Dear Friends,
This issue of What's New With You is dedicated to Y.O.U., Inc.'s
fundraising news and needs. For an agency with such a large ($14 million) operating
budget, we have an extremely diverse revenue stream and depend on a very small but
critical percentage of dollars from private sources.This
newsletter is to help educate our friends and donors about our fundraising successes and
the programs that could make use of additional private resources. In many ways the quality
of care provided to our families depends on the flexibility that private funding provides.
For example, the high standards we maintain with our facilities, the extra opportunities
such as Outward Bound we give our students, and the broad range of care we offer can all
be traced to flexible voluntary gifts.
If you have never given a gift to Y.O.U., Inc. (or even if you
have!), we hope you will show your support of our work with troubled adolescents and
families by using the enclosed envelope to send in a donation. On behalf of all the
vulnerable children that we serve at Y.O.U., Inc., thank you and have a happy and healthy
1999.
Best wishes,
Maurice J. Boisvert,
President and CEO