2023 Annual Report SBIRT
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2023 Annual Report Social Enterprises
Social enterprises at the Poverello Center, Inc. play a vital role in sustaining and enhancing our community impact. They bring financial stability, promote mission alignment, expand outreach, empower our diverse communities, and increase both visibility and engagement. We operate several thrift stores that receive/sell donated items and a 340b covered entity pharmacy program.
Social Enterprise – Thrift Stores in 2023 Made up 28.78% of total Agency Revenue. With two locations:
2056 N Dixie Hwy, Wilton Manors, FL 33305 (12,000 Square Feet) and
172 N Powerline Rd., Pompano Beach, FL 33066 (7,000 Square Feet)
Throughout the years, our thrift stores have made a remarkably positive impact in our community. In 2023 alone, we facilitated 72,273 revenue-generating transactions. Notably, Poverello’s thrift stores earned the prestigious title of ‘Best of Oakland Park’ in 2023. Furthermore, for every verified donor, we generated an average of $391.67, totaling $1,169,526.59 in sales for the year. Additionally, we allocated nearly 10% of the estimated value of donated items to charitable causes, providing essential resources such as a Braille machine to a Lighthouse for the Blind enabling a recipient client to read, clothing for the unhoused and job seekers, as well as assisting residents in drug and alcohol treatment centers and sober living homes. Benefitting clients have been from the following referring organizations: AHF, Broward House, SunServe, Sober Living Houses, House of Hope, Care Resource, Life Net 4 Families, Mathew E Wells MD/Sports Medicine, Scrapers, Project SOAR Recovery Residences, Unique Care Case Management Services and Broward Education Support Foundation’s Homeless Education Assistance Resource Team to name a few.
Poverello’s Thrift stores began a “boutique” concept in 2023, where higher end goods are separated to create an area of reasonably priced luxury items. Yet we remain one of the only true $1 stores with many of our items still only $1.
Social Enterprise – 340b Pharmacy in 2023 made $716,522.78 up from $157,189.04 in 2022 (^455%). The enterprise made up 17.62% of the agency’s total income in 2023. We operate the program as a Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) “covered entity” or grantee and conceptualize it as a Social Determinants of Health Clinic.
We contract with the following pharmacies to dispense our medications: Mahant Rx Inc. DBA Belle Glade Pharmacy, Robalo Pharmacy Palm Beach Gardens, Avita, Accredo, and Coordinated Care Network. Our third party administrator is Curam, LLC.
Together, the thrift store and pharmacy enterprises earned 46.40% of agency revenues in 2023 (38.24% in 2022 for comparison). These activities generate revenue per Full Time Equivalent (Both paid and volunteer).
City of Oakland Park
City of Pompano Beach
City of Wilton Manors
Health Resources and Services Administration
STI
Covered Entity
Grantee
Florida Department of Health
Social Determinants of Health
Health
Clinic
AHF
Broward House (AHF Affiliate)
SunServe (AHF Affiliate)
Care Resource
Lighthouse for the Blind
Life Net 4 Families
Mathew E Wells MD/Sports Medicine
Scrapers
Project SOAR Recovery Residences
Unique Care Case Management Services
Broward Education Support Foundation’s Homeless Education Assistance Resource Team (HEART)
Strategic Objective: “Increase our revenue through social enterprises.”
Palm Beach County Community Services Awards Ryan White Part A Funding to Poverello
February 9, 2021 – Palm Beach County, Florida The Palm Beach County Community Services Department’s Ryan White Part A procurement process has awarded Food Bank Services funding to The Poverello Center, Inc. for the first time. In the application for funding, the Poverello Center requested funding to provide a variety of food and food voucher services to residents of Palm Beach County living with HIV who are living under 400% of the Federal Poverty Level. The services would be unique in the county as they are a combination of services funded by the Ryan White Part A program and services funded through the Poverello Center Inc.’s other fundraising efforts. The idea is to have program participants choose whether they’d like physical food vouchers (which are really supermarket gift cards), electronic food vouchers (electronically transmitted grocery gift cards) or a weeks’ worth of groceries as part of Poverello’s Pop Up Eat Well Center events held in collaboration with other Ryan White Part A providers of Ambulatory/Outpatient Medical Care. Services begin March 1, 2021 and renew yearly until 2023. intake@poverello.org for more information.
POVERELLO VOLUNTEER “UNCLE AL” ISN’T SLOWING DOWN
In the clothing sorting area at the Poverello Thrift Store, “Uncle Al” has become a regular fixture, volunteering his time four mornings a week for well over a year now. Most people at Poverello probably don’t even know that his last name is Gibson, or that his friends also call him “Alley Paley.” But the connotation that this man is either your “uncle” or your “pal” says a lot about his character.
Born in Brooklyn, raised in the Bronx, and eventually settling in Seaford, Long Island, Al Gibson at 89 years of age is not even thinking about slowing down. “No matter what ails you, you’ve got to keep moving,” he said while taking a break from his volunteer duties. And when he’s not volunteering at Poverello, Uncle Al is the day manager at le Boy, a gay club in Fort Lauderdale.
In 1950, Uncle Al was drafted into the Army, serving for two years as a mess sergeant at Army bases in New Jersey, Georgia, Texas and California. But it was his service at Camp Desert Rock in Nevada that was the most memorable. For believe it or not, Al and his company were ordered outside to witness firsthand (and at relatively close range) an above ground test of an atomic bomb. “It goes without saying,” he remarked, “that it was an experience I will never forget.”
After he got out of the Army, Al went to work for his father and mother at their office furniture and interior design business, S. Gibson and Son. During this time, he married and had two sons and a daughter (and now six grandchildren as well). But it wasn’t long before he went his own way, purchasing a competitors office furniture and interior design business in the garment district of Manhattan. His sons took over running the business when he retired to Florida in 1980.
When Uncle Al arrived, he purchased a condo in Fort Lauderdale, where he still lives today. At the time, his mother was living in Broward County, with other relatives in the area as well. He eventually took a job as controller for American Excess, a company that bought and sold excess inventory. After leaving that position, and taking a much needed break, he was at it again, this time taking a job as a bartender at the Fort Lauderdale gay club Johnny’s. Before long his involvement at Johnny’s grew to working in the office and as a club manager. It was at Johnny’s that Uncle Al first became acquainted with Poverello. As part of his duties as a manager at the club, he would occasionally conduct auctions, raffles and car washes to benefit Poverello, raising a lot of cash for the charity. A little over a year ago, after operating for more than 30 years at its two locations, Johnny’s closed its doors, opening the next day as le Boy at its new location on 11th Street at the original Bill’s Filling Station location.
“Poverello is the greatest charity around,” Uncle Al remarked. “They do a world of good here, and they have a wonderful group of volunteers. I love working here and would do anything they asked me to do,” he added. “It’s part of what keeps me going.”
Article written by James Stoup, Poverello Volunteer
03/16/2018.
POVERELLO SELECTED TO IMPLEMENT SBIRT
Poverello has been selected to implement Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), with technical assistance from the Evidence-Informed Interventions (E2i) Coordinating Center for Technical Assistance (CCTA), Fenway Institute, AIDS United and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB). The 15 month program will bring the Eat Well Center staff evidence based screening for things like substance abuse, mental health and smoking. “Getting into care has always been a priority for us, now we’re able to make sure our program participants are accessing broader care, including substance abuse and mental health counseling and smoking cessation” CEO Thomas Pietrogallo, LCSW, MBA stated. The program utilizes brief questions to ensure people who may need treatment are engaged in community care sites that provide these services. Pietrogallo said, “We want our program participants to eat well, live well and be well. Ensuring they have access to high quality services available in the community is an important way we can help them achieve healthy outcomes.” Ryan White Part A conducted a mental health focus group in 2016 that indicated local recipients needed better information about available services. This funding partially addresses this need. The program will refer participants back to the provider of their choice for mental health, substance abuse or smoking cessation counseling. For more information, check out AIDS United’s prior grantees here.
Ryan White Part A Contracted Amount Nearly Fully Spent
In a letter dated 06.07.17, CEO Thomas Pietrogallo advised the Community Partnerships Division of Broward County that the contracted amounts for the Ryan White Part A Food Voucher (Healthy Foods Gift Card Program) would be expended by the end of June and the Food Pantry contracted amounts expended by the end of July. The County only contracted for half of the Ryan White Part A awards this year as the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) only provided Broward County half of the money awarded them. 06.07.17 Letterhead to Mr. Jones