Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama Annual Report - 15 years 1999-2014 Our Mission Statement Vision To wisely assess needs and channel donor resources to maximize community well-being. e Foundation will leverage and use its philanthropic resources to foster a region where residents Table OF have access to medical care, where quality education is support- ed and valued and where people Contents respect and care for one another. Stringfellow History ---------------------------------------------------------- 1 Smoking Cessation ----------------------------------------------------------- 3 Interfaith Ministries ---------------------------------------------------------- 4 Our Low-Cost Dental Care ------------------------------------------------------- 5 Region Piedmont Education Trust -------------------------------------------------- 6 King Family Fund ------------------------------------------------------------ 7 Making An Impact ----------------------------------------------------------- 7 Saks Scholarship Fund ------------------------------------------------------- 8 Doster Award ----------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Legacy Spotlight ------------------------------------------------------------ 10 Career and Technical Education Initiative -------------------------------- 11 Grants Awards --------------------------------------------------------------- 12 Endowed Funds ------------------------------------------------------------- 14 Anvil Society ----------------------------------------------------------------- 15 Philanthropic Options ------------------------------------------------------ 16 New Partnerships ----------------------------------------------------------- 17 Nightingale Awards --------------------------------------------------------- 18 Standards For Excellence --------------------------------------------------- 19 Legacy Spotlight - Kryders ------------------------------------------------- 20 List of Funds -------------- -------------------------------------------------- 21 Organizations Supported by CFNEA---------------------------------------- 24 Our Grant Spotlight - City Of Anniston ----------------------------------------- 27 Gis -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29 Values Trustees ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 30 • We place the community as our Trustee Leadership ---------------------------------------------------------- 32 highest priority. Statement of Financial Position --------------------------------------------- 34 • We honor the charitable intentions CFNEA Historical Timeline ------------------------------------------------ 36 of our donors. • We promote inclusion and challenge prejudice in all of its Our Beginning forms. • We uphold professional, ethical H. M. “Mack” Burt, Jr., Board Chair 1999 - 2000 and duciary standards. e Stringfellow Health Trust with $13 million becomes the rst fund of the newly formed Calhoun County • We exercise impartiality and Community Foundation. fairness in distributing assets. Susie Parker Stringfellow (1869-1920) A Legacy that has Changed the Health and Well-Being of Our Community What began as one woman’s passion to provide healthcare transfer and irrevocably to her community has had long-reaching eects throughout assign its assets (just northeast Alabama. In 1920, just a few days before her over $13 million) to death, Susie Parker Stringfellow sat with pen in hand to the Calhoun County make a donation that would alter the lives of residents in Community Foundation northeast Alabama for 95 years. Susie was 51 years old. (CCCF); thus, the private foundation was converted I, Susie P. Stringfellow, being of sound mind and to a qualied 501(c)(3) disposing memory, do hereby make, declare and public charity. publish this my last will and testament…. e Stringfellow In her will, Susie le her beautiful home at 301 East 18th Health Trust became a Street, plus approximately eight acres of land, to serve as component fund of the a not-for-prot hospital subject to a life estate. Upon her Community Foundation, husband’s (William W. Stringfellow) death in 1932, the but nonetheless property and estate assets were placed in the Susie Parker continued its health Stringfellow Charitable Trust. Susie’s will was very specic and related objectives. In 2004, the Foundation name was that the hospital could never be sold. changed to the Community Foundation of Calhoun County (CFCC), which was the 11th community foundation in the A donation of this type in 1920 was a little unusual. To set state of Alabama. the scene, that was the year women were granted the right to vote under the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. On January 15, 2009 the Board changed the name once Anniston, at the time, was the world’s largest producer of again to the Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama cast iron pipe, and the only paved road in town was Noble and responded to the growing number of funds in adjacent Street. ere was no hospital. (Source: Annie’s Town by Tee counties by expanding the geographical scope of the Morgan) Foundation to include Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, DeKalb, Etowah, Randolph, St. Clair and Talladega e hospital was never sold, but it did undergo some counties. changes. On Feb. 1, 1938, Susie’s home became a 10-bed Tuberculosis Sanatorium. In 1958, the home was torn down Grant awards from the fund were initially awarded only to build Stringfellow Memorial Hospital, a 30-bed general to not-for-prot organizations operating or serving clients care hospital, which continues to serve the community in Calhoun County. In November 2013, the Community today. Foundation expanded its grant opportunities from the Stringfellow Health Fund to all nine counties served within What began as a donation of a home for the well-being of its region. the community, transitioned into the Stringfellow Health Trust. Rush Jordan, a hospital trustee and subsequently a e Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama trustee of the Stringfellow Health Trust, recommended the (CFNEA) is one of more than 700 other community Trust emulate Susie’s philanthropic spirit by promoting and foundations in the United States that promote and build enabling other individuals to give back to the community, permanent endowments on behalf of their regions. e by creating the Calhoun County Community Foundation. CFNEA’s mission is to wisely assess needs and channel donor resources to maximize community well-being On October 1, 1999, the Trust was granted permission to continued on page 2 | 1 primarily through charitable gi planning, administering component funds, making broad-based grant and scholarship distributions to support discernable community needs, maintaining accountability to the community, and serving as the communities’ partner in convening, collaborating and connecting. Since 1999, over 150 funds have been added to the Community Foundation. Each fund has its own charitable purpose and awards either grants or scholarships to the donor’s designated purpose. Total Habitat House 2009 Sta Work Day assets are around $37 million. Not-for-prot organizations receiving grants from the Stringfellow Health Fund Boys & Girls Club - December 23, 2000 provide health related services such as equipment, supplies for health screenings, prescription assistance, dental care, safety programs, quality of life issues, prevention programs, disaster recovery, emergency care for those in need, handicap ramps and more. In the years since Susie’s donation, many generous donors have followed in Susie’s footsteps and established legacies with the Foundation. Many of these stories are shared on the pages throughout this report. YMCA Splash Program - July 10, 2000 Stringfellow Grants by Year - Total $6,464,333 Year 1 - 1999-2000 $652,032 Year 2 - 2000-2001 $650,374 Year 3 - 2001-2002 $468,252 Year 4 - 2002-2003 $424,335 Year 5 - 2003-2004 $509,234 Year 6 - 2004-2005 $342,652 Year 7 - 2005-2006 $346,718 Year 8 - 2006-2007 $419,375 Year 9 - 2007-2008 $508,435 Year 10 - 2008-2009 $528,643 Year 11 - 2009-2010 $479,215 Year 12 - 2010-2011 $387,162 Year 13 - 2011-2012 $273,441 Year 14 - 2012-2013 $100,703 Year 15 - 2013-2014 $373,762 2 | Clearing the Air . In Calhoun County e rst University of Alabama at Birmingham Public Health Assessment requisitioned by the Community Foundation stated that Calhoun County residents “smoked twice as many cigarettes as any other county”. is was substantiated by the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) statistics which ranked Calhoun County as having the highest rate of lung cancer in Alabama. e Jacksonville State University (JSU) College of Nursing was determined to make a dierence in those statistics. e Nursing Program received a three-year grant (l999 - 2002) to curb smoking and the diseases it causes. Smoking was the #1 cause of chronic disease and death and considered the worst health habit a Dr. Debbie Curry, Brenda Roberts, Ph.D., person could have. Pediatric Professor R.N. A six-member team of nursing professors, under the leadership of Dr. Brenda Roberts, established the Smoking Cessation Initiative by outlining a program that included a two-prong focus: (l) smoking cessation, and (2) smoking prevention through targeting children. Preventing Smoking It was decided that the most successful mode of prevention would be to target children before the age of 12 when they usually begin smoking. Dr. Debbie Curry, Pediatric Professor, challenged JSU nursing students to put their knowledge of “learning theory”