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Name:	ChildSavers
Address:	200 N. 22nd St.
	Richmond, VA 23223
Phone:	804-644-9590
Web Address:	http://www.childsavers.org
Also known as: Memorial Child Guidance Clinic

ChildSavers meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

ChildSavers, founded in 1924 as the Children's Memorial Clinic, is dedicated to ensuring the healthy development of central Virginia's children through three primary program areas: Trauma Response: We provide immediate therapeutic mental health response to children and adolescents who have been victims or witnesses of violent or traumatic events. Our trained clinicians are on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and usually arrive to work with the affected children within 30 minutes after receiving the call. *From the program's inception in November 2004 through January 2010, we worked with more than 1,700 children and adolescents. Guidance Clinic: We provide outpatient mental health and psychiatric services to children and adolescents (ages 2-17), regardless of their familes' ability to pay. Most of our clients come from low-income families and live in high-crime neighborhoods. *During our 2008/09 program year (7/1/08 through 6/30/09), our Clinical Department staff worked with 469 children and adolescents through 6,086 therapy and psychiatric sessions. Child Development Services: The first few years of a child's life are critical to his development and future success. We provide a broad range of training and support services to those who care for and educate pre-school children. *During our 2008/09 program year, we held 71 training sessions for child care providers (total attendance: 1.051), helped an average of 158 providers per month offer nutritious meals and snacks to the many hundresd of young children in their care, and completed 906 referrals for parents seeking quality child care.

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008, ChildSavers's program expenses were:

Preventive	1,371,214
Capital Campaign	1,112,772
Clinical	728,470
ChildSave	273,972
Total Program Expenses:	$3,486,428

Chief Executive : Mark A. Hierholzer, CEO

Compensation*:

$128,055

Chair of the Board: Elizabeth A. Fessenden
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Consultant, Fessenden Associates LLC

Board Size: 23

Paid Staff Size: 38

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

Method(s) Used:

direct mail, invitations to fund raising events, print advertisements, television, radio, grant proposals

Fund raising costs were 18% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $3,661,885, are donations received as a result of fund raising activities.)

This organization 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 ChildSavers's audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008.

Source of Funds
Dept of Agriculture Program Revenue	916,848
Contributions	836,071
Capital Campaign	623,112
Corporate donations	408,913
Clinic fees	400,941
Grants	372,700
United Way	361,000
Endowment Fund	143,241
Preventive svcs & consukting	43,358
Interest income	24,178
Other	18,039
Loss on sale of investments	-2,022
Unrealized loss on investments	-3,555
Total Income	$4,142,824

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 77%  Fund Raising: 15%  Administrative: 8%

Total income				$4,142,824
	Program expenses			$3,486,428
	Fund raising expenses			652,075
	Administrative expenses			341,807
Total expenses				$4,480,310
Expenses in Excess of Income				(337,486)
Beginning net assets				2,103,106
Ending net assets				1,765,620
Total liabilities				259,896
Total assets				$2,025,516