ABOUT CLEARWAY FOUNDATION

Clearway Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides funding for activities that support and promote non-profit Christian Science nursing, such as Visiting Nurse Service organizations, training for Christian Science nurses, and established care facilities for Christian Scientists. We provide funds to non-profit care facilities to help guests unable to meet the costs on their own.

The activity of Clearway Foundation is under the guidance of a Board of Trustees, each of whom is a class-taught Christian Scientist. Irv Levine (President); Burt Irwin (Vice President); Barbara Flanders (Secretary/Treasurer); other Board Members: Vince Brown, Tina Deaton, David Talcott, Barry Walson. The Board of Trustees receives no remuneration for its services. Therefore, our operational/administrative costs of raising funds for care facilities are low. Each request for funds is carefully screened to establish the validity of the need. Prayer characterizes our efforts to express wisdom, prudence, and compassion in making decisions. An office is maintained in the home of our Executive Secretary, Lois Larsen for the orderly management of the Foundation's business.

We are grateful to the many donors who have provided loving and gracious financial support of Clearway. Their tax deductible donations to Clearway help support Christian Science nursing care facilities and nursing training programs across the country.

Our activity is broad in scope and is not confined to the support of any one facility. Clearway has made significant contributions to over two dozen care facilities and nursing organizations in the United States and Canada. Thanks to the generous support of contributors, over $1,700,000 in financial assistance has been made to nursing facilities during our 24-year history,

Clearway Foundation considers and supports the need of care facilities for benevolence, emergency operating funds, repairs, equipment, and debt-reduction, based on a review of their operations and current financial statement. Funds are not available for building, start-up costs and/or expansion purposes, or endowments.

In recent years Clearway has offered matching grants to several care facilities to help them raise money. The facility can encourage donations by letting its supporters know that, for each dollar contributed, Clearway will donate a matching amount. Experience has shown that this method achieves a more successful contribution campaign than there would have been without the matching grant program.