Mission Statement
Our Kids promotes hope and opportunity in Indiana, partnering with children, families, and communities who want to participate in a process of development to improve their lives through education, creative projects, and wellness programs.
Our Values
Infusing hope, creating happy memories, and improving the quality of life for children while empowering them for a healthy structured future.
- Surround ourselves with dedicated volunteers who are passionate about our mission.
- Our volunteers are our greatest asset. We value their vision, proficiency, and humanitarianism.
- Provide effective community leadership and support.
- Work as a team to create organizational fortitude.
- Be open with communication by listening to our contributors and adhering to their wishes for their communities.
- Innovate creatively, and take calculated risks to explore new knowledge development strategies.
- Be deliberate in our planning, while remaining open to grasp unexpected opportunities.
- Eagerly adapt to the changing communities, while remaining true to our core values.
- Encourage participation by doing only that which people cannot do for themselves.
- Use our human, financial, and physical resources wisely.
- Have faith in the future.
Our Future
- Continually enhance our community-driven principles to become more effective.
- Develop dependable and extensive financial support that enables us to reach out to more people.
- Establish productive support systems that allow us to expand our work.
- Manage our growth to serve as many people as possible, while maintaining the core work that has already been established.
- Change whenever the capacity and stature of our work can be improved.
- Share our knowledge generously, and partner with others who hold similar values.
Our Kids is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization. 100% of the donations we collect stays in our organization for the kids and our programs. No outside hired fundraisers. 100% tax deductible.