2014 ANNUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 Message from the Chair 4 Your Project Team 6 Board Members 9 Signature Grant Profile 10 Grant Profiles 14 Fund Profiles 20 PotashCorp Mayor’s Cultural Gala 24 2014 Grants 46 Year in Review 47 2014 Fund Values 55 Donors 58 Volunteers 2 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR donations and grants. Over $8.4 million in donations was received, resulting in over $5 million in grants! This brings our total grants since 1970 to over $19 million! This watershed year brings the assets currently under SCF’s management to over $64 million, almost double the assets managed by SCF five years ago. Investment returns in 2014 were 8.55%, bringing SCF’s 20-year average for investment returns to 8.2%. 2014 was a year of new partnerships and growing community awareness of SCF. Our Just in Case program (developed by Harold Empey) and Random Act of Kindness Day raised our profile higher than ever, while innovative partnerships allowed SCF to assist many new donors to achieve their charitable goals. Thanks to all our community partners, whose confidence in SCF was the key to making connections and achieving results. Thanks as well to all those who contributed, either by building permanent endowed funds or by directing their gifts this year to the charities of their choice. The Saskatoon Community Foundation’s PotashCorp Mayor’s Cultural The core of community building is leadership. Change begins when Gala was held September 20th, 2014. In its eighth year, through the we recognize that some aspect of our community needs improvement, support of our generous title sponsor PotashCorp, and the continued and we take action. The Board and staff of the Saskatoon Community support of our city’s wonderful individuals and generous business Foundation take seriously our responsibility to be leaders, in both our community, we raised almost $400,000. Plans are already underway for professional and personal lives. Each of us makes a unique contribution the 2015 Gala, September 19th. We look forward to another incomparable to our beloved community of Saskatoon. At the Foundation, the purpose celebration of Saskatoon’s diverse culture! of this leadership is to honour the commitment and steward the gifts of our donors. These donors have created legacies for the good of With sadness, we said farewell to two great Saskatonians and former Saskatoon in perpetuity and have also taken immediate action to Board members: Cliff Wright, whose contributions to our community address current issues. In turn, these gifts support charities working simply cannot be calculated, and our good friend Myrna Bentley, who at ground level to improve the quality of life for all Saskatoon citizens. among her other achievements was instrumental in the creation and Our role at SCF is to find innovative, effective and compassionate ways success of our Mayor’s Cultural Gala. Their gifts to Saskatoon will to connect our donors to the causes that matter most to them and the never be forgotten. We also welcomed Ken Juba of Creative Fire and community at large. Kim Braun of ScotiaBank to our Board. We look forward to continued success in 2015! Since 1970, the Saskatoon Community Foundation has been building a future for Saskatoon that will last forever. Gifts made today, through Kindest Regards, endowments, will make our community stronger for future generations. In 2014, thanks to innovative partnerships with community leaders such as the Kinsmen Club and Friends of Gordie Howe Bowl, the Saskatoon Community Foundation was the conduit for unprecedented levels of Zeba Ahmad, Chair 3 L to R: Susan Skrypnyk, Administration Manager; Don Ewles, Grants and Communications Manager; 4 Kristy Rempel, Donor Services Manager; and Trevor Forrest, Executive Director. WORKING TO BUILD YOUR LEGACY A community is both a result and a process. Building community means The Saskatoon Community Foundation staff brings decades of working within a process to get results while the process is still in experience, expertise and community knowledge into play to help donors motion. This is always a challenge because social change is complex create lasting legacies for our community. Whether dealing with the and slow moving, yet we must always work to stay ahead of the curve ins and outs of endowments and funds or helping to find the charities and make changes that are meaningful within the lives and needs of the that can best reflect donors’ goals and values, your staff team can help people who make up our community. to ensure that your contribution to the community will last and have a meaningful impact. 5 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 6 Zeba Ahmad: “It’s an honor and privilege Tracy Muggli: “Saskatoon is a community Ken Juba: “Saskatoon fits a unique niche to be involved in many worthy projects and of thousands who give generously of their between big city and small town. We’re organizations in our community. Each of them time, their skills and their financial resources growing, we have new amenities, we have has given me a sense of connection to the city in order to build a stronger community. It is a bright future. Yet anyone who spends time we all call home. Each and every time I get that incredible caring spirit that helps ensure here develops personal connections that are involved I am amazed at the generosity of the everyone can reach their full potential and reminiscent of a smaller town. When you individuals and businesses in Saskatoon. It is attain a better quality of life." meet someone new, there’s a good chance truly inspiring.” you’ll quickly find shared connections, Brian Bentley: “Serving on the SCF Board common friends, familiar histories. It’s why Greg Keller: “I love the generosity of our is a special honour allowing me to serve with, SCF matters. The projects we touch are citizens – be it financially or through good learn from, and share with dedicated fellow not invisible and our donors are our friends works. We live in a growing city that has a Board members a love of our Community. and neighbours. It’s about businesses and smaller town feel. We know and support our Saskatoon is a wonderful Community that we people we know helping the organizations neighbours, we make the effort to volunteer. all want to see made into the best place there and people they come across every day. It’s a We have many organizations and individuals is to live.” growing city building on small-town values." that ensure our less fortunate are supported. I am proud to call Saskatoon home.” Tom Kishchuk: “I love being able to Full bios at saskatooncommunityfoundation.ca. canoe on the South Saskatchewan river and Jeret Bode: “The city is exploding with snowshoe at Chief Whitecap Park.” Past Board Members culture. Everywhere you look there is diversity Derek Arnold, Roger Arnold, Fred Ballantyne, in the people, the food, music and art.” John Williams: “It’s all about the people Myrna Bentley, Moira Birney, Kim Braun, Bernie in our community and the generosity they Broughton, Gordon Bray, Sid Buckwold, Warren Ian Sutherland: “What I like about provide to our wonderful city. Our community Champ, Scott Cherry, Ronan Conlon, Howard Saskatoon is the willingness of its citizens to truly cares!" Cooper, Joan Emigh, Hon. Dr. Sylvia Fedoruk, help those in need, the natural beauty of the Brenda Fitzgerald, Albert Flavelle, Kathryn Ford, river valley changing with the seasons and Amberlea Chabot: “I love the sense of Austin Forsyth, Roger Francis, Alain Gaucher, the wide variety of cultural and educational community we all share, the feeling of being Margaret Harris, Ross Harwood, Wes Heinrichs, opportunities for people of all ages.” neighbours.” Bart Hunter, Sam Jackson, Judy Harwood, Ken Howland, George Keter, Robert Klombies, Mary Beckett: “One of my greatest joys is Curtis Kimpton: “I love that our community Susan Lamb, Betty Anne Latrace-Henderson, to walk throughout the city. We are privileged to is open to change like the amazing seasons John Leddy, Don Leier, Dale Linn, John Loraas, live in a place where one can safely enjoy the of Saskatoon. I believe in community and the Fred MacDermid, Wally Mah, William Manning, beauty of all the seasons.” ability to grow and foster new relationships." Bonnie Marcoux, Fay McCann, Madge McKillop, Neil McMillan, Susan Milburn, Tom Molloy, Wayne Brownlee: “I love the small town Tiffany Paulsen: “In recent years, Penney Murphy, Blair Nelson, Craig Peterson, atmosphere in our city, the friendliness and Saskatoon has seen tremendous expansion, Dick Pinder, Ross Pinder, Don Ravis, Phyllis honesty of the people and the growing diversity both in land size and population, however that Salisbury, Linda Shaw, Mac Sheppard, Jan as we become more international!” growth does not take away the ability of one Thomson, Paul Tiesssen, Randy Trost, Allan person to make a big difference!" Tubby, Jamie Wall, Jim Wasilenko, Cliff Wright, Joanne Wurmlinger, and Darryl Yausie. 7 IN MEMORY MYRNA BENTLEY The Saskatoon Community Foundation lost a great friend and supporter recently. A community leader, pioneer for women in leadership roles and long-time board member of the Saskatoon Community Foundation, Myrna Bentley will be very sadly missed. She served SCF for eight years on our board, including a term as Chair. Myrna was also instrumental in the success of the PotashCorp Mayor’s Cultural Gala, making it one of the most successful fundraisers in the history of our community. Myrna took a special interest in making sure the entertainment at some of the early Galas was of the highest possible quality and made sure that the program was packed with value for those attending. But more than that, her cheerful optimism, her focus on family and her kind and generous spirit will always be remembered.