A GOOD FOUNDATION THE NEWSLETTER OF THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
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At your Community Foundation, no two years are the same. 2016 provided us some new opportunities to help our community and some new reasons to do so ... Even as it solidified our mantra of “helping you help others.” Here are some highlights! 1. Every employer says their most important asset is their employees - but when they plan for disasters, they focus on computers and buildings. In 2016, the services we offer employers to help their employees experiencing serious personal financial hardship, grew. In the past year, 677 applications were processed (up from 355 in 2015, an increase of 48%) and 598 families received assistance totaling $1,470,960.
2. In October, the Chancery Court gave your Community Foundation a $5 million portion of a lawsuit settlement to help enhance the capacity of organizations across the state serving the needs of Tennessee’s Seniors. These one-time funds were to be distributed by the end of 2016 to these organizations for use in serving Tennessee’s 95 counties between January 1 and mid-June 2017. Ultimately, 121 organizations received support and are on track to accomplish the tasks for which they received funding. We have created the website, ServingTennesseeSeniors.org, which contains information about the recipients and how the awards are being used.
4. Our work to stabilize the ability of quality local Early Childhood Education centers to teach children at-risk for falling behind was enhanced. We now not only offer ChildcareNashville.com as a tool for parents seeking care for their babies and for those seeking jobs in the childcare sector, and ChildcareTennessee.com as a tool for those running centers and seeking to enhance their ability to serve kids well, even while using over 1,000 resources. And now we offer the opportunity to help centers find highly trained and pre-vetted substitute teachers when necessary through a text-driven Substitute Pool software we developed, which helped fill 114 one-time positions in the final weeks of 2016.
3. In November, our friends in East Tennessee fell victim to the “perfect storm” of drought, fire, and wind, and much of Sevier County suffered. As we do, and have done since 1993, your Community Foundation mobilized to help generate donations that we could then process and forward to serve those affected. Our first $100,000 bought Dollar General gift cards for those who’d lost their homes and the contents thereof. Dollar General matched our gift, and we were able to provide each of the roughly 1,000 families $200 to replace clothing or buy diapers or provide a Christmas for their children. Our most recent grants helped nonprofits provide food (currently 1,800 bags of food per week to individual families); medical services (this organization served 20% of the county’s residents before the fires, a number that has risen) for uninsured residents of the county; and housing, transportation, and wrap-around services for those who are now homeless or on the verge of being homeless.
5. Statistics: • More new funds were established in 2016 than in any year prior.
PLANNED GIVING: WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?
You plan throughout your life — everything from the day-to-day to the career choices you make to meet goals and ensure financial security for your family. Why would you need to plan a charitable gift?
• We handled over 192,000 financial transactions. • We received over 28,000 contributions.
• We made grants to over 3,600 nonprofit recipients for the third year in a row. • Online gifts given through our website CFMT.org surpassed $1 million.
• A planned gift of over $10 million established new funds designated for named charities and added to several previously established funds to address our community’s needs. Please let us know how we can help you help others in ways that matter. ELLEN LEHMAN
President, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
There are a variety of tools you can use to make a planned gift and create a legacy through The Community Foundation. We work with you to learn about your charitable goals and create vehicles for realizing those goals through The Community Foundation’s services. For instance:
CHARITABLE BEQUEST Designate a set amount or percentage of your estate, leave your house or leave all remaining assets to The Community Foundation.
The answer involves many of the same reasons: As you decide what you want to accomplish, taking thoughtful steps will make you more successful. Planned giving comes in many shapes and sizes, and it is set up to make the most sense for you and the charitable causes close to your heart. Since The Community Foundation received its first planned gift in 1994, realized planned gifts have resulted in proceeds every year since, to create new funds or add to existing ones – ultimately, to help people give in personally meaningful ways.
CHARITABLE LEAD TRUST With a charitable lead trust, you provide income to support your charitable Fund now, for a designated period of years or for the lives of individuals. At the end of the term, substantial tax-reduced or tax-free assets are transferred to your heirs or others you designate.
IRA OR RETIREMENT PLAN ASSETS You may designate The Community Foundation as a primary or contingent beneficiary of your IRA or other retirement plan assets
People like the Fyfes, the Davises, Bonnie Bashford, V.R. Mason, and many more. Within this spring newsletter, you will read stories of generosity from those who have entrusted The Community Foundation to safeguard their charitable wishes — and did so through planned giving.
to support your charitable interests. Among other options, the IRA Charitable Rollover is easy for donors with IRAs to ‘rollover’ up to $100,000 once they reach the age of 70 1/2 to public charities without having to count the distributions as taxable income.
LIFE INSURANCE You can transfer ownership of a cash value policy during your lifetime to create or support your Fund and be eligible for an immediate tax deduction based on the policy’s current value.
For information on current gifts, such as giving stock, personal property or real estate, give us a call at (615) 321-4939. CFMT.org • 1
PETER AND LOIS FYFE COMMUNITY FUND
TEDDY WILBURN SCHOLARSHIP FUND
“It’s difficult to speak of saintly people, because you fall back on clichés.”
Rising out of hardscrabble beginnings to achieve great renown through his exceptional musical ability and keen business sense, Teddy Wilburn’s story is one of remarkable talent and success. But it is also a story of need.
This is what Mark Wait, dean of the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, told Ray Waddle in The Tennessean when Peter Fyfe died in 2016. Wait went on to say, “But in this case they are true: Peter was always very generous and courtly as an artist and as a human being.” Those familiar with Peter and his wife, Lois, who died in 2014, knew how generous they were as artists and champions of liturgical music. Peter spent 35 years as the organist and choirmaster at Christ Church in downtown Nashville and taught for 40 years as an adjunct organ professor at Blair. In his time at the church, he brought major recognition to its choral work, sometimes partnering with singers from First Presbyterian Church to present large-scale concerts. At Blair, Peter regularly commissioned new choral works from notable composers, including Gregory Woolf ’s “Mass with Electronic Tape.” He always worked closely with Lois, his partner in life and music, who herself was busy as the proprietor of the Lois Fyfe Music company in Green Hills. The Fyfes’ generosity Wait spoke of extended beyond music. While alive, they both established endowments — Peter at Blair and Lois at The Ohio State University. The Fyfes also created a trust that was to be divided among 10 organizations following Peter’s death, with The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee as one of the benefiting organizations. The gift to The Foundation will be used to create an Unrestricted Impact Fund, The Peter and Lois Fyfe Community Fund, and then used to distribute grant awards in areas of need in the community. “They had a lot of passions,” says Amy Fair, The Community Foundation’s Vice President of Donor Services. “They had an impact on the city, on choral music and on everyone that came in contact with. The Fund will be a way to honor that legacy and to continue the generosity that defined both of their lives for so many decades in Nashville.”
BELLEVUE COMMUNITY FUND When Bellevue resident Donna Davis went into hardship and almost lost her house, a group of caring community members, led by thenCouncilman Charlie Tygard, stepped in to purchase the house at auction and put it in a charitable trust. By doing so, it allowed Donna and her son to continue living in their home, and the community members had set in motion a precedent of caring for their neighbors in need. Following Donna’s death in 2005, the group used the assets from the sale of her house to establish the Bellevue Community Fund at The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. Today the Bellevue Community Fund continues to grow through The Community Foundation’s investment leadership and a number of benefit events. Under the guidance of a committee of Bellevue residents, grants from the Fund have since been awarded to Harpeth Valley Elementary School, Bellevue Middle School, The Friends of Warner Parks S.W.E.A.T. program, and Metro Parks and Greenways, among others.
Teddy began his singing career along with his siblings in his Ozark hometown of Hardy, Arkansas, in hopes of supporting their impoverished family. Teddy and his elder brother, Doyle, became the duo the Wilburn Brothers, which went on to record over 30 chart-topping hits, grace the stage of The Grand Ole Opry many times, and create their own television Teddy Wilburn performs series, which aired over 350 episodes. Along the way, their music publishing and booking companies helped build the careers of country music stars such as Loretta Lynn, Webb Pierce and Patty Loveless. Teddy’s grit and determination successfully improved the lives of his family but at a cost. His singing career began at age 6, so Teddy never had the chance to attend college, which he regretted throughout his life. As a result, in his estate plans Teddy made very clear his dedication to making the path, and attainment of a college education, easier for others. In 2003, when Teddy died, he left his estate to The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee to establish the Teddy Wilburn Scholarship Fund, specifying that he wanted to assist students from Middle Tennessee who plan to, or are attending, Tennessee State and Vanderbilt Universities. To date, under The Community Foundation’s management the Teddy Wilburn Scholarship Fund has already awarded 82 scholarships, totaling $499,700. One of its many recipients was Emily Green, who received the Teddy Wilburn Scholarship assistance each of her four years as an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University and again while attending Vanderbilt Law School. Emily, now an attorney working for a law firm in her hometown of Springfield, Tennessee serves as an estate planner, hoping to be able to afford others the same kind of opportunity she had to get help for her education. Green encourages students to check out “the amazing scholarships available through The Community Foundation and other sources. Do your research and apply,” she says. “It can make a huge difference in your life.” The Community Foundation administers more than 100 scholarship funds, established by individuals, companies, and civic groups. Those applying, in May of each year, need only complete a single online application to be considered for all scholarships. In 2016, The Community Foundation awarded 291 scholarships totaling more than $548,200 to students pursuing secondary educational goals.
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AMY FAIR
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MIRIAM F. MOORE FUND TO BENEFIT COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL, INC.
BE A PART OF IT
SPOTLIGHT featuring Middle Tennesseans who stay engaged in and give back to their community.
Melissa and Norman Davis were totally immersed in their careers at the time they met more than 25 years ago.
Eula Harrison Moore, a direct descendant of two of the founders of Nashville, Edward Swanson and William Harrison, spent half her life caring for her only daughter, Miriam, after she was diagnosed with polio in 1955.
Photo by Anthony Scarlati
“We really struggled with the thought of children,” Melissa recalls. Norman remembers saying to Melissa, “Life is all about children and the legacy they leave behind.” So the Davises each committed that, as they could, they would help children. Fifteen years ago, Norman adopted a little brother through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee. At the time he called the 6-year-old “Little Buddy.” And Little Buddy called Norman “Big Buddy.” Melissa smiles and explains that Little Buddy is now 21 years old, and the couple is helping him get certified in the culinary field.
Miriam made a recovery, but the polio paralyzed her from the waist down. Eula worked diligently to ensure her daughter received the best care and education. Miriam studied at Vanderbilt, and she went on to earn a doctorate degree and teach foreign language at McGavock High School. In 2005 Miriam Moore passed away at the age of 63. Eula, by then in her 90s, set up the Miriam F. Moore Fund to benefit Compassion International, Inc. so that her daughter’s memory and legacy would live on in perpetuity. After Eula’s death in 2015 at the age of 101, a bequest was received from her estate adding to this endowment. It ensures even greater resources available each year to benefit Compassion International, an organization supporting the well-being of children throughout the world, and a cause near and dear to Miriam’s heart.
Using her many skills, Melissa has undertaken some wrenching work as an advocate for abused or neglected children through her leadership and work on behalf of Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA). The Davises have become part of the Legacy Society of The Community Foundation, which provides a meaningful way to recognize individuals now for gifts that will be realized sometime in the future. The Community Foundation is grateful for those individuals who, through thoughtful planning — like the Davises — have made provisions in their estates for the benefit of the community. Melissa and Norman Davis are partners at Davis, Davis and Conover Wealth Management, a registered advisory firm.
THE V.R. MASON FUND TO BENEFIT THE CITY/CULTURAL ARTS CENTER Murfreesboro’s Center for the Arts, housed in a beautiful 1909 Italianate building on the town square, was just opening its doors in 1995 when V.R. “Pete” Mason died. A native of Rutherford County and a Smyrna High School graduate, Mason spent most of his 70 years farming in the very area where he was raised. To honor Mason’s legacy after his death and to continue his contribution and deep connection to the community where he lived, the executor of his estate worked with The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee — itself only a few years old at the time — to establish a fund that would support the Center for the Arts. Now more than 20 years later, The V.R. Mason Fund to Benefit the City/ Cultural Arts Center continues to support the Center for the Arts and its mission to enhance the quality of its community “by providing a variety of arts and opportunities which will educate and entertain people of all ethnicity, ages, and income levels.” Throughout the year, the Center offers quality theatrical productions, musical performances, art exhibits, and educational opportunities – none of which would be possible without generous donors like Mason.
BOB AND ANNE ZELLE FUNDS
During their lifetime, Anne and Bob Zelle supported countless nonprofit organizations with financial resources and volunteer leadership. The Zelles established a DonorAdvised Fund when The Community Foundation was in its infancy and continued to set up other funds over the years. Their final gift to The Foundation was made through their estates and resulted in the establishment of more than a dozen new funds designated to ensure their favorite organizations receive gifts from them, in perpetuity.
Designated Funds are permanent endowments established to benefit a specific nonprofit organization with an annual gift in perpetuity. The V.R. Mason Fund to Benefit the City/Cultural Arts Center was one of The Community Foundation’s first. “We’ve had 152 Designated Funds established since 1994,” says Amy Fair at The Community Foundation. “Many of these funds have been set up to memorialize someone like Pete Mason. But many more have been established by living donors who have reflected on the nonprofits they’ve supported during a lifetime and have determined the legacy they want to leave for the causes and organizations most important to them.”
Support these funds online at CFMT.org, and discover more ways to leave your legacy.
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THE TOMORROW FUND HOLIDAY GIFT DRIVE
From top left: Julie White, Addison Old, Kristen Korzenowski, Michael King, Hannah Krimm, Caitlin Robbins Maxwell, Dani Ward. From bottom left: Steven Duckworth, Brady Adams, Ann Harlan, Cale Schmit, Paige Maynor. Photo by Anthony Scarlati
Each year, The Tomorrow Fund partners with low-income childcare centers to provide warm clothes and gifts for their youngsters during the holiday season. The Tomorrow Fund Board Members and volunteers sponsor the children and drop off their gifts at The Community Foundation, where board members gather to sort, assemble and prepare the gifts for delivery. In 2016, 92 children from Fannie Battle Day Home for Children and the Daniel Payne Christian Childcare Center were sponsored.
TREHON COCKRILL-COLEMAN AND SMITHSON CRAIGHEAD ACADEMY ANNUAL PROMOTION CEREMONY Nashville native Trehon Cockrell-Coleman now lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he’s a software engineer for Raytheon. The East High School graduate benefited from The Community Foundation’s Teddy Wilburn Scholarship each of his four years at Tennessee State University. He was just 19 years old when he established the Beginner’s Leadership Achievement Award, which recognizes young role models who exhibit leadership in service, integrity, collaboration, and self-perserverence. Last May, Trehon presented the awards to selected students at Smithson Craighead Academy in ceremonies at TSU’s downtown Avon Williams Campus. Trehon plans to present awards for the school this May as well. Photos by Anthony Scarlati
THE BIG PAYBACK KICKOFF TRAINING Hundreds of nonprofit leaders and representatives packed the Nashville Airport Marriott’s conference center in early February as The Community Foundation held a daylong training session to prepare regional nonprofits for the fourth annual The Big Payback.
Many nonprofits took the opportunity to learn about fundraising tips and the digital marketing techniques that the training provided. Separate morning and afternoon sessions accommodated the crowd. The Community Foundation’s Joe Pagetta (top photo, left) emceed and helped moderate the panels. Attendees visited the social media booth between panels, and The Community Foundation’s Pat Embry (center photo, bottom) helped with the costumes and snapped photos and videos. Photos by Anthony Scarlati 4 • CFMT.org
10TH ANNUAL JEFFREY STEELE & FRIENDS FUNDRAISER It was an evening of award-winning music at The Franklin Theatre for the 10th Annual Jeffrey Steele & Friends, a sold-out concert on March 6 to benefit The Alex Levasseur Memorial Fund of The Community Foundation. The intimate evening was hosted by Storme Warren and included special guest performances by artists that included Randy Houser, Charlie Worsham, Lit, Chris Janson, and LOCASH. A live auction, held between sets, included signed guitars, lyrics, and a custom Manuel-designed jacket. More than $40,000 was raised through generous support from the enthusiastic crowd. At the end of the night, the Levasseur Family awarded Worsham with a $10,000 check for his Follow Your Heart Scholarship Fund at The Community Foundation benefiting young people in Charlie’s hometown of Grenada, Mississippi who wish to pursue a career in the arts. Photos by Anthony Scarlati
The Francis S. Guess Bridge to Equality Fund Luncheon
TENNESSEE WOMEN’S FUND ALLIANCE Amy Fair, Vice President of Donor Services for The Community Foundation, hosted other members of the Tennessee Women’s Fund Alliance in early February for a lunch and half-day meeting to discuss shared priorities for 2017. The Alliance was established in 2012 for the mutual benefit of the Women’s Funds in Tennessee — Memphis, Chattanooga, Knoxville and Nashville — and their work to better the lives of women and girls in the state. The Alliance previously spearheaded a statewide public awareness campaign designed to educate Tennesseans about the crime of sex trafficking and to publicize a human trafficking resource hotline. Photo by Anthony Scarlati
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee invites you to
The Second Annual Francis S. Guess Bridge to Equality Fund Luncheon Honoring
Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. Wednesday, May 10, 2017 At lunch from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM Music City Center - Davidson Ballroom Nashville, Tennessee
COMINg Fall 2017 GIRLS GIVE is an initiative of The Women’s Fund that brings together girls and young women — with the support of their mothers, grandmothers and other loving female relationships — to inspire a love of giving, volunteering, and being part of a connected community.
To learn more call 615-321-4939
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Staff Spotlight
NEWS OUTSIDE OUR COMMUNITY
PAT COLE Pat Cole joined The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee in December 2004. She is a native of Pacolet, South Carolina and a graduate of Winthrop University (BA in English) and the University of Florida (master’s degree in Personnel Services/School Counseling). She formerly was Director of School Counseling at Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools.
You’re the Scholarship Coordinator at The Community Foundation. Describe what that entails. I have the pleasure of working with donors who want to leave a legacy of financial assistance for educational opportunities for young people, as well as students and parents who are looking for scholarships. I work with the Scholarship Selection Committee of The Community Foundation to award the scholarships, and with colleges and universities in receiving the Scholarship Funds. My work entails staying up to date on financial aid and the college admissions process — the perfect job for a former school counselor! The spring semester may be your busiest season: You must answer a hundred questions a day! What are the questions most asked? “How do I apply for The Community Foundation scholarships?” In addition, questions specific to our online application and the deadline for applications are asked most often. Your background in the Nashville Metro Public Schools makes you uniquely well prepared for your role as Scholarship Coordinator. How have things changed in the past decade-plus time you’ve been at The Community Foundation? Today students can participate in the Tennessee Promise program as a safety net to attend community college. The financial need application (FAFSA) has been simplified, and it is the gateway to most financial aid. Students are savvy about finding scholarships through internet searches or social media. Let’s say I want to fund a scholarship at The Community Foundation. What do I need to do? A Scholarship Fund can be established at The Community Foundation with $10,000 and a desire to offer financial assistance to the next generation. What are a couple of your favorite success stories of students who received a scholarship from The Community Foundation?
CHARLES FEENEY AND GIVING WHILE LIVING “With grand philanthropy often comes public glory for wealthy donors,” wrote Jim Dwyer in The New York Times’ 2012 profile of billionaire New York philanthropist Charles Feeney. “No building anywhere bears Mr. Feeney’s name,” Dwyer continued, which makes Feeney an anomaly among wealthy benefactors. He’s contributed more than $8 billion to Atlantic Philanthropies — a collection of private foundations he started and funded in the early ‘80s — and has given away most of it. And the majority of Feeney’s giving has been done in secrecy, making him a “James Bond of Philanthropy,” as Forbes dubbed him in 2012. The now 85-year-old Feeney is in a race to give away the remaining $1.5 billion within the next few years. Being clandestine about it, however, is no longer an option, which explains why someone more obsessed with privacy than public acknowledgement is suddenly showing up in The Times and Forbes. After years of supporting marriage equality, death penalty opponents, healthcare reform, and his alma mater, Cornell University, time is running short for another one of Fenney’s causes — one that he, according to Warren Buffett, has become the de facto “spiritual leader” of: to inspire wealthy people to share their fortunes. An entire section of the Atlantic Philanthropies website is titled Giving While Living. “By devoting the majority of your wealth to philanthropy during your lifetime,” the site offers, “you can experience the immense satisfaction of not only making a difference, but seeing it happen now.” This is a sentiment that pulls at the heartstrings, for sure. But Feeney is a businessman, after all, and knows his audience. Giving While Living, he adds, “is an entrepreneurial approach to philanthropy by which you actively devote your money, skills, and time to make a difference sooner rather than later.
“You can learn and make adjustments to get the biggest bang – and impact – for your buck.”
One recipient received a $500 scholarship, and traveled 300 miles from home to an unfamiliar campus with no additional money to get back home. He worked on campus for spending money and did well academically. When he came home after the first year, he called to say thank you for the scholarship awarded to him. He shared that knowing that someone believed in him kept him going through a tough freshman year. Another great story is one of a student who had a child in the 11th grade and qualified for the Heloise W. Kuhn Scholarship for parenting teens. She went to college, enrolled her child in quality day care, graduated with a major in accounting, and now has a master’s degree. The Community Foundation scholarships she received during her four years of undergraduate work made her life somewhat easier, and she made the best of that situation.
One Gift That Fits All The Community Foundation’s customized Giving Card is the gift for every occassion.
Through The Women’s Fund endowment within The Community Foundation, the interest generated is given annually to provide support to programs dedicated to helping women and girls in our community. As the principal grows, so does our ability to meet crucial needs and effect social change.
Since its inception, The Women’s Fund has made grants totaling
$1,308,818.17 $477,180 to nonprofits assisting women and girls who are victims of domestic violence
$343,317 to programs promoting the health and well-being of women and girls Purchase now at CFMT.org Run a business? Want to honor clients or employees? We can customize Giving Cards. Call us at 615-321-4939.
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$123,425 to programs addressing the specific needs of girls
THE BONNIE R. BASHFORD FUND Bonnie Bashford, a graduate of Hillsboro High School and Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis), was a long-time employee of the Social Security Administration. More than a decade ago, Bonnie decided she wanted to support affordable housing and public education in the Nashville area. And she made it happen, even giving her own house to the cause. As part of her estate plan, Bonnie turned to The Community Foundation to establish The Bonnie R. Bashford Fund to assist underprivileged people working to obtain an education and/or housing. She believed that long-term affordable housing and education were the launching points for at-risk people to build better lives. Today, with these two issues being some of the most pressing facing Nashville, her philanthropy could not be more meaningful. By setting up The Bonnie R. Bashford Fund, Bonnie was able to honor personal bequests and to leave the remainder of her estate, including her house, to the causes she cared most about after she passed away in 2008.
THE POWER OF ENDOWMENT The majority of the Funds within The Community Foundation are endowments which supply both the donors and the recipients a vehicle dedicated to providing favorite causes or nonprofits with a steady stream of income each and every year, in perpetuity. All of our endowment Funds are invested by our Investment and Finance Committee with an eye to steady growth so that the Funds can accomplish the goals that the donors intended. Annual income to the recipient causes or nonprofits specified by the donors’ intention, has for the last 20 years, been 5% of the amount in the specific Fund.
BONNIE R. BASHFORD FUND Established 2011
$1,184,769.44 — Total Gifts In - $294,600.70 — 70 Grants $1,419,163.86 — Current Balance
TEDDY WILBURN SCHOLARSHIP FUND Established 2011
Since its creation, the Fund has distributed $294,600 in grant awards to organizations including Urban Housing Solutions, East Nashville Hope Exchange, Rooftop Foundation, and Martha O’Bryan Center.
$1,367,571.26 — Total Gifts In - $499,700.82 — 112 Scholarships
Making a tremendous impact on the community while increasing its capital by $206,000, the Bonnie R. Bashford Fund has created a legacy of giving that will continue to grow, in perpetuity.
$1,278,171.32 — Current Balance
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KITTY MOON EMERY The Community and The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee lost a dear friend in Kitty Moon Emery on February 8, 2017 after a long illness. What follows in a draft of the message Kitty wanted to appear in our next Newsletter — and even though it was not fully edited — I believe she would be disappointed if we didn’t follow her plan. Kitty was, after all, a producer and our Marketing Committee Chair to the end. * * * * * * * * * During its first 25 years, The Community Foundation has always helped people give in ways they can to the causes they care about.
“There is no other place that is willing to help turn virtually any objects into charitable dollars.” — Kitty Moon Emery
Over the years I have served on its board, I have been fascinated at the transformations The Community Foundation has made as new opportunities have unfolded. We went from gifts of cash, checks, and stock to gifts online and through “text to give” to gifts of real estate and real tangible personal property … all intended to make sure everyone had a seat at the philanthropic table. All in an effort to make it comfortable, convenient, and cost-effective to give. Recently, I have used the service The Community Foundation provides for those who which to make
gifts of “stuff ” or in legal terms, tangible personal property. The beauty of this service is that it allows people who have some wealth, but perhaps not a lot of cash, to participate. There is no other place that is willing to help turn virtually any objects into charitable dollars. And the work of The Community Foundation in this regard has really been a blessing! Years ago, Teddy Wilburn, an icon of the music industry, left his entire estate to The Community Foundation. Three real estate holdings, a couple of cars, and his personal possessions all morphed into a Scholarship Fund that benefits students attending TSU and Vanderbilt. The Community Foundation made that happen for him and is helping me and Pat build the Kitty and Pat Emery Fund for Nashville. So many of us have more possessions than we ever could have imagined we would. Some of us even have bigger houses than we need or can manage. And some of us have multiple residences which, at some point become, rather than a joy, a burden to us or to our loved ones. I urge you to consider using these assets, this real estate or this tangible personal property, to make a difference. In the words of that old Jimmy Stewart film: “You Can’t Take it With You.” CFMT.org • 7
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OFFICERS Kerry Graham, Chairman Susan W. Simons, Vice Chairman Ronald L. Corbin, Secretary Decosta E. Jenkins, Treasurer Ellen E. Lehman, President BOARD OF DIRECTORS Leilani S. Boulware Beth Chase Jana J. Davis Rod Essig Irwin E. Fisher Stephen F. Flatt Jay L. Frank Ben G. Freeland Gary A. Garfield Alberto R. Gonzales Jose D. Gonzalez Mark R. Gwyn Carl T. Haley Henry B. Hicks, III Carol O. Hudler William C. Koch, Jr. Robert S. Lipman Don MacLachlan Stephen F. Moore Joelle J. Phillips Wayne Smith Paul Stumb Steve Underwood Stephaine H. Walker Kevin J. Wheeler
BOARD OF TRUSTEES Judy Liff Barker Jack O. Bovender, Jr. Charles W. Cook, Jr. Ben L. Cundiff Kitty Moon Emery Richard J. Eskind Farzin Ferdowsi John D. Ferguson Thomas F. Frist, Jr. Joel C. Gordon James S. Gulmi Aubrey B. Harwell, Jr. Catherine T. Jackson Kevin P. Lavender Bert Mathews John E. Maupin, Jr. Ralph W. Mosley Donna D. Nicely Ben R. Rechter Howard L. Stringer Deborah Taylor Tate Charles A. Trost Deborah F. Turner Jack B. Turner Betsy Walkup David Williams, II Jerry B. Williams
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