Rachel’s Challenge Mission

We exist to inspire, equip and empower every person to create a permanent positive culture change in their school, business and community by starting a chain reaction of kindness and compassion.

Rachel’s Challenge Objectives for Schools:

• Create a safe learning environment for all students by re-establishing civility and delivering proactive antidotes to school violence and bullying.
• Improve academic achievement by engaging students’ hearts, heads and hands in the learning process.
• Provide students with social/emotional education that is both colorblind and culturally relevant.
• Train adults to inspire, equip and empower students to affect permanent positive change.

Rachel’s Challenge Objectives for Businesses:
Create an environment of kindness and compassion within the business setting. Empower and equip individuals through training with the ability to make a difference in their place of work. Inspire and motivate individuals to start a chain reaction of kindness and compassion. Impact the corporation’s bottom-line results. (people, profits and revenue)

 Program Impact-to-Date in schools:

• Since program inception:

• 3,300 schools (high schools and middle schools)
• Multiple stadium and large venue events
• 50 states and six countries
• 11,000,000 people reached with the message
• Seven documented school shootings/violence prevented
• Hundreds of suicides averted

• Snapshot of 2008:

• 1,300 events
• Programs in 48 states
• 1,320,700 attendees
• 350 Friends of Rachel Clubs that are maintained in middle and high schools
• 153 KC Clubs (Kindness & Compassion) in elementary schools (since September 2008)
• 90 documented suicides averted
• Average presenter rating of 9.4 on 10 point scale (across all 27 active presenters)
• Program rating by schools of 9.7 on 10 point scale
• 98% recommendation rate
• 123,000 documented acts of kindness in 12 elementary schools in Rockwall, TX
• 9% increase in school safety in Kankakee, IL
• Hundreds of unsolicited testimonials

Proven Model – Efficient and Sustainable: Rachel’s Challenge is a non-profit organization and has finished with positive net income every year since 2004.
For every dollar spent in 2008: 85% went back into program development and delivery 10% covered to administrative overhead 5%  was used for fund raising (to create fund raising strategy – prior to 2008 there was no formal fund raising at Rachel’s Challenge)
In 2008 98.7% of revenues came from program fees Can reach approximately 1,000 schools and 1.25 million students annually with minimal donations Need substantial outside funding to reach Five-Year Strategic Plan