Fall 2017

HandTHE 1979 CIRCLE in • YOUR GIFTSHand AT WORK Less time traveling means more time caring.

Transitions Kids, begun Now, thanks to a generous grant from The Duke in 2015, has been an Endowment, we are able to employ a pediatric telehealth unqualified success: we have program to relieve some of the pressure. already served 83 children Through videoconferencing and electronic and anticipate another 55 communications, patients’ families can access care when this year. We have, however, they need to. It will not replace hands-on care and the faced some challenges. human touch, but telehealth services will enable us to Hospice and palliative continue to provide the best possible care to children with care programs for children life-limiting illnesses. — along with caregivers No one deserves it more. who have the necessary specialized expertise — are few and far between. Providing in-home care requires our Sincerely, team (one physician, three nurses, two social workers) to physically cover over 1,000 square miles every day. Add the fact that insurance covers just 6% of of care for these children and it is easy to see why we are continually William M. Dunlap, M.D. searching for ways to stretch our limited resources. 1979 Circle Co-founder

The view above is from the Reid S. Towler Campus of Transitions LifeCare. Why we give SIX LITTLE LETTERS THAT CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.

Spend some time with the Kevin is also a supporter Anderson family — Chip (Glenn of making unrestricted gifts, Jr.), Judy, Kevin and Perri — and such as those pledged to you will soon realize that the word the 1979 Circle. He explains “legacy” is one they value and that the value of making honor in their lives. They talk about unrestricted giving is that it the importance of sustaining the respects the mission of the family legacy of philanthropy and organization and empowers community involvement. About those charged with carrying it leaving a lasting legacy. About out to do what they deem best legacy giving. for fulfilling that mission.

And it is surely no coincidence We are so appreciative that the team Chip and Kevin of supporters such as the founded is called “The Legacy Andersons. Their legacy Group at Morgan Stanley.” enables our legacy. What more Generous Donors: Chip, Judy, Kevin and Perri Anderson can we say? For Kevin, endowment funding takes on a major role in his own legacy of giving. “An endowment gift provides a foundation that generates

support into perpetuity,” he declares. “It ensures the mission Unrestricted giving respects the mission “ “ of the organization is part of my legacy.” of the organization and fully empowers In the case of Transitions LifeCare and several others, those charged with carrying it out. he adds that he has personally chosen to not only make gifts during his lifetime but to include them in his estate planning “as an expression of what was important to me KEVIN ANDERSON during my lifetime.”

00000 TRANSITIONS LIFECARE RECEIVES $125,000 GRANT FROM THE DUKE ENDOWMENT

ransitions LifeCare has received challenge of caring for a child with life patient care,” says Vice President of Ta $125,000 grant from The Duke threatening illness. Supplying parents Philanthropy Kristye Brackett, CFP®. Endowment to establish a pediatric with an efficient, immediate means “By augmenting care with telehealth telehealth program. technology, this program aims to The Duke Endowment grant reduce the burden of travel and help will be used to implement pediatric more families receive high quality telehealth services for Transitions services,” notes Stacy Warren, a Kids, a home-based hospice and health care program officer at the palliative care program of Transitions Endowment. “Supporting effective LifeCare that supports the unique efforts that improve access to care is needs of children birth through an important focus of our work at the for contact with clinicians will relieve age 18 who have a life-limiting illness. Endowment.” anxiety and burdens during a very Through telehealth, Transitions Kids staff stressful time.” Based in Charlotte and established will be able to provide “face-to-face” in 1924 by industrialist and philanthropist triage of after-hours needs, conduct “Transitions LifeCare is grateful to James B. Duke, The Duke Endowment family meetings that include providers receive this prestigious grant from The is a private foundation that strengthens from collaborating organizations or Duke Endowment. The grant will enable communities in North Carolina and hospitals, and more quickly respond to us to use innovative technology to South Carolina by nurturing children, the needs of children who live a great provide an additional layer of support promoting health, educating minds and distance from the Transitions LifeCare to our pediatric patients and their enriching spirits. Since its founding, it campus. families. We are honored to partner has distributed more than $3.4 billion in with The Duke Endowment on this CEO John Thoma acknowledges, grants. The Endowment shares a name exciting program, and look forward “Today’s families have unique needs, with Duke University and Duke Energy, especially when faced with the to this next phase in our innovative but all are separate organizations.

DO AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU. I’m an ardent believer in the Golden Rule. It is, in fact, Soon I became a support volunteer with Transitions at the core of my commitment to Transitions LifeCare. LifeCare and found that I had a gift for drawing out It all began several years ago when my mother passed uncommunicative patients and forging a strong bond away with my daughter Lisa with them. by her side. Later, I came I also become a vigil across a beautiful photo, taken volunteer, a transportation that evening, of Lisa’s hand “I want to see volunteer, and a charter covering my mother’s hand Transitions member of the 1979 Circle — and was deeply touched by LifeCare a group of individuals who its sweetness. continue and“ have pledged to sustain When my husband and continue and Transitions LifeCare’s work I retired, we relocated to continue. with generous yearly gifts. Raleigh and began to assess I made this long-range BETH LAMBERT local volunteer opportunities. I commitment because I have so was casting about for the right much confidence in Transitions role when the answer came LifeCare. It’s easy to write from “out of the blue” at Bible study. A flash of memory of a check for a one-time request or to back something for the photo of the hands of my mom and daughter sparked a year or two, but I want to make a statement about my the realization that I wanted to be a hands-on volunteer. support long-term. In short, I want to “do unto others.”

YORK PROPERTIES COMMUNITY SERVICE DAY

York Properties has a long and proud history of giving back to the “community where we do business. Not only do we strive to improve our

community through our real estate practice, we also invest in our

community’s non-profits, and Transitions LifeCare is a perfect example. We believe the work place is stronger when we create opportunities“ for our employees to volunteer through impactful organizations so they, too, can experience first-hand the power of giving back to the community.

GEORGE S. YORK, JR. | President & CEO

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