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ST. LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 2015 CENTENNIAL REPORT 3 A TIMELESS COMMITMENT TO ST. LOUIS AS THE SECOND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES, WE CONTINUE TO ADHERE TO THE VALUES THAT SHAPED US A CENTURY AGO. Today, the St. Louis Community Foundation continues to pursue the mission set forth a century ago and more: To facilitate philanthropic and community partnerships that inspire regional good. It acts as a steward of charitable funds which support the causes and organizations that reflect the variety of interests and passions of the generous St. Louisans who donated them – yesterday, today, and even tomorrow. The Foundation also serves as a community resource and provides a forum for nonprofits, funders, donors, and civic leaders to convene and address community opportunities and challenges. Through it all, as it has for 100 years, the St. Louis Community Foundation ensures that the charitable wishes and the legacies of its donors are adhered to and continue to benefit the St. Louis region – for years and decades to come. Take the story of Edward Bredell. Although he died in 1894, he continues to make contributions to St. Louis institutions, thanks to a fund he established in 1896, which is now under the charitable umbrella of the St. Louis Community Foundation. Leaving a legacy in your hometown that spans a century is not only generous … IT’S GIVING FOR GOOD. OUR ST. LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MAKES THAT POSSIBLE. 4 1 FREDERICK H. GOFF The greatest use of TYPES OF FUNDS OPERA THEATRE OF ST. LOUIS I n 1914, Frederick H. Goff transformed 2003 philanthropy by creating the “community 9% ARTS, CULTURE fund” concept, which enables citizens to leave a life is to spend it a giving legacy by combining their charitable- giving assets to fund meaningful community on something that SCHOLARSHIP projects. A year later, St. Louis followed and $ established the second community fund now will outlast it. 50,000 SUPPORTING ORGANIZDISCRETIONARY ATION 1% 5% known as the St. Louis Community Foundation. CREATION OF THE CHILDREN’S OPERA WILLIAM JAMES DONOR GRANTS SINCE 1990 LUCILLE PAPENDICK “DREAM OF THE PACIFIC” ADVISED 56% DESIGN to Commemorate the 2004 Celebration ATED of the Lewis & Clark Exposition 21% The children’s opera, which was seen by FIELD OF INTEREST over 8,000 St. Louis area students, was Over funded through a two-year grant from $300,000,000 the St. Louis Community Foundation for Nonprofits totaling $50,000. 30,042 8% MARIAN “BO” MEHAN Attorneys, like Bo, who specialize in estate planning, along with area wealth managers and accountants, are instrumental in ST. LOUIS GRADUATES When she died in 1992, Lucille left a gift to the communicating the charitable-giving and Community Foundation and asked that it GOAL: 60% of adults in the region will have a postsecondary degree by 2025 legacy-building benefits of the St. Louis support arts, culture, education, and other Community Foundation. worthwhile local initiatives. Today, Lucille not $ only continues to support the organizations 155,000 she cared about most during her lifetime, she The St. Louis Community Foundation is a backbone funder and steering committee GIFT DISTRIBUTION is also helping fund the cultural innovations of the future. member of St. Louis Graduates, which is committed to improving the social and economic LUCILLE’S GIFT TO THE vitality of the St. Louis region by increasing the percentage of area residents with COMMUNITY FOUNDATION postsecondary degrees. Key collaborators include nonprofits serving youth, educational institutions, corporations, regional businesses, and philanthropic groups. $340,000 SCHOLARSHIP CENTRAL 2011 ARNOLD AND HAZEL DONALD A joint initiative of the St. Louis Who better to explain the many benefits and DOLLARS VALUE OF HER FUND TODAY Community Foundation, the Scholarship services provided by the St. Louis Community Foundation and other area funders have Foundation than a few of our satisfied donors REMAINING IN granted over like Arnold and Hazel Donald? That’s why we celebrate and feature our donors’ gifts of giving. ST. LOUIS 80% OTHER $438,000 20% TOTAL GRANTS TO NONPROFITS TO DATE $15,000,000 $ IN SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS TO 3,000 STUDENTS 324,500 SINCE ITS INCEPTION FOUR YEARS AGO. 2 3 2012 1977 City Arch River Magic House T o connect, invigorate, and expand To establish an educational IMPACT the park grounds and museums that museum for children. ON COMMUNITY surround the Gateway Arch. 1978 Did you know that the 2003 St. Louis Conservatory Community Foundation’s Fatherhood Initiative & School for the Arts discretionary grants T o support 6 local agencies to To establish a young supported the creation re-engage non-custodial fathers people’s orchestra. of many St. Louis area in the lives of their children. treasures? 2001 Social Venture Partners 1978 To build long-term sustainability Churchill Center and School and capacity in select St. Louis To help establish the region’s first area nonprofits. summer program for students with dyslexia. 1996 and 1998 1979 Confluence Greenway Food Crisis Network, T o promote the creation of a 200- now St. Louis Area Foodbank square-mile system of parks and To establish a bulk food salvage conservation and recreation areas program to stock emergency food at the confluence of the Missouri distribution centers with non- and Mississippi Rivers. marketable, but edible food. 1995 St. Louis Art Works T o create regional youth opportunities through arts apprenticeships and 1980 community collaboration. First Street Forum now Contemporary Art 1993 Museum St. Louis 1992 Our Little Haven To establish an arts center on St. Louis Bicycle Works T o start a residential treatment Laclede’s Landing. This grant T o provide youth in the Shaw facility for HIV-positive represented the Foundation’s neighborhood the opportunity children under 5 years old. $1 millionth dollar granted 1986 to earn bicycles by learning to since 1974. St. Louis Crisis Nursery repair used bikes. T o provide startup funds for 1980 24-hour care for children 1991 Independence Center from birth to age 7 whose Aim High To establish a program to families are in crisis. 1988 T o support the personal and provide services to the Grandel Theatre academic success of motivated chronically mentally ill. 1988 T o support the planning middle school students from Trailnet and development of a new under-resourced areas through 1981 T o promote the St. Louis performing arts center. a program founded by faculty at St. Louis CASA Riverfront Trail, the City’s John Burroughs School. To help establish a Court longest multi-use 1989 Appointed Special Advocate recreational trail. St. Clair County CASA 1990 (CASA) program in St. Louis. T o start a Court Appointed DOORWAYS Special Advocate program in T o support the interfaith St. Clair County, IL. organization’s program to provide housing to people living with HIV/AIDS. 4 5 CURRENT INITIATIVES Serving ST. LOUIS CHANGE AGENTS STL Youth Jobs DONOR Initiatives COMMUNITY LEADERS AND DONORS LOOK With its emphasis on individualized career assessments, DONORS FREQUENTLY COME TO THE TO TAP THE LOCAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE financial literacy, and job-readiness training, St. Louis FOUNDATION TO TAP ITS COMMUNITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AS THEY Youth Jobs helps local young people prepare for the KNOWLEDGE, EXPERTISE, AND NONPROFIT IMPLEMENT COMPELLING SOLUTIONS TO jobs of tomorrow, while also providing ongoing career STATUS, AS THEY SET OUT TO MAKE THEIR COMMUNITY OR SOCIAL ISSUES. IN THESE support. Since its inception in 2013, STL Youth Jobs OWN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMUNITY. INSTANCES, THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION has provided paid work experience, job readiness, ACTS AS A COMMUNITY FACILITATOR, AS financial literacy training, and career and mentoring Painting for Peace Fund WELL AS PROVIDES ADMINISTRATIVE, services to nearly 1,200 youth. It has become the After months of tension in Ferguson, something STRATEGIC, AND GRANT-MAKING SERVICES. largest and most-recognized provider of summer appeared on the streets that hadn’t been seen there youth employment in St. Louis. for a long time – HOPE. Local artists, helped by area St. Louis Graduates residents and volunteers of all races, joined together to To boost the number of post-secondary degrees Invest STL creatively transform the area’s ravaged storefronts into among low-income, first-generation, and African- Invest STL is the St. Louis region’s community vibrant murals with messages of unity and reassurance. American students in the region, STL Graduates economic development system, which was developed Carol Klein, a native of Ferguson, saw these images initiatives have included a Professional Development throughout 2014 and 2015 by the Strengthening and knew they must be preserved. What emerged from Institute series for counselors, the School to College St. Louis Neighborhoods Task Force. Invest STL seeks these efforts is a children’s book, Painting for Peace in Center, education advocacy, and Scholarship Central. to align local and national investment behind 1) an Ferguson, which uses photos of the murals to illustrate Scholarship Central is our online portal to millions of ecosystem capable of coordinating neighborhood and a story about community hope and understanding. dollars in private funding opportunities, which helps regional projects, 2) sustained neighborhood While Carol knew how to get the book published, she reduce financial barriers. revitalization initiatives, and 3) established needed advice on how to handle the proceeds from its professional development programs and initiatives. sales and use them to fund youth and recovery programs in the Ferguson area. For assistance, she Reinvest North County Fund turned to the Community Foundation after learning A joint undertaking by the Regional Business Council how the organization was helping other donors make in partnership with North County Inc., the Reinvest contributions to Ferguson-related causes. North County Fund was established to assist small businesses and North County school districts with The outcome from Carol’s efforts? Magical.