to host a small birthday celebration (cake mix, frosting, plates, cups, napkins, party hats, etc.) to our agency partners that they can then distribute to families in-need.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
While Beverly's Birthdays is still a relatively new organization, we have been able to maintain consistent, near exponential, growth in terms of number of children and families served each year since inception. With the guidance of an extremely capable and talented Board of Directors, as well as passionate and caring staff, we are confident that we will continue to operate with extremely impactful programming whilst maintaining our history of frugal yet strong financial statements.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
What we have accomplished is creating a system for bringing birthday experiences to a wide range of children and families in-need. Through our five programs we are able to reach the emergency shelter community, transitional housing community, family center community, mental rehabilitation facilities, residential treatment facilities, and even the low-income school aged children population.
What we have not yet accomplished is the ability to track long-term outcomes that the birthday experiences have on the children and families. Using previously done research, we are extremely confident that using birthdays as a back drop to teach children from an early age of their importance to themselves, their families, their schools, and their communities will have positive long term outcomes.
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Beverly's Birthdays
Board of directorsas of 4/29/2019
Brandi Phillips
Beverly's Birthdays
Term: 2015 - 2017
Aja Jones
Pittsburgh CLO
Mike Harding
Carnegie Mellon
Kevin Hayes
Hayes Design Group
Jeff Wolstoncroft
Hosack, Specht, Muetzel &Wood, CPAs
Toshua Jarrett
Veterans Leadership Program of Western Pennsylvania
Christine Rowing
City of Washington
Jennifer Tepe
University of Pittsburgh
Bobby Zahner
Hill, Barth & King
Tim Quinn
Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP
Tim Wagner
Upper St. Clair High School
Sam Hornak
Clark Hill
Kim Cauley Eckel
Allegheny County Department of Human Services
Kathy Teresi
Upper St. Clair
Dan Monarko
Flying Cork Media
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? No -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
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? No -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? No -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No