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Mission

Since 1999,Love Our Children USA has paved the way in prevention as the national nonprofit leader that works to break the cycle of violence against children. It has become the ‘go-to’ prevention organization for all forms of violence and neglect against children in the U.S. Working to eliminate behaviors that keep children from reaching their potential, it redefines parenting and creates kid success by promoting prevention strategies and positive changes in parenting and family attitudes, bullying and cyberbullying, Internet safety and school violence through public education. Empowering and supporting children, teens, parents and families through information, resources, advocacy, and online youth mentoring. Its message is positive ...one of prevention, empowerment and hope ... keeping children safe and strengthening families.

Programs

Love Our Children USA's programs include: Extensive Public Education, Community Outreach and Awareness, the Youth For Youth Partnership, Bullying and Cyberbullying Prevention, Internet Safety, the National District Attorney's Child Protection Task Force, the Darko Rapotez Memorial College Scholarship Fund For Aged Out Foster Youth, the National Block Parenting Program, Speaker Bureaus, Parenting Seminars, Youth Safety Programs, Advocacy and a Wish Program for child victims and foster children. Donations enable Love Our Children USA to produce and distribute over 35 guides for parents and children, maintain and enhance extensive web resources and, conduct the necessary research to help focus on the trends of violence against children and produce effective anti-violence messages. For almost 10 years, Love Our Children USA has paved the way in the prevention of violence and neglect against children ? keeping children safe and strengthening families. Love Our Children USA's programs educate and empower and are designed to break the cycle of violence BEFORE it starts, creating strong families, preventing crime, and decreasing dollars spent on our mental health and welfare system due to violence and neglect against children.

Program / Activities (NTEE Code)

Children's and Youth Services
Protection Against and Prevention of Neglect, Abuse, Exploitation
Single Organization Support

Accomplishments for Fiscal Year Ending 10/31/2008

1. Assisted over 200 children and families to keep children safe on the Internet and partnered with the New York State Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination in an effort to educate a greater number of children and parents on Internet Safety -- reaching almost 1,000 students, teachers, parents, law enforcement and others throughout 38 states. Held webcast on Interent Safety to over 2300 high school students. Assisted an additional 200 families as they navigated the painful process of finding services, resources and assistance for children who were victims of violence, abduction and unjust outcomes in the family court system. Through speaking engagements and mail, over 100,000 received educational literature. Through email, over 1 million households received educational information. As of August, 2008, almost 5 million people have visited our web site.
2. Answered over 3,100 calls from individuals or groups requesting information or resources related to violence against children.
   
3. Launched the STOMP Out Bullying Campaign to end Bullying and Cyberbullying.

1. A more aggressive national public education campaign to keep children safe from all forms of violence through a far greater reach to all communities in the U.S, including Enhanced Positive Parenting, Internet Safety and Bullying and Cyberbulying Prevention Programs.
2. Increase parenting education, bullying prevention and Internet safety and a greater community and school outreach across the country for those at risk.
3. To increase resources for parents and children.

Love Our Children USA tracks its effectiveness by (1) feedback from being featured on primetime network television (2) the increased number of requests we receive for information and resources (3) Increase in Web site usage and e-mails requesting help and information - over 4,200,000 visits since September, 2007 (4) Feedback from newsletter readers (5) Increase in the number of teens and tweens who want to get involved to help other kids (6) growth in donors both individual and corporate (7) number of people who want to volunteer.

Additional Comments

Love Our Children USA educates and creates awareness through a strong relationship with the media and celebrities. Our web site has received over 5 million visitors and we have disseminated over 100,000 mailed informational pieces and resources and over 1 million email newsletters mailed.

Love Our Children USA was selected as one of 25 Charities Who Make The World A Better Place to Live In and was a regional winner of a $5,000 award as one of 21 Charities Who Make The World A Better Place.

We've been featured on ABC TV's 'The View', the Montel Williams Show, CBS TV's 'The Early Show', in CosmoGirl and Seventeen Magazines, and at the end of four "Judging Amy" episodes. Our materials appear on the set of "CSI:New York" and in several police precincts across the country.

Creating public awareness is critical to preventing violence against children. Although we do not accept government funding, we continue to create awareness on every possible level and rely on the generous donation of private and corporate donors and foundations.

In the past two years, Love Our Children USA saved five teenage girls from suicide. By working with law enforcement we were able to save a teen on Facebook who endured continued sexual abuse. Our creation of the National Block Parenting Program enables communities to keep children safer and deter child predators. Our presence in schools have educated children against bullying and Internet safety.

Love Our Children USA recognizes that Bullying and Cyberbulling have increased to epidemic proportions and have launched the STOMP Out Bullying Campaign.

Our focus is violence prevention against children in all forms.

Financial Data
From the organization's FORM 990

Revenue and Expenses: Fiscal Year Ending October 31, 2008

Revenue			Expenses
Contributions $0 Government Grants $0 Program Services $0 Investments $0 Special Events $0 Sales $0 Other $0			Program Services $159,792 Administration $5,877 Other $1,451 Total Expenditures $167,120
Total Revenue	$176,480		NET GAIN/LOSS	$0

Balance Sheet: Fiscal Year Ending October 31, 2008

Notes
The balance sheet gives a snapshot of the financial health of an organization at a particular point in time. An organization's total assets should generally exceed its total liabilities, or it cannot long survive, but the types of assets and liabilities also must be considered. For instance, an organization's current assets (cash, receivables, securities, etc.) should be sufficient to cover its current liabilities (payables, deferred revenue, current year loan and note payments). Otherwise, the organization may face solvency problems. On the other hand, an organization whose cash and equivalents greatly exceed its current liabilities might not be putting its money to best use.

Assets	Nov 1, 2007	Oct 31, 2008	Change
Cash & Equivalent	$35,979	$43,591	$7,612
Accounts Receivable	$0	$0	$0
Pledges & Grants Receivable	$0	$0	$0
Receivables/Other	$0	$0	$0
Inventories for Sale or Use	$0	$0	$0
Investments/Securities	$0	$0	$0
Investments/Other	$0	$0	$0
Fixed Assets	$3,017	$3,280	$263
Other	$0	$0	$0
Total Assets	$38,996	$46,871	$7,875
Liabilities	Nov 1, 2007	Oct 31, 2008	Change
Accounts Payable	$0	$0	$0
Grants Payable	$0	$0	$0
Deferred Revenue	$0	$0	$0
Loans and Notes	$0	$0	$0
Tax-Exempt Bond Liabilities	$0	$0	$0
Other	$0	$0	$0
Total Liabilities	$3,035	$1,550	$(1,485)
FUND BALANCE	$0	$0	$0

Comments from the organization
This organization, like all other non-profits has faced many financial challenges. In spite of these challenges, each year we have consistently received large amounts of in-kind donations and services, and garnered the support of the entertainment and communications industries which have allowed us to carry out our mission.

Although we have had to scale back on programs and operations, our goal remains in breaking the cycle of violence against children in all forms. We look forward to a strong fiscal year 2008-2009.

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