02 Greater Green Bay Community Foundation 2014 Annual Report leadership comments illuminating the needs of the community. Foundations have a long history, and the work of foundations grows and evolves as their local Community communities grow. Our Foundation has evolved from focusing on the efficiency of transactions to the effectiveness of our community impact through grant making and other philanthropic tools. In 1991, when the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation was formed, our message was that we offered an effective and efficient platform for donors to give to the causes they care about.This is similar to the message of the first Community Foundation that opened its doors in 1914. That foundation, the Cleveland (Ohio) Community Foundation, said its purpose was to provide a place where donors could come together and efficiently give to causes they care about. The origins of the Cleveland Community Foundation make this year, 2014, a centennial anniversary for the community foundation model. The Cleveland Community Foundation’s and the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation’s original purposes were remarkably similar. Both offered donors transaction effectiveness and efficiency. The work of community foundations, however, has moved from an emphasis on the efficiency of transactions to community impact. Several years ago, our message to our community became, “our business is community impact and our customers are our donors.” We have been moving this way for quite a while, and the results have been transformational, both for us and for communities nationwide. The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation has continued to move the dynamics of community impact and strategy. One of the best ways we deliver community impact is through our grant making. Last year we worked with donors to execute more than 1,500 grants to causes throughout the area, statewide and nationally. In recent years we have added another tool for community impact and with this tool, the customer is the community. We refer to this tool as community engagement. We did not invent community engagement, but we have embraced it as an extension of our six core values; knowledge, accessibility, mutual respect, passion, trust and collaboration. We rely on our core values to drive community engagement in order to align community stakeholders around issues. We address those issues through collaboration and co-investment of funds. Since 2010, we have found many ways to work with other community organizations such as the Brown County United Way and Green Bay Area Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Community Foundation Green Bay Greater Annual Report 2014 04 Chamber of Commerce. Another partner is the Bay Area Community Council. We have joined with them and them with us to lead community engagement efforts to address issues the community has identified as challenges or opportunities requiring investment for improvement. This strategy is working as evidenced by the formation of the community-wide cradle to career framework called Achieve Brown County. Last year we asked community leaders to tell us how we are doing. A community leadership survey conducted by St. Norbert College Strategic Research Institute helped us learn more about what community leaders seek from philanthropy. More than 500 participated in the survey. Eighty-five percent of respondents told us they think charitable giving has greater impact when giving dollars can be pooled together. The majority recognize our efforts to help donors work together and our efforts to work with other funders. Eighty percent told us they recognize the community foundation as an organization connecting caring people with solutions to meet community challenges. Ninety percent said the foundation is an organization that strengthens our community. Most of these leaders do not have funds with the Foundation so it’s fair to say that our community engagement efforts are making an impact for our community, and that impact is bigger than we could do alone. The evolution of community foundations has helped each foundation remain relevant for donors and the communities they serve. Our impact practices continue to evolve, too, because donors like you seek results. We thank you for being part of a constellation of funds, donors and organizations working together to realize community impact. David L. Pamperin Tim Weyenberg President and CEO Chair, Board of Directors Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Community Foundation Green Bay Greater Annual Report 2014 05 06 Greater Green Bay Community Foundation 2014 Annual Report grants connecting to our community and each other. SpOrTS 1% SChOLArShIpS 4% ANIMAL welfarE 2% grants by program area ArTS ANd CulturE 2% fiscal year 2014 rELIGIOuS/MINISTrIES 11% COMMuNITy ANd puBLIC BENEFIT 13% NEIGhBOrhOOd Education 26% dEVELOpMENT 2% huMAN SErVICES 29% health 7% ENVIrONMENT ANd CONSErvation 3% Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Community Foundation Green Bay Greater Annual Report 2014 08 GRANT RECIPIENTS The following are grant recipients listed by program area. Only recipients that received a total of $250 or more in Fy2014 are listed. Milwaukee repertory Theatre, Inc. Carroll College ANIMAL WELfare Multicultural Center of Greater Green Bay, Inc. Carthage College Bay Area Humane Society Music Maker Relief Foundation, Inc. Center for Childhood Safety Cats Anonymous, Inc. National railroad Museum Children’s promise, Inc. door County humane Society Neville public Museum Foundation Cormier Early Education Center Fox Valley humane Association Northeastern Wisconsin dance Organization Cornell University Fund happily Ever After Animal Sanctuary (NEWdO) Cris Con Los Ninos N.E.W. Zoological Society packers heritage Trail Foundation, Inc. de pere Middle School Northwoods Animal Shelter, Inc. Pulaski Area Historical Society, Inc. de pere rotary Foundation Precious Paws Rescue Voyageur Magazine dickinson Elementary School Weidner Center dominican high School ARTS AND CULTURE doty Elementary School American Folklore Theatre, Inc. COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT Early Learning Center Brown County Historical Society Greater Green Bay Habitat for Humanity Edgar high School Cedar Center Arts Inc. aka ArT Garage Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation Educational Television productions of Northeast Civic Symphony of Green Bay NeighborWorks Wisconsin door County historical Society, Inc. Einstein project door County Maritime Museum & Lighthouse educatiON Eisenhower Elementary Preservation Society, Inc. Aldo Leopold School Encompass Early Education & Care, Inc. door Shakespeare Algoma Public Schools Fairview Elementary School Forest County historical & Genealogical Society Anne Sullivan Elementary School Fond du Lac high School Friends of the Brown County Library Ashwaubenon High School Forest Glen Elementary School Friends of the Green Bay Symphony Bainbridge Graduate Institute Fort howard Elementary School Friends of Wisconsin public Television Bay Port High School Friends of Patzun Gillett Area Historical Society Bellin College Gillett High School Green Bay Boy Choir & Girl Choir, Inc. Beloit College Gillett School district Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Bonduel High School Green Bay Area Catholic Education, Inc. (GrACE) Heritage Hill Foundation Carbondale Community high School district 165 Green Bay Area Public Schools Martin Luther King Community Celebration Community Foundation Green Bay Greater Annual Report 2014 Committee grants continued 09 grants continued Ripon College Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust, Inc. Green Bay East high School School district of Coleman Northwoods Land Trust Green Bay West High School Southwest High School River Revitalizational Foundation, Inc. Holy Family School St. Norbert College howard - Suamico Education Foundation Stony Brook School HEALTH howard - Suamico School district Syble Hopp School AIdS resource Center of Wisconsin, Inc. Howe Community Center Tempo International Foundation, Inc. Alzheimer’s Association National Office Immaculate Conception High School TESFA Foundation Alzheimer’s disease & related disorders Association Interlochen Center for the Arts The university of Maryland Francis King Carey School Greater Wisconsin Iowa State University Foundation of Law American Cancer Society - NE WI district Office Johns Hopkins University university of delaware American Foundation of Counseling Services Junior Achievement of WI, Inc. - Brown County University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation, Inc. Angel Fund for Children with Cancer, Inc. Kennedy School university of St. Thomas Area Community health Emissaries Lake Forest College university of Virginia Alumni Association Bellin Foundation Lakeland College University of Wisconsin Green Bay Breast Cancer Family Foundation, Inc. Lawrence university University of Wisconsin Foundation Brown County Oral Health Partnership Lena public School district University of Wisconsin Green Bay Foundation, Inc. Children’s hospital & health System Foundation Literacy Council Gulf Coast, Inc. Valley View Elementary School Children’s hospital of Wisconsin Literacy Green Bay, Inc. Vanderbilt university Children’s Tumor Foundation Literacy partners of Kewaunee County, Inc. Washington Middle School Christian Counseling Ministries Loyola university Chicago Wisconsin International School Community Healthcare Foundation Marquette University Wisconsin right to Life Education Fund Connect, Inc. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Mcdaniel College ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVatiON Fox Cities Community