Annual Repor

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October 1, 20

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Contents

Letter from theFounder

Year in Review

Financial

Leadership

About

Letter from Art4TH Founder, Johnna Crider

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Dear friends and supporters:

I would first like to thank you for reading this report and alsothank you for the support through the years. In 2005,Art4TheHomeless, lovingly abbreviated Art4TH, was just anidea to open up an art gallery that would sell art and give moneyto homeless shelters. I had no idea how I was going to do that.Fast forward seven years later, I find myself humbled and inawe at how everything has come together so perfectly so far.

We are still on our journey, but it’s more than just me. I have myfriend Samantha Medd, who came up with the name:Art4TheHomeless, I have my friend Hart Deer, whose businessexpertise was so incredible that I stepped down from CEO. I feltHart would be a much better CEO since I am more passionateand creative. Business is simply not my forte. I would also liketo thank all of our current Board of Directors and Leaders whohave stepped up and said, “What can I do to help your dreamcome true?” They are as follows: Denise Thompson, YvetteDubel, Mitsah Henry, Lakesha Johnson, Eric McGlothen, SonyaBrock, Peggy Hill, Travis Jones, and Keith Lancaster. I encour-age you, my readers, supporters, and friends to get to knowthese awesome individuals who stepped up to my side to helpshape Art4TheHomeless into not just a dream, but an organiza-tion that will continue to make an impact on many lives.

You may ask, why Art4TheHomeless? Well, I am an artist so,naturally, that’s why! During the yearsI’ve discovered that I love promoting other artists and makingnew friends across the internet. Creating the Art4TH Webzinewas one of my best ideas yet: an online magazine that focuseson both the arts and awareness.

Homelessness is an issue close to my heart. I’ve been there.I’ve been that person sleeping under a bridge and waking upcold and frightened. I’ve first experienced homelessness when Iwas nine years old. It was on my 10th birthday that my motherand I were kicked out of our trailer in White, GA. My mother hedecided to drive west until she ran out of gas. We wound up inShreveport, LA and stayed at the Providence House, formerlyknown as the Evergreen House. They were in the process ofchanging their ways of helping the homeless and it is now a sta-

ple in the Shreveport, LA community. My mother and I were the10th Graduates of the Providence House’s program to breakthe cycle of homelessness.

I’ve noticed that so many people have a negative viewpoint to-wards homelessness. They say, “Go get a job,” but I have newsfor you. I couldn’t get a job –- it was against the law and it stillis. Which law? Child Labor Laws, of course. So, to bring up themajor issue is to create awareness, to tell those who scorn thehomeless that they are people who seriously need your loveand support; not hate.

I invite you to join me in this mission. Help us reach our goals,and if you can’t help us, then reach out to your local homelessshelters and help them. I’ve received letters asking why I shouldreceive money and not a shelter. Let me make this clear to you:I personally do not receive a dime of monies donated toArt4TheHomeless. I always encourage anyone to donate toArt4TheHomeless but also if they are more inclined to donate totheir local homeless shelters, then do so. And be sure to sendus the names of those shelters so we can promote them.

We are all in this together so let’s do more than just donatingmoney to help the homeless. Let’s take a stand and rise up. Letour voices be heard through art, poetry, music, dance, and the-atre and express our discontent with the way that things are.Let us make a change even if it’s only one person at a time.Let’s unite to do more than promote homelessness awareness:let’s unite to make a difference in the lives of our fellow humanbrothers and sisters.

Sincerely,Johnna CriderArt4TH Founder/Vice President & Chairman of the Board

Year In Rev

iew

2012 was a year for expanding growth forArt4TheHomeless. We kicked off 2012 with abang at the 2011 Solstice Guitar ApocalypseFood and Clothing Drive that was sponsoredby Chicago’s Nancy’s Pizza in Buckhead At-lanta. We had a very low attendance but forthose who came, and for their customers,Art4TH CEO, Hart Deer, put on a one-manshow for everyone. We managed to get a fewarticles of clothing that were donated to Cov-enant House of GA.

Our next event was a partnership with Atlan-ta’s May Day Coalition where they celebratedMay Day and gave Art4TH Founder JohnnaCrider a spot to host a workshop about jobloss as a cause of homelessness.

In August, The Masquerade Atlanta spon-sored an event: Guitar Apocalypse for theHomeless. It was a concert and art show thatraised money for both Art4TheHomeless andCovenant House of GA. Several bands in-cluding Vintage Nation, Unus Mundus, andHart Deer performed. Lithium Dreams Pho-tography performed a pro-bono photo shootfor the event as well as donated art for theexhitibion.

In October, Art4TheHomeless teamed upwith Eternal Impact Homeless Ministries andCamden Midtown Atlanta to bring the World

Homeless Action Day Movement to Atlantafor the first time ever. The event was togenerate not only funding for both nonprofitorganizations, but to raise awareness abouthomelessness in the US and bring in thefestive Oktoberfest event. Several sponsorslined up to not only host, but donate giftcards to our raffle drawings. This eventunited many small business in the MidtownAtlanta and Little 5 Points District to focuson a huge social issue that many in the USare ignoring.

The Art4TheHomeless Webzine had it’sown transformation and is now available inan actual magazine format. You can log onand print a copy or copies for yourself andto help promote homeless awareness is-sues. Art4TheHomeless also received it’sGuideStar approval seal.

Art4TheHomeless was also featured in nu-merous press releases and reports. InTownAtlanta included Guitar Apocalypse in theirevent section in one of their publications.

2012 was a great year forArt4TheHomeless to spread its wings in theMetro Atlanta area and already we havemoved not just business and people, butwe moved communities and launchedawareness campaigns that will grow be-yond the city of Atlanta.

Atlanta’s Masquerade, a premierrock venue, hosted “Guitar Apoc-alypes for the Homeless” and thisphoto was taken by another oneof our sponsors, Ink, who is a

member of Vintage Nation, one ofthe bands that performed.

Year In Rev

iew

Solstice Guitar ApocalypseArt4TH CEO Hart Deer sneaking upon Travis Jones; Advisor to theBoard, and Johnna Crider; Founderat Chicago’s Nancy’s in Buckhead.

Group photo of a few of the support-ers: (from left) Aja Humphrey, HartDeer, Johnna Crider, and TravisJones

Guitar Apocalypse at theMasquerade

From Left: Vintage Nation, Art4TH CEO, HartDeer and Virginia Bliss, Art4TH CEO, HartDeer, Vintage Nation crew, and Art4TH Found-er Johnna Crider, Art4TH Co-Founder Saman-tha Medd and Founder, Johnna Crider,Elegance Boutique (sponsor) and DeniseThompson, one of the Art4TH Board Members.

Top: View of Midtown Atlanta from WHADATL

Center: A4TH Founder, Johnna Crider; A4THBoard Member, Mitsah Henry, EI Staff, RynBeasley; A4TH CEO, Hart Deer performingwith Vintage Nation

Bottom: Banner made by EI Staff Tim Gordyand Ryn Beasley.

World Homeless Action Day Atlanta

Top: The Staff of Camden Midtown, Camden Ivy Hall andArt4TheHomeless

Bottom Left: Jamie Ochoa with Camden MidtownBottom Right: EI Staff Tim Gordy and Art4TH Board Member, Mitsah

Henry

Camden Midtown and CamdenIvy Hall (SCAD Atlanta Housing)provided the space for perform-ers to come out. Several spon-sors such as Chicago’s Nancy’sPizza in Midtown Atlanta, TooGroovy Salons, Elegance Bou-tique all came out to celebrate

and raise awareness. Residentsof Camden brought their dogs alldressed up for Oktoberfest andclothing, tolietries and fundswere donated to Eternal Impact.Art4TheHomeless received $40total in funds.

Attendees at WHADATL

Art4TheHomeless, Eternal Impact and Camden Midtown were thefirst to bring the World Homeless Action Day Movement to Atlanta,

GA

Financial Summar

y

The Art4TheHomeless Financial data on the following page shows that we have spentfunds on promoting events, making sure the website is up and running, and coveringbasic operational costs as well as bank fees. Our incoming funds are from donationsfrom online marketing campaigns such as the $250K Donation Campaign where weencourage donors to donate $1 or more. Guitar Apocalypse for the Homeless at theMasquerade brought in $153 and the World Homeless Action Day Atlanta eventbrought in $40 which are included in Donated section in the following report. As of Oc-tober 1, 2012, the $250K Donation Campaign has raised $154.50. That total is alsoincluded in the donations section of the report.

SponsorsThe following businesses have sponsored us either

financially or by hosting events.

Chicago’s Nancy’s Pizza in Midtown; Atlanta, GA

Chicago’s Nancy’s Pizza in Buckhead; Atlanta, GA

Elegance Boutique Atlanta; Atlanta, GA

Too Groovy Salons, Atlanta, GA

Organix Food Lounge; Atlanta, GA

The Masquerade Atlanta; Atlanta, GA

Ballard’s Bytes; Baton Rouge, LA

Greg Williams (author/songwriter); Shreveport, LA

Eric McGlothen, CPA; Atlanta, GA

Lithium Dreams Photography; Atlanta, GA

Rural Business Solutions; Atlanta, GA

Lauren Silvers; Boaz, AL

Camden Midtown; Atlanta, GA

Camden Ivy Hall; Atlanta, GA

The Ultimate Louisiana Party Tour; Baton Rouge, LA

$250K Donation Campaign Donors

The list of donors who donated to the $250K Donation Campaign for the fiscal year ending on October1, 2012 are as follows:

Kathy Dove

Johnna Crider

Callie D’Angelo

Chaline Owings

Mr. S. J. Alderson

Mary Claire Rivera

Rebecca Neal

Hart Deer

Lequvia Ousley

Erica Durante

Joanna Ballard

Aisha Flores

Kirsi Hardy

Marsha Mitchell

Vision & MissionImagine...a movement inspired by thearts to open the eyes of Americans tothe plight of their own people. Imagine,through art, music and poetry, we areshining a much needed light on our owncrisis: HOMELESSNESS

Misson

The Mission of Art4TheHomeless is tounite the arts to provide support for andawareness of non-profit US homelessshelters, to provide support for artistsinvolved with the Corporation, to providea space where the artists of all disci-plines can create and participate in orga-nizational sponsored activities andprograms working to raise awareness ofhomelessness. The organization willhost and promote activities for the inte-gration of those presently and previouslyhomeless and to assist in the locating ofhomeless resources and supportive ser-vices in the United States.

History

In 2005/2006 Art4TheHomeles startedout as a blog by Johnna Crider, who be-came homeless after being evicted fromher home. The blog was called Colors ofInk, which was a pay-to-blog—that neverpaid out the money. All the money beingaccumulated was going to be donated to

various homeless shelters, but Colors ofInk shut down due to Blogcharm, thehost, not being able to pay bloggers topay. Ms. Crider then began another blogon Nutang, which was also a pay-to-blog; it also shut down the payment sys-tem so no money was made for Art4THfrom either blog. By 2007, Ms. Criderhad set up the account with Zazzle.comusing her artwork to raise money forhomeless shelters. She donated the roy-alties, which always amounted less than$30, to various homeless shelters.

In 2008 – 2009, Ms. Crider started plan-ning her dream: to set up a non-profitorganization that would benefit artists ofall disciplines while helping promotehomelessness awareness and providingassistance to the homeless population ofthe U.S. Art4TheHomeless was legallyincorporated on October 9, 2009 andMs. Crider began the long task of fund-raising to help cover the IRS filing fee.

She began hosting a webzine that fea-tured numerous artists and musicians.Donations came in and the Art4TH teamfiled in early 2011. On November 4,2011 (Johnna Crider’s birthday!) the IRSrecognized Art4TheHomeless, Inc., as a501(c)3 non-profit organization.

2011-2012 Art4TH Board and LeadersHart Deer

CEO/ President

Johnna CriderFounder/Vice President

Samantha MeddCo-Founder

Mitsah HenryBoard Member

Lakesha JohnsonBoard Member

Denise ThompsonBoard Member

Peggy HillBoard Member

Sonya BrockSecretary

Travis JonesAdvisor to the Board

Eric McGlothenCPA/ CFO

Yvette DubelPromotions Manager

Keith Lancaster (voted in mid-year)Chief Marketing Officer

Art4TheHomeless, Inc.6326 Ferry Dr NE

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