DOCSLIB.ORG

A Year of Transition: the Greater Harrisburg Foundation Is Now

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
A Year of Transition: the Greater Harrisburg Foundation Is Now TFEC-103_annual_f.qxd 4/20/05 5:29 PM Page 1 A Year of Transition: The Greater Harrisburg Foundation Is Now for Enhancing Communities 2005 Report to the Community Component Regional Foundations: The Greater Harrisburg Foundation (est. 1920) The Mechanicsburg Area Foundation (est. 1986) The Franklin County Foundation (est. 1987) 200 North Third Street The Perry County Community Eighth Floor, PO Box 678 Foundation (est. 1987) Harrisburg, PA 17108-0678 for Enhancing Communities 717.236.5040 The Camp Hill Community F: 717.231.4463 Foundation (est. 1996) www.tfec.org The Dillsburg Area Foundation (est. 2004) TFEC-103_annual_f.qxd 4/20/05 5:29 PM Page 3 1 for Enhancing Communities Table of Contents Mission Statement: Letter from the Chairman and President & CEO . 2–3 Financial Highlights . 4–5 To stimulate philanthropy and enhance the quality of life in the community through accumulating, managing Funds, Trusts and Projects . 6–19 and disbursing financial assets, and to serve as a catalyst Management Services . 20 and neutral convener to meet a wide range of community needs in the south central Pennsylvania counties of The Whitaker Foundation Regional Program . 20 Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lebanon, and Perry, The Legacy Society. 21 and also in the Dillsburg area. Standing Committees . 22–23 Statement of Philosophy: Board of Directors . 24–25 Staff . 24–25 The Foundation for Enhancing Communities: • Stimulates innovative projects and programs and encourages collaborative approaches that address emerging or unmet needs; • Promotes solutions that confront the causes of problems, with special emphasis on empowering the disadvantaged and the underserved; • Reflects the diversity of our community in The Foundation’s planning, decision-making and grantmaking; • Respects individual concerns of citizens while striving for community solutions. Organization: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, a public foundation, is incorporated under Pennsylvania law as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions to The Foundation are deductible to the fullest extent allowed by the Internal Revenue Code. The Foundation’s Board of Directors serves as the governing body, guided by The Foundation’s bylaws. TFEC-103_annual_f.qxd 4/20/05 5:29 PM Page 5 2 3 Letter from the Chairman and President & CEO The basic thought we would like to convey to you is five county region of Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, And we certainly have projects – 12 new ones in Our investment returns in 2003 were fourth best of all that The Foundation is no longer your grandmother’s Lebanon and Perry, as well as in the Dillsburg area. 2004 for a total of 52; from AIDS to Early Childhood community foundations in the U.S., and since we have community foundation. The foundation is dramatically Training to Equity for Gays and Lesbians to the put this investment policy into place, we rank in the top We have adopted a new name to reflect this position. different than the organization we have been through Capital Area Coalition on Homelessness, to name quartile in the same universe. Our investment returns We are now The Foundation for Enhancing Communities. the first three-quarters’ century of our existence. In the but a few. The major project we have had for the last in 2004 were 16.0% for Model E and 12.0% for Model A. past nine years, building carefully step by step on that Our assets have grown since 1996 from that $5 five years has been The Whitaker Foundation Regional Special thanks to Connie Siegel and our hard working base of 75 years, we have crafted a modern, forward million base to more than $41 million today, and in Program in which we administer on their behalf a Investment Advisory Committee for these superb results. looking, and sophisticated community foundation that 2004 we gave out more than $4 million in grants. $2 million grant program for math and science and We are sad to note that Joan Holman’s 10 year tenure is in the forefront of community foundations nationwide. economic self sufficiency. 2005 will be the final year for We have a multitude of new products, reflecting our on the board has ended. May she rest in peace. We will the program in this form, at the reduced level of We are no longer an organization with $5 million in philosophy that each donor is a unique individual. We always remember Joan’s wisdom, wry sense of humor $1 million. However, we were delighted to receive from endowment as we were in 1996, giving out less than work with our donors on this basis in establishing our and basic humanity. Bob Zullinger has also departed The Whitaker Foundation in late 2004 a $1 million $500,000 in grants annually and managing a few relationship with each of them and in making changes from The Board after three years of service. We could endowment fund, the earnings and principal of which projects. Today, following our carefully crafted growth in that relationship down the road if that should prove always count on “Mr. Franklin County” for his wise will benefit math and science programs over the next strategies and taking a number of plays from the to be advisable. Flexibility is the key to our approach. and seasoned counsel. We will miss them both greatly. 15 years. playbook of our consultants, The Greater Kansas City In addition to our traditional portfolio of endowment We have reached our current position because of a Community Foundation, a national thought leader Our investment performance deserves special mention. products, we have created non-permanent donor total team effort by our Board of Directors, committee in the field, we have evolved to a donor focused, When we put our new investment policy into place in advised funds; we have instituted arrangements whereby members, consultants, our legal counsel, Spencer multi-divisional, and flexible philanthropic organization 1996, we stated that our purpose was to obtain market we provide management services to other foundations, Nauman, and especially our very effective staff. We which works for the good of the communities in our returns over time. In turn, we indicated this meant that as well as backroom administrative services to nonprofit thank them all. But it is especially our donors to whom investments in our Model E would be roughly proportional organizations; and we have created funds which, upon we are most grateful for their continuing generosity to to the market capitalization of the U.S. Stock Market. a donor’s request, allow other approved individuals or the community. At the core it is they who make all of Index funds had demonstrated that over a long period organizations to provide investment management this possible. of time their performance would beat a high percentage services. We are increasingly exercising our capability of actively managed equity funds, and it has been our to receive non-traditional assets as charitable belief that we were not smart enough to consistently contributions, such as real estate, art, coin collections, pick in advance one or more of those active managers. closely held business stock, and the like. Increasingly in recent years we have also invested in William Lehr, Jr., Chairman We now have six regional foundations: The Greater international equity funds to provide diversification to Harrisburg Foundation, The Mechanicsburg Area the U.S. Market. For our fund holders interested in a Foundation, The Perry County Community Foundation, fixed income component, we have provided a Model A The Camp Hill Community Foundation, The Franklin in which 30% of the funds are invested in fixed income Janice R. Black, President & CEO County Community Foundation and our newest, The and 70% invested in equities. In recent years we have Dillsburg Area Foundation. allowed our fund holders to select the equity/fixed We are finding new customers, from both the Executive income mix with which they are most comfortable. and Legislative branches of the Commonwealth, to Nine years of investment performance shows Model E nonprofits who entrust us with the management of at 9.8% compared with its benchmark of 9.7%, while their endowment, to more than 60 new individuals in Model A’s 9.3% return was equal to its 9.3% benchmark. 2004, in addition to the more than 600 who had established funds in the past. TFEC-103_annual_f.qxd 4/20/05 5:29 PM Page 7 4 5 Foundation Assets at 12/31/04 $41,769,635 100.0% Financial Highlights Other Assets Donor and Committee 0.2% Advised Funds 11,870,260 Special Projects 2.9% In and Out Funds 650,825 Field of Interest Funds McKonly & Asbury, LLP, certified public accountants, audited and endorsed without qualification The Foundation’s financial statements. Provisional Funds 392,710 6.4% Advised Funds Total Unrestricted 30.9% Statement of Financial Position (December 31, 2004 and 2003) Advised Funds Total 12,913,795 30.9% Funds 9.6% Assets 12/31/2004 12/31/2003 Designated/Restricted Funds 8,214,232 19.7% Cash and investments at market value $ 33,308,064 $ 26,828,932 Organizational/ Receivables 295,982 256,697 Split Interest Agreements (Trusts) 8,076,831 19.3% Agency Funds 11.0% Designated/ Beneficial interest in irrevocable trust 50,000 50,000 Organizational/Agency Funds 4,576,270 11.0% Restricted Funds Prepaid expenses 10,929 – Unrestricted Funds 4,024,688 9.6% 19.7% Furniture and equipment (net) 19,606 32,331 Field of Interest Funds 2,688,412 6.4% Split interest agreements 8,085,054 7,714,303 Special Projects 1,195,094 2.9% Split Interest Total assets $ 41,769,635 34,882,263 Agreements (Trusts) Other Assets 80,313 0.2% 19.3% Liabilities and Net Assets
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Newsletter 28 • October 15, 2018
    The Chain Reaction Humanitarian Solutions Worldwide Newsletter 28 • October 15, 2018 Do you notice anything different? What’s Inside this Issue BY CHEMISTS WITHOUT BORDERS LEADERSHIP [email protected] 1 Do you notice anything different? As the organization is growing we have felt the need to refresh our image to better reflect the work we are doing to solve humanitarian problems 2 AIDSfreeAFRICA equipping labs in Cameroon worldwide. Today we would like to share with you our first big change: the logo. Changing the image that we have learnt to identify with is not 3 Affordable education in the easy. However, Sasha Dimov has done a stellar job developing our logo to Age of Information truly represent the mission and vision of Chemists Without Borders. 4 Ongley-Myers Sierra Leone Education Project The hexagon (reminiscent of so many chemical structures and easily 5 Pay It Forward Bangladesh: relatable to many chemists) remains at the center of the organization. The Story of Spreading However, with the introduction of new colors and the circles surround- Kindness ing the hexagon, we are recognizing the different dimensions and systems that are at play in a humanitarian organization like ours. Our Mission A wholehearted thank you goes to Sasha for her hard work. We cannot Chemists Without Borders solves humanitarian problems by mobilizing the wait to flaunt our new look! resources and expertise of the global chemistry community and its networks. As you know, being an organization run by volunteers, we depend on Our Vision inspired and generous individuals, organizations, and institutions, to be A global support network of volunteers able to fulfill our mission of solving humanitarian problems.
    [Show full text]
  • How Kindness Can Be Contagious in Healthcare
    comment Los Angeles, CA, USA. 5Department of Medicine, 8. Hall, M. J., Forman, A. D., Pilarski, R., Wiesner, G. & Giri, V. N. Acknowledgements J. Natl. Compr. Canc. Netw. 12, 1339–1346 (2014). The viewpoints expressed herein are those of the authors Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. 9. De Rubis, G., Krishnan, S. R. & Bebawy, M. Pharmacol. Res. 136, and do not reflect official viewpoints of the US National 6Ariadne Labs, Boston, MA, USA. 35–44 (2018). Institutes of Health, The Center for Medicare & Medicaid ✉e-mail: [email protected] 10. Lennon, A. M. et al. Science 369, eabb9601 (2020). 11. Liu, M. C. et al. Ann. Oncol. 31, 745–759 (2020). Innovation, CMS or the companies mentioned. The 12. Heyn, H. & Esteller, M. Nat. Rev. Genet. 13, 679–692 (2012). authors appreciate helpful comments on earlier drafts of Published online: 1 July 2021 13. Luo, H. et al. Sci. Transl. Med. 12, eaax7533 (2020). this article from S. Aldubayan, H. Hampel, A. Kesselheim https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01431-5 14. Aravanis, A. M., Lee, M. & Klausner, R. D. Cell 168, and R. Weinberg. R.C.G. is supported by US National 571–574 (2017). Institutes of Health grants HG006500, HD077671, References 15. Chen, X. et al. Nat. Commun. 11, 3475 (2020). HD090019, HG009922, HL143295 and TR003201 and by 1. Te American Cancer Society. https://www.cancer.org/ 16. Bradley, S. H. & Barclay, M. E. Br. Med. J. 372, m4933 (2021). the Franca Sozzani Fund. content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/ 17.
    [Show full text]
  • Action PEOPLE
    IDEAS Action PEOPLE THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST 2014 ANNUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Letter from the Chairman of the Executive Committee and President 2 Year in Review 8 Competitive Education and Economic Development Grants 14 Competitive Health, Housing and Human Services Grants 24 Competitive Civic and Cultural Vitality Grants 32 Competitive Sustainable Development Grants 36 The Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust 40 Community Champion: María Bechily 42 Candid Conversations 46 Community Champion: Automotive Mentoring Group 48 Donor Advised Grants 67 Designated Grants 68 Community Champions: Bill and Cheryl Lowry 70 Matching Gifts 71 Grants from Identity-Focused Funds 72 Grants from Supporting Organizations 76 Community Champion: Chicago School of Data 78 Grants from Collaborative Funds 79 In Memoriam 83 Funds of The Chicago Community Trust and Affiliates 91 Contributors to Funds at The Chicago Community Trust and Affiliates 98 Community Champion: Ana Guajardo 100 The 1915 Society 102 Professional Advisory Committee and Young Professional Advisory Committee 104 Community Champions: Ray and Susan Gillette 106 Executive Committee 107 Trustees Committee and Banks 108 The Chicago Community Trust Staff 109 Trust at a Glance LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND PRESIDENT DEAR FRIENDS, For 99 years, The Chicago Community Trust has reflected the collective spirit of commitment to community powered by the generosity of donors, residents, and non- profit and civic leaders throughout our region. To mark our 99th anniversary, we began in earnest to spark that spirit of community by engaging a much larger circle of residents in a conversation about the future of metropolitan Chicago.
    [Show full text]
  • Patrıotpapers
    Elementary School NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, WASHINGTON, DC ELEMENTARY EDITION VOLUME I, NO.I, SPRING 2002 ’ ★ Teacher s Edition Fellow educators: The Patriot Papers was george washington the developed as a vehicle for enrichment in the a national treasure PATRIOT n. PatrıotPapers[Fr patriote < LL. patriota, fellow countryman < Gr patriotes < patris, fatherland <pater, FATHER] classroom. As a teaching tool it seeks to put George Washington in context, realizing that “George Washington: A National Treasure”on Tour while Washington influenced America, America National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Opens Exhibition also influenced Washington. The news of the n February 15, 2002, the National Portrait OGallery’s life-sized painting of the father of Coming Soon to a Museum Near You day, the social scene, the fashion, the gossip, our country began its first national tour at the The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. This February 15 - June 16, 2002 the political events, his family, and his contem- Las Vegas Art Museum: portrait is so important to American history that June 28 - October 27, 2002 poraries all had their impact. This interdiscipli- it has been compared to the Liberty Bell and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Declaration of Independence. November 7, 2002- March 9, 2003 Seattle Art Museum: March 21- July 20, 2003 nary approach to studying Washington should What makes this painting so valuable? Why The Minneapolis Institute of Arts: is it more important than a photograph of Pres- August 1- November 30, 2003 serve a variety of subjects—literature as well Oklahoma City Museum of Art: ident Bush today? First, it is one of the few visu- December 12, 2003 - April 11, 2004 al documents we have of George Washington.
    [Show full text]
  • Fall/Winter 2019 NC State Engineering
    FALL / WINTER 2019 RESEARCH AS RECRUITMENT Summer research experiences help with student skills GROWTH IN WOMEN FACULTY MEMBERS | 18 ∙ A MORE SUSTAINABLE CUP | 24 and infrared imaging thermography, as well as respiratory physiology and tracing the flow of non-Newtonian fluids using radioactive tracer displacement techniques. Born in Roanoke, Va., in 1922, she received a B.S. in chemistry from Roanoke College in 1943 and an M.S. in chemistry from the University of Cincinnati in 1947. From 1951 to 1980, she continued as a research associate professor in Engineering Research. From 1980 to 1983, she was associate director of the Engineering Operations Program. She then became associate professor of chemical engineering from 1983 to 1990 before joining the faculty of the BAE department until she retired. Richardson and the late Professor Kenneth O. Beatty were lifelong professional collaborators in chemical engineering, including the development of the first biomedical engineering course at NC State, which she taught. In BAE, she helped undergird the developing biomedical engineering concentration and set the stage for the first ABET- accredited biomedical engineering program in the University of North Carolina System. She received the Sigma Xi Research Award in 1959 and the Roanoke College Alumni Distinguished Service Award in 1970. She was also elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists in 1969, and that same year she was RICHARDSON WAS COLLEGE’S FIRST a visiting professor of biomedical engineering at Case WOMAN FACULTY MEMBER Western Reserve University. Richardson was elected the first president of the North Carolina Society of Women Engineers in 1979 and, in 1980, the society named her Plans to build the first nuclear reactor on a university Outstanding Woman Engineer.
    [Show full text]
  • BRYN MAWR BECOMES YOU Serving As a Traditions Mistress Isn’T for the Faint Mistresses of of Heart
    BRYN MAWR BECOMES YOU Serving as a Traditions Mistress isn’t for the faint mistresses of of heart. To pull off Parade Night, Lantern Night, Hell Week (it’s more fun than it sounds), May Day, and more, the stewards of Bryn Mawr’s treasured traditions put in some seriously long hours. “Our tradition traditions bring the campus together,” said Pamudu Tennakoon, who serves alongside Anna Sargeant. “We wanted to pay it forward.” Read more at brynmawr.edu/become/secretkeepers BECOME A SANCTIONED SECRET KEEPER A WOMEN’S TRADITION “Bryn Mawr was the first college I visited. The We’re guessing a women’s college wasn’t even on your radar. That’s what many of our graduates tell us. They also tell us they wouldn’t whole drive up I complained, telling my mom how have had their college experience any other way. The research shows I didn’t want to go to a women’s college. She still that students at women’s colleges participate more in the classroom, makes fun of me—I completely fell in love.” achieve more academically, assume more significant campus leader- - Anna Kalinsky ’15 ship roles, and find more female role models who inspire them to dream big. Held each year on the Sunday following the last week of classes, May Day begins when the seniors serenade the College’s president from outside of her window. Strawberries and cream breakfasts, a parade, plays, concerts, and maypole dancing take place throughout the day, which ends with a showing of The Philadelphia Story, starring alumna Katherine Hepburn ’28.
    [Show full text]
  • (Cebus Apella) and 4-Year-Old Children Pay Forward Positive and Negative Outcomes to Conspecifics
    Give What You Get: Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-Year-Old Children Pay Forward Positive and Negative Outcomes to Conspecifics Kristin L. Leimgruber1"*, Adrian F. Ward2", Jane Widness1, Michael I. Norton3, Kristina R. Olson1, Kurt Gray4, Laurie R. Santos1 1 Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, 2 Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 4 Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America Abstract The breadth of human generosity is unparalleled in the natural world, and much research has explored the mechanisms underlying and motivating human prosocial behavior. Recent work has focused on the spread of prosocial behavior within groups through paying-it-forward, a case of human prosociality in which a recipient of generosity pays a good deed forward to a third individual, rather than back to the original source of generosity. While research shows that human adults do indeed pay forward generosity, little is known about the origins of this behavior. Here, we show that both capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-year-old children pay forward positive and negative outcomes in an identical testing paradigm. These results suggest that a cognitively simple mechanism present early in phylogeny and ontogeny leads to paying forward positive, as well as negative, outcomes. Citation: Leimgruber KL, Ward AF, Widness J, Norton MI, Olson KR, et al. (2014) Give What You Get: Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-Year-Old Children Pay Forward Positive and Negative Outcomes to Conspecifics.
    [Show full text]
  • Pay It Forward
    Pay it Forward 1 READING What do you think ‘pay it forward’ means? How is it different from ‘paying someone back’? Read the article and check your ideas. The man at the front of the queue for coffee was surprised. ‘Why is my coffee free?’ ‘The woman ahead of you paid for it.’ replied the server. So the man paid the bill for the next customer in the queue. And she did the same. Amazingly, people just carried on buying coffee for the customer behind them for three hours, and 288 people. ‘There was a great feeling in the coffee shop,’ said Maria LaTrobe, one of the servers at the café in Winnepeg, Canada. ‘Something like this just makes you feel happy all day.’ It seems to be a growing trend in Canada, with more and more stories of strangers paying for others’ groceries, parking tickets, train tickets and even meals, and leaving without being thanked. But the idea isn’t a really a new one. It’s often called ‘paying it forward’, which means that instead of paying someone back for their loan or favour, you pay it forward to someone else, creating a chain of generosity. One famous example from the past was the famous American, Benjamin Franklin, who in 1784 lent money to a man on the condition that he helped another person at some point in the future. Of course, it doesn’t have to be about money. Any act of kindness, such as helping someone carry something heavy, or picking something up for them can make both you and the person you helped feel good.
    [Show full text]
  • The Future Depends on What We Do in the Present ~MAHATMA GANDHI
    The future depends on what we do in the present ~MAHATMA GANDHI 2015 ANNUAL REPORT GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION 2015 ANNUAL REPORT K ILWAU EE FOU R M ND TE AT EA IO R N G TABLE of CONTENTS entury of GENEROSITY EST. 1915 LEADERSHIP LETTER 3 Since 1915, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, through its donors, has RECORD-BREAKING YEAR IN GENEROSITY served as the lead philanthropic source 7 lifting up the greater Milwaukee region. More than 1,200 individuals, families, and businesses have contributed STORIES OF IMPACT funds to the Foundation over the past 9 century, which have had amazing impact in our community. Like the leaders who came before us, today’s A LOOK BACK: OUR CENTENNIAL YEAR IN REVIEW donors continue to carry forward their 37 ideas and generosity, present to future. WHY WE GIVE: DONOR TESTIMONIALS 39 OUR REGIONAL PHILANTHROPIC PARTNERS 49 FINANCIALS/INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE 53 FOUNDATION AT A GLANCE 55 COVER IMAGE: Osvaldo Marin-Dominguez, 8, a member of the Don & Sallie Davis Boys & Girls Club. Through the generosity of Greater Milwaukee Foundation donors, Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee, one of the largest and oldest youth serving agencies in Milwaukee, is creating safe and educational after school opportunities for area youth. Letter from the President & CEO and Board Chair build social connections among neighbors also catalyze BOARD OFDIRECTORS How far can you see on a community development and transform the vitality Our donors, like of whole neighborhoods. Expanding employment The Earth’s surface curves out of Thomas L. Spero, Chair clear day? opportunities changes the financial well-being of families our founders, are sight after about 3 miles, yet you know an entire planet David J.
    [Show full text]
  • 21 PTO Today Calendar
    2020-21 Parent Group Planning Calendar Due to coronavirus closures and delays, some events have been canceled or are not known yet (June 2020). Typically we revise our planning calendar with additional dates throughout the summer, so check back at PTOtoday.com/calendar at a later point for an updated version. August 2020 October 2020 November 2020 Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month Bullying Prevention Month Aviation History Month Family Fun Month Cybersecurity Awareness Month Family Literacy Month Immunization Awareness Month Down Syndrome Awareness Month Native American Heritage Month 4 Friendship Day Dyslexia Awareness Month Picture Book Month Halloween Safety Month 9 International Art 1 All Saints’ Day LGBT History Month Appreciation Day 1 Daylight Saving Time Ends Manners Month 12 International Youth Day Positive Attitude Month 3 Election Day 13 Left-Handers’ Day Principals Month 8 Parents as Teachers Day 15 Post your school’s Reading Group Month 9-15 Children’s Book Week back-to-school supply lists TeenTober (formerly Teen Reading Week) 11 Veterans Day on TeacherLists.com UNICEF Month 13 World Kindness Day 19 Aviation Day 2 Custodial Workers 14 Diwali 26 Women’s Equality Day Recognition Day 15 America Recycles day 2 Walk to School Day 15 I Love To Write Day September 2020 4-10 Fire Prevention Week 15-22 Hunger and Homelessness Childhood Obesity Awareness Month 5 Child Health Day Awareness Week Fruits and Veggies — More Matters Month 5 World Teachers Day 19 Parent Involvement Day Hispanic Heritage Month (9/15-10/15) 6 PTO Today
    [Show full text]
  • April 17, 2021
    4/19/2021 AAID Update: NONMEM MSG Dr. Duke Heller April President's Message Coffee with Duke… Paying It Forward Dear AAID Colleague: Do You ever PAY IT FORWARD? Pay it forward is an expression that describes the beneficiary of a good deed who repays kindness to others, instead of returning it to the original benefactor. Where did this concept get started? Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) wrote a letter to Benjamin Webb on April 25, 1784. He started this letter with the concept in the first paragraph!!! “I do not pretend to give such a deed; I only lend it to you. When you meet with another honest Man in similar Distress, you must pay me by lending this Sum to him; enjoining him to discharge the Debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with another opportunity. I hope it may thus go thro' many hands, before it meets with a Knave that will stop its Progress. This is a trick of mine for doing a deal of good with a little money.” I had the opportunity to work as the team dentist alongside Coach Woody Hayes in 1961-62. It was a thrill for me since Woody’s mother use to watch over me when I was a young boy in Newcomerstown, Ohio. Hayes’s father was the superintendent of Newcomerstown High School. In his book, You Win With People, Woody tells different stories of Paying It Forward. I personally benefited from Woody Hayes who believed in using this principle. I was president of Sertoma (Service to Mankind), a civic organization.
    [Show full text]
  • Character Picture Books K3-3Rd Grade Character Books for Boys 3Rd
    Character Picture Books K3-3rd Grade Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Red Shoes Little Toot Little Engine that Could Aesop’s Fables Child’s Garden of Verses Miss Rumphius Jingle in My Pocket Saint George and the Dragon Everyday Graces James Herriot’s Treasury for Children Little Red Hen Big Sister Little Sister Favorite Uncle Remus Hundred Dresses Sam the Minuteman Burgess Bird Book for Children Goops and How to Be Them Keep the Lights Burning Abby Little Book of Manners for Boys Little Book of Manners for Girls Character Books for Boys 3rd-5th Grade When They Were Boys George Washington by D’Aulaire Benjamin Franklin by D’Aulaire Abraham Lincoln by D’Aulaire Tiger and Tom Toothpaste Millionaire Paul Revere Childhood of Famous American Biography and others in series Robert E. Lee Childhood of Famous American Biography and others in series Teddy Roosevelt Childhood of Famous American Biography and others in series Character Books for Girls 3rd-5th Grade When They Were Girls Heidi Pocahontas by D’Aulaire Joan of Arc by Stanley The Story of Ruby Bridges King’s Daughter Follow the Drinking Gourd Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt Amelia Earhart Childhood of Famous American Biography and others in series Clara Barton Childhood of Famous American Biography and others in series Character Books for Read-Aloud Where the Red Fern Grows Little Britches and Entire Series Pinocchio Little Lord Fauntleroy Courage of Sarah Noble Happy Prince Mother Carey’s Chickens Heroes Every Child Should Know Among the Forest People Christmas Carol Prince and the Pauper
    [Show full text]