#MoreGenerous Do More. Give More. Be More. SPECIAL COMMUNITY REPORT FOR NONPROFIT LEADERS Table of Contents 5 Featured Initiatives 24 2017 Financial Highlights 26 2018 Governing Committee SPECIAL COMMUNITY REPORT FOR NONPROFIT LEADERS The Columbus Foundation is committed to helping people help others. It’s what we do. It’s what we’ve done for the past 75 years, since, in the midst of the turmoil and strife of WWII, a group of brave and committed citizens from our community gathered together to say “yes, we can, and, yes, we will do more to help each other.” Since our founding in 1943, our mission has been to help individuals, families, and businesses realize their charitable potential. We also proudly support and invest in nonprofits, like you, who work to strengthen our community for all. It’s our passion, and it’s what we will continue to do for the next 75 years, with Columbus and for Columbus. Together, we will realize our full potential to do more for others, to give more of ourselves, and to be #MoreGenerous. 3 We introduce the first crowdfunding platform for central Ohio causes. Better Together connects you to real-time projects creating good in our community. The Columbus Foundation’s new crowdfunding platform makes it easy to support nonprofit projects by credit card, starting at just $20. With credit card fees covered by The Columbus Foundation through the end of 2018, 100% of your investment goes directly to the project goal. And the local processing of your gift ensures organizations receive the money when they need it, not months down the road. In other words, your gift goes further, faster. FIND A PROJECT THAT SPEAKS TO YOUR PASSION AT columbusfoundation.org/bettertogether JOIN US TODAY, AND LET’S BE BETTER TOGETHER! THE GIVING STORE: YOUR ONE-STOP SHOP FOR CHARITABLE GIVING What’s in The Giving Store? The Columbus Foundation developed The Giving Store at columbusfoundation.org as a one-stop shop for easy, effective online charitable giving. Donor Dashboard Nonprofit Directory As your personal center for charitable giving, The Giving Store’s directory makes it easily track your giving, give again, and easy for you to find and give directly retrieve tax receipts for multiple years. to nonprofit organizations that serve the causes you care about. Charitable Gift Cards The Giving Store’s crowdfunding platform Better Together, along with The Gifts of Kindness Fund, help you Spread your love for the community by identify timely needs and give your giving the gift of good with Charitable charitable dollars where they are Gift Cards, redeemable with any nonprofit needed most. organization listed in The Giving Store. 5 FEATURED INITIATIVE THE BIG GIVE 2017 WAS BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER! PICTURED: Columbus Foundation staff and collaborators at The Big Give results announcement. Photos by Rick Buchanan Photography BIGGEST TOTAL YET! “The Big Give inspires kindness, generosity, and lively conversation across our community. The Big Give, The Columbus Foundation’s signature Cathy and I love the opportunity to be part community giving event, was held on October 10–11 of lifting up the critical work of our region’s to support area nonprofits. The 26-hour online nonprofits. And, it provides the nonprofit community with a great platform to make event raised an incredible $18,003,826 to support their case for support.” 906 central Ohio nonprofits. — JEFF LYTTLE, COLUMBUS FOUNDATION DONOR A record 30,279 donations were received. Donations came from 49 Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA): states, the District of Columbia, and Delaware, Fairfield, Hocking, Licking, 7 countries. Madison, Morrow, Perry, Pickaway, All donations received during and Union. As a result, 172 nonprofit The Big Give were eligible for Bonus organizations in these counties collectively Pool Funds on a pro rata basis, benefited from nearly $1.2 million. giving everyone who participated the opportunity to have their donation(s) amplified. In addition, all credit card fees were covered BIGGER IMPACT FOR NONPROFITS by The Columbus Foundation, so 100 percent of donations went A total of 906 nonprofit organizations to the nonprofits selected by you, our donors. received donations through the 2017 Big Give. This is an incredible 54 percent BIGGER REACH THAN EVER increase over the number of nonprofits For the first time, The Big Give was expanded beyond Franklin that received donations during the 2015 County to include nine additional central Ohio counties in the Big Give. 6 The Columbus Foundation Community Report “We are so grateful for the generosity of the central Ohio community. Last year, Mid-Ohio Foodbank distributed enough food for 155,000 meals each and every day—half of which was fresh. Yet, there is still a gap across our neighborhoods, including one in four children who do not know where their next meal will come from. The Big Give has been a powerful partnership within the community to help fill that gap. On behalf of our neighbors who are struggling to make ends meet, thank you.” — MATT HABASH, PRESIDENT & CEO, MID-OHIO FOODBANK BIG SUPPORT! Special thanks to our Bonus Pool Contributors and Promotional Partners who helped make everyone’s donation go further! 2017 BIG GIVE BONUS POOL CONTRIBUTORS AEP Foundation Lassettre Family Fund Blom Family Fund L Brands Foundation Central Benefits Health Licking County Care Foundation Foundation Chlapaty Family Fund Marsh Family Tanny Crane and John Foundation Wolff Fund John H. McConnell William H. Davis, Dorothy Foundation M. Davis and William C. Meuse Family Davis Foundation Foundation Delaware County Nationwide Insurance Foundation Harold C. Schott Paul G. Duke Foundation Foundation Walter and Marian Siemer Family English Community Foundation Needs Fund Seanna C. and Matthew Michael and Denise D. Walter Fund Glimcher Family Fund Margaret and Robert Hinson Family Trust Walter Foundation Ingram-White Castle Robert F. Wolfe and Foundation Edgar T. Wolfe Kramer-Celeste Family Foundation The Big Give was expanded beyond Fund Worthington Industries Franklin County to include nine additional central Ohio counties. 2017 PROMOTIONAL PARTNERS 7 In March 2008, The Columbus Foundation held its first community- wide day of giving, a revolutionary effort to support local nonprofits. It was so successful that another day was held again that November, and then, in November 2011, the Foundation launched The Big Give, a 24-hour marathon of giving with a $1 million bonus pool that made every donation go further. The History The Foundation became a leader in the community foundation field on giving days, of the Giving Day and many foundations reached out to learn the recipe for success in harnessing community that Changed Online spirit for an incredible day of giving. Giving in America Fast forward to 2018, and thanks to your extraordinary generosity and enthusiasm, and the partnership of nonprofits, the results of these six events over the past decade are phenomenal—all because of you. HISTORY—THE BIG GIVE Giving Day Giving Day 2.0 The Big Give March 2008 November 2008 2011 $816,880 $1,265,554 $8,524,928 240 NONPROFITS 258 NONPROFITS 501 NONPROFITS RECEIVED DONATIONS RECEIVED DONATIONS RECEIVED DONATIONS 8 The Columbus Foundation Community Report THE BIG GIVE 2008–2017 10 6 99 YEARS GIVING DAY HOURS EVENTS 1,500 $ NONPROFIT M ORGANIZATIONS 54 BENEFITED RAISED The Big Give The Big Give The Big Give 2013 2015 2017 $10,656,494 $15,015,821 $18,003,826 569 NONPROFITS 587 NONPROFITS 906 NONPROFITS RECEIVED DONATIONS RECEIVED DONATIONS RECEIVED DONATIONS 9 FEATURED INITIATIVE WHEN THE VOICES IN OUR COMMUNITY COME TOGETHER, BIG THINGS HAPPEN PICTURED: Big Table conversations were held throughout central Ohio on May 17, 2017. Photos by Rick Buchanan Photography and Kathryn D Studios “Great ideas have grown out of the conversations Big Tables were held that happened at the first two Big Tables, but at offices, homes, the most important thing that has come from schools, churches, libraries, restaurants, those conversations so far is the participants’ and even at John willingness to continue reaching out to the Glenn Columbus people around them.” International Airport. At the end of each conversation, —KELLEY GRIESMER participants completed commitment cards that captured ways in which they On May 17, 2017, approximately 5,000 people gathered around were inspired to personally better the more than 450 tables across the central Ohio region to participate community moving forward. in The Columbus Foundation’s second Big Table. The Big Table Kelley stresses The Big Table experience launched in 2016 as a way to bring people together to broaden is as much, if not more, about listening as it perspectives and strengthen our community. is about talking. “The power of The Big Table is its ability to create authentic “The idea is to walk into a conversation human connection. It’s a space where people can be vulnerable ready and willing to listen to what others with each other—sharing their own unique stories and have to say and learn from them. It’s not perspectives on how we can positively impact our community about needing to change your mind, together,” said Kelley Griesmer, Sr. Vice President and Manager, but it is about a willingness to possibly Walter Family Philanthropy at The Columbus Foundation. broaden your perspective by listening to Participants of all ages discussed a wide variety of topics, and learning from the perspectives and from economic issues and poverty to education and human rights. experiences of others.” 10 The Columbus