The Success Tree

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The Success Tree
FELICIA
LUPE
JORGE
JESUS
ILDA
VANESSA
CHARLIE
WENDY
The RCMA tree
produces great fruit –
one child at a time
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Family successes are RCMA’s – and yours
Dear Friends,
AS WE WRITE THIS, WE ARE RELISHING
ANOTHER YEAR OF SUCCESS. WE
C E L E B RAT E T H E FAC T T H AT C H I L D R E N ,
WHO YEARS AGO DEVELOPED A
Z E S T F O R L E A R N I N G AT R C M A , A R E
T H R I V I N G T O D AY. T H E Y A R E N U R S E S ,
LAWYERS, ASPIRING PSYCHOLOGISTS
AND EMERGING BUSINESS LEADERS.
Barbara Mainster
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
You have played a vital role, and you probably realize by now that at RCMA, we
always define “success” in human terms.
Our little ones learn to behave cooperatively, to restrain their impulses, to speak
English. Their older siblings learn algebra, photosynthesis and Internet research.
And we detect disabilities, or problems at home, early enough to intervene.
Meanwhile, RCMA increasingly is exploring opportunities at home. More than
ever, we work to help parents realize that they are not only their child’s first
teacher, but the most important one. While none of them are wealthy – and many
do not speak English fluently, if at all – all of them are the most significant driving
force behind their child’s accomplishments.
We encourage parents to expect the values of respect and honesty from their
little ones, honor their elders and believe in themselves. Recently, we have been
stressing the critical importance of real conversation with their children. Research
shows that children of poverty enter school having heard 30 million fewer words,
Mike Stuart
BOARD PRESIDENT
and having engaged far fewer substantive conversations, than children from
middle-income homes.
Our parents have listened to these insights and run with them. We send books
home with children; parents are using them to talk to their children, to expand
their vocabulary in meaningful ways. Even parents who themselves don’t read well
know how to start a discussion based on books’ illustrations.
RCMA doesn’t yet have the funds to measure the success of these initiatives with
specific data. But we know that we will continue to have more and more stories
like the ones you read about in this annual report. They will form new chapters in
our 49-year success story – your success story
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We encourage parents
to expect the values of
respect and honesty
from their little ones,
honor their elders and
believe in themselves.
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From migrant to scholar
Ilda Martinez “wants to help everybody”
MULBERRY –
Ilda Martinez
opened the
blinds in her
room and, for
two hours,
watched
the mailbox.
Nothing.
So she walked
down the
street to visit
a friend. Soon,
Martinez’ sister
texted her: You
got something. Martinez ran home to
the mailbox, where a small crowd was
gathering. She learned:
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Out of 54,000 applicants nationwide,
Martinez had been one of the lucky
1,000 to be named a Gates
Millennium Scholar.
She could attend college, perhaps all
the way to a PhD, nearly anywhere
she wanted.
For the first time in Martinez’ life,
money would not be a problem.
Martinez hugged her friend, “bawling my
eyes out.” And when she calmed down,
she called her parents in Mexico.
Martinez, 18, was born in Plant City, a
farm community east of Tampa. Yet a
big piece of her soul is in her extended
family’s hometown in southern Mexico,
where Martinez was taken in infancy.
Her parents returned to the U.S. where
they harvested crops and sent money
home. Little Ilda stayed in Oaxaca with
her grandmother, and learned to speak
the indigenous Mixteco language.
When she was two, Martinez returned
to the Plant City area to her parents.
They enrolled her in RCMA’s Dover
Child Development Center, where she
learned her second language, Spanish,
and her third, English. She is fluent in all
three today.
Her father, a middle-school dropout,
made sure that his first child knew the
value of getting an education – and the
consequences of lacking one. From age
8 to age 15, Ilda spent summers in the
fields in Michigan and North Carolina.
She remembers carrying buckets, heavy
with blueberries; rising at 4:30 on cold
mornings to prepare lunches; and
working until 10 p.m. as the summer sun
lingered on the horizon.
“If you don’t want to wind up where we
are,” warned her father, “then you need
to study.”
“I’ve always been a good student,”
Martinez said.
She graduated from Polk State
Collegiate High School with a gradepoint average of 3.9. Along the way,
Martinez balanced a dizzying array of
activities. She played on the soccer
team, performed with the orchestra and
sang in the chorus. She helped migrant
families and served on a United Way
education group that studied problems
among students who, like Martinez,
were handicapped by low-income lives.
“She has the most positive attitude,”
marvels Dani Torres, the migrant
advocate in the Polk County school
system who urged Martinez to apply
for the Gates scholarship. “She
volunteers for everything. She wants
to help everybody.”
Martinez has accomplished all this while
functioning as a surrogate mother to a
younger sister and brother.
Her family returned to Mexico
when Martinez was 14 because her
grandmother had become gravely ill.
Soon, Martinez’ parents decided that
their three oldest children would return
to the U.S., to live with an aunt and
uncle and their five children. The rest
of the family would remain in Oaxaca.
As her father bid the three children
goodbye, his last words for Ilda were:
“Always remember, you are the only
thing they will have now.”
From USF, she Skypes and texts them
nearly every day.
This year’s successes have made her
ambitions more tangible, accessible
and concrete. Martinez wants to help
children, especially those separated
from their parents by the turmoil
of immigration.
Last winter, she decided to test her
dreams against first-hand experience.
She took a part-time job teaching
2-year-olds at RCMA’s Mulberry Child
Development Center. She loved it, and
shed tears as the children left for
the summer.
“I grew very close to them,” Martinez
said. “I didn’t want to let go at all.”
Now, the Gates scholarship means that
extensive study, and few other obstacles,
stand between Martinez and a PhD in
early-childhood education and child
psychology. Martinez can maintain a
good academic record and simply renew
the scholarship from year to year.
After four years away, Martinez’ father,
Jose Martinez, returned to Florida soon
after his daughter received her lifechanging mail last May. He arrived in
time to see her graduate from both high
school and Polk State College.
He had trouble comprehending that
the scholarship would amount to a
series of grants – not loans requiring
repayment. But the happy reality was
settling in as he left for a summer of
picking fruit in Michigan.
CHECKING BACK
Updates on RCMA babies you may remember
CHARLIE BROWN
The last you heard (2010):
Charlie Brown, as a senior
at Avon Park High School,
was Florida president
of the Future Farmers
of America and national
president of Boys Nation.
Now: After Brown
graduated from high
school in 2011, the FFA
enlisted him to spend a year visiting schools
nationwide, and joining agricultural dignitaries
in a two-week tour of China. He’s now a
junior at the University of Florida, studying
agricultural communications and preparing to
apply to law school.
(See CHECKING BACK on page 4 for more updates.)
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Her big success: a home for Mom and Dad
Lupe Watts starts a career, and summons her parents
Development
Center.
Little Lupe was
number six. She
recalls playing
outside at RCMA,
learning to speak
English and
nestling down
for the afternoon
naps. Today,
Watts says she
would enroll her
son John in RCMA
if she could.
Lupe Watts with her son John and her mother, Maria Cisneros, at their
home outside Tampa
TAMPA – Only 20 months out of
college, nurse Lupita “Lupe” Cisneros
Watts works in an atmosphere buzzing
with state-of-the art professionalism:
the intensive care unit at Tampa
General Hospital.
Yet home is where Watts most relishes
her success. There, on two semi-rural
acres north of Tampa, Watts and
her husband Matthew are raising a
13-month-old son and establishing
a comfortable home for her parents,
Atanacio and Maria Cisneros, and her
17-year-old sister, Diana.
It’s a goal that Watts discussed with
Matthew before they married. She
had talked about it even earlier with
her brothers. She wanted her children
to grow up around at least one set
of grandparents.
“We always knew that my mom and
dad would come live with me,” she says.
When the Cisneroses moved, it ended
25 years in Homestead in which the
immigrant couple had worked in plant
nurseries and raised eight children.
The first five were boys. The last five
attended RCMA’s South Dade Child
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“It was a lot
of fun,” she
remembers.
“I loved the
instruction.
Coming out of it,
I knew way more
than going in.
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(Continued from page 3.)
WENDY RUIZ
The last you heard (2013):
Born in Miami, Wendy
Ruiz nevertheless was
forced to pay out-of-state
tuition at Miami-Dade
College because her
parents are undocumented
immigrants. The cost was
more than triple the instate rates. At age 19, Ruiz
persuaded the Southern
Poverty Law Center to take up the issue,
and those attorneys persuaded a federal
judge to outlaw the state’s tuition policy.
Now: Ruiz is paying in-state tuition at Florida
International University. After considering a
biology degree and a science career, she has
changed to a political science major. Ruiz wants to
become a lawyer.
JESUS MARTINEZ
“I’m very thankful
for it. I hope it has made a difference in
a lot more kids’ lives.”
Coming out of high school, Watts
The last you heard (2012):
Jesus Martinez was excelling
as a business student at the
University of Miami.
of South Florida in Tampa, and in
Now: Martinez graduated
from Auburn University
in August with a finance
degree, and joined Edward
Jones, the investment
firm, as a future financial
advisor. Currently, Martinez is living in St.
Louis, attending Edward Jones’ Financial
Advisor Career Development program. Next
summer, he plans to move back to Miami and
offer his services to his fellow Hispanics.
2013, started a career and a family.
VANESSA GALDAMEZ
wanted to experience an environment
different from Homestead. So like
most of her brothers, she moved
away. She attended the University
Pregnancy triggered the final big
achievement: a home large enough
for grandparents. So the Wattses
bought a house with a pool, a pond
and a separate garage apartment large
enough to be renovated into a twobedroom home. They have a garden, a
compost heap, citrus trees and a coop
full of chickens.
The Cisneroses moved in August.
“We’re happy,” Maria Cisneros
said, holding her grandson. “We’re
comfortable here.”
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The last you heard (2010):
Vanessa Galdamez, who
benefited from an RCMA
center in Homestead, was
a budding accountant,
philanthropist and
student leader at the
University of Florida.
Now: Galdamez is a risk
assurance associate in the
Miami offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of
the nation’s “Big 4” accounting firms. She has paid
tribute to RCMA – in a breakfast speech and a
video – for two Miami United Way campaigns.
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Amid a tough childhood, RCMA taught hope
Jorge Lara grew into a life of service
During Jorge Lara’s childhood in
Homestead, his home was a toxic
crossroads of violence, abuse and the
drug trade.
Lara began picking tomatoes at age 6.
He left school in the 7th grade. At age
16, he confessed to cocaine trafficking
to cover for an older relative. With
meager legal help, he stood before a
Miami judge, facing 12 years in adult
prison. But Judge Jennifer Bailey, in
her first week on the bench, balked.
A turnaround in Lara’s life began.
Sentenced to five years’ probation,
Lara enrolled in adult-education
classes. He earned his GED, and joined
a farmworker-support organization as
a mentor to at-risk youth. Later, Lara
helped start MUJER, Inc., a non-profit
that campaigns against domestic and
sexual violence.
He moved from Homestead to Naples
in 1999 when his wife’s career brought
her to the area. With an associate’s
degree, Lara enrolled in Hodges
University and earned his bachelor’s
degree in management.
Eventually, structure and order and
goodness led Lara to another moment
of drama, underscoring the redemption
that had begun before Judge Bailey.
civil rights.
Eighty
supporters,
including
officers who
arrested
Lara, wrote
letters of
praise. Gov.
Jeb Bush
took note
of the case
and did
more than
restore
Lara’s
rights: Bush
granted a
full pardon,
erasing
Lara’s criminal record and absolving him
of a $250,000 fine associated with the
trafficking charge.
As a condition of his first firefighting
job, Lara petitioned the Florida
Clemency Board in 2004 to restore his
Lara stood before Bush and the Florida
Cabinet, weeping. “You won’t regret
this, governor,” he said.
Soon, Lara became a firefighter. At 39,
he is the lieutenant for the Isles of Capri
Fire and Rescue District near Naples.
Today, Lara looks back on his sad
childhood, and is convinced that he
received a crucial message of hope as a
small boy at RCMA. “The pureness that
RCMA provided … made me feel that
there is good in the world,” Lara says. “I
learned that the secret is education, and
that structure and order are good.”
‘Be true to who you are’
Felicia Coke is ‘The Sweatpants Diva’
SEBRING –
Most school
mornings,
Felicia
(McKeithan)
Coke would
obediently
wear the cute
frilly dresses
or pressed pants chosen by her mother,
only to change into gym clothes once
she reached school.
Felicia has followed the same mantra
throughout her life: “You have to be
true to who you are, and that’s when
you begin to thrive in life.”
So who is the true Felicia Coke?
She is mother to a “beautiful, intelligent
11-year-old daughter.” She holds a
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Clinical Doctorate of Physical Therapy,
Bachelor’s in Athletic Training and is a
Life Coach. And she is “The Sweatpants
Diva,” a name hearkening back to those
clothing changes.
Coke is also an alumna of RCMA. Now
33, she remembers RCMA’s South
Highlands Child Development Center as
a safe haven.
Coke believes that RCMA’s support
remains a part of her. “They believed
in me from day one, and they always
gave me confidence that I could achieve
whatever I set my mind to,” she said.
“I can recall RCMA as being a happy
place. I can recall lots of singing and
laughing,” she says. “I always knew
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that I was going to a place where I was
loved, and was sure to see many familiar
faces.”
Her confidence is in full bloom online.
The Sweatpants Diva maintains a
website, a Facebook page and a blog,
Instagram, and a YouTube channel while
working as a full-time physical therapist.
Most clients of the Diva’s life-coach
business are online, she says. Her clients
commit to her to help them strategize
through life’s conflicts, then choose
their goals and surmount obstacles.
Coke encourages everyone to be true to
themselves. “Only you can truly define
your level of success; not society,” she
says. “Do what you love and love what
you do… as long as you’re remaining
true to you.”
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Highlights
JULY 1, 2013 – JUNE 30, 2014
In June, RCMA
received
the annual
Leadership
Florida Impact
Award for
“transforming
the future of
its region.”
Leadership
Florida is a
network of emerging leaders.
RCMA tackled a little-known problem
in southwest Florida: when Spanishspeaking children lost their parents
(to deportation, for example), the
children were sent to English-speaking
foster families. So RCMA launched
an unprecedented program, funded
by local foster-care authorities, to
recruit, train and certify Spanishspeaking foster parents.
More than 800 teachers and staff at
RCMA child development centers
made a major transition from penand-paper methods of recording
children’s development to a bilingual
online data-entry system. The results
included more comprehensive data,
more intensive interactions with the
children and better reports to parents.
RCMA helped 376 children with
disabilities access the specialeducation services and therapies
they needed.
Thanks partly to grants from Bayer
CropScience, regional food banks
delivered tons of fresh produce and
other food to RCMA families in Plant
City, Mulberry, Wahneta, Bowling
Green, Wauchula and Immokalee.
Every RCMA charter school
improved its school grade based on
statewide standardized testing last
spring. RCMA Wimauma Academy,
an elementary school south of Tampa,
vaulted to an “A” grade from the
prior “D.” The middle school next
door, RCMA Leadership Academy,
improved to an “A” from a “C.” RCMA’s
K-6 Immokalee Community School
improved to a “B,” in the school’s third
consecutive increase.
One fourth of the eighth graders at
RCMA Leadership Academy were
accepted into a “Collegiate Academy”
south of Tampa, meaning the students
can earn a two-year college degree
along with their high-school diplomas.
Yesenia Calderon, a former toddler
in RCMA’s migrant program in Lake
Placid, became the first Floridian
to receive an internship with the
National
Migrant &
Seasonal
Head Start
Association.
Calderon,
an aspiring
lawyer, spent
the bulk of the
internship with
the MexicanAmerican Legal
Defense and
Education Fund.
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Through systematic screening,
RCMA detected hearing problems
in 345 children and made sure they
obtained hearing assistance or other
appropriate care. Similarly, RCMA
teachers detected vision problems
in 311 children and made sure they
obtained eyeglasses or other help.
Board member Gary Wishnatzki
converted his annual Tampa tennis
tournament to the Bright House
Networks Strawberry Picking
Challenge. It drew several hundred
friends, farmers and local celebrities
to a strawberry farm in February for
a picking competition, and raised
$75,000 for RCMA.
The Lipman Golf Classic, RCMA’s
14th annual golf tournament,
raised more than $80,000 for
RCMA programs.
Congress reversed severe budget
cuts that forced RCMA to trim Head
Start programs during 2013, and the
programs were restored to their
traditional schedules by 2014.
RCMA launched a multi-year program
in April to train child-care center
managers and parent leaders about
positive, comprehensive parenting.
Those trainees, in turn, are to train
more RCMA parents.
RCMA was one of nine featured
presenters at the North American
Agricultural Safety Summit in
Minneapolis in September 2013. RCMA
was honored for creating safe havens
for the children of farm workers,
and for its recent efforts to protect
children from agricultural pesticides.
Statewide, 1,331 children remained on
waiting lists because RCMA lacked the
capacity and resources to serve them.
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A “Posada,” the beloved Latino
Christmas observance, was revived
in December 2013 by RCMA staff
and families in Immokalee. Some 300
participants were brought together
with 2,000 tamales.
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RCMA statewide services
Redlands Christian
Migrant Association
is a nonprofit,
nonsectarian
organization that
provides highquality child care
and education for
Collier
Hendry
Manatee
children of migrant
476 children
85 employees
3 centers
75 children
28 employees
1 center
Highlands
Marion
592 children
109 employees
7 centers
142 children
38 employees
3 centers
Hillsborough
Miami-Dade
778 children
178 employees
9 centers
farm workers and
823 children
260 employees
7 centers
1 charter school
DeSoto
other rural, low-
420 children
66 employees
3 centers
income families.
Flagler
Programs include
40 children
7 employees
1 center
Gadsden
Indian River
16 children
1 employee
1 center
279 children
53 employees
3 centers
Glades
Lake
189 children
44 employees
3 centers
58 children
9 employees
1 center
Hardee
Lee
251 children
49 employees
2 centers
47 children
18 employees
1 center
Head Start, Migrant
& Seasonal Head
Start, charter schools
and after-school
activities in 21
Florida counties.
Our children
1,607 children
399 employees
17 centers
2 charter schools
63 children
19 employees
1 center
Palm Beach
199 children
46 employees
2 centers
Pasco
169 children
26 employees
2 centers
Our children’s ages
85% White/Hispanic
17% 6-14 years
11% African American
20% 3 years
1% White/Non-hispanic
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185 children
72 employees
3 centers
Putnam
324 children
70 employees
4 centers
Volusia
112 children
33 employees
2 centers
85% Grants
6% Charter school revenue
19 % 4 years
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Polk
Our funding
10% under 1 year
3% Bi-racial
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12% 1 year
5% Donated services
& occupancy
15% 2 years
2% Donations
6% 5 years
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1965
2% Parent fees
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Our donors
JULY 1, 2013 – JUNE 30, 2014
The Redlands Christian Migrant Association receives most of its funding from the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, the Florida Office of Early Learning, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture and the school districts of Hillsborough and Collier counties.
Our work would not be possible without the generosity of other local governments and private donations
from foundations, United Ways, corporations, religious institutions, and individuals. RCMA is pleased
to recognize donors who make it possible for RCMA to do more for children and their families. Your
philanthropic support allows RCMA to provide crucial services to nearly 7,000 of Florida’s most vulnerable
children each year. On behalf of all those who benefit from RCMA’s work, a heartfelt thank you.
$50,000-$99,999
Lipman Produce
United Way of Collier County
$20,000-$49,999
Bernard A. Egan Foundation
Community Foundation of Collier
County/Mr. Bill Laimbeer, Sr.
Southwest Florida Community
Foundation
Florida Specialty Crop Foundation
$10,000-$19,999
United Way of Indian River County
Spring Valley Farms
Dr. Michael J. Katin
FoodSource Plus National
Ocean Reef Foundation
Wish Farms
David Retik Christopher
Mello Foundation
Hope Fund For Children
of Bethune Park
United Way of Pasco County
Spanish Wells Cares Foundation
Mr. William Ferrari
Bright House Networks
Wells Fargo Foundation
$5,000-$9,999
Mr. and Ms. Thomas R. Jackson
PepsiCo
Dr. and Ms. F. Morgan Roberts
Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association
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Community Partner
$100,000-$1 million
Naples Children & Education
Foundation
United Way of Miami-Dade
United Way Suncoast
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Florida Tomato Exchange
Mr. and Ms. Larry Chappel
Mr. and Ms. Gerald Million
Mr. and Ms. Vaughn Bryson
Florida Immigrant Coalition
Mr. and Ms. Dick Brickman
Mr. and Ms. John C. Norris
Michel & Claire Gudefin
Family Foundation
Monte Package Co.
Rays Baseball Foundation
Sam Patterson Truck Brokers
$1,000-$4,999
Mabel and Ellsworth Simmons
Charitable Foundation
Community Foundation of
Sarasota County
Naples United Church of Christ
US Managed Care Services
Kaplan Companies
Mr. and Ms. William Laimbeer, Sr.
United Way of Lee, Hendry & Glades
Mr. and Ms. Joe James
Pelican Marsh Women’s League
Ehrlich Pest Control
Mr. and Ms. Thomas F. Gaffney
Mr. and Ms. Timothy Adams
Construction Technology Group
Florida’s Natural Growers Foundation
Dr. Dale S. Kammerlohr
United Way of Lake & Sumter Counties
Florida Strawberry Growers Association
Gargiulo, Inc.
Fresh From Florida - Florida
Department of Agriculture
Amalie Oil Company
ARS, Inc. of Florida
BB&T
Brent L. Probinsky, P.A.
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C.H. Robinson Worldwide
Joe and Terrell Clark
Mr. and Ms. William Bissett
Farm Credit of Central Florida
Financial Guidance Group
Foley & Lardner
Garcia & Ortiz
International Paper
Kaleidoscope Services
Mr. Stephen H. Mahle
Mr. Andrew Marsh and Ms.
Kathleen Mattes
Paradise, Inc.
Peace River Packing Company
RCS Company of Tampa
Seminole Casino - Immokalee
Wahrsager Foundation
Ms. Barbara Mainster
Mr. Alfred Estrada
National Educational Systems
Comcast Financial Agency Corporation
The Moorings Presbyterian Church
Xpedx
A. Duda & Sons, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Ms. Ann D. Hathaway
Chemical Dynamics
DeBartolo Family Foundation
Psychological Assessment Resources
Red Dog Management
Mr. and Ms. Brad Young
Mr. Raymond C. Ross
Enfamilia, Inc.
U.S. Sugar Corporation
Consolidated Citrus Ltd Partnership
Mr. and Ms. Todd A. Raker
Ellie Kai Inc.
Ms. Mary P. Graves
National Council of Jewish Women
Mr. Patrick Borchard
CoBank- Sharing Success Program
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ORIDA
Peace River Packing Company
Ms. Valerie Pakaluk
Ms. Medora Krome
Abacus Group
Arthrex, Inc.
Mr. and Ms. Daniel P. Behuniak
Complete Restaurant Equipment
Mr. and Ms. Paul Covill
Mr. and Ms. Art Craig
Mr. and Ms. Kim R. Dinkel
FreshPoint South Florida
Harllee Packing
International Paper
Mr. J. Robert Lambert
Mr. Bernard W Lester
Lykes Bros.
Ms. Ruth Moore
Naples Heritage Golf & Country Club
Pacific Tomato Growers
Pavese Law Firm
Royal Foundation
St. Agnes Catholic Church
Twenty Little Working Girls
Walmart
West Coast Tomato
$500-$999
Arley Therapy Services
General Mills Box Top For Education
Florida Farm Bureau
Mr. and Ms. Tony Leung
Mr. and Ms. Patrick Leary
Mercedes-Benz of Tampa
Ben Hill Griffin, Inc.
Mr. and Ms. Salvador Robles
de Melendez
DiMare Fresh
Family of the late John N. Szymanski
Ms. Susan E. Halbert
Mr. Keith Barber
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Mr. and Ms. John C. McKnight
Gulf Citrus Growers Association
Ms. Rita Lacerte
Mr. and Ms. Christopher M. Nassan
Rural Women’s Health Project
Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative
Rev. and Ms. Lant B. Davis
Central Food Equipment
Sulzer Inc.
Dundee Citrus Growers Association
Country Side Propane
Ms. Sharon K. Lillis
Mr. and Ms. Robert E. Allen
The Andersons
Ms. Rosemary E. Armstrong and
Mr. Morris J. Weinberg
Mr. and Ms. Richard W. Beatty
Mr. and Ms. William Becker
Mr. George B. Black
Chalmers & Co.
CMTG, Inc.
Colorful Harvest
Crop Protection Services of FL
Cutrale Citrus Juices
Mr. and Ms. Peter Diamandis
Mr. and Ms. Gerard A. Diener
DiMare Ruskin
Dimare Homestead
Florida Citrus Mutual
Florida Combined Life
Florida Strawberry Festival
Foundation of Pelican Marsh
Dr. and Ms. Jay J. Garcia
Greater Tampa Bowling Association
Mr. and Ms. Richard L. Hanas
Highland Packaging Solutions
Hillsborough County Farm Bureau
Industrial Sales of Florida
Jeff Ralph – State Farm Insurance
Ms. Claudia Jimenez
Joyce and Reyes Law Firm
Lia Insurance Group
Martinez & Sons Trucking
Mary & Bob Sierra Family Foundation
Mr. and Ms. Paul R. Moore
Nathel & Nathel
Ms. Karen M. Norris
Publix Super Markets
Rotary Club of Lake Placid-Noon
Mr. and Ms. Robert V. Rupp
SAD Foundation
Star Transport Logistics
Sun Microstamping Technologies
SunCoast Community Health Centers
Suncoast Credit Union
Mr. Paul V. Tateo
OPEN I N G
D O O R S
Even in death,
Sorn helped RCMA
Taylor & Fulton Packing
Tom & Kathy Shannon
Family Foundation
USAble Life
Ms. Joan M. Waldrop
Wheeler Farms
Women of E.L.C.A. of Our
Savior Lutheran Church
World of Beer Franchising
Mr. and Ms. Mark Yaffe
$250-$499
Mr. Mac Carraway
Mr. George L. Galbraith
Gulfshore Produce
Mr. David Lopez
Windstar on Naples Bay
R & J Towing - Tampa
Mr. and Ms. Lawrence Salustro
St. James United Methodist Church
Performance Air of SW Florida
The Center for Sales Strategy
DeSoto County Literacy Council
Mr. and Ms. Patrick J. Dorbad
Everglades Farm Equipment Co.
Mr. Sam Monte
PHH Vehicle Management Services
Mr. and Ms. Theodore H. Robinson
Mr. and Ms. Dean Young
Jennifer Landis Designs
United Way of Palm Beach County
Church Women United
Kahn Citrus Management
King David Foundation
John Bales Attorneys
Mr. and Ms. Scottie Butler
Mr. and Ms. Richard Bein
Mr. and Ms. William R. Laidig
Nanny Poppinz
Suncoast Credit Union Foundation
Mr. and Ms. Sal Uglietta
Mr. and Ms. Joseph Kennedy
SMR Farms
Robert Allen
Mr. and Ms. Lee N. Blatt
Mr. Chris De Meulenaere
First Presbyterian Church
Fred’s Award World
Mr. and Ms. Marvin L. Hathaway
Hinton Farms Produce
Ms. Natalie Jackson
Mr. and Ms. Ronald C. Knipe
Leadership Wisconsin
Mr. Michael T. Bayer
Mr. and Ms. E. John Dinkel
Cox Fire Protection
TO
O P P O R TUNI TIE S
Donors gave thousands
of dollars to RCMA
last spring in tribute to
George Sorn, who died on
Feb. 23 from the lasting
effects of a stroke.
Sorn, who was 86,
had been one of
RCMA’s earliest and
most influential board
chairmen, while serving as
executive vice president
of the Florida Fruit &
Vegetable Association.
“I cannot imagine where
we might be had he not
taken on the leadership at
the time he did,” said Barbara Mainster, RCMA’s executive
director. “George believed in the partnership between
agriculture and RCMA, and did everything in his power to
facilitate meaningful connections for about 30 years.”
RCMA used the Sorn-inspired donations toward a new
recreational field at Leadership Academy, RCMA’s 2-yearold middle school south of Tampa. The result: a state-ofthe-art soccer field, with sidelines shaded by live oaks.
Prudential Agricultural Investments
Mr. Scott A. McElveen
Mr. Joseph Lopez
Accord Industries
ADP
American Legion Post #323
Astin Farms
Charles S. White, P.A.
Reverend Frank S. Denton
Eastern Irrigation Supply
First National Bank of the Gulf Coast
Mr. and Ms. Timothy E. Fleming
Mr. and Ms. Paul Greenberg
Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt
Jarrett-Scott Ford
Ms. Margaret S. Labuda
Mr. and Ms. Michael Levich
Mr. and Ms. Dushan J. Martinasek
Platinum Bank
Rabo Agrifinance
Dr. and Ms. Fritz M. Roka
Mr. and Ms. William A. Schories
Mr. and Ms. Joseph T. Sefcik Jr.
Mr. and Ms. Enrique Silva
St. Sebastian Catholic Church
Sunshine State Federal Savings
Dr. and Ms. Stephen J. Szabo
SIN CE
1965
Mr. R. Mark Webb
Mr. and Ms. Palmer B. Weeks Jr.
Ms. Medora Woods
Mr. and Ms. Edward P. Steinbauer
Mr. Thomas P. Pella
Mr. Ernest Reid
*Within categories, donors are ranked
in order of the amount of their
total donations during the year.
A very special thanks
to hundreds of other
donors and volunteers
whose names are not
listed. Every donation
goes a long way
towards helping RCMA
accomplish its mission.
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FINANCIALS: 2013-2014
Statements of Financial Position / June 30, 2014 / with comparative totals for 2013
Unrestricted
Temporarily
Restricted
Combined Totals
2014
Assets
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents
$4,637,107 $37,688 $4,674,795 Accounts receivable - grants
2,441,140 2,441,140 - other
- school boards
230,683 230,683 Prepaid expenses and other current assets
425,738 425,738 Total current assets 7,734,668 37,688 7,772,356 _________________________
Property and equipment 12,301,726 Deposits and other assets
Cash - sinking fund Cash set aside for Future health insurance claims Future construction of Wimauma Academy
Building and utility deposits
Donated rental property
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2013
$3,215,138
3,257,017
16,784
313,878
297,150
7,099,967
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7,648,042 19,949,768 21,644,462
760,349 760,349 686,915
511,735 - 48,210 125,000 $21,481,688 $7,685,730 511,735 -
48,210 125,000 $29,167,418 257,062
62,889
125,000
$29,876,295
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Liabilities
Current liabilities
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
Accrued payroll, vacation, sick
leave and other expenses
Advances from funding agencies
Current portion of long-term debt
Total current liabilities
Long-term debt, less current portion
Total liabilities
1,777,850 1,777,850 1,031,158
3,010,615 19,863 165,000 4,973,328 2,780,000 7,753,328 3,010,615 19,863 165,000 4,973,328 2,780,000 7,753,328 3,142,363
43,332
160,000
4,376,853
2,945,000
7,321,853
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Net Assets
Designated reserve for future use
Other net assets
Total Net Assets 511,735 13,216,625 $7,685,730 13,728,360 7,685,730 $21,481,688 $7,685,730 511,735 20,902,355 21,414,090 $29,167,418 257,062
22,297,380
22,554,442
$29,876,295
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Attention is directed to independent auditors’ report and notes to financial statements.
Balm
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Wimauma
R EDLA NDS
CHR I STI A N
M IG RAN T
Vero Beach
ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL
RE PORT
2 0 1 3 -1 4
Statements of Functional Expenses / for the year ended June 30, 2014 / with comparative totals for 2013
P R O G R A M
S E R V I C E S
Child Care
Head
Subsidized
Start
Food
Service
Other
Charter
Schools
Personnel costs
Salaries$9,319,068 $17,656,292 $1,026,590 $201,604 $3,264,478 Payroll taxes and fringe benefits 2,064,322 4,352,390 246,778 48,196 642,072 Total personnel costs
11,383,390 22,008,682 1,273,368 249,800 3,906,550 Contracted services
Child care services 911,314 891,648 110,994 Other 16,052 20,804 100 58,034 Food
1,570,509 353,363 Supplies
326,136 789,972 245,925 2,872 217,381 Consumable equipment
166,306 304,824 2,471 1,816 63,956 Transportation 122,370 459,241 11,802 4,942 121,930 Out of state travel
76 11,164 4,591 Occupancy costs
1,006,035 2,117,505 717 307,926 Donated space
3,252,585 In state travel 54,150 163,931 13,221 5,537 6,414 Health services
5,439 66,553 50,132 Interest
Conferences and workshops 91,828 524,049 625 5,905 41,015 Direct costs of fund raising events
17 6,256 Other expenses 64,537 168,339 33 1,724 211,687 Professional fees
20 1,880 Repairs and maintenance
52,226 118,083 140 929 37,092 Depreciation 141,099 1,257,150 79,345 Data processing 126,015 226,560 16,553 Uncollected child care fees 1,207 $14,467,010 $32,389,226 $3,245,741 $274,242 $5,460,623 _____________________
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Total
$31,468,032
7,353,758
38,821,790
_____________________
1,913,956
94,990
1,923,872
1,582,286
539,373
720,285
15,831
3,432,183
3,252,585
243,253
122,124
663,422
6,273
446,320
1,900
208,470
1,477,594
369,128
1,207
$55,836,842
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General and Support
Administrative
Fund Raising
2014
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*
Moore Haven
Combined Totals
2013
Personnel costs
Salaries$3,066,669
$81,618 $34,616,319
$35,358,292
Payroll taxes and fringe benefits 658,622
16,302 8,028,682
7,868,586
Total personnel costs
3,725,291
97,920 42,645,001
43,226,878
Contracted services
Child care services
1,913,956
2,077,286
Other 238,178
40,213 373,381
579,300
Food1,923,872 1,954,965
Supplies
59,514
481 1,642,281
2,108,551
Consumable equipment
36,013 793 576,179
693,575
Transportation 91,364
811,649
857,652
Out of state travel 20,509
36,340
47,880
Occupancy costs
292,746
3,724,929
3,922,777
Donated space
3,252,585
3,395,946
In state travel 76,490
2,561 322,304
382,649
Health services 1,262
123,386
110,945
Interest 7,714
7,714 13,205
Conferences and workshops 79,428
976 743,826 826,801
Direct costs of fund raising events
108,804 115,077 92,047
Other expenses
250,608
7,980 704,908 635,406
Professional fees 199,703
201,603 205,115
Repairs and maintenance
57,005
431 265,906 251,009
Depreciation
1,118,558
2,596,152 2,852,246
Data processing 32,345
401,473 193,898
Uncollected child care fees 12,896
14,103 16,581
$6,299,624 $260,159 $62,396,625
$64,444,712
Arcadia
Florida City
Lake Placid
Dade City
Combined Totals: Total of Program Services (above) plus General and Support.
OPEN I N G
D O OR S
TO
O P P O R TU NI TIE S
SIN CE
1965
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NON-PROFIT ORG
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Redlands Christian Migrant Association
402 West Main Street
Immokalee, Florida 34142
www.rcma.org
(239) 658-3560
Immokalee
Board of Directors
PRESIDENT
Michael Stuart
CEO
Maitland, Florida
VICE PRESIDENTS
Medora Krome
Grower
Homestead, Florida
Michael T. Bayer
Labor Consultant
West Palm Beach, Florida
Gary Wishnatzki
Grower /President & CEO
Plant City, Florida
Lauretta Stephens
Housing Administrator
Sebring, Florida
Claudia L. Jimenez
Educator
Vero Beach
Fred N. Thomas, Jr.
Retired Public Administrator
Immokalee, Florida
JULY 1, 2013 – JUNE 30, 2014
Richard Pringle
William (Bill) Ferrari
Veronica Moreno
Weeda Mae Williams
TREASURER
Larry Salustro
Cipriano Meja
Evelia Becerra
Katherine R. English
Filiberto Sanchez
Celia Jimenez
Jaime (Max) Weisinger
Araceli Ramirez
Rita Smith
La Ray Barksdale
William (Bill) Laimbeer
PARENT MEMBERS
Suyin Escobar
Myra Shapiro
Elia Cabrales
John Dinkel
Attorney
Ft. Myers, Florida
Steve Price
Banker
Immokalee, Florida
MEMBERS AT LARGE
Wilma Robles de
Melendez, PhD
Professor / Author
North Miami Beach, Florida
Smita Mathur, PhD
Assistant Professor
Harrisonburg, VA
Nelson Luis
Retired Educator
Odessa, Florida
Linda Miles-Adams
Education / Marketing
Tampa, Florida
Joaquin Perez
Human Resource Executive
Mascotte, Florida
Retired Accountant
St. Petersburg, Florida
Retired Attorney
Vero Beach, Florida
Attorney
Ft. Myers, Florida
Community Relations
Immokalee, Florida
Human Resources Analyst
Palatka, Florida
Sabino Bautista
Dover CDC
Dover, Florida
Daniel Beltran
Wahneta CDC
Wahneta, Florida
Salustia Varon
Mulberry CDC
Mulberry, Florida
Ruskin CDC
Ruskin, Florida
Bethel CDC
Wimauma, Florida
RCMA Wimauma Academy
Wimauma, Florida
Immokalee Community School
Immokalee, Florida
Krome CDC
LaBelle, Florida
Mira Verde CDC
LaBelle, Florida
Farmworker CDC
Delray Beach, Florida
Laisa Vega
Harlem Academy
Clewiston, Florida
Smith Brown CDC
Arcadia, Florida
RCMA Leadership Academy
Wimauma, Florida
Immokalee Community School
Immokalee, Florida
HONORARY BOARD
MEMBERS
Retired CEO
Marco Island, Florida
Activist for children and families
Naples, Florida
Retired Attorney
Lexington, Virginia