in trust FULFILLING THE VISION OF JESSIE BALL DUPONT 2012 Annual Report 35 Table Of Contents MISSION & VALUES ……………………………………………………………………… 02 CELEBRATING 35 YEARS OF LETTER FROM PRESIDENT & CHAIR ………………………………………………… 04 THE JESSIE BALL DUPONT FUND 2012 HIGHLIGHTS ……………………………………………………………………… 06 1977 – 2012 2012 GRANTMAKING …………………………………………………………………… 08 CELEBRATING 35 YEARS THE WILL ……………………………………………………………………………… 11 THE WORK ………………………………………………………………………… 12–59 TRUSTEES & STAFF ……………………………………………………………………… 60 2 JESSIE BALL DUPONT FUND 2012 ANNUAL REPort 3 The Jessie Ball duPont Fund is a national foundation that makes grants to a defined universe of organizations whose eligibility is determined WHO exclusively by Mrs. duPont’s personal philanthropic decisions. An organization is eligible if it received a gift from Mrs. duPont between WE ARE January 1, 1960 and December 31, 1964. Today, there are more than 300 eligible organizations. WHAT DRIVES US The Fund organizes its resources around the following focus areas: • Building the Assets of People, Families and Communities Expanding access • Building the Capacity of Eligible Organizations • Strengthening the Nonprofit Sector and creating Throughout their work, the trustees and staff of the Fund strive to: • Learn with and from the people they serve; OUR opportunity by VALUES • Respect the wisdom and creativity of the organizations and communities with which they work; • Engage in thoughtful and disciplined reflection about the investing in people, decisions they make; • Maintain the highest ethical standards in all that they do; • Act with compassion, work for justice and champion the organizations and rights of all people to share in the wealth and health of our nation. communities that The trustees and staff of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund believe: • A democratic society that works for all people requires the OUR CORE participation of a strong and organized independent sector; BELIEFS were important to • Communities are stronger and healthier when: – Public, private and philanthropic resources are invested to build the assets of individuals, families and neighborhoods; Jessie Ball duPont. – Citizens, neighborhoods and organizations work together across the boundaries that divide us; – They are deliberate about identifying, building and using their philanthropic assets — the time, talent and money of people; • Citizens have both the right and the responsibility to participate fully in public debate about the distribution of resources, opportunities and assets intended to serve the common good. 4 JESSIE BALL DUPONT FUND 2012 ANNUAL REPort 5 Letter From the President & Chair Our colleagues in philanthropy sometimes look doubtful when And programmatically the Jessie “After 35 years there is no doubt: Ball duPont Fund is creative and we explain that the Jessie Ball duPont Fund supports a defined collaborative, identifying concerns our diversity is our strength...a universe of 330 organizations identified by Mrs. duPont in her that are common across communities and applying knowledge and testament to Jessie Ball duPont’s will. How can that work, they wonder? How can you have impact experience gained in one community wisdom and courage.” across such a diverse field of grantees? to another. After 35 years there is no doubt: In fact, the diversity of our grantees – by Chief among those second- our diversity is our strength. It is a type of organization, by geographic generation trustees was the Rev. testament to Jessie Ball duPont’s location, by size and mission – has Dr. George C. Bedell, an Episcopal wisdom and courage that she created given the Jessie Ball duPont Fund great priest and executive with the State a perpetual fund with enormous opportunities. This review of our first of Florida university system, who flexibility. It is only through that 35 years of philanthropy makes clear championed the notion that the diversity and flexibility that the Jessie the many ways in which the Jessie Ball Fund’s philanthropy should be guided Ball duPont Fund is able to respond duPont Fund has had impact, big and by the strengths of its grantees. Dr. to the needs of a rapidly changing small, in the places and with the people Bedell died in November 2012 at the world, a world Mrs. duPont could not that were important to Mrs. duPont. age of 84 - a loss felt acutely by all have imagined. who knew him. Without question, it has been a Sincerely, learned art. In the early years, the Dr. Bedell would be pleased with trustees of the Jessie Ball duPont the Jessie Ball duPont Fund of 2012. Fund were less concerned with Financially, the Fund is robust and creative grantmaking and more healthy, ending the year with total concerned with the mechanics of assets of $274,631,707. (These are operating a substantial philanthropic unaudited results. The Fund’s audit will Sherry Magill Mary Lynn Huntley organization. It was not until the mid- be posted at www.dupontfund.org President Chair for the Trustees 1980s that the second generation of once it is completed.) Philanthropically, trustees adopted an inquisitive and it is strong, awarding $11.2 million in thoughtful approach to grantmaking grants in 2012 and using innovative that laid the foundation for the work strategies such as program-related we do today. investments to deepen its work in key areas. 6 JESSIE BALL DUPONT FUND 2012 ANNUAL REPort 7 Highlights from 2012 YOUTH EMPLOYMENT ENERGY CONSERVATION MEDICAID AND DISASTER RESPONSE The future of every community is The Jessie Ball duPont Fund HEALTH CARE REFORM In 2011, the Jessie Ball duPont linked directly to its ability to prepare broadened its five-year energy In 2012 there were many questions Fund worked with philanthropic young people for constructive conservation initiative in 2012 in two around how the State of Florida colleagues in responding to the employment and transition those important ways: would manage health care for those tornadoes that devastated Alabama young people from school to work and The Fund launched Phase II of the in need. The state had a Medicaid and captured the lessons learned career. But in too many communities in a special publication – Creating initiative for small private colleges, waiver request pending before today, large numbers of young Order from Chaos: Roles for offering support for those institutions the federal government, and was people are neither prepared for work Philanthropy in Disaster Planning that had successfully begun energy vocally opposing implementation nor connected to the pathways to and Response. conservation efforts and wished to of Medicaid expansion under the The book was released employment. Not only are we wasting build a sustainable source of funding Affordable Care Act. (See page 41) in 2012 on the one-year anniversary opportunities with these young people, of the tornadoes and distributed to continue the work. The Fund The Jessie Ball duPont Fund once we are ensuring great economic and widely to the field by the Council on hosted an educational seminar on again turned to its colleagues at the social costs down the line. Foundations and the Southeastern “green revolving loan funds” and Health Policy Institute at Georgetown Council of Foundations. (See page 59) Much of the work of the Jessie Ball in 2013 will begin providing seed University and underwrote two sets duPont Fund is focused on expanding funding to those colleges interested of briefing papers assessing the While many praised the project, its access and creating opportunities for in establishing such a fund. challenges facing Florida and the usefullness was fully demonstrated those living at the margins. Youth not implications of various state responses. in fall 2012 when Superstorm Sandy on track to constructive work today struck the Northeast. In the wake of In partnership with the Winter are more likely to be those on the “the Fund underwrote energy the storm, numerous organizations Park Health Foundation, the Jessie Ball margins tomorrow. reached out for copies of the book audits for 13 churches in the duPont Fund hosted presentations and expressed appreciation for its The Jessie Ball duPont Fund has in Tallahassee and webinars for Northern Neck of Virginia and, clear articulation of constructive supported youth employment legislators and health policy advocates disaster response strategies. programs for more than a decade. In by year end, had made the first from across the state. As 2012 drew 2012, the Fund took a more targeted Repair & Restoration grant to to a close, the briefs and the Fund’s and strategic approach, drawing on a church for energy retrofits.” experts at Georgetown were being lessons of the past to build intensive called upon to provide in-person youth employment programs in testimony and educate decision- two Florida communities: urban Also in 2012, the Jessie Ball duPont makers across the state. A TRIBUTE Jacksonville and small town Port St. Fund looked at energy conservation Joe (See pages 28 and 53), as well as opportunities among the churches To Sally Douglass, senior program in the Northern Neck of Virginia. that are eligible for the Fund’s officer of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, support. In an exploratory project, who retired December 31, 2012. the Fund underwrote energy audits Sally worked closely with the Fund’s for 13 churches in the Northern Neck nonprofit portfolio and its Delaware of Virginia and, by year end, had portfolio in her 19 years of service, made the first Repair & Restoration earning the affection and respect grant to a church for energy