A Word From the President

We have had another excellent year of fund raising and involvement from many old and new supporters of Kids’ Chance of South Carolina. We have tried to refresh and expand our Board of Trustees to include a larger segment of the workers’ compensation community, and we welcome anyone who wishes to participate in our endeavors. Each of us have been called upon to either participate on the Board or to assist in fundraising or to give individually to the cause of Kids’ Chance. If we each continue to pick up a part of the load, the task will become much easier and the personal involvement much more rewarding.

During the last 12 months we have raised $72,756.02 in donations, have disbursed $$46,414.16 in scholarships, and we presently have $218,986.18 in our accounts. We are in the process of establishing a permanent endowment such that at some point in time the donations that you make to Kids’ Chance will go to the endowment and the money that we disburse to our students will be the earned income from that endowment. To proceed to that end the following law firms have contributed $6,000 each toward the establishment of what we hope will be a permanent endowment:

It is our hope that Kids’ Chance can recruit more law firms into our endowment program and from thence into the self-insured community, the nurses’ association, the numerous insurance carriers that do business in the state in hopes that within the next several years we will have established at least a $1,000,000 endowment.

It is critical considering the escalating cost of education that we increase the amount of support that we give to our recipients and that no child of a wage earned disabled in this state, who is otherwise capable of obtaining a college or technical education, will be foreclosed from that opportunity because of the unavailability of scholarship funds.

No one is entitled to a free lunch, but everyone has a requirement to assist the less fortunate, the injured, and the orphan to a more hopeful future.  It is our privilege that we are given the opportunity to help others. Thanks to the efforts of our past-enlightened leaders, John Spratling, Doug Crossman, and John Nabors, we aspire to go forward to continue the mission they have begun.