Luke’s FastBreaks supports children, adolescents, and young adults diagnosed with cancer. We strive to promote normalcy and restore dignity during treatment by replacing the hospital gown with our unique Medical Shirts.

We pray for a world where all children can experience normalcy without pain or sickness.

Source: Nonprofit submitted responses

Goal One: Our first goal is to be able to support the growing number of children who need our medical shirts. The medical shirt requests have tripled over the last two years.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Two: Our second goal is to primarily focus on the medical shirt, keeping all other costs down so we can provide the essential items to the patients.

Goal Type: Focus on core programs to achieve mission and scale back on programs not seen as core.

Goal Three: Our third goal is to increase our donor and volunteer base within our community and abroad. We are also holding more events each year to raise funds.

Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.

Describe an investment in leadership

Luke's recently paid for a continuing education course and the exectutive director now has a certifcate in non-profit management. Luke's also invests in the future of our youth by conducting volunteer sessions with middle school youth who will learn from this experiene and take it with them to become future leaders in our society.

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Strategic Partnerships

• Thought Leadership

• Raising Awareness

• Community Building

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

Luke's raises awareness of our mission by regularly posting succcess stories about our patients on our web site. We publish a monthly newsletter to our donars and patients to keep them apprised of the activites of Luke's. We engage and partner with hospitals across the country to ensure they are aware of the mission of Luke's. We provide sample shirt packages to the hospitals so they have a tangible example of the shirts we provide and they show the patients what they can expect when they order a care package. We engage with child life specialists at hospitals across the county to educate them on the misson of Luke's. Monthly, we present a child life specialist award to the individual who most exemplifies the mission of Lukes. Further, as mentioned above, Luke's also in the future of our youth by conducting volunteer sessions with middle school youth who will learn from this experiene and take it with them to become future leaders in our society.

Adapability was a big part of what Luke's Fastbreaks has had to address over the past year. We had a significant change in our workforce. Layoffs and new hires occurred. A new support person was added as well as shift from the full time bookkeeper to a parttime volunteer bookeeper. We also are still fully ingrating the new Executive Director. We have significantly changed our model away from one that focuses on hospital visits to one that is now more focused on providing care packages directly to patients. Historically hospitals were provided shirts to handout to patients and now they are only provided a few sample shirts. With supply change issues and shortages we were forced to adabt to a more prolonged order strategy. We now forecast out for a full year to determine what the care package needs will be and place orders for shirts / supplies that may be 9 months out. For a period of time we had to adept to not being able to conduct fundraisers. Fortunately in the last 12 months we have been able to rengage with our donors in this manner. We adapted by creating a more steamlined care package. We realized our care packages had become much more than the core shirt and determined there were some items that did not need to be included going forward.