ElkhartCares
Offering hope and assistance...
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
ElkhartCares is a community-based nonprofit organization, serving the families and individuals within the Elkhart Lake - Glenbeulah School District.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Warm Hearts
Goal: To encourage, empower, and strengthen our community through the companionship of animals.
Description: Offers support to families that want a pet, or want to keep their pet, but have difficulties affording food. Sponsors therapy dogs, as well as equine therapy programs.
ReadingHearts
Goal: To share the power of words and the joy of reading.
Description: Encourages literacy for all members of our community by developing summer reading and educational programs. Provides reading support, as well as access to good books. Creates expanded awareness--and thus the opportunity for each member of the community to become more fully-realized, contributing citizens--through encouraging literacy. Acts as a supportive ally to local library programs, and creatively incentivizes learning.
Climb The Ladder
Goal: To help people find their voice and achieve their potential.
Description: Aids in creating scholarships for local students, as well as for the special needs community. Connects successful, accomplished members of the community with young, hungry, resourceful minds that show potential, but have limited opportunity. Provides access to the arts for students and their families, in order to support arts education and to creatively discover ways to enrich our community.
My Own Door
Goal: To provide opportunities for housing, education, transportation, medical assistance, food, and family activities for those in need--including the veterans of our community, who have served us well and now deserve to be supported while they rebuild their lives and care for themselves and their families.
Description: Emphasizes education, vocation, and life-skills for individuals looking to cement their ability to care for themselves and their families. Provides temporary and permanent housing, transportation, food assistance, and medical assistance (both physical and psychological) for those in need. Creates opportunities for “Family Time” by providing families with things like tickets for the family to go to a baseball game or family admission to a local children’s museum, so that families feel more united.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of students enrolled
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
ReadingHearts
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The number of children effected by ElkhartCares Reading Programs.
Number of children who have access to education
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Number of backpacks that were filled with books and sent home with families through our support of the Library Reading Program.
Goals & Strategy
Learn 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?
ElkhartCares is a community-based nonprofit organization that exists to ease people’s hardships and bring a bit of unexpected joy into their lives. We believe in supporting the citizens and establishments in our community that need a helping hand, with our neighbors-helping-neighbors approach. Serving the greater Elkhart Lake, WI community, ElkhartCares focuses on providing assistance to individuals, families, and organizations that are striving to achieve happier and healthier lives, and to reach their full potential.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
ElkhartCares offers such programs and assistances in the areas of:
1. School lunch meals and summer reading programs
2. Internet services for school-aged children for their school work
3. Working with the Elkhart Lake - Glenbeulah School District, offering assistance in earning college credit courses, financial assistance for uniforms and equipment in order for students to participate in athletics, band equipment, and grants for teachers that help support learning and engagement in the classroom and beyond
Family assistance programs such as:
1. Fuel assistance for parents commuting to and from work, and taking their children to and from school
2. Child care assistance for working families and single parents
3. Food support and holiday meals
4. Pet supplies
5. Medical financial support
6. Appropriate clothing for winter
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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ElkhartCares
Board of directorsas of 08/13/2024
Deborah Blain
Richard Van Evera
Esq.
Lynne Shay
Mary Jo Vollrath
Deborah Blain