BAC Annualrep16 FINAL

2016 ANNUAL REPORT Grateful of gratitude, we are including 2016 BENZIE Dear Friends, for the first time our financial AREA CHRISTIAN donor list. For these who gave NEIGHBORS Reflecting on Benzie Area Christian Neighbors (BACN) in so generously in 2016, I offer BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2016, the feeling that most quickly surfaces is gratitude. I’m my personal thanks on behalf so grateful for: of the BACN Board, Staff Lynne Bekkering and the Neighbors we serve. William Dundon • The steadfast community support that allowed Bless you for your help in this Anne Hebert Neighbors to help Neighbors important work! Eugene Houghten • Neighbor needs being met despite some James MacKenzie financial challenges Nancy Meek • The way in which our community’s young people Jim Ryan stepped up to help those in need Donald Schaffer • Our volunteers, who gave such kind and Gerri VanAntwerp, Jerry Slater compassionate service Executive Director Russell Smith Penny Szczechowski • A hard-working Board of Directors who prioritized Judith Welch BACN’s mission Gerri VanAntwerp • Community partners who worked with us to identify needs and provide services • The participants who stepped up to participate in the Facility Feasibility Study • The Tuesday food pantry volunteers, who sometimes sang as they worked • The concrete evidence of humanity’s goodness, even in the midst of tumultuous times Through this 2016 annual report, we’re offering our donors a financial and programmatic recap of the year. In the spirit — 2 — 2016 REVENUE 2016 EXPENSES SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR VOLUNTEERS AND TO THOSE WHO DONATE FOOD AND MATERIAL GOODS: • The work of BACN’s volunteers saved $243,050 in labor cost • The value of donated food was nearly $263,000 • The value of donated material goods was nearly $502,000 • Thousands of dollars were saved by those who volunteered maintenance and repair of the BACN In-Kind: 68% Programs & Services 92% facility, donated technical support, mowed the Individuals: 13% Management 3% lawn, assisted the Food Rescue driver, provided free Foundations: 11% Fundraising: 5% advertising, and discounted needed services. Organizations: 3% Churches: 2% Total 2016 Budget: $571,611 Businesses: 2% Events: 1% Over 5,000 pounds of food, dozens of coats and gloves, and over $2,000 in cash donations were received as 2016 IN REVIEW a direct result of youth involvement. 2016 SERVICE Thank you! From a total 5,149 Unique Households, in 2016 BACN assisted: 4,678 4,033 371 211 63 35 25 123 for Food for Clothing for Utilities for Transportation for GED for Housing for Medical for Other Individual Needs — 4 — — 5 — Below we are sharing a small sample The Impact of In-Kind of the way in-kind food donations impacts the BACN Pantry. In 2016, A large percentage of BACN’s revenue is we gratefully accepted: designated as in-kind. But what does that • An entire pallet of applesauce look like in relation to BACN’s services? from Loy Putney Orchards BACN benefits from so many different • Over 50 pounds of packaged venison after DNR officer sources of in-kind support– from our own Rebecca Hopkins and Karlin Market & Deli teamed up volunteers’ time to donations of food and to pay for the processing of an illegally taken deer clothing. Community businesses provide • Over 400 pounds of processed pork packaged much-needed, in-kind services in our into sausages, roasts and chops, donated from facility (For example, locksmith, Ken Knapp, ProWeb Marketing changed all our locks for free as a Christmas • Over 200 pounds of grass-fed beef from Misty Acres present to BACN.) These acts of kindness Farm of the Grand Traverse Land Conservancy, and happen every day, and there is no way processing paid for by Cherry Republic we can possibly note each one with the • Two entire freezers full of packaged salmon and lake individual attention it deserves. trout, filleted and donated by sportsmen and women participating in the Benzie Fishing Frenzy • Hundreds of dozens of eggs donated by area farmers • Pallets of apples, butternut squash and other seasonal LEFT: A new shipment of apple sauce is a welcome donation to our food pantry. MIDDLE: BACN volunteers help make our food drives fresh produce donated from area farmers a big success. RIGHT: Rebecca Hopkins, one of many generous donors, helps to fill our freezer with meat. These are but a small sampling of large individual donations– that when added to the many food drives sponsored by local schools, businesses, churches and organizations– provided nearly $263,000 worth of food in 2016. BACN paired these food donations with purchased staples through the year, to provide the well-rounded nutritional supplement needed by our Neighbor families. Our thank you is simple, yet heart-felt. — 7 — $5,000 AND ABOVE Steve and Danica Peterson Anonymous Retired Auto Workers Our Generous Donors Benzie County (2% funds from the Council #31476 Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa Saint Ann Catholic Church and Chippewa Indians) Simply put, BACN’s mission could not Kurt and Susan Swanson be carried out without the ongoing Benzie County Community Chest The Pierce Family Consumers Power Company Charitable Foundation support of our generous and deeply Dan and Magee Gordon Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Benzie County committed donors. We are grateful for Grand Traverse Regional each and every one of you! Community Foundation Ralph and Peggy Jackson $1,000 THROUGH $2,499 Philip and Nancy Meek Carl and Betsy Anderson The Art & Mary Schmuckal Troy and Jill Bancroft Family Foundation William and Patricia Beck The Father Lovett Foundation of Ernest and Mary Behnke St. Philip’s Episocpal Church Benzie Sunrise Rotary The Foster Family Foundation Blaine Christian Church The Herbert and Barbara Blaine Christian Church Dow Foundation Women’s Fellowship The John L. Mulvaney Foundation Cherry Republic, Inc. The Wayne and Joan Robert and Janet Condon Webber Foundation Betty Croft United Way of Northwest Michigan Margaret Cunningham Bryant Dennison $2,500 THROUGH $4,999 Staci Doebler Cherryland Cares– Cherryland Electric Cooperative Jack and Barbara Drew Bill and Cheri Dundon Family Fare of Frankfort William and Nancy Ellis First Congregational Church of Benzonia First Congregational Church of Frankfort Diane Flynn Groundwork Center For Martha Garber Resilient Communities Eugene Golanda John and Sandra O’Neal Jack and Judy Harnish Walter and Peggy Nelson Scott and Molly Harrison — 9 — Hastings Mutual $500 THROUGH $999 Saint Ann Men’s Club Leon and Christine Chilson Insurance Company Dennis and Ruth Ambo Saint Ann Parish Women’s Guild John and Lynn Collins Hugh and Pat Hessler John and Marilyn Barclay Donald and Wylie Schaffer Nancy M. Creech Sharon Hillquist Terry and Gretchen Bard Schmuckal Oil Company Patricia Delonnay Walter Johnson James and Lynne Bekkering William Seitz Preston and Mary Dilts Joyce Meyer Ministries William Bekkering and Steve and Lynn Stephens Victor and Peg Dubrowski Kim and Jo Ellen Lathwell Gwen VanDorp Stormcloud Brewing Company Ned and Bobbie Edwards Constance M. Learnihan Benzie Area Church of Christ Bruce and Jane Stowe LuAnn Elwell James and Robin MacKenzie Betsie Bay Furniture The Women’s Association First Congregational Church of Robert Alan Meyers Nena O. Bondarenko of the Congregational Frankfort Women’s Fellowship Kelly Ottinger Michael and Karen Burke Summer Assembly Joe and Beth Fitzsimmons Jane A. Purkis Joe and Rose Coleman Anne Katherine Toomey Earl (Bud) Frankenberger Elizabeth B. Rogers Mark and Janet Copher Trinity Lutheran W.E.L.C.A. Donald and Joanne Gatz Steve and Cindy Roszell Elmer Cote Mike and Gerri VanAntwerp Anne Hebert John W. Ruckrich Denison Tiles Suzy Voltz Mary Helms Dan and Janice Schoonmaker James and Sarah Dutton Gerald and Susan Wilgus Andy Herman William and Lynell Singer Jennifer Eggle Bertram and Patricia Wilson Carol Hess Jerry and Agnes Slater Heidi L. Farkas Stan and Karla Woell Gene and Evelyn Houghton Smeltzer Orchards Marsha and Ray Foresman Frances Wyatt Chester and Shirley Jones Hal and Leslie Sorstokke Francis and Nancy Foster Laura Lavrack St. Andrews Presbyterian Church Frankfort United Methodist Church $250 THROUGH $499 Sharron Lemmer St. Philip’s Episcopal Church William and Holly Fuller Jon and Mary Armstrong Anthony and Linda Marchio The Willoughby Geno’s Sports Bar & Grill Martha and George Bailey Bob and Nancy Marshall Rotary Foundation Graceland Fruit, Inc. Jonathan and Kathleen Ball Nancy L. Mayes Trinity Lutheran Church of Arcadia Suzanne M. Gray-Basta Bear Lake United Methodist Church Mary Jane Meier Webber Insurance Ellie Harold James A. Bennett Glen and Teresa Mensching Judy Welch James and Eileen Kelly Benzie Central Gridiron Club Kenneth and Roxanne Miner Karyn Wells Joyce Kirshner Blarney Castle Oil Company Richard and Kristine Mitchell West Shore Bank Jim and Chris MacInnes Gerald and Gloria Boyd Courtney Morris Barry and Pat Witt Mike and Beth McNamara Nancy and Michael Call Molly Murbach Zane Zwick Meijer of Manistee Case Court Construction, LLC Amy J. Murley William R. and Joan J. Olsen Harold and Marsha Case C. North Douglass — 10 — — 11 — Northwest Michigan Community $100 THROUGH $249 Donald and Donna Chalmers Bill and Molly Frostic Action Agency Ethel A. Aldridge Cherry Capital Cruisers Car Club Russell M. Fuller Fred Oeflein Richard A. and Sue A. Anderson James Cole Christine Gehring Kipp Owen Ken and Glenda Andrews Harold and Molly Comer Dr. William and Jayne Gilligan P.E.O. Chapter FS Robert and Molly Appleford Contractor’s Building Supply Linda D. Glenn Anibal and Ann Pepper Vicki and

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