The Second Mile has repeatedly asserted that it served more than 100,000 children across the state last year, but the number who received sustained or ongoing attention is much smaller, according to its reports.
For example, the organization counts as "children served" those who received a set of trading cards featuring photos of Penn State University athletes and inspirational messages. It also counts students who watched anti-bullying videos it distributed and foster children who got free tickets to amusement parks or baseball games. A leading child welfare expert described those activities as "low-dose" services of questionable value.
Although The Second Mile holds state licenses as a foster care and private children and youth services provider, annual inspection reports by the Department of Public Welfare going back to 1998 have repeatedly said The Second Mile served no children pursuant to those licenses.
The most recent report says "the mission of the agency has changed from directly providing foster care placement services to an intensive foster family support program" with 69 events "including amusement park outings, theatrical performances, puppet shows, minor league baseball games, snow tubing and holiday parties."
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Anne Bale, spokeswoman for the welfare department, said the records show that the organization stopped providing foster care sometime in the 1980s but maintained its license "to help them fundraise."..........................................
The Second Mile has derived its income from corporate and individual donations and fundraising events, including golf outings each year. According to The Second Mile's federal filings as a tax-exempt organization, total revenue for the year ended Aug. 31, 2010, was $2.2 million, down from $3.3 million the prior year.
The organization paid $1.6 mill- ion in salaries and benefits to employees, including $132,923 to Mr. Raykovitz, who resigned after charges against Mr. Sandusky were filed, and $100,580 to Ms. Genovese, who has kept her post.
Dr. Gelles said the case generated a "teachable moment" for would-be donors: He recommended that they examine IRS Form 990s that nonprofits are required to file documenting their revenues and expenditures.
"Remember that their annual report is a publicity document," he said.
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Second Mile was a sham promoted by Penn State. Half of he money raised was paying salaries. I would love to know who holds the license agreement to those decks of cards of Penn State Athletes and who produced them and sold them to Second Mile. My guess would be Penn State or Joe Paterno.
I only found it earlier because a news article linked to the exact site.
. 100 pages and no charges were filed! To me, that is a crime in its self. There are so many people in the know, and the numbers have just multiplied with each passing year. I am not a young person so am bewildered that in the circles the Sanduskys ran, and as open as he was with his "new" friends, that the higher ups did not tell him to stop appearing in public with them. Also, I would have thought the women would have grown very suspicious that Sandusky always had a boy child with him and his wife was not included. 
