DULUTH SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
THE
2014 ANNUAL REPORT —Mahatma Gandhi
There is a power in each of us to create change. To make the place we live better. To inspire, educate, engage and include. To unleash opportunity and create possibility. To share. To give. To change lives forever. Message from the chair and the president
Friends of the Community Foundation: and in their ability to succeed. CHUM’s in Dr. Robert D. Putnam’s new book, Family Coaches Program at the Steve O’Neil Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis. We The Duluth Superior Area Community Apartments brings innovation to breaking were pleased to bring Dr. Putnam back to Foundation provides meaningful opportunities the cycle of homelessness for families. Kelly our Annual Celebration to inform us about for philanthropy, addresses the changing Stark, one of our many scholarship recipients, his new research. We share his concerns needs of our communities, builds permanent will be using her degree to make a difference about the troubling opportunity gap and look charitable capital and engages in community with marginalized populations. And the forward to working with donors and nonprofit leadership activities that support a vibrant and Mentor Superior program is providing organizations who are interested in tackling healthy region. These are the commitments positive adult role models for deserving this critical need. we made in our current strategic plan. children and young people. As we work toward our next strategic plan The incredible and inspiring stores that All of these stories document the compelling during the coming year, we hope to hear from appear in our 2014 Annual Report ability in each of us to make a difference. you. We would like to engage with you as we demonstrate these important commitments. And what a difference these individuals work together to make this an even better Dan and Cathy Mundt’s creation of have made through permanent, place to live for all of our kids. Thank you for the Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt meaningful philanthropy. creating change in our region. Scholarship Fund for Late Bloomers has provided scholarship opportunities for These stories also address the diminishing students because someone believed in them opportunities for young people as captured
Claudia Scott Welty Holly C. Sampson Chair, Board of Trustees President
1 1 Changing the path of young lives by ending family homelessness
Imagine you’re six years old. You don’t “To end family homelessness we collaborative projects that know when you will eat next, where you not only have to provide permanent, empower families in our region will sleep tonight, or if you will be able supportive housing,” says Lee Stuart, to overcome poverty. to make it to school tomorrow. You and executive director of Churches United “Thanks to the Community your family are homeless. All you can in Ministry (CHUM). “We must give Foundation, Family Coaches at the think about is surviving from day to each member of the family the skills Steve O’Neil Apartments are creating day. Your life has been this way for as and resources they need to move an environment of security, warmth, long as you can remember. beyond the traumatizing experience friendship and support,” says Lee. of being homeless, to a place of “They are actively listening, helping Now imagine a place specifically possibility and self-actualization.” created to end family homelessness. families dream and set goals, holding It’s the Steve O’Neil Apartments The Family Coaches Program at the them accountable for taking steps to in Duluth. It’s a safe, warm place Steve O’Neil Apartments was created achieve those goals, never giving up on designed around your well-being. You to help families stabilize their lives. them, sustaining possibility, building move in. You’re no longer homeless. The Duluth Superior Area Community community within families, between But how do you act? How do you and Foundation’s Fair Chance Fund is families and between the families and your family relate to other people? helping fund the program. The Fair the community. It is a big job with the What is possible for you now? Chance Fund challenges leaders in potential to create incredible change.” education and human services to think in fresh ways about the nature and delivery of services to low-income people, and to support innovative and
2 2 THE IMPACT OF HOMELESSNESS IS PROFOUND. IT AFFECTS THE WAY YOU THINK, FEEL, BEHAVE, RELATE AND COPE.
3 3 3 BEING A MENTOR MEANS BEING A FRIEND, A ROLE MODEL—OR EVEN A HERO.
4 4 BEING A MENTOR MEANS BEING A FRIEND, A ROLE MODEL—OR EVEN A HERO. Creating change by being a mentor
You would be amazed at what spending Research by the SEARCH Institute reveals Salisa Hochstetler, Mentor Superior an afternoon at the park, baking cookies that one of the most important indicators as program coordinator is that full-time person. or going to a ball game can do for a child to whether a child will succeed in life is the According to her and board member in need of an adult role model. Having an number of positive adult role models they Melissa Brown, the Duluth Superior Area adult listen and show interest in who you have as they are growing up. The young Community Foundation’s Community are can raise your self-confidence, improve people served by Mentor Superior are Opportunity Fund is helping provide the your outlook on life and even make you between 5–17. They come from single parent much needed funding to ensure Mentor more likely to do better in school. That kind families. Most are living in poverty. Having a Superior is able to serve as many children of friendship is what Mentor Superior is positive adult outside their family who cares waiting for a mentor as possible. One of the providing for over 40 children in Superior for them is crucial for their psychological purposes of the Community Opportunity right now. development and can lead to creating options Fund is to strengthen the organizational for them that can break the cycle of poverty capacity of grantees to sustainably and “Mentor Superior is unique because it was in their family. effectively fulfill their mission. started in 2011 by a group of community leaders attending a Leadership Superior “Mentor Superior uses the same model “It is amazing what simply spending time program,” says Callie Ronstrom, the as Mentor Duluth,” says Callie. “Since its with a child can do,” says Callie. “We Duluth Area Family YMCA’s Mentor creation Mentor Superior has been kept alive couldn’t sustain this program without the Duluth director. “The group was working by a strong, active and committed board. help of the Community Foundation.” on a project to improve the community and However, in order to grow and serve more decided that starting with its young people children a full-time staff person was needed was vital.” to take care of the day-to-day operation of the program.”
5 5 Getting an education to change the world
Kelly Stark has had her share of “After the fire, I realized what Community Foundation dinner for setbacks. They include a divorce community means. I had only been scholarship recipients, Kelly met that left her a single parent and a going to my church for about three some of the other students who fire that resulted in losing everything weeks when church members collected are benefiting from Community she owned. donations to completely supply my Foundation scholarships. kitchen. Friends, family and neighbors “They give opportunities to many Through it all, Kelly has found a way also came to my rescue,” says Kelly. different people,” says Kelly. “I met to keep positive and keep going. “I feel such a part of this community.” a woman who is going to become a “After my divorce I realized that I Kelly plans to use her education to science teacher. Think of how many couldn’t provide enough income for evoke positive change. little girls she can affect. I met so many my son and me to live independently,” people at the dinner from so many says Kelly. “I knew I had to get at least “I plan to use my degree to work with life situations. They were all treated a four-year degree.” populations that are marginalized,” with respect and dignity. Community says Kelly. “In our society there is Two scholarships from the Duluth Foundation donors are making a such stigma around mental health positive change in the lives of many Superior Area Community Foundation and homelessness. I want to start a designed for primary caregivers of who otherwise couldn’t afford to go conversation about the issues these back to school.” one or more children, plus a job on populations are facing. Without campus, are helping Kelly pursue a conversation there cannot be degree in psychology from The College education. Without education there of St. Scholastica. cannot be collaboration and without collaboration there cannot be change.” At an annual Duluth Superior Area
6 6 THANKS TO YOU, THE SKY IS THE 7 LIMIT. 7 Passionate about creating change for tomorrow’s children
If you spend any amount of time with employee benefit plans. For 35 years, he was Dan and Cathy’s philosophy has been to attorney Dan Mundt, you’ll soon realize Chairman of the Legacy & Endowment give their children both “roots” and “wings.” he’s a man who has left very little on the Fund Committee at Glen Avon Presbyterian That philosophy has formed their passion table during his eighty-seven years. His life Church. The fund created and administered for creating change for young people who has taken him from the farms and mills of five programs including a scholarship may not have the same opportunities as northern Wisconsin in the 1930s, to the program for Late Bloomers. others. In 2003, they worked with the Duluth Philippine islands of the South Pacific in Superior Area Community Foundation to What’s even more impressive is the amount World War II as Commander of Battery create the Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt of meaning Dan has packed into his life “B” 24th Battalion, 12th Infantry Division, Scholarship Fund for Late Bloomers— between those historic milestones—64 years Philippine Scouts to representing American similar in nature to the Glen Avon Legacy & of marriage, five children, volunteerism, business icons. Endowment Fund Late Bloomers Scholarship advocacy and leadership roles too numerous program. As the name implies, the Late Dan’s professional life has been rich and to name here. Through it all, Dan has Bloomers scholarship is for high school varied and has included many undertakings worked to create positive change for all he seniors who have not yet realized their full outside of his thriving legal practice. For has touched. potential. It seeks to balance some of the over eighteen years, he taught Business Law “I couldn’t do it all without my wife, Cathy,” inequality of opportunities among children. and created and taught an advanced class says Dan. “She helped me through law school Since its creation many Duluth high school in Government Regulation of Business while teaching elementary school, fourth seniors who may not have considered at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. grade, for the Minneapolis School District. postsecondary education have had a chance For 23 years, he was a speaker on Pension She has been and continues to be a tireless to realize that someone believed that they and Health Funds at annual meetings community advocate with me. I always say could succeed. (5,000–6,000 attendees) for the nonprofit that she raised six kids—our five children, International Foundation of Employee Benefit plus me.” Plans. Also, as requested, he developed a code of ethics for the administration of all
8 8 Dan is a man of deep faith and is devoted to Dan is currently working on a project the practice of EMPATHY. called Gender Matters, which involves IMMERSING children in nature without “I believe that spending time with a child, using a set classroom curriculum. Gender listening and just being with them is more Matters is designed to encourage children to important than anything else,” says Dan. make nature and school an essential part of “I owe much to those who have mentored, their life. The program seeks to help children shared, taught and guided me along the way. develop self-esteem, self-confidence, self- Helping a child to realize his or her potential assurance and self-acceptance through their by showing EMPATHY is essential.” experience with nature and education.
Dan and Cathy have been described as “We have had a good life with many “two of the most kind-hearted and generous experiences and opportunities,” says Dan. humanitarians I know.” Besides their donations “We are blessed, thankful and always ready to the Community Foundation through to give back.” the Late Bloomers Fund, they have also contributed to multiple Duluth organizations through their other Community Foundation Funds. Individually they remain extremely active and generous to the community.
WHAT WE GIVE 9 WE KEEP. 9 New Funds in 2014
DESIGNATED ORGANIZATIONAL ENDOWMENTS Jean Hustad Scholarship Fund recognizes Toby and Sharon Marcovich Charitable Lakewood Elementary School Foundation the academic achievements of female high Fund supports a nonprofit organization Fund supports the foundation’s mission school students who have lived in Duluth designated by the donor. to enhance the quality of educational for three or more years and attend school opportunities for Lakewood Elementary (including home schools) in the city of PPREP Operating Fund supports the efforts School and Lakewood Montessori Preschool Duluth. Applicants must plan to attend of Philanthropic Preparedness, Resiliency, students. a 2 or 4 year college or university upon Emergency Partnership (PPREP) and the completion of high school. Community Foundation’s work toward West Wisconsin Land Trust Stewardship and disaster recovery. Defense Fund supports stewardship and Harold and Laura Jorgenson Memorial legal defense of conservation easements Scholarship Fund honors Harold and Laura DONOR ADVISED and fee title properties held by the West Jorgenson by helping to fund the college Alexandra Smith Fund - In Support of Wisconsin Land Trust. education of graduates of Duluth public Native American Treaty Rights, part of the schools and/or Ely Memorial High School Apostle Islands Area Community Fund SCHOLARSHIP who intend to major in Environmental family of funds, supports programs that Frank L. Barrows II Memorial Scholarship Science or Social Work, with particular create understanding, appreciation and Fund, part of the Eveleth Area Community emphasis on students who would be the promotion of Native American/Indigenous Foundation Fund family of funds, honors first of their family to attend college. People treaty rights and programs that the memory of Frank L. Barrows II by support leadership opportunities. awarding a college scholarship to a student Scott Scholarship Fund, part of the Cook from Eveleth-Gilbert Senior High School. County Community Fund family of funds, FIELD OF INTEREST benefits graduates of ISD#166 - Cook Disaster Recovery and Resilience Fund Peter Bye Family Scholarship Fund will County High School who are named as responds to unmet community needs, provide scholarships for medical school valedictorian or salutatorian each year. short-term, medium-term and long-term; students attending the University of recovery plans which improve quality of Minnesota Medical School - Duluth, who life; and efforts to make communities more are pursuing Family Practice. Priority shall resilient to disaster stresses. be given to those students demonstrating a commitment to serve rural/small towns in West Wind Fund, part of the Apostle the region for a minimum of five years upon Islands Area Community Fund family completion of their medical degree. of funds, encourages preservation in Bayfield, Wisconsin by providing grants for Duluth Airmen Scholarship Fund provides preservation projects particularly relating to financial assistance to the children of building or rebuilding/reimagining historic current or former 148th Fighter Wing sites and/or protecting historic places on personnel who are attending institutions public lands. of higher education.
10 10 Previously Created Funds
UNRESTRICTED FUNDS Leaders Fund are: William, Florence and Dorothy Burns Business Leaders Fund maximizes the Martha B. Alworth; Family Fund 1996 impact of the charitable contributions Abbot G. Apter; Campbell Family Charitable Fund 1984 of businesses in the area by building a Barker’s Island Marina; Cleveland Family Fund 2003 philanthropic bridge between our business Richard R. Burns; Family Service Sharing Fund 1989 community and the many nonprofit Mark Danielson and Theresa Smith; Todd, Susan, Matthew and Hilary Johnson organizations that provide vital programs Essentia Health; 2007 Charitable Fund 2007 for our area. Members of the Business Karen and John Fillenworth; Levin/Goldfine Fund 2008 Leaders Fund are: Anne and Jon Holy; Wildey H. Mitchell Family Fund 1991 BMO Harris Bank (in memory of Robert D. Helena Jackson; Moline Family Fund 1993 Banks); Howard and Barb Klatzky; Hazel B. and A. Wallace Niss CLM Corporation; Frances and Joseph Leek; Charitable Fund 2009 Capstan Corporation; Ilene Levin and Steve Goldfine; P.L.B. Memorial Fund 2008 Duluth News Tribune; Blair and Anna Mahan; Erick Peter Person Memorial Fund 2003 Duluth Winnipeg and Pacific Railway Ann and Bob Mars; Ruth H. Richards Fund 2004 Company; Mary E. Millard; Carolyn Joy Seitz Family Fund 1996 Enbridge Energy Partners; PLB Properties; Dr. William and Kay Slack Family Fund 2 011 Essentia Health; Fariba Pendleton; William G. Strobel, M.D., Family Fund 1991 Evening Telegram/Morgan Murphy Media; Arend J. and Verna Sandbulte; Weckwerth-Sampson Family Fund 1991 Hanft Fride, A Professional Association; James H. Stewart; maurices; Donald L. and Susan C. Wallgren; Johns S. and James L. Knight Foundation Minnesota Power; Thomas B. Wheeler; Fund assists a wide variety of community- Moline Machinery LLC; Jim and Mary Zastrow. 2000 based projects and nonprofit organizations National Bank of Commerce; that would not normally receive Knight North Shore Bank of Commerce; Community Opportunity Fund was created Foundation support. 1993 St. Mary Land & Exploration Company; by the gifts of many generous donors United General Constructors, Inc. wishing to benefit the community as a Living Legacy Fund is an excellent option (in memory of Herbert Klippen); whole. People from all walks of life have for donors wishing to honor loved ones and U.S. Bank; pooled contributions into this fund, creating friends forever, either as a memorial or on W.P. & R.S. Mars Company; a permanent legacy for our community. occasions of celebration. 1983 Wells Fargo Bank. 1988 1983 Second Chance Endowment Fund takes a Community Foundation Services Fund A vital part of the resources of the creative twist by making grants to qualified provides direct support for the operating Community Foundation, unrestricted funds applicants who previously applied for, costs of the Community Foundation. Gifts to provide flexible earnings which can adapt but did not receive grants, due to limited this fund maximize the dollars available for to the needs of the community as it evolves Community Foundation resources. 2006 grant making. 1984 over time. Alberta Fund 2007 Young Leaders Fund recognizes young Community Leaders Fund recognizes Anonymous Friend Fund 2005 adults and their efforts to assist in making businesses and individuals that have Barnum Fund 1993 the Duluth/Superior community an exciting provided outstanding resources to address Dr. and Mrs. Bernhard Boecker place to live. 2007 our region’s charitable needs, now and in Charitable Fund 1996 the future. Members of the Community
11 11 FIELD OF INTEREST 2012 Flood Early Recovery Fund responds to Emile H. Mathis II Fund supports Douglas John T. and Elizabeth C. Adams Arts Fund unmet community needs and assists in the County programs which help low income, is designed to attract programs of artistic development and implementation of flood disadvantaged people meet their basic quality to the Duluth/Superior area. 1984 recovery plans in cooperation with other needs and encourages projects which local grant making organizations. 2012 involve animals, attend to the welfare of Scott D. Anderson Leadership Foundation animals, or which alleviate the suffering of Fund sponsors high quality, value-based 2012 Flood Immediate Response Fund animals. 2012 leadership training and/or scholarships responds to the harm caused by the historic recognizing leadership accomplishments for flood of June 20, 2012 focusing on short- Morgan Fund highlights projects that foster youth. 1999 and medium-term needs. 2012 community pride or economically impact the Twin Ports in general, with a goal of Scott D. Anderson Leadership Foundation Fund for the Environment reflects growing making grants equally to Superior and Operating Fund supports the operating community concern and awareness of our Duluth. 1984 activities of the Scott D. Anderson interdependency with our environment. Leadership Foundation Fund. 1999 1991 Riverfront Community Fund supports nonprofit organizations serving the Samuel F. Atkins and Barbara H. Atkins Fair Chance Fund encourages innovative Riverfront communities of Riverside, Memorial Fund helps low-income, projects to reduce long-term dependency on Smithville, Morgan Park, Gary-New Duluth disadvantaged people meet their basic public assistance programs, decrease the and Fond du Lac. 1991 human needs and enables projects which effects of poverty on children, and provide involve animals. 1992 opportunities for economic self-sufficiency. Silver Bay Charitable Fund provides 1991 financial assistance to projects and Central Mesabi Fund for Human Services programs that aid and support low-income assists agencies that directly help low- Four Cedars Environmental Fund supports residents of Silver Bay and its vicinity. 2001 income people cope with their basic needs programs and organizations that are and problems from Coleraine to Mountain involved in the protection, preservation and G. Kendall Smith Fund for the Physically Iron. 1989 education of the unique natural resources Disabled and Visually Impaired supports found primarily within the western Lake organizations whose main purpose is Community Parks and Recreation Program Superior watershed. 2006 servicing people with physical disabilities or Fund provides funding for neighborhood- visual impairments. 1990 based enhancements and recreation C.E. Fuller, Jr. and M.K. Fuller Fund, services in Duluth’s parks, recreation and created in 1963 and later transferred to the Jane S. Smith Memorial Fund encourages trails system. The program is funded by Community Foundation, supports human and enables organizations which provide the City of Duluth Parks Fund approved by service programs in the region. 1997 artistic and cultural traditions in the Duluth voters in 2011. 2012 area. 1992 Arthur and Winnie Gurovitsch Children’s Community Parks and Recreation Program Fund, in honor of Arthur Gurovitsch’s Superior-Douglas County Arts Fund Operating Fund supports the work of the kindness towards children, creates supports projects and programs which help Community Parks and Recreation Program opportunities for less fortunate children. people develop an appreciation for the arts Fund. 2012 1997 and to make a variety of multicultural arts experiences accessible to everyone. 2006 Douglas County Disaster and Welfare Fund Lakeview Arts Fund supports local arts was created in 1919 by the Superior Chapter of organizations and other local organizations Laurie A. Wermter Library Fund aids libraries the Red Cross and residual gifts to the Superior which undertake art projects. 2006 and archives in northwest Wisconsin, Fire Relief Committee and later transferred to primarily Douglas County, in achieving the Community Foundation. 1984 outstanding library service and preserving the history of the area. 2003 12 12 Wetherby Fund helps children with their Esperanza Fund allows the donor to Red Oak Fund allows the donor to educational and basic material needs, as participate actively in the grant making participate actively in the grant making well as helps them appreciate nature. 1997 process. 2007 process. 2000
Dale Heimbach Wheeler Memorial Fund Global Awareness Fund assists projects Elva B. and Mitchell J. Sill Family Fund assists projects that address children’s that increase community awareness of our allows the donor to participate actively in education, chemical dependency services, global interdependence and promote citizen the grant making process. 2003 family counseling, and women and participation in global issues. 1983 violence. 1995 Philip H. and Barbara Strom Family Knight Fund supports a variety of Charitable Fund allows the donor to Henry and Sarah Wheeler Historical community, cultural, and civic projects and participate actively in the grant making Awareness Fund supports projects that nonprofit organizations. 2002 process. 2008 promote awareness of our region’s rich, untapped historical legacy and inspire John Allan Kunz Fund for Reminiscence and John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas others to participate in preserving and Life Review provides grants to nonprofit Family Foundation Fund allows the donor promoting the region’s history. 2005 organizations and educational institutions to actively participate in the grant making that promote the use of reminiscence and process. 2013 Wisconsin Arts Board Fund supports arts life review through research, practice and activities in Douglas County. 2003 volunteer work. 2011 Wells Fargo Bank Fund allows the donor to participate actively in the grant making DONOR ADVISED LHB Foundation Fund allows the donor process. 2004 A&A Enterprises Charitable Fund allows to participate actively in the grant making donors to participate actively in the grant process. 2012 Wirtanen Family Fund, in memory of Sylvia making process. 2007 Wirtanen, encourages progressive social Ilene Levin and Steven Goldfine Charitable change, broadens participation in our Anishinabe Fund fosters cultural awareness Fund allows the donor to participate actively democratic society, and promotes justice. of Ojibwe traditions while encouraging in the grant making process. 2012 1990 the migration of ideas and promoting the respect for the Ojibwe culture. 1991 Lone Wolf Fund creates the opportunity DESIGNATED to promote environmental education; to Anonymous I Charitable Fund supports two Apter Family Fund allows the donor to advance medical science through research; nonprofit organizations in the Duluth area. participate actively in the grant making and to increase educational opportunities 1994 process. 1998 for international students attending post- secondary institutions. 1999 Anonymous Friend Designated Fund Aspen Fund II allows donors to participate supports nonprofit organizations designed actively in the grantmaking process. 2009 E. C. Mason Fund allows the donor to by the donor. 2005 participate actively in the grantmaking Biodiversity Fund supports efforts to process. 2009 Attracting and Maintaining Young People maintain, strengthen, preserve, and restore Fund supports the efforts of the Attracting biodiversity habitats in the Duluth/Superior Moline Family Donor Advised Fund allows and Maintaining Young People Initiative of region. 2010 the donor to participate actively in the grant the DSACF. 2006 making process. 2003 Michael Adam Carroll Memorial Attracting and Maintaining Young People Fund provides financial resources to Nordling Family Fund allows the donor One Stop Shop Fund supports the efforts of organizations that provide services to to participate actively in the grant making the Attracting and Maintaining Young People disabled youth and their families. 2005 process. 2007 Initiative by creating a website. 2007
13 13 Duluth Edison Charter School Legacy Knight Creative Communities Initiative Nordling Family Designated Fund I supports Endowment Fund was established Fund helps support the activities of the KCCI two nonprofit organizations in Duluth. 2007 to enhance the scope and quality of project in the Duluth/Superior area. 2007 educational opportunities at Duluth Edison Northeast Minnesota Sharing Fund enables Charter Schools. 2013 Levin-Goldfine Twin Ports Jewish human service agencies to provide small Community Fund supports Temple Israel cash grants to vendors on behalf of low- Duluth Legacy Operating Fund supports the and/or other mainstream, progressive income clients at times of critical need. activities of the Duluth Legacy Endowment Jewish houses of worship and/or 1988 Fund. 2008 progressive Jewish educational programs located in Duluth or Superior. 2013 Northern Bible Society - Daniel H. and Duluth Public Schools Temporary Fund Catherine L. Mundt Charitable Fund was supports activities of the Duluth Public Douglas H. and Judith H. Lewis Memorial established to continue in perpetuity the Schools. 1996 Fund supports two nonprofit organizations work of the Northern Bible Society. 2006 in the Duluth area. 1994 Duluth-Superior Sharing Fund enables Rauha Fund supports four nonprofit human service agencies to provide small Lorntson Family Fund supports five organizations in Minnesota. 2012 cash grants to vendors on behalf of low- nonprofit organizations designated by the income clients at times of critical need. donor. 2006 Kenneth and Concetta Schoen Duluth 1983 Public Schools Fund provides supplemental Mattson Family Education Fund provides funding to enrich the academic, cultural, Manley and Lillian Goldfine Gold Star support to the nursing and theatre athletic, and overall experience of students Teacher Award Fund recognizes and rewards departments of three universities. 2012 and staff, and to encourage and reward outstanding educators of ISD#709 - Duluth creativity and innovation in the pursuit of Public Schools. 2006 Millennium Group Speak Your Peace Fund excellence in education in the Duluth Public supports the ongoing efforts of the Speak Schools. 2013 Manley and Lillian Goldfine Gold Star Your Peace Civility Project and the nine Temporary Fund supports the operations tools of civility. 2003 Slonim Temporary Fund provides the donor related to the Manley and Lillian Goldfine the opportunity to participate in the grant Gold Star Teacher Award Fund. 2006 Gregory S. and Barbara J. Miller Charitable making process as they see an apparent Lead Trust supports land and water need. 1995 Howard J. and Barb Ignatius Fund provides conservation by the West Wisconsin Land funding to support technology at Denfeld Trust in the St. Croix and Lake Superior G. Kendall Smith Fund supports two High School and the Proctor High School watersheds. 2007 nonprofit organizations in the Duluth area. English Department. 2006 1990 Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Charitable Initiatives General Operating Fund Fund supports fifteen nonprofit programs Social Capital Benchmark Survey Fund supports the activities of the Community in the Duluth area and provides scholarship supports the efforts of the Social Capital Foundation’s Initiatives. 2008 support through the Daniel H. and Catherine Benchmark Survey first conducted during L. Mundt Scholarship Fund for Late 2006 in the Duluth/Superior area. 2006 Edna M. & H. Anna Jenks’ Charitable Fund Bloomers. 1994 was originally created in 1956 to support Superior-Douglas County Arts Operating twelve nonprofit organizations designated Hazel B. and A. Wallace Niss/Human Fund supports the activities of the Superior- by the donor. The Fund was later transferred Development Center Endowment Fund Douglas County Arts Fund. 2006 to the Community Foundation. 1985 supports the Human Development Center’s ongoing operations. 2009
14 14 Henry E. Walter/Cloquet Rotary Club Courage Center Duluth Fund supports Lakeview Christian Academy Fund provides Fund supports the Cloquet Rotary Club’s recreational programs for youth and a solid financial foundation for the Academy scholarship program. 1998 families with disabilities. 2007 so that its families and the community benefit from its vision of providing White Pine Fund supports four nonprofit Duluth Legacy Endowment Fund provides academic excellence in a Christ-centered organizations designated by the donor. support to the City of Duluth for public educational environment. 2009 2006 projects. 2005 Lighthouse for the Blind Endowment Fund Young Leaders Operating Fund supports the Duluth Playhouse Endowment Fund was established to realize the advantages activities of the Young Leaders Fund. 2007 supports the continued operations of the of broader investment management and Duluth Playhouse. 1996 to gain greater visibility for the Duluth ORGANIZATIONAL ENDOWMENTS Lighthouse for the Blind. 1998 Aitkin Education Foundation Fund was Duluth Public Schools Fund was established established to enhance the scope and to gain greater visibility and support for Lutheran Social Service Endowment Fund quality of educational opportunities in the Duluth Public Schools by supporting supports services provided by Lutheran Aitkin Public Schools. 2011 innovative and creative educational Social Service of Minnesota in its northeast projects. 1984 region. 1999 Animal Allies Endowment Fund supports the organization’s mission to ensure a Girl Scouts - Northern Pine Council Marshall School Endowment Fund was lifetime of loving care for every pet by Endowment Fund ensures funds for the established to gain greater visibility for reducing overpopulation, increasing future of Girl Scouting. 1986 Marshall School in partnership with other adoption and fostering humane values. community organizations. 1996 2010 Goodwill Future Fund was created to realize the advantages of broader investment Minnesota Academic Excellence Foundation Building for Women Fund supports the management and gain greater visibility for Fund was established to gain greater charitable purposes of the Building for Goodwill Industries. 1995 visibility for the nonprofit organization. Women, located in Duluth. 2000 1991 Greater Proctor Area Scholarship Mike Colalillo Medal of Honor Scholarship Foundation Fund provides greater visibility Minnesota Ballet Endowment Fund Fund provides greater visibility and support and support for the foundation and its many supports the artistic and educational for the St. Louis County Historical Society scholarships. 2004 activities of the Minnesota Ballet. 2003 and its Veterans’ Memorial Hall program. 2012 Hartley Nature Center Endowment Minnesota Ballet and Duluth News Tribune Fund provides a resource to further the Performing Arts Fund for Kids was created Carlton County Historical Society environmental education programs and to enhance the artistic development of Foundation Fund supports the Carlton stewardship activities of the Hartley Nature young people. 2000 County Historical Society’s efforts to collect, Center. 2008 preserve and disseminate the history of North Shore Community School Carlton County. 1999 Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra Endowment Fund supports community- Endowment Fund supports the continued based elementary education through a Center on Alcohol and Drug Problems Fund growth of the LSCO summer concert series. public charter school. 2001 was created to support, in perpetuity, the 1997 Center on Alcohol and Drug Problems. 1987 Rails Endowment for Academic Art Athletic Development, REA3D, was created to Cloquet Educational Foundation Fund receive, manage and disburse resources for is dedicated to the youth of the Cloquet the lifelong learning experiences of Proctor community. 1994 school district residents. 1997 15 15 Ralph S. Knowlton Lake Superior Marine YWCA Fund was established to gain greater Chester Bowl Temporary Scholarship Museum Endowment Fund was established visibility and to realize the advantages of Fund for Inclusivity and Diversity provides to realize the advantages of broader broader investment management. 1985 financial assistance for families wishing investment management and to gain to participate in the Chester Bowl ski greater visibility. 1992 SCHOLARSHIP program who would otherwise be unable to Anderson Niskanen Scholarship Fund participate for financial reasons. 2013 RSI Margaret Moser Memorial Fund provides assistance for seniors from Duluth supports Residential Services, Inc. of public high schools who are in financial Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial Northeastern Minnesota in its mission to need for higher education at UMD or the Scholarship Fund provides financial provide innovative services to support the U of MN-Twin Cities. 1998 assistance to students of the Duluth/ lives of people with disabilities. 2000 Superior area so that they can pursue their Paul Antonich Scholarship Fund honors goals in higher education. 2009 Second Harvest Michael E. Miner Hunger Paul’s spirit by providing a scholarship to Endowment Fund ensures food resources an ISD#709 senior boy on his school’s track Duluth Building & Construction Trades for in-need residents in the service area of or cross-country team who encourages Council Operating Scholarship Fund the Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food others, demonstrates dedication and good supports the operations of the Duluth Bank. 2005 citizenship, and promotes team unity. 2000 Building & Construction Trades Council Scholarship Fund. 2005 Spirit Mountain Recreation Area Authority Darrell and Palchie Asselin Scholarship Fund Fund provides greater visibility and support provides needed financial assistance to the Duluth Building & Construction Trades for the organization. 2008 non-traditional student at UMD, CSS or Council Scholarship Fund provides UWS. 1993 scholarships to children of members of Superior Hiking Trail Association unions affiliated with the Duluth Building Endowment Fund supports efforts to build, William E. Barto Scholarship Fund provides Trades Council. 2000 promote, maintain, protect and preserve scholarships to high school seniors of a hiking trail along the ridgeline of Lake Duluth and Superior who plan to major in Duluth Central High School Alumni Superior’s North Shore. 2000 the arts and attend UMD or UWS. 1995 Scholarship Fund, originally established by the Central Class of 1944, provides United Way of Greater Duluth Endowment Bernard B. Brusin and Mary L. Brusin assistance for post-secondary education to Fund provides greater visibility and support Scholarship Fund provides renewable seniors who once attended Duluth Central for the organization. 1984 scholarships to Jewish and Roman Catholic High School. 1999 students for college or vocational training. Weisberg Memorial Fund was created to 1987 Duluth Central Sports Association Legacy support the School District of Superior. Scholarship Fund provides awards to 1986 Riley Burnell Criminal Justice Memorial graduating athletes of Duluth public high Scholarship Fund awards a college schools who reside in the geographic area West Wisconsin Land Trust Fund supports scholarship to a student from Koochiching originally served by Duluth Central High the stewardship of permanently conserved County who is interested in pursuing a School. 2010 forests, lakes, rivers, farms, and open career in the criminal justice system. 2013 spaces in the Lake Superior watershed. Julie Enberg Memorial Scholarship Fund, 2010 Allen Butler Minority Law Enforcement honoring Julie’s dedication to sports and Scholarship Fund provides financial her community, provides assistance to YMCA of Superior-Douglas County assistance to people of color to begin or female undergraduate athletes at UMD. Endowment Fund was established to continue law enforcement training at a post- 2001 gain greater visibility for the nonprofit secondary institution. 1996 organization. 1987
16 16 Peter M. Gargano Operating Scholarship Cory Jam Memorial Award Fund, created Minnesota Power New Generation Fund supports the operations of the Peter with gifts from family and friends, provides Scholarship Fund provides assistance to M. Gargano Scholarship Fund. 2003 a scholarship for a Duluth East High School full-time college students who attend school graduate. 1988 in Minnesota Power’s service area and Peter M. Gargano Scholarship Fund major in a qualifying field of study. 2007 provides financial assistance to the children Lake Superior Medical Society Tilderquist of the employees of Ulland Brothers for Scholarship Fund provides scholarships Minnesota Section, Society of Mining post-secondary education. 1992 for students attending the University of Metallurgy and Exploration Scholarship Minnesota Duluth medical school. 2005 Fund provides assistance for the Gernander Scholarship Fund provides undergraduate study of engineering or assistance for post-secondary education Fred C. and Mary H. Lewis Scholarship geology, with priority to those interested to seniors of Denfeld High School with Fund provides assistance for deserving in working in Minnesota’s mining industry. good character who combine athletic and students who could not otherwise afford to 1997 academic accomplishments. 1998 attend Marshall School, a private college preparatory school in Duluth. 1999 Modern Woodmen of America Scholarship Colonel Lawrence H. Golberg Aviation Fund, established by the Duluth Camp Scholarship Fund honors the memory Fred C. and Mary H. Lewis UMD MBA No. 2341 Modern Woodmen of America, of Vietnam pilot, Lawrence Golberg, by Scholarship Fund provides assistance provides assistance to the non-traditional providing scholarships for post-secondary to students from the Duluth/Superior student in financial need. 1988 pilot training in the Duluth area. 2003 area to attend UMD’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. 2008 Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Patricia S. Gustafson ‘56 Memorial Scholarship Fund for Late Bloomers Scholarship Fund awards a renewable Emile H. Mathis II Scholarship Fund provides financial assistance for students scholarship to a graduating female senior supports students majoring in art at the with potential from Duluth’s public high from Denfeld or Marshall School who University of Wisconsin - Superior. 2012 schools. 1999 exemplifies the life of Patricia Gustafson. 2007 Ronald Joseph Mathis Scholarship Fund Hubert A. Nelson Scholarship Fund provides supports students majoring in art at the scholarships for Duluth and Superior high Jeanne H. Hemmingway Scholarship Fund University of Wisconsin - Superior. 2012 school seniors who intend to major in provides assistance to high school seniors business or accounting at UMD or UWS. in Lake, Cook and St. Louis counties to Minnesota Power Community Involvement 1995 attend the University of Minnesota Duluth. Operating Scholarship Fund supports 1990 the operations of the Minnesota Power Amelia and Emanuel Nessell Family Community Involvement Scholarship Fund. Scholarship Fund, established as a Gus and Henrietta Hill Scholarship Fund, 1998 memorial, provides assistance for students created by Henrietta Hill in memory of in financial need, with priority consideration her grandson, Roger C. Hill, Jr., provides Minnesota Power Community Involvement to Jewish applicants. 1997 assistance for higher education to East High Scholarship Fund provides assistance School graduates. 2000 for high school seniors within Minnesota Pay It Forward Scholarship Fund provides Power’s service area who are active the nearly 2700 recipients of DSACF Greg Irons Award Fund honors the tenets volunteers in their communities. 1998 scholarships with an opportunity to return and beliefs of Greg Irons by rewarding the gifts to the community. 2008 efforts of Duluth Public Schools’ students Minnesota Power New Generation and the teachers who help them succeed. Operating Scholarship Fund supports the 1990 operations of the Minnesota Power New Generation Scholarship Fund. 2007
17 17 Richard B. Pearson Memorial Scholarship Kenneth and Concetta Schoen Scholarship Charlotte Ulland Scholarship Fund for Fund provides financial assistance to Fund provides financial assistance for Girls provides assistance for girls who will students graduating from the Duluth Public students with potential from the public high graduate from public high schools on Lake Schools who are pursuing an elementary or schools in Duluth. 2008 Superior’s North Shore and continue their secondary education degree. 2006 studies at a public college or university in Phil Shykes Memorial Scholarship Fund Minnesota. 2009 G. Scott Ransom Scholarship Fund of the provides a scholarship to a Hermantown Duluth/Superior Alpine Club provides High School senior. The recipient is chosen Charlotte Ulland Scholarship for Girls financial awards for expenses associated on the basis of financial need, community Operating Fund supports the activities of with pursuing a competitive ski experience. service and determination to pursue a the Charlotte Ulland Scholarship Fund for 2005 higher education. 1999 Girls. 2009
Dr. Mark Rathke Family Scholarship Fund Small Business Education Fund encourages Richard “Rick” Roy Washburn Memorial provides a scholarship to a Marshall School the creation and retention of jobs in the Scholarship Fund provides financial senior who has demonstrated school and/ DSACF service area through a scholarship assistance to the children of Ulland or community involvement, leadership program geared to strengthen the Brothers, Inc. employees who will attend qualities and hard-working behavior. 1999 management skills of those in small institutions of higher education. 2009 business. 1987 Steve Rolland Youth Peacemaker Award Richard “Rick” Roy Washburn Memorial Fund honors youth who undertake Walter and Anna Soneson Scholarship Fund Scholarship Operating Fund supports community peacemaking activities. 1996 provides scholarships for Duluth public high the activities of the Richard “Rick” Roy school graduates of the Protestant faith. Washburn Scholarship Fund. 2009 Jack and Mary Rowe Memorial Scholarship Scholarships are granted on the basis of Fund rewards the academic excellence of academic merit, character and reasonable Robert B. and Sophia Whiteside Scholarship Duluth, Hermantown, and Proctor public need. 2013 Fund awards scholarships to seniors of high school students who will pursue a Duluth high schools who give evidence career in engineering. 2007 Jean Quinn Sullivan Scholarship Fund of academic excellence, high character, provides financial assistance to students demonstrated leadership, and promise of Lawrence E. and Mabel Jackson Rudberg majoring in education at UWS, with priority contributing to the betterment of society. Scholarship Fund provides financial given to those who express an interest in 1995 assistance for post-secondary education elementary education. 1997 to Two Harbors and Duluth high schools Kate Zinn Memorial Scholarship Fund seniors. 1998 John A. Sullivan Scholarship Fund provides provides financial assistance to students financial assistance for students majoring from St. Croix and Northwestern High Saturn Systems Scholarship Fund awards in education at the University of Wisconsin- Schools in Douglas County for careers scholarships to outstanding seniors Superior. 1996 working with children and/or teenagers. from high schools located in seventeen 2002 surrounding counties who intend to pursue Superior East High All-Class Reunion a degree in computer science at UMD. 2010 Scholarship Fund provides a scholarship to the descendant of a graduate of Superior Saturn Systems Scholarship Operating East High School. 1985 Fund supports the operations of the Saturn Systems Scholarship Fund. 2010
18 18 Affiliate Funds Apostle Islands Area Apostle Islands Area Community Impact Peter M. and Betty W. Rogers Fund allows Community Fund Fund, created by an Otto Bremer Foundation the donor to participate actively in the grant matching challenge, is used for operations making process. 2007 and/or grantmaking. 2009 FIELD OF INTEREST DESIGNATED Apostle Islands Area Community Fund Grutzner Madeline Island Fund supports Apostle Islands Area Community Operating actively promotes private giving for the nonprofit organizations serving Madeline Fund supports activities of the Apostle public good of the Apostle Islands area. Island and its residents. 2006 Islands Area Community Fund. 2000 2000
Human Rights Fund supports projects that Apostle Islands Area Community Fund The following funds, part of the Apostle promote tolerance and combat bigotry, Program Services Fund provides direct Islands area family of funds, address the racism and discrimination in the Apostle support for the operating costs of the changing needs of the region served by the Islands area. 2000 Community Foundation. 2002 Apostle Islands Area Community Fund:
Human Rights Temporary Fund supports Apostle Islands Bremer Operating Fund Albrecht-Vogt Family Fund human rights projects in the Bayfield- supports activities of the Apostle Islands Bodin Family Fund LaPointe-Red Cliff area. 2004 Area Community Fund. 2009 Helen DeHaven Bush Family Fund Hartnett-Helm Family Fund Michael Madeline Island Fund was Martin Hanson Conservation Endowment Kierland-Henry Family Fund established to sustain the quality of life Fund supports the Friends of the Apostle Ann and Dave Locey Family Fund - 2000 on Madeline Island through its support of Islands National Lakeshore, Inc. 2008 Dr. Michael and Deanna Asbell Family Fund nonprofit organizations located in or serving Cleveland Family Fund Madeline Island. 2013 ORGANIZATIONAL ENDOWMENT Joanne B. Hadland Family Fund Ashwabay Outdoor Educational Foundation Bill and Marilyn Larson Family Fund Miskwaabikaang Fund (Red Cliff Fund) Fund supports the foundation’s mission John S. Meier Family Fund grants to Red Cliff nonprofits which serve to provide a quality, affordable outdoor Edward and Dawn Michael Family Fund - 2001 that community with programs and services recreation experience that renews and Jerry and Mary Phillips Family Fund that contribute to the traditional values enhances the lives of people in the Gene and Carole Qualle Family Fund - 2002 of the Ojibwe way of life through its arts, Chequamegan Bay area. 2007 Bell Southmayd Lamont Family Fund language, medicinal foods and ceremonies. Collins Family Fund 2012 Bayfield Community Education Foundation Tom and Roxanne Frizzell Family Fund Fund supports the agency’s mission to Ole J. and Ingeborg Hadland Family Fund DONOR ADVISED facilitate achievement of educational Walt and Lin Pomeroy Family Fund Animal-Assisted Therapy Fund allows the excellence by students attending schools Tom and Liz Purcell Family Fund donor to participate actively in the grant located within the Bayfield School District. Larry A. Reiten Family Fund making process with a focus on animal- 2001 Robert and Carolyn Sneed Family Fund - 2003 assisted therapy for people of all ages Homeward Bound Fund - 2006 with mental, emotion, developmental and Bayfield Heritage Association Fund supports G.R.A.C.E. Fund - 2007 psychological challenges, all in the memory the agency’s mission to promote awareness, Eric and Laurel Lein Family Fund of Cordelia Anne Brinton. 2013 appreciation and preservation of Bayfield’s Robert Tucker Family Fund – 2008 distinctive history. 2001
19 19 CORE Endowment Fund supports Washburn Community Education Beverly R. Uhrhammer Memorial Library the organization in bringing together Foundation Fund supports the agency’s Fund provides funds to the Grand Marais community and families to meet the needs mission to facilitate achievement of Public Library for purchasing high quality of seniors in the northern communities of educational excellence by students children’s printed books to the Bayfield Peninsula. 2007 attending schools located within the add to circulation. 2005 Washburn School District. 2012 Madeline Island/LaPointe Community Clinic ORGANIZATIONAL ENDOWMENT Fund provides assistance to the clinic for Birch Grove Foundation Fund supports their daily operations. 2011 Cook County Community Fund programs and services to the west end of the Cook County community in the areas of Madeline Island Public Library Fund was FIELD OF INTEREST training, education, recreation, health, and established to assist the Library in their Cook County Community Fund actively wellness for all ages. 2005 services to Madeline Island residents. 2011 promotes private giving for the public good of the Cook County area. 2003 Cook County Higher Education Fund supports the programs of Cook County Chequamegon Bay Area The following funds, part of the Cook Higher Education. 2006 Community Fund County area family of funds, address the changing needs of the region served by the Grand Marais Public Library Fund supports FIELD OF INTEREST Cook County Community Fund: the continued operations of the Grand Chequamegon Bay Area Community Marais Public Library. 2006 Fund actively promotes private giving for Mike and Nancy Carlson Family Fund - 2010 the public good in the Ashland region. Surbaugh Family Fund - 2012 North House Folk School Endowment Fund Through its local advisory board, the Fund makes the campus an ever more dynamic works to attract and manage a permanent DONOR ADVISED place to learn. 2006 endowment to address the area’s changing Scott Hawkins Fund allows the donor to needs. 2012 participate actively in the grant making Tofte Historical Society Fund supports the process. 2006 continued operations of the Tofte Historical DESIGNATED Society. 2006 Chequamegon Bay Area Program Services DESIGNATED Endowment Fund was created to benefit the Cook County Community Temporary Fund Violence Prevention Center Fund supports the operations of the Chequamegon Bay Area will support the activities of the Cook Center’s mission of eliminating domestic and Community Fund now and in the future. County Community Fund. 2004 sexual violence against women, men, children 2013 and their families in Cook County. 2004 Cook County Food Shelf Endowment Chequamegon Bay Bremer Operating Fund Fund ensures food resources for in-need WTIP Community Radio Fund fosters and supports the activities of the Chequamegon residents of Cook County. 2013 builds community connections, educates Bay Area Community Fund. 2011 and informs the public, and provides Frank G. DiMaio Fund will enable three entertainment through its broadcasts. 2004 ORGANIZATIONAL ENDOWMENT schools in Cook County to provide Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua Blue instruction of Less Commonly Taught SCHOLARSHIP Canvas Fund provides funds for the periodic Languages. 2007 Daniel Patrick Riley Memorial Scholarship replacement of the Lake Superior Big Top Fund provides scholarships to high school Chautauqua tent. 2001 Harris Family Fund provides support to nine graduates of Cook County High School who nonprofit organizations designated by the wish to pursue a liberal arts education. 2010 donors. 2006
20 20 Eveleth Area Community Hermantown Two Harbors Area Fund Foundation Fund Community Fund FIELD OF INTEREST FIELD OF INTEREST FIELD OF INTEREST Two Harbors Area Fund enhances the Eveleth Area Community Foundation Fund Hermantown Community Fund actively quality of life of Two Harbors’ area seeks to enhance and improve the quality promotes private giving for the public good residents. 1998 of life in the Eveleth area and encourages in the Hermantown area. 2005 others to do the same. 2008 The following fund, part of the Two Harbors DESIGNATED area family of funds, addresses the DONOR ADVISED Hermantown Community Operating Fund changing needs of the region served by the Eveleth 4th of July Fund supports the supports the activities of the Hermantown Two Harbors Area Community Fund: Eveleth 4th of July Committee and its ability Community Fund. 2005 to continue to provide 4th of July events in Lyle and Trish Northey Family Fund – 1999 the City of Eveleth. 2010 SCHOLARSHIP Kathryn A. Bullyan Scholarship Fund Two Harbors Major Project Fund provides John and Carol Mayasich and Family Fund provides recognition for volunteerism on support to the Two Harbors Area Fund in allows the donor to participate actively in the part of graduating high school seniors implementing a major project that promotes the grant making process. 2012 from Hermantown High School. 2010 “Quality of Life” for Two Harbors residents. 2008 DESIGNATED Kathryn A. Bullyan Scholarship Operating Eveleth Area Community Foundation Fund supports the operations of the Kathryn DONOR ADVISED Operating Fund supports the operations of A. Bullyan Scholarship Fund. 2010 LaBounty Family Fund provides assistance the Eveleth Area Community Foundation to projects which promote economic Fund. 2008 Jackson Club Scholarship Fund provides development in the Two Harbors area. 2001 awards for post-secondary education, including college and vocational training, DESIGNATED to seniors from Hermantown High School. Ruth E. Ferguson Charitable Fund supports 2005 the operation and purchase of books for the Two Harbors Public Library. 2006
Two Harbors Area Operating Fund supports the activities of the Two Harbors Area Fund. 1999
SCHOLARSHIP Superior Shores Resort Scholarship Fund provides financial assistance to students from the Lake Superior School District who are pursuing a career in the hospitality industry. 2008
21 21 2014 Community Foundation Accomplishments
• We recognized leading nonprofits in the region: During our four year tradition of recognizing nonprofit programs and projects that exemplify leadership in fostering the values of generosity, civic engagement and inclusiveness, we recognized three forward-thinking organizations with our annual Touchstone Award. Generosity: Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota, Northland Flash Flood Disaster Response Civic Engagement: Men as Peacemakers, Duluth Champion’s Initiative: Using Sports to Help Children Succeed Inclusiveness: A Natural Branch of Learning, Sun on Everyone: Equity, Diversity & Accessibility
• We served donors through the establishment • We built on our efforts to attract and of the following thirteen new funds: retain young adults in this region: Frank L. Barrows II Memorial Scholarship Fund • Exceeded the Young Leaders Fund goal of $370,000.00 Peter Bye Family Scholarship Fund by $30,350.00 Disaster Recovery and Resilience Fund • Responded to the Knight Foundation’s Give to the Max Day Challenge of $32,000, for the second year in a row, raising Duluth Airmen Scholarship Fund $33,530 together with finishing the ALLETE Chairman’s Jean Hustad Scholarship Fund Circle Challenge two years ahead of schedule Harold and Laura Jorgenson Memorial Scholarship Fund • Partnered with the Duluth News Tribune and maurices to Lakewood Elementary School Foundation Fund present the 20 Under 40 Awards Toby and Sharon Marcovich Charitable Fund • Sponsored FUSE Duluth Philanthropic Preparedness, Resiliency, Emergency • Supported TwinPortsConnex and NORTHFORCE: A Project to Partnership Operating Fund Retain Young Adults in the Twin Ports Area Scott Scholarship Fund Alexandra Smith Fund - In Support of Native American Treaty Rights West Wind Fund West Wisconsin Land Trust Stewardship and Defense Fund
22 2014 Distribution of Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation Grants
• We are expanding our ability to implement a philanthropic response to disasters: Because of our philanthropic leadership in addressing the 2012 flash flood, we were selected as one of 17 community foundations from across the Midwest to participate in a new philanthropic-based disaster-preparedness, response, and recovery program known as the Philanthropic Preparedness, Resiliency, and Emergency Partnership (PPREP). Designed to help community foundations implement a philanthropic response to disasters, both in the immediate aftermath and during long-term community rebuilding and resiliency. 6% Arts 8% Community and • We collaborated with multiple communities Economic Development throughout the United States to improve 16% Education public discourse through our Speak Your Peace: 8% Environment The Civility Project initiative. 25% Human Services • We continued to be the largest grant maker 2% Other in the area by providing an integrated online 35% Scholarship grant application process to benefit our nonprofit grantees.
• We were a catalyst for giving, distributing over 2.5 million dollars, in grants, affiliated grants, scholarships and affiliated trust scholarships.
23 Legacy Circle The Legacy Circle recognizes and embraces those generous individuals who have made a planned gift to the Community Foundation to help their community in perpetuity.
Don and Lois Albrecht Lillian and Manley Goldfine Martin and Patricia Lorntson Robert and Marree Seitz Abbot G. Apter James F. Gustafson Claudia A. Lundquist Dale and Elizabeth George Sola Bernhard and Jean Boecker David and Virginia Hahn Jason Maloney and Cindy Bruce and Kaye Stender Peter Boman Vernon A. Harrington Dillenschneider Thomas and Lavetta Torke Henrietta M. Brewer Edward Walker Hartley Emile H. Mathis II 6% Judy Trolander Elizabeth Murphy Burns and Tim and Catherine Hartnett Donald V. and Nancy J. Moline Emily W. Ulhorn % Richard Burns Scott Hawkins Ethel V. Nordling 8Mary C. Van Evera Kevin J. Buzicky and Bill and Sally Hennessy May and Vern Nordling John Voorhis Beth Meyers Dona Wirtanen Holloway Lyle W. and Patricia35% G. Northey Donald L. and Susan C. Wallgren Caroline C. Bye Lori Halgren Johnson Ed and Jane Ryan Laurie Wermter Jennifer L. Carey Patra Holter Holly C. Sampson Jim and16 Ann% Wheeler Richard L. Carver Katie Kelly Verna and Arend Sandbulte Thomas B. Wheeler Thomas R. Duffus John A. Kunz Doug and Mary Sanders David and Kimberley Whittaker Ruth E. Ferguson Ilene Levin and Steve Goldfine Kenneth F. 2and% Donald G. Wirtanen John and Karen Fillenworth Dale S. Lewis Concetta I. Schoen Ilona D. Wirtanen% Margie Fredrickson Fred C. and Mary H. Lewis Herman and Esther Schroeder Anonymous8 (5) 25%
President’s Circle The President’s Circle is comprised of a special group of donors who have, over their lifetime, given a total of $100,000 or more in endowed gifts to the Community Foundation.
Animal Allies Humane Society Janice and Fritz Grutzner Toby and Sharon Marcovich John Ivey and Abbot G. Apter Peter and Carol Harris Don and Nancy Moline Mary Rees Thomas Allan L. Apter Edward Walker Hartley Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Mundt Virginia Keeler Townley Bayfield Community Howard J. and Barb Ignatius Ethel V. Nordling U.S. Bank Education Foundation Mark S. Johnson May and Vern Nordling Richard Uihlein Bernhard Boecker Todd and Susan Johnson North House Folk School United Way of Greater Duluth Pete and Sue Boman Thomas F. Jordan North Shore Bank of Commerce Mary Van Evera Otto Bremer Foundation Harold and Laura Jorgenson Northern Bible Society West Wisconsin Land Trust Richard R. and John S. and James L. Terry Roberts Thomas B. Wheeler Elizabeth M. Burns Knight Foundation Jack & Mary Rowe Donald Wirtanen Bush Foundation Roy E. LaBounty Charitable Lead Trust Anonymous (11) Debora and David Carroll Florence Draper Lachmund Ken and Connie Schoen Cloquet Educational Foundation Fred and Mary Lewis Mitchell and Elva Sill Four Cedars Foundation Lighthouse Center for Dr. Wm and Kay Slack Lillian and Monnie Goldfine Vision Loss Phil and Babs Strom
24 Board of Trustees Claudia Scott Welty, Chair Ryan Boman Philip D. Rolle Retired Senior Vice President Retired Executive President of Business PLB Properties Wells Fargo Diversified Support and Chief Products Group Administrative Officer ALLETE
Amy Kuronen, Vice Chair Marlene David Arend J. Sandbulte Attorney Community Volunteer Retired Chairman, Law Office of Amy President and CEO Kuronen, PLLC Minnesota Power (ALLETE)
Bethany M. Owen, Treasurer David A. Kropid Mia E. Thibodeau President Attorney Attorney Superior Water, Light & Marcovich, Cochrane, Fryberger, Buchanan, Power Company Milliken, Swanson & Smith & Frederick, P.A. Kropid, LLP
James E. Zastrow, Daniel Nikcevich Renee M. Wachter Secretary President and Chief Chancellor North Region Business Medical Officer University of Wisconsin – Banking Manager Essentia Health Superior BMO Harris Bank
Branden H. Robinson Anthony C. Yung General Manager Wealth Management Advisor South Pier Inn Sieh Yung Group Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management
25 Committees and Staff Board Committees Public Relations Global Awareness Knight Foundation Executive Branden H. Robinson, Chair Mary Van Evera, Chair Xavier Bell Claudia Scott Welty, Chair Lyle W. Northey Helena E. Jackson Fariba Pendleton Amy Kuronen, Vice Chair Renee M. Wachter Koresh Lakhan Branden H. Robinson Bethany M. Owen, Treasurer Thomas B. Wheeler Thomas Morgan James E. Zastrow, Secretary Anthony C. Yung Fariba Pendleton Minnesota Section, Society of James E. Zastrow Mia Thibodeau Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Audit Donald L. Wallgren Scholarship Amy Kuronen, Chair Advisory Committees Mavis Whiteman Dennis Murr, Chair Bethany M. Owen John T. and Elizabeth C. Adams Arts Sarah Blust Arend J. Sandbulte Elizabeth Burns, Chair Lillian and Manley Goldfine Gold Peter Clevenstine Robert A. DeArmond Star Teacher Award Duane Kokkinen Board Leadership Karen Fillenworth Andy Goldfine, Chair Julie Marinucci Claudia Scott Welty, Chair Ruth Frederick Harold Frederick Sarrah Mattila Abbot G. Apter Beverly Goldfine Kenneth Goldfine Tony Perpich Howard T. Klatzky Amy Kuronen William Gronseth Amy Kuronen Shirah Kushner Minorities in Law Enforcement Lyle W. Northey Scott D. Anderson Leadership Mark Myles Archie Davis Thomas B. Wheeler Foundation Ken Risdon Earl Ellis James E. Zastrow Gary D. Black, Chair Pam Roth Marion Grant Curt Grayson Arend J. Sandbulte Calvin Harris Development Bill King Diane Skomars Boissey Johnson Claudia Scott Welty, Chair Bethany M. Owen Ellen Troeltzsch Claudie Washington Abbot G. Apter Dan Westholm Renee M. Wachter Robin Washington Paul R. Buckley William L. Westholm Branden H. Robinson Greg Irons Award Dr. Mark Rathke Family Scholarship Philip D. Rolle Anishinabe Dan Holm Margo Rathke, Chair James H. Stewart Michael Spencer, Co-Chair Willis Irons Marlene David Patricia Lenz, Co-Chair Laura LaFontaine Melanie Hannan Grants and Community Leadership Bethany M. Owen Jill Lofald Faris Keeling James E. Zastrow, Chair Rick Smith Jason Michalicek Derek Mann Ryan Boman Marlene Wisuri Shelley Michalicek Katie Rathke Mann Marlene David Ann Wasson Molly Rathke Amy Kuronen Biodiversity William L. Westholm Karen Snyder Bethany M. Owen Tom Jordan, Chair Georgia Swing Branden H. Robinson Janet Green Jackson Club Scholarship Mia Thibodeau Glenn Guntenspergen Lois Fichtner Jack and Mary Rowe Memorial Kris Larson Steve Overom Scholarship Investment John Pastor Sandi Peterson Peter Cook Arend J. Sandbulte, Chair Claudia Scott Welty David Thompson Christian Lawien Abbot G. Apter David Zentner Anthony C. Yung Corbin Lawien Richard R. Burns Lizette Lawien Marlene David Roger Pellett Mark Myles Philip D. Rolle Philip D. Rolle David Saftner Donald L. Wallgren
26 Scholarship Robert B. and Sophia Whiteside Mary Ann Harala Eveleth Area Community Mark Myles, Chair Scholarship Ken Jensen Foundation Fund Marlene David Tom Boman, Chair Mike Miernicki Ryan L. Turner, Chair Sharon Kaner Ann Glumac Shari Rud Jon Marcaccini, Vice Chair James A. Laumeyer Mike Miernicki Kenneth Schoen Louise Bonach, Secretary Terry Lundberg Marjory Ryan Judy Seliga Punyko Georgia Day Lisa Mitchell-Krocak Larry Scanlon William Gronseth, Ex Officio Jeff Green Bethany M. Owen Daphne Steele Richard Harvey David Vose Charlotte Taylor, Trust Officer Affiliate Funds Girard Hoel Apostle Islands Area Jane Kingston Silver Bay Charitable Wirtanen Family Community Fund Fritz Kvaternik Lana Fralich, Chair Dona Holloway, Co-Chair Eric Grutzner, Vice Chair John Mayasich Donna Blomberg Ilona Wirtanen, Co-Chair Barb McCann, Leadership Chair Joanne Johnson Brooks Anderson Betsy Albert-Peacock Hermantown Community Fund Lucy Ludolph Lisa Holloway Klyce Glenn Carlson Steve Overom, Chair Susan Michels Rachael Martin Tim Faust Sandi Peterson, Vice Chair Vickie Thompson Irene Holloway Thomas Chere Gibson Mary Johnson, Secretary/Treasurer Nancy Viola Mary Van Evera Dee Johnson Lois Fichtner Claudia Scott Welty Claudia Scott Welty John Murphy Sandy Monson Sara C. Richter Small Business Education Young Leaders Two Harbors Area Fund Scholarship Branden H. Robinson, Co-Chair Chequamegon Bay Area Bob Larkin, Chair Paul R. Buckley, Chair Mia Thibodeau, Co-Chair Community Fund Randy D. Willert, Vice Chair Abbot G. Apter Meagan Campbell Karen Crowell, Chair Gordy Anderson Ryan Boman Andy Edmunds Irene Blakely, Vice Chair Russell H. Conrow Branden H. Robinson Don Ness Susan Anderson Kate Ferrari Heidi Timm-Bijold Taylor Pedersen Rick Geisen Barbara Hamilton Renee M. Wachter Andy Solin Ruth Goetz Jennifer Hansen Lynne Williams Leslie Hamp Janelle Jones Walter and Anna Soneson Cheryl Hicks Steve McLachlan Scholarship Fund Designated Committees Jeff Muse Bob Olund Michael Cuzzo Duluth Legacy Endowment Shari Nelson Scott T. Seagren John Lawien Nick Lansing, Co-Chair Mary Trettin Cheryl Prince Jennifer Ryan, Co-Chair Staff Melissa Swor Michael A. Cowles Cook County Community Fund Holly C. Sampson, President James Vizanko Mark Emmel Tracy Benson, Chair Keri Cavitt, Director of Community Juhl Halvorson, Managing Director Edwin King Hall Michael Carlson, Vice Chair Philanthropy Lindsay Kern Ann Possis, Co-Secretary Mark C. Danielson, Development Lake Superior Medical Society Dan Markham Ruthanne Hedstrom Vos, Co- Officer Tilderquist Scholarship Andrew Reierson Secretary John Foschi, Director of Finance Audrey M. Park-Skinner, MD Branden H. Robinson Howard Hedstrom David Hammer, Scholarship Officer Timothy S. LaMaster, MD Jessica Stauber Karen Halbersleben Madelaine Herder, Affiliate Officer Cynthia Weaver, MD Todd Wentworth Bruce Kerfoot Polly John, Financial Assistant Dina Flaherty Richard J. Olson Nancy Petrasek, Administrative Heather L. Opsahl Duluth Public Schools Amber Pratt Assistant Anthony C. Yung Scott Fisher, Chair Sue Riley Karen Alfonsi Karen Andresen Mark Boben 27 Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation Financial Status
2014 2013 TOTAL ASSETS $60,958,937 $58,697,197 Public Support and Revenue Contributions 2,902,025 2,875,287 Donated services 22,093 19,372 Interest and dividends 1,434,641 804,344 Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) less 998,324 4,234,862 investment management fees
Refunds of grants 3,978 20,039 Contact Miscellaneous 8,903 4,654 Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation Total Public Support and Revenue 5,369,964 7,958,558 Holly C. Sampson, President
Grants, Fees, and Operating Expenses Zeitgeist Arts Building Grants and scholarships* 1,833,391 2,142,021 222 East Superior Street, Suite 302 Miscellaneous 14,555 9,183 Duluth, MN 55802 Functional expenses Program 332,865 281,949 Telephone: 218.726.0232 Fund-raising 200,983 183,109 Fax: 218.726.0257 Public education 326,282 293,741 E-mail: [email protected] Management and general 176,503 199,782 Web site: dsacommunityfoundation.com Total functional expenses 1,036,633 958,581 Total Grants, Fees, and Operating Expenses 2,884,579 3,109,785 This Annual Report was printed by Arrowhead Printing in Superior, WI. Change in net assets 2,485,385 4,848,773 Agency contributions/change of value (980,654) (332,970) Agency grants 178,861 283,657 Net Assets, beginning of year 53,296,918 48,497,458 Net Assets, end of year $54,980,510 $53,296,918
2013 Net Assets are restated. 2014 financial statements are unaudited. Audited financial statements are available at the Community Foundation office. The IRS Form 990 is available for review at the Community Foundation office. *Affiliated trust scholarships provided an additional $577,350 in 2014 and $595,250 in 2013. *Affiliated trust grants provided an additional $99,450 in 2014 and $135,880 in 2013.
28 Grants, Scholarships, Contributors, Honor and Memorial Gifts 2014 ANNUAL REPORT
DULUTH SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
1 2014 Grants Arts Related Bayfield Heritage Association, Inc. Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra American Heritage Productions Program Support Carmen Performance Take Me To The Islands Bayfield Heritage Association Jane S. Smith Memorial Fund...... $5,000.00 - Apostle Islands Historic Musical Fund...... $2,163.00 Chair Support Program Anishinabe Fund...... $3,000.00 Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Carlton County Historical Society Charitable Fund...... $254.81 Aqueous Magazine Program Support Forte! Young Professionals of DSSO Program Support Carlton County Historical Society Young Leaders Fund...... $2,000.00 Apostle Islands Area Foundation Fund...... $1,233.00 Program Support Community Fund...... $694.00 John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas Cook County Historical Society Apostle Islands Area Community Family Foundation Fund...... $500.00 Chippewa City Church Impact Fund...... $2,267.00 Scott Hawkins Fund...... $100.00 AIACF - Albrecht-Vogt Family Fund....$515.00 Duluth-Superior Area Educational TV Corporation - WDSE AIACF - Bodin Family Fund...... $310.00 Duluth Art Institute Native Report AIACF - Ann and Dave Locey Plein Air Duluth: Paint du Nord Campbell Family Family Fund...... $214.00 Lakeview Arts Fund...... $725.00 Charitable Fund...... $8,946.00 Program Support Armory Arts and Music Center Community Opportunity Fund...... $37.00 Apter Family Fund...... $100.00 Music Resource Center Living Legacy Fund...... $5,180.00 John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas LHB Foundation Fund...... $500.00 Moline Family Fund...... $837.00 Family Foundation Fund...... $150.00 Program Support Arrowhead Chorale Duluth Children’s Museum, Inc. Harris Family Fund...... $441.20 St. Matthew Passion Dinosaurs Unearthed Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt John T. & Elizabeth C. Adams Jane S. Smith Memorial Fund...... $3,000.00 Charitable Fund...... $254.81 Arts Fund...... $2,000.00 Program Support Underwriting 2014 Community Opportunity Fund...... $2,100.00 Arts on Superior Edna M. and H. Anna Jenks’ Charitable Fund...... $2,646.54 Fridays in the Park Esko Historical Society Two Harbors Area Fund...... $2,000.00 Duluth Playhouse, Inc. Program Support Rauha Fund...... $152.25 ArtSpace Projects, Inc. Play Sponsorship Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Preliminary Feasibility Study - Bayfield Friends of B’nai Abraham Charitable Fund...... $254.81 Knight Foundation Fund...... $5,000.00 Program Support Program Support Program Support Apter Family Fund...... $200.00 LHB Foundation Fund...... $250.00 Apter Family Fund...... $100.00 Duluth Playhouse Endowment Grand Marais Arts Inc Ashland Chamber Music Society Fund...... $5,426.00 Grand Marais Art Festival Chamber Music at Bayfield High School John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas Anonymous Friend Fund...... $1,557.00 Apostle Islands Area Community Family Foundation Fund...... $1,000.00 Community Opportunity Fund...... $1,193.00 Fund...... $96.00 Resident Company Program AIACF - Cleveland Family Fund...... $125.00 Anonymous Friend Fund...... $10,000.00 Grand Marais Playhouse AIACF - Collins Family Fund...... $347.00 Community Opportunity Fund...... $5,000.00 Program Support AIACF - Bill and Marilyn Larson Harris Family Fund...... $441.20 Family Fund...... $82.00
2 Historic Union Depot Scheherazade Guest Costumer Twin Ports Wind Orchestra 506 Fund Drive John T. & Elizabeth C. Adams Tim Mahr Composition Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Arts Fund...... $2,000.00 John T. & Elizabeth C. Adams Arts Charitable Fund...... $254.81 Fund...... $1,000.00 Native American Educational Iron Range Historical Society Technologies, Inc. Two Harbors Community Radio Iron Range Ghost Locations Expanding the Niijii Circle/Protecting Low Power Community Radio Equipment Eveleth Area Community Foundation Lake Superior Water with Treaty Rights LaBounty Family Fund...... $4,985.00 Fund...... $400.00 Alexandra Smith Temporary Fund – In Support of Native American Community and Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua Treaty Rights...... $10,000.00 Economic Development Native American Community Connections Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency Apostle Islands Area Community Native Expressions Drum and Dance Troupe Community Offender Re-entry Program Fund...... $2,584.00 Bayfield Apple Festival Central Mesabi Fund for Human AIACF - Helen DeHaven Bush Anishinabe Fund...... $1,000.00 Services...... $8,000.00 Family Fund...... $267.00 Dance Instruction AIACF - Hartnett-Helm Family Fund... $742.00 Apostle Islands Area Community Attracting and Retaining Young Adults AIACF - Homeward Bound Fund...... $407.00 Fund...... $1,441.00 Program Support Tent Replacement AIACF - Bell Southmayd Lamont Family Community Opportunity Fund...... $6,550.00 Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua Fund...... $386.00 Blue Canvas Fund ...... $13,201.00 AIACF - Kierland - Henry Family Fund.... $423.00 City of Bayfield AIACF - Loon Commons...... $85.00 BVFD - Regional Search and Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra Human Rights Fund...... $65.00 Rescue Safety Device Ellery Klein Appearance Regalia Apostle Islands Area Community John T. & Elizabeth C. Adams Anishinabe Fund...... $3,000.00 Fund...... $1,178.00 Arts Fund...... $2,000.00 AIACF - Tom and Roxanne Frizzell...... $133.00 Program Support North Shore Music Association AIACF - Eric and Laurel Lein Family Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra Borealis Chorale and Orchestra Winter Concert Fund...... $434.00 Endowment Fund...... $2,210.00 Cook County Community Fund...... $2,500.00 AIACF - Edward and Dawn Michael Family Fund...... $455.00 Lyric Opera of the North North Shore Players Carmen Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre Residency City of Duluth John T. & Elizabeth C. Adams Arts Two Harbors Area Fund...... $500.00 Clean and Green 2014 Fund...... $2,000.00 Duluth Legacy Endowment Fund....$1,000.00 Northern Lake County Arts Board Duluth Police Activities League Matinee Musicale Masterpiece Art Program - Community Basketball League SYBARITES Outreach Activities Silver Bay Charitable Fund...... $1,500.00 Duluth Legacy Endowment Fund....$2,500.00 John T. & Elizabeth C. Adams Arts North Country Trail Association Superior Interaction Fund...... $1,000.00 MN Hiking Celebration Superior Interaction Duluth Legacy Endowment Fund...... $500.00 Minnesota Ballet Young Leaders Fund...... $2,000.00 Washington Community Center Refrigerator Attending Dance/USA Conference Duluth Legacy Endowment Fund....$2,500.00 Jane S. Smith Memorial Fund...... $1,027.00 Twin Ports Stage Downtown Project Minnesota Ballet Historic Display City of Silver Bay Morgan Fund...... $3,186.50 Henry and Sarah Wheeler Historical Prairie Fire Theatre - “Jack in the Beanstalk” Awareness Fund...... $2,460.00 Wildey H. Mitchell Family Fund...... $1,950.00
3 City of Two Harbors Spirit Mountain Recreation Area College of St. Scholastica 2014 Heritage Days Project Authority Fund Is Religion a Force for Good or for Ill? Two Harbors Area Fund...... $1,000.00 Program Support Global Awareness Fund...... $2,000.00 Stage Tent Project Philip H. and Barbara Strom Family Ojibwe Curriculum for Immersion Two Harbors Area Fund...... $6,077.00 Charitable Fund...... $5,000.00 School Teachers Anishinabe Fund...... $4,000.00 Community Foundation of Collier County Two Harbors Winter Frolic Committee School of Nursing Scholarship Laws of Life Two Harbors Winter Frolic Mattson Family Education Fund...... $1,902.00 Elva B. and Mitchell J. Sill Family Two Harbors Area Fund...... $1,000.00 Tower Fund Scholarship Fund...... $100.00 Moline Family Donor Advised Education Fund...... $1,200.00 Fayal Township A Natural Branch of Learning Fayal Township Little League Ballfield 2014 Touchstone Award - Inclusiveness Concordia Language Villages Eveleth Area Community Foundation Community Opportunity Fund...... $2,500.00 Finnish Language Study Fund...... $1,000.00 Rauha Fund...... $152.25 American Indian Science and Friends of the Finland Community Engineering Society Cook County Higher Education Youth Program the Clair Nelson Center Twin Ports Round Dance Jam Dressed UP with Someplace to Work Silver Bay Charitable Fund...... $8,000.00 Anishinabe Fund...... $2,000.00 Cook County Community Fund...... $2,500.00 Program Support Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Bayfield Carnegie Library Cook County Higher Education Core Operations Support Planning for Future Services Fund...... $1,283.00 Community Opportunity Fund...... $20,000.00 Business Leaders Fund...... $3,985.00 Program Support Moline Family Fund...... $1,015.00 Dana Hall School Apter Family Fund...... $400.00 Program Support LHB Foundation Fund...... $1,000.00 Bayfield Community Education E. C. Mason Fund...... $2,500.00 Foundation Fund Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Program Support Denfeld High School (Nonprofit Capacity Building) Bayfield Community Education Technology Second Chance Endowment Fund.....$5,000.00 Foundation Fund...... $8,688.00 Howard J. and Barb Ignatius Fund..... $1,849.00 Peter M. and Betty W. Rogers Fund....$900.00 One Roof Community Housing Duluth Central High Alumni Affordable Rehabilitation Lending Program Berea College Scholarship Fund Community Opportunity Fund...... $20,000.00 Program Support Program Support Program Support Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Moline Family Donor Advised Fund....$1,000.00 Apter Family Fund...... $300.00 Charitable Fund...... $254.81 Duluth Library Foundation Recreation and Fitness Resources Birch Grove Foundation Library Teen Space Services and Facilities Expansion Program Support Duluth Legacy Endowment Fund....$2,500.00 Apostle Islands Area Community Birch Grove Foundation Fund...... $1,065.00 Program Support Fund...... $41.00 E. C. Mason Fund...... $5,000.00 AIACF - Larry A. Reiten Family Cloquet Educational Foundation Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Fund...... $1,459.00 Program Support Charitable Fund...... $254.81 Martial Arts on Madeline Island Cloquet Educational Foundation Grutzner Madeline Island Fund...... $700.00 Fund...... $76,697.00 Youth Programming Peter M. and Betty W. Rogers Fund....$900.00
4 Duluth Public Library Silver Bay Community Education Marshall School Program Support Preschool Scholarships Big Circle Anonymous Friend Designated Fund...... $4,606.06 Silver Bay Charitable Fund...... $6,415.00 Moline Family Donor Advised Fund....$2,000.00 Two Harbors Community Education Program Support Duluth Public Library - Mount Royal Branch Preschool Scholarships Marshall School Endowment Fund.....$1,127.00 Program Support Two Harbors Area Fund...... $1,500.00 Moline Family Donor Advised Fund.... $500.00 Edna M. and H. Anna Jenks’ Charitable Fund...... $2,646.54 ISD#709 - Duluth Public Schools Minnesota Private College Fund Program Support Gallileo Fund - STEM E. W. Bohannon Scholarship Fund Duluth Public Schools Fund...... $14,239.00 LHB Foundation Fund...... $500.00 Program Support Scott Anderson Leadership Forum Edna M. and H. Anna Jenks’ Scott D. Anderson Leadership Daniel H. & Catherine L. Mundt Scholarship Charitable Fund...... $2,646.54 Foundation Fund...... $22,179.00 for Late Bloomers Scholarships Friends of the Center Alliance Lake Superior College Foundation Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt An Eye for the Outdoors Program Support Charitable Fund...... $2,718.00 Community Opportunity Fund...... $75.00 E. C. Mason Fund...... $2,500.00 Four Cedars Environmental Fund...$3,000.00 Scholarship - Machine Tool Student North House Folk School Moline Family Donor Advised Program Support Grand Marais Public Library Fund...... $1,000.00 Harris Family Fund...... $1,323.60 Program Support North House Folk School Endowment Grand Marais Public Library Fund...$1,417.00 Lake Superior Railroad Museum Fund...... $4,214.00 Harris Family Fund...... $1,323.60 ADA Accessibility Project Beverly R. Uhrhammer Memorial Two Harbors Area Fund...... $2,038.00 North Shore Community School Library Fund...... $1,004.00 THAF - Wallace and Ellen Johnson Program Support Family Fund...... $205.00 North Shore Community School Greater Proctor Area Scholarship THAF - The Lake Bank Fund...... $126.00 Endowment Fund...... $3,333.00 Foundation Program Support Gifted and Talented Initiative Program Support A&A Enterprises Charitable Fund...... $200.00 Philip H. and Barbara Strom Family Greater Proctor Area Scholarship Apter Family Fund...... $100.00 Charitable Fund...... $3,000.00 Foundation Fund...... $5,804.00 Lake Superior Rose Society Northland College Hamline University Rose Education Lake Superior Wilderness Conference Clara B. Congdon Scholarship G. Kendall Smith Fund...... $3,150.00 Anonymous Friend Fund...... $2,149.00 E. C. Mason Fund...... $10,000.00 Erick Peter Person Memorial Fund.....$312.00 Lakeview Christian Academy Carolyn Joy Seitz Family Fund...... $368.00 Hermantown All Night Graduation Party Program Support William G. Strobel, M.D., Family All Night Graduation Party Lakeview Christian Academy Fund...... $171.00 Hermantown Community Fund...... $600.00 Fund...... $6,030.00 Program Support ISD#381 Lake Superior Public Schools White Pine Fund...... $1,488.40 Madeline Island Public Library Healthy Eating Active Living Network Program Support Northland Foundation Anonymous Friend Fund...... $609.00 Madeline Island Public Library Kids Plus Twin Ports Youth Business Leaders Fund...... $3,066.00 Fund...... $2,324.00 Leadership Academy Wildey H. Mitchell Family Fund...... $638.00 A&A Enterprises Charitable Fund...... $500.00 Weckwerth-Sampson Family Fund...... $687.00 Program Support Apter Family Fund...... $100.00
5 TwinPortsConnex School District of Bayfield University of Minnesota Duluth Attracting and Maintaining Young Adults Superior-Baikal: The Lakes and Their Cultures Alworth Institute: Planning for a Creative One Stop Shop Fund...... $65,000.00 Apostle Islands Area Community Urban Economy Fund...... $1,454.00 Global Awareness Fund...... $3,000.00 Northwest Wisconsin CEP, Inc. AIACF - Dr. Michael and Deanna Asbell Boulder Lake Environmental Crex Meadows Youth Conservation Camp Family Fund...... $79.00 Learning Center Fair Chance Fund...... $4,000.00 AIACF - Ole J. and Ingeborg Hadland Business Leaders Fund...... $8,864.00 The Career Closet Family Fund...... $292.00 Anonymous Friend Fund...... $5,000.00 AIACF - McCormick-Morin Family University of Minnesota Foundation Fund...... $219.00 Engineering Scholarship Old School Lives LHB Foundation Fund...... $3,600.00 MDS Housing Project School District of Superior Patricia Streitz Scholarship Fund 2012 Flood Immediate Response Program Support E. C. Mason Fund...... $5,000.00 Fund...... $8,200.00 Weisberg Memorial Fund...... $2,785.00 University of Wisconsin - Superior Oshki Ogimaag Community School Silver Bay Parent Teacher Student Global Advocacy & Citizen Engagement Grand Portage Summer Camp Organization Global Awareness Fund...... $1,500.00 Cook County Community Fund...... $2,180.57 William Kelley Elementary After School Program Healthy Minds & Healthy Bodies Conference Silver Bay Charitable Fund...... $5,500.00 John Allan Kunz Fund for Reminiscence Patricia S. Gustafson ‘56 Memorial and Life Review...... $750.00 Scholarship Fund Smith College International Institute for Reminiscence Scholarship Support Botanic Garden and Life Review John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas E. C. Mason Fund...... $2,500.00 John Allan Kunz Fund for Reminiscence Family Foundation Fund...... $500.00 and Life Review...... $1,500.00 Town of La Pointe Proctor Senior High School Bi-Lingual Ojibwe Cultural Signage University of Wisconsin - Superior Foundation English Department Program - Phase I Program Support Howard J. and Barb Ignatius Apostle Islands Area Community LHB Foundation Fund...... $1,000.00 Fund...... $1,849.00 Fund...... $236.00 AIACF - Walt and Lin Pomeroy Family Washburn Community Education Foundation Rails Endowment for Academic, Art & Fund...... $1,213.00 Program Support Athletic Development, Inc. AIACF - Tom and Liz Purcell Family Washburn Community Education Program Support Fund...... $152.00 Foundation Fund...... $1,365.00 Rails Endowment for Academic Art AIACF - Robert and Carolyn Sneed Athletic Development, REA3D, Family Fund...... $149.00 Environment Fund...... $6,598.00 A.H. Zeppa Family Foundation Two Harbors Public Library Atrium Programming & Service Expansion Matthew “Phil” Rannila Program Support Morgan Fund...... $9,560.00 Gold Star Teacher Award Ruth E. Ferguson Charitable Fund...... $968.00 Bridging Divides: Mobilizing Community Manley and Lillian Goldfine Gold Star Books for Children Issues through Tactical Urbanism & Teacher Award Fund...... $5,000.00 Lawrence E. and Mabel Jackson Rudberg Creative Placemaking St. Catherine University Scholarship Fund...... $2,000.00 Knight Foundation Fund...... $25,000.00 Nursing Scholarship Fund U of MN Duluth - Excellence Fund Mattson Family Education Fund...... $2,043.00 Program Support Edna M. and H. Anna Jenks’ Charitable Fund...... $5,293.16 6 Animal Allies Humane Society Program Support Walter and Irene Lundquist Family Program Support Apter Family Fund...... $200.00 Fund...... $165.00 Animal Allies Endowment Fund...... $3,918.00 Hartley Nature Center Endowment Apter Family Fund...... $100.00 Fund...... $2,073.00 Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin Red Oak Fund...... $250.00 Ski Rental Upgrades Handbook for Monitoring Migratory Birds Duluth Legacy Endowment Fund....$2,000.00 Along the Lake Superior Shore Ashwabay Outdoor Educational Biodiversity Fund...... $6,300.00 Foundation, Inc. Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, Inc. Program Support Program Support SOAR Career Solutions Ashwabay Outdoor Educational Red Oak Fund...... $250.00 Cognitive Behavior Curriculum Foundation Fund...... $795.00 John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas Community Opportunity Fund...... $19,412.00 Youth Programming Family Foundation Fund...... $250.00 Robert, Gwen, Blake and Conner Erickson Peter M. and Betty W. Rogers Fund....$900.00 Family Fund...... $180.00 Lake Superior Botanical Gardens Bad River Watershed Association Protecting Our Pollinators St. Louis River Alliance Water Quality Monitoring Duluth Legacy Endowment Fund....$2,500.00 Capacity for Community Leadership Biodiversity Fund...... $3,200.00 Community Opportunity Fund...... $7,000.00 Lake Superior Zoological Society Program Support Cable Community Farm Conservation Education Programs LHB Foundation Fund...... $500.00 Growing Together Project Cleveland Family Fund...... $8,679.00 Wildey H. Mitchell Family Fund..... $19,016.00 Community Opportunity Fund...... $11,321.00 Sugarloaf: The North Shore Stewardship Program Support Association Chester Bowl Improvement Club A&A Enterprises Charitable Fund...... $200.00 Naturally Superior - Reaching Out to Operational and Transitional Support Nordling Family Fund...... $500.00 Our Neighbors Community Opportunity Fund...... $10,000.00 Veterinary Equipment Cook County Community Fund...... $1,000.00 Samuel F. Atkins and Barbara H. Atkins Program Support Ecolibrium 3 Memorial Fund...... $4,000.00 Apter Family Fund...... $100.00 Giving Comfort at Home Anonymous Friend Fund...... $10,992.00 Madeline Island Community Gardening Superior Hiking Trail Association Barnum Fund...... $2,192.00 Project, Inc. Program Support Dr. and Mrs. Bernhard Boecker Garden Intern Apter Family Fund...... $100.00 Charitable Fund...... $3,681.00 Apostle Islands Area Community Harris Family Fund...... $1,323.60 Dr. William and Kay Slack Family Fund...... $3,096.00 Voyageur Snowmobile Club Fund...... $3,135.00 AIACF - Joanne B. Hadland Family Remote Radio Project Fund...... $87.00 Friends of the Apostle Islands National LaBounty Family Fund...... $4,658.00 AIACF - John S. Meier Family Lakeshore Fund...... $312.00 Program Support West Wisconsin Land Trust, Inc. AIACF - Jerry and Mary Phillips Family Martin Hanson Conservation Migratory Bird Habitat Protection Fund...... $505.00 Endowment Fund...... $5,246.00 Four Cedars Environmental Fund...$5,900.00 Strategic Conservation Planning - Brule Minnesota Land Trust Hartley Nature Center Watershed Transforming Duluth’s Trail System Field Trip Curriculum Biodiversity Fund...... $3,000.00 Anonymous Friend Fund...... $19,454.00 Lone Wolf Fund...... $4,947.50 John C. and Margaret B. Hunner Operating Support WTIP North Shore Radio Memorial Fund...... $25.00 Hartley Nature Center Endowment Environmental Stewardship Project Levin/Goldfine Fund...... $356.00 Fund...... $124.00 Global Awareness Fund...... $1,696.00 Wirtanen Family Fund...... $2,000.00 7 Human Services Building for Women Limited Partnership Cook County Council on Aging Adults & Childrens Alliance Inc. Program Support Program Support St Louis & Itasca County Program Building for Women Fund...... $966.00 Scott Hawkins Fund...... $200.00 Expansion Care Partners Cook County Foodshelf Community Opportunity Fund...... $10,000.00 Financial Assistance Program Program Support American Red Cross-Northland Chapter Eveleth Area Community Foundation Cook County Food Shelf Endowment Disaster Services Fund...... $1,000.00 Fund...... $1,243.00 Wildey H. Mitchell Family Fund.....$20,000.00 Children’s Dental Services CORE Community Resources, Inc. Emergency Response Dental Care for At-risk Youth Fair Weather Friends Scott Hawkins Fund...... $200.00 Wetherby Fund...... $3,247.00 Apostle Islands Area Community Program Support Fund...... $458.00 Apter Family Fund...... $100.00 Churches United in Ministry (CHUM) AIACF - G.R.A.C.E. Fund...... $288.00 Edna M. and H. Anna Jenks’ Family and Children’s Programs AIACF - Gene and Carole Qualle Family Charitable Fund...... $5,293.16 at Steve O’Neil Apartments Fund...... $254.00 Community Opportunity Fund...... $20,000.00 Anu Family Services Family Coaches at Steve O’Neil Apartments Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute Healing Trauma for Youth Fair Chance Fund...... $9,138.00 Program Support Douglas County Disaster and Welfare Food Shelves A&A Enterprises Charitable Fund...... $200.00 Fund...... $1,972.00 Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Apter Family Fund...... $200.00 C.E., Jr. and M.K. Fuller Fund...... $994.00 Charitable Fund...... $254.81 Courage Center Duluth Fund...... $2,034.00 Dale Heimbach Wheeler Memorial Program Support Fund...... $2,000.00 John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas Covenant Enabling Residences of Minnesota, Inc Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Family Foundation Fund...... $1,000.00 Program Support Tribal Youth Media Initiative Services at CHUM’s Emergency Nordling Family Designated Fund.....$1,933.20 Alexandra Smith Temporary Fund Family Shelter Samuel F. Atkins and Barbara H. Atkins - In Support of Native American Damiano of Duluth, Inc. Memorial Fund...... $3,000.00 Treaty Rights...... $10,338.00 Back to School Clothing Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Boy Scouts of America-Voyageurs Area Colville Area Volunteer Fire Department Inc Charitable Fund...... $254.81 Council Vaccum Splint Program Support Aviation Careers Explorer Post Scott Hawkins Fund...... $491.00 Anonymous Friend Designated Hermantown Community Fund...... $1,000.00 Community Action Duluth Fund...... $4,606.06 Operating Support Circles of Support - Staying Ahead Nordling Family Fund...... $250.00 Wetherby Fund...... $1,000.00 Knight Foundation Fund...... $30,000.00 Rauha Fund...... $355.25 Program Support JumpStart Duluth - Transportation Plus A&A Enterprises Charitable Fund...... $200.00 Anonymous Friend Fund...... $10,000.00 Soup Kitchen Apter Family Fund...... $200.00 Community Opportunity Fund...... $10,000.00 Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Charitable Fund...... $254.81 Boys & Girls Clubs of the Northland Community Partners, Two Harbors Living At Program Support Home/Block Nurse Program Apter Family Fund...... $300.00 Healthy Eating, Active Living for Seniors Moline Family Donor Advised Fund...... $750.00 Two Harbors Area Fund...... $2,000.00 John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas Family Foundation Fund...... $500.00
8 Doctors Without Borders, USA Anonymous Friend Fund...... $19,242.00 Just Kids Dental Program Support William, Florence and Dorothy Burns Healthy Teeth, Healthy Kids Harris Family Fund...... $882.40 Family Fund...... $172.00 Silver Bay Charitable Fund...... $5,000.00 John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas Program Support Two Harbors Area Fund...... $980.00 Family Foundation Fund...... $200.00 Apter Family Fund...... $100.00 THAF - Lyle and Trish Northey Family Fund...... $254.00 Duluth-Superior Sharing Fund Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin Assist Individuals in Critial Need Lakes and Pines Council Kids Closet of Duluth Community Opportunity Fund...... $8,839.00 Program Support Clothing for Low Income Duluth Students Douglas County Disaster and Welfare Girl Scouts - Northern Pines Council Wetherby Fund...... $5,000.00 Fund...... $5,000.00 Fund...... $2,536.00 Program Support Family Service Sharing Fund...... $1,161.00 Edna M. and H. Anna Jenks’ Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Charitable Fund...... $5,293.16 Charitable Fund...... $254.81 Duluth Lighthouse for the Blind Winter Outerwear for Low Income Program Support Glen Avon Presbyterian Church Stowe Students Edna M. and H. Anna Jenks’ – Boy Scout Troop #9 Riverfront Community Fund...... $1,000.00 Charitable Fund...... $2,646.54 Program Support Lighthouse for the Blind Endowment Cory Jam Memorial Award...... $225.00 La Pointe Community Clinic, Inc. Fund...... $33,659.00 Program Support Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Madeline Island/LaPointe Charitable Fund...... $254.81 Program Support in Honor of Jo Huntting Community Clinic Fund...... $2,070.00 Safe at Home Elva B. and Mitchell J. Sill Family Community Opportunity Fund...... $1,366.00 Fund...... $5,000.00 La Pointe Volunteer Fire Department Todd, Susan, Matthew and Hilary Johnson Self Contained Breathing 2007 Charitable Fund...... $13,116.00 Harbor House Crisis Shelters Apparatus Replacement Ruth H. Richards Fund...... $5,518.00 Transitional Living Supportive Services Apostle Islands Area Community G. Kendall Smith Fund for the Physically Douglas County Disaster and Welfare Fund...... $923.00 Disabled and Visually Impaired...$5,000.00 Fund...... $2,000.00 AIACF - Robert Tucker Family Fund....$326.00 Dale Heimbach Wheeler Memorial Grutzner Madeline Island Fund...... $3,751.00 Essentia Health Foundation Fund...... $2,000.00 Children’s Hospital Solarium Trauma Informed Care Agency Lake View Memorial Hospital Elva B. and Mitchell J. Sill Family Business Leaders Fund...... $4,500.00 Rehabilitation Pediatrics Therapy Program Fund...... $5,000.00 Two Harbors Area Fund...... $3,000.00 Healthy Duluth Area Coalition Family Alternatives Inc. Tactical Urbanism Project Life House, Inc. STEM Proposal Duluth Legacy Endowment Fund....$2,500.00 Program Support Philip H. and Barbara Strom Family John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas Charitable Fund...... $5,000.00 Hearing and Service Dogs of Minnesota Family Foundation Fund...... $300.00 Prison Puppy Training Program Feed My Starving Children Animal-Assisted Therapy Fund...... $2,000.00 Lifetrack Resources Duluth MobilePack Minnesota Hands and Voices Global Awareness Fund...... $1,196.00 Human Development Center G. Kendall Smith Fund for the Program Support Physically Disabled and Visually First Witness Child Abuse Resource Center A&A Enterprises Charitable Fund...... $200.00 Impaired...... $2,384.00 Advocacy Training Apter Family Fund...... $200.00 Alberta Fund...... $311.00 Anonymous Charitable Fund...... $275.00
9 Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota Innovation Fund - In memory of Office and Database Upgrades 2014 Touchstone Award - Generosity Bill Hedenberg Scott Hawkins Fund...... $2,645.32 Community Opportunity Fund...... $2,500.00 Elva B. and Mitchell J. Sill Family Oral Health Task Force Family Resource Center Fund...... $500.00 Cook County Community Fund...... $2,500.00 Central Mesabi Fund for Human Pediatric Burn Care Program Support Services...... $8,000.00 Scott Hawkins Fund...... $3,000.00 Harris Family Fund...... $1,323.60 Central Mesabi Fund for Human Program Support Services...... $4,785.00 Philip H. and Barbara Strom Family North Shore Horizons From Here On: Campaign for the Center for Charitable Fund...... $350.00 Capacity Building and Crisis Services Changing Lives John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas Silver Bay Charitable Fund...... $4,500.00 Business Leaders Fund...... $10,000.00 Family Foundation Fund...... $1,000.00 Housing Supportive Services Homeless Children Housing Solvay Hospice House Community Opportunity Fund...... $6,000.00 Philip H. and Barbara Strom Family A&A Enterprises Charitable Fund...... $200.00 Dale Heimbach Wheeler Memorial Charitable Fund...... $750.00 Apter Family Fund...... $200.00 Fund...... $3,737.00 Philip H. and Barbara Strom Family Northern Bible Society Mayo Foundation Charitable Fund...... $2,500.00 Alzheimers Research Program Support Scott Hawkins Fund...... $1,000.00 Minnesota Dental Foundation Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Pediatrics Cancer Minnesota Mission of Mercy Charitable Fund...... $254.81 Scott Hawkins Fund...... $5,000.00 Community Opportunity Fund...... $8,000.00 Northern Bible Society-Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Fund...... $7,753.00 Men as Peacemakers Minnesota Housing Partnership 2014 Touchstone Award - Civic Engagement Bronze Level (Private Sector) Northshore Area Partners Community Opportunity Fund...... $2,500.00 LHB Foundation Fund...... $1,000.00 2015 Dinner Theatre Collaborative Program Support Two Harbors Area Fund...... $1,000.00 Nordling Family Fund...... $250.00 Myers-Wilkins Community School Collaborative Northwood Children’s Services Program Support Mesabi Family YMCA Nurturing Ojibwe Tradition Anonymous Friend Designated Youth Soccer Anishinabe Fund...... $3,000.00 Fund...... $9,209.03 Eveleth Area Community Foundation Edna M. and H. Anna Jenks’ Fund...... $700.00 Northeast Minnesota Sharing Fund Assist Individuals in Critial Need Charitable Fund...... $2,646.54 Millennium Group Speak Your Peace Central Mesabi Fund for Human Northwoods Women, Inc. Speak Your Peace Services...... $6,000.00 Expect Respect: Changing Attitudes Community Opportunity Fund...... $9,450.00 Community Opportunity Fund...... $11,000.00 About Sexual Assault Miller-Dwan Foundation North Shore Collaborative Human Rights Fund...... $3,000.00 Adolescent Cancer LOTS (Learning Opportunities Through Stories) OutFront Minnesota Community Services Scott Hawkins Fund...... $3,000.00 Silver Bay Charitable Fund...... $1,000.00 Safe Schools Amberwing Two Harbors Area Fund...... $500.00 Wirtanen Family Fund...... $2,000.00 A&A Enterprises Charitable Fund...... $200.00 North Shore Health Care Foundation Apter Family Fund...... $200.00 Ronald McDonald House of Rochester MN, Inc. Care Partners Senior Rides Child and Adolescent Mental Health Program Support Cook County Community Fund...... $1,000.00 Scott Hawkins Fund...... $3,000.00 Scott Hawkins Fund...... $5,000.00 Hospice / Care Partners Scott Hawkins Fund...... $3,000.00
10 St. Luke’s Foundation The Salvation Army - Duluth Western Lake Superior Habitat for Humanity Program Support Program Support A Brush With Kindness Anonymous Friend Designated Anonymous 1 Charitable Fund...... $2,596.50 Fair Chance Fund...... $4,000.00 Fund...... $2,761.17 Apter Family Fund...... $100.00 Construction Manager Edna M. and H. Anna Jenks’ Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Community Opportunity Fund...... $20,000.00 Charitable Fund...... $2,646.54 Charitable Fund...... $254.81 Douglas H. and Judith H. Lewis Nordling Family Fund...... $1,000.00 Women’s Health Center of Duluth, P.A. Memorial Fund...... $2,066.14 Red Oak Fund...... $100.00 Program Support John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas Family Foundation Fund...... $1,000.00 Family Foundation Fund...... $300.00 Family Foundation Fund...... $100.00
St. Raphael’s Health and True Friends Woodland Hills Rehabilitation Center Program Fee Assistance Berringer Awards Event Purchase of AED Machine Michael Adam Carroll Memorial Philip H. and Barbara Strom Family Eveleth Area Community Foundation Fund...... $1,000.00 Charitable Fund...... $1,000.00 Fund...... $700.00 C.E., Jr. and M.K. Fuller Fund...... $1,000.00 Jim Gustafson Fitness Center Lone Wolf Fund...... $1,947.50 Elva B. and Mitchell J. Sill Family Scottish Rite Foundation of Duluth Fund...... $5,000.00 Program Support UDAC, Inc. Program Support Anonymous Friend Designated Program Support A&A Enterprises Charitable Fund...... $200.00 Fund...... $4,606.05 Nordling Family Designated Apter Family Fund...... $300.00 Fund 1...... $1,288.80 Red Oak Fund...... $500.00 Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank Philip H. and Barbara Strom Family Program Support Union Gospel Mission Charitable Fund...... $500.00 Nordling Family Fund...... $250.00 Meals Youth Services Rauha Fund...... $355.25 Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Moline Family Donor Advised Fund.... $750.00 Charitable Fund...... $254.81 Smile Train, Inc. Program Support Wounded Warrior Project Program Support Anonymous 1 Charitable Fund...... $2,596.50 Program Support John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas Nordling Family Fund...... $500.00 Scott Hawkins Fund...... $100.00 Family Foundation Fund...... $150.00 Red Oak Fund...... $100.00 YMCA of Duluth Special Olympics Minnesota United Way of Greater Duluth Camp Miller Program Support Program Support A&A Enterprises Charitable Fund...... $200.00 Apter Family Fund...... $100.00 Anonymous Friend Designated Mentor Superior Fund...... $3,220.85 The Brick Ministries Inc. Community Opportunity Fund...... $10,000.00 Edna M. and H. Anna Jenks’ Benevolence Program Partner With Youth Charitable Fund...... $7,939.68 Samuel F. Atkins and Barbara H. Atkins Apter Family Fund...... $200.00 United Way of Greater Duluth Memorial Fund...... $2,360.00 Moline Family Donor Advised Endowment Fund...... $51,732.00 Fund...... $750.00 The Carter Center White Pine Fund...... $744.20 Program Support The Sieur Du Luth Society YMCA of Superior-Douglas County Harris Family Fund...... $882.40 John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas Program Support Family Foundation Fund...... $1,650.00 YMCA of Superior-Douglas County Endowment Fund...... $1,211.00
11 YMCA World Fellowship Fund Kitchi Gammi Club Foundation Annual Membershp Program Support Program Support Council on Foundations Edna M. and H. Anna Jenks’ Anonymous Friend Designated Annual Membership Dues Charitable Fund...... $2,646.54 Fund...... $1,841.80 Community Opportunity Fund...... $4,640.00 John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas YWCA of Duluth Family Foundation Fund...... $1,000.00 Donors Forum of Wisconsin Kids Corner Annual Membership Dues Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Maple Hill Fire Department Community Opportunity Fund...... $4,000.00 Charitable Fund...... $254.81 Gear for Traffic Control Program Support Scott Hawkins Fund...... $420.00 Minnesota Council on Foundations YWCA Fund...... $13,274.00 Annual Membership Pilgrim Congregational Church Community Opportunity Fund...... $5,350.00 Other Program Support Arrowhead Interfaith Council Edna M. and H. Anna Jenks’ Total Grants...... $1,530,969.54 Bibles Charitable Fund...... $10,586.22 Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas Charitable Fund...... $254.81 Family Foundation Fund...... $500.00 White Pine Fund...... $1,488.40 Cook County Community Fund Program Support St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Harris Family Fund...... $882.40 Program Support Elva B. and Mitchell J. Sill Family Duluth Superior Area Community Fund...... $2,000.00 Foundation Program Support Trinity-by-the-Cove Episcopal Church Moline Family Fund...... $1,000.00 Program Support Elva B. and Mitchell J. Sill Family Eveleth 4th of July Fund Fund...... $4,000.00 Program Support John and Carol Mayasich and Two Harbors Area Fund Family Fund...... $1,000.00 Program Support Two Harbors Area Fund Matching GND Veterans Memorial Account...... $19,989.87 Gary New Duluth Recreation Area Young Leaders Fund Duluth Legacy Endowment Fund....$2,500.00 Program Support Great Lakes Aquarium & Freshwater Moline Family Donor Advised Discovery Center Fund...... $500.00 Program Support A&A Enterprises Charitable Fund...... $200.00
12 2014 Affiliated Grants Community Parks and Friends of Dog Parks Welch Center Recreation Program Observation Park Dog Park...... $5,000.00 Memorial Park Ice Rink...... $5,000.00 Chester Bowl Improvement Club Chairlift Seat Replacement...... $4,400.00 GND Development Alliance Wheels on Trails Organization GND Recreation Area Experiencing Duluth Outside...... $4,000.00 Cyclists of Gitchee Gummee Shores Community Center Siding...... $5,000.00 Grassy Point Boardwalk...... $4,400.00 Duluth Traverse Trail Construction.... $2,500.00 Trail Maintenance and Goodwill Industries Vocational Enterprises, Inc. Woodland Amateur Hockey Association Construction...... $5,000.00 Summer Youth Employment Woodland Community Trail Signage...... $5,000.00 Program...... $5,000.00 Center Rink...... $5,000.00 Trail Signage for New Multi-use Trails...... $5,000.00 Lake Superior Zoological Society Woodland Hills Tractor Snowblower Attachment.....$5,000.00 Summer Explorers Club...... $5,000.00 Duluth Community Garden Program Volunteer Docent Program...... $5,000.00 Let’s Grow Edible Duluth...... $3,350.00 Total Affiliated Grants...... $99,450.00 Neighbors of Lower Chester Park Duluth Cross-Country Ski Club Central Hillside Park Revitalization... $5,000.00 Total Grants...... $1,630,419.54 Lester-Amity Chalet Heating Basketball Hoops and Equipment...... $5,000.00 Trash/Recycling Bins...... $1,800.00 Spirit Mountain Cross-Country Ski System Grooming...... $5,000.00 The Salvation Army - Duluth Dunkin’ in Duluth Duluth Sister Cities International Basketball Tournament...... $4,000.00 Summer Celebration...... $5,000.00
2014 Scholarships Anderson Niskanen Scholarship Fund Darrell and Palchie Asselin Scholarship Fund Bernard B. and Mary L. Brusin Connor Behm Christopher J. Hanson Scholarship Fund University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,000.00 College of St. Scholastica...... $1,000.00 Carrie R. Gabrielson Peggy J. Campbell Kelly L. Stark St. Mary’s University...... $4,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$2,000.00 College of St. Scholastica...... $2,000.00 Melissa E. Jarvi Gina M. Constantini Johanna Wilson University of Minnesota Duluth...... $4,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,000.00 College of St. Scholastica...... $1,000.00 Olivia A. Johansen Amber L. Lindholm University of North Dakota...... $5,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$2,000.00 William E. Barto Scholarship Fund Ashley N. Moisio Falyn McCotter College of St. Scholastica...... $4,000.00 Paul Antonich Scholarship Fund University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,000.00 Christine E. Thomas Connor Behm Timothy P. Sandwick Iowa State University...... $4,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $1,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $1,000.00 Catherine C. Vaught University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$4,000.00
13 Kathryn A. Bullyan Scholarship Fund Peter M. Gargano Scholarship Fund Jackson Club Scholarship Fund Samuel B. Belden Jasmine Kruschek Cade Botten Massachusetts Institute St. Cloud State University...... $2,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$1,000.00 of Technology...... $500.00 Olivia A. Johansen Gernander Scholarship Fund University of North Dakota...... $1,000.00 Riley Burnell Criminal Justice Memorial Jack Monson Danielle A. Luke Scholarship Fund University of St. Thomas...... $1,250.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$1,000.00 Maria Shermoen Alexander W. Schmies Minnesota State Patricia S. Gustafson ‘56 Memorial University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$1,000.00 University - Moorhead...... $2,500.00 Scholarship Fund Emily R. Fleissner Cory Jam Memorial Award Allen Butler Minority Law Enforcement University of Minnesota Duluth...... $800.00 Mariah J. Berner Scholarship Temporary Fund Meghan E. Safstrom University of Minnesota Twin Cities.... $800.00 Andrew F. Larson University of Minnesota Duluth...... $800.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $500.00 Fred C. and Mary H. Lewis Scholarship Fund Jeanne H. Hemmingway Scholarship Fund Several Upper Class Students Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial Matthew J. Dexter Marshall School...... $24,122.00 Scholarship Fund University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,500.00 Taneasha Muonio Anna Frink Lake Superior Medical Society Tilderquist Augsburg College...... $1,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,500.00 Scholarship Fund Danica C. Grover Robin A. Sautter Duluth Building & Construction Trades University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,500.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $1,000.00 Council Scholarship Fund Alexis D. Houle Sarah J. Virnig Cory Erickson University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,500.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $1,000.00 Drake University...... $2,500.00 Autumn F. Soli Jake Serre University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,500.00 Modern Woodmen of America College of St. Scholastica...... $2,500.00 Sean T. Zakrajsek Scholarship Fund University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,500.00 Kelly L. Stark Duluth Central High School Alumni Brianna P. Zunich College of St. Scholastica...... $1,000.00 Scholarship Fund University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,500.00 Haley M. Brown Minnesota Power Community Involvement University of Minnesota Duluth...... $1,000.00 Gus and Henrietta Hill Scholarship Fund Scholarship Fund Jasmin K. Farmakes Lisliet Hernandez Annika E. Beaupre University of Wisconsin - Superior....$1,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$3,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities...... $2,500.00 Joy B. Gilmer Seth J. Loeffler-Kemp Billy D. Critchley-Menor Lake Superior College...... $1,000.00 Macalester College...... $3,000.00 Saint John’s University...... $2,500.00 Elizabeth Torma Nicholas M. Engen Duluth Central Sports Association Legacy University of Wisconsin - Madison....$2,500.00 University of Wisconsin - Madison....$2,500.00 Scholarship Fund Alyssa M. Envall Kelcy Huston Greg Irons Award University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$2,500.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $500.00 Katelyn Ball Michelle L. Feyder University of Minnesota Duluth...... $1,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,500.00 Julie Enberg Memorial Scholarship Fund Aurora W. Vautrin Abigail J. Fischer Jessica Newman Gustavus Adolphus College...... $1,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,500.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $1,000.00 Bill Zwak Emily R. Fleissner East High School...... $500.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,500.00 14 Gabriel B. Graves Ariel D. Johnson Karli Peterson College of St. Scholastica...... $2,500.00 University of Wisconsin - Superior....$2,500.00 University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire....$1,500.00 Kaity K. Hagen Joseph B. Lofgren Travis Wigstrom University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$2,500.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,500.00 Michigan Technological Nicole J. Hanson Bennett J. Maki University...... $1,500.00 Winona State University...... $2,500.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,500.00 Claire Hoffert Brandy R. Maki Hubert A. Nelson Scholarship Fund Washington & Lee University...... $2,500.00 Minnesota State University Sean M. Chevalier Carley R. Hoffman Mankato...... $2,500.00 University of Wisconsin - Superior....$2,000.00 Winona State University...... $2,500.00 Stephanie Manning Jessie A. Graves Adam C. Kneepkens Itasca Community College...... $1,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,000.00 St. Louis University...... $2,500.00 Michael A. Mortenson Jireh Mabamba Katlin D. Koskela University of Mary...... $2,500.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,000.00 College of St. Scholastica...... $2,500.00 Kailee M. Ogden Megan M. Norby College of St. Scholastica...... $2,500.00 Amelia and Emanuel Nessell Family University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,500.00 Collin A. Pedersen Scholarship Fund Caitlin J. Rudd Wisconsin Indianhead Scottie E. Deming College of St. Benedict...... $2,500.00 Technical College...... $1,000.00 College of St. Scholastica...... $600.00 Rachel J. Stoddard Tyler D. Przybylski Liesa C. Erickson Luther College...... $2,500.00 University of North Dakota...... $2,500.00 Luther College...... $500.00 Josephine A. Stracek Katherine J. Rasley North Park University...... $2,500.00 Minnesota State University Richard B. Pearson Memorial Matthew J. Thibodeau Mankato...... $2,500.00 Scholarship Fund Carleton College...... $2,500.00 Nathan A. Renner Megan A. Allen Chandra L. Wiley Itasca Community College...... $1,000.00 Gustavus Adolphus College...... $1,000.00 University of Wisconsin - Stout...... $2,500.00 Katelyn M. Schirado University of Mary...... $1,250.00 G. Scott Ransom Scholarship Fund of the Minnesota Power New Generation Claire Schumacher Duluth/Superior Alpine Club Scholarship Fund Minnesota State University Anonymous Athlete #1 Ryan T. Aili Mankato...... $2,500.00 Duluth/Superior Alpine Club...... $475.00 Wisconsin Indianhead Courtney R. Wirtanen Anonymous Athlete #2 Technical College...... $500.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,500.00 Duluth/Superior Alpine Club...... $475.00 Matthew G. Beaulieu Chelsey M. Zimmerman Anonymous Athlete #3 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,500.00 University of Mary...... $2,500.00 Duluth/Superior Alpine Club...... $475.00 Amy N. Blakeslee Jordan C. Zunker College of St. Scholastica...... $2,500.00 Lake Superior College...... $1,000.00 Dr. Mark Rathke Family Scholarship Fund Eric Fryc Erin Paul College of St. Scholastica...... $2,500.00 Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt College of St. Benedict...... $1,000.00 Christopher O. Gradin Scholarship Fund for Late Bloomers University of North Dakota...... $2,500.00 Kelsey Bock Daniel Patrick Riley Matthew P. Helm University of Mary...... $750.00 Memorial Scholarship Fund Minnesota State University Benjamin Johnson Audrey L. Summers Mankato...... $2,500.00 North Dakota State University...... $1,500.00 Beloit College...... $2,000.00 Samuel W. Holden Kelly Lind University of Wisconsin - Superior....$2,500.00 Lake Superior College...... $1,500.00
15 Steve Rolland Youth Peacemaker Award Fund Scott Scholarship Fund Jean Quinn Sullivan Scholarship Fund Billy D. Critchley-Menor Anna Carman Alison A. Bergstrom Saint John’s University...... $1,000.00 St. Catherine University...... $2,100.00 University of Wisconsin - Superior....$1,000.00 Audrey L. Summers Jack and Mary Rowe Memorial Beloit College...... $1,400.00 John A. Sullivan Scholarship Fund Scholarship Fund Amanda M. Doolittle Bailee R. Coughlin Superior East All-Class Reunion University of Wisconsin - Superior....$1,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $4,500.00 Scholarship Fund Katie J. Lach Paige Barnard University of Wisconsin - Superior....$1,000.00 Lawrence E. and Mabel Jackson Rudberg Lake Superior College...... $700.00 Sarah J. Nestrud Scholarship Fund University of Wisconsin - Superior....$1,000.00 Katelyn M. Adams Phil Shykes Memorial Scholarship Fund University of Wisconsin - Superior....$5,000.00 Abigail C. Gilbert Charlotte Ulland Scholarship Fund for Girls Emma J. Burton North Dakota State University...... $850.00 Grace L. Hoeft University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$5,000.00 Jamie M. Siemsen University of Minnesota Crookston.....$1,000.00 Sasha R. Fjeran College of St. Scholastica...... $750.00 Josie A. Strom University of Wisconsin - Superior....$5,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $500.00 Breanna M. Hess Small Business Education Scholarship Fund Molly A. Zafft Bethel University...... $5,000.00 David J. Alaspa Winona State University...... $1,000.00 Connor W. Lehto Entrepreneur Fund...... $400.00 College of St. Scholastica...... $5,000.00 Sharon M. Bock Richard “Rick” Roy Washburn Memorial Holly A. Nowacki Cook County Higher Education...... $240.00 Scholarship Fund University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$5,000.00 Cindy L. Carpenter Straub Kelsey Behnke Cook County Higher Education...... $240.00 Iowa State University...... $1,000.00 Saturn Systems Scholarship Fund Melissa C. Dressely Salena S. Gahler Jonathan Beaulieu Cook County Higher Education...... $240.00 University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse...... $1,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $1,000.00 Stephanie J. Heinle Alyssa J. Sager Joshua N. Muhich Entrepreneur Fund...... $396.00 Allen College...... $1,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $1,000.00 Shannon Holmied Justin Wilton Danielle Patterson Entrepreneur Fund...... $396.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$1,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $1,000.00 Marcy J. Kernez Entrepreneur Fund...... $396.00 Total Scholarship ...... $302,421.00 Kenneth and Concetta Schoen Dennelle L. Mehle Scholarship Fund Entrepreneur Fund...... $396.00 Ryan Michalicek Rebecca K. Noble College of St. Scholastica...... $2,000.00 Cook County Higher Education...... $240.00 Victoria Nugent Angela E. Sipila Hamline University...... $2,000.00 Entrepreneur Fund...... $400.00 Rieger Viche’ Rebecca Stoner University of Minnesota Duluth...... $2,000.00 Cook County Higher Education...... $240.00 Rob M. Wells Cook County Higher Education...... $240.00
16 2014 Affiliated Trust Scholarships Walter and Anna Soneson Scholarship Fund Anna L. Bolgrien Berit H. Goodge Maia N. Dalager Lawrence University...... $6,000.00 Carleton College...... $6,000.00 University of Minnesota Morris...... $3,250.00 Signe M. Braafladt Aaron M. Grossman Karly J. Howg St. Olaf College...... $6,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$3,500.00 Claire R. Bransky Kali A. Gustafson Amber M. Kling St. Olaf College...... $6,000.00 St. Olaf College...... $6,000.00 St. Cloud State University...... $3,500.00 Charles Bray Laura J. Halvorsen Brianna L. Krause University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 University of Wisconsin - Superior....$3,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $3,500.00 Eric Brekke Delaney E. Hart Elizabeth R. Madole Illinois Institute of Technology...... $6,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities...$6,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $3,250.00 Madeline N. Carpenter Katherine G. Harvey Erin E. Monroe Beloit College...... $3,000.00 University of Rochester...... $6,000.00 University of Wisconsin - Madison....$3,500.00 Katelyn K. Caskey Annie C. Harvieux Adrianna Olson Simmons College...... $6,000.00 Harvard University...... $6,000.00 Trinity Christian College...... $3,500.00 Breyen A. Coffin Alyssa K. Hess Jonathan Opacich University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 University of St. Thomas...... $6,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $3,250.00 Richard Coffin Danish Imtiaz Elizabeth Torma University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 George Washington University...... $6,000.00 University of Wisconsin - Madison....$3,500.00 Anthony M. Cotter Elizabeth A. Jacobson University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 Robert B. and Sophia Whiteside Brenton Decker Christine M. Karas Scholarship Fund University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 Sarah M. al’Absi Caden DeRoche Julia C. Klein University of Toronto...... $6,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $6,000.00 Katherine A. Allen Eric DeWitte Claire E. Kleinschmidt Gustavus Adolphus College...... $6,000.00 United States Naval Academy...... $300.00 Providence College...... $6,000.00 David J. Anderson Daniel S. Erickson Calvin Kosmatka Carleton College...... $6,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 University of Wisconsin - Madison....$6,000.00 Ellen M. Badger Kaarin K. Evens Nathaniel D. LaFond Luther College...... $6,000.00 Macalester College...... $6,000.00 St. Olaf College...... $6,000.00 Cadence J. Bambenek Laurel M. Eyer Jacqueline E. LaLiberte University of Wisconsin - Madison....$6,000.00 University of St. Thomas...... $6,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 Joseph S. Barnes Samuel Fehringer Brianna J. Lally University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 North Dakota State University...... $6,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 Darian Bergerson Andrew T. Florestano Bauer L. LeSavage Milwaukee School of Engineering...... $6,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $6,000.00 Boston University...... $6,000.00 Mariah J. Berner Madeline Fontaine Yiming Liu University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 University of Wisconsin - Madison....$6,000.00 St. Olaf College...... $6,000.00 Sydoney B. Blackmore Ella M. Fox Kelly Lorenz University of Montana - Missoula...... $6,000.00 Carleton College...... $6,000.00 Andrews University...... $6,000.00 Miranda Boen Jonathan S. Gessert Garrett R. Maron University of Minnesota Twin Cities...$6,000.00 University of Wisconsin - Madison....$6,000.00 Harvard University...... $6,000.00
17 Alisha Martin McKinley Sconiers-Hasan United States Air Force Academy...... $300.00 University of Wisconsin - Madison....$6,000.00 Anna M. Menzel Patrick J. Sheedy Harvard University...... $6,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 Ethan B. Meyers Hans Slade University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 Benjamin Michalicek Regina A. Sternberg Gustavus Adolphus College...... $6,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 Ean S. Mullins Sarah R. Stevens Gordon College...... $6,000.00 Adelphi University...... $6,000.00 Peder Norr Kyle L. Stupca University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 University of Kansas...... $6,000.00 Weston N. Norris Isak E. Swanson University of Minnesota Duluth...... $6,000.00 Luther College...... $6,000.00 Kayla Olson Stephen C. Sweeney University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 St. Olaf College...... $6,000.00 Danielle Patterson Blake Tapa University of Minnesota Duluth...... $6,000.00 University of Minnesota Duluth...... $6,000.00 Ian Peters Lindsey Taylor Carleton College...... $6,000.00 Gustavus Adolphus College...... $6,000.00 Mathew C. Peterson Erik Thibault University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 Mya R. Peterson Jon R. Tiburzi University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 St. Olaf College...... $6,000.00 Anne N. Plachta Anthony P. Vecchi University of Notre Dame...... $6,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 Joshua C. Plys Joseph T. Vecchi University of Minnesota Duluth...... $6,000.00 University of Wisconsin - Madison....$6,000.00 Claira M. Poirier Samuel J. Wattrus Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...... $6,000.00 Harvard University...... $6,000.00 Kelly L. Popham Mary Kate Wheeler University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 University of Wisconsin - Madison....$6,000.00 Sarah Reichhoff Bailey Widstrom University of St. Thomas...... $6,000.00 University of Minnesota Twin Cities.....$6,000.00 Gunnar Roadfeldt Sophie C. Wilkowske Texas Christian University...... $6,000.00 Columbia University...... $6,000.00 Nicole M. Sannes Amity K. Wipson University of Wisconsin - Madison....$6,000.00 University of Notre Dame...... $6,000.00 Mara E. Sauve Erik W. Zimmerman University of Minnesota Duluth...... $6,000.00 University of Wisconsin - Madison....$6,000.00 Madeline Schenk New York University...... $6,000.00 Total Affiliated Trust Scholarships....$577,350.00 Sophia Schuder University of San Diego...... $6,000.00 Total Scholarships...... $879,771.00
18 2014 Contributors The following individuals, families, companies and organizations contributed to the Community Foundation between January 1 and December 31, 2014. Gifts were gratefully received through establishment of a new fund, contributing to an unrestricted fund, adding to an existing fund, or making an in-kind donation, and are listed as requested.
ABC Healthy Families, Inc. Ina Backman Dr. Bernhard Boecker Afton Press Mike and Jo Bailey John and Jo Boll Emily Ahachich Ballavance Consulting Pete and Sue Boman Rodney and Linda Aho Bank of America Matching Gifts Ryan and Amy Boman Terry, Shawna, Tristan, and Tripp Albert Linda Barnes Tom and Mary Boman Don and Lois Albrecht Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Barnes Joe and Louise Bonach Jennifer E. Albrecht Frank and Joanne Barrows James C. Booth Nicholas Alworth C. Barton and D. Doering Kristina Bourne and Tim Valentine American Family Mutual Insurance Company Tony and Marg Bartovich Bruce Bowers and Ric Gilman American Legion Post 109 John and Sue Bathke Charlotte A. Boyd American Peat Technology, LLC Bayfield Ace Hardware Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Bozich Bonnie and Gordy Anderson Bayfield Community Education Foundation, Inc. Philip G. Bradley Family Trust Mr. and Mrs. Brad E. Anderson Bayfield Wine and Spirits Allan and Roberta Brandt Gerald R. and Patricia Anderson Robert and Maureen Bazzett Peter and Carla Bremner Ginnoda and Marcilyn Nesgoda Anderson Mike and Dar Beard Colleen Brennan Jon and Deborah Anderson Julie Beauregard Lynn M. Brice LuAnne Laiti Anderson Thomas G. and Mary M. Bell, III Brickyard Creek LLC Mark and Donna Anderson Bell Street Gallery Demaris Brinton and Theron O’Connor Shar and Jim Anderson Benna Ford Superior Edie Bristol Susan Anderson Tracy Benson and Peter Kavanaugh Kenneth M. Bro and Becky J. Brown Huck and Karen Andresen Thomas and Sally Berg Ward and Linda Brown Nancy Andrews Jan Hassel Bergman Brownstone Center Andy’s IGA Tammie L. Bernd Bob Bruce Angry Trout Cafe Eurgel and Denise Berry Holly A. Bruce Paulette Anholm David Saetre and Janet Bewley Julie M. Brunner Apostle Highland Golf Course Michael and Catherine Bianchet Paul and Vikki Buckley Apostle Island Booksellers Tony and Kathy Biebl Buck’s Hardware Hank Apostle Island Cruises Big Top Chatauqua Laura S. Budd Apostle Island Relay Swim Jan Biga Buffalo Bay Store Apostle Islands Realty - Kathleen C. Russell Kay Biga and Patrick Spott Henry and Mary Jo Buffalo Scott Armstrong and Kathy Gang Ann V. Biron Buhl Water Company Arrowhead D.A.R.E. Blackbear Casino Building Clay Studio North David and Judith Arvold Irene H. Blakely Wayne and Linda Burggraaff Mrs. Arthur Aufderheide Aaron Blevins Burlington Northern Spill Trust Fund Carol and Richard Avol Blueridge Forest Products Richard R. and Elizabeth M. Burns Mame Babineau BMO Harris Bank Tim and Kathy Burns Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Backlund Bodin’s Inc. Myron Bursheim 19 Marilyn Buscher Cooperative Light & Power Marlene Diver Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Bushey John and Linda Cory Dockside Bye Family Scholarship Trust Ethel M. Costello Richard and Cynthia Donek Calumet Superior, LLC Kyle Costley and Jennifer Miller Tom and Mary Dougherty Patricia Campanaro Gene and Ruth Cotton Douglas County Disaster and Welfare Fund Meagan Campbell Sheila Coyle Lawrence and Ann Downing Charles and Dawn Campion J. M. Crace Eva Downs The Candy Shoppe Marlis Cran Sara and Joe Drobnick, Adam Dawson, Jennifer L. Carey Hubert Craw Rilee Dawson Glenn Carlson Joe Crawford Joan Drury Jessica Carlson Dean T. and Pamela J. Croft Duluth Building and Construction Lars and Mary Carlson John and Sarah Cron Trades Council Mike Carlson William J. Cronon Duluth Central Class of 1948 Kerry and Nicole Carpenter Michael Crowell and Karen Ruedi Crowell Duluth Kidney Services, LLC Helen and Bob Carter Daniel and Kirsten Cruikshank Duluth News Tribune June C. Carter Daniel Crusan Duluth Superior Area Community Arnie and Patty Carver Gerald Cubbin and Diane Gibson Foundation Richard L. Carver Larry and Lisa Cumpston Robert J. Dunne Jr. Mei Castor and Dan Bryant Dr. Lauren M. Curtis Bob Durfey and Ann Barthelemy Curt and Christina Cavallin Mortimer W. Cushman Eckels Pottery Keri and Ryan Cavitt Doug and Joan Cybela Mark Eckman Central Area Sports Association Alice L. Dahlberg Ed Uihlien Family Foundation Central Mesabi Fund for Human Services Nancy Daley Andrew and Jebeh Edmunds Frank and Cindy (Imsdahl) Ceo Colleen Daly and Nathan Meyer Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Edwards Daniel and Suzanne Cervin Mark Danielson and Theresa Smith Walter Egeland Paul Chapman Thomas and Dorothy Danielson Mark and Shari Eggleson Chana and Al Chechik Marlene David Joseph Ehlers and Sarah Nelson Joel and Marc Chechik and Families Thomas Davies Marie Eide Karen D. Cheetham Malcolm B. Davy The Electric Shop Inc Dr. Diane Christel Dwight and Georgia Day Kelly and Sarah Elson Pat and Betty Christel Mr. and Mrs. John DeCaro Don and C. Joyce Elvestrom Ann and Donn Christensen Linda and Sandy Dee Employees of St. Luke’s Mr. and Mrs. Paul Christianson David Delich Mental Health Services City of Duluth Gregory Delich Enbridge Energy Company, Inc. City of Grand Marais Robert and Madeline Delich Mr. and Mrs. Roger P. Engle Dr. Terrence C. Clark Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Denniston Victoria A. Erhart Alison J. Clarke Denny Maryl Buddy Cathy Erickson Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial, Inc. Sharon Denson Paul R. and Irene D. Erickson Gerald L. Cleveland and Marjorie Anderson Beverly Denyes PollyAnn Erickson Cliffs Foundation Gerald and Susan DePerry Dr. Robert and Gwen Erickson Jim and B. J. Collier Patt Kenute DePerry Ethels Community Opportunity Fund Julie A. Dickson Eveleth Clown Band John P. and JoAnn G. Congdon Dignity Memorial - Wichita Kansas locations Eveleth 4th of July Committee Marian Congdon Cindy Dillenschneider and Jason Maloney Eveleth-Gilbert All Class Reunion Cook County Higher Education Bill and Connie Dinan Fabiola Club Sam D. and Phyllis L. Cook Mark and Janet Ditmanson Josef S. Fairbanks 20 Rudd Falconer and Jill Lorenz Grand Portage Resort Heck of the North David and Kathy Falk Grandma’s Restaurant Company Hedstrom Lumber Co. Family Service Sharing Fund Corporate Office Edward and Kristine Hedstrom Tim Faust Grandpa Tony’s Howard and Bonnie Gay Hedstrom Bill and Claudia Ferraro Richard and Diana Granger Anne and Peter Heegaard Zack Filipovich Donald C. and Germaine E. Grant Tom and Janine Heffelfinger Mike Fiorio William and Dorothy Gray Pat and Carrie Heffernan Beth Fischlowitz Great! Lakes Candy Kitchen Hegardt Foundation Darrel and Orlene Fisher Great Lakes Indian Fish and Texas Hemmaplardh Flamingos Up North Wildlife Commission Adam and Bethany Hendrickson Suzanne K. Flotten Greater Downtown Council Marcia and Burke Henry Joe and Elaine Floyd Green Bay Packers Mary Hepner Jane Flueckiger Charles A. Greenman Herbert H. Kohl Charities, Inc. Glenn and Celeste Forbes Harold Greenwood Kathleen A. Hern Dick Forbort Trojan Legacy Golf Scramble Drs. Lucy Grina and Michael Overend Andy and Kitty Herriott Rick and Kathryn Forsman Michael P. Grossman Kelvin R. Herstad John M. and Susan F. Foschi Linda Grover Edwina Hertzberg Four Cedars Foundation Grunkies and Sgt. Pepperoni Jon Heyesen Mr. and Mrs. John C. Frankson Dr. Eric and Barbara Grutzner Tim and Cheryl Hicks Fryberger, Buchanan, Smith & Frederick, P.A. Janice and Fritz Grutzner Hillhaven LLC Funders’ Network for Smart Growth Mark J. Guisfredi Karen W. Hites and Livable Communities, Inc Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Gustin Cathy and Brian Hiti Chuck and Sue Futterer Solveig R. Hadland Charles and Lynn Hiti Dr. Matthew A. Gahn O.D. David and Virginia Hahn Alan and Erika Hodnik Judy Galbraith Karen Halbersleben and Jack Miller Jerry and Chris Hoel Warren and Beth Gall Ed and Sherry Hall Deel Hoffman Dick and Peggy Gastler Gary and Barbara Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Hoge Rick and Colleen Geisen David Hammer and Miaki Habuka Barbara Holaday Terry and Chere Gibson James and Leslie Hamp Elizabeth Holliday Gary J. Gilbertson Keith A. and Lynne J. Hamre Patricia Holliday Julie and Craig Gilbertson Hanft Fride, A Professional Association Cherie and Jerald Holm Christine Gildersleeve and Erik Berry Bill and Cindy Hansen - Sawbill Outfitters Jim and Nancy Holmgren Gary and Marilyn Gilmore Greg and Rebecca Hansen Margaret Reed Holmgren Mr. and Mrs. Glenn B. Gilyard Karl Hansen and Kathleen Stewart Shannon Holmied Regis C. Glumac Susan L. Hansen Janis Hooey Janna Goerdt Al and Sally Hanser Jan and Katherine Horak Dr. Richard Goese Mr. and Mrs. Brian W. Hanson Bill and Sue Horoshak Ruth Goetz Harbor Wear of Bayfield Brenda Hoshaw George and Liz Goldfarb Muffy and Henry Harmon Jerry and Sandie Hostetter Beverly B. Goldfine Mary Harrington and Jesse Okie J.J. and Kelly Hraban Melanie Goldish Harris Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Huff Gournet Garage Peter and Carol Harris Gerald and Carole Huhn Walter and Ellen Gower Judith L. Harrison Mary and Stan Hunter Grace Hogan Jewelry Cathy and Jayme Hartman Patricia Hvidston and Roger Opp Grand Marais Family Dentistry Richard H. and Nancy Harvey Dan and Mary Hymans Grand Marais State Bank Duane Hasegawa and Barb Heideman Inn on Madeline Island 21 Willis and Betty Irons Faris and Bonnie Keeling Daral Lange Mary Lou and Pat Irvine Keenan Consulting, LLC Nick Lansing Island Carvers Keeper of the Light Bob and Doris Larkin Paul Iversen William R. Kehtel Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Larson Ann Jackson Suzanne K. Kelley Milt and Sharon Larson Helena Jackson and Douglas Dunham Peter and Shelly Kemp Greg Lavato Joel and Linda Jackson Beth and Tim Kennedy Stacy LaVres and Mary Tennis Jocelyn Jacobs Kelsey Kennedy Sarah Lawrence and Cal Metts M. Kaye Jacobs Bruce and Sue Kerfoot William and Julia Leakey Lanette Jacoby Carl and Laurie Kerschen Mark and Donna Leese The Jamar Company Joyce and Rolland Kiel Legendary Waters Sylvia B. Jamar Peter and Lisa Kierland Ethel S. Leng Douglas S. Janzig Elaine Killen Ross and Diane LeRoy Joseph and Elizabeth Jauquet Marian M. King Drs. Sidney and Lynne Levitsky Geraldine L. Jensen Rebecca King G. S. Lewis and Rondi C. Erickson Kathryn Jensen and Robert C. Bloecher Jane Hartley Kingston Liberty Wealth Management Sheryl and Ken Jensen Katie Klessig of Raymond James & Associates, Inc. Pete and Mary Jeronimus Knights of Columbus Council 2583 Shirley Lindgren Jim Forsman Accounting CPA Gary and Mae Patrice Knowles Rolf and Layne Lindquist Joanne’s Scandinavian Gifts Roger Kochevar Cathy and Greg Lindsey John S. & James L. Knight Foundation Dr. A. A. Koeller Christine Lindsey Pauline L. John Keith Koenning and Patricia Murphy Tom and Peggy Lipinski Adler and Phlaine Johnson John and B. J. Kohlstedt Liscomb Hood Mason Co, Brian and Jan Johnson Tim, Ashley, Aaron Koivunen A Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC Casey R. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Jay T. Kolquist Living Advenure David A. Johnson Korkki Nordic Ski Club Leslie Livingston and David Miller Don and Laviere Johnson Paul and Kim Kosmatka Gina Lott Judie M. Johnson Kraus Anderson Construction Company Kristi and Travis Lounsberry Julius and Darlene Johnson Karen C. Kritta Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lovato Johnson, Killen & Seiler, P.A. Caleb Krochalk Rev. and Mrs. Roderick G. Luebchow Lori Halgren Johnson and Thomas and Kathryn Kromroy Lundgren Motors Inc. Daniel A. Johnson, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. David A. Kropid Claudia A. Lundquist Mr. Mark S. Johnson Jonathan M. Kuchera Bill Lurton Steven R. and Kathy Johnson Jason and Jacqi Kuettel Lutsen Resort Company Wallace and Ellen Johnson Joyce R. Kunz Maypakou Ly Brad and Janelle Jones Kurhajetz Family Randi Lyders and Scott Kindrick Brent and Brenna Jordan Amy Kuronen Richard and Jean Lynch Thomas F. Jordan Kwik Trip, Inc Jacob Lyons Bonnie Jorgenson and Chris Correia Marina Lachecki and James Kasperson Madeline Island Ferry Line Linda A. Jorgenson The Lake Bank Madeline Island Golf Club Art and Martha Kaemmer Lake of the Torches Resort Helen and Bob Mairs Julie M. Kapke Lakewood Elementary Maki & Overom Karpen Family School Foundation, Inc Ralph and Barb Maki Robert D. Karwath Jr. Lakewood Montessori Preschool, Inc Judy and Tom Manley Michael and Nancy Kearney Linda and H. A. Lamb Mr. and Mrs. Jon Marcaccini Lori Keeler Rosemary Lamson Toby and Sharon Marcovich 22 Joseph J. Markovich Hyla Napadensky Thomas Peacock and Ann Mars Nancy M. Nason Elizabeth Albert-Peacock Mary H. Rice Foundation National Bank of Commerce Taylor Pedersen maurices Native Spirits Alyssa M. Peoples Ted May Karl and Shari Nelson Jim Pete James Mayasich Diane M. Nemec Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Peterlin Joe M. and Sally Mayasich George Newago Petersons Store John and Carol Mayasich and Family Fund Newfangled Craig A. and Dianne K. Peterson Timothy and Jennifer Mayasich Joanne M. Nichols Luke Peterson Keith and Darcy McAuliffe Dr. and Mrs. Daniel A. Nikcevich Ben and Mary Petz Barbara and Dennis McCann May and Vern Nordling Phillips-Smith Investment Co. Michael and Kay McCarthy Lorraine Norgaard - Margot H. Phillips/Mary H. Smith Kathleen McCartin Karin Norlen Pier Plaza Jean McCurdy North House Folk School Herb and Alvera Pierson Seth and Carrieann McDonald North Shore Community School Louis and Inger Pignolet Patrick McGranahan North Shore Federal Credit Union PLB Properties Mike and Alie McInerney Northern State Bank Marcia A. Podratz Steve and Cheryl McLachlan Lyle and Trish Northey Scott Polzin Paul and Barbara McLeod Northwest Beverage Inc Ann Possis Juday Meath Paul and Dianne Nussbaum Mary Lou Pouti Val and Jean Melgeorge Elizabeth R. O’Brien Bob Pranis and Veronica Weadock Edward and Dawn Michael The Office Shop Janet J. Presley Donald W. and Alice M. Michels Nancy and Rich Ojard Margi Preus and Arno Kahn George and Carolyn Milkovich Karen M. Olesen Beth and Steve Probst Gregory S. and Barbara J. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Olson Pugsley Fund of HRK Foundation Charitable Lead Trust Susan G. Olson Jake Putzel Warren F. Miller Helen Olsvik David Quick and Helen Muth Miners National Bank Bob and Susan Olund Mr. and Mrs. William M. Rabold Minnesota Power Don and Carlene Omtvedt Nancy Radomski Minnesota Power Employees Credit Union 148th FW Bulldog Enlisted Council Thomas and Kristen Radtke Minnesota Power Foundation Michael and Maureen O’Phelan Dean Rau and Sarah Lund Lin and Pat Moe Orchard Edge Quilt Shop Lee J. Regas Geraldine Karakas Moen Barry and Sue Osell Mr. and Mrs. Wally Reinhardt Morris Moen and Elaine Melby-Moen Otto Bremer Foundation Colleen M. Renier Moline Family Donor Advised Fund Oulu Glass Republic Bank, Inc. Moline Family Fund Bethany and Christopher Owen Sara Richter Don and Nancy Moline Laura M. Owen Tom and Ann Rider Dr. and Mrs. Victor Morcos Sara Owen Gary H. Rieman Thomas and Sally Morin Bob and Mary Ellen Owens Sue Riley Jan and David Morris Pace Woods Foundation Rittenhouse Inn Daniel H. and Catherine L. Mundt Bob and Ginny Padzieski Michelle M. Robbie Charitable Fund Michael P. Palermo Louise S. Robbins Bob Murphy and Ellen Cooke Howard Papp Steven L. Robertson Mary Murphy Rebecca B. Patton Branden Hunner Robinson William A. Myers Margaret E. Paulson Mary Jo Roche Napa Auto Parts John and Barbara Rodberg 23 Gary and Kay Roffers Jack E. Shapiro Philip H. and Barbara Strom Family Mark and Nancy Rogers Jane E. Shaw Charitable Fund Peter M. and Betty W. Rogers Fund The Shea Family Tim and Julie Strom Rena Rogers Suzanne B. Sherman and Ellen Stubbs David and Anne Rogotzke Mary Ellen Ashcroft Nan Stubenvoll Christopher and Helen Roland Don and Pat Shippar Stanley and Sally Suck David and Stephanie Rolland Ruth B. Sickel Sugar Shack Linda J. Rolland Tamara Siebert Kathleen M. Sullivan Phil Rolle Judith and Glen Siegle George and Judee Sundstrom Thomas and Catherine Rootness Gary and Kathleen Siesennop Superior Choice Credit Union Steven and Nora Rosemore Carl and Elizabeth Silverman Mary Kay Svedberg Sarah Ross Charles and Arlene Simonian Family Trust Ronald M. Svee David and Jo-Ann Rossetter Mollie Siskar Jade Swanson Roxanne’s Sivertson Gallery Richard and Bonnie Swanson Andrine Rozinka Liz Sivertson Shawn and Kelly Swearingen Mark S. and Nancy L. Rubin Charles and Mie Skinner Gordon D. Swenson Shari and Jay Rud Jean Skinner Thomas and Kathleen Sykes Doreen Ruhanen Dr. Wm and Kay Slack Tom Szendrey Hung Q. Russell and Catherine A. Liska Dorothy Slonim Mr. and Mrs. Larry Teague Barbara and Joe Russell Alexandra Smith Endowment Fund John Tevik Larry Ryden of the Seattle Foundation The Saint Paul Hotel George Saari Daniel Smith Matt and Mia Thibodeau Donna and Paul Sadar Janet and Jerry Smith David and Maggie Thickens Maureen Sadar Margorie Smith John Ivey Thomas and Mary Rees Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Sager Steve and Elizabeth Smith Family Foundation Fund Jetty St. John and Jim Boyd Virginia M. and John W. Soetebier L. H. Thorleifson St. Luke’s Hospital & Regional Trauma Center Mr. and Mrs. Andy Solin Joseph and Roberta Tietge Dorothy Salcedo Walter and Anna Soneson Scholarship Trust Virginia K. Townley Charitable Salmela Architect Harriet N. Sorensen Remainder Unitrust Holly C. Sampson Sonya R. Sorensen Mary Trettin and Michael A. Miller Hans and Marie Sandbo Spedco Economic Development Foundation Peter Tropman and Virginia Graves Mark and Jeanne Sandbo Marcie A. Speer Timothy and Gretchen Tuttle Arend J. and Verna Sandbulte Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Spehar Two Harbors Area Fund Matching Account Doug and Mary Sanders Spirit Bay Two Harbors Federal Credit Union Kenneth A. Sandvik Spirit Mountain Recreation Area Mr. and Mrs. Mark R. Udd Saturn Systems, Inc. Jessica and Bill Stauber Ulland Brothers, Inc. Chris N. Saur Bruce and Kayelee Stender U. S. Steel Corporation Larry and Colleen Saur Leo and Chris Stern U.S. Bank Milan and Carolyn Schmidt Janet Sternat U.S. Bank Foundation Kenneth F. and Concetta I. Schoen John and Sharon Stewart UMD-TCF Bank Scott Scholarship Trust Stone’s Throw Mary Van Evera Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank Virginia L. Storlie Ivy Vanio Margaret Seely Rabbett Strickland Violence Prevention Center Thomas and Julie Seidelmann Joe and Joan Strlekar Steven and Nami Vizanko Judy Seitz Karl and Christine Strom Vladimir and Geraldine Vlaisavljevich Robert and Margaret Seitz Phil and Babs Strom Jane Vogt 24 Jeff and Kris Von Holzen Laurie Wermter Paula Sundet Wolf Ruthanne Vos West Wisconsin Land Trust, Inc. Mitch and Darlene Wolfe David and Bobbi Vose Kimberly West Wolfsong W.A. Fisher Advertising and Printing Western Bank Susan L. Wolterstorff W M Foundation Phil Westine Donna W. Woods Walker Giroux & Hahne, LLC Wheeler Associates Fritz and Debbie Wrazidlo Linda and J.T Walker Jim and Ann Wheeler Young & Associates Insurance Inc. Washburn Chamber of Commerce Thomas B. Wheeler Timothy J. Young Chequamegon Bay Turkey Trot White Pine North/Photo Art Shop Elwood and Carol Youngberg Timothy Weiske Richard and Mavis Whiteman Sharon and Tony Yung Kate Welch Robert & Sophia Whiteside Scholarship Bob and Ruby Zallar Wells Fargo Bank - The Private Bank Wild by Nature Ann Zastera Wells Fargo Foundation Educational Gary and Ihleen Williams Jim and Mary Zastrow Matching Gift Program WIPFLi Renee Zurn Claudia Scott Welty Winfield Garden Emporium Donald and Deborah Jo Wendling Lois Witzig
2014 Honor and Memorial Gifts Gifts to honor or remember loved ones, friends, or special occasions benefit our Community Foundation’s charitable purposes. Gifts may be made to any established fund, or, a special fund may be established to reflect the honored person’s life. The Community Foundation’s Book of Honor, on display in our office, lists those honored or memorialized since our inception. Memorials and Honorariums made to the following Community Foundation funds between January 1 and December 31, 2014 include:
John T. & Elizabeth C. Adams Arts Fund Apostle Islands Area Community Animal Allies Endowment Fund In honor of Operating Fund In honor of Janet Sklaris In honor of Abbot and Pascha Apter Madelaine Herder Albrecht-Vogt Family Fund Frank L. Barrows II Memorial In honor of In memory of Scholarship Fund Lois Albrecht Bryce and Virginia Vance In honor of Ruth Carlson Apostle Islands Area Community Fund Apostle Islands Area Program Services In honor of Endowment Fund Birch Grove Foundation Fund Myron Smith In memory of In memory of Alan Fischlowitz Lucretia M. Levy In memory of Lee Branch Aitkin Education Foundation Fund Peter Bye Family Scholarship Fund Mervin E. Hites In memory of In memory of Soren Kasperson Gordy Root Caroline Bye Jim Marshall Betty Rogers In memory of Lyndon Hasskamp 25 Chequamegon Bay Area Community Fund In memory of Manley and Lillian Goldfine Gold Star In honor of Betty Lou Hren Teacher Award Fund Dick Bodin Irene Lampi In honor of Lou Ann Nylen Lillian Goldfine In memory of Raymond Stapleton Adam S. Holman Sharon Strum G.R.A.C.E. Fund Millicent Lurye Weinberg In honor of Chequamegon Bay Area Program Services Al and Chana Chechik Endowment Fund Eveleth Area Community Foundation Fund In honor of In memory of Grutzner Madeline Island Fund Mr. and Mrs. Lew Trumper Louis A. Braga In honor of Sally A. Jackson Carlson Patty Knutson In memory of Viola and John Casper Adam S. Holman Julia M. Celley In memory of William Chapman Lee Branch Community Opportunity Fund Michael L. Karpen Michal Bristol In honor of Harry Keenan Mike O’Brien Norma I. Danielson Elton Kuderer Ham Ross Duluth Superior Area Richard K. Lenci Community Foundation Mary Annette (Ercegovich) Maki Patricia S. Gustafson ‘56 Memorial Geno Marcaccini Scholarship Fund Cook County Community Fund Lillian A. Mourin In memory of In honor of Arthur Nichols James F. Gustafson the beauty of the North Shore and its people Richard “Dick” Okerstrom Sig Rimestad Hermantown Community Fund In memory of Frank R. Rozinka In honor of Eileen Imsdahl Rose and George Sadar Mary Johnson Walt McCarthy Joseph Siskar Greg Irons Award Courage Center Duluth Fund Eveleth Area Community Foundation In memory of In memory of Operating Fund Deloris Andermann Timothy Walsh In memory of Angie Bonach Cory Jam Memorial Award Duluth Central Sports Association Irene Grace Walz Paulson In memory of Legacy Scholarship Fund Cory Jam In memory of Eveleth 4th of July Fund Dick Forbort In memory of Kierland - Henry Family Fund Julia M. Celley In honor of Duluth Edison Charter School Legacy Marcia and Burke Henry Endowment Fund Colonel Lawrence H. Golberg Aviation In honor of Scholarship In memory of Stacy Sosniecki In honor of Margaret Lytle Kierland Jayme Thorson Michael Altman Sandra Ettestad Fred C. and Mary H. Lewis Scholarship Fund Duluth Public Schools Fund Mark Marino In honor of In honor of Mary H. Lewis Marian M. King In memory of Arnold “Arnie” Odegaard
26 Living Legacy Fund Spirit Mountain Recreation Area Dale Heimbach Wheeler Memorial Fund In honor of Authority Fund In honor of Sam Cook In honor of Tom Wheeler Russ Doty Renee A. Mattson Mary Moyer Dougherty Robert B. and Sophia Whiteside Two Harbors Area Fund Scholarship Fund In memory of In honor of In memory of Charles M. Bell Gordy Anderson Charles M. Bell James F. Gustafson Bob Olund Helmi Sisko Sivea Lepisto Hammer Evelyn Tietsort Young Leaders Fund Donald Kolquist In honor of Max Ramsland In memory of All Young Leaders at Republic Bank Iver Amundsen Mae, Bert and Bob Halgren Madeline Island Public Library Fund John Brandt and Deb Lee and Herb Johnson In memory of Barbara “Tewsie” Budd Steve O’Neil Mary Stryker Lewandowski John Downs Nancy Petrasek Lylia Egeland Branden Hunner Robinson John and Carol Mayasich and Family Fund Scott Jackson Mia Thibodeau In honor of Herman Johnson John Mayasich Weldon Johnson John Norlen North Shore Community School John “Red” Olsvik Endowment Fund Al Ruberg In memory of Carola L. Russell Gilman D. Veith Joe Zastera
G. Scott Ransom Scholarship Fund Beverly R. Uhrhammer Memorial of the Duluth/Superior Alpine Club Library Fund In honor of In honor of Greg Borash Alan R. and Sandra Taenzer Scott Ransom Charlotte Ulland Scholarship Fund for Girls Red Cliff Fund In honor of In honor of Stephen Kay and Piper Perabo Todd and Antonietta Albert Troy and Caryn Albert United Way of Greater Duluth Elizabeth Albert-Peacock Endowment Fund Terry Allen and Shawna Albert In memory of James F. Gustafson In memory of Lavern R. Basina Weckwerth-Sampson Family Fund Jean Buffalo In honor of Richard E. Sampson Daniel Patrick Riley Memorial Scholarship Fund In memory of In memory of Frances W. Sampson Daniel P. Riley
27 VISION The Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation will be the leading force for improving our region by fostering generosity, civic engagement and inclusiveness.
CORE VALUES Community Stewardship Integrity
MISSION STATEMENT Confirmed in Compliance The Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation with National Standards for promotes private giving for the public good. U.S. Community Foundations