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Nonprofits Go on the Offensive – November 6th, 2009

If you check your inbox or mailbox today, there’s a good chance one of them contains an appeal from a nonprofit agency.

It could be a newsletter containing information about new programs, or a request to contribute toward a donor-match program. Or it could simply be a profile of someone whose life was improved because of the financial support of people like you.

This is because now more than ever, nonprofits need to focus on marketing and outreach. If your own company is going through difficult financial times, your sales force is the last place you look for savings. Cutting your sales department would be mortgaging your future. The same thing applies to non profits. The last place we reduce spending is in the areas that help us add to our coffers: public relations, donor communications, and marketing.

Like most charities, The Children’s Aid Society needs to make every effort to keep our supporters up to date on our activities and impact. That means we need to……

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C. Warren Moses, Former CEO

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Business of Giving: Community Schools Mean Real Innovation – October 2nd, 2009

If President Obama’s Office of Social Innovation gets the $50 million he’s requested to help fund non-profit agencies, I’ve got a suggestion for how to best spend that money: Tackle the hardest problems first.

What are the hardest problems? As someone who’s spent the last 40 years working with disadvantaged children, two top my list: teen pregnancy and public education.

In this article, I’ll discuss teen pregnancy. Despite decades of intervention, the US still has the highest pregnancy rate in the developing world. Each year, 4 out of 20 teens will get pregnant. In 2006, nearly half a million babies were born to girls between the ages of 15-19 in the US. These numbers frustrate me immensely because I see evidence everyday that with the right interventions, our country can reverse this trend.

At The Children’s Aid Society, we have taken a holistic approach to teen-pregnancy prevention. The Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program is based on what we know for sure: Hope is a powerful contraceptive.

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C. Warren Moses, CEO

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Children’s Aid Receives Ninth 4-Star Rating from Charity Navigator! – September 28th, 2009

The Children’s Aid Society is the first-ever recipient of a ninth consecutive four-star rating from Charity Navigator,  the nation’s largest independent charity evaluator! Designated for its “exceptional financial health,” Children’s Aid earned its latest four-star rating for its ability to “consistently execute its mission in a fiscally responsible way,” according to a letter from Ken Berger, President and Chief Executive Officer of the charity evaluator.

Berger’s letter also noted that Children’s Aid’s “ ‘exceptional’ designation from Charity Navigator differentiates The Children’s Aid Society from its peers and demonstrates to the public it is worthy of their trust.”

After SchoolreadingChildren’s Aid, founded in 1853, has created programs and services for families and children in need for over 156 years.  As times change and the needs of children, families and immigrants have changed, Children’s Aid has established centers and schools, opened clinics, and developed services where in New York City they are needed most.

“We are thrilled that Charity Navigator has recognized Children’s Aid’s ability to serve the impoverished children of New York City effectively and use donations wisely and efficiently,” said C. Warren Moses,  Chief Executive Officer of The Children’s Aid Society. “We intend to maintain our fiscal health while continuing to innovate to meet the needs of children and families today.

“I am especially pleased that during the past fiscal year, donations from individuals actually increased by more than 10 percent, personal donations by Trustees went up and our Board approved an expense budget that included an additional $1.47 million to help sustain ‘lifeline’ programs for our families during the fiscal crisis,” he added.

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Business of Giving: Bailing Out Our Schools – September 18th, 2009

Right now, everyone is focused on finding the cure for our current economic crisis. Bailouts, recovery plans and billion-dollar loans hopefully will get our economy back on firm footing soon. But we also need to look at the long-term, big picture of what will propel our economy into the future. And I believe that can be accomplished by reinventing the driver of our success: a world-class education.

If you look back at our nation’s history, our wealth was not built solely by great ideas. Rather, it also came from a very well-educated workforce created by created by world-class public schools. Children of immigrants who arrived on our shores 100 years ago received an education that lifted them from poverty to the working class and beyond. That influx of new workers built factories and invented and perfected new technologies. Workers on the assembly line could earn a comfortable living.

For the past 2 decades, the factory jobs that created prosperous lives for so many across much of America have been disappearing. The only way we can uplift the children and grandchildren of the working class and prepare them for a different future is by putting a renewed focus on world-class education.

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C. Warren Moses, CEO

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Why an Angry CEO Is the Best CEO – September 2nd, 2009

When I announced my retirement earlier this year, I had one main suggestion for the committee looking for my replacement: Find someone who’s “angry.”

“Angry?” they said. “What do you mean?”

I mean that to lead one of the country’s largest child-focused charitable organizations, you have to have a fire inside you. You don’t want to hire the person who eases too comfortably into the leather seat, who likes gazing out the corner-office window. You want the person who sees the suffering of so many children, and is because it’s not getting fixed quickly enough.

I’m happy to say we’ve found that person. Richard R. Buery Jr. has committed his career to helping poor children, and therefore is no stranger to the statistics: To read the full article, link here

C. Warren Moses

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Corporate Child Care Is This Summer's Hot Ticket – July 29th, 2009

It’s now summer and millions of schoolchildren across the country are celebrating summer vacation.

But for many parents, summer vacation is anything but. In single-parent and 2-income households, those 2 months often mean a desperate scramble to find safe and affordable childcare.

Child care can break the bank for many of the parents of the 48 million children in the US under age 12. In each of the 50 states, monthly child care costs for 2 kids exceed median rent costs, and are as high as or higher than the average monthly mortgage payment, according to The National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

Child care is crucial to keeping our economy strong. Without child care, millions of Americans would be unable to work. The cost creeps up every year, and like a mortgage, it’s a set, often non-negotiable, fee. This puts a greater squeeze on negotiable necessities, such as food. For the complete article on Minyanville.com, link here

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Children's Aid Society in New York Presents MinyanLand to Promote Importance of Financial Literacy – July 24th, 2009

Photo by Ben Russell

Photo by Ben Russell

We all know the importance of the three Rs in education – “reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic”. But also knowing how to earn, save, spend and give money -financial literacy – seems more important than ever in this era of foreclosures, credit card debt and recession.

Surprisingly few social work schools offer specialized financial literacy in their curricula, as addressing this challenge by offering workshops to struggling families on dealing with banks, credit problems and avoiding potential frauds.

And now, in 2009, New York’s most innovative children’s and family services provider has teamed up with Minyanville Publishing and Multimedia, a leading financial media company, to spread the message of financial literacy for children.

Minyanville has brought its virtual community and game site “MinyanLand” to The Children’s Aid Society’s Frederick Douglass Center in Manhattan. The web site, geared to 8-10 year olds, teaches the importance of earning, saving, spending and giving through interactive games and activities.

The CEO of New York’s Children’s Aid Society, C. Warren Moses, also contributes a bi-weekly column about the “Business of Giving” on the Minyanville website:

“Many families come to the Children’s Aid Society looking for tools to help their children lead richer, more productive lives,” said Moses. “MinyanLand is free and available to anyone who can go online with a computer. The financial literacy tools available…give our children accessibility to knowledge they can use for a lifetime.”

So you might add a fourth R to the schooling list now: “responsibility.” Fiscal responsibility might be the most important R of all - and learning how to use it, via an education in financial literacy, is a lesson that will last a lifetime!

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Children's Aid Announces New CEO – July 21st, 2009

The Children’s Aid Society is excited to announce the appointment of Richard R. Buery, Jr. as our new President and Chief Executive Officer. He will succeed C. Warren “Pete” Moses, who will retire after our annual meeting in October.

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Richard R. Buery, Jr. - Photo by Andew Walker

Buery, 37, will be the organization’s first African-American leader. He is currently the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Groundwork, Inc., a nonprofit organization established to create transformative change for families living in public housing in Brooklyn, New York.  Growing up in one of New York City’s most underserved communities, Buery was profoundly affected by the different opportunities available to young people he grew up with in East New York, Brooklyn and those he went to school with at New York City’s prestigious Stuyvesant High School.

During his entire career, he has demonstrated a great commitment to social innovation on behalf of underserved communities. As an undergrad at Harvard College, he co-founded the Mission Hill Summer Program, an enrichment program for children in a housing development in Boston. After graduating from Yale Law School, he co-founded iMentor, a mentoring program connecting middle and high school students with volunteer mentors through online and in-person meetings.

“For over 150 years, The Children’s Aid Society has been synonymous with innovation, effectiveness, and zealous advocacy on behalf of New York City’s children,” said Buery. “I am humbled by the opportunity to lead this institution, and look forward to working with Children’s Aid’s board, staff, and – most importantly – the families we serve. I am fortunate to be taking the reins when Children’s Aid is in a position of relative strength. These are difficult times, but it is precisely during times like these that we must focus on what is most important – investing in the health, happiness and well-being of our children.”

“I am very pleased that Richard Buery will be joining and leading Children’s Aid,” said Pete Moses.  “He believes in change driven by impact on the lives of our children. I know that he has the compassion, commitment to the poor, skills and leadership ability to direct the agency and is excited that Children’s Aid is able to provide comprehensive supports to have a transforming impact on families. I am confident that the staff will be excited to meet and work with him.”

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Taking Time to Honor Academic Achievers and Civic Minded Youth – July 8th, 2009

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Bob Stern congratulates Quenniqua Martinez, winner of the first Jean L. Stern Memorial Scholarship.

A real sense of family prevailed in the Con Ed auditorium on the evening of June 18th as an eager crowd gathered for the annual Children’s Aid Society E.X.C.E.L. ceremony honoring high school and college graduates. Students’ families were in attendance, in addition to the families formed at Children’s Aid community centers and schools across the city – support networks of peers and staff that have proven invaluable in the lives of many teens.

Quenniqua Martinez, 17, Children’s Aid’s Youth of the Year and a member of the Frederick Douglass Center since age 6, said, “There is always someone there to talk to and someone to support me when my family can’t.”

The Children’s Aid Society’s E.X.C.E.L. (Educational Excellence Creating Empowered Leaders) is a comprehensive educational and life skills program designed to engage students, ages 14-21, in a breadth of services geared towards preparing them for college and promoting their future success.

In an emotional ceremony, 48 exceptional graduates were recognized for their achievements, ranging from academic excellence to overcoming obstacles to demonstrating leadership and community service.  The young peoples’ hard work and perseverance were lauded and accomplishments celebrated.  Children’s Aid’s CEO, C. Warren Moses, praised the “beautiful, smart articulate young people” gathered for the ceremony.

As college costs rise and aid to low-income students declines, higher education is increasingly out of reach for many youth. To help ease the burden of these escalating costs, fifteen graduating high school seniors received scholarships provided by Children’s Aid, individual donors and corporate sponsors.

As he presented a scholarship named in honor of his father to the college graduate with the highest grade point average (Wendy Flores), former mayor David N. Dinkins told tales from his own college days and emphasized the importance of education.

At the end of the evening, the graduates were excited for the new adventures and challenges that lay ahead.  The Children’s Aid Society wishes them the best of luck!


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New Jersey Students Bring the Orphan Trains to Life – and Make a Donation to Children's Aid – June 15th, 2009

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Pictured: C. Warren Moses (far right) with the student stars of "The Orphan Train" at The Elisabeth Morrow School.

The eighth grade students at The Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood, New Jersey mounted a production of Aurand Harris’ “The Orphan Train” play on May 6th and 7th. In lieu of charging admission, the young actors requested donations for The Children’s Aid Society. The students raised almost $690 – and awareness amongst their friends and families – for Children’s Aid.

Charles Loring Brace, the founder of The Children’s Aid Society, began the Orphan Train movement in the 1850s to combat the harsh life faced by many children on the streets of New York City. He proposed that these children be sent by train to live and work with families on farms out west. More than 120,000 children were moved between the 1850s and 1920s.

C. Warren Moses, the CEO of Children’s Aid, was a special guest on the play’s opening night. Mr. Moses thoroughly enjoyed the production, which chronicled the stories of several children who traveled on the Orphan Trains to the Midwest seeking adoptive families. After the play, he spoke to the audience about the history of the Orphan Trains and Children’s Aid’s current work in New York City.

Photo courtesy of The Elisabeth Morrow School

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