KSI ANNUAL REPORT

KSI is entering its 50th year serving the community, and we couldn't be more excited. Now more than ever, we're thankful for the dedicated participants, families, providers, board members, stakeholders, businesses, volunteers and staff whose tireless efforts through the last five decades have grown and sustained KSI in our mission to provide employment opportunities for persons with disabilities.

This year, we've made a concerted effort to engage Delaware's elected and appointed officials in KSI's future as well.  Delaware's Governor Jack Markell, Lieutenant Governor Matt Denn, Department of Health and Social Services Secretary Rita Landgraf, Secretary of the Department of Transportation Shailen Bhatt, and others had the opportunity to personally tour KSI and understand some of the funding and support issues affecting participant services. 

Nowhere was that need for support more evident than with KSI transportation services. KSI busses and vans traveled an amazing 1,138,161 miles providing participant transportation this past year. That extensive mileage represents a real funding challenge for the operation and maintenance of our transportation service. With that in mind, we are very grateful for The Longwood Foundation grant provided for the next fiscal year to help replace higher-mileage vehicles and bolster our transportation services. 

As an indication of the growing momentum going into 2012, we gained several new customers and saw many of our existing customers increase their utilization of KSI business services and KSI Cartridge Service. Total subcontracted income topped $3.3 million, including both work crews and facility work.  Additionally, our 22nd Annual 3 Club Golf Tournament raised more than $21,000 to support KSI's programs, an increase over last year's event. 

We saw strong performance from KSI Cartridge Service, selling more than 11,711 cartridges this past year to its customer base of 612 businesses and individuals.  The Cartridge Service generated approximately $782,373 in revenues.  In a challenging economy, our compatible cartridge manufacturing operations managed to preserve much of its revenues over the previous fiscal year.

 As we enter our next 50 years, our continued partnerships are crucial to KSI's effectiveness.  Once again, we Thank the agencies, service groups, community groups, businesses and other partners that have generously supported and shown their confidence in KSI and the work we do. We also express our deepest appreciation for our program participants, staff and Board of Directors for the hard work you've done during the last year. KSI is about people helping  people. And with these amazing people, we're able to provide those services so crucial to our participants' lives.

Craig Crouch
KSI CEO