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2016 Annual Report Helping Good People Build Smart and Caring Communities 2016 ANNUAL REPORT helping good people build smart and caring communities niagaracommunityfoundation.org OUR VISION Realizing community dreams through philanthropy. Contents Message from the OUR MISSION Board Chair and 3 The Niagara Community Foundation improves the quality of life in Niagara Executive Director through philanthropy. Priorities, Strategies and Plans 4 Grant 6 OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES Stories ENABLE, COLLABORATE AND TRANSFORM: Grants Enable community improvement by providing funding and community knowledge. Awarded 13 Bring organizations together to form partnerships based on the respective strengths of each organization to focus on key community priorities. Donor-directed 16 Grants DEMONSTRATE PHILANTHROPIC LEADERSHIP: Donor 18 Demonstrate expertise and best practice in philanthropic leadership. Stories PUT NIAGARA FIRST: Endowment Funds Continue to Grow 24 Communicate and support the Niagara story. Build community leadership. Seek and develop individuals who will bring leadership to the community. Donors, Memorial 27 and Tribute Gifts BE TRUSTWORTHY AND TRANSPARENT: Engage in practices that are open, accessible, fair, objective, flexible, timely and Financial and Governance 30 built on a foundation of respect, trust, integrity and honesty. Highlights ENSURE SOUND GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT: Board of Directors, Ensure that the Niagara Community Foundation governance and management is Committees and 33 Sponsors sound, relevant and realizes its full fiduciary responsibility. EXECUTIVE MESSAGE “NEVER DOUBT THAT A SMALL GROUP OF THOUGHTFUL, COMMITTED CITIZENS CAN CHANGE THE WORLD; INDEED, It’S THE ONLY THING THAT EVER HAS.” MARGARET MEAD, AMERICAN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST Madeline Woodhead Bryan J. Rose Board Chair Executive Director In a year of change and transition, we pause to reflect on the past An organization like ours can only accomplish what we do thanks year and remind ourselves of the work that is done by the Foundation to the countless volunteers who freely give of their time and talent. – and countless others in the Niagara Region – similarly comprised The last few pages of the report provides an extensive listing of our of thoughtful and committed citizens who make our community volunteers and supporters. Our success and impact in the community stronger each and every day. We are proud to share with you the would not be possible without these individuals and organizations. accomplishments from the past year of our donors, volunteers, staff, grant beneficiaries, charitable partners and community leaders. This year we express our gratitude to two steadfast volunteers to the Through the twists and turns that 2016 has provided, it has certainly Foundation. Former Board Chair Jodi Lycett and Grants Committee been another banner year for the Foundation. Chair Richard Gark have completed their terms of service to the Board of Directors. You would be hard pressed to find stronger advocates The Foundation’s activity continues to be guided by the 2015-2017 for the Foundation than these two individuals. Their experience, Strategic Plan. You can find the highlights on the following page. counsel and dedication to the organization will be missed around Initial work on the next Strategic Plan has already begun as we look the Board table. to build on the momentum and impact that we have had throughout the Region. Finally, it would be remiss to not acknowledge Madeline Woodhead’s extraordinary service to the Foundation. Her term as Board Chair One of the main priorities for the year was the transition of a new will be coming to end this Spring. The impact of her strength and Executive Director. Since Liz Palmieri’s retirement in May 2016, more leadership – including taking on an extra year as Chair – is a major than filling shoes, Bryan has been able to stand on the shoulders of reason for the smooth transition between Liz and Bryan. Madeline will a giant. Meeting with key stakeholders, donors, charity partners and pass the torch to Robert Watson, but thankfully for the Foundation, she volunteers has been the top of Bryan’s agenda and – anecdotally – will be close at hand to continue to provide sage advice and support. one of the most enjoyable parts of the role! We are very pleased to report that in 2016 we were able to inject Madeline Woodhead, Board Chair $1.3 million into the Region through our robust grants program. Please Bryan J. Rose, Executive Director take some time to read the stories of some of our community grants, starting on page 6 and also to review the list, on page 16, of charities supported by our donor directed grants. Through these grants our vision ‘realizing community dreams through philanthropy’ comes alive. The funds supporting these grants can be found starting on page 25. 3 PRIORITIES, STRATEGIES, PLANS HIGHLIGHTS 2016 was another banner year for the Foundation. Here are some Niagara Prosperity Initiative of the highlights of the Foundation’s impact in the Niagara Region: The Niagara Prosperity Initiative (NPI), funded by Niagara Region, ■ Awarded $1.3 million in grants bringing the total amount is a partnership of public, private and voluntary organizations working to reduce poverty in Niagara. In 2016, funding was granted since 2001 to $9.7 million renewed to support two Convener positions enabling us to bring ■ Approved 26 new endowment funds and 8 legacy gifts bringing organizations together to share resources, implement best practices the total endowment to $30.5 million, representing a 5.9% and collaboratively access funds to support a variety of poverty- increase reduction initiatives and programs to support the needs of children ■ Transition of a new Executive Director and families throughout the Region. Staff from the Foundation also ■ Launched four new Community Fund Committees in Grimsby, assisted with the review of the grant applications for $1.5 million in Lincoln, Niagara-on-the-Lake and Welland NPI funding. ■ Hosted three successful Community Fund Launch Events in Niagara Connects Grimsby, Lincoln and Niagara-on-the-Lake The Foundation has been a partner with this project since the ■ Initiated the Foundation’s eleventh Community Fund in the Town organization’s inception. Niagara Connects, a Niagara-wide of Thorold thanks to the leadership and support of Mayor Luciani network for collaboration, planning, learning, innovation and ■ Continued efforts with eight charities on bolstering their Planned community action toward a stronger future for Niagara, has four Giving programs through with the Legacy Partners Program core products: Living in Niagara Report, Niagara Knowledge Exchange, Niagara Community Calendar and Linking Niagara. ■ Hosted a three-part webinar series highlighting the Governance Partners Program based on the Imagine Canada Standards External Investment Managers Program Program The Foundation is always looking for new ways to help donors in ■ Began the process to secure our own Imagine Canada Standards achieving their philanthropic goals and to work with professionals Re-Accreditation in the financial, estate and investment world in mutually beneficial ■ Launched our Make Your Mark campaign to create 150 new relationships. In 2012, the Foundation created the External Investment endowments in celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary Managers Program which allows assets gifted to a newly created fund to be invested outside of Foundation’s Consolidated Investment We realize that collaborative partnerships with funders and other Fund in a portfolio managed by the donor’s recommended investment organizations will go a long way toward ensuring that our grant firm. This program is available for advisors who have been licensed recipients, their clients and our donors receive quality service and as a portfolio manager actively involved in discretionary investment support from the Foundation. Here are some examples of how the management of segregated portfolios for a minimum of three years. Foundation has partnered with others: The minimum donation required for a fund manager to participate in this program is $1,000,000. Gifts under this amount will be considered on a case-by-case basis. There are currently four portfolio managers participating in this program. 4 NIAGARA COMMUNITY FOUndation 2016 ANNUAL Report | helping good people build smart and caring communities FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS: GIFTS RECEIVED: $2,740,250 GROWTH IN ASSETS: 9% GRANTS AWARDED: $1,309,871 OPERATING EXPENSES: (excluding special projects) 1.41% endowment GROWTH IN GRANTS 2001 - 2016 $1,600,000 $1,400,000 Total grants $1,200,000 Donor-directed $1,000,000 Discretionary $800,000 $600,000 $400,000 $200,000 $0 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 NIAGARA COMMUNITY FOUndation 2016 ANNUAL Report | helping good people build smart and caring communities 5 GRANTS enable community dreams NIAGARA PUMPHOUSE ARTS CENTRE It’s easy to tap into our inner artists as adults. Programs abound for grown-ups to pick up paint brushes, mold clay, or try their hands at drawing. Similarly, the options are plentiful for exposing children to the wonders of creativity. The Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre wanted to give those same experiences to local teens after realizing ARTISTIC the opportunities for satisfying their creative spirits weren’t as fulsome. It set about to change that last year by OPPORTUNITIES offering three new youth programs: an after-school art studio, pottery workshops, and camps for 12 to 17 FOR TEENS year-olds. A grant from the Niagara Community Foundation would help in its mission. The money would be used to develop programming, buy equipment and sell the art courses to Niagara’s young and creative. The Pumphouse worked with Brock University to develop a marketing plan to reach youth. It partnered with the local public library to offer joint programming. All of it helped provide Niagara’s young people with another creative outlet. Photography, digital art, pottery, cartooning and graphic novels, palette knife painting and printmaking were all added to the roster last summer. Sixteen youth registered for the programs. Others took out student memberships at the centre. Family memberships at the Pumphouse also jumped.
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