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MARCH 2017 CONNECTING PEOPLE WHO CARE WITH CAUSES THAT MATTER

We’re Doing It Again! Give Local St. Joseph County ReturnsAfter our $6.77 million success in 2015, we’re doing it again—with more charities and an even bigger matching pool.

On May 5, 2015, the Community Foundation launched St. Joseph County’s first-ever 24-hour “giving day.” Fifty-three local charities participated in Give Local St. Joseph County, working hard to raise money and capture a share of the matching pool.

When the event ended at midnight, the results were mind-boggling: $6.77 million had been raised in some 5,500 gifts.

The success of the Give Local St. Joseph County “exceeded everyone’s expectations,” says Rose Meissner, president of the Community Foundation. “The generosity of our community is truly exceptional.”

Now, two years after that stunning success, we’re doing it again: The Community Foundation will host our second Give Local St. Joseph County on Tuesday, May 9, 2017, in celebration of our 25th Anniversary. This year, the pool of matching funds is even bigger: $2.4 million.

Once again, Give Local St. Joseph County is designed to support local charities now and from now on. How? By passing through 75% of net dollars raised for each charity to support current programming, and by placing the other 25%—plus generous matching funds—into each

HIGHLIGHTSThe Community Foundation is partnering with the St. Joseph County Public Library to help envision the future of the Main Library in downtown South Bend. With Community Foundation support, the library will be working with Miguel Figueroa, director of the American Library Association’s Center for the Future of Libraries, to gather public feedback and shape plans for meeting our community’s needs going forward.

As part of our ongoing efforts to support quality of care in local nursing facilities, we’re offering a four-session professional development opportunity for local nursing home administrators and directors of nursing. Conducted by national consultants Cathie Brady and Barbara Frank, the sessions will cover high-involvement performance, patient-centered care, staff development, and site-wide communication. To learn more, contact Angela Workman at the Community Foundation.

Recently, the Community Foundation’s African American Community Fund supported two high-profile events that underscored the importance of African Americans in the arts: the South Bend Symphony Orchestra’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Concert, and Indiana University South Bend’s “Lift Every Voice: Celebrating the African American Spirit” concert.

Dr. Marvin Curtis conducts the SBSO’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Concert

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DATE: Tuesday, May 9, 2017

WHY? Celebrating the Community Foundation’s 25th Anniversary

WHO’S INVOLVED? 67 local charities will participate in this 24-hour fundraising event hosted by the Community Foundation

HOW IT WORKS: Participating charities raise funds that support current operations AND build permanent resources, competing for a share of a $2.4 million pool of matching funds

LEARN MORE: GiveLocalSJC.org

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Judd Leighton: A Special Relationship

Add Tuesday, May 9, 2017, to your calendar and visit www.GiveLocalSJC.org to see a list of the 67 participating charities. It’s going to be a BIG day with a BIG impact!

Local businessman and philanthropist Judd Leighton had a special relationship with the Community Foundation. A member of our founding Board, Leighton was one of the Foundation’s earliest champions. In honor of this relationship and in recognition of the Foundation’s 25th Anniversary, the Judd Leighton Foundation made a $1 million challenge gift to help jump-start the Give Local St. Joseph County matching pool.

A small group of committed donors

stepped up to meet the Judd Leighton Foundation’s challenge—Cressy Foundation; Frank Family Fund; Jon & Sonja Laidig Foundation; Leighton-Oare Foundation, in memory of Judd and Mary Morris Leighton; Mary Alice, Regina & George A. Resnik Fund; Dot and Dar Wiekamp, Dennis J. Schwartz, and Julie and Jim Schwartz; Marjorie H. Wilson Charitable Trust Fund; and Anonymous. Together, these generous donors have built the matching pool to $2.4 million to benefit our local charities.

Give by check, made payable to Community Foundation of St. Joseph County. You can benefit multiple charities with a single check—just be sure to list the charities and the amounts you want each to receive. The Community Foundation must receive your check no later than May 9, 2017, so plan to mail it early.

Give by credit card, online. Make a gift at our secure website GiveLocalSJC.org on May 9, 2017, using your credit or debit card. NEW THIS YEAR: You can schedule online gifts at GiveLocalSJC.org in advance any time after our preview period begins on May 1, 2017. You can also make a credit card gift by phone: WNDU-TV will host a televised phone bank on May 9.

Give a gift of appreciated stock. Contact the Community Foundation for instructions on how to transfer gifts of stock. (Transfers of stocks or mutual funds take time, so plan to initiate the transfer when our preview period begins on May 1.) You’ll need to confirm the date, type, and number of shares and the charities you wish to benefit.

Give from an IRA. Donors over age 70½ can transfer assets directly from their IRA plans to the Community Foundation for Give Local St. Joseph County. Such transfers count toward the donor’s annual required minimum distribution and are not included in the donor’s income. Contact your IRA plan administrator to initiate a transfer; also, let the Community Foundation know how you want the gift allocated.

Give through a Donor Advised Fund with the Community Foundation.

How can I make a gift for Give Local?

On May 9, 2017, look for the “Donation Station” at the Jon R. Hunt Plaza outside the Morris.

charity’s permanent endowment with the Community Foundation, increasing the annual support that each charity receives year after year.

Sixty-seven charities will participate in Give Local St. Joseph County, including organizations that work in education, health and human services, arts and culture, animal welfare, aging, parks and recreation, and many other areas.

To learn how you can help your favorite charity earn its share of the matching

pool, take a look at our sidebar (“How can I make a gift for Give Local?”). To qualify for matching funds, the minimum gift amount is $25. For up-to-date information, follow the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County on Facebook. And don’t worry: You’ll also be hearing plenty about Give Local St. Joseph County from the nonprofit organizations that are participating as the big day approaches.

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Just as in 2015, Give Local St. Joseph County is designed to support local charities now and from now.

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This past February, the Community Foundation lost a wonderful friend and founding Board member—Fred Crowe, co-founder of the nationally-recognized accounting firm Crowe Horwath. Through their donor-advised fund with the Community Foundation, Fred and his wife Rosemary provided support to many of their favorite local charities, focusing on education, economic development, social services, and their Catholic faith.

A South Bend native, Fred graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1949 with a degree in accounting. Shortly after that, he and his colleagues Mendel Piser and Clete Chizek founded the accounting firm Crowe Chizek, now known as Crowe Horwath. Today, the firm has thousands of employees throughout the country.

Focusing on Our Donors: Fred Crowe

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Like Fred Crowe, you can work with the Community Foundation to create a donor-advised fund for your family or your business. Visit www.cfsjc.org/for-donors to learn more.

Community Foundation Awards Four Lilly Endowment ScholarshipsThe Community Foundation has awarded 2017 Lilly Endowment Community Scholarships to four local high school seniors. These highly competitive scholarships provide winners with four-year, full-tuition scholarships and a book stipend at any Indiana college or university.

Congratulations to (clockwise from right) Alejandra Escobedo, Washington High School; Nathan Glaser, Washington High School; Julia Kwak, Penn High School; and Tess Ngochi, Riley High School.

This year’s Lilly pool was the most competitive ever: The

Fred believed that businesses, as well as individuals, needed to demonstrate social responsibility. In 1993, he was part of establishing the Crowe Horwath Community Foundation Fund.

“Fred Crowe helped cultivate a tradition of service at Crowe Horwath that continues to this day,” says Rose Meissner, president of the Community Foundation. “Crowe Horwath has always placed a high value on the importance of being good corporate citizens. The firm demonstrates the gold standard of community service.”

“Crowe Horwath has always placed a high value on the importance of being good corporate citizens,” Rose Meissner says.

Clockwise from top right: Alejandra Escobedo,Nathan Glaser, Julia Kwak, and Tess Ngochi

Community Foundation received a record-breaking 173 applications from 14 schools.

In addition to distributing the Lilly Scholarships, the Community Foundation awards more than $775,000 in scholarships each year to local students.

Would you like to provide a boost to deserving local students? You can establish a scholarship in your name or the name of a loved one: Learn more at www.cfsjc.org/scholarships.

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The Community Foundation has awarded more than $185,000 in ArtsEverywhere Grants as part of our winter grant cycle. These include:

• aMajorVenturegrant,worth$150,000overthreeyears,tohelp The History Museum upgradetheOliverMansion’selectrical system to ensure its long-termviability

• agranttosupportmultipleprogramsthatcovertheartsinour county on WNIT-TV

• agranttodevelopvisualartslessonsplanstobenefitK-5students in the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation

• agranttosupportproductioncosts associated with two concertsperformedbyPatchwork Dance Company

and others. For more details on the scope of these grants and namesofotherrecipients,visitwww.cfsjc.org/grants.

Winter Cycle ArtsEverywhere Grants

Meissner Receives Athena AwardThe South Bend Regional Chamber of Commerce recognized Community Foundation president Rose Meissner with its 2017 Athena Award, presented in February at the Chamber’s Salute to Business event at Century Center.

The Chamber presents the Athena Award annually to an individual “who has attained and embodies the highest level of professional excellence in his/her career, has devoted time and energy to improve the quality of life for others in the community, and assists women in realizing their leadership

potential.” Previous Athena winners include Becky Zaseck, president and CEO of REAL Services, and Debie Coble, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries.

The Chamber praised Meissner for the growth and success of the Community Foundation, which she has helped to lead for 25 years. Under her direction, the organization has grown to be one of the top 100 community foundations in the United States.

Some 900 people attended the event.

Rose Meissner, accepting the Athena Award in February 2017