News Release – Guidestar 2020
August 21,2020
Bounce Children’s Foundation Achieves GuideStar Platinum for 3rd Consecutive Year – Allowing Donors to Focus on Progress and Results
Deerfield, IL — Bounce Children’s Foundation® (Bounce), a nonprofit organization supporting chronically-ill children and their families, is pleased to announce that it has maintained its GuideStar Platinum Nonprofit Seal of Transparency for 2020. This is the highest level of recognition offered by GuideStar, the world’s largest source of nonprofit information. Bounce has now held this honor for three consecutive years.
“We are proud of our continued emphasis on transparency,” said Joan Steltmann, chief executive officer, Bounce Children’s Foundation. “Our GuideStar profile and Platinum status has enabled more donors to find, understand, and trust Bounce. With their support, we now serve two-and-one-half times as many families as we did just three years ago.”
To reach the Platinum level in 2018, Bounce Children’s Foundation added extensive information to its Nonprofit Profile on GuideStar: basic contact and organizational information; in-depth financial information; qualitative information about goals, strategies, and capabilities; and quantitative information about results and progress toward its mission. Since then, Bounce has kept this information up-to-date on its GuideStar profile.
This high level of transparency is an important part of how Bounce Children’s Foundation demonstrates its commitment to giving donors and funders meaningful data to evaluate the progress of the organization.
“I am proud of Bounce’s continued efforts to offer thorough, current, and useful information to the public,” said Bobby Lucas, office managing partner, Dinsmore & Shohl, LLC and Bounce Board Chair, “and very pleased that GuideStar has recognized Bounce for the third year running. Platinum status will support Bounce’s continued growth – vital to the nearly 1 in 5 U.S. children battling a disease for which there is no cure.”
About Bounce Children’s Foundation
Bounce Children’s Foundation® (Bounce), a Chicagoland nonprofit organization, transforms the lives of chronically ill children, and their families, shifting all from surviving to thriving. Offering a variety of ongoing home and community-based programs, Bounce is unique in filling a vital gap in the overall network of care for the 15-18 percent of children who battle chronic illness. Combatting a deep sense of invisibility and extreme isolation, the Bounce community provides fun and friendship, education and resources, hope and encouragement, and a place to belong – until cures are found. Currently, Bounce helps over 800 members, including chronically ill children, their healthy siblings, and their parents, build the resilience needed to live happier, healthier lives. One hundred percent privately funded, Bounce is offered free of charge. And, while there is no income requirement, many members are low income and all face extraordinary out-of-pocket medical costs. For more information about Bounce Children’s Foundation, visit www.BounceChildrensFoundation.org.
About GuideStar Nonprofit Profiles
The GuideStar database contains a profile for every tax-exempt nonprofit registered with the IRS. GuideStar encourages every nonprofit to claim and update its profile at no cost to the organization. Updating allows nonprofits to share a wealth of up-to-date information with the more than 8 million people who visit GuideStar to learn more about nonprofit organizations each year. Updating also allows nonprofits to share information with the more than 200 philanthropic websites and applications that are powered by GuideStar data. To reach a given participation level, organizations need to complete all required fields for that participation level. The GuideStar participation levels, acknowledged as symbols of transparency in the nonprofit sector, are displayed on all updated participants’ profiles in the GuideStar database.
Media Contact:
Joan M. Steltmann, CEO
844-6-BOUNCE
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