New Hope for Kids provides specialized support to children and families grieving the death of a loved and grants wishes and provides special activities and family events to children with terminal or life-threatening illnesses in Central Florida.

Impact Summary from the Nonprofit A Charting Impact Report consists of an organization�s responses to the five questions. Helping validate this self-reported data are three reviews. Once an organization has used the online interface to complete its report, its responses will produce a document with a unique URL that will be shared on this website, on your GuideStar profile, on the reports of charities participating in BBB Wise Giving Alliance evaluations, and � in the future � with other websites and information sources about nonprofits. We encourage organizations to use this URL to share their report on their own website and through their own media channels. Participants will receive guidance about promoting their Charting Impact Report, along with other benefits, once they publish their report. 2011 was a year of growth and program success. We were able to get funding for, and hire, a new staff member for our Center for Grieving Children. This led to a much needed program accomplishment, the addition of two more children's sessions each week. This has decreased our waiting list substantially. We served more than 350 children directly through our grief services. Our family events and activities for special needs children also grew once again. 150 children participated in our camps and more than 1000 participated in family events. We were able to donate 2000 tickets to our annual Celebrity Mascot Games to children from 10 other children's non-profit organizations in the Central Florida area.We hosted the yearly symposium for the National Alliance of Grieving Children, of which we are a member. This brought an incredible series of seminars on grief and death that were invaluable to our staff and volunteers and to professionals in this field from throughout the United States. On a fundraising note, we were able to bring our primary event, Art of the Vine up to an unprecedented level of success. Our foremost goal for 2012-2013 is to raise revenues that allow us to move to a larger facility so we can continue to grow and to expand the scope of our programs. We believe we have found a suitable location and are moving forward to make this happen. When this takes place we will begin to implement some wonderful new activities for our grief kids. Another more modest goal is the production of a new educational video that depicts New Hope for Kids programs, activities and proves the great need for grief support after a family death.In an effort to improve and update program management, we also plan to implement new social science software that will help collect and consolidate program data and improve our evaluation strategies For more in-depth information about this organization's impact, view their Charting Impact Report .