SIMON SAYS GIVE

2017ANNUAL REPORT

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A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDERThank you to everyone who participated in High Five for Supplies, the world’s largest birthday celebration in collaboration with Mall of America, and all of our many other volunteer opportunities, or donated to help us impact 2 million children by 2022. I am so excited to announce that our South Dakota chapter continues to make a big difference in their communities impacting thousands of children this year.

Last year we welcomed Simon Eber to our Simon Says Give family. Simon has helped a lot of children in his community. Nolan Fleming and I got the chance to go out to Worcester, Massachusetts, and help give 161 backpacks. Nolan Fleming, our South Dakota Kid President, and I also attended some business meetings along with Simon to see how we could partner more with the community.

In our Minnesota chapter, our Kid Advisory Board worked hard all 2017 to prepare for the first Give Awards. The Give Awards took place in January of 2018, there were 20 youth nominated for giving back to their communities. I am also so very excited to announce that our very own Myles Bowen is starting his Evanston, Illinois, Simon Says Give chapter! Myles will be working with the Northwestern University community to help celebrate birthdays this year.

I am so excited about what this next year has to bring and what we have accomplished this past year, including our very first gala. Thank you so much to all of our sponsors and volunteers, you guys really all make a huge impact in our nonprofit.

Mandi Simon | SSG Founder | Jefferson Awards Foundation Globe Changer

FRONT COVER: World’s Largest Birthday Celebration at Mall of America, August 8, 2017. Photo Credit: Mike Madison.

Mandi Simon and Anthony Larson, MOA Security Team Member. Photo Credit: Mike Madison

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FINANCIALSDONATIONS Total Corporate Monetary Donations $119,199.01 Personal Monetary Donations $58,221.52 In-Kind Donations $353,843.87 Volunteer Hours* $465,395.06 Total Donations $996,659.46

DISTRIBUTION OF DONATIONS(cash, in-kind and value of volunteer hours) Programs Birthdays $413,836.74 High Five for Supplies $315,926.08 Youth Leadership $90,708.71 General Administrative $76,596.22 Total Program Distribution $897,067.75

OPERATIONS Marketing $27,701.16 Office/General Administrative Expenditures $8,964.15 Professional Fees (Including Temporary Help) $15,142.65 Total Operational Distribution $51,807.96ENDING BALANCE $32,082.08

*The value of one volunteer hour is equal to $24.14 based on the national average per the Non Profit Times.

2017 VOLUNTEER HOURSTotal Volunteers = 2,082

Total Volunteer Hours = 19,279

18% High Five for

Supplies

48%Birthdays and

Mall of America Event

DISTRIBUTION OF DONATIONS

5% Operations

90% Programs

2017 IMPACT14

,000

KIDS INSPIRED IN 2017

43,415 KIDSIMPACTED

IN 2017

121,525 KIDS SUPPORTED SINCE 2011

18% Youth

Leadership

16% Board and Operations

5% Net Assets

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DONORSA Touch of SolitudeABC Bus IncMartie AbelesLouis AbramowskiMelanie AdcockMaggie AdlumAcuity SchedulingAlexandra AinszteinAlerus MortgageKasi V. Subramanian

Thenammai AlagappanDonna & Mark AlarieSuzanne AlbinWendy AlexanderBryan & Suzanna AltmanAll Saints ChurchAmerican GirlAngie’s Boom Chicka PopLuci AncoraJohn AndersonLisa AndersonSheila & Derry AndersonSara AnondsonCynthia ArnoldJohn ArnoldRandi AronsonJennifer & Mark ArriolaGeorge BadeauxLorri BadeauxRick BadeauxLouis J. Speltz & Vicki L. BaileyJean BakerMelinda BatzDomonic BearfieldTrevor BeatyBeckstrand FamilyAlex & Julie BelisleSusan K. BensonKim BestKristin BianchiDeb & Cory BjorkstrandDevon BlockParis BlockSue Boedigheimer WaitMike BornTalaia BowenBrain BoydenBremer Bank HR DepartmentKari BriziusJeff & Kathy BrownLaura BrownSarah BuiePaula BusheyBuffalo Wild WingsLisa Byrne

CalabrioCataract Lodge No. 2 AF &

AM of MNChill Commercial RefrigerationChris CalvertElizabeth CannarozziBruce & Susan CaulfieldCelarityJoseph ChaitinBeth ChalmersKaty ChartierFlorence Cho-VelascoLori ChristensenFrances ClevelandConnexions Loyalty Travel

EP TeamJames CohenMichelle CohenChristi CollinsMiranda CooperSimek ConsultingMinnesota Literacy CouncilAmy CrainCRAVECrayola ExperienceCrocsCulversDakota Electric AssociationDaniel DavisTamara DayKeira DaziDeluxeBrian DeNommeEthan DeSotaDLR GroupGigi DobosenskiJessica DodgeDebra & James DonnellyMyron & Clara DownsCynthia DuBeMatt DudleyEdina RealtyEdinburg USA Pro AM

FoundationEnzuri Group LLCExpress Employment

Professionals - Edina & Eagan, MN

Amy Richter & Jim EberGerald & Janet EberThe Ebers of BrooklineThe Ebers of San FranciscoRobin EberleinAllen & Lisa EdinbergPage Edmunds

Chris EdwardsSally EkusMatt EllsworthKent & Kira EnglerScott ErbBrad & Jodi EricksonJohn ErnsteFamous FootwearTerri FanaselleMichelle FiddlerJacque FiegelRebecca FillingerJudy FinklestineThe First National Bank

in Sioux FallsFisher Shipping CompanyCari Fisher & FamilyPerry FishkindDamon FitzgeraldJ D FitzgeraldTal FlanchraychMaureen FlatleyJamie FlawsFleming FamilyJudy FlemingSamantha FlemingNorma FoleyAndrea ForsterMike FranklinDarci FredricksFrank MurphyBill FreemanJ.L or S.M FritzJennifer FritzMegan FritzTiffanie FultonFun ExpressCelia & Chris GannonGames By JamesDavid Lymburn &

Kendra GapinskiSarita GargGeneral MillsGeneral PartsJoseph GiacobbeMike & Angela GillPaul A GillieDenise GlasrudKristi GloppenGary & Darla GobleKathleen Goldammer-

CopelandAmy GrandyBruce GravelleThomas Graves

WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK the many anonymous donors that have supported us throughout the year!

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Relan GreenGreenspring MediaJanette GreenwoodDawn GriffinSara GriffinPam GrossmanKarla GundersonAlfred GuyHalf Price BooksJohn HanrahanBen HansonLea HarpsterLori HarrisJeffrey HayzlettPatricia HealdKathleen HebbC’anne HecklerJerome & Michele HeinDonna M HilbertStephen HilyarGeorgia HoffmanKari HogstadJon & Milena HolmenPaul & Deborah HolmenWendy HolzheimerDouglas HotvedtDavid HuntLaura HustonHyvee - EaganIkeaInnovative Office SolutionsIrish TitanMicki JacobsElaine & Gordon JacobyNiteen JadhavNicole Ansani JanowskiBrittany JenningsSarah JenningsEmily JohannesJanice JohnstonMaggie JudgeKeller Media Inc.Kane TransportKidizen, Inc.Kinderberry Hill PlymouthKOHL’SAsa & Gwen KainDawn KalbMary J KalinowskiGianna KarelsPaul KeelerMaureen KenefickMorgan KingJamie King HuntChad & Mary Kirchner Leslie & Scott KirkpatrickKeith & Lauren KirkwoodAnn KleinWilliam KleinSherry KonczakMary KraskyWilliam KraskyHeidi KruppIrwin KulaNina KushnerLegacy Real EstateThomas & Karen LairdKayla LandeSarah LangeTerry LawMark LazarchicThe Learning HubEric & Michelle LeBowCarol LeisterKaren LeoYee Mun LeongKristin Klein & Paul LincolnSusan LindemanBrian LindstromKrista LindstromNicholas LipetzkyGlenn LlopisBryan & Brittany LloydRobert LloydSusan LloydTom LonabockerJulie LoosbrockCC LowellJennifer LubinTherese LuntDarin LynchIda MacFarlandSusan MackMary MagnusonTimothy MalloyLynn R. McCourtLinda McCracken-HuntJen McGuganKelly McKelveyMadison Lawn Care of

Sioux Falls

Mall of AmericaMassage Retreat & SpaMinnesota Masonic CharitiesMinnesota ZooMcElroy FamilyDave & Heather McLaughlinEmilie MedalenTara MelshaDeborah MerkwanAlicia MerryAshley MeyerMarla MeyerByron & Carol MickelsonStacy MillardMark MillerErin MirochaUnion Gospel MissionJan MortonLaura MortonRick MullLarissa MurphyCatherine NassaBarry & Amy NelsonKaitlyn NelsonNew Market BankNext Generation

Fundraising, Inc.North Star BalloonsNothing Bundt CakesNewport Lutheran ChurchTracy NielsenJustin & Andrea NisbetPhilip W NoyedOur Savior Lutheran ChurchOptimist Club of Golden ValleyOptum HealthJo-Ellen O’DellKim O’DonnelHeather OlenDawnette OliverGretchen OlmscheidDaniel OlsonWhitney OlsonRay, Necia & Patrick O’NeillThe Orb FactoryNick & Kara OwenPainters & Allied Trades

for ChildrensPeace of Mind Early

Education CenterPool & Yacht Club - LilydalePortico SolutionsSteven PachtAbbie PagoneJeffrey & Kathleen PanJoseph PanettaLilia PanteleevaCathy PaperJohn or Christine ParisBret ParkerPamela PassmanDavid PatersonPatil FamilyDan Wick PearsonLara PenningtonJennifer PereiraKim PerellLisa B PerezLaura PhillippiDerek PlayerJason PlayerPhil PoggeTristan PollockAnne PryorPeter QualeThe Queen’s CupsRASDakRasmussen IncorporatedRed Technologies, IncJim RaboinRachel Kohrman RamosJoseph H ReardonSusan ResnickCharles ReznikoffJodi RichAdele RichterBilly RichterRiver Valley Church -

Apple ValleyAnn RobertAnna & Richard RodellKeira RodriguezLisa Tiscione RodriquezBob RoeJennifer RosenzweigJennifer RothenbuehlerMarisa RotterMary Griffin RoyAngel RowellJessica RungeKenneth Rynda

Sanford HealthSimon Says LeadSioux Valley Optimist ClubSketchersSweet Kitchen & BarSPS CommerceStep Up for HeroesSunfish Wine CellarsSuperior Collision & Paint, Inc.Patty SagertLaura SanchezMax SandlinKelly ScanlanRaymond SchiefenAllison SchlanderRichard & Kristine SchlanderNathan SchmidtSilo & Corina SchmidtHeather SchutzSteven SchwartzAmy Scott-StoltzKarina SebastianEllen SeidmanDerek & Katrina SeversonTim & Jenni SeversonLaura ShannonMohammed ShariffPhillip ShawMaryellen SheehanJoyce SillupJennifer SimekJohn SimonRich & Dina SimonStephanie M SimonLoisann SingerTimothy & Kirsten SitzmannJudy SloanKathy SloanAnn SmallMichele Smith-CoxDenise SokosSara StanleyAndrew SteinhouseDonnie StoltzJulie StrantzStumph FamilyTerra SuelflowCaryn SullivanLois SundlingNicole SwansonBrenda SzokaTAK CommunicationsTCF BankThomson ReutersThuleTranquility For YouMark & Sheryl TaslerTaylor & Kandra TempletonMarcia Namowitz &

Valerie TerzanoDavid ThalbergJenny ThorpBeth ThurzNiki ThygesonJeffrey TolkeNance TorrenceThea TrachtenbergMichael TullerVernon UmholtzJanine Schneider-UreVersiqueVM WareVolkswagon of Inver GroveShilo VosburgJeannie WallenAndrew WarnerDena WarrenWarpaint International

Beauty AgencyWaxing the CityStephanie WebsterKathleen W WesslingDonna WheldenWhitaker - Buick GMC

Forest LakeTom & Margie WhitePam & Darryl WilliamsSteven WilliamsMichele WilsonCathy WindschitlThe Wine VineDavid & Jessica WittenbergJerry WollscheidStacy WoodsLisa WrightPang XiongKim YoungElizabeth Sarquis YunisAmy Zwart

Alerus Mortgage and Kate Raddatz, WCCO

Mandi & Dina Simon, Kathy and Jeff Brown

Schlehuber Group

Cataract Lodge

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FOUNDATIONSAmerican Endowment Foundation

Bay State Savings Charitable Foundation

Connie Barry FoundationEdina Realty FoundationSalesforce Foundation

Slaggie Family FoundationTCF FoundationThe Goldammer Family Foundation

The Sherwin-Williams Foundation

STRATEGIC PARTNERSAlerus MortgageAmerican GirlAngie’s Boom Chicka PopBaker TillyBuffalo Wild WingsCalabrioCataract LodgeCelarityCRAVECrayola CrocsDeluxe CorporationExpress Employment Professionals - Edina and Eagan MN

Famous FootwearFun ExpressGames by JamesGeneral MillsImagine ITInnovative Office SolutionsIrish Titan

JBL CompanyJefferson Partners L.P.Mall of AmericaMinnesota Monthly MagazineMN Literacy CouncilMN Masonic CharitiesNothing Bundt CakeOptum HealthPainters and Allied Trades for Children

Pool and Yacht - LilydaleRadisson BluRed TechnologiesSaint Thomas AcademySimon Says LeadTCF BankThrivent FinancialVersiqueVW of Inver Grove Winthrop and WeinsteinYMCA Greater Twin Cities

LEGACY DONORSOur Legacy Donors are individual or corporate donors that have given $10,000 or more since we started in 2011.

Alerus MortgageAmerican Girl Crayola Deluxe CorporationExpress Employment Services, Inc.

Famous Footwear Games by James General Mills - Betty CrockerInnovative Office SolutionsJim Johnson & Express Employment Professionals Eagan & Edina MN

Glenn KieckerMall of America Dee Dee PenickMichelle & Tom SchlehuberSimon Says LeadRich & Dina SimonMark and Sheryl TaslerTCF BankVersiqueTom & Margie White

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3,123 kidscelebrated++ =Hosted

BirthdaysBirthdaysin a Box

7,562 schoolready kids+ + =

NON-PROFIT DISTRIBUTION PARTNERS360 CommunitiesAnna Marie’s ShelterArt BuddiesBanyan CommunityBasically Balsam Beacons Network –

Anne SullivanBeacons Network –

Anwatin BeaconBeacons Network –

Edison BeaconBeacons Network –

FranklinBeacons Network –

Hmong Intl’ BeaconBeacons Network –

Lucy LaneyBeacons Network –

Nellie Stone BeaconBeacons Network –

Northeast Middle School

Beacons Network – Olson Beacon

Beacons Network – Roosevelt Beacon

Boys & Girls Club of Twin Cities

Boys and Girls Club of the Sioux Empire

Cataract LodgeCatholic CharitiesCatholic Charities –

Twin CitiesChildren’s Law CenterCircle of Life SchoolColumbus ParkEast Side Learning

Center

Girl Scouts – River Valley

Glenn Kieker – Minnehaha

Glenn Kieker– Prince Hall

Good in the HoodHomefrontHomeward Bound, Inc.Hope KidsJefferson Awards

FoundationJuvenile Justice Center

L878Leukemia &

Lymphoma SocietyLutheran Social

Service – Twin CitiesMacedonia Baptist

ChurchMerrick CommunityMichelle HeinMidland StreetMinneapolis Division

– Indian WorkMN Literacy CouncilMNIC / HSRANormandale

Community CollegeNorth Minneapolis

Visitation SistersNorth Minneapolis

Visitation SistersOpen ArmsPlace of HopePRISMProject for Pride

and LivingRMHC–UM

Roseville School DistSalvation Army –

Northern DivisonSchool Success

Center – YMCASicangu Child &

Family ServicesSioux Falls BanquetSojourner ShelterSt. Paul City SchoolSt. Paul–Ramsey

County Public HealthStonebridge World

School Tandem Family

Resource CenterThe Church of New

Life Christian Ministry

The Foster Closet, Inc.The Mastery SchoolTreehouse For YouthTurning PointUnion Gospel MissionUnited Methodist

Church (Excelsior)Waubun–Ogema

ElementaryWoodland AcademyYMCA Community

Services YMCA Intervention

ServicesYMCA JAJ/MaxfieldYMCA U of M – BCCYMCA U of M – BdoteYMCA U of M – DIWYMCA U of M – Sioux

YMCA

HIGH FIVE FOR SUPPLIES® DROP BOX LOCATIONSAqua EngineeringAVVR Audio Visual

Video ResourcesBell IndustriesBFITStudio BIG InkBremer Bank Bremer InsuranceBridgewater Bank

(All MN Locations) Caring BridgeCarlson CapitalDungarvin Edina Reality

Ellingson/Ellingson Eden Prairie Chamber

of Commerce ExpeditorsFamous Footwear

(all stores in MN)Geritom Medical Harris

CommunicatorsHarry S Johnson CoHometown Meats Huebsch JC PennyLofton Labels Logic PDNorthern ContoursNorthWest Eye Clinic

(All MN Locations)

PatchPatterson DentalProPhase MarketingQuality Tech Services Quantum Richfield

Transmission Center River Heights

Chamber of Commerce

Southview DesignTenKSolar ‘TranswesternUS Bank Verisae (Accruent

Company)Volkswagen

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2017 AWARDS & RECOGNITIONACG Minnesota ACG MN BOLD Award Finalist

WE Day MN Honored Guest

Children’s Smile Coalition, Inc. Young Heroes Award presented to Simon Eber

Simon Says Give Youth Leadership Award Presented to Nolan Fleming

Person of the Week – This Week in Worcester Presented to Simon Eber

2017 JACQUE AWARDS

Jacque Fiegel was our first donor. She wrote the check that allowed us to move forward on our journey to start Simon Says Give. We present the Jacque Award in her honor to individuals or companies that have moved us fast forward on our journey. The 2017 award recipients were:

Sara Durham of Mall of America. Sara was the key person and reason we partnered with MOA for the World’s Largest Birthday Celebration.

Karla Gunderson of Innovative Office Solutions. Karla has been our partner and connector to other amazing resources in the community for many years.

UNSTOPPABLE AWARDS

Our mission “ To Develop the Next Generation of Leaders to be Unstoppable.” At our Gala in 2017, we presented a new Unstoppable Award to two leaders that showed our youth what Unstoppable Leadership looks like. The 2017 award recipients were:

Tony Bestinger of Innovative Office Solutions. Tony and his team act as our warehouse and logistics center during our High Five for Supplies impact event each summer.

Russ Helser of Mall of America. Russ manages the logistics team at MOA, he was the unstoppable logistics force to pulling off our World’s Largest Birthday Celebration!

THE NOLAN FLEMING YOUTH LEADERSHIP AWARD

Similar to the Jacque award, we wanted to honor the first youth leader who stepped up to start his own chapter. We presented Nolan Fleming with a Youth Leadership award. Nolan will honor youth each year moving forward with his named award.

We thank Innovative Office Solutions for their sponsorship of our beautiful awards.

Simon Eber receiving the Young Heroes Award

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A NOTE FROM MADDIEI am amazed that it has been one year already that I have gotten to be a part of Simon Says Give! Through this first year, I have been so fortunate to get to work with everyone on the KAB and our adult mentors, we have come so far in reaching our goals.

Our first ever Give Awards took place in January of 2018, at the Brave New Workshop, and it was great to see our hard work pay off!

We had a busy year full of lots of accomplishments, and I am so thankful that I am a part of it all!

Maddie Schlehuber Kid President | SSG Minnesota 2017-18

MINNESOTA CHAPTER

2017 HIGHLIGHTSSimon Says Give celebrated our 5th Birthday on April 13, 2017. WOW, what a year of celebration we had!

Fun Fact: We chose April 13th as our birthday, because that was the date of our first kid’s birthday party.

Summer of Impact: In an extremely busy six days, we supplied 2,500 Birthdays in a Box and 7,000 backpacks to our community.

World’s Largest Birthday Celebration: Simon Says Give turned 5 in 2017 and Mall of America turned 25, so we threw a party! Together, we created the World’s Largest Birthday Celebration, where we packed 2,500 Birthdays in a Box on August 8th. During the summer we had a “Box Office” (a store location) at the mall where our youth worked in with hundreds of volunteers getting ready for the big event. We can’t thank MOA enough for their partnership!

High Five for Supplies: A few days prior to our celebration at MOA, we conducted our High Five for Supplies event at St Thomas Academy with hundreds of volunteers! We delivered about 8,000 backpacks full of supplies to kids in our community!

Kid Advisory Board Give Awards: Throughout the year, our Kid Advisory Board team worked on the Give Awards. The Give Awards took place in January 2018. The award program from beginning to end was planned and paid for (via fundraising) by the Kid Advisory Board team. It was amazing to watch the team’s leadership skills, project management and public speaking abilities grow.

First Gala: In October, we celebrated our 5th Birthday and our record accomplishments with our first Gala. We celebrated with a sold-out crowd in a beautiful event space at Mall of America. The many youth that attended the event played at Nickelodeon Universe while the adults enjoyed beverages and desserts.

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Photo Credit: Jason Player

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A NOTE FROM NOLANOverall, it was a great year! I think we helped more kids, raised more money, gave more birthdays, and were fortunate to have meeting spaces donated to us by some caring business owners so we can store and pack our birthday supplies.

I got to go to Massachusetts to meet a new Kid Chapter President, Simon Eber, and help him start up a new chapter of Simon Says Give. Mandi Simon and I had a fun time hanging out with Simon getting to know each other.

I’d like to give special thanks to the officers from the Sioux Falls Police Department and the South Dakota Highway Patrol who donated their time both off and on duty to Simon Says Give. Their contribution has made a huge difference to kids in need and the kids in our organization. We value their partnership on our Cops vs Kids event as well as their time and talent they bring to us throughout the year. THANK YOU for all you do!

We are growing — here’s to impacting 2 million kids by 2022!!!

Nolan Fleming Kid President | SSG South Dakota

SOUTH DAKOTA CHAPTER

2017 HIGHLIGHTS• We had big goals for birthdays this year and we hit

them. We provided 250 Birthdays in a Box to kids in need. Big thanks to everyone who donated birthday gifts, supplies, who packed, shopped, sorted and helped deliver. It was an amazing year of kids celebrating kids!

• Jonah, Nolan, Brenna and Donnie travelled to Minneapolis to help our Minnesota chapter with the World’s Largest Birthday Celebration. We helped pack 2500 birthdays! It was 2 days of hard work and fun!

• We hosted our second annual Cops vs Kids event. We had a dozen or so SD Highway Patrol and SF Police Officers who participated in games and activities with kids in our community. This year we had even more kids in need who were able to attend and interact with our officers. We used this year’s event’s free-will donations for our Birthday in a Bag program so even more kids will be celebrated.

• We’ve just started a new partnership with Sicangu Child and Family Services to provide Birthdays in a Bag and winter clothing. Can you imagine not having a winter coat in South Dakota! Brrrrr!

• Our kid and adult advisory boards are awesome! We have some of the best people. They are dedicated, hard-working, fun, funny, just plain awesome. And the parents of our kid board, they are pretty great too.

• Our sponsors, volunteers and donors are the absolute best. Without them there’s no way we can do all we do. Thank you is not enough.

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2017 HIGHLIGHTSBirthdays: We hosted our first four birthday parties to celebrate some more great kids! Our new partner The Learning Hub provided a Gift of Learning to go with the Gifts of Fun and Need. Sweet and The Queen’s Cups have provided Birthday Cakes.

Fundraising: We received our first grant from Bay State Savings for $1000! Simon got to hold a big check. We had a wine tasting at The Wine Vine and raised over $1000 and Simon and his dad donated their birthdays and raised almost $5000! All totaled we raised more than $10,000 in 2017.

Community: We got a lot of media attention we didn’t expect in newspapers, on TV, and web sites. The Worcester Public Schools sent Simon a letter of appreciation. Simon’s new high school offered to create a club next year to support Simon Says Give.

2018 Goals: We will be building a kid board and working with volunteers all around the area to expand our chapter’s reach and celebrate even more kids!

A NOTE FROM SIMONI had no idea how fast things would take off for us in 2017. I thought our first year would be just figuring out what to do. Then I met a principal at a high-need school in our city. One thing led to another and I ended up coming up with an idea for our High Five for Supplies initiative.

That’s when things really got fun and busy! We ended up adopting that principal’s entire school (Columbus Park) and two other high-need schools in Worcester (Woodland Academy and Midland Street). We provided all the graduating elementary school classes backpacks in the color of their choice, filling them with all the supplies on their middle school lists, and presenting the backpacks directly to the students in June. Mandi and Nolan even came to help me present and meet the students at the first two schools!

All in all, we celebrated 161 graduating elementary school students with those backpacks.

Simon Eber Kid President | SSG Worcester

MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER

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A NOTE FROM MYLESSimon Says Give’s past year (2017) has been absolutely amazing. I participated in our Summer of Impact which impacted around 60,000 kids. I also presented at our first ever Simon Says Give Gala at the Mall of America.

I loved seeing our Simon Says Give family grow this year and include the wonderful events team at Mall of America and many more dedicated volunteers.

However, the most exciting part of Simon Says Give 2017 for me was the opening of Simon Says Give Evanston! Our team dedicated a lot of time into opening a new chapter in Evanston, IL near Northwestern University, the college I attend. This huge task is really exciting to me because we will actually be able to go out into the community and begin impacting the youths of the greater Chicago area.

Here in Evanston we plan to celebrate at least ten birthdays by the end of 2018 and that is really exciting for us!

Myles Bowen Chapter President | SSG Evanston, Illinois

ILLINOIS CHAPTER A NOTE FROM DINA ON EXPANSIONOften, I am asked how we have decided to start chapters where we have. The answer has been pretty easy up to this point! We have been approached by Nolan Fleming, Simon Eber and now Myles Bowen with a true desire to take our mission into their communities. Therefore, we have had a youth leader who duplicated our model where they live.

We are so excited to have Myles take Simon Says Give to college with him. This will be our first college campus experience and we look forward to supporting him to see what magic we can make in this new model!

We have a huge goal of impacting 2 million kids by the year 2022. We are so proud of the impact number of 121,525, but we have a long way to go to hit that larger number. We are looking forward to seeing how we might duplicate our efforts in thousands of communities without having to have formal chapters established. Maybe a “National Birthday in a Box” day?

Our Adult Board team is growing with leaders to think through how we can support our youth with big impact goals, and we look forward to hearing from any of you as to how we might tackle this fun impact challenge.

We are honored to have Nolan, Simon and Myles taking Mandi’s kitchen table idea when she was 8 years old, to what it is today. We thank our Kid Advisory Boards for their dedication to our chapters and the 1,500+ youth that have partnered in our accomplishments of 2017.

Dina Simon President | Simon Says Give

Photo Credit: Jason Player

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Minnesota Kid Advisory Board – Photo Credit: Jason Player

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MINNESOTAAdult BoardLouis AbramowskiBryan AltmanTrevor BeatyDevon BlockJeff BrownKent EnglerJennifer FlemingKendra GapinskiBen HansonBrittany LloydDina SimonTim Sitzmann

Committee MembersMilena Holmen –

Birthday CelebrationsMaggie Judge –

Kid Advisory Board Jenni Severson –

Development ChairMatt Dudley –

Development Committee

Kid Advisory Board Drew BeckstrandAnnabelle BroughtenMarissa BroughtenFinn ChalmersJessica Citron

Grace CopelandAinsley CoxBlake FritzPatrick GainorJohn HoveClare KirchnerRilie KupkaMaddie Schlehuber

Key VolunteersHIGH FIVE FOR SUPPLIES Sara AnondsonNick ApitzDevon BlockMyles BowenAnnabelle BroughtonMarissa BroughtonKendra GapinskiMilena HolmenDavid LymburnTim MalloyDave McLaughlinHeather McLaughlinJennifer MisgenMichael MisgenChris ParisKatie ParisDina SimonMandi SimonRich Simon

MALL OF AMERICALou AbramowskiAlexis AlcalaCelia AlcalaNick ApitzTrevor BeatyMyles BowenLori ChristiansonAinsley CoxMichele Smith-CoxDeb DonnellyKendra GapinskiMilena HolmenRachel HotvedtMall of America StaffHeather McLaughlinDavid McLaughlinAlly SchlanderJenni SeversonDina SimonRich SimonMandi SimonSimon Says Give Kid

Advisory Board - MNSimon Says Give Kid

Advisory Board - SDDavid Lymburn

GALAKristen AslesonColleen KahnSara Soli

SOUTH DAKOTAAdult Board Wendy AlexanderSheila AndersonJennifer FlemingBecky McElroyStacy MillardKeira RodriguezAndrew SteinhouseTaylor Templeton

Kids Advisory BoardAva Alexander Jared Christensen Ethan Fleming Jonah Fleming Nolan Fleming Cassidy Jennings Brenna McElroy Mara McElroy Truman Spawn

MASSACHUSETTSAdult BoardJim Eber

Kid Advisory BoardSimon Eber

ILLINOISAdult BoardMyles Bowen

BOARD MEMBERS & KEY VOLUNTEERS

Simon Says Give® is a nonprofit founded in 2011 by 8-year old, Mandi Simon. We support Kids Celebrating Kids® in four ways: Birthday Celebrations for kids in need, Youth Leadership opportunities, Chapter Passion Projects and our annual High Five for Supplies® drive.

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