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O U R C O M M Itm E Our Community Greater Worcester Community Foundation Our Commitment Our ANNUAL REPORT Total Assets $91,616,745 Contributions to new & existing funds $3,425,068 Contributions Received Investment returns -29.7% Grants and Scholarships Awarded $5,309,129 Number of grantee organizations 374 Number of new funds 10 Total named funds 431 Approved Grants by Broad Category Total Awards $5,309,129 Human Services Arts & Culture $1,418,723 $844,776 Health Grants & Scholarships Approved $344,449 Community Environment Development & $139,525 Religion $1,142,351 Education (includes scholarships) $1,419,305 Contributions Number Number of Gifts 1009 Number of Donors 778 Largest Gift $330,000 Smallest Gift $5 Total Gifts $3,425,068 Total Assets Funds by Type (millions) Total market value $89.0 million Scholarship Agency $8.4 $9.7 Committee Advised $2.1 Designated Field of $10.5 Interest $27.6 Discretionary $19.2 Greater Worcester Community Foundation Donor Advised $11.5 By the Numbers as of 12/31/08 Our Commitment. Our Community. The donors who share their stories on the following pages remind us that personal commitment grounds all of our best endeavors, including philanthropy. Creating a fund is a purposeful act—and a powerful way to identify and support one’s causes of choice. With your fund, you make a mark. Not once, but over time. It will outlive you and expand the impact of your giving. The Foundation stewards the fund so it supports your cause forever, adapting its grants as necessary over time so its impact remains faithful to your original intent. Through your fund, you take a stand. Some donors prefer anonymity but most choose to create a fund as a public act. The fund communicates what you value to your loved ones and neighbors as well as to future generations. Foundation donors give out of a sense of commitment to particular people, purposes and places. In turn, such giving sustains and strengthens these ties—even from a great distance and across generations. Such giving can also help an individual or family nurture new roots and relationships. Whatever inspires your commitment, the Foundation can help you transform your inspiration into action. Each fund strengthens the resilience of our community. Together, our commitments are more than a match for challenging times. Greater Worcester Community Foundation s¬ 08 ANNUAL REPORT 1 Letter to the Community A s public sector resources diminish, the nonprofits serving our community—including your Foundation—are busier than ever sustaining cherished services. We adapted to a lower operating budget, which is based on one percent of our endowment value. The Foundation takes a long view of the market and maintains a diversified portfolio overseen by disciplined, vigilant professional management. Although we reduced staff in 2008, we increased our grantmaking thanks to our prudent spending policy, which is based on averaging total investment income over five years. We under-spend in strong years and pay out more in years with lower earnings. While in 2007 we distributed 986 grants totaling $4.7 million, in 2008, the Foundation approved 1,024 grants totaling $5.3 million. The value of our nonprofits is clearer than ever. We know their impact and their needs close-up. This knowledge guides our grant making and enables us to advise nonprofits that must adapt, contract or merge to fulfill their missions. More people are taking action as volunteers as well as donors. In 2008, the GLBT Partnership Fund and Community Ministries Fund created two new grantmaking committees. As private citizens working for the public good, we are nurturing vital programs in education, health care, human services and the arts that improve our quality of life. This is our commitment—and our community. Peter H. Levine, MD Ann T. Lisi Chair of the Board and President Executive Director Peter Levine and Ann Lisi guide Foundation activities that support nonprofit organizations throughout Central Massachusetts. The value of our nonprofits is clearer than ever. Ann Lisi and Peter Levine 2 Greater Worcester Community Foundation s¬ 08 ANNUAL REPORT Year in Review Managing Foundation Assets Grantmaking s 4HE)NVESTMENT#OMMITTEEREALLOCATEDTHE&OUNDATIONS s ',"40ARTNERSHIP&UNDMADEITSlRSTAWARDS GRANTINGA endowment portfolio, increasing income-producing stocks total of $125,000 to eight projects that will foster a safe and and bonds while reducing equity holdings to less than 40%. open community for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender s 4HE&OUNDATIONREDUCEDSTAFFBY ELIMINATING residents of Central Massachusetts. full-time positions, adjusting to loss of operating revenue s 4HE&OUNDATIONMADEATHIRD.EGOTIATED'ENERAL due to decline in assets. Operating Support grant of $250,000 over five years to *EWISH&AMILY3ERVICESFORITS.ATURALLY/CCURRING Planned Giving Retirement Community (NORC) project, to develop s !BEQUESTOF CREATEDTHE"RADFORD*+EMP&UND resources that enable elderly residents to “age in place.” to support programs in the town of Webster. s 4HE&AIRLAWN&OUNDATIONMADEGRANTSTOTALING s !NOTHERPLANNEDGIFT A BEQUESTFROM!CORN $410,000 to expand nursing faculty in the region’s degree Society member Helen Stinson, transferred to the Helen M. programs for nurses. and Thomas B. Stinson Fund, which supports the s #HOOSE7ORCESTER )NCTOOKDISTRIBUTIONOFITSAGENCY Worcester Art Museum and All Saints Episcopal Church. fund, totaling $658,000, when the organization gained Services to Donors nonprofit status for its operation, which attracts and s 4HE&OUNDATIONHIREDADIRECTOROFDONORRELATIONS retains city commercial and industrial enterprises and jobs. Christine Louis, to support donors with the desire to make s 'RANTSFORARTANDCULTUREEXCEEDED IN AN major gifts as well as donor advised giving. increase of 25% over 2007 grants to this sector; and s 4HE)NSIGHTS4OURPROVIDEDDONORSANDADVISORSWITHA in 2008 such grants from donor advised funds more than first-hand look at the impact of grants on enhancing local doubled, awarding $191,000 to the Hanover Theatre, Old parks and community gardens. Sturbridge Village, the Italian American Cultural Center and the American Textile Museum in Lowell. Nonprofit Support Center s 4HE#OMMUNITY-INISTRIES&UNDMADEITSlRSTAWARDS s !SERIESOFPEER LEARNINGANDNETWORKINGEVENTSFOR the Auburn Foundation celebrated five years of nonprofit leaders explored strategies to cope with the grantmaking; and the Water and Land Stewardship Fund challenges of a turbulent, rapidly changing environment. marked its tenth year. Greater Worcester Community Foundation s¬ 08 ANNUAL REPORT 3 The Auburn Foundation G Small grants engage neighbors in enriching their community rants put promising ideas to work. Small grants Foundation’s distribution committee. “We’re very pleased can put many good ideas to work. That is the idea behind with the way our fund works.” the Auburn Foundation, a field-of-interest fund created by Arthur and Martha Pappas to enrich life in their An advisory committee of Auburn residents selects grant hometown. recipients. “The committee represents a cross section of our entire community and knows its varied needs,” says Martha. The couple lives in the 1905 Victorian farmhouse where The average size of the grants is about $2,700. Each benefits Arthur was born, just a half-mile from Martha’s childhood Auburn residents, and many inspire gifts of other kinds. home. Fifteen years ago, they returned to Auburn from Boston. A pioneer in the field of sports medicine, Arthur A grant of $1,500 helped Cub Scout Pack 53 buy a used was for two decades the chief orthopedic surgeon for trailer for its Adopt a Fire Hydrant program. Visiting the the Boston Red Sox and chair of the Department of town’s elementary schools, the 20 Cub Scouts recruited Orthopedics at the University of Massachusetts Medical hundreds of students to join the program. Each participating School. Martha obtained a doctorate in education and for family agreed to clear snow from one of the town’s 400 fire 20 years was a teacher in the Sudbury Public Schools. Back hydrants throughout the winter. “It was a small grant,” says in Auburn, she joined the boards of several nonprofits, Martha, “but it had a huge impact on our town.” “And a including Greater Worcester Community Foundation. huge impact on those kids,” adds Arthur. In 2002, Martha and Arthur brought their idea of a fund Promising ideas are multiplying now that Auburn has for Auburn to the Foundation. “The staff helped us find its own fund. “All of these small grants strengthen the the best way to fulfill our wishes,” says Martha, chair of the foundation of our community,” says Arthur. Arthur and Martha Pappas put great ideas to work in their hometown through grants from the Auburn Foundation. All of these small grants strengthen the foundation of our community. Arthur Pappas 4 Greater Worcester Community Foundation s¬ 08 ANNUAL REPORT Kirby Foundation Fund A A father’s legacy inspires thoughtful giving s an investment manager in Southern California, volunteering at a charity of my sister’s in Denver and after 2OBERT'+IRBYWASADEPTATPICKINGCOMPANIESWITHHIGH made a large, three-year grant together,” says Lisa. “We want earnings over the long run. On weekends, he scored split- to do more than cut checks.” second wins by racing Porsches. )N ,ISAESTABLISHEDTHE+IRBY&OUNDATION&UNDWITH 2OBERT+IRBYSKNACKFORBOLDBETSMAYHAVEINmUENCEDHIS Greater Worcester Community Foundation. “My fund is decision to entrust his five children as trustees of the $14 a vehicle for purposeful giving here in my home town,” MILLION+IRBY&OUNDATION says Lisa. “The Foundation makes giving easy and the staff are informed advisors. They guide me in making small h7HEN$ADDIEDIN vSAYS,ISA+IRBY'IBBS hWEFOUND grants that matter and, as my fund grows, investing in local ourselves responsible for running a foundation without programs.” a structure or mission. The five of us live far apart, so it was tough to collaborate and agree on anything. With Lisa and her husband Peter, who own a shared office consultants advising us, we worked hard to clarify priorities center in Westborough, see the family’s smart, hands-on and identify roles.
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