Smart Business Magazine, January 2019

Winter 2019 Smart Business Cincinnati Northern Kentucky 17 W hen Sandi Sandra Kuehn accepted the position as president and CEO at the Center for Addiction Treatment she had three very connected objectives The first objective was to support the nonprofits core mission The goal was to create a physical environment that would be therapeutic for patients and foster a positive work environment for staff It had met capacity in its existing facility and needed to consider expansion Second salaries for staff were very low embarrassingly low To do good work an organization needs dedicated happy employees There was never any doubt about the dedication of the team but it was time to make sure compensation matched commitment and was at least comparable to other nonprofits Finally to meet both of these goals it was clear more revenue and more diverse funding streams were needed The nonprofit had to ensure it could remain fiscally sound now and years down the road With the support of a great team Kuehn says the Center for Addiction Treatment has achieved all three By securing additional grants and public funding and executing a successful capital campaign the nonprofits operating budget has grown in the last 10 years from approximately 13 million to nearly 7 million In that same 10 year period the staff has more than doubled to 110 positions And in 2017 it opened its new 22000 square foot Spaulding Recovery and Family Care Building to expand service offerings to include primary care and additional mental health counseling Sandi Sandra Kuehn President and CEO Center for Addiction Treatment L earning Through Art Inc provides quality performing arts programs in support of arts integrated education literacy community development and engagement encouraging multi cultural awareness and understanding Its co founder and CEO Kathy Wade has utilized LTA as the platform to build community through art from classrooms to corporate boardrooms for 26 years She has created written and produced LTAs programs of cultural arts to increase opportunities for collaboration arts education artistic growth community engagement and economic development within the Greater Cincinnati community and beyond Tapping into her own lifelong love of the arts Wade is committed to creating LTA programs based in social emotional learning that build bridges break down barriers and bring neighbors and neighborhoods together in celebration of the mosaic beauty of our region and world Since 1992 Learning Through Art has served over 1 million community participants of all ages instilling a sense of art appreciation cultural understanding and connectedness Wade has dedicated her life to art She created and produced 21 summers of cultural performing arts programming to engage neighbors to meet neighbors She created the Macys Kids Cultures Critters and Crafts Festival in 2005 with initially free now 1 all day admission to the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden where over 185000 neighbors meet each other while celebrating the mosaic beauty with an international performance schedule Wade believes artists must give back what they have taken out of the community Through her approach to building community through art she works hard to give back every day Kathy Wade Co founder and CEO Learning Through Art Inc N O N P R O F I T E X E C U T I V E D I R E C T O R O F T H E Y E A R AWA R D N O N P R O F I T E X E C U T I V E D I R E C T O R O F T H E Y E A R AWA R D