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Name:	VISIONS Community Services
Address:	425 Ezzard Charles Drive
	Cincinnati, OH 45203
Phone:	(513) 651-2229
Web Address:	www.visionscs.org

VISIONS Community Services meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

VISIONS Community Services (VCS) provides licensed, early childhood education, and care for infants and toddlers, ages 6 weeks to 5 years, who are the children of the teen and young mothers. The curriculum integrates developmentally appropriate tasks and activities that promote progression through the developmental milestones of early childhood, building partnerships with families and preparing children to succeed as they enter kindergarten. The Early Education and Care Program recognizes the critical importance of the first three years of life. Stressful experiences and adversity during these formative years can negatively influence brain development and lead to lifelong problems including developmental delays and decreased overall health and well being. The program strives to meet all the basic physical, emotional, social, and intellectual needs of children to optimize their healthy growth and development. The safe nurturing environment provides primary prevention for child abuse and/or neglect. The Nurturing Families Parent Program provides opportunities for parents to learn life skills, develop positive behaviors and receive support to improve self-sufficiency for teen and young parents. The program curriculum includes three modules that promote professional development, positive parenting, and health, nutrition and wellness. Parents receive assistance to complete their education, obtain job training, and secure meaningful employment. Services are designed to help teen and young parents build strong, healthy families and children through positive parenting skills and reduce the high school drop out rate by teenage mothers. Program activities include individual counseling, education/support workshops, in-school student support groups, mentoring, client advocacy, crisis intervention, and referrals to job training programs and for mental health and health care services.

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, VISIONS Community Services's program expenses were:

Program Services	963,491
Depreciation	94,572
Total Program Expenses:	$1,058,063

Chief Executive : Mr. Marcia H. Simmons, Executive Director

Compensation*:

$80,924

Chair of the Board: Mr. Russell Schnurr
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: President, Fifth Third Securities, Inc.

Board Size: 18

Paid Staff Size: 21

*Compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:

direct mail appeals, invitations to fundraising events, print advertisements, grant proposals, Internet, talks to church & civic groups

Fundraising costs were 23% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $359,824, 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 VISIONS Community Services's audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009.

Source of Funds
Hamilton County Department of Jobs & Family Services	589,216
United Way	120,000
Rasing of the Green	84,632
CACFP (Food Program))	66,745
General Contributions	59,778
Grants/General	45,500
Dominican Sisters of Hope	25,000
Unrealized gains in investments	20,484
United Way for the Poor	17,500
Program Fees	13,084
Investment income	9,884
City of Cincinnati (grant)	7,414
Interest Income	629
Other Income	473
Total Income	$1,060,339

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 88%  Fund Raising: 8%  Administrative: 4%

Total income				$1,060,339
	Program expenses			$1,058,063
	Fund raising expenses			81,901
	Administrative expenses			40,546
Total expenses				$1,056,771
Income in Excess of Expenses				3,568
Beginning net assets				762,879
Ending net assets				660,256
Total liabilities				50,390
Total assets				$710,646