Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Nonprofit spotlight: Easter Seals redirects focus to early education | Columbus CEO

Nonprofit spotlight: Easter Seals redirects focus to early education | Columbus CEO: "Stepping away from its previous core service has allowed Easter Seals to double interventions where it is more effective.

When Pandora Shaw-Dupras took the helm of Easter Seals Central and Southeast Ohio, the organization was finding it difficult to fund its signature service—pediatric outpatient therapy.

Declining government reimbursements and increasing program costs meant the organization was struggling to pay therapists to work one-on-one helping children learn to walk and talk—services many have associated with the organization since its inception nearly 100 years ago. Easter Seals had always supplemented program costs with dollars donated through its various fundraisers, but following the recession, those dollars also were shrinking"



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