Annual Impact Report 2018 - 2019
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Delta Gamma Foundation ANNUAL IMPACT REPORT 2018 - 2019 Delta Gamma Foundation Annual Impact Report Page 1 Welcome Letter .......................................................................................3 2019-2020 Board of Trustees .................................................................4 Empowering Leaders ..............................................................................5 Empowering Learning .............................................................................6 Empowering Access ................................................................................8 Financial Overview ..................................................................................9 Major Donors, Rose Circle and Charter Group .....................................10 1873 Society ..........................................................................................15 Visionaries Society (Collegiate Donors) ................................................21 Merit-Based Scholarship Recipients ......................................................25 Graduate Fellowship Recipients ...........................................................32 Service for Sight Grant Recipients ........................................................33 Chapter Giving Program Grant Recipients ...........................................37 e began our journey as Delta Gammas, anchored in a friendship that grew effortlesslyW into a lifetime of sisterhood—a powerful force uniting us at the heart with the ambitious charge, left to us by our Founders, to “Do Good.” Our 2018-2019 Annual Impact Report proudly celebrates each of you for your generosity and commitment to volunteering. Last year, you dedicated an astonishing 240,642 service hours. This inspired philanthropy moves us forward with the confident, clear vision of giving HOPE to others. Your belief in Service for Sight has given the visually impaired community the promise of access, independence and reassurance. You sent children to camp, published books in braille, sponsored guide dogs and helped injured veterans. Your gifts to the Foundation support the remarkable work of our five Delta Gamma schools in Los Angeles, Kansas City, St. Louis, Denver and Phoenix. Your giving spirit continues to inspire and assist our collegians and alumnae with merit-based scholarships, graduate fellowships, interest- successful year, raising $7.4 million. We share with free student loans and incredible leadership greatest pride that every collegiate chapter donated opportunities. You reach out to sisters in to the Foundation. They continue to be our greatest unexpected financial need with Anchor Grants and fundraisers by holding 655 fundraisers and raising embrace our collegians who are struggling with $2.2 million in the 2018-2019 fiscal year. student loan debt with Sisters Helping Sisters: A Need-Based Scholarship Program, inspired by We are empowering lives and redefining futures, visionary Carlene Moore Ellis, Delta Iota-Georgia. while knowing that no single one of us could make the impact we are making together as a Your pride in Delta Gamma makes us leaders in the powerful sisterhood. On behalf of the Delta Gamma fraternity/sorority community for the education and Foundation Board of Trustees and the Delta Gamma leadership opportunities we offer our members. In Foundation staff, we share such joy in being part of fact, you have made it possible for the Foundation your Delta Gamma family. Thank you. to grant more than $6.7 million dollars over the last 10 years to our beloved Fraternity. Anchored in Sisterhood, With generous gifts from more than 5,700 extraordinary donors, in addition to the fundraising Chairman, Foundation Board of Trustees Foundation Executive Director efforts of our house corporations, alumnae groups Jane Williams Simmons, Roxanne Ebner LaMuth, and collegiate chapters, we marked another Alpha Psi-Mississippi & Epsilon-Ohio State Delta Gamma Foundation Annual Impact Report Page 3 2019-2020 Foundation Board of Trustees Front row (left to right): Wilma Johnson Wilbanks, Alpha Psi-Mississippi, Trustee and Fraternity President; Deborah Taber Crosby, Xi-Michigan, Trustee; Jane Williams Simmons, Alpha Psi-Mississippi, Chairman; Ruth Grant Alsbrooks, Beta Psi-Alabama, Trustee Back row (left to right): Rachel McDougal Bishop, Gamma Epsilon-Kent State, Secretary; Kathleen Brady Stanton, Alpha Iota-Oklahoma, Trustee and Council Trustee: Fraternity Programming; Joan Workman Newman, Gamma-UC Berkeley, Treasurer; Lynne Thieme, Beta Xi-Michigan State, Trustee; Susan Eddy Kinney, Beta Psi-Alabama, Trustee and Fraternity Treasurer Delta Gamma Foundation Annual Impact Report Page 4 Empowering leaders… Gifts to the Loyalty Fund and leadership and educational programming provide grants to the Fraternity to create and implement cutting-edge programming. These initiatives empower members to lead successfully, grow personally, act responsibly and live out the values of Delta Gamma. GRANTED TO THE FRATERNITY FOR LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING IN 2018-2019 2,674 MORE THAN COLLEGIANS PARTICIPATED IN THE HUMAN DIGNITY COLLEGIANS WERE IMPACTED BY LEADERSHIP PROGRAM, LED BY VOLUNTEER FACILITATORS AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS LAST YEAR LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS FUNDED THROUGH GIFTS TO THE FOUNDATION SINCE ITS CREATION IN 2014, OVER 1,000 EMERGING DELTA GAMMA COLLEGIATE LEADERS HAVE ATTENDED of attendees would recommend ASTP 100% to a friend OF LEWIS INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS THINK DG SHOULD CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THIS LEADERSHIP TRAINING Delta Gamma Foundation Annual Impact Report Page 5 Empowering learning… Alyssa Ciango, Delta Beta-Kentucky, hadn’t always planned on working with students, but leadership opportunities funded by the Delta Gamma Foundation have, in many ways, defined Alyssa’s personal and professional goals. Her experiences in Delta Gamma have led her to pursue a master’s degree in higher education and student affairs at The Ohio State University. “Going to Lewis Institute, Delta Gamma’s own leadership program, was a pivotal experience for me. It catapulted me into leadership as president of my chapter,” she says. During a time of immense change, Alyssa strived to be a beacon of light for her chapter and to implement a Culture of Care based on DG values. Her success as president prepared her to spend the next two years as a Collegiate Development Consultant (CDC), the first of which she was named as the Baynard Consultant to support Delta Gamma’s newest chapters. Alyssa says she loves working with all students, but her favorite moments are “encountering collegians just like me, women who need a bit of confidence to be great leaders. They just need a little pick me up to say ‘Hey, I can do this.’” As a recipient of the Carmalieta Jenkins Memorial Fellowship from the Delta Gamma Foundation, Alyssa will be able to meet her educational and professional goals to be a positive force in the lives of students. “This fellowship means that I’ll be able to pursue a variety of professional development opportunities in my field without the burden of worrying about finances,” Alyssa said. She’ll help students in her professional role, but she also plans to continue advising collegiate chapters and facilitating Lewis Institute to pay forward the assistance she’s had from Delta Gamma: “I want to lift them up, the way I was lifted up.” “The Foundation serves as a champion in developing students in their learning and academics, to reach their leadership potential, and to become overall better Delta Gammas and sisters, by embodying Delta Gamma values.” -Alyssa Ciango, graduate fellowship recipient LAST YEAR THE FOUNDATION AWARDED ... Delta Gamma Foundation Annual Impact Report Page 6 7 The ANCHORA of Delta Gamma Fall 2019 Delta Gamma Foundation Annual Impact Report Page 7 Empowering access… For Brittany and Nathan Clarkson, learning their eight-year-old daughter Addyson was born completely blind was startling news. “We just weren’t sure how she’d be able to do things,” Brittany said. They were quick, however, to dive in and find Addy what she needed. One of the resources they found was Braille Tales, a program funded by a Delta Gamma Foundation Service for Sight grant to the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in Louisville, Kentucky. The program provides popular children’s books six times a year to over 1,700 families across the United States with members who are blind or visually impaired. “We feel so fortunate to live in an area like Louisville that has the APH and other amazing resources. That’s how we learned about Braille Tales. When you learn about something new, you just get so excited for what is out there for your kids,” Brittany said. Addy’s family was eager to take advantage of this opportunity and enrolled in Braille Tales when she was just a baby. Kids love getting packages, and Addy is no exception. She wanted to read with her parents as soon as the books arrived, even before she learned braille. By age three, Addy was on her way to becoming an excellent reader and writer of braille. Now, she’s perfecting it. Addy’s favorite part about reading is using different voices: “Being a good reader means I can read with expressions. It makes reading more fun,” Addy said. “I can’t just read, I’ve got to think if the character feels sad or mad — you’ve got to do the expressions!” The Braille Tales program is unique — the stories are not reprinted in braille, but rather a clear braille overlay is placed on the pages of the books. This enables both readers of braille and persons who