Social Results Impact
"Inner City Home Sudbury is an excellent model providing high value food along with significant referral services to other public assistance agencies and some counselling and life skills workshops at no cost"
Donors Return for Dollars Donated or ROI, Return on Investment
The statistics and rating was compiled through Success Markets Inc. for Charity Intelligence Canada.
High-Value Food with Significant Referral Services
ICHOS enjoys unusually high levels of community support
-$4 of local funding per area resident
-administrative and fundraising costs are low at 13 % of revenue
-if helping very low income people in Canada is important to donors, ICHOS deserves consideration
Success Markets "ICHOS is a particularly high performer among emergency relief type organizations"
ICHOS serves:
-around 10,000 individuals with very low incomes with consistent service of over 25 years
-(typically below $4000 annual income including public assistance) and who are often in crisis.
-"excellent model" of how a large volunteer base can be deployed effectively based on skill, experience and commitment levels.
-known as the "agency of last resort" for clients, who have exhausted all other options.
-It provides that care with "an unusually personable and responsive style".
For some 200 clients per year
-ICHOS provides more intensive counselling on crisis needs and careers and life skills workshops
-$1000 of value per client at a cost of $150
-this cost reflects the value of interventions that likely prolong client's lives who are on the brink of death
During 2013--1218 clients were assessed for Life Skills and Hospitality Workshops.
Of these people, 10 per cent did end up in a course and some 168 agencies were worked totally1035 clients.
Outputs:
Of those assessed, 99 registered, 55 attended, and 44 graduated attended a total of 7 workshops.
Much of this value comes from the $50 or so in food given to an average family at an overhead-loaded total financial cost of around $25.
For every 1 in 50 clients the timely provision of food helps avoid a particularly tragic crisis--death, violence or other criminal activity or health impairment.
Success Markets suggests that in referrals alone to other agencies ICHOS efforts are worth in the range of $100,000 to $200,000
ICHOS achieves these financial returns via:
-substantial food donations
-a large and stable volunteer base
-effective governance
-low-cost management
-low rates of waste (2%)
Our History
Those in need in Sudbury would often knock on the door of a south-end parish of St Patrick's RC Parish, seeking a little food such as a sandwich, as well as a listening ear--someone they could tell their story to. But tragedy ensued as one individual fell through the cracks and died.
This led Fr McMillan, then parish-priest to move his parish to open a centre where people could be treated with dignity,have their story heard, and access basic necessities and counselling.
ICHOS opened its doors in 1986 in a older home in the original core of the city which held Sudbury's downtown.
The statistics and rating was compiled through Success Markets Inc. for Charity Intelligence Canada.
High-Value Food with Significant Referral Services
ICHOS enjoys unusually high levels of community support
-$4 of local funding per area resident
-administrative and fundraising costs are low at 13 % of revenue
-if helping very low income people in Canada is important to donors, ICHOS deserves consideration
Success Markets "ICHOS is a particularly high performer among emergency relief type organizations"
ICHOS serves:
-around 10,000 individuals with very low incomes with consistent service of over 25 years
-(typically below $4000 annual income including public assistance) and who are often in crisis.
-"excellent model" of how a large volunteer base can be deployed effectively based on skill, experience and commitment levels.
-known as the "agency of last resort" for clients, who have exhausted all other options.
-It provides that care with "an unusually personable and responsive style".
For some 200 clients per year
-ICHOS provides more intensive counselling on crisis needs and careers and life skills workshops
-$1000 of value per client at a cost of $150
-this cost reflects the value of interventions that likely prolong client's lives who are on the brink of death
During 2013--1218 clients were assessed for Life Skills and Hospitality Workshops.
Of these people, 10 per cent did end up in a course and some 168 agencies were worked totally1035 clients.
Outputs:
Of those assessed, 99 registered, 55 attended, and 44 graduated attended a total of 7 workshops.
Much of this value comes from the $50 or so in food given to an average family at an overhead-loaded total financial cost of around $25.
For every 1 in 50 clients the timely provision of food helps avoid a particularly tragic crisis--death, violence or other criminal activity or health impairment.
Success Markets suggests that in referrals alone to other agencies ICHOS efforts are worth in the range of $100,000 to $200,000
ICHOS achieves these financial returns via:
-substantial food donations
-a large and stable volunteer base
-effective governance
-low-cost management
-low rates of waste (2%)
Our History
Those in need in Sudbury would often knock on the door of a south-end parish of St Patrick's RC Parish, seeking a little food such as a sandwich, as well as a listening ear--someone they could tell their story to. But tragedy ensued as one individual fell through the cracks and died.
This led Fr McMillan, then parish-priest to move his parish to open a centre where people could be treated with dignity,have their story heard, and access basic necessities and counselling.
ICHOS opened its doors in 1986 in a older home in the original core of the city which held Sudbury's downtown.