SPRING 2019 NEX∙US (nĕk’s s) N., 1. A MEANS OF CONNECTION; A LINK OR TIE. 2. A CONNECTED SERIES OR GROUP. 3. THE CORE OR CENTER. 7 THE BIG EXPLORE The Columbus Foundation celebrates 75th Anniversary with gift to the community 5 NONPROFITS TO WATCH 5 ANNOUNCED FOR 2019! 3 A LEGACY OF LOVE Clintonville teen lives on by helping others 6 TWO MINUTES WITH… MARK LOMAX, II, D.M.A. 4 NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP GRANTS Collaborative program helps neighborhood efforts shine 04276.indd 1 4/24/19 3:48 PM Spring 2019 GOVERNING COMMITTEE Matthew D. Walter Chairman Nancy Kramer PRESIDENT’S Vice Chairman George S. Barrett Joseph A. Chlapaty PERSPECTIVE Jeffrey W. Edwards Michael P. Glimcher Lisa A. Hinson Katie Wolfe Lloyd Dwight E. Smith Douglas F. Kridler President and CEO Tamera Durrence Douglas F. Kridler Vice President President and CEO Scott G. Heitkamp, CPA Vice President and CFO Gregg Oosterbaan Vice President Natalie Parscher HE ACCOLADES AND MARKS progress that our community is on. It isn’t just a Vice President of progress keep on coming sense of community pride. It is a matter of feeling Angela G. Parsons, J.D., CAP® for Columbus. Earlier this year, valued; it is a matter of human dignity. Vice President Columbus was named by The New That’s why we chose to celebrate the day we Dan A. Sharpe York Times as one of the top 52 were founded seventy-five years ago the way Vice President places to visit in the world in 2019. we did. We decided to not make it about us, but EDITORIAL STAFF We were one spot behind Hong Kong, and eight T rather about providing opportunities for others. Amy Vick spaces above Tahiti! We called the celebration The Big Explore, and, Natalie Parscher Then, the reporter who wrote that article Lynsey Pipino simply put, it was one of the most extraordinary Kate Clements recently visited Columbus and wrote the following: community celebrations I have ever witnessed, “The capital of Ohio, one of the fastest growing let alone been a part of. We arranged for, and cities in the United States, lives largely in the covered the cost of, free transportation on COTA, OUR MISSION future tense.” We are so fortunate that we live in and free access to our leading museums and a community that has such a palpable sense of a Franklin Park Conservatory for the day. To assist donors brighter future. You only have to have lived in a The result? Over 55,000 people participated, community whose peak was reached decades and others in with Frederic Bertley, CEO of COSI, estimating ago to understand how valuable growth and strengthening that around 85 percent of the over 21,000 people an optimistic spirit are to a community. Part of that got to attend and experience COSI that day and improving our our success is found in our collaborative spirit, would otherwise not have been able to attend community for the and how we pursue solutions by building civic because of the cost of admission. I walked the ecosystems, not ego-systems. benefit of all its lines for hours at COSI, and then at Franklin Another element of our growth was made residents. evident when we were named the #1 Hottest Real Park Conservatory, and rode the packed buses Estate Market in the U.S. Number two was Boston, that day and talked to hundreds of families and OUR PROMISE and number nine was San Francisco. We are on an individuals—there was such a great spirit in To help you help amazing roll. the air!! And, yet, our challenges haven’t gone away. My favorite reaction to The Big Explore was others through From enrollment in early childhood education from a mother of a family living in a home built the most effective to the state of public education, from youth by Habitat for Humanity. She so appreciated the philanthropy homelessness to the opioid crisis, we have many opportunity to take her children to the museums, things to continue to work to address, improve, saying, “It showed me that our community cares possible. and solve. It is unacceptable that one’s future be about us.” That was our fondest hope. so largely determined by one’s ZIP code—we can A civic leader recently described The do better. Columbus Foundation to me as “one of our most Want to share NEXUS For all the specific conditions that need important engines for civic progress, and our with a friend? Find our digital version online at improvement and opportunities that need to moral compass.” Those are big responsibilities columbusfoundation.org/spring2019nexus be expanded, there is also work to be done to to live up to; thank you for your support and ensure that everyone has a chance to feel a sense encouragement as we help this community of belonging, a part of the extraordinary arc of For more information, visit become something exceptional, for all. columbusfoundation.org or call 614/251-4000. SAVE THE DATE! Photos by Lynsey Pipino, unless noted. The Big Table—August 28, 2019 Mark your calendars now to participate in The Columbus Foundation’s fourth Confirmed in compliance with national standards Big Table event on Wednesday, August 28! We invite you to host or attend for U.S. community foundations. one of the hundreds of conversations that will take place around central Ohio on this day of dialogue, inspiration, and community building. Stay tuned for more details this summer at columbusfoundation.org. ©2019 The Columbus Foundation 2 / NEXUS SPRING 2019 04276.indd 2 4/24/19 3:48 PM DONOR FEATURE GOVERNING COMMITTEE A Legacy of Love PROVIDES ONGOING CLINTONVILLE TEEN LIVES ON BY STEWARDSHIP HELPING OTHERS THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is grateful to the officers and members who serve on IAN VAN HEYDE believed in his its Governing Committee, a group of nine heart that he was going to have volunteers who provide stewardship for his own restaurant one day. the Foundation and its charitable activities. The culinary student and Over the past seven decades, more than 40 employee at Cameron Mitchell’s community leaders have served as valued Martini Modern Italian restaurant members. in the Short North had big Appointed as the newest member of the dreams, and the outgoing committee is Jeffrey W. Edwards, who serves personality, innate talent, and as Chairman, President, and CEO of Installed dedicated work ethic to make Building Products as well as President of them a reality. Edwards Companies. In addition, Edwards Ian’s dream was tragically serves as a member of The Policy Advisory cut short in October 1998, when Board of Harvard University’s Joint Center a traffic accident took his life for Housing Studies, as well as the Columbus during his senior year of high Partnership. school. Edwards has While nothing can prepare a served as Board family to face such tremendous President of grief, Steve and Nan Van Heyde, the Columbus in collaboration with their friends Museum of Art and family, worked through their and is a member loss by creating an extraordinary of its executive legacy honoring Ian—one that committee. He is a allows others to pursue their own past Chair of The culinary dreams. Salvation Army The Ian Van Heyde Memorial Jeffrey W. Edwards Advisory Board and Culinary Scholarship Fund was continues to serve established in December 1998. as an Emeritus Member of its Board. He was The first scholarships awarded a founding member and past chairman of the in 1999 went to two of Ian’s classmates from Steve and Nan Van Heyde hold a photo of their son, Ian, in their United Way of Central Ohio’s Young Leadership Northeast Career Center, where he spent part Clintonville home. Group, and a past member of the Brewery of the day during his junior and senior years District Commission and the Columbus immersed in the culinary program. Ian had Landmarks Foundation. Edwards has served on transferred from Bishop Watterson to Whetstone of soup or a box of macaroni and cheese. He various other architectural review commissions. High School his junior year so he could participate would prepare his own tomato sauce, blending in “The Columbus Foundation is a trusted in the program. cheeses or meats as he grew older. partner in the central Ohio community,” said “Ian was exposed from an early age to our Edwards. “I look forward to working with fellow appreciation of the fine art of cooking,” his Governing Committee members and the staff parents wrote in a reflective narrative they put to continue its mission of helping donors realize “People who came into together after his death. “We were pleased, and their charitable goals, and investing in the contact with Ian, even Ian knew it, that he had decided to take our future of central Ohio.” love and avocation and pursue it with vigor and Retiring from the committee is C. Robert when he was a small child, determination.” Kidder, who completed seven years of service were permanently touched Ian’s spirit is very much alive today in his at the end of 2018, including two years as by his enthusiasm and parent’s Clintonville home, where photos and Chairman and two years as Vice Chairman. sketches of a grinning boy greet visitors. His “Columbus and The Columbus Foundation wholesomeness.” parents describe their son as a happy, smiling, are distinguished by the quality of leaders —STEVE AND NAN VAN HEYDE caring young man who had a remarkable ability to willing to give so generously of their resources connect with people of all ages.