Kids-Heal

“Description: ar cards. Amount: 41,100. Description: travel. Amount: 16,423. Description: film. Amount: 8,838. Description: web. Amount: 3,675. Description: equipment. Amount: 2,196. Description: fundraising. Amount: 1,791. Description: telephone. Amount: 1,531. Description: miscellaneous. Amount: 799. Description: bank fees. Amount: 752. Description: supplies. Amount: 645. Total to form 990-ez, line 16: 77,750.”

“Description: due to executive director. Beg. Of year amount: 61,101. End of year amount: 90,218.”

“The goals we wanted to accomplish from july 2019 through june 2020 were in alignment with our 10 year strategic plan. But covid changed everyone's plans. Kids-heal shifted gears and came out stronger and more prepared for 2020-2021. For kids-heal, hard work, being in the right place at the right time and a bit of well earned luck came our way. We had been working towards a long term goal, since 2014, of creating online curriculum for teachers to use in their classrooms. Our plug and play concept leveraged what has been happening in the gaming industry to create an interactive user friendly health education platform. Covid pushed us into a future we had been preparing for. What other nonprofit had a singular focus to develop and present online health educationin english and spanish and free! In august 2019 we began to see that the ar (augmented reality) card team we had researched and hired was having a very difficult time keeping up with the production schedule we had agreed on. We also must admit that once we were inside the technology, the possibilities of this technology began to bloom in our imaginations. Soon kids-heal was beyond the capabilities of the team we had hired, but we had created a great library of images and a near perfection gold standard of what the cards needed to be. I hired a new team who had once worked with the previous team. The handover was close to seamless and we continued to move forward with all the resources we had created and funded that was more sophisticated and funny. The new ar card producer has suggested how all the ar cards we produced can interact with each other and create a cancer education game. We learned that all art needed to be created in house and that the technology would be outsourced. The artist who has been a vital bridge to making digital production connections in mexico city is also a trained animator. Together we went back over all of the children's drawings, and after very long and challenging conversations, we tweaked all the images the children created to produce a more uniform super hero team of characters. This process may sound simple, but for an artist to alter another artists work is a very sacred act. We spoke with the 3 living artists and had a number of other worldly conversations with the 4 artists who have died. All the kids agreed that we took their ideas to create very funny and true additions to their art. Accomplishment...ar cards are finally produced after a 10 year incubation period. The tech was being built in mexico and although the costs are about 10% of the costs in the us it takes about 5 times as much work. It has all been very challenging, but we have learned so much about the creative potential behind our vision to create interactive meaningful and memorable online health education. During the fall of 2019 we made a presentation of our cancer education curriculum to the mexican consulate in portland. The two women i met with wept as i laid out our materials and why we believed it was important to create our cancer class, health classes, in spanish and english. As our meeting ended i asked ana gonzales, community outreach coordinator for the mexican consulate, to please double check the spanish translation of our english cancer education pr pamphlet. Our translation was wrong, because it was not written in mexican government spanish, which is a whole different world spanish. Because ana had worked for the mexican government with the department of education and the department of health she offered to translate all of kids-heal documents and presentations. Even my business friends in mexico city were surprised at how much better and clearer our presentation sounded in mexican business/government spanish. The mexican consulate will be using our cancer education programming in their waiting room in portland as a test to send to all 52 consulates across the us, and our programming will become part of their community outreach activities. Ana requested we”