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2012-2013 ANNUAL REPORT Serving Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia Message from the President 3 Board of Trustees 4 2012 Distributions 5 2012 Scholarships/Awards 6 2012 Competitive Grants 8 2012 Donors 10 Foundation Funds 13 Statement of Financial Positions 15 OUR MISSION To improve the quality of life in our community by raising, encouraging, administering, and distributing gifts for charitable, cultural, educational and scientific purposes. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT The Foundation for the Tri-State Community is pleased to once again present you with an annual report of our accomplishments and to express our sincere gratitude to all who have helped OUR MISSION make these achievements possible. To improve the quality of life in our community The 2012 lists of grants, scholarships, program activities and charitable distributions provide you with a clearer understanding of the depth and breadth of our growing by raising, encouraging, administering, impact on the charitable sector of the Tri-State community. Our donor lists, as well as and distributing gifts for charitable, the lists of our existing component funds, clearly illustrate the generosity, dedication and commitment of our donors, who continue to improve the quality of life in our cultural, educational and scientific purposes. communities through their financial gifts and support of the Foundation. The lists of our trustees and committee members inspire confidence that the governance of the Foundation rests with recognized leaders of our community, who volunteer their time to oversee the Foundation and guide its course, now and in the future. “The Foundation has been The Foundation has been busy in 2013, supporting and facilitating efforts to make busy in 2013, supporting the Tri-State community a great place in which to live, work and play. Downtown Ashland was transformed this summer by the new hanging baskets along Winchester and facilitating efforts Avenue. The Carter County Community Fund is raising an endowment for the county that will enable it to access funds, through the Appalachian Rural Development to make the Tri-State Philanthropy Initiative (ARDPI), to award grants to local non-profits in early 2014. community a great place Grants in Lawrence County, Ohio, have helped fund the new memory garden at the Ironton campus of St. Mary’s Medical Center and improve the insulation at the in which to live, Chesapeake Community Center. A group of women established the Women in Education Fund (WE) to support innovative programs designed to transform education work and play.” in Southern West Virginia. The Miller School Park Fund continues to sell trees and bricks to beautify and fund the future upkeep of this neighborhood park in Huntington. These examples provide just a glimpse of the many projects implemented or funded by the Foundation. The Foundation is excited to introduce its new logo, which is a cornerstone of its new branding and marketing efforts. In addition to this new “look”, the Foundation will roll out a newly created website early next year, which will provide a far superior platform through which we can relate to our donors, grantees and professional advisors. Thank you, again, for your support of the Foundation. We look forward to a successful future, in which your contributions, past, present and future, will continue to enable the Foundation to improve the quality of life in our communities. With best regards, Mary Witten Wiseman 3 2012-2013 BOARD OF TRUSTEES EXECUTIVE BOARD INVESTMENT COMMITTEE Jodi Rowe-Collins, Chairman (3,5,6,9,10,11) Paul E. Chellgren J. Pat Jones (6,9,10) Jodi Rowe-Collins April Russell Perry (6,7,8,9,11) Michael J. Emerson Geoffrey S. Sheils (3,4,6,11) Alfred L. Green Michael W. Hobbs BOARD OF TRUSTEES Larry R. McClung Mary Jo Burton (3) H. Edward Neely (2013) Donald R. Capper (2,11) Charles H. Seal Nick Carter (1,3) Laura S. Timberlake (2013) Rebecca M. Craig (4,11) Stuart B.A. Webb Evan H. Jenkins (3) Mary Witten Wiseman Cassie Landers (2,9,11) Kimberly S. McCann (3) LEGAL COUNSEL Ed Neely (4) Huddleston Bolen LLP Michael D. Robinson (11) James W. St. Clair (7,11) CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS Laura S. Timberlake (11) Smith, Goolsby, Artis & Reams, P.S.C. STAFF MASTER CUSTODIAN Mary Witten Wiseman, President (1,2,5,7,8,9,11) Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Christi B. Clarke, Document Management Specialist (2013) Kathryn C. Davis, Director of Planned Giving and INVESTMENT CONSULTANT Donor Services (2013) Fourth Street Performance Partners, Inc. Sandi M. Martin, Executive Assistant Jennifer M. Strechay, Communications Specialist (2012) COMMITTEES 1 - Property Committee 2 - Gift Acceptance Committee 3 - Grant Advisory Committee 4 - Finance Committee 5 - Investment Committee 6 - Personnel Committee 7 - Public Relations Committee 8 - Strategic Planning Committee 9 - Development Committee 10 - Nominating Committee 11 - Scholarship Committee 4 TRISTATEFOUNDATION.ORG 2012 DISTRIBUTIONS Area Education Grants Fund: The Maudella Taylor Fund: Mini-grants to teachers $12,495 Goodwill Industries of KYOWVA Area $750 Emma Edith Arundel Fund: Morning Has Broken Fund: Lawrence County Humane Society $1,602 Friends of the Children $296 FTSC – Area Education Grants $887 Ashland Inc. Retirees Volunteer Center Fund: Foundation for the Tri-State Community, Inc. $591 In honor of Lorae Dillow King’s Daughters Auxiliary $500 Pet Betterment Fund: Boyd County Animal Control Shelter $4,062 Bank One Fund: To support the Foundation’s West Virginia Donald H. Putnam, Jr. Charitable operations $10,963 Remainder Trust: Ashland Area YMCA $39,675 The Coat Fund: Calvary Episcopal Church $39,675 Boyd County Family Resource Center West $620 Foundation for the Tri-State Community, Inc. $27,783 Catherine Newton Youth Service Center $322 Fairview FRYSC $333 R. Bernard Dickinson Rotary Club of Huntington Endowment Fund: D. Sterling Diddle Endowment Fund: The Dictionary Project $288 Upkeep and maintenance of the Switzer-Wallace Marshall University Foundation $3,750 Plaza, located in Ritter Park, Huntington, WV $6,995 The Woodlands Foundation Fund: Doctors Care of Cabell County Fund: Putnam Stadium Restoration Foundation $20,000 Doctors Care of Cabell County $2,447 Foundation for the Tri-State Operating Endowment Funds: 2012 operational support $33,926 Georgia Blazer Norris Educational Endowment Fund: Community & Technical College Foundation of Ashland $5,000 The Foundation would like to work with you to Greater Huntington Park & Recreation create a permanent fund to support those institutions District Funds: Healing Field/Bell Tower Project $50,332 and causes that are most important to you and your Huntington PetSafe Dog Park $114,760 Ritter Park Rose Garden $10,000 family. Please contact us about establishing a Ritter Park Tennis Center $25,000 fund during your lifetime or through a Greenup County Green Fund: bequest in your will. Heritage Arts, Science and Tourism Center $500 Jennie K. Humphrey City Mission Fund: Huntington City Mission 2012 Summer Camp $150 Leadership Tri-State Fund: Training and activities for 2012 Leadership Tri-State class and alumni $56,752 5 2012 SCHOLARSHIPS/AWARDS Distributions from Donor-Advised Funds: $132,070 The Foundation awarded the following scholarships and awards: In order to protect the anonymity of its donors, the Foundation provides a listing of organizations that received funding through its AK Steel Self-Reliance Awards donor-advised funds and an aggregate total of those donations. To reward area students who excel in time management In 2012, the Foundation made distributions to the following and self-reliance. 2012’s awards benefited: organizations: Sydney Jackson $1,250 Alzheimer’s Association Robert Clayton Woford $1,250 Mariah Humphrey $1,000 Ashland Area YMCA (KY) Troy Stafford $1,000 Ashland Beautification Fund of the Foundation Kayla Wells $750 for the Tri-State Community Timothy Grubbs $750 Atrium Medical Center Foundation Hannah Slone $500 Beverly Hills United Methodist Church (Huntington, WV) Brian Rymer $500 Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Tri-State Amy Herrick Fund Cabell Huntington Hospital Auxiliary To assist students attending Centre College of Kentucky Alice Lloyd College $4,311 Cincinnati Zoo Foundation Inc. Community & Technical College Foundation of Ashland, Inc. Anne and John Ward Memorial Scholarship Fund Syracuse University Fifth Avenue Baptist Church (Huntington, WV) for the benefit of Kathryn Robinson $250 First Presbyterian Church (Ashland, KY) First Presbyterian Church (Charleston, WV) Ashland High School Class of 1939 Scholarship Fund First Presbyterian Church (Huntington, WV) University of North Carolina Friends of Sulgrave Manor for the benefit of Josie Whelan $500 Highlands Museum & Discovery Center Ashland Women’s Club Scholarship Fund Hospice of Huntington Art Academy of Cincinnati Hour of Faith Church (Fort Gay, WV) for the benefit of Sara Crumpton $1,000 Huntington City Mission Huntington Museum of Art Billy Gammon Scholarship Fund Black Hawk College Huntington Symphony Orchestra for the benefit of Corey Gregg $1,000 Kuhn Memorial Presbyterian Church (Barboursville, WV) Marshall University Foundation Brent David Shattles Memorial Scholarship Fund The Ohio State University College of Law University of Louisville $1,000 Ohio University Southern Campus for the benefit of Robert Clayton Woford Order of the Crown in America Courtney Thomas Memorial Scholarship Fund Pennsylvania State University Morehead State University Regional Christian School (Williamson, WV) for the benefit of Jane Allyson Jenkins