Community Foundation Funds Make It Easier to Be an Effective Philanthropist
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Welcome In a year of unusual challenges, the Princeton Area Community Foundation made several thoughtful changes to respond to an economic climate that continues to test our community’s capacity to care for its most vulnerable. >> We refocused our mission, placing the promotion of philanthropy front and center. >> We reaffirmed our role as a resource to nonprofits, donors, and the area’s attorneys, accountants and financial planners. By helping all of them we strengthen our community’s ability to take care of itself forever through permanent endowments that remain meaningful over time. >> We challenged ourselves to increase our community grantmaking. Many of you have joined us to help, and as a result, in 2009 over $1 million in grants will be awarded through our competitive grantmaking. >> We revised our grant guidelines, expanding them to provide more flexible, operating support for organizations that work with low income people. And we raised the dollar limit to $25,000, to give local nonprofits the resources they need to do their best work. >> We elected Ann Reichelderfer Esq. to chair our board. She is providing wise leadership in uncertain times. Together these actions underscore the Community Foundation’s capacity to be flexible and relevant, to respond nimbly, and to connect its many partners “to advance the well-being of our communities.” We thank you for your steadfast support and hearty encouragement. Nancy W. Kieling Ann Reichelderfer Esq. President & Executive Director Chairman of the Board Field-of-Interest funds help donors direct their gifts CHARITABLE FUNDS broadly and create The following funds are all part of the Princeton Area Community Foundation. Created to promote and support the ideals of its founders, each fund has its own permanent legacies grantmaking focus. in the areas of their greatest passions. Community Grantmaking Funds are created by donors to support the changing needs of the area through Greater Mercer Grants, a competitive grants program open to all nonprofit organizations in the region. Since she was ten years old, Diane Dixon was devoted to the performing arts. She started the Theater Guild of New Jersey, promoting unknown actors and giving undiscovered playwrights the chance Tristan Beplat Fund The Fund for Mercer County Marjorie R. Smoyer Fund Charles L. & Ann Lee Brown Fund Archer & Thomas Harvey Fund* Stanley C. Smoyer Fund to see their work performed. When Diane died in 2001, her will established the Diane Dixon Fund at the James E. & Diane W. Burke Fund Robert Wood Johnson Jr. Fund Speir Fund Community Foundation to continue her lifelong work of bringing the arts into people’s lives. Judith & William Burks Fund II Learning Fund Frank E. Taplin Jr. Fund Jane M. Campbell Fund Leroy E. “Brick” Purvis Trenton Community Fund Her good friend, Lydia Kugler, was executor of Diane’s will. “The Community Foundation was Esther Y. Eure Fund Charitable Fund Weymar II Fund incredibly responsive,” Lydia says. “I sat down with them and talked about Diane’s love for theater. They Founders’ Fund for LVC Fund* Whitehead Fund Greater Mercer County Barbara B. Smoyer Willy N. Fund were genuinely interested in getting to know what Diane was all about. They’d say, ‘We’d like your input; Memorial Fund this is what we propose to do with Diane’s gift.’ “They were very forthcoming with information, and I can’t say enough about their willingness to Field-of-Interest Funds keep me involved. I get calls on a regular basis to keep me updated on how Diane’s fund is doing, and are created by donors to invest in areas they care about, such as education, health, the arts, where they’re making their grants. or a specific geographic region. “Diane was born and raised in Robbinsville,” Lydia says. “She was instrumental in seeing that Rebecca Annitto’s Service Educational Initiatives Fund Kuser Arts Fund Opportunities for Students Environmental Fund Mental Health Fund the new Senior Center there would have a stage for performances and would welcome the arts. When (SOS) Fund Fund for Women & Girls Princeton Youth Fund the Foundation is giving grant money to the Robbinsville High School drama club, it’s fitting to Diane’s Diane Dixon Fund Dorothy E. Katz Hopewell Valley Safe Child Fund of New Jersey Reading & Recreation Fund memory that she’s still involved in Washington Township in the arts and the plays. And she is smiling about that, I can tell you right now. “I think the Community Foundation is incredibly sensitive to what I believe Diane’s intent would Designated Funds be. Diane gave some money to several other organizations directly, but in many instances there were are created by donors to support specific nonprofit organizations or projects. They can be no specifics from them, nor any correspondence with me, as executor, about how the money was to set up to provide support in perpetuity or to be spent over a period of years. be used. By contrast, the Community Foundation is keeping me apprised of everything that is going on Blair Family Fund J. Seward Johnson Sr. Princeton Hospice Fund Judith & William Burks Fund III Environmental Education Fund* Princeton Hospital with the funds and where they are using the grant money. Alicia Cascallar Memorial Fund J. Seward Johnson Sr. Princeton Chaplaincy Fund “Diane Dixon wanted to make a name for the arts in New Jersey. She didn’t have time to do all Alexander Michael Dodson Recreation Scholarship Fund* Province Line Fund Memorial Scholarship Fund* Montgomery Veterans Lloyd H. Snyder Music Fund that on her own, but the Community Foundation is going to make sure that it happens.” Friends of Mercer County Memorial Fund Spirit of Princeton Fund Equestrian Center Fund* New Hope Solebury Leslie Vivian Memorial Fund Thomas George Fund Education Fund John Witherspoon Middle School Gilder Park Revitalization Fund Aimee Eve Polak Memorial Fund 8th Grade Washington, DC Herbert W. Hobler Fund II Scholarship Fund* 2 Princeton Area Community Foundation >> Annual Report 2008 To give broadly is powerful and grand. Advised Funds allow donors to suggest beneficiary organizations, taking advantage of guidance and information from the Community Foundation. Herbert & Fay Abelson Fund Ronald R. & Susan C. Hahn Els & Peter Paine Fund Scholarship Funds Susan & Charles Artandi Fund Charitable Fund Elly & Giorgio Petronio Fund are established by donors who want to accomplish specific educational objectives or Hester Bates / Fries Family Gift Fund Hardy & Henifin Family Fund Plebney Trust underwrite opportunities for students. B.S. Berlin Foundation Fund John F. & Margaret T. Harper Fund Allen D. & Rhona W. Porter Fund Dr. Louis B. Boxer Memorial Fund* Harvey Fund Princeton Regional Chamber of Greater Mercer County General Rachel Fink Memorial Louise Maas Allied Health Boyer-Rohlf Family Fund Adrianne Ivy Hassell Fund Commerce Foundation Fund Scholarship Fund Scholarship Fund Professions Scholarship Fund Ted Boyer Sr. Memorial Fund Katherine Hatton & Richard PNC Fund Princeton Post No. 76, American Shirley Irons Forrest, Class of 1938 Ronald & Helena Macklin Henry & Barbara Broad Fund Bilotti Fund Ravelli Fund Legion Scholarship Fund & John R. Forrest, Class of 1937 Scholarship Fund Bromley Family Fund Sylvia Taylor Healy Fund Reichelderfer-Blair Fund Art Directors Club of New Jersey Memorial Scholarship Fund Michael McGarry Skowronek Alexander K. & Sara L. Buck Fund Virginia Hendrickson Fund Robert’s Rule Fund Scholarship Fund Sandra M. Glazier Memorial Fund Memorial Scholarship Fund Harrison & Nancy Buck Fund Elissa S. Herst Philanthropic Fund Jim Roberts Jazz Bethany Scholarship Fund Institute for Advanced Study Trenton Scholarship Fund N. Harrison Buck Jr. Fund Herbert W. Hobler Fund Scholarship Fund Frank Clark Memorial Fund Preschool Scholarship Fund Mary Elliott Wislar Memorial Fund Judith & William Burks Fund Cynthia S. & William L. Horr Jr. Fund Robichaud Fund Frank, Ada, and Elizabeth A. Myrtle Hensor Teaching Whip Burks Family Fund Allen N. & Ann L. Jones Family William & Maeryn Roebling Fund Compton Scholarship Fund* Scholarship Fund James & Kathleen Cahill Foundation Fund Rosso-Maguire Fund Sidd Kramer Memorial Fund Charitable Trust Fund K2TOG Fund* Russo Philanthropic Fund Vincent & Sonia Canterelli Pamela S. & John F. Kelsey III Fund Sanderson Family Fund Charitable Fund* Kieling Family Fund Schreyer Fund Stuart Carothers Family Fund Olivia Michelle Kuenne Roddy Scott Fund Nonprofit Funds Charry Family Fund Rainbow Fund Martin Siegel Community Fund these nonprofits have created funds to support programs, operations, or capital improvement Circle of Anonymity Fund* Jeanne A. LaPlaca Fund Sienkiewicz Family Fund Civitas Foundation Fund Lasley Fund William & Hilda Spingarn Fund Anderson House* National Junior Tennis League of Princeton Girlchoir* Morton & Donna Collins Fund Ann & Leighton Laughlin Fund Spinner Family Fund ARC/Mercer Trenton* Princeton Pro Musica Considine Family Fund Peter & Dorothy Lawson- Austin C. & Ann P. Starkey Fund Better Beginnings Child Care New Jersey Policy Perspective Princeton Senior Resource Center D’Arcangelo & Dippold Family Fund Johnston Fund Philip Stein Metrology Center New Jersey Press Foundation* Princeton Symphony Orchestra P.J. Dempsey Family Fund Richard J. and Neil Ann S. Education Fund Crawford House* New Jersey State Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed David Dobkin & Suzanne Levine Fund* Stokes-Brown Fund Friends of Capital Preparatory Horticultural Society Association* Gespass Fund William & Nancy Lifland Fund Taft and Partners Charitable Fund* Charter High School PEI Kids Trent House Association* Dobson Family Fund Lumenaria Fund Thomas Fund Friends of the New Jersey People & Stories / Gente y Cuentos Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Dodson Emerson Family Fund* Ronald & Helena Macklin Trenton Free Public Library Fund* State Museum Pinelands Preservation Alliance United Way of Greater Ann & Gordon Douglas Fund Family Fund UBS Financial Services — Friends of the Princeton Planned Parenthood Association Mercer County East ’86 Cares Fund Maggion Family Fund Princeton Fund Public Library* of the Mercer Area* Waldorf School of Princeton* Egan Fund Reverend Joseph P. Anne VanLent Fund HomeFront* Princeton Community Housing Ellerslie Fund Marron C.