Valley Children's Healthcare Foundation
Futures Worth Fighting For
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Valley Children's Healthcare Foundation raises needed funds to support Valley Children's Healthcare's treatment of ill and injured kids across our service area in California's Central Valley. Approximately 11% of the region's 1.3 million children ages 0 to 20 are treated by Valley Children's each for a total of over 350,000 patient visits. The Emergency Department at Valley Children's Hospital in Madera provides care for approximately 100,000 patient visits annually. Valley Children's Healthcare is improving access to pediatric care and seeks to ensure that every child in our service area lives within 30 miles of a Valley Children's Healthcare facility. Valley Children's Healthcare has expanded its network in recent years to offer services in Madera, Fresno, Modesto, Merced, Visalia, and Bakersfield with new facilities planned for Clovis, Fowler, Modesto, and Bakersfield.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Children's Fund
Children are our sole purpose and focus. To provide the exceptional care they deserve, Valley Children’s requires the means and flexibility to apply donated funds to the greatest need. Through the unrestricted gifts of generous donors, The Children’s Fund makes possible the commitment to diverse services and programs such as:
• Providing the most advanced technology
• Recruiting the best pediatric specialists
• Improving care and services for our most
complex patients
• Developing the best pediatric specialty programs
in the nation
Where we work
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of first-time donors
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, Health
Related Program
Children's Fund
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This metric helps measure our ability to attract new donors to Valley Children's. In FY22, text-to-give and P2P donors helped drive this metric.
Number of overall donors
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, People with disabilities, People with diseases and illnesses
Related Program
Children's Fund
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This metric tracks the total number of donors to the organization by year, which helps measure our reach. This figure does not include the many donors who make cash contributions to Kids Day each year
Number of grants received
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Children's Fund
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
As one of our fastest-growing revenue sources, grants are critical to Valley Children's Healthcare Foundation's ability to support patient care needs.
Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Valley Children's Healthcare Foundation has three primary goals: (1) raise $15 million in philanthropic support in fiscal year 2024 to support the healthcare network; (2) enhance our digital strategy by introducing new capabilities to engage donors; and (3) increase the total endowment corpus to $35 million by December 31, 2025.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
In order to achieve our goal to raise $15 million in philanthropic support in FY 2024 to support the healthcare network, we must meet several fundraising targets in order to achieve our total revenue objective:
-$7 million in unrestricted revenue
-$5.275 million in temporarily restricted revenue (program support)
-$2.725 million in permanently restricted revenue (endowment support)
In order to achieve our goal to enhance our digital strategy:
We are utilizing a software platform to better engage donors.
Leverage technology to connect with constituents, build better reporting, and fundraise smarter.
Share patient stories in more compelling ways to better connect with our donor community.
In order to increase the total endowment corpus to $35 million by December 31, 2025, we have two strategies to implement:
The Guilds of Valley Children's Hospital seeks to raise $1 million annually in endowed funds.
Valley Children's Healthcare Foundation must raise $1.865 million annually in endowed funds.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We believe that we are capable of raising $15 million in philanthropic support annually to support the healthcare network for two primary reasons:
We have 17 full-time, professional fundraising staff members dedicated to achievement of this goal with the collective experience necessary to achieve it.
In the last five years we have raised $77 million dollars demonstrating a growth trend with a goal of achieving $100M by 2028.
Our capabilities to achieve our goal is to improve access to pediatric healthcare services for Central Valley kids by expanding our healthcare network in the Central Valley, specifically in communities along the Highway 99 corridor, include the vision, capital, internal staff, and external partners required. Valley Children's Healthcare has opened a new care centers in Bakersfield, Modesto, and Fowler.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Goal #1: Raise $15 million in philanthropic support in FY 2024 to support the healthcare network.
-We are at 100% of the annual goal at the completion of Q2.
Enhance our digital strategy by introducing new capabilities to our engage donors:
-The software capabilities introduced allowed donors to give utilizing various payment platforms enabling better access
-New capabilities have strengthened our peer-to-peer fundraising efforts
-Most recent campaign yielded an increase of 30%
In order to increase the total endowment corpus to $35 million by December 31, 2025, we have two strategies to implement:
-As of May 2024, we are on track to exceed the endowment corpus goal.
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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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
The people we serve tell us they find data collection burdensome
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Valley Children's Healthcare Foundation
Board of directorsas of 05/06/2024
Mr. Dan Adams
Retired from Disney/ABC Owned Television Stations
Term: 2019 - 2024
Dan Adams
ABC30
Paul McDougal
Paul McDougal Marketing
Erin Berberian-Gleason
Valley Children's Hospital
Linda Bliss
Enterprise Holdings
Blair Cunnings
Barrier Roofing and Solar
Martha Flaming
Maxco
Terance Frazier
TFS Investments
Kathy Horstmann Huebert
Horstmann Financial Services
Lance Mouw
Riverbend Dairy
Patrick Murphy
Caren Myers
Fresno Lexus
Joseph "Skip" Nugent
Best Buy Markets
Anthony Kenneth Ramos
Wells Fargo
Michael Carr
ABC30 Television
Robert Saroyan
Valley Children's Healthcare Foundation
J.R. Shannon
SK Ranch/CRS Farming
Richard Shehadey
Producers Dairy
Debbie Smades-Henes
London Properties
Nadarasa Visveshwara, M.D.
Valley Children's Hospital
Kevin Williams
Marla McClaskey
The Guilds of Valley Children's
Michele Waldron
Valley Children's Healthcare
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
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Equity strategies
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- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.