PEOPLE WHO CARE BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Community Foundation directors are volunteer community leaders who lead the Foundation toward excellence. The board brings experience and insight to their work of setting strategic direction and policy and ensuring accountability. These directors bring diverse experience, expertise and perspectives for policies, Scott Coopwood Joe Azar to the Community Foundation demonstrating that their Chairman Vice Chairman financial support and grants. Every director is a donor Bolivar Panola Owner CEO Their example of serving and leadership is often a Coopwood Publishing Group Panola Partnership commitment includes sharing their financial resources. Foundation. key reason for donor confidence in the Community may serve two consecutive terms in leading this 501.c.3 Each director is elected for a three-year term and charitable corporation. FOUNDATION STAFF TOM PITTMAN President & CEO Rev. Bartholomew Orr Bob Bowen Secretary Treasurer PEGGY LINTON DeSoto Tate Community Development Director Senior Pastor Retired Partner Brown Missionary Baptist Church Arthur Andersen & Co. CAROL SMITH Accounting & Office Manager DONNA GOLDMAN Accounting Assistant & The Box Project Director ANNA BEEMAN Community Education & Volunteer Northwest Mississippi Director BRENDA SMITH Web-Based Volunteer Recruitment Specialist Kim Moss Brown Wilbert Corley MICHELLE DUNN MCFARLAND Leflore DeSoto Marketing & Administrative Assistant Community Volunteer Northern Customer Service Mgr. Greenwood Mentoring Group Entergy Mississippi 2 Wayne Godwin Tom Gresham Lillian H. Hilson Scott Burnham Hollis DeSoto Sunflower DeSoto DeSoto Retired Executive President and CEO Program Specialist Attorney PBS Network Double Quick North Delta Planning and Hollis Legal Solutions, PLLC Development District, Inc. Emily Johnson Mat Lipscomb Robert Mehrle Colie Sanford Tunica DeSoto Quitman DeSoto Community Volunteer Co-CEO Owner, Mid-South Ag Data, LLC President Lipscomb and Pitts Insurance Manager, Far Distant Farms, LP Guaranty Bank & Trust - Hernando Sarah Sawyer Daniel Vassel Mike Wagner Danny Williams Tom Pittman Marshall Coahoma Tallahatchie DeSoto President Executive Director County Administrator Owner Managing Member Community Foundation Byhalia Chamber of Commerce Coahoma County Two Brooks Farm Williams, Pitts & Beard, PLLC Of Northwest Mississippi 3 Causes that matter Investments in technology boost learning The Community Foundation was among 20 organizations to receive an at the Nasdaq Market Place in New York City.Education The giant Innovation electronic Award billboard this year even proclaimed the honor to everyone on Times Square. The award was explicitly for the foundation’s Community Digital Scholars program that last year engaged 25% someof the students4th-12th in graders private in schools. public Throughschools in online our 11-county learning, region,they gained plus digital responsibility and avoidance of Children in the greenwood mentoring group learn to read on reading bear. life skills such as personal finance, (the largest program), they nearly Foundation led the project which for education. With his leadership and doubledsubstance their abuse. knowledge In financial of personal literacy generosity, the Community Foundation BancorpSouth, Community contracted with Wikipedia percent. attracted significant donations from finance,The Community increasing Digitalan average Scholars of 91 the New York Times to create two educational program is used in 80 schools with no FoundationBank, the AOL and Foundation, others. co-founder Larry Sanger cost to the schools, thanks to a generous Then, the project went org grew to house more than statewide, and Mississippi 40,000websites. educational WatchKnowLearn. videos The foundation ratings and summaries, computerbecame the in first every state public with attractedorganized 6 by million classifications, page views grew out of a classroom.an Internet-accessible We reduced the “digital divide” in our area. ranked as the world’s #1 site successful effort to The Maddox Foundation forper educational month and wasvideos. Google- Based organized a steering The Community Foundation on phonics, ReadingBear.org place computers in committee from partners in receives Education this DeSoto County effort, Innovation Award. the world for learning to read. classrooms. and they incorporated the Thebecame foundation Google-ranked donated #2 these in Community Foundation of Northwest educational websites to an operating donor who wants to remain anonymous. Mississippi in 2002. These efforts have come full circle as technology runs throughout the and approached the Community childrennonprofit in for the continued Greenwood development. Mentoring Foundation’sEducation Innovation history. through FoundationA donor heard in 2006 about with this a desire project to Group and many others throughout the The Community Foundation grew out create technology that would improve region learn to read on ReadingBear! of a successful effort in 2000 to place an schools’ productivity. He said technology The foundation’s commitment to had always been the best way to education innovations are bearing public classroom in DeSoto County. improve his businesses’ productivity, fruit for even the youngest Northwest TheInternet-accessible DeSoto Times and computer the Maddox in every and he believed it could do the same Mississippi residents. $38,034,505 Donations for 2016 $2,433,919 from 1,161 donors total donations 44 to current funds and endowments PEOPLE WHO CARE Crystal Ball Gala Left to right, Tom Pittman, Bill Clay, Dorothy Grady-Scarborough, Bianca Zaharescu, Anja Thiessen, Dave Schmoll and Scott Coopwood. The 17th annual Crystal Ball attracted a Mentoring Group. Dorothy Grady- Scarbrough of Shelby was awarded the 17TH ANNUAL CRYSTAL $150,000 to assist 400 charitable causes Margaret Maddox Woman of the Year for throughsell-out crowd the Community of 1,000 and Foundation. netted about The her work to improve rural health through BALL SPONSORS local food farming. The Mississippi RiverKings hockey team earned the localblack-tie Community gala with Stars a vintage and the French author circus of a Business of the Year for its outreach theme Le Cirque Magnifique honored Maddox Foundation intoprize-winning, a ‘midway’ best-selling of aerial silk book artists, about carnival the Delta. Southaven Arena was transformed signature drinks, and much more, including iHeartMedia games, cars from pre-1910, cotton candy The Commercial Appeal it planned and conducted by a committee Part of the USA Today Network ofhand-made 75 volunteers macaroons contributing for dessert. over 2,200 All of hours, chaired by Scott and Natasha Hollis. Richard Grant, author of Mississippi’s Left to right, Kristen Bettis, Jessica AT&T and Found in the Mississippi Delta”, was Pressgrove, Nikki Courson, Jamie Fulton, Belhaven University best-selling “Dispatches From Pluto: Lost Beth Joel. Blue Cross & Blue Shield Mississippi annualhonored award. as the Star of Hope. He is the first including visits to schools and hospitals and Brown Missionary Baptist Church non-native Mississippian to receive the its contributions of more than $500,000 City of Southaven Taylor Bowen Ricketts in Greenwood along to local charities. The Spring Initiative CLICK Magazine A dinner with Richard Grant catered by auctioned. The top item in the auction was Delta Magazine with two nights in the Alluvian Hotel was of Clarksdale received the Nonprofit of DeSoto Times-Tribune birththe Year through award high for itsschool after-school that has andresulted Entergy for four tickets, all-access passes and VIP insummer 100 percent work withhigh at-riskschool childrengraduation from rate FedEx auctionafter-party items invitations included at a weekthe iHeartRadio for four and 100 percent attending college. couplesMusic Festival in San inMiguel, Las Vegas. Mexico, Other which top The Crystal Ball was honored last year as Gold Strike – MGM Resorts Conde Nast readers voted the #1 Best City Grapevine Liquor & Wine at Mississippi’s National Philanthropy Day. Heavenly Sunshine Cleaning clubbing with Morgan Freeman, and tickets Thethe state’s 18th annual Outstanding gala is Fundraisingthemed Once Event upon a in the World, a day of golf, dinner and VIP Time: Giving Northwest Mississippi a Happily Hernando West Ever After with the Community Foundation. Landers Center Hoda.to NBC TODAY Show outdoor concert, The 2018 Crystal Ball will be January Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance backstage tour and visit with Al Roker and Mid-South Maternal Fetal Medicine Bill Clay as the Dan Maddox Man of the YearLocal for Communityhis work to preventStars honored gang violence included actress,20 at the is Southaven the 2018 Star Arena. of Hope. Sela Ward, The a ProShow Systems, LLC and promote the value of education and CrystalMississippi Ball nativegala is anda tradition award-winning of celebrating Super Drugs Pharmacy healthy lifestyles through the Greenwood people who care. $150,000 NETTED 75 VOLUNTEERS 66 COMPANIES from Crystal Ball and 2,200 HOURS sponsored Crystal Ball 5 PEOPLE WHO CARE GIFTS IN MEMORY & HONOR SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 - AUGUST 31, 2017 AUTISM ASSISTANCE FUND BOX PROJECT FUND LAKE CORMORANT MCJROTC FUND NOAH COSTA MEMORIAL In memory of Jimmy Roling In honor of Raye and Kathy LaPlante In memory of Natalie Stovall Frady ENDOWMENT By William B. and Margaret By Michelle Jackson and Matt Stovall In memory of Noah Costa Churchwell In honor of Anne and Mark Finn By William H. Frady, Jr. By Dorothy M. Costa By Lynne Allen