2011-12 VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES • VIRGINIAHUMANITIES.ORG Annual Report2011-12 Chris and Michelle Olson do the Reel. PHOTO BY PETER HEDLUND Marshall Chapman performs at the 2012 Virginia Festival of the Book. PHOTO BY ASHLEY TWIGG ISCAL YEAR 2011-12 was VFH’s most successful fundraising year ever! Contributions from individual donors and other sources provided a total of $8.1 million for VFH’s statewide community programs, scholarship, and digital initiatives. Your contributions are making the vital difference, helping us sustain current programs and Ffoster exciting new endeavors. VFH gratefully acknowledges your support and invites others to join us in the coming year. THE ANNUAL FUND The Annual Fund at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities generosity and commitment. plays an integral role in the organization’s overall operating budget Given the unpredictability of state and federal funding, we are especially grateful and makes the critical difference in our ability to fulfill our mission. for your consistent support. Increasingly, Maintaining a strong, growing Annual 2011-2012 stand as the most unrestricted the unrestricted support from individuals Fund is essential in these times of dollars from individuals raised in VFH’s like you is what enables VFH to remain the economic uncertainty. Through your history. This total was achieved not only vibrant organization that it is. thoughtful generosity, we were able to through the generosity of our many friends With 119 new donors to the Annual raise more than $139,000 from 476 donors and supporters, but also from the deep Fund this year, we are inspired to continue during fiscal year 2012. This represents a loyalty of our Staff and Board. 100 percent the important and meaningful work that 59 percent increase in unrestricted giving of both the VFH Staff and the VFH Board is being done here at VFH. We hope to from fiscal year 2011 and an 11 percent donated to the Annual Fund last year, count on your generous support again increase in donors. We thank those of accounting for more than $61,000— nearly this year. Help us reach our 2013 goal of you who supported VFH with a gift to the half of our overall total for fiscal year 2012. $150,000 and maintain the standard of Annual Fund this year. Very few organizations can claim this excellence you expect from VFH programs Our momentum is strong. The impressive statistic of giving on an annual that explore the history, culture, and future $139,000 in gifts to the Annual Fund in basis, a sign that we are leading with of Virginia. Honor Roll of Donors THE ANNUAL FUND Humanities Cabinet Humanities Associates The Humanities Cabinet recognizes donors of unrestricted gifts of Unrestricted Gifts of $1,000 to $2,499 $2,500 or more. VFH appreciates the support of these donors who provide flexible support, which is applied to areas of greatest need. Carolyn and Alex Bell The Honorable Elizabeth B. Lacy Jack and Jane Censer Mr. George A. Latimer Bob and Elizabeth Blue Fred Malek Mr. and Mrs. W. Heywood Mrs. Anna Logan Lawson Caterpillar Foundation Katherine Neville Fralin Fred and Marlene Malek Andrew S. Chancey and Elizabeth B. Smiley Elizabeth P. Piper Mr. William W. Freehling Mr. B. Thomas Mansbach Randolph W. Church, Jr. Taylor and Helen Reveley John Andelin and Virginia Michelle and Chris Olson Geoffrey Mr. Robert M. Coffelt, Jr. Charles and Linda Rullman Peter and Kristin Onuf David and Susan Goode and Ms. Annetta J. Coffelt Rosel and Elliot Schewel Walter and Sally Rugaber Alexander and Wendy Haig Ted DeLaney The Chesapeake Corporation Robert C. and Ellen P. Foundation of the Mr. Jerome S. Handler Vaughan Rhoda and Leonard Dreyfus Community Foundation Barbara J. Fried Serving Richmond and Central Virginia Michael and Virginia Galgano Mr. Peter Wallenstein Luther and Joan Gore and Ms. Sookhan Ho Mrs. Bertie D. Heiner Hays T. Watkins Sally and Steve Herman Jay M. Weinberg Jeffrey and Judith Kirwan Dick and Marty Wilson Patrons Unrestricted Gifts of $250-$499 Kenneth Abraham and Susan Stein Megan LeBoutillier Ash Lawn Opera Festival Suzanne D. Lebsock Winship Tower and Gwen Meredith at an event in April hosted by Katharine L. Balfour Mr. and Mrs. Emory Linder Jo Ann & Buzzy Hofheimer and Maurice Jones & Lisa Smith. and Chad Dodson PHOTO BY ELIZABETH PIPER Paige P. McKenzie Clay H. Barr Susan M. McKinnon Patricia Lynn Barta Joseph C. Miller Melanie J. Biermann Benefactors Roger H. Mudd Don and Becky Boone Unrestricted Gifts of $500-$999 Michael and Nancy Newbill Jeffery C. Bromm The Honorable David A. Bearinger Bittle and Charlotte Porterfield Diane and Alan Chase Christopher K. Peace Rose Nan-Ping Chen Judith L. Sensibar Robert and Deborah Copito Lynn S. Rainville Scott Colley Frank and Barbara Shea Tom and Karen Dowd Lucy H. Rice Betty Ann Dillon Robert E. Stroud Glenn DuBois Aleene and Robert Rose Joanne V. Gabbin The Buford Family Fund of Emma C. Edmunds Stephanie J. Shaw Ron and Sandy Heinemann The Community Foundation Serving Richmond and Fannie and Milton Dr. and Mrs. David Trump Decker Anstrom Central Virginia Friedman Foundation and Sherry Hiemstra Betsy and Chip Tucker Mac and Elsie Thompson Larissa Smith Fergeson Oliver W. Hill Emma Violand-Sanchez Lacy Ward, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas K. Ferrell Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. John and Lisa Vogt Hofheimer Michael Wildasin Douglas and Ann Foard M.C. and Jean Wilhelm Kevin J. McFadden Joyce and William Wooldridge Robert E. Glenn Robin Williams and Angie Hogan Andrew Wyndham Loren Hatch Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander and Susan Bacik Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Williams Robert C. Nusbaum Elizabeth L. Young and Robert Fatton John and Mary Yerrick AR2 VFH Annual Report / 2011-12 INDIVIDUAL DONOR PROFILE Friends Susan S. Goode Unrestricted Gifts up to $249 usan S. Goode is a cher- ished and loyal supporter Anonymous Kip and Patty Campbell Sof the Virginia Foundation Eleanor P. Abbot Brian and Kimberly Caplan for the Humanities. She’s not shy Stephen and Eunice Adkins Rita M. Carini about telling why that is: “VFH is Ann M. Angle Robert and Kathleen Carter a well-run organization that fills a niche in Virginia that isn’t filled Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Arnold Barrie and Bruce Carveth by anyone else.” LTC Alvin Ash, USA(R) Douglas B. Chambers A two-term VFH board mem- Joan S. Atherton Mr. Robert C. Chapel ber and resident of Norfolk, Susan P.M.H. Atwater Kelly Cherry and Burke Davis, III served from 1995-2001. Though Glenn Meade Ayers Janis and Bob Chevalier she grew up in Wilmington, Doug Baker and Julie Richter Leila Christenbury Delaware, she moved to Roanoke Susan S. and David R. Goode Laura Baker Linda and Eric Christenson in 1965, then to Norfolk in 1990, Marie Coles Baker Casey H. Clabough and considers herself a Virginian. to have all that information on Susan remembers her VFH Virginia integrated and in one Miss Evelyn L. Barbour Linda Clepper Board tenure very fondly. “I place. The more we can do to Miles Barnes Lee S. Cochran learned so much from all the help teachers use history in Sara L. Barnes Teresa L. Coffey fascinating VFH board members their classrooms, the better.” She Mary Reid Barrow Libby and Ralph Cohen and scholars. In discussions they believes it is crucial for children Ruthe R. Battestin Ralph and Judy Cohen would always come up with to have accurate and engaging Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bedford Susan and Michael Coleman things that I hadn’t thought about resources on Virginia history Melvin L. Bergheim Barbara M. Collins before and broaden the way I that are linked to other relevant would think. It was especially topics. “Whether it turns out to Best Clinical Trials, LLC Joyce Galbraith Colony rewarding to learn what was be books, music, food, or society, Peter Blake and Mary C. Blanchard Patrick and Bernice Colvard going on around the state through having it all intertwined for you Tommy L. Bogger Julian W. Connolly the Grants Committee, which on this [web]site is a great ser- Kathy and Keith Boi Bettie Minette Cooper awarded grants to organizations vice,” she says, acknowledging the Kyle and Margaret Ann Bollmeier Marcel Cornis-Pop of all levels.” growing depth and breadth of the John D. Bonvillian Doris E. Cottam Susan also credits the diver- online project. Lewis T. Booker, Sr. Sidney and Mary Coulling, III sity of the board—t ypically a Susan studied history at Duke mixture of scholars, business Paddy Bowman Margaret Cox University, and has kept up a life- people, philanthropists, and aca- long interest in the arts, music, Cabell and Shirley Brand Richard and Julia Crampton demic administrators—as one of and humanities. She devotes The Honorable Robert H. Brink Chiles Cridlin the organization’s key strengths. time and support locally, across John Michael and Martha Brooks Mr. and Mrs. Russell Cummings Susan recalls with pride being Virginia, and even nationally as Laura Browder John and Julia Curtis involved with the VFH’s early a current member of the Norfolk Irv and Jackie Brownfield Victoria B. Damiani work on issues of violence, the Public Arts Commission, the Dorothy T. Bryan Nancy Coble Damon creation of the African American Norfolk Commission on the Arts Heritage Trail and adoption Richard and Mary Nelle Buck Daryl C. Dance and Humanities, and the collec- of the radio show, With Good tion committee of the Chrysler Patricia and David Buisseret Daryl Lynn Dance Reason. Museum of Art. She also sits on Rudolph and Esther Bunzl Margaret Perry Daniel “Radio was the most effec- the boards of Americans for the Leondra Burchall Joseph J.