The MAGIC Charities Foundation
Making A Great Investment in Children
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
MAGIC aims to help children now to ensure a brighter future. Many children and families face barriers to health, education, and healthy family relationships. We offer programs and services to provide short-term solutions to immediate needs and give children and families the tools to overcome the odds of a more challenging future trajectory.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
MAGIC (Managing a Gap in Children's) Meals
We supply meals during school breaks to low-income children reliant upon free meals at school. We distribute through area food pantries and schools.
The MAGIC Scholarship Fund
The MAGIC Scholarship Fund is a fund awarded to students to help overcome barriers, both academic and non-academic, to education.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We advocate for policies that support children and families to receive the support and services they need for health, education, and family stability.
It is our vision to create a world that, above all, values our children's health, education, safety and family relationships.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We invest in children's health by providing meals to insecure children. Addressing food security directly improves the ability to learn and decreases the chances of long-term health conditions.
We help students overcome barriers to education by providing school supplies, coats, scholarships, and advocacy to help families receive the learning support they are entitled to help their children learn. Children with learning disabilities who do not receive support or finish high school are more likely to end up in the school-to-prison pipeline.
Foster and adoptive families have unique challenges and trauma. We support these families by providing specialized counseling and therapeutic experiences to help them bond and increase the success of a foster care arrangement or adoption.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
The MAGIC Meals Program: providing healthy meals to hungry children. We pack and deliver meals on weekends and during school breaks for food-insecure students.
The MAGIC Scholarship Fund: providing funding, resources, and access to education. We deliver coats, backpacks, and school supplies directly to our community and provide grants to organizations and individuals for items such as laptops, school supplies, college housing, and tuition expenses.
The Adoptive and Foster Youth Initiative: providing specialized counseling & therapeutic services. We have provided several grants for specialized family counseling, camps, and wellness initiatives.
The MAGIC Advocacy Program: advocating for children to get the educational support they need. This program provides an educational advocate, free of charge or at a discounted cost, to families needing special education services.
Advocacy of policies that support families through coalition memberships or communication with lawmakers.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
To date, we have provided the following:
Over 12,000 meals to food-insecure students
Hundreds of backpacks and school supply kits
Hundred of coats
A grant for 11 highly subsidized laptops for college students
One college scholarship
Four years of summer camp for low-income children
Specialized TBRI counseling for four adoptive and foster families
Grants for counselors for two summers sessions of TBRI therapeutic camp with Holt International
Supplies for children and parents in need (diapers, strollers, car seats, beds)
Nutrition education for teens
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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The MAGIC Charities Foundation
Board of directorsas of 05/01/2023
Mr Steve Grosso
Auxilior Capital Partners
Term: 2017 - 2023
Steve Grosso
The MAGIC Charities Foundation
Martin Babicki
Auxilior Capital Partners
Sharon Grosso
The MAGIC Charities Foundation
Peter Murphy
Vantage Linguistics
Lauren Pura
GE Capital
Rick Atherholt
Flamm Walton Heimbach
Kathleen Juliano
Auxilior Capital Partners
Lisa Rafter
The Monitor Daily
Christopher Brown
Merrill Lynch
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 ? 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
Organizational demographics
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