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Little Birthday Angels Inc

Celebrating Homeless Children One Birthday At A Time

Vero Beach, FL   |  www.littlebirthdayangels.org

Mission

Little Birthday Angels' mission is to provide a birthday celebration for every homeless child on the Treasure Coast of Florida.

Ruling year info

2015

Board President, Executive Director

Angel Pietsch

Main address

1275 US Hwy 1, Suite 2 PMB 131

Vero Beach, FL 32960 USA

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EIN

47-4157223

NTEE code info

Children's and Youth Services (P30)

Youth Development Programs (O50)

IRS filing requirement

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Communication

Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Little Birthday Angels is a 501c3 nonprofit organization providing birthday gifts and celebrations for homeless children on the Treasure Coast.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Shelter Birthday Program

Little Birthday Angels provides birthday gifts, decorations, games/activities, goody bags, and the management for everything needed to execute monthly parties for homeless children residing in 4 local shelters and 2 organizations.

Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Homeless people

For homeless children not living in a shelter, we connect with the school district's homeless advocate. They share with us the name, age, gender, and birthday. We provide a large duffle bag, lap desk, toiletries, socks, wrapped gifts, a bible, and other essential items for each child. Placing everything into a duffel bag gives them something to keep their personal items in, and provides privacy for them. Everything is delivered to the child by the school's homeless advocate.

Population(s) Served
Homeless people
Children and youth

Where we work

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Number of schools served

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Children and youth, Homeless people

Related Program

Birthday Bags of Hope

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of children served

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Children and youth, Homeless people

Related Program

Birthday Bags of Hope

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

The decreased metric in 2020 was due to COVID-19 and the barriers with being in physical contact within the schools & shelters. We are now serving additional schools late 2020 projecting an increase.

Our Sustainable Development Goals

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

Little Birthday Angels provides birthday gifts, birthday parties, and essential items to homeless children on the Treasure Coast. The impact that we have on a child's life can change the course of their future. We love and celebrate each child as God intended us to. There are still so many children that are not being reached. Our goal is to continuing adding schools and shelters until we are celebrating the birthday of every homeless child on the Treasure Coast of Florida.

Our relationships with Indian River County and St. Lucie County school districts have prepared us for the number of students that we can add to the school program as funding is increased. The acquisition of additional space for our school programs and party bags allows for the opportunity to continue growth and welcomes community involvement.

We have acquired additional space to allow for higher quantities of inventory to add more schools to the program. This new space has created an inviting opportunity for volunteers to be involved in lead roles within our programs. An inventory system has been implemented to prepare for additional units and current accurate asset counts. Strategies have been implemented to create the best systems and routines to optimize time management and efficiency allowing for the additional workload that comes with program growth.

Currently we serve 4 shelters, 30 schools, and one field agency partners. Our short term goal is to add the remaining schools in Indian River County followed by the remaining schools in St. Lucie County thereafter. In the future our long term goals include adding additional shelters in surrounding counties and adding pre-K to the school programs.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We shared information about our current feedback practices.

  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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Little Birthday Angels Inc

Board of directors
as of 02/08/2023
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Lynn Kiefer

Loretta Kaul

Balloon Palooza

Lynn Kiefer

Angel Pietsch

Little Birthday Angels

Cheryl Goff

ReMax Crown Realty

Vickie Cooley

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

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 2/8/2023
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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Female, Not transgender (cisgender)
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual or straight
Disability status
Decline to state

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

 

Sexual orientation

Disability

Equity strategies

Last updated: 02/04/2021

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Data
  • We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
  • We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
Policies and processes
  • We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.