School Year in Review: 2020-2021
By Child Inclusion Fund
2020 was an important year, and one that many families will likely remember for a long time.
COVID-19 caused many hardships, impacting the health and wellness of families around the world. Lock downs caused work and school to be redefined.
A positive to come out of 2020 though, was Child Inclusion Fund.
It takes a surprising amount of time and work to set up a charity We chose to hire a lawyer (not funded with CIF dollars) to help guide us through the process, to give us the peace of mind that we were correctly doing the necessary steps. When waiting for responses from organizations like the IRS, we worked on setting up things like this website, and our Facebook page.
By the time we were officially a 501(c)(3) designation, our website was up and we were already getting an exciting amount of donations!
We were thrilled to be able to help families with purchasing spiritwear for field day, and are very excited to keep the ball rolling into next school year.
Highlights
- October 2020 - Child Inclusion Fund established
- November 2020 - Received our first donation!
- November 2020 - Gunny Lee designs our logo (Thanks Gunny!)
- April 2021 - 501(c)(3) designation
- April 2021 - First outgoing donation! We were able to help a large amount of students (60) with purchasing spiritwear for Field Day
Balance Sheet
| DESCRIPTION | AMOUNT |
|---|---|
| start balance (Nov 20') | $0 |
| donations in | |
| November | $314 |
| December | $173 |
| January | $97 |
| April | $95 |
| donations out | |
| April - spiritwear | -$420 |
| expenses | |
| May - checks | -$46 |
| end balance (Jun 21') | $213 |