The Foundation's Mission

Promoting great charities
Our goal to promote top performing charities accomplishes a number of things, the two most important being; bringing attention to top performing charities that are doing great work, and providing donors a trusted set of charities that eliminate the need for them to research the hundreds of thousands of charities that exist in the US alone. We feature charities that have passed our stringent charity selection process and ensure we present a selection that is diverse in size, location, cause, and area of influence. We limit our promotion to 12 top performing charities in each of 4 causes; Children, Community & Family; Animals & Environment; Health & Wellness; and Worldwide Disaster Relief. This approach ensures donors have a limited but diverse set of top performing charities to read about and from which they can quickly identify the charities they relate to the most.

Making donating easier and better for donors
Our goal to make donating easier and better is predicated on the fact that donations are typically made to a charity only when a charity or its agent asks for a donation - instead of to causes most dear to the donor, made when the donor feels generous. For this reason CHANCEtoGIVE Foundation has strived to revolutionize charitable giving through the internet and an iPhone app by enabling a donor to make a donation to a great charity in less than a minute. Other objectives addressed in designing the CHANCEtoGIVE Foundation's offering included:

• Ensuring that donors are informed about great charities.
• Enabling donors to make a donation as a gift card which can be sent to someone to celebrate special occasions.
• Ensuring that donation gift card recipients not only respect the donor for the donation but they also learn about these charities and participate in the donation.
• Enabling donors to make a donation anonymously, if they wish to avoid repeat appeals from a charity to which they have donated.
• Enabling donors to spread a single donation across multiple charities.
• Providing donors a record of and reports on all their donations.
• Ensuring donations can be made anytime, anyplace and quickly.
• Ensuring donations are sent to the selected charities in a timely manner.

Attract donations for great charities
Our success in providing donors a better way to donate is best measured through the generosity of donors using our tools. Having invested in these technologies and research on top performing charities we now strive to increase the number of donors using our tools so that we can attract the greatest funding possible for these charities.

The Foundation's Board of Directors

T. Charles Pierson
Mr. Pierson joined Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Texas as the Chief Executive Officer in February 2003 after being a volunteer with the organization since 1993. He served as a board member from 1996 to 2003 and served as board chair for the 2001-2002 term. Prior to BBBS, Mr. Pierson had a thirteen-year successful business career in for-profit channels and left his position as the general manager of Chase Elastomer, a $25 million business unit. Since joining Big Brothers Big Sisters as the CEO, the agency has increased its services by 180% over a six-year period and has decreased its cost/match by 30% over this same time period. This progress recently resulted in Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Texas being named as the 2007 Agency of the Year and Board of the Year in both 2008 and 2006 by BBBS of America. Even more importantly, the Agency is consistently listed as one of the Top 10 Quality Programs in the country out of 400 Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies throughout the United States. Mr. Pierson has been recognized with numerous academic, professional and community awards including 2001 Big Brother of the Year for the State of Texas and the 1997 Tom Vandergriff Leadership Award for the City of Arlington. Mr. Pierson is active as a Ministry Leader and Bible School Teacher in his church, the Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian. Mr. Pierson holds both a Bachelor's of Science and a Master's of Business Administration from Vanderbilt University where he played football and started for 2 and a half years. Mr. Pierson and wife, Pamela, live in Mansfield and have a daughter, Janae, who is eight and a son, Carl, who is five.

Wayne Sueltz
Wayne Sueltz is Managing Director of the Genesis10 Dallas Unit. Genesis10 is a national business and technology consulting firm. He has over 11 years professional management experience and has significant knowledge of both corporate and consulting environments. Within these two environments, his areas of expertise range from search/placement, account management and marketing, to vendor management, procurement and human resources. Wayne has extensive knowledge in the area of Human Resource Management and Organizational Strategy and design. In addition, he has lead the resourcing management and established best practices in the content/customer/call center arena. Wayne is active in his community. In particular, Wayne was District 5810 Interact Chair 2002 - 2006, Membership Chair for Park Cities Rotary 2003 - 2006 and Rotary GSE Committee Chair - 2008/2009. He is President of The Colony Roadrunners Club, and has run 30 marathons, and three 54 mile ultra marathons. He is race director for the Kids Chase as well as a certified youth coach and currently coaches soccer, baseball and football. Wayne holds a post graduate degree in Industrial Psychology and a Bachelors degree in Human Resource Management. He is listed in the International Who's Who He is married to Amanda and has 3 children.

The Foundation's Associates

Legal Counsel
Mac Ed Swindle: Senior Partner
Whitaker, Chalk, Swindle & Sawyer, LLP
301 Commerce Street, Suite 3500
Fort Worth, Texas

Certified Public Accountants
Steve Grissom: CEO & President
Grissom & Company
Certified Public Accountants
15770 Dallas Parkway, Suite 125
Dallas, Texas

Banking and Processing
Bank: Texas Capital Bank
Merchant: First Data
Processor: Authorize.Net