Pathways Foundation

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

May 7, 2014

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$2,759,623

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Pathways.org continued efforts reaching a national audience through marketing and outreach to raise awareness about the gift of early detection, promise of early therapy and benefits of tummy time. In fiscal year 2013, pathways distributed over 43,000 printed brochures to parents and health care professionals. Our main brochure, assure baby's physical development, includes a growth and development chart to educate parents on developmental milestones and allow them to track their child's development and holds the endorsement of the american academy of pediatrics (aap), american college of osteopathic pediatricians (acop), national association of the pediatric nurse practitioners (napnap) and pediatric section of the american physical therapy association. This brochure is available in fifteen different languages that have been accessed numerous times from our website. Our website, a resource for parents and professionals around the world, received over 567,000 pages viewed with 222,231 unique visitors. Pathways videos vignettes have been viewed over 1,128,867 times since being posted february, 2009, our youtube page has over 3,864 subscribers. Our national toll-free information hotline 1-800-955-2445 is answered by parents whose children have benefitted from early therapy services. Our parent resource center has responded to over 250 calls and e-mails from concerned parents, grandparents and caregivers. We also had over 450 people sign up to be on our e-mail newsletter list. Pathways exhibited at 12 national conferences, presented at six professional society annual meetings and 21 residency programs personally connecting with over 20,000 professionals. We received over 1,200 emails of those professionals wanting to stay up to date with our program. Pathways expanded the course it created for the american academy of pediatrics (aap), for their online continuing medical education (cme) and created "2, 4, 6 month motor - course to go", allowing others to present to students, colleagues, parents, and friends. Pathways has distributed over 300 "2, 4, 6 month motor - course to go" courses during this fiscal year. This course is designed to help health professionals, students, parents, and caregivers recognize the signs of an early motor delay in children as early as 2 months of age and determine the most appropriate intervention if an early motor delay is observed. Early detection and early intervention are key to ensuring the best for all children's physical development.

Activity 3

Through its interfaith inclusion in worship program (formerly open hearts, open minds, open doors), pf provides information, educational materials, and cash grants to promote access and inclusion in worship in houses of faith. The goal is to help worshipping communities welcome individuals of all abilities into full and active participation. The program disburses annual open hearts awards cash grants, promotes the annual inclusion awareness day event with interfaith workbooks of planning materials, exhibits at conferences, conducts educational workshops, maintains a website and distributes educational dvds and print materials. A partnership with the roman catholic archdiocese of chicago has resulted in the development of a volunteer parish inclusion representative program that offers resource manual, phone consultations for volunteers who work with their pastors to create accessible faith communities, a quarterly newsletter, annual training meetings, email updates and individualized assistance with planning inclusion awareness day events. Partnerships with the greek orthodox metropolis of chicago and the roman catholic diocese of rockville center, new york are expanding the reach of the program. In fiscal year 2013, the open hearts award program granted $4,925 in cash grants to six congregations from illinois, new york, and new mexico. The grants help fund specific, planned access projects. Pf has granted $136,950 in open hearts awards grants to 179 congregations since 1996.

Filer

EIN

52-2456469