Called to be Bold is a comprehensive campaign that funds Mosaic’s strategic direction to best meet the needs of today and the challenges of tomorrow.
Our Mission Embracing God’s call to serve in the world, Mosaic advocates for people with intellectual disabilities and provides opportunities for them to enjoy a full life.
Dear Friend of Mosaic,
Mosaic is called to be bold! We are in a time of rapid change. People we serve and their families have changing expectations. They desire and deserve:
Called to be Bold Five-Year Campaign Goals BOLD LEADERS Personalized Services............$10M Endowment and Planned Giving......................$30M BOLD PARTNERS Church Relations.................... $1M International Outreach........... $2M BOLD FRIENDS Possibilities Annual Fund......$20M ($4M/yr during five-year campaign)
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greater independence
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closer ties to the community
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new opportunities for employment, volunteer and social activities
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a healthy, active lifestyle.
into the larger community. We’re moving from programs and buildings to truly personalized services and networks of support – not just in the United States but around the world.
We need your prayers and your gifts because we cannot do this alone. We need bold friends who will stand with us to achieve the big work in front of us. Can the people we serve count on you?
Several initiatives of the strategic plan are outlined on these pages; they are all about helping people have the best life possible.
Our values remain steadfast while our focus becomes laser-sharp: transform Mosaic to impact the lives of people with disabilities in today’s world.
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At the same time, Mosaic faces increased regulation while funding for our services is stagnant or, worse, declining. We are asked to do more with less.
We must act. The Called to be Bold campaign will help Mosaic meet these challenges and rise above them for the sake of the people we serve. The campaign is built upon our strategic plan to conquer today’s challenges and be prepared for the future. It is transformational.
Bold Leaders, providing personalized services for people and expanding Mosaic at Home while building long-term financial sustainability
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Bold Partners, creating partnerships with churches and others locally and around the world
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Bold Friends, meeting people’s immediate needs
People trust us with their lives and we cannot fail them; we must be bold! I personally invite you to consider how you can join us in this transformation to bring a full life for people with disabilities.
Instead of primarily providing direct services, Mosaic’s ministry will integrate people with disabilities
Total Goal. . . . . . $63M
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As bold leaders, partners, and friends, together we will change people’s lives. Sincerely,
Linda Timmons Mosaic President and CEO
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Priority: Providing personalized services today and ensuring long-term financial stability. Making services personal People with disabilities and their families expect and deserve more options and choices than were offered in the past. At the same time, Mosaic faces a growing staff shortage as the demand for direct care workers will increase 100 percent in the next five to seven years. Mosaic is responding to both demands. Leading the way nationally, Mosaic is offering a new vision to provide personalized services. Mosaic asks people what they want in their lives and works to find a way to make it happen. Tools to do this include: • •
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state-of-the-art interview techniques bolstered support through additional certified behavioral specialists active, meaningful day services.
Endowing the future One outcome of this new vision is an expanded service, called Mosaic at Home. In this model, people open their home to someone with a disability and provide support and teaching in that setting. Mosaic has offered host homes for more than 20 years but is expanding the service because of the many benefits it offers people with disabilities, including: •
greater community access and integration
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higher levels of satisfaction and deeper relationships with more people
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improved health, including weight loss and medication reductions.
Government funding will never provide everything it takes for people with disabilities to thrive. Looking to the future, Mosaic is creating multiple avenues toward long-term sustainability. Growing its endowment is critical. Over the last 30 years, many friends remembered Mosaic in their estate, helping to build an endowment of more than $45 million in The Mosaic Foundation. This amount is less than 20 percent of Mosaic’s annual budget. Endowment funds helped people receive vital services during recent economic downturns. They also have helped Mosaic grow and expand in strategic ways to increase capacity to serve more people and build long-term sustainability.
Mosaic at Home also eases the staffing demands of other, more labor-intensive residential options.
Hard times will come again. The Called to be Bold campaign will help Mosaic be prepared.
The Called to be Bold campaign will expand Mosaic’s pioneering work to offer personalized services to all people, whether they live in a group setting, a host home, with family, or independently.
Read more about our bold leaders at www.calledtobebold.org.
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Personalized Services Goal:
$10 million Called to be Bold will: •
Create sustainable services that can reduce the need for hourly direct support workers.
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Provide more choices by transitioning up to 700 people from group homes into Mosaic at Home services.
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Create a network of community services, organizations and businesses to support personalized services.
Endowment and Planned Giving Goal:
$30 million Called to be Bold will: •
Provide long-term sustainability of services.
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Enable Mosaic to quickly capture growth opportunities.
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Innovate new services and programs that increase quality and satisfaction.
Church Relations Goal:
$1 million Called to be Bold will: •
Build partnerships with professionals in education, curriculum development, and ministry to create and distribute disability education programs for churches.
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Provide staffing and resources to expand Rejoicing Spirits worship to new geographic areas.
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Shaping inclusive churches and pastors
Expand the immersion program for college and seminary students.
International Outreach Goal:
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Deliver life-saving health care to the children in the Tanzania program.
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Strengthen integrated education centers for children with disabilities.
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Act on innovative programs in other countries.
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Mosaic provides expertise and training in seminaries and churches to create change across the U.S.
hands-on, immersion experiences with people who have disabilities
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seminars teaching the theological and pastoral understanding of disability.
Mosaic’s Rejoicing Spirits ministry provides churches a model of worship that has a hallmark rule of “no shush.” People with disabilities can be themselves, with no one giving disapproving looks or telling them to “be quiet.” This has helped many families worship together.
Called to be Bold will:
In seminaries, Mosaic’s goal is to help pastors-in-training go forth to
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create welcoming, affirming places for people with disabilities and their families through:
Many churches are uncertain how to respond when a family, child or adult with an intellectual disability comes into their midst.
Mosaic’s Called to be Bold campaign will sustain and expand church outreach to be ‘leaven in the loaf’ that changes attitudes about people with disabilities across the U.S. It is Mosaic’s legacy to love and serve the neighbor, both near and far.
Priority: Expanding networks of support to give more people the opportunity to be included in communities around the world. International outreach In parts of the world, people with disabilities – especially children – are in dire need.
children with disabilities interact with others of all abilities. More than 200 children attend every day.
They are tied up with chains, kept in dark, windowless rooms, and abandoned to huge, uncaring orphanages.
The program is changing and saving lives. A basic health care program gives children served immunizations and antibiotics they otherwise would not receive. In the first three years, the mortality rate of the children Mosaic serves has dropped 67 percent.
To effect change, for more than 20 years, Mosaic has worked with non-governmental organizations in other countries to: •
provide expertise and offer training
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share promising practices
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create effective, sustainable programs.
Following successes in Latvia and Romania, today Mosaic is working in Tanzania. There, a child with disability was seen as a curse and was hidden. To fight that stigma, Mosaic worked with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania to establish 11 day programs. There,
The Called to be Bold campaign will position Mosaic to create partnerships that serve people and change archaic attitudes in other countries where it is needed.
Mosaic’s work also addresses the widespread poverty in families of children with disabilities in Tanzania. •
Cooperatives have been formed to create and market hand-made crafts internationally.
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A farm now offers training and produce to sell at local markets.
Read more about our bold partners at www.calledtobebold.org.
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Priority: Ensuring people have all of the services they need to live a full life. Possibilities Annual Fund Goal:
Fighting the effects of poverty The funding system for disability services is complex, but the outcome is not – most individuals with disabilities live in poverty and isolation. It is the biggest barrier faced by the people Mosaic serves. The average monthly income for a person served by Mosaic is approximately $760, or $9,120 annually. Most of their income is used to cover room and board. Regulations allow each person to keep little for personal needs – usually around $60 each month. That needs to cover: •
clothing
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personal grooming supplies
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recreation and entertainment.
The Possibilities Annual Fund:
Through the Possibilities Annual Fund, Mosaic’s friends help people whose needs go beyond what funding provides.
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Those needs include:
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dental care
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specialized therapies, such as music therapy or animal therapy
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wheelchair repairs and specialized equipment
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adaptive eating utensils and dinnerware.
Sometimes a person comes to Mosaic in an emergency, with nothing but the clothes they’re wearing. At those times, everything from a toothbrush to bedding to shoes is needed.
People often save for several months to make a purchase, such as a television, or take a small vacation. Read more about our bold friends at www.calledtobebold.org.
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provides a buffer for these unanticipated and often unfunded expenses
$20 million ($4M/yr during 5-year campaign) Called to be Bold will:
is a safety net against dwindling government funding.
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Friends who support Mosaic’s annual fund through the Called to be Bold campaign help people with disabilities overcome the barrier of poverty to live healthier, safer, more full lives.
Ensure people have healthy environments and the support they need to stay safe.
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Provide the daily essentials people need to live with dignity.
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Close the gap between what’s funded for people and the life-giving therapies they need.
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Build increased selfconfidence, independence, health, and safety for people.
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Answering the call
Moving into communities
A bigger vision takes hold
Build a loving, safe home for people apart from the community.
People move back to their home communities. Advocacy becomes important to battle ignorance and intolerance.
Bethphage and Martin Luther Home become Mosaic, the largest faith-based provider of services to people with disabilities in the United States.
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Focused on a place
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Predominately one faith group and ethnic background
As people moved home, Bethphage and Martin Luther Home followed
Ever-tightening state budgets confirm wisdom of merger
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Expanded into multiple states
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Seen as experts, the organizations’ reputations grow; international program started
Mosaic focuses on quality, receives first-ever network certification from The Council on Quality and Leadership
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Acquisitions help Mosaic grow in targeted areas
A History of Transition and Transformation Mosaic was formed by the consolidation of two Nebraskaborn Lutheran ministries, Bethphage and Martin Luther Homes, dedicated to the needs of people with disabilities. Throughout their histories, both legacy organizations changed as needed to carry forth the vision of their founders. The priority has been, and continues to be, meeting the needs and desires of the people Mosaic supports.
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Offered a lifetime of care
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Open to people with many needs, not solely focused on disabilities
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Focus on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
2016 and Beyond Embracing transformation Integrate people served more fully into the community where they are embraced, welcomed, and able to build reciprocal relationships.
Bold Transformation Our values remain steadfast while our focus becomes laser-sharp: transform Mosaic to impact the lives of people with disabilities in today’s world. •
Quality focus turns to personalized services
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Mosaic embraces and improves newer, emerging service models
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Scope of service broadens as Mosaic transforms into a network both serving and connecting people
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Our Vision Mosaic is the recognized leader in making a positive difference in people’s lives. We are passionate about services and partnerships that create meaningful lives in caring communities. Inspired by faith, we give voice to issues that affect people’s lives. 10
Campaign Co-Chairs
Honorary Co-Chairs Dear Friends, We are grateful for the many life experiences we have had that gave each of us an awareness of the gifts people with disabilities bring to communities. Yet we know awareness is not widespread; people with disabilities are often invisible, not just in communities but also in our churches. Mosaic is in a unique position to change that. The organization is a recognized leader in disability services.
Cheryl and Conrad T. Swanson
make the lives of people better. The campaign goals will not only increase the positive outcomes in the lives of people with disabilities, but it will also improve the lives of the people who provide the services. What Mosaic is doing through Called to be Bold will bring a higher profile to the lives of people with disabilities. To be a part of it is worthwhile and exciting. We invite you to partner with us in sharing Mosaic’s mission to embrace God’s call to serve in the world.
We are honored to be co-chairs of the Called to be Bold campaign. Mosaic is defined by compassion, competence and committed people who are creating opportunities that will
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Dear Friends, It has been more than 11 years since our son first received services at Mosaic. We feel it was God’s plan that we were led to Mosaic and we believe our son, Mark, could not receive better services anywhere else. We also know Mosaic needs to transform to meet the future and, because of that, we are happy to serve as co-chairs of Mosaic’s Called to be Bold campaign.
Sharon and Max Miller
high integrity and compassion. We’ve seen it first-hand. Mosaic is not only Mark’s home, but also his extended family. From its earliest days, Mosaic’s history shows when everybody does their part and works together, great things happen. That’s our goal with Called to be Bold: make great things happen for people with disabilities and give others a chance to be a part of it. It is our hope that you will join us in this important endeavor for Mosaic.
We are called not just to take care of our son, but to help others as well. Leading this campaign gives us an opportunity to do that. Our years of involvement with Mosaic have shown us it is an organization that acts with
Sincerely,
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Ramona and Deryl Hamann have been friends of Mosaic for many years. Decades ago, Deryl helped create the disciplined investing structure that helped what is now The Mosaic Foundation grow to nearly $50 million. The couple served as honorary chairs for Mosaic’s Centennial Gala in 2013 and have offered support and guidance for many initiatives. Mosaic is grateful for their ongoing interest, sound advice and generous support.
Judy and Paul Tamisiea began their relationship with Mosaic when their daughter moved onto a Mosaic campus. Judy’s influence on Mosaic’s sustainability has been strong; for several years she worked for the organization, helping to shape the resource development program. In 2013, Judy chaired the Centennial Gala committee. Mosaic can count on Judy and Paul to be ambassadors, sharing Mosaic’s message within the community.
NOW IS THE TIME TO BE BOLD!
For additional information about any of these ways to give, contact Renee Coughlin, Senior Vice President of Mission Advancement at 402.896.3884.
Working together as bold leaders, partners and friends, we can change the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This is the transformation we’re making at Mosaic. We hope you’ll be a part of it.
Ways to Give Your gift to Called to be Bold will not only help create lives of possibilities for people with intellectual disabilities, it can also produce financial advantages for you. We urge you to seek advice from your professional adviser to receive the full tax benefits of your gift.
Cash Cash is one of the easiest assets to donate, and is especially appreciated because it can immediately be put to use. A cash gift can be in the form of a personal check or credit card payment. Additionally, you may be able to increase the size of your gift if a matching gift is available.
Stocks and Bonds
Real Estate
Retirement Assets
Donating appreciated securities, including stocks or bonds, is an easy and tax-effective way for you to make a gift to Mosaic.
The Mosaic Foundation may accept gifts of real estate upon recommendation from its Board.
Donating part or all of your unused retirement assets, such as a gift from your IRA, 401(k), 403(b) or other tax-deferred plan is a great benefit to Mosaic and may allow you to realize positive tax advantages.
The Mosaic Foundation accepts both publicly traded and closely held stock. Publicly traded securities may be transferred to a Mosaic Foundation designated brokerage account. To receive tax benefits, you must transfer stocks/bonds to Mosaic rather than selling them and donating the proceeds, which would turn the gift into a cash gift. You will avoid paying capital gain taxes while receiving a full-value charitable deduction, and providing a benefit to Mosaic.
Planned Gifts
Gift of Grain
There are a number of options for creating a gift in your estate that can benefit Mosaic and you.
Although there is no charitable gift deduction, gifting a portion of your harvest may allow you to reap other benefits. A gift of grain often results in significant tax benefits because farmers can avoid declaring the crop as taxable income while still deducting the cost of growing the crop.
Under certain circumstances, closely held stock may be accepted. Prior to doing so, input and confirmation must be secured from The Mosaic Foundation’s legal counsel.
The content included here is for information purposes only and does not constitute legal or tax advice. Please consult your professional adviser for legal and tax advice specific to your situation.
By making a gift of a residence, vacation home, farm, ranch or commercial property, you may avoid capital gains taxes and receive a charitable deduction for the full market value of the property.
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Some options include bequests, charitable trusts, gift annuities and life insurance. Remembering Mosaic as a beneficiary of your estate plan will provide a lasting legacy of your commitment to Mosaic’s mission. These gifts should be considered within the full framework of your estate plan and after seeking professional counsel.
Bold Leaders envisioning a future of expanded freedom and opportunity for people with disabilities. Bold Partners uniting to make that vision real for people. Bold Friends investing both now and for the future to ensure a lasting change.
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