Helping good people do good 2012 ANNUAL REPORT Dear Friends, The year 2012 saw a rebound from the difficult days of the recession. I am proud of our community’s ability to weather the storm by ensuring that major capital projects were completed and endowments were started at MCF to maintain program sustainability. Local nonprofits and their boards did a fine job of managing resources and sharing their vision. Collaboration with philanthropists was especially apparent over the last four years.Together, we made great strides by supporting libraries, parks, community centers, food pantries, education and the arts. New facilities made possible basic need services that stretched across the County and served individuals and families in efficient and measurable ways. Thank you for the support that you have given the Madison Community Foundation. I have considered my 16 years as President of the Foundation to have been a great privilege. As you know, there is enormous pride and satisfaction in being part of a community team where “good people doing good” is at the core of our intent. My goal in 1997 was to open the doors of the MCF as wide as possible. Today, we are nearing 1,000 funds. G I am pleased to pass the title of President of MCF to Bob Sorge, a well-known Madisonian with excellent credentials and a true commitment to our community. I look forward to continuing my life-long love affair with greater Madison. I will continue to be involved on local boards and in my new role as Development Officer designing a fund development model for science education programs that WARF presents at the Town Center. Best regards, Kathleen Woit, Ph.D. ABOUT MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION TOTAL MCF ASSETS: $139,017,505 Who: Madison Community Foundation (MCF) is a NUMBER OF TOTAL FUNDS: 982 501(c)(3) public charity created from the gifts of thousands of individuals. What: We help good people do good. Since 1942 TOTAL GRANTS AWARDED MCF has helped donors make grants to support chari- FROM MCF COMMUNITY ties. MCF also awards Community Impact Grants in seven IMPACT FUNDS: $1,127,700 focus areas - arts & culture, children, community develop- ment, seniors, environment, learning and youth. TOTAL GRANT AWARDS Where: Distributions from MCF Endowments sup- FROM ALL FUNDS: $8,832,473 port charitable causes across the globe. MCF Community TOTAL NUMBER OF Impact Grants are awarded to nonprofits in Dane County. GRANTS GIVEN OUT: 1331 G Mission: The mission of the Madison Community Foundation is to encourage, facilitate and manage long- term philanthropy. TOTAL AMOUNT OF GIFTS RECEIVED: $8,856,845 In 2012, Madison Community Foundation invested in these three significant, multi-year initiatives, each designed to further educational and environmental understanding, foster collaboration between key community partners and Photo: Kerry G. Hill build organizational capacity. Helping good people do good Creating Opportunity in Math, Digging In: Developing Yahara Watershed Engineering, Technology and Outdoor Classrooms Phosphorous Reduction Science (COMETS) Across Dane County $330,000 to a coalition of six $350,000 to a collaborative effort $300,000 to the Clean Lakes Alliance (CLA) community centers, including of Community Action Coalition, Bridge Lake Point, East Madison, Community GroundWorks, Sustain This project builds on Madison Community Goodman, Kennedy Heights, Lussier, Dane, Health Forward Consulting, Foundation’s recent investments in water- and Vera Court. Madison Metropolitan School District, and Dane County University shed strategic planning and conservation modeling. Over 70% of Dane County To address Madison Metropolitan School of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension. residents live in the Yahara Watershed, District’s achievement gap, the six which comprises 359 square miles and partnering centers are working together Digging In will integrate outdoor, garden- is home to 350,000 people. CLA is to offer engaging science, technology, based learning into the educational working with multiple stakeholders, engineering and math (STEM) programming curriculum and culture of participating including residents, scientists, farmers, to predominately low-income children in school districts for over 8,000 Dane non-profits and municipalities, to reduce 2nd-5th grades. Combining hands-on County children over three years. This phosphorous in the lakes by 50% over learning, mentorship, and STEM clubs project addresses the need for active, the next ten years. Funds will be used to and field trips with student, parent and staff engaged learning by improving academic increase staff capacity, expand policy and engagement activities, the project aims to achievement through a vibrant community program development, farm management, connect the Districts to neighborhood partnership that mobilizes teachers, and fund development. Over the long term, centers and also build inter-center parents and caregivers. Digging In will this support will help secure financing for collaboration. Over three years, COMETS foster garden design and installation, CLA programs related to monitoring, will provide 450 STEM sessions and each build community engagement, develop watershed education, citizen action and year’s activities will culminate in a science professional capacity among teachers community engagement. Olympiad hosted at Edgewood College. and enhance educational experiences for Dane County students. Photo: Army Corps of Engineers 2012 COMMUNITY IMPACT GRANTS Access Community Forward Community Madison Children’s Museum Middleton Outreach Ministry Health Centers Investments (FCI) $50,000 towards a $1 million endowment $20,000 to purchase additional $200,000 to replace the aging, 6,000 $5,000 to build local non-profit capacity campaign, spurred by a $500,000 1:1 refrigerator/freezer units. Distributing square foot South Side Clinic facility with through a year-long series of financial challenge grant from a private foundation. close to 700,000 pounds of food in 2011, a new 21,500 square foot building. The workshops. Working with groups from The funds will provide a permanent, Middleton Outreach Ministry is now the new clinic will add dental, pharmacy and 15 organizations, FCI focused on financial ongoing source of operating revenue to third largest food pantry in Dane County. x-ray services as well as expand existing capacity building, assessment and bench- the museum, enabling it to provide the kind High quality commercial grade storage medical and behavioral health services, marking, and the development of financial of dynamic and innovative programming equipment will more effectively safe- greatly increasing access for low-income, action plans. that was recently recognized with a National guard the food and allow MOM to better underserved families. Medal award. accommodate the growing numbers of families at risk of food insecurity. The Freshmobile Attic Angel Association Madison Metropolitan $30,000 to equip and operate a mobile Natural Heritage Land Trust $75,000 to build twenty additional assisted food market to bring fresh produce to School District living household units, expand rehabilitation residents living in low-income neighbor- $60,000 towards five new piano keyboard $38,700 for the Youth and Conservation facilities, and renovate wellness, activity hoods that have limited access to grocery labs at Emerson, Hawthorne, Lake View, Together program, a collaboration between and dining spaces. This will help meet stores. The Freshmobile will travel to four Leopold, and Lindbergh Elementary Natural Heritage Land Trust and Operation the rising demand for rehabilitation and targeted neighborhoods to offer products at Schools. Each lab will have 16 keyboards Fresh Start, to make lasting improvements assisted living services. prices comparable to or less than the leading to accommodate 30 students. The project and create new recreational opportunities low-priced food stores and will accept both will transform MMSD music education with at five important park, trail and natural Beyond the Page food stamps and WIC food benefits. new instruments, new curriculum and resource sites around Dane County. Endowment Campaign professional development for teachers. Omega School $65,000 towards the operating costs of Habitat for Humanity a $1.4 million endowment campaign that $50,000 for the new Westside Madison Madison Museum of $30,000 to facilitate reconnecting with and will ensure cost-free, collaborative and Habitat ReStore. Habitat’s second store Contemporary Art preparing former Omega School students and all current students to complete all county-wide humanities programming at in Dane County will generate income to $20,000 to create and implement a their GED testing before December 31, all 28 of Dane County’s public libraries. build homes for people in need and provide major, year-long Mexican Art Initiative 2013. The current GED program expires green alternatives to landfill disposal, while around the museum’s extensive collection at the end of 2013, at which time all offering the community affordable access of Mexican modern art. Hailed as one of City of Madison Parks Division uncompleted scores of the expiring test to building materials. the most extensive Mexican art collections $18,000 for a two-year project to restore version will be eliminated. in the Midwest, the exhibition will be offered oak savannah groves in four park areas. in conjunction with workshops, traditional Goals are to diversify habitat and enhance Independent Living performances, films, gallery talks and Overture Center