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Name:	Easter Seals Work Resource Center
Address:	2901 Gilbert Avenue
	Cincinnati, OH 45206
Phone:	(513) 281-2316
Web Address:	www.workresourcecenter.org
Also known as: Easter Seals WRC Building Value, LLC

Easter Seals Work Resource Center meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

According to the charity, Easter Seals WRC provides job training and social adjustment skills to more than 12,000 individuals in the Greater Cincinnati area. Participants include individuals with disabilities who need support to find and keep a job, people who are chronically unemployed or underemployed, and at-risk youth who are transitioning from school to the workforce. The charity provides an integral step for developing the needed job and life skills through each service. Three strategies have been identified for this process. The first is the charity identifies and creates an individualized path to success. Skills assessment, career readiness workshops, and school-to-work transition are the programs used to implement this strategy. The second is the charity develops job qualifications and work related life skills. For this strategy Easter Seals WRC has developed the following programs: summer youth employment, technology based learning, job training in construction and retail, and hands on learning program for high school students with disabilities. The final strategy is for individuals to obtain and maintain employment. This can be done by an individual (between the ages of 14 to 21) using the free job resource center, job placement, job coaching, follow along, and welfare to work in order to obtain and retain employment.

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009, Easter Seals Work Resource Center's program expenses were:

Career Development	2,623,688
Work Services	2,227,515
Placement and Retention	568,586
Retail and Construction	393,369
Total Program Expenses:	$5,813,158

Chief Executive : Ms. Pamela Green, President & CEO

Compensation*:

Chair of the Board: Mr. Craig Decker
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Retired

Board Size: 18

Paid Staff Size: 94

*Compensation information not provided to BBB.

Method(s) Used:

direct mail appeals, telephone appeals, invitations to fundraising events, print advertisements, radio appeals, grant proposals, Internet, planned giving arrangements, cause-related marketing appeals

Fundraising costs were 21% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $555,451, are donations received as a result of fundraising activities.)

This charity is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on Easter Seals Work Resource Center's audited financial statements - consolidated for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009.

Source of Funds
Career Development	2,796,388
Work Services	2,396,838
Placement and Retention	439,110
Retail and Deconstruction Sales	409,003
Contributions	393,089
Special Events (Less Direct Benefit Costs $20,742)	111,233
Donated Goods & Services	51,129
Interest Revenue	39,238
Miscellaneous Revenue	7,116
Total Income	$6,643,144

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 87%  Fund Raising: 2%  Administrative: 10%  Other Expenses: 1%

Total income				$6,643,144
	Program expenses			$5,813,158
	Fund raising expenses			117,082
	Administrative expenses			676,616
	Other Expenses			63,331
Total expenses				$6,670,187
Expenses in Excess of Income				(27,043)
Beginning net assets				5,216,775
Ending net assets				5,189,732
Total liabilities				901,014
Total assets				$6,090,746