Embracing OUR FUTURE 2016 ANNUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 Message from the Executive Director and Chair 4 Staff Message 6 Board Members 9 Signature Grant Profile 10 Grant Profiles 14 Fund Profiles 22 PotashCorp Saskatoon Community Foundation Cultural Gala 24 2016 Grants 40 Making Contact 42 Strategic Alliance Award 45 Leadership Award 47 Year in Review 50 Endowed Funds 58 Our Donors 66 Volunteers 2 SCF has undergone strategic planning to strength of our long-term endowment ensure we are responsive to key issues model. The market may fluctuate, but in our community. Our granting focus on our management strategy allows us the first 2000 days of life has supported to maintain consistent support to our projects which will help to define a healthier, community through challenging times. The more resilient generation of young people Foundation implemented a new Statement to come. As well, in 2016 board and staff of Investment Principles for our investments. united in the decision to make reconciliation The Statement was developed by our issues a major focus for our activities in Investment Committee under the guidance 2016 and the years to come. SCF signed the of AON Hewitt and approved by our Board. Philanthropic Community’s Call to Action on The Statement’s asset mix is designed to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s provide stable long term returns and now 94 recommendations. Our staff participated makes provision for investments in real in the reconciliation walk, Reconciliation estate and mortgage pooled funds. Gathering at Wanuskewin, and the Wichihitowin Conference on Aboriginal Since 1970, the Saskatoon Community Engagement. We also sponsored a Foundation has been building a base of screening of the Gord Downie film “The support for local charities that will last Secret Path.” forever. As our funds grow, so does our ability to help our community. In 2016, SCF Random Act of Kindness Day set new continued its high level of support for the records for participation and helped to spur community with $5.17 million in grants, A COMMUNITY FOUNDATION IS ALWAYS the growing success of our social media, bringing our total grants since 1970 to over A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE PAST AND with more volunteers and more Kindness $29 million! The majority of these millions Crews than ever before, keeping SCF have been granted in recent years, and this THE FUTURE. WE REPRESENT THE present in the public eye. The PotashCorp will continue to grow in future. Our donors WILL OF DONORS FROM THE PAST Saskatoon Community Foundation Cultural have continued to put their trust in the 46 YEARS WHO HAVE ENTRUSTED US Gala celebrated its Diamond Anniversary, community foundation’s management, with earning $225,000.00 for our community. It $2.3 million in gifts received in 2016. It was WITH THEIR GIFTS TO THE COMMUNITY, gave us a chance to recognize the special a challenging year in the financial markets, AND WE MUST HONOUR THOSE GIFTS contributions of Donald and Mardele with our investments earning a return of AND INTENTIONS IN GOOD FAITH. BY Atchison by creating a permanent endowed 3.22%, which brings our 10 year average fund in their name. return to 5.11%. THE SAME TOKEN, WE SERVE THE COMMUNITY IN THE PRESENT DAY, AND With many changes on the world scene, The Saskatoon Community Foundation WE MUST STRIVE TO BE RESPONSIVE 2016 was a challenging year for any would like to thank the thousands organization involved in management of of donors who have helped to build AND RELEVANT TO THE NEEDS OF investments. Despite somewhat lower a permanent base of support for SASKATONIANS IN 2016 AND FORWARD. returns in 2015 of 2.02 percent, our local charities, creating legacies and accumulated surplus from 2013 and 2014 memorializing the citizens who shaped our L to R: Carm Michalenko, Executive allowed SCF to continue to grant at its community. Your community makes you Director and Greg Keller, SCF Chair typical level of 3.5% in 2016. This is the and you make your community! 3 Carm Michalenko Executive Director Elaine Lozinski NancyNancy Smale Smale Administrative Coordinator FinanceFinance & Administration & Administration Manager Manager Don Ewles Grants & Communications Manager 4 Shauna Morrison Marketing Coordinator OURSTAFF THE STAFF TEAM AT THE SASKATOON Each of these elements of our past helps stronger community going forward. It is COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MAKES to provide directions for our future. The our honour to stand at this point of contact projects we fund carry our donors’ wishes between the past and future. We can help CONTACT WITH THE PAST AND FUTURE forward, extending their contributions you make those connections, too. Let us OF OUR COMMUNITY EVERY DAY. OUR beyond their lifetimes. Our strategic help you plan a permanent legacy of support PAST IS AT THE HEART OF MANY OF planning ensures that we will continue for our beloved city. Make contact with us, to grow and change with our community and we will go forward from there! OUR DAILY ACTIVITIES, ADMINISTERING so that we are always responsive to the FUNDS CREATED BY DONORS LAST current needs of our community. Each YEAR OR DECADES AGO, ENSURING new gift increases our ability to support our community. Each new donor adds a THEIR WISHES ARE HONOURED, AND personal commitment and intent to create CONTINUING GRANT SUPPORT TO positive change in the years to come. ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE PLAYED Likewise, each member of the staff team brings a history of engagement with our THEIR ROLES IN SHAPING OUR community and a vision for how they can COMMUNITY OVER THE YEARS. contribute to a better Foundation and a 5 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Greg Keller Ernst and Young: Chair, IT TAKES A DEDICATED TEAM Executive Committee, PotashCorp Saskatoon OF COMMUNITY LEADERS Community Foundation Cultural Gala TO GUIDE A COMMUNITY Committee FOUNDATION. Not only do they oversee the management of Brian Bentley millions of donor dollars, but they also create the Retired Fire Chief: culture for SCF, set strategic direction, provide Grants Committee policies for staff and participate in deciding which (Chair) charitable projects will receive grant support. Zeba Ahmad Ernst and Young: Past Chair, Executive Amberlea Chabot Committee, Grants Committee, PotashCorp Thomson Jaspar & Associates: Audit and Saskatoon Community Foundation Cultural Gala Finance Committee (Chair) Committee (Chair) Ken Juba Jeret Bode Creative Fire: Asset Development Committee, Industrial Alliance Securities Inc.: Asset PotashCorp Saskatoon Development Committee Community Foundation Cultural Gala Committee Wayne Brownlee Curtis Kimpton Investors Group: PotashCorp: Vice-Chair, Executive Committee, Governance Committee, Grants Committee, Audit and Finance Committee Investment Committee 6 Tracy Muggli Saskatoon Health Region: Grants Committee Tom Kishchuk Federated Cooperatives Limited: Governance Committee (Chair) Pina Melchionna Tiffany Paulsen Concentra Financial: Robertson Stromberg Governance Committee, LLP: Governance Investment Committee Committee Past Board Members Derek Arnold, Roger Arnold, Fred Ballantyne, Mary Beckett, Myrna Bentley, Moira Birney, Kim Braun, Bernie Broughton, Gordon Bray, Sid Buckwold, Warren Champ, Scott Cherry, Ronan Conlon, Howard Cooper, Joan Emigh, Hon. Dr. Sylvia Fedoruk, Brenda Fitzgerald, Albert Flavelle, Kathryn Ford, Austin Forsyth, Roger Francis, Alain Gaucher, Margaret Harris, Ross Harwood, Wes Heinrichs, Bart Hunter, Sam Jackson, Judy Harwood, Ken Ian Sutherland Howland, George Keter, Robert Klombies, Susan Retired: Investment Committee (Chair), Lamb, Betty Anne Latrace-Henderson, John Leddy, Governance Committee, Don Leier, Dale Linn, John Loraas, Fred MacDermid, Audit and Finance Wally Mah, William Manning, Bonnie Marcoux, Fay Committee McCann, Madge McKillop, Neil McMillan, Susan Milburn, Tom Molloy, Penney Murphy, Blair Nelson, Craig Peterson, Dick Pinder, Ross Pinder, Don Ravis, Phyllis Salisbury, Linda Shaw, Mac Sheppard, Jan Thomson, Paul Tiesssen, Randy Trost, Allan Tubby, John Williams Jamie Wall, Jim Wasilenko, Cliff Wright, Joanne North Prairie Developments: Asset Wurmlinger, and Darryl Yausie. Development Committee (Chair) GRANT PROFILES THE FIRST 2,000 DAYS OF LIFE grants will bear fruit for our community as these kids become the next generation of leaders and innovators, healthy, strong, and with the support they need to succeed. The following pages profile a few of those grants. 2016 MARKED SCF’S SECOND YEAR Through consultation with experts and the OF GRANTS TO SUPPORT YOUNG body of research, it was decided that the best opportunity to make an impact on CHILDREN. BEGINNING IN 2015, OUR the quality of life in the community was BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHALLENGED by making grants to help the youngest OUR GRANTS COMMITTEE TO FOCUS citizens of Saskatoon, during the first 2,000 days of life. During this period, OUR EFFORTS TO CREATE THE children learn crucial skills and social MAXIMUM IMPACT POSSIBLE WITH OUR patterns that will affect their lives in the LIMITED GRANT FUNDS. years to come. SCF continues to make a wide variety of grants to many types of projects. Our early years focus for our 8 SIGNATURE GRANT READ SASKATOON’S FAMILY LITERACY LEARNING CENTRE IN 2016, READ SASKATOON ACQUIRED Our 2016 Signature Grant helped to with children and their families. As part NEW OFFICE SPACE WITH A LONG- create the Family Literacy Learning of the new lease arrangements, READ Centre. The Centre provides many sublets space to two other organizations, TERM LEASE. KNOWING THEY WILL ongoing and long-lasting benefits for the MS Society and the