Door County Living Philanthropy 2015 by Door County Pulse

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How the

GO BO!

Foundation Helps:

When Bo Johnson became ill with leukemia, no one could possibly have known what an inspiration he would become. The Go Bo! Foundation’s goals were inspired by discussions with Bo, who wanted to help:

Families whose child has been diagnosed with cancer or another life-threatening illness.

Fund ground-breaking research into new, less-harsh treatments for children going through their own cancer journey.

The families of seven Door County children with the following illnesses have been assisted by the Foundation: • 4-year-old with Retinal Blastoma

• 18-year-old with Leukemia • 17-year-old with a brain tumor • 18-year-old who had a heart transplant • 15-year-old with Aplastic Anemia • Baby with Marshall Smith Syndrome • 10-year-old boy with a tumor at the base of his spine As his legacy, young Bo Johnson wanted to help Pay It Forward for other families. You can help other children who are still struggling with childhood cancers.

Visit:

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GO BO! Foundation

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From the Publisher’s Desk It is not often, but now and then the question is asked of those of us who live here – “Why do you live in Door County?” Depending upon the time of year, time of day, or mood the answer is slightly different, but it always seems to come back to the same thing – we love it here. There is the natural beauty, the history, the arts, the social programs, the educational opportunities – but those are just overarching themes that would not be as splendid or successful as they are without the Door County community. When an historical building is in disrepair, when a natural wonder is threatened, when our economy is decline, when art and culture are needed, and especially when a member of our community is sick, Door County comes together. From the construction of healthcare facilities, to the maintenance and preservation of vast open spaces, to the raising of money to pay hospital bills and medical care, the combined accomplishments of this community are immense. Despite political differences, religious beliefs and individual life choices, the people of Door County have built a community. We are small in population, but we are immense in our generosity. We take care of ourselves and welcome visitors with open arms. It is our privilege to tell the stories of the people and places of Door County. This year’s philanthropy issue tells the stories of how our community attempts to overcome the largest of obstacles. Thanks for reading. Enjoy our community.

David Eliot Publisher

“Bay to Bay,” “Mother and Child Reunion” “Naturel Treasure” by Ed Fenandael, 2014. by Karen Cook, 2013. by Gretchen Klug, 2012.

“The Feathered Nest,” “A Whispered Invitation,” “Philanthropy,” by Bonnie Paruch, 2011. by Judi Ekholm, 2010. by Craig Blietz, 2009.

LOCAL ARTISTS SUPPORT LOCAL CHARITIES Door County Living has successfully partnered with six local artists in the past six years to create paintings for charity. The philanthropic-themed paintings graced the covers of our Philanthropy Issues and were subsequently auctioned off to raise funds for the Door County charity of the winning bidder’s choice. We are proud to announce that the 2014 cover, “Mother and Child Reunion,” donated and painted by Ed Fenendael, raised $2,000 for The Clearing Folk School in Ellison Bay. Over the last six years the cover of Door County Living’s Philanthropy Issues have together raised $16,050 for Door County charities. In addition to last year’s beneficiary, the Door County Humane Society, HELP of Door County, the Door County Maritime Museum, Unity Hospice, Peninsula School of Art, Door County Habitat for Humanity, the Door County Community Foundation, Door County Silent Sports Alliance, Door County Land Trust and the Door Community Auditorium have also received funds.

All bid submissions should be mailed by September 15, 2015 to: “Butterfly Effect” Bid c/o Door County Living PO Box 695 Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 (Minimum bid: $2,000)

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ON OUR COVER

Butterfly Effect A little goes a long way By ALYSSA SKIBA

n this artist’s mind, philanthropy invoked the image of children running through a field of flowers on a sunny day, perhaps chasing after butterflies. The image was a work of Ryan Miller’s imagination, and as oil pastel was laid to matboard, the evolution of the idea and all it encompassed became a matter of fate. As with metamorphosis, Miller let his idea transform naturally until it reached its final state – a small girl in a field of flowers, butterflies flying over and around her. One has landed on her hand as she looks on. “Maybe the viewer will see it’s kind of the everyday cycle of life – it’s coming, swooping down on her, and touching her and it’s moving onto the great beyond and onto a future state,” Miller said. In the process of creating the piece, particularly the rainbow of colors present in the butterflies, Miller drew inspiration from the array of cancer awareness ribbons. The young girl dons lavender clothing, the color associated with awareness of all cancers. When the piece was complete, the greater challenge loomed – giving name to a creation whose meaning Miller was yet uncertain of. Recalling the phenomenon known as the “butterfly effect,” in which small changes in initial conditions lead to drastic changes in the result, Miller happily made the connection between the

Ryan Miller with his donated artwork, “Butterfly Effect.” Photo by Len Villano. cause-effect relationship for both philanthropy and this publication’s key focus: cancer. “Perhaps the little girl is a growing philanthropist, a caregiver. Her small chances taken and choices made now, as in the butterflies floating around her, determine the larger results later on,” Miller said. “It alludes to the arbitrary nature of the butterfly effect and asks ‘what if? why not?’ I had faith in the feeling to slightly change the composition early on. This certainly had some significance, adding up to something different than what I could have imagined had I not decided to make the change.” The end result is a piece Miller is proud of, not only because of the experience it has provided but because of the deeply personal nature of what the artwork stands for. In the past two years, Miller has witnessed firsthand the effects of cancer on both of his

parents and experienced the fortune of their survival. “I’ve come to realize it’s very personal and something I’ll always remember when I see the cover,” Miller said. “I’m happy and honored to do it. It’s the least I can do and I hope it goes a long way. Almost as fateful as remembering the butterfly effect, my mom had given me a framed text that reads, ‘Enjoy the little things in life, for someday you will realize they were the big things.’” The oil pastel “Butterfly Effect” (30” x 14” framed to 36” x 20”) will be on display during the summer of 2015 and will be auctioned to raise funds for the local charity of the winning bidder’s choice. The minimum bid is $2,000. Please contact the Door County Living office at (920) 839-2121 for current viewing information. More of Miller’s work can be seen at rymill.me. 2015 Philanthropy Issue 7

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If you… share our commitment to safeguarding some of Wisconsin’s most precious species and habitats … believe in empowering stewardship through environmental education and outreach… want to make a difference in the lives of future generations …

Then… consider leaving a legacy through planned giving. A planned gift to The Ridges can allow you to meet your financial goals while making a lasting impact on this special wild place. The Albert Fuller Society recognizes those individuals who have chosen legacy giving as a way to perpetuate their support of The Ridges. Joining is as simple as informing us of your planned gift. For more information or to discuss your legacy gift, contact Judy Drew at 920-839-2802. PO Box 152, Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin 54202 RidgesSanctuary.org Ram’s-head lady’s-slipper orchid photo by Douglas Sherman

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CELEBRATION

Father Tony is Philanthropist of Year

ather Anthony Birdsall – or Father Tony as he is known – retired from the Corpus Christi Parish in Sturgeon Bay on Sept. 1, 2008, but continues to have an impact on the people of Door County, as evidenced by his being named the 2014 Philanthropist of the Year at the Door County Community Foundation’s annual Celebration of Giving held June 18, 2014, at Horseshoe Bay Golf Club in Egg Harbor. The 79-year-old Catholic priest was ordained in 1960 by Bishop Stanislaus Bona at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Green Bay. His first non-temporary assignment was as chaplain for the Holy Family Medical Center in Manitowoc and assistant of the St. Bernard Par-

ish, Green Bay, until 1964 when he was named assistant of the St. Mary Parish, Appleton. In 1970 he became temporary administrator of the St. Aloysius Parish in Kaukauna, and in 1971 became pastor of the St. Mary Parish, Hilbert. On Aug. 18, 1987, he was named pastor of the Corpus Christi Parish, Sturgeon Bay, where he remained for 21 years before his retirement. During his time in the Corpus Christi Parish, he oversaw the building of a rectory in Sturgeon Bay and the merger of Corpus Christi and St. Joseph schools, Sturgeon Bay, and Ss. Peter and Paul School, Institute, into St. John Bosco School. Although retired, Father Tony is constantly filling in from the south-

ernmost to the northernmost parishes on the peninsula, saying masses twice a month on Washington Island. Father Tony has given tirelessly and quietly within the entire community. His love of children has inspired him to give of both his time and his treasure. To this day, he has playground duty at St. John Bosco and takes time to have lunch with the children. His love of farming and farm animals has made him a fixture at the Door County Fair, where he has taken ribbons for both his chickens and his flowers. He stays involved in 4H and Rotary projects as well. “Philanthropists champion the causes that resonate in their heart,”  said Bret Bicoy, president & CEO of the Community Foundation. “They cannot help but openly share their passion with those around them. Their enthusiasm for service is contagious.” “Most importantly,” said Bicoy, “a philanthropist is one who believes that the best way to lead is by serving others.”

Father Anthony Birdsall, retired pastor of Corpus Christi Parish of Sturgeon Bay, was honored at the annual Celebration of Giving on June 18 as the 2014 Philanthropist of the Year. The award was presented by John Herlache, chairman of the Door County Community Foundation. Photo by Len Villano.

Each year the Door County Community Foundation identifies a person whose generosity of spirit has touched the lives of many in Door County and bestows the honor of Philanthropist of the Year. Previous honorees include Ruth & Hartley Barker (2006), Cynthia Stiehl (2006), Marian Hislop (2007), Dave & Vonnie Callsen (2007), Tim & Sue Stone (2008), Josephine Guenzel (2009), Miriam Erickson (2010), Lee Traven (2011), Anne Haberland Emerson (2012), and Spencer & Barbara Gould (2013). 2015 Philanthropy Issue 9

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Tucked away in Baileys Harbor is a sanctuary

PARTIAL LIST OF 2015 SEMINARS

for those seeking enlightenment and

Learning the Language of the Earth: Recognizing Rocks and Minerals, Marcia Bjornerud, Walter Schober Professor of Environmental Studies and professor of geology

relaxation. Björklunden, Lawrence University’s northern campus, hosts world-renowned

The Beatles … Four Lads Who Shook the World, Carl Rath ’75, professor of bassoon

speakers every summer and fall. Make this the

Watercolor: The Expressive Medium, Helen Klebesadel, director of Wisconsin Regional Arts Program of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of Continuing Studies

year you experience the Björklunden Seminar

History of Television News, Terry Moran ’82, chief foreign correspondent for ABC News

Series—and deepen your sense of wonder.

Exploring How the United States’ Culture of Conflict Creates Political Quagmires, Laura Smythe, attorney, professor and executive director of the Mediation Center of Greater Green Bay Fall’s Glorious Trees and Shrubs, Don Quintenz, director of education and director of land management at Schlitz Audubon Center in Milwaukee

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CELEBRATION

Time – It’s About How You Spend It Volunteers honored at 12th annual Golden Heart Celebration By PAM SEILER

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here’s no more generous act than giving your time. Money, you can make more of it, but time is a very finite item for each of us, and we can spend it wisely or we can spend it foolishly, but it will spend all the same.” Grace Rossman of Thrivent Financial, one of the 12th Annual Golden Heart Volunteer Celebration Award presenters, put into words exactly what the evening was about – volunteers who choose to spend their time helping individuals and organizations and who place the needs of others above their own. Billed as the “feel good event of the year,” it’s easy to see why. More than 350 people who have made volunteering a priority in their lives surround you. You hear their stories of why they started volunteering, why they continue and, most importantly, what volunteering has done for them. Most volunteers will tell you what they get back from their service is far more than what they give and while the people they serve may argue the point, their stories are what inspire us to do more and be better. They make us “feel good” about the community we live in and realize, as the saying goes, “You make a living by what you get but you make a life by what you give.” In addition to all of those we honor, I also know there are far more people behind the scenes who have never been

Congratulations to the 2014 Golden Heart honorees and recipients (*), listed below. Adult Golden Heart Honorees: Ted & Dee Chaudoir, Wayne & Diane Cornette, Barbara Dunlap, Terry & Pam Goode, Pat Heller, Kris Husby-Nelson*, Nancy Kexel-Calabresa, Steven & Melissa Kugel, Joan Schultz, Shirley Senarighi and Jenny Walker. Arts & Culture Honorees: Jocelyn Barnes, Door County Maritime Museum Wooden Boat Building Class Instructors, Joan Guasta, Pete & Carol Schuster, Sandra Stetler and Dianne Trenchard*. Environmental Stewardship Honorees: Door County Land Trust Preserve Stewards Bill Utley & Steve Wilke, and the Recycling Volunteers of Habitat for Humanity*. “recognized” for their service. So, to all of you out there who prefer to “fly under the radar,” thank you. Thank you for doing what needs to be done and for dropping everything at a moment’s notice to help those who need it. You all have “golden hearts.” And to all of the 2014 Golden Heart honorees, thank you for letting us cele-

Group Honorees: Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Southern Door High School, Birch Creek Associates, Christ Child Society, Door County Humane Society Volunteers, Door-Tran Volunteer Transportation Drivers*, Neighborto-Neighbor Medical Equipment Loan Volunteers, Pirates in the Harbour, and the Brian Stephens Family. Youth Scholarship Recipients: Josie Kielar, Southern Door; Samantha Moeller, Sturgeon Bay; and Kylie Straub, Gibraltar. Lifetime of Service Honorees: Inge Bacon*, Cassie Cibik-Moeller, Nancy Hutchinson, and Barb & John McCormick.

brate you and share your stories. If you see any of these folks around town, take a moment to thank them, as our thanks shouldn’t end after one night. For more information on the Volunteer Center and its Golden Heart Volunteer Celebration, visit volunteerdoorcounty. com, call 920.746.7704 or email volunteercenter@doorcounty.com. 2015 Philanthropy Issue 11

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Ganging Up On Cancer Door County takes initiatives in fighting disease By JIM LUNDSTROM Is there a word more frightening than cancer? Cancer is the general name for a group of more than 100 diseases that start with abnormal cells growing out of control and invading other tissue. While cigarette smoking and sun exposure are two known causes of cancerous cells, there is still much that is not known about what causes cancer. While research continues to try to understand the causes of cancer, there have been many advances in detecting and treating various forms of cancer. In the not-too-distant past, Door County cancer patients had to travel for the latest in cancer treatments, but not any longer, thanks to a collaborative effort that includes a number of medical providers and the generosity of the community. Door County Cancer Center offers hope to county residents and stands as a testament to the vision and philanthropy of the community. Read on to learn about some of those who are making a difference in fighting this insidious disease.

magine that it is the start of the 21st century. You are living in Ellison Bay and have just been diagnosed with cancer. One of the many components of your treatment is weeks of radiation therapy that you need every day, and the closest place for radiation treatment is Green Bay. Now, among the many other things occupying your mind and body, you have to decide whether to make the 160-mile round-trip daily for the 15

or 20 minutes of radiation, or whether you will take a room in Green Bay through your treatment schedule. “We’ve been doing chemotherapy here for probably more than 20 years,” said Jerry Worrick, CEO of Ministry Door County Medical Center. “The most irritating part of the cancer program for patients here was radiation. They would have to go down to Green Bay every day, Monday through Friday. That was real hardship.” But due to what Worrick describes as “a generous community,” the Door

Left: A rainbow of colors represents those of cancer awareness ribbons: pink for breast; teal for ovarian; clear for lung; purple for pancreatic and leiomyosarcoma; orange for leukemia; emerald for liver; periwinkle for esophageal and stomach; black for melanoma; dark blue for colon; burgundy for multiple myeloma; grey for brain; light blue for prostate; teal/white for cervical; yellow for sarcoma/bone/bladder; gold for childhood cancers; burgundy/ivory for head and neck; lime for lymphoma; peach for uterine; green for kidney; teal/pink/blue for thyroid; lavender for all cancers. Illustration by Ryan Miller.

County Cancer Center was built in 2005. “About 11 years ago, St. Vincent [hospital of Green Bay] approached us and said they looked at some numbers and thought they could make radiation work here,” Worrick said. “We worked with St. Vincent’s and put together the cancer center and they brought in the linear accelerator [for radiation treatments]. Of all the projects we’ve done up here, I’ve gotten more thanks or praise from the community for having that service here,” Worrick said. “The community’s always really responded to us in all our projects. We couldn’t have built a new addition or anything without the support of the community.” [See the sidebar for more on the $3 million campaign to build the Door County Cancer Center.] 2015 Philanthropy Issue 13

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In 2002 HSHS St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay became one of only two hospitals in Wisconsin and 63 in the entire country to join the National Cancer Institute’s Community Clinical Oncology Program, creating the St. Vincent Cancer Research Institute and opening the door to clinical trials of promising new cancer treatments for its patients. “We’ve brought Green Bay to Door County, basically, and partnered with all the strengths of regional services to provide the care in Door County,” said Sally Luehring, executive director, Cancer Services, HSHA Division, Eastern Wisconsin. “For decades, St. Vincent and Door County have collaborated on care for Door County patients for many things outside of cancer. Historically, we’ve had a very solid relationship.” “Green Bay Oncology, our medical oncology partners, started providing outreach services to Door County Medical Center probably two decades ago, before the cancer center,” Luehring said. “They were providing medical oncology services a couple days a week in the hospital. About half the patients who are treated for cancer also need radiation oncology services. Unlike chemotherapy, which you might have once every two or three weeks, radiation therapy treatments are generally daily for several weeks. So traveling from Door County, especially the northern part of Door County every day was a huge burden and put a lot of extra challenges on patients already dealing with the effects of cancer and treatments. Anxiety and stress play a role in a patient’s ability to go effectively through their treatment. We understood that. We had already done

Jerry Worrick, president and CEO of Ministry Door County Medical Center, with Door County Cancer Center nurses (from left) Chris Giesseman RN, Jessica Kaye RN, Sharon Murrock RN, and Arlene Junion RN. Photo by Len Villano. some regional outreach with radiation in other parts of the state and really wanted to be able to offer that in Door County as well. Everybody had the same interest – Green Bay Oncology, Ministry Medical Center and St. Vincent – and wanted to complete the package and bring more complete, state-of-the-art cancer care to patients. In 2005 we found a way to make that work together. And that’s when the Door County Cancer Center was built. “We were able then to move Green Bay Oncology medical oncology services directly into the center. And we brought the radiation oncology services there, all under one consolidated space, so the providers could work together, because medical oncologists and radiation oncologists work very closely together,” Luehring continued. “This takes the burden of travel off of

the patients. Now they can open up their minds to some of the teaching and things they need to incorporate to do well. It provides a perfect location. The space designed there is a beautiful healing space. It feels good when you walk in there. It feels comforting and healing.” “The medical oncology program that’s run by Green Bay Oncology, they are a great resource, especially the physicians who come up here. I tell people they don’t realize they have a world-class operation here,” Worrick said. “I can’t say enough about how they are a world-class group. They have all these studies and are recognized by the feds as a premiere group. They are one of only two groups in the state of Wisconsin that have access to certain experimental programming. They are super and they have all these ties to

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Madison, to Mayo. When we started the radiation oncology program, we thought if we treated 16 to 18 patients a week up here that that would be as much as we do. But there are times we treat as much as 40, 50, 60 people up here. Cancer occurs more as you get older and we’re an older community. That’s why those numbers are like that, so it’s important to have that here.” While those involved with the Door County Cancer Center realize that a small rural hospital rarely has access to such advanced cancer treatment, the community itself may not realize that. “Cancer’s one of those things, if you haven’t had to deal with it, you may not even be aware that there’s a cancer center that has all these services in Door County, until you’re faced with that in your life,” Luehring said. “We have had patients come into the cancer center through their primary care physician, and they are like, ‘We didn’t even know this is here.’ “Sometimes patients think, ‘If I want to get the latest and greatest treatment option that’s available I have to go to Madison or Milwaukee or Mayo’ or something like that,” she said. “They are available through the HSHS St. Vincent Regional Cancer Institute, and they are available in Door County. We are able to offer leading edge clinical trials, the latest treatments available

PHILANTHROPY BUILT THE CANCER CENTER By Jim Lundstrom This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Door County Cancer Center, which stands as a testament to the philanthropic nature of Door County. “It was 10 years ago when we started the campaign for the Door County Cancer Center,” said Mike Herlache, executive director of the Door County Medical Center Foundation. “Before the cancer center was built by the hospital, there was only chemotherapy treatments going on, and even that was being provided in a very small space, one room. All the patients were going to one room for treatment, so there was no patient confidentiality. Sometimes the patients didn’t mind that because they could talk with others, but it wasn’t that great a situation. There was no radiation therapy at that time, so anybody who needed radiation therapy needed to travel to Green Bay or elsewhere. When you’re going through radiation treatments, the last thing you want to do is drive 50 miles or more one way to get that done. So there was a huge need for that.” So, with the idea of creating a cancer treatment center for the 21st century, the foundation started a campaign to raise funds for the center. “We put together a $3 million campaign and raised that money within a year to build the current cancer center facility,” Herlache said. “That facility contains 10 chemotherapy treatment rooms. It also has an area that provides radiation treatment, for the first time in the community. It really ended the need to leave Door County for most cancer treatments.” How in the world did the campaign achieve its lofty goal in one year? “Because Door County is a wonderful philanthropic place. It really is,” Herlache said. “I always attribute it to the island mentality that we have here. We’re on the Door Peninsula, I understand that. We’re isolated from just about anything else big city-wise, so the people of this community, not only the permanent residents but

what I call snowbirds, demanded that our services – not just health care services, but many services in Door County – are big city-like. It was very important that we have fully integrated health care services, and the community understands that. They stepped up for us numerous times. It’s not just the cancer center. “Starting in 2001 we actually started what we call Our Legacy of Quality Health Care Campaign at the hospital, and that was to replace and update all the patient care facilities at the hospital,” Herlache continued. “We had 10 years to do that. We actually started with a surgical services addition. The second project was Door County Cancer Center. The third project was the Women’s and Children’s Health Center. And the fourth and final, and the largest project we did, the in-patient services addition, which included brand-new patient rooms and a brand-new emergency room. Altogether, these additions were $40 million. We raised about $11 million of those costs from the community. It’s an incredible story. Whenever I get the chance, I like to tell that story. It’s been an unbelievable last 10 years.”

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Bold Ship Captains, Brave Seaman, Innovative Shipbuilders, Rugged Fisherman & Stalwart Lighthouse Keepers

Get Involved!

Members, Volunteers, and Donors

are the heart of our organization. Won’t you join us today?

Yesterday’s Accomplishments Cana Island Light Station

• In collaboration with the Door County Parks Department:

Illuminating our Heritage Phase I: Restoration of Cana Island Light Station’s Keeper’s House and Light Tower - 75% complete

• Land acquistion and parking lot construction

Today’s Excitement Gills Rock

• New “Death’s Door” exhibit • New interactive exhibit using Augmented Reality technology to bring items in the museum to life

Sturgeon Bay

• New “Sea Dogs” exhibit

Cana Island Light Station - Illuminating our Heritage

• Phase I: To be completed • Phase II: Restoration of Cana Island Light Station’s Oil House, Privy and Storage Building

Tomorrow’s Vision A Sustaining Endowment Create your legacy to ensure maritime stories are told through ongoing support of the Museum’s day-to-day operations

Maritime Observation Tower An icon on Sturgeon Bay’s waterfront

Door County Maritime Museum I www.DCMM.org

120 N. Madison Avenue l Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 l (920) 743.5958

In Appreciation

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through our HSHS St. Vincent Cancer Research Institute. Because the doctors that come to Door County are part of our research program, they are able to offer those things, clinical trials, to patients in Door County. That’s another fabulous option. Smaller communities just can’t offer that kind of clinical trial because the infrastructure that it takes is impossible. So that is another huge benefit.” The most important piece of equipment for radiation treatment is the linear accelerator, which is used to deliver high-energy x-rays to cancerous tumors. “Now we’re at that point, 10 years later, it’s time technology-wise to replace the linear accelerator,” said Worrick. The new linear accelerator was installed in January 2015. Worrick said some patients still had to travel to Green Bay for specialized treatment, but with the upgrade, fewer still will have to make the journey. “Now, I think that’s going to be cut down to almost zero,” he said. “That brings the latest generation of technology in radiation therapy services to Door County as well,” Luehring said. “So we will be able to offer the same type of treatment – called imageguided radiation therapy – in Door County, the same thing patients get in Green Bay.” Luehring points out that it takes dedication and support from many quarters to make this successful partnership work.

the hospital’s been a great partner in working with us on that. So they have brought all of those components to the collaboration,” she said. “The other piece that is important, that has come from Ministry Door County Medical Center, is the rest of the medical staff, like the primary care physicians of North Shore. Obviously they are devoted and committed to providing good quality care for patients close to home. They’ve been very supportive of having this resource there as well and have a great working relationship with oncologists coordinating care. “There are a lot of specialists,” she said. “Cancer care takes a huge team of specialists in order to deliver care. It’s not a one-doctor show. Neurosurgeons, radiologists, pathologists are all very important to the diagnosing and figuring out what stage the cancer is at and the best treatment plan for that patient. We’ve had great support and everybody is really focused on keeping care local for our patients. “The other group I don’t want to leave out because they are so important is hospital administration. We have such passionate and solid support from Ministry Door County Medical Center in this collaborative effort. It’s certainly the building itself and all the effort and work it took to do that, and the foundation and fundraising, everything that goes on with that. They have been extremely supportive. Not only that, but making sure we get the word out and that people know we have these resources available. I think after a decade, we really have it very fine tuned.”

CANCER FACTS In 16 years, cancer will become the leading cause of death in the United States, surpassing heart disease, according to a new report from the American Society of Clinical Oncology. The number of new cancer cases is expected to increase nearly 45 percent by 2030, from 1.6 million cases to 2.3 million cases annually. In Wisconsin from 2006 to 2010, an average of 28,926 residents were diagnosed with invasive cancers each year, and more than 11,000 died of these diseases annually. Males have higher cancer incidence and mortality rates than females, and cancer rates increase with age, most dramatically after age 50. The overall cancer incidence and mortality rates in Wisconsin are similar to rates reported for the nation. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in Wisconsin, with a yearly (2006-2010) average of 1,591 men and 1,316 women dying from the disease. Cigarette smoking causes the majority of all lung cancer deaths in Wisconsin. More people die from lung cancer than from breast, prostate and colorectal cancers combined. In Wisconsin, lung cancer killed an average of 2,906 residents per year during the five year period 2006 through 2010, and an average of 3,838 new cases of lung cancer were diagnosed each year. More women die each year of lung cancer than breast cancer. The lung cancer incidence rate was 62.0 per 100,000 for Wisconsin, marginally higher than the national lung cancer incidence rate of 61.4 per 100,000. Cancer is currently the leading cause of death in Wisconsin, with a 2010 mortality rate of 173.7. Heart disease is the second leading cause of death, with a mortality rate of 163.3 that same year. Nationally, heart disease remains the leading cause of death; the 2010 heart disease mortality was 177.2 and cancer mortality was 171.8. Prostate cancer ranks as the second leading cause of cancer death for men, accounting for 11 percent of male cancer deaths, while breast cancer ranks as the second leading cause of cancer death for women at 14 percent. Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in Wisconsin residents for males and females combined. Wisconsin males have a higher mortality rate from colorectal cancer than do females. Source: Wisconsin Cancer Facts & Figures

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A Focus on Quality and Quantity of Life By JIM LUNDSTROM

r. David Groteluschen, a medical oncologist with Green Bay Oncology, views himself as a guide helping people navigate a world skewed by a cancer diagnosis. “I don’t think medicine is always about fixing people,” he said. “I think it is about guiding people and figuring out the best way to take care of our life. We all know we are going on a journey. Journeys have beginnings and endings. I really appreciate oncology for not only worrying about how to fix people, but also focusing on quality of life when we can’t fix people. That’s

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sometimes as important as giving people medicine.” Groteluschen has been practicing oncology for 13 years and is excited by the many advances that have been made just in that amount of time. “It’s extremely exciting with the amount of treatments and targeted therapies,” he said. “I think we’re at a very interesting point. The old way we used to do treatment, we gave people very hard drugs. It would do a good job of killing the cancer, but it would also make people sick. About 10 years ago we came up with drugs that did not cause nausea and vomiting. So

now people could get their chemotherapy treatments as an outpatient. They wouldn’t have to be in a hospital so they could still go to work and carry on with their lives. The chemotherapy might still be toxic, but we have better medicines to make their side effects better. We started seeing the survival increase when we started doing that. Our two goals are quality and quantity of life. In the old days we sometimes had to make a choice about quantity and sacrifice quality. Now we can talk about quantity of life and not sacrifice quality. We’re still far away from ‘the cure,’ but we’re much closer to what I call a cure in some ways because we are

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able to maintain a quality of life and keep people from dying from cancer.

ing things. But the way I always talk to my patients, we’re making it almost like a chronic disease state, just like diabetes or high blood pressure. We can get control of the cancer and keep it under control. With these new targeted drugs, with either pills or IVs, we can give that to people to maintain it so it doesn’t grow and they’re not sick.”

“Now we’re at a crossroads,” he continued. “In our advanced world of finding mutations and genetics and how they’ve mapped the genome, we’re actually now able to find drugs that can target the cancer and seek that out like a heat-seeking missile and don’t hurt the rest of you. It’s exciting, Groteluschen said but we have a long way certain treatments have to go. They don’t work much more success in as well as we want, but terms of survival and they do work and they targeted therapy. Dr. David Groteluschen don’t make people sick. “We put a lot of research into breast We’re making people do better for a longer period of time. We’re not cur- cancer and colon cancer in the last three

AGE-ADJUSTED INCIDENCE RATES, 2007 – 2011 Incidence rates state the number of people estimated to be diagnosed with cancer per 100,000 people. For example, the U.S. incident rate for all cancers between 2007 and 2011 is 459.8, which means that approximately 460 people out of every 100,000 were diagnosed with cancer in that time period. The age-adjusted incidence rate adjusts age distribution differences so different populations can be compared. Source: statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov. All Cancers Door County: 460.5; Mortality 157.6 Wis.: 462.1; Mortality 174.6 U.S.: 459.8; Mortality 173.8

Cervix Door County: 3 or fewer Wis.: 5.9; Mortality 1.5 U.S.: 7.8; Mortality 2.3

Bladder Door County: 3 or fewer Wis.: 22.9; Mortality 4.7 U.S.: 20.9; Mortality 4.4

Childhood (to age 15) Door County: 3 or fewer Wis.: 15.9; Mortality 2.3 U.S.: 16.0; Mortality 2.2

Brain & ONS (other nervous system) Door County: 8.1; Mortality 9.3 (highest in state) Wis.: 7.7; Mortality 5.0 U.S.: 6.7; Mortality 4.3

Childhood (to age 20) Door County: 3 or fewer Wis.: 17.6; Mortality 2.3 U.S.: 17.3; Mortality 2.4

Breast Door County: 140.8; Mortality 18 Wis.: 124.8; Mortality 21.0 U.S.: 122.7; Mortality 22.2

Colon & Rectum Door County: 37.75; Mortality 12.1 Wis.: 41.8; Mortality 14.8 U.S.: 43.3; Mortality 15.9

Breast in situ (when pre-cancerous cells remain in place without invading other cells). Door County: 29.0 Wis.: 32.2 U.S.: 31

Esophagus Door County: 3 or fewer Wis.: 5.5; Mortality 4.8 U.S.: 4.8; Mortality 4.2

to four years,” he said. “We’re starting to develop targeted drugs for lung cancer, and that’s really exciting because we’ve never really had any good, classic chemotherapy for lung cancer, and lung cancer has always been a deadly cancer. Even though we’ve had these advances with new drugs, lung cancer is still our biggest killer. Ovarian cancer has targeted therapies. In the last year we’ve seen a number of targeted drugs for melanoma. That’s for a disease – melanoma – where we really had no good treatments at all. There are still some where we are way behind the eight ball. Pancreatic cancer, we’re still looking for those targeted drugs. There are some we are still trying to catch up on.”

Kidney & Renal Pelvis Door County: 14.96; Mortality 3 or fewer Wis.: 16.6; Mortality 4.4 U.S.: 15.9; Mortality 4.0

Ovary Door County: 13.65; Mortality 3 or fewer Wis.: 12.9; Mortality 8.7 U.S.: 12.0; Mortality 7.9

Leukemia Door County: 19.39; Mortality 3 or fewer Wis.: 16.1; Mortality 8.0 U.S.: 12.9; Mortality 7.0

Pancreas Door County: 12.73; 11.98 Wis.: 12.7; Mortality 11.3 U.S.: 12.1; Mortality 10.9

Liver & Bile Duct Door County: 3 or fewer Wis.: 5.9; Mortality 5.0 U.S.: 7.1; Mortality 5.8

Prostate Door County: 141.6; Mortality 21.36 Wis.: 139.2; Mortality 24.3 U.S.: 142.3; Mortality 22.3

Lung & Bronchus Door County: 52.2; Mortality 38 Wis.: 62.1; Mortality 46.8 U.S.: 64.9; Mortality 48.4

Stomach Door County: 3 or fewer Wis.: 6.1; Mortality 2.9 U.S.: 6.7; Mortality 3.5

Melanoma of the Skin Door County: 35.1 (highest in the state); Mortality 3 or fewer Wis.: 19.5; Mortality 2.7 U.S.: 19.7; Mortality 2.7

Thyroid Door County: 3 or fewer Wis.: 11.4; Mortality 0.6 U.S.: 13.1; Mortality 0.5

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Door County: 23.89; Mortality 3 or fewer Wis.: 20.6; Mortality 6.8 U.S.: 19.3; Mortality 6.3

Uterus Door County: 30.7; Mortality 3 or fewer Wis.: 28.2; Mortality 4.7 U.S.: 25.0; Mortality 4.3

Oral Cavity & Pharynx Door County: 11.06; Mortality 3 or fewer Wis.: 11.3; Mortality 2.4 U.S.: 11.2; Mortality 2.5

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People have used the term “cancer epidemic” to describe the rate of cancer in northeastern Wisconsin and Door County. “I think it is the older population. The older you get, the higher incidence of cancer,” Groteluschen said. “The demographics of Door County are one of older population. I think the other thing is improved screening. Prostate cancer screening, mammogram screening, colonoscopies. People in Door County – and the Midwest for the most part – have fairly good insurance and are more likely to see their doctors and have routine screenings. Yes, a lot of people get diagnosed with cancer, but if you have good health care, if we detect it early, that’s actually great. If we detect something early, we can cure you. Really the one cure right now is early detection. That’s still the biggest cure.” Groteluschen said Green Bay Oncology is a big believer in bringing care close to people’s homes. “We’ve been fortunate enough to partner with Door County hospital and the Affinity system here and [CEO] Jerry Worrick,” he said. “They have done a great job. We really try to support each other to build a cancer center. The doctors here are wonderful, the primary care physicians and the surgeons, they do a great job working with us. We’re able to bring our expertise here. We bring clinical trials up here so people can enroll in clinical trials and don’t have to travel. That’s the new drugs I’m talking about. The fact we can bring that here is pretty amazing. We started as a one-day a week clinic and now we’re here four days a week. We think it’s a great place to practice and very important to bring that care here.”

CANCER CARE HAS COME A LONG WAY Jody Boes, vice president of patient care administration at Ministry Door County Medical Center, has worked with local cancer care since the services were first offered at the hospital. “When we started with cancer services, it was through outreach through Green Bay Oncology,” she said. “We started out with one-half day a week. Then a full day. Then I remember gearing up for two days, and then gearing up for three days. I think about that journey. The unfortunate thing is that we had that volume of patients to fill those openings in the schedule. The fortunate thing is that you can receive this excellent care with incredible physicians, with state of the art radiology with the new linear accelerator. It’s wonderful to be able to get that level of care so close to home. I’ve been here four-plus decades and I think of all the new services we’ve added here, our cancer center is the most positively received and thanked for new service we’ve initiated here at Ministry Door County Medical Center. We look at it as survivorship. That term is so important. It’s about treatments and survivorship. “I’ve seen us hire nursing staff and watched them grow to the outstanding professionals that they are with incredible knowledge and experience around cancer care,” she said. “What I believe is second to none is the amount of caring that our staff provides to our patients and the special things that they do for our patients in terms of their caring, taking care of the whole person – mind, body and spirit. “Keeping that cancer care close to home is so important,” Boes continued. “When they receive that cancer diagnosis, they are

Jody Boes at the most vulnerable point in their life. To be able to provide this quality of care right here in Door County is really a testimony to the organization, Green Bay Oncology and HSHS St. Vincent’s. That collaborative approach to ensure our community receives the best care is outstanding.” Boes said the latest development at the cancer center is launching a Navigator program, with one member of the nursing staff being assigned to a new cancer patient. “That nurse will partner with that patient and go through the journey with the patient by navigating their care through primary care, through radiology and just being able to help that patient navigate the health care system,” she said. “We’re starting out on a pilot project with breast cancer and plan on expanding. That’s something Green Bay Oncology has been very instrumental in starting.”

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Retreats for Breast Cancer Patients By JIM LUNDSTROM “Most of my energy was devoted to physically healing my body while my spirit remained bruised and damaged. Thank you for the gift of allowing me to ‘Take a breath.’” “The opportunity to laugh, cry, relax, and be with women who know what I’m going through has been incredible!”

hose are two responses from women who have taken part in the Infinite Boundaries Retreat held by Breast Cancer Recovery, a Madison-based group dedicated to “providing environments for women breast cancer survivors to heal emotionally.” “We have ladies who come in and basically say they wouldn’t know what do without this, it’s saved their lives and allowed them to get back on track,” said Gail Riedach, executive director of Breast Cancer Recovery. “It allows them to emotionally deal with what they’ve been through and put it all in perspective.” Breast Cancer Recovery was founded in 1997 by the late Ann Haney and a single retreat was held on Madeline Island in Bayfield County, but the group soon made connections to Door County and now holds a retreat in June at Björklunden in Baileys Harbor and another at Birch Creek in October. “Our founder, who passed more than 10 years go now, she found healing in nature. That is a big key,” Riedach said. “That’s why we really like the locations we have. Even if the weather isn’t great, they come away for the four days. Don’t worry about

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what’s going on at home. This is the time for them to focus on themselves.” During the Door County retreats, Riedach said the group has teamed with Tim Pflieger and his Team Leadership Center to do the zipline at the center. “Tim is just awesome,” Riedach said. “It’s a chance for women to get back in touch. They can do a lot more than they think they can. The title of our retreats are Infinite Boundaries. We tell our ladies that there are no boundaries. You need to go out and do things. We have that component. We also have a creative arts component where we let them express their emotions. The retreat groups are purposely kept small, to about 14 women, and besides a staff person, volunteers who are also breast cancer survivors help at the retreats.

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Riedach said the most important parts of the retreats are the discussion and interaction between the women who have survived breast cancer. The treatment may be over, but there often are mental and emotional hurdles they have yet to come to terms with.

retreat whose families have said, ‘Buck up. Get over it.’ But there are a lot of residual things to deal with,” Riesdach said. “They get the chance to talk to other people who’ve gone down that same road. Many of the ladies stay connected long after the retreat ends.”

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Alternative Treatment A science-based approach at the Center for Optimal Health By JIM LUNDSTROM

ast August, Jody, 39, was diagnosed with cancer and was told there is no effective treatment for her. Since then she has had multiple surgeries. “They keep cutting and pasting me back together,” she said. “I was feeling like the walking dead or a sitting duck.” In November she was at a dinner party where she met an employee of the Center for Optimal Health who told her about the center’s Cancer Thriver program. She met with center founder/director Nicole James in late November and decided to enter the program. About six weeks into the program, Jody said, “They really treat the big picture, the health of both the mind and the body. Each team member brings a different skill. For the first time I feel there is hope. I’m doing something.” Her regimen includes working with a food coach, following a strict diet, getting high dosages of vitamin C via IV, taking other supplements and enzymes, meeting with an energy coach and taking infrared saunas at the center in downtown Sturgeon Bay. “I have had two more surgeries I thought were the end of the road,” Jody said. “Both biopsies were benign. Was it luck, or what I’m doing? I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing.” “There’s a cancer epidemic in Door County,” James said. “It’s not some-

thing a lot of people talk about, and there’s definitely not a lot of talk about what’s going on and how can we prevent it. We give people an option to the traditional approaches. We’re not against traditional approaches by any means. We need it. We’re thankful for it. But sometimes it doesn’t always work for people. They don’t really have anywhere else to go. We wanted to provide a support for people, whether they choose to do the Western route or if they say, I’m going to go completely alternative.” Dr. David Groteluschen, a medical oncologist who practices with Green Bay Oncology and sees patients at Door County Cancer Center, is a supporter of alternative medicine. “I think the best outcomes are when patients do both traditional and alternative medicine,” he said. “One of the things traditional or Western medicine has done poorly, we haven’t looked at alternative treatments. There are studies looking into diet and the carcinogens in what we eat and what we do. In the last two to five years, we’re starting to say, what other things can we do to improve this? I always tell people, most of our chemotherapies were alternative medicines until they were studied and became medicines. There are a lot of answers out there in the world that we have no idea about. The alternative medicines our patients bring in, I support it. Just let us know what you’re doing. If you feel well doing something, you should do it.”

Nicole James. Photos by Len Villano. James was inspired to enter the medical field by seeing the effects of cancer firsthand. “When I was a teenager, I watched my grandma go through cancer,” she said. “She went through radiation and chemotherapy. At the time, they actually would do it at the same time, and it almost killed her. It was awful for me as a teenager to watch my grandmother go through this and eventually die from it. That inspired me to go into the medical field.” She was pursuing a traditional medicine route as an undergraduate at the University of California, but then veered into traditional Chinese medicine. “When I was in grad school for traditional Chinese medicine, I started working for doctors in an integrated clinic,” she said. “They were getting people off medications, reversing diabetes by looking at nutrition, which I thought was impossible, looking at the function of the body, giving the body what it’s missing, what it needs.” James has since earned certification as a nutritional consultant, a functional medicine practitioner and a doctor of pastoral medicine.

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pable of killing cancer cells, so we want to utilize what is already there. “We work with a very specific diet, called a ketogenic diet [a high-fat, lowcarb diet that has been used to treat epilepsy] that basically starves the cancer cells. It’s very effective. Unfortunately, we don’t hear a lot about it because you can’t patent it and put it in a pill. “So when I moved here about five years ago, I saw there was a huge need for this type of medicine. I started from my home and have grown,” she said. While alternative medicine has a large following on the West Coast, James quickly found that little is known about it in the Midwest. “There is a lot of judgment on alternative and holistic medicine. I try to bridge that gap because what we do here is very science-based,” she said. “I try to be clear in how I present myself. I don’t treat cancer here. We treat patients with cancer, which is a big difference.” Another of her patients, Denise, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2013. “I went through chemo and surgery and radiation. They thought everything looked good, but a couple cells got away,” she said. They found a tumor in the wall of her stomach and scheduled another round of chemotherapy. “It was too much for me. It wears you down. I was getting weaker and weaker, and decided chemo wasn’t the way to go,” Denise said. She met with James “and jumped aboard. I like everything they do. They

are very supportive. They built me back up and I’m probably even stronger than I was when I started,” she said. She is back doing chemotherapy again for the tumor in her stomach wall, “but I feel like my body can help now. I’m very happy. They can’t promise anybody that they can cure cancer, but they are able to improve your quality of life.” The first thing James does with a new patient is go through their medical records to see everything they have been through. Then come blood, stool and urine tests conducted at the center’s own lab. “We peer inside their body to take a look at what’s going on with various tests,” she said. “Then I give the body what it’s missing and take away what shouldn’t be there. And then we really support what we call the terrain. We support the immune system, which is a lot of where current research in cancer is going. Our immune system is ca-

“I’ve got a great team of women surrounding me,” James continued. “We have men and women who come in who have been recently diagnosed or maybe have been through the gamut of treatments and it just hasn’t worked or the cancer has come back and they don’t want to do it anymore. We start giving them nutrients based on what their reports are telling me. The body functions really well. Everything tends to improve. They sleep better, their pain levels go down, their stress levels, which is a huge part of cancer, that’s a main thing we work with. We have an amazing energy worker, Katherine McCabe, who does energy treatments with patients and Qi Gong, a kind of moving meditation class, for patients or anybody in the community. That’s so much a part of it, the mind-body connection. It’s a very personalized approach. Everybody’s on a different protocol based on what we see or what they need.” The Center for Optimal Health is located at 242 Michigan St., Suite 202, Sturgeon Bay. Or visit them online at dcoptimalhealth.net.

Jim Lundstrom has been toiling in the inky fields of journalism longer than some of his current colleagues have been alive, and still learns from them every day.

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4 Leading by Example In this year’s Philanthopy Issue we bring you the stories of four people inspiring others in our community (presented here in no particular order).

Carrying on Bo’s Legacy Annika Johnson By Alyssa Skiba

n Sept. 28, 2012, Sister Bay resident Bo Johnson, 13, died after a yearlong battle with Extramedullary Acute Myeloid Leukemia. It was a battle that brought together the entire Door County community and inspired the creation of the GO BO! Foundation, through which his legacy carries on today. While orange ribbons and shirts filled the peninsula in support of Bo’s fight (which began in October 2011), Clark Erickson, whose son was friends with Bo, organized a GO BO! Fund to support Bo and his mother, Annika, through his treatment. Using the funds, Bo purchased a tablet computer to keep in touch with friends on social media and a few other items. When it was clear that he needed nothing else, Bo made a simple request. “He said, ‘I don’t need anything, mom. I don’t want anything else. Can’t

we just put this in something else where we can help other kids?’” Annika recalled. While Bo continued his courageous fight, Annika set forth to make her son’s wish come true and in the winter of 2012, just months after he passed away, the GO BO! Fund officially became the GO BO! Foundation. Its mission is three-tiered: to bring hope to children with life-threatening medical conditions by funding research, supporting treatment, and helping families during times of financial need. It was a mission born from Annika and Bo’s shared experience staying at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee while Bo underwent chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant. Day in and day out, Annika witnessed the reality faced by the children on the Hematology, Oncology and Transplant Unit, where Bo stayed during much of his treatment. While teddy bears and yo-yo’s brought smiles to their faces, those items weren’t making a real difference

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in the children’s lives. What needed to happen was research to prevent, and someday cure, life-threatening conditions and in the meantime, to provide financial assistance to the families whose lives were turned upside down by a diagnosis. Since its inception two years ago, the GO BO! Foundation has done just that, providing financial assistance to more than a handful of Door County children and their families, as well as major donations to both the Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer, Inc. (MACC) Fund and the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin (CHW). In fact, under Annika’s leadership and strict adherence to the mission of helping fund research, the foundation served as a major catalyst in securing funds to support bone marrow transplant research at CHW through its first major donation. On Feb. 13, 2013, the GO BO! Foundation contributed $75,000 to create the Dr. David A. Margolis Chair in Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant, which would help secure funding from

the National Institute of Health for research projects. At the time, Dr. David A. Margolis (program director for bone marrow transplants at CHW and one of Bo’s doctors) had been fundraising for eight years to create the pediatric chair. Newspaper photos of the GO BO! Foundation’s donation inspired further donations and by the end of February 2013, Dr. Margolis had raised the remaining funds and secured the chair. For Annika, that ripple effect was the result of the very necessary spark she feels inspires people to act, be it on behalf of the GO BO! Foundation or other organizations. While she serves as the foundation’s go-to individual, Annika is quick to point out that she was spurred to action by each and every individual who has contributed to the GO BO! Foundation. “We kind of want to start a chain reaction, no matter what it is you want to do,” Annika said. “There’s got to be something that sparks you to do it.”

Helping the Fight Against Breast Cancer Carrie Baldwin Smith

t was the fall of 1997 when Carrie Baldwin Smith’s mother, Sue Baldwin, first received the devastating diagnosis: she had breast cancer. Like all women faced with the startling find, Sue looked ahead at what would be a painful and difficult road – two years of chemotherapy, thousands of dollars in medical expenses, and complete disruption of her normal life. The good news came two years later when Sue was declared cancer-free. It is a storyline not unlike those of other women who have battled breast cancer. In fact, according to the American Cancer Society, almost 300,000 women are estimated to be diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S. in 2015 – approximately 13 percent of whom will lose their fight. But what is uncommon in Sue’s story is the wake of positive actions that have occurred here in Door County following her remission.

Carrie Baldwin Smith with daughters Camilla (left) and Nora. Photo by Len Villano.

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Sue’s daughter, Carrie, was only 21 years old when her mother faced her first bout with cancer (Sue later had a second bout, which she also survived). On the 10-year anniversary of her mother’s remission, Carrie decided that the fortune her family had experienced in Sue’s survival warranted a grander gesture of goodwill to those still engaged in the battle. With her contagious charisma and an entrepreneurial nature, Carrie used her passions for golf and event planning to organize a golf event, “The Pink Classic: An Event to Prevent.” Despite great competition for charity dollars and the unknown factor of a new and unproven event, Carrie successfully rallied 120 golfers and dozens of community members to participate and raise money for the cause. The event wildly exceeded expectations, raising more than $20,000. “There was such a draw to it,” Carrie said of that first year. “We made it fun. We made it a positive event.” Through the Pink Classic, Carrie has revealed a wide network of Door County individuals impacted by breast cancer (both directly and indirectly) seeking to help those in need – not just in terms of the harsh medical realities, but also in terms of how breast cancer patients experience this scary time in their lives. That network has blossomed into a broad legion of volunteers and event participants who together have raised more than $100,000 since the event began in 2008. In 2013, Carrie and the Pink Classic organizers officially formed the Sue Baldwin Fund, a nonprofit providing breast cancer awareness, prevention

and care for Door County residents. The fund has helped women by providing financial support in the form of gas cards, rent, medical bills, propane, tires and utilities. It has also provided care packages to Ministry Door County Medical Center for women battling breast cancer and funded one patient’s attendance at a breast cancer recovery retreat (read more about recovery retreats on page 23). “It’s a scary time,” Baldwin Smith said. “It’s hard for a woman, especially when they’re losing a body part, to wrap their head around it. I want women to know there is a community out there that will help you. I want be here when they need to reach out to somebody.”

Helping Cancer Survivors Livestrong Christine Webb-Miller By Laurel Duffin Hauser

hristine Webb-Miller’s eyes light up as she speaks about her work with cancer survivors. The more she talks, the more animated she becomes and her hands move fast enough to raise an average person’s resting heart rate. Her passion for her work and her compassion for the people she works with is palatable. Webb-Miller is the program manager for the Door County YMCA’s Livestrong, a small-group exercise and movement program designed to empower cancer survivors through cardiovascular strength and flexibility training.

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“Cancer takes away control. My job is to empower people to regain that control by regaining their strength.” Webb-Miller cites studies that show that even moderate physical activity can impact emotional well-being and may even lower the risk of recurrence. “One spills over into the other. Making a move in the right direction, just coming to class twice a week, can change a mindset that leads to other positive changes.” One of Webb-Miller’s goals is to demystify the YMCA experience. “There might be a perception out there that everyone who uses the Y is a fitness nut with a perfect workout wardrobe, and that’s not the case. And things like tai chi and yoga can be intimidating until you try them. I work hard to break down barriers and there’s nothing

more gratifying than having someone who was uncertain about a new activity say ‘I can do this!’” “One thing I’ve learned is that cancer survivors are tough. There’s a survival instinct that kicks in and they’re tougher than they may even know. It’s fun to watch people get stronger, to hear that they have more energy or that it’s easier for them to lift their grandchildren. It’s fun to see them surprise themselves.” Webb-Miller had been teaching fitness classes at the YMCA for nearly 25 years when she was approached to manage the Livestrong program. She underwent extensive training through the national YMCA and instructed her first class in 2011.

“I have a background in exercise and movement, but there’s a lot more involved with this. It goes way beyond training someone to use a treadmill or weight machine. I’m here to listen and I do a lot of that. It helps that I’m a stranger, but not a stranger. I’m a safe ear. I can listen without the judgment or investment a friend or family member might have. “Cancer creates a new norm for people. Sometimes the people in your life want or expect you to go back to the old norm and that’s understandable. When you’re here, it’s okay to admit that this might not be happening in the way others wish.” Webb-Miller emphasizes that participants can share as much or as little

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In 2011, Linda Miller knew that she needed to do something drastic to help her husband Dale improve his health. Dale’s weight had ballooned to more than 400 lbs. limiting him at family events and resulting in his inability to perform his job functions in the shipyard. Linda’s job as a swimming instructor at the Y afforded her a free individual membership as an employee and the opportunity for Dale to not only join at a reduced cost, but more importantly change his life! While at first Dale struggled to “get moving”, he soon found that the Y’s pool “freed him up” and he began to “water run” daily. With the support of Linda, daughter Robyn, front desk staff, lifeguards and the many friends he met at the Y, Dale eventually added walking on the track and stationary cycling to his daily regimen. Now 230 lbs. lighter, Dale is grateful for the support he found at the Y which helped him on his newfound path to a healthier life!

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as they’d like, but her goal is that they all go away feeling supported. “We know what it takes for people to make it to this class and we all ‘get it.’ We’ve had people get sick in the class, we’ve had them take off their wig for the first time or adjust a prosthesis in the pool. It’s a level playing field and there’s a sense that we’re all in it together.” Webb-Miller knows that she’s changed lives, but the change isn’t one directional. “I’ve changed, too. Working with cancer survivors has made me a more empathetic person. I’m more considerate when people are going through tough times, not just with cancer but with other challenges, too. I give people some of my time and that’s the most important thing any of us can do.’ For more information on the YMCA’s free, 12-week LIVESTRONG program, contact Christine Webb-Miller at (920) 743-4949 or livestrong@doorcountyymca.org.

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Overwhelmed by Kindness Jill Ostrand-Harding By Laurel Duffin Hauser

hen Jill Ostrand-Harding says she’s overwhelmed, she has every right to be. In August of 2013, she went from kayaking with her family one day to being hospitalized the next. “I opened my mouth to answer a question and my words came out ‘twisted.’” She was diagnosed soon after with Glioblastoma, level 4 inoperable brain cancer. Her treatments have included chemotherapy and radiation. She’s had her skull screwed to a metal collar. She’s endured muscular damage on the right side of her body as a result of the initial biopsy. She handles all of these things stoically. “Every once in a great while, I allow myself a ‘pity party’ and cry my eyes out. They tell me it’s healthy,” she laughs. Today when her eyes tear up, it’s not because of what she’s endured physically; it’s because of the overwhelming number of kindnesses she’s received.

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be stressed about! It’s how I interacted with the world. I worked in corporate America and always pushed myself. In some ways, I’m afraid I wasn’t a very nice person. I was so busy being busy.” Ostrand-Harding is intent on being less busy (“I played with my cat for half an hour the other day!”) and returning the kindness she’s received.

Jill Ostrand-Harding. Photo by Len Villano. “I feel so blessed. I can’t believe how many people have sent notes or delivered food or left gas cards. Many days, I’d lie in my bed resting and hear someone tiptoe in and leave a casserole on the counter. We left our back door open all the time.” One of the things she receives each month is a card informing her that a group at St. Joseph’s Church has prayed for her. “I’m not even Catholic! There are groups from other churches that do the same, people I don’t know. I find that overwhelming. I’m a private person about my faith, but the power of prayer has become very real to me.” And it’s not just the kindness of friends and strangers that overwhelms her. Ostrand-Harding’s stepdaughter Kendra surprised her at Christmas with a box of brightly colored paper

cranes, hundreds of them hand-folded, one for each day of the year. “She did this over the course of a semester. On the wing of each crane she wrote a word.” Ostrand-Harding pulls out one that says “courage.” She then picks up a small note that her husband Mike left on the counter that morning – three or four sentences of encouragement ending with ‘I love you.’ She smooths it between her hands. “I save every one of these. He probably doesn’t know that.” Ostrand-Harding looks back to the time before her diagnosis and recalls having slight headaches that she attributed to stress. “I was always stressed. I was stressed about work and stressed about bills.” She shakes her head and laughs. “I was stressed about whatever I could find to

Alyssa Skiba is the Arts, Entertainment and Literature Editor for the Peninsula Pulse and Door County Living. She was born and raised in Seymour, Wisconsin, and earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater. Alyssa lived and worked in southcentral Wisconsin for the past several years before honoring her heart’s desire to get back to northeast Wisconsin. She fell in love with Door County during a hiking trip to Peninsula State Park in 2009 and is happy to finally call it home.

“Cancer changes you. I sometimes wonder if it’s what had to happen to me to make me slow down. I don’t want to be one of those people who think they’ve got it all figured out, but if I can help others who are going through this, I would like to. I would like to help them not be so afraid. If I’ve got three days or three years or many more, I want to use them giving back.” Jill Ostrand-Harding lives with her family in the home she grew up in in Sturgeon Bay. Her extensive volunteer activities include working with her son’s wrestling program at Sturgeon Bay High School, teaching Sunday school and serving on the board of Door CANcer, a group that aids cancer patients and their families with emergency funds while they are in treatment. Information about Door CANcer is available at doorcancer.com.

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3 1 Pam Seiler, Executive Director of the Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center, and Todd Trimberger, proprietor of Lifestyles by Bliss, at the Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center Membership Mixer on October 21, 2014. Photo courtesy of the Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center. 2 The Pink Classic Golf Tournament, held June 1, 2014 beckoned golfers young and old in their finest pink threads to play a round to benefit the Sue Baldwin Fund, helping Door County residents who are fighting breast cancer. Pictured are Sue Baldwin’s daughter (and event organizer) Carrie Baldwin Smith, and granddaughters Nora and Camilla. Photo by Len Villano. 3 Bob Desh presents an award to Tom Schueppert, who earned Best of Show with his boat Shamrock III at the Classic & Wooden Boat Festival  held at the Door County Maritime Museum on August 2 - 3, 2014. The event raised $10,978 . Photo by Steve Reinke. 4 For the second year, the Door County YMCA offered free lunches to children through August 29, 2014. Photo by Len Villano. 5 The official groundbreaking for the new Sister Bay stage in Waterfront Park took place on April 25, 2014, in Sister Bay. (Left to right) Administrator Zeke Jackson, trustee John Clove, trustee Scott Baker, president Dave Lienau, trustee Pat Duffy, facilities manager Steve Mann, utilities manager Steve Jacobson, former trustee Pam Abshire, former administrator Bob Kufrin, and trustee Nora Zacek. Submitted photo. 6 The 2014 Door County Half Marathon had 40 Run

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For A Cause participants. This group of runners raised more than $20,000 for charity in 2014, bringing the five-year program total to nearly $70,000. Photo by Len Villano. 7 More than 60 volunteers helped raise more than $28,000 for Sunshine House Inc. at Corn Fest on September 6, 2014. Corn Fest was held at Schopfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hilltop Dairy Farm. Pictured is Nick Freimuth announcing the corn-eating contest with contestants, from left to right, Kenny Kuehn, Lisa Wickert, Miss Teen Door County Sophia Pollman and Miss Door County Cora Baudhuin. Submitted photo. 8 Breakfast in the Fields is an annual event thanking the most generous Door County Land Trust donors. The annual event is designed to thank those contributors making significant gifts and always includes a tour led by the executive director. Photo by Betty Ambuel. 9 The Sister Bay Lions Club helps kids build boats at Marina Fest in Sister Bay on Labor Day weekend. Photo by Mark Kunstman. 10 Debbie Frank and Angie McMahon organized the 2nd annual Say Yes to the Paper Dress event held in Sister Bay as a benefit for We Are HOPE, Inc. A total of $4,244 was raised from the sale of artwork and silent auction items and an additional $2,000 was donated by Thrivent Financial.Â Photo by Steve Frank.

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11 11 On July 12, 2014, Friends of Plum and Pilot Islands volunteers traveled to Plum Island for a workday to clean up the 325-acre island. Volunteers, pictured here, installed trail signs made by Hannes Johnson, a Washington Island high school student. Photos by Tim Sweet. 12 Women’s Fund board members Barb Hansen, Barb Sweeney and Sherry Mutchler welcome guests to the sold-out Celebrate Women! Luncheon on August 13, 2014. Photo by Kelly Avenson. 13 Knights in shining armor were of part of the 2014 Door County Renaissance and Fantasy Faire. The nonprofit Door County Renaissance Faire group has worked with schools to encourage students to learn about this time period by providing educational programs and materials with funding from the fair. Photo by Len Villano. 14 The Jacksonport Women’s Club once again held a tree beautification program in 2014 to enhance scenic byways, back roads and lakesides. The Women’s Club partnered with Sevastopol School FFA students to help with the planting. Submitted photo.15 A crowd gathered for the Peninsula Players 2014 season preview event. The season included the world premiere of The Tin Woman, the classic whodunit And Then There Were None, the comedy The Mystery of Irma Vep, the Midwest premiere of Butler, and the return of Always…Patsy Cline. Submitted photo.

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16 On August 9, 2014, Culver’s of Sturgeon Bay donated 10 percent of all sales to the Open Door Bird Sanctuary in Jacksonport. Pictured at right is Open Door co-founder Jillaine Burton holding Aisling, the then-four-month-old Eurasian Eagle Owl being raised as the sanctuary’s educational raptor. Photo by Len Villano. 17 At the Midsummer’s Music Festival Opening Night Gala on June 13, 2014, board Vice President Mike Schmitz presented a thank you gift to Frank Dayton (left) to honor his more than 20 years of volunteerism to the festival. Photo by Mark Kunstman. 18 The Door County Maritime Museum’s Wooden Boatbuilding Class raffled off their creation at Door County events from June through October. The 2014 Whitehall was on display at the Fourth of July celebration in Baileys Harbor (pictured) and at Pumpkin Patch in Egg Harbor. The raffle raised $22,306 to benefit the museum. Photo by Amy Paul. 19 In a few short months the Sturgeon Bay Skatepark took shape on the west side of Sturgeon Bay in 2014. The groundbreaking was held on June 9, 2014, and the skatepark was opened in early September. Photos by Len Villano. 20 Former Habitat for Humanity Executive Director Rick Nelson had his head shaved by his wife, Barbara, when the agency’s fundraising goal of $15,000 was met. Submitted photo. 21 Volunteers sold cookies and soda to benefit the United Way of Door County at Sail Thru the Avenues Sidewalk Sale in Sturgeon Bay. Photo submitted by Mary Cram. 22 Friends of Gibraltar held their annual Hairpin 5K run/walk on July 4, 2014 in Fish Creek. More than 1,400 people participated in the event that raises funds for student enrichment activities at Gibraltar Area Schools. Photos by Vinni Chomeau.

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23 Door Shakespeare’s full acting ensemble performed at their 2014 annual gala, held at Woodwalk Gallery in Egg Harbor. Submitted photo. 24 Since its inception in 2001 the Door County Scottie Rally has gathered Scottish Terriers, their families and fans from across the globe. The generosity of donors and attendees are responsible for generating more than $165,000 for Scottie health research and Scottie rescue. Submitted photo. 25 Members of the SCAND Auxiliary Board of Directors gathered on January 16, 2015, to present Nicki Scharrig, resource development coordinator of Good Samaritan Scandia Village, a check for $100,000. The check is a payment on the second million-dollar pledge that the auxiliary made to the Partners in Compassion Campaign Fund for the new assisted living building and continued remodeling of Scandia Village. Submitted photo. 26 The eighth annual Bike Rodeo, geared for third through seventh grade riders, was held at Sturgeon Bay High School in May of 2014. Paul Anschutz, Bike Committee Chairman of the Door County Silent Sports Alliance, said the rodeo is about “getting kids confident and feeling safe to ride on the road.” Photo submitted by Mary Cram. 27 The Door County Humane Society was showered with gifts of cat food, bleach, blankets and more at the first-ever Kitten Shower held May 10, 2014. The humane society in turn offered guests cake, punch, games and a chance to peek at their newest litters of kittens. The event raised $974 in monetary

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donations and several hundred dollars worth of donations of cat food, paper products and more. Photo submitted by Mary Cram. 28 Good Samaritan Society – Scandia Village’s $8 million Partners in Compassion campaign saw Phase I of the three-phase project completed as residents moved into the new assisted living facility on December 17, 2014. Photo by Len Villano. 29 Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Northeastern Wisconsin went from having just two matches to more than 70 in a little more than two years. They credit a part of that success to their site-based program at Southern Door School District. Photo submitted by Kristen Mihaljevic. 30 Businesses around the county LIVE UNITED with the United Way employee campaign. Pictured here are Baylake Bank Egg Harbor employees at their Soup Sale. Submitted photo. 31 Altrusa of Door County volunteers served food and drinks for Egg Harbor’s Pumpkin Patch Festival. Photo submitted by Mary Cram. 32 Pirates in the Harbour, pictured here volunteering at the 2014 Door County Half Marathon, had a successful year raising money for Door County’s nonprofits. Their total of donations for 2014 were just short of $7,000. Photo by Suzi Haas. 33 People donned their best western getups to learn line dancing at the Living Hope Dojo fundraiser at the Institute Saloon. Photo submitted by Mary Cram.

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Youth and Outreach Programs. Photos by Alyssa Skiba. 37 (Left to right) Friends of Björklunden stalwarts Gretchen Maring ’52, Joe Hopfensperger ’52 and Barbara Larsen ’49 attended The Boynton Society Gala, an event for Björklunden patrons in Baileys Harbor, held in August 2014. The gala included food, entertainment, lectures and a Lawrence University alumni college session. Submitted photos. 38 Neighbor to Neighbor Volunteer Caregivers of Door County held their sixth annual Door County Rib Fest on November 1, 2014 at the Sturgeon Bay Yacht Club. Mary Geitner (pictured) from Mr. G’s Logan Creek Grille won in the professional category and the Young Automotive Pit Crew (Jed Ring, Scott Fittshur and Matt Young) won the amateur category. Submitted photo. 39 Door County North held the Farm & Market Trolley Tour fundraiser on September 11, 2014. The tour provided a behind-the-scenes look at local farms and markets. Koepsel’s Farm Market, Waseda Farms, Door County Creamery, Seaquist Orchards Farm Market, Grasse’s Grill and Island Orchard Cider were featured on the tour. Submitted photo. 40 The Baileys Harbor Community Association hosted a number of events in 2014, including the very first Winter Carnival in February. The organization also hosts a Christmas in the Harbor celebration and a Halloween party for kids and their families. Submitted photo. 41 Members of the Door County Boys and Girls Club sold hamburgers and hot dogs during the February 2014 Fire and Ice Carving Competition at Martin Park to raise funds for their organization. Photo submitted by the Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center. 42 Lilly Fellner gives the camera a big thumbs up as she gets a new, custom-fit mouthguard during Door County Dental Care’s sixth annual Free Athletic Mouthguard Day on July 24, 2014. All area student athletes were invited to receive a custom-fit, professionally made, team colorcoordinated mouthguard free of charge. Submitted photo. Send your celebration photos to info@doorcountyliving.com for possible inclusion in next year’s Philanthropy Issue. Please identify all people in photos as well as full photo credit information.

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Community Philanthropy By BRET BICOY

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articipation is the new endowment.”

As the Director of the Community Strategies Group at the Aspen Institute, Topolsky has long been a leading advocate for the creation of broad, flexible community endowment funds everywhere, and in rural communities in particular.

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With the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation’s release of a report titled “The Value of Community Philanthropy,” a panel discussion of experts was convened to discuss the issue. It was there that I came across this quote from Janet Topolsky.

Topolsky’s premise is that small cities and rural communities essentially operate “from paycheck to paycheck.” Tax dollars and the annual campaigns of nonprofits in small communities often struggle to meet current needs. Like a family with little savings, rural communities then often have nothing left over to deal with a large overarching community issue or unexpected challenge. Building a community endowment fund creates a permanent, flexible, and locally controlled pool of assets that can be deployed to address these large local concerns. As Topolsky once wrote, “Permanent philanthropic capital that is of, by, and for the community is a missing link in the bundle of assets that all communities need to build better, more independent, desired futures.”

nity foundation is the only institution that is actively trying to build these flexible community endowment funds that can be used to meet any community need. While community foundations have been around for more than a century in the largest cities across the country, they are a relatively new phenomenon in small communities. In fact, of the approximately 1,500 community foundations in the world, roughly 80 percent of them were created in the last 25 years, and most of them in small cities or rural communities. At the Door County Community Foundation we’re only 16 years old. Hence, with so many young small community foundations, we’re only just beginning to truly understand the broader implications of this movement to build rural community endowments.

In most small cities and rural communities, the modest, local commu-

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Topolsky wrote, “About two years ago it dawned on me: Small rural communities that were working hard to build a community fund seemed to be experiencing significant positive nonfinancial effects well beyond the slow but steady amassing of permanent philanthropic capital.” That’s what Topolsky means when she said, “Participation is the new endowment.” We are finding inherent and often unexpected benefits that come from a community working together to build a pool of philanthropic assets beyond the value of the money itself. “There appears to be a new force in philanthropy driven by ordinary people working from the bottom up of our societies, rather than by wealthy people working from the top down,” notes the Mott Foundation report. “The shorthand term for what is occurring is ‘community philanthropy.’”

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What we are beginning to recognize is that the process for slowly amassing financial assets in a community endowment is also developing human assets and social capital. That non-financial capital is proving to be a kind of endowed asset which pays off in terms of subsequent philanthropic acts unrelated to the community endowment fund itself. As explained in the Mott Foundation report, “A key tenet of community philanthropy is ‘help the other but help the other to help the other,’ so that each act of philanthropy begets other acts of philanthropy.” In the Council on Foundations’ publication Philanthropy & Rural America, Topolsky wrote, that “Yes, financial assets are important. But as important in rural areas are the community fund’s help in building organizational assets (the community endowment plus the nonprofits it helps strengthen); leadership assets, in the form of the board, advisory committees and volunteers that the community fund energizes in the community; and action assets, when it incubates or operates essential programs to address persistent problems or emerging issues.” We’ve discovered that these unexpected benefits from the drive to build community endowments have great value. The community philanthropy movement is an attempt to turn these unexpected benefits into a goal unto itself. While there is no single definition of “community philanthropy,” it generally refers to a deliberate effort to mobilize capital of all kinds – financial, human, social, intellectual, and civic

– which can then be used to address some future community need. If you doubt the value of community philanthropy, just look around Door County and you’ll see informal examples of it at work. Annika Johnson and her late son Bo have inspired thousands of people, many of whom were never involved in anything before, to give of their time and money to the GO BO! Foundation. Those moneys are used to support cancer research and provide financial assistance to families with children facing a life threatening illness. While it’s incredible that a single GO BO! Foundation bake sale can raise $30,000, it’s even more amazing to see the legions of volunteers who stepped forward to bake, organize, and sell the goods. From senior citizens, to working families, to school groups, the GO BO! Foundation is inspiring countless people to become involved in civic life that will eventually extend beyond the GO BO! Foundation itself. Similarly, the reach of the Women’s Fund of Door County has been tremendous as well. It’s one of the few charitable efforts that has equal participation from both seasonal and yearround residents. Contributions are used to fund a wide range of activities that nurture and support women and girls in Door County.

The Donors and volunteers of the Women’s Fund are drawn from nearly every corner of Door County. Perhaps what’s most wonderful to see is how these newly engaged women begin to get involved in other civic and charitable activities beyond the Women’s Fund. The Mott Foundation report notes that “Having local people involved as donors is a game-changer in efforts to build civil society and enhances the prospects of sustainability of external funding when the program ceases.” Community philanthropy reminds us that beyond the value of the dollars raised, there is substantial value in inspiring people to take action and building the relationships required for a community to act as one. This is an effort to take human and social capital from merely being a side effect of an effective philanthropic effort and transform it into a deliberate goal sought out for its own value. “Community philanthropy tends to operate from the bottom up, with local actors taking the initiative,” notes the Mott Foundation report. We’ve seen accidental and informal examples of this in Door County and beyond. Imagine what we could accomplish if we were more deliberate and formal in our efforts to engage and inspire citizens to become community philanthropists.

Bret Bicoy is President & CEO of the Door County Community Foundation. In 2008, he and his wife Cari returned to Wisconsin to raise their children six children in the community they love. Contact him at bret@doorcountycommunityfoundation.org.

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200 Miles in Their Shoes By JACKSON PARR

oor County has become a haven for silent sports, or sports that promote participation over spectating. With several bike rides, runs and multi-sport events popping up throughout the peninsula, it has also created a ground for fundraising. The Treatment Trail Run is a weeklong series of 5k running races throughout Eastern Wisconsin from Wauwatosa to the final event in Sister Bay. The series supports the GO BO! Foundation and the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. A few hardened souls cover the entire distance from Milwaukee to Sister Bay, totaling more than 200 miles in nine days. After some discussion, organizers John Lorona and John Mahnke decided to run another edition of the event in 2015. The event will change courses slightly, though still starting at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and ending in Sister Bay. The changes will increase the total mileage during the course of nine days and a 5k will be held in each city the group stops at. The weeklong event was the idea of Mahnke, who was moved when friends in Sister Bay received the news that their son was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The family relied on the GO BO! Foundation to help with the expenses related to the boy’s treatment. The foundation “brings hope to children with life-threatening medical conditions by funding research, supporting treatment, and helping their families during times of finan-

cial need,” as their mission statement reads. One of the primary gifts the foundation grants is aiding in travel expenses to the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa. The 5k events saw more than 200 participants, most of whom joined in Sister Bay. About six people participated in the 200-mile trail run in some way, from riding bikes alongside the runners to taking select days off. This year, organizers expect more than 10 runners to participate in the entire trail and they hope their 5k events see a similar growth. Only in the past few years have endurance and athletic events transformed into a means to raise money for various causes. “If you want to raise money you could just send an email out and say, ‘I’m raising money for cancer.’ When people put forth the effort, whether it’s a run or bike ride, it gives you something to follow along, something to look at and aspire to. Maybe you want to join them at some point,” said Mahnke. “Not only do we want you to help us with our cause, we want you to join us. You can do one 5k and still be as big a part of this as someone who runs 100 miles.”

John Mahnke. Submitted photo. The Treatment Trail 2.0 will take place June 12-20 and the 5k schedules are as follows: • Friday, June 12 – Wauwatosa, Hart Park, 6 pm • Saturday, June 13 – Port Washington, Upper Lake Park, noon • Sunday, June 14 – Sheboygan, across from YMCA, noon • Monday, June 15 – Manitowoc, across from Aurora Medical Center, 6 pm • Tuesday, June 16 – Appleton, Telulah Park, 6 pm • Wednesday, June 17 – De Pere, Voyageur Park, 6 pm • Thursday, June 18 – Rest Day • Friday, June 19 – Sturgeon Bay, Sunset Park, 6 pm • Saturday, June 20 – Sister Bay, Sports Complex, noon

Jackson Parr has been swimming, biking and running through Door County for many summers before making his move permanent in 2014. He can now be found at the county’s coffee shops with a strong cup and a book about how to write well.

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CHARITIES SERVING DOOR COUNTY TAX EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS IN DOOR COUNTY Door County is a special place. There is a spirit that keeps us here – or draws us back each year. So it’s no wonder that Door County is also home to countless people who are working hard to sustain our quality of life. There are more than 350 charities, associations, service clubs, and other citizen groups serving our community! In an effort to help connect people who care with the causes that matter, the Door County Community Foundation has compiled this list of tax-exempt organizations that are based in Door County, Wisconsin. The most up-to-date list is available at the Community Foundation’s website of doorcountycommunityfoundation.org. The list was compiled through a good faith search of tax returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service and a review of other publicly available documents. Of course, given the difficulty of maintaining such a comprehensive database, it is inevitable that there will be the occasional oversight. If you discover one, please accept our sincerest apologies and send additions and corrections to webmaster@doorcountycommunityfoundation.org. ARTS ORGANIZATIONS Art and Nature Center 1799 Main Road Washington Island, WI 54246 wianc.org Association of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestras Inc PO Box 502 Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 wiscsym.org Birch Creek Music Center, Inc PO Box 230 Egg Harbor, WI 54209 (920) 868-3763 birchcreek.org Cherry Hills-Door County Fund for the Arts and Humanities Inc c/o Peter Trenchard 116 Little Sister Road Sister Bay, WI 54234 Door County Art League Ltd PO Box 405 Fish Creek, WI 54212 doorcountyartleague.org Door Community Auditorium Corp 3926 Hwy 42 PO Box 397 Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 868-2728 dcauditorium.org

Door Concerts, Inc. PO Box 132 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-3755 Door County Folk Alliance Ltd PO Box 276 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 dcfolk.com Door Shakespeare, Inc. 8093 Highway 57 PO Box 351 Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 (920) 839-1500 doorshakespeare.com Francis Hardy Gallery Inc of Door County PO Box 394 Ephraim, WI 54211 (920) 854 2210 thehardy.org Gunderson Denardo Foundation W2996 Gibraltar Rd Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 839-2925 Island Players, Inc. PO Box 160 Washington Island, WI 54246 islandplayers.org

TAX EXEMPT CLASSIFICATION While there are many Door County organizations that are “taxexempt” under section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, not all of them are considered charitable by the IRS. Generally speaking, a contribution to an organization classified as a 501(c)(3) public charity earns you the maximum tax deduction as allowed by law. The tax deductibility to other types of 501(c) organizations varies depending on a number of factors. Please contact the respective organizations to confirm their tax status and the deductibility of any gift you might choose to make. Visit the IRS website at irs.gov for a complete explanation of the different types of exempt organizations.

Isadoora Theatre Company PO Box 734 Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 493-3667 isadoora.com Midsummer’s Music Ltd. PO Box 1004 Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 854-7088 midsummersmusic.com Midwest Institute for Theater Arts of Oshkosh 11158 N Sand Bay Ln Sister Bay, WI 54234 Miller Art Center Foundation Inc 107 S 4th Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-8450 Northern Sky Theater PO Box 273 Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 854-6117 northernskytheater.com Peninsula School of Art 3900 County F PO Box 304 Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 868-3455 peninsulaschoolofart.org Peninsula Arts Association PO Box 21 Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 peninsulaartsassociation.wordpress. com Peninsula Belgian and American Club Inc c/o Kim Potier Davis 1255 N 12th Place Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 belgianamerican.org The Peninsula Singers PO Box 611 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 thepeninsulasingers.org Peninsula Music Festival Inc PO Box 340 Ephraim, WI 54211 (920) 854-4060 musicfestival.com

Peninsula Players Theatre Foundation Inc W4351 Peninsula Players Rd Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 868-3287 peninsulaplayers.com Peninsula Symphonic Band Inc PO Box 84 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 peninsulasymphonicband.org

Door County Farm Bureau Cooperative 3030 Park Dr. Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-9206 Door County Home Builders Inc PO Box 112 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 493-3242 dchba.org

Third Avenue Playhouse Inc PO Box 843 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-1760 thirdavenueplayhouse.com

Door County North PO Box 10 Ellison Bay, WI 54210 (920) 854-4450 doorcountynorth.org

Thor Johnson Endowment Trust PO Box 340 Ephraim, WI 54211 (920) 854-4060

Door County Realtors Association PO Box 684 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-9651 dcbr.org

Washington Island Art Association Inc PO Box 16 Washington Island, WI 54246 washingtonislandarts.com

Door County Service Club Coalition of Sturgeon Bay c/o Door County Community Foundation Wilson and Carol Trueblood Performing PO Box 802 Arts Center Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 PO Box 136 (920) 746-1786 Washington Island, WI 54246 (920) 847-2528 Door County Visitor Bureau Inc. truebloodpac.com 1015 Green Bay Rd PO Box 406 BUSINESS Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 ASSOCIATIONS (920) 743-4456 Baileys Harbor Community Association doorcounty.com 8061 Hwy. 57 PO Box 31 Door Property Owners Inc Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 PO Box 429 (920) 839-2366 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 doorcounty.com/baileys-harbor (920) 559-9292 doorpropertyowners.org Clark Lake Advancement Association Inc c/o Robert Kufrin, Egg Harbor Business Association 5558 Quiet Cove Ln., PO Box 33 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Egg Harbor, WI 54209 clarklakewi.com (920) 868-3717 eggharbordoorcounty.org Door County Bar Association Inc c/o Richard Hauser Ephraim Business Council PO Box 89 PO Box 203 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Ephraim, WI 54211 (920) 743-6505 (920) 854-4989 Door County Deputy Sheriffs Association Ephraim-DoorCounty.com 1201 S Duluth Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

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CHARITIES SERVING DOOR COUNTY Fish Creek Civic Association 4097 Hwy. 42 PO Box 74 Fish Creek , WI 54212 (920) 868-2316 visitfishcreek.com Glidden Drive Association Inc PO Box 261 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

Wisconsin Harbor Towns Association c/o Stephen A Kase 324 N 12th Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 wisconsinharbortowns.net CHURCHES

Bahais of Gibraltar Town 9633 County A Fish Creek, WI 54212 Jacksonport Advancement Corporation (920) 868-9698 6706 Memorial Dr Bay View Lutheran Church Egg Harbor, WI 54209 340 W Maple (920) 823-2800 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Jacksonport Area Business Association (920) 743-4705 c/o Joe Jarosh Bethany Lutheran Parsonage 6275 Hwy 57 3051 Cedar Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Ephraim, WI 54211 jacksonport.net (920) 854-4065 Joint Professional Law Enforcement Bethel Baptist Church Association of Door County Inc 852 Europe Bay Road c/o Tammy Sternard Ellison Bay, WI 54210 1201 S. Duluth Avenue (920) 854-4490 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Little Sturgeon Area Property Owners Association, Inc PO Box 421 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 824-5007 Little Sturgeon Business Owners Association c/o Becky Hirthe 3605 County CC Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Sister Bay Advancement Association Inc PO Box 351 Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 854-3230 cometosisterbay.com Southeast Jacksonport Neighborhood Association Inc c/o Eric Wickstrom 6706 Memorial Dr Egg Harbor, WI 54209 Sturgeon Bay Area Advancement Corp c/o Peter Krauss PO Box 212 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center 36 S 3rd Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-6246 sturgeonbay.net Washington Island Chamber of Commerce 2206 W. Harbor Rd. Washington Island, WI 54246 (920) 847-2179 washingtonisland-wi.com

Bethel Shalom Parsonage 899 Hwy 57 Brussels, WI (920) 825-7501 Calvary United Methodist Church 4650 Cty. E Egg Harbor, WI 54209 (920) 868-3112 calvaryzionumc.org Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church 9986 State Hwy 57 Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 743-5155 Christian Science Society 212 S 7th Ave Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-8582 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 660 18th & Florida Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-4797 Church of the Atonement 9390 Cottage Row Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 868-2700 Church of the Precious Blood 9696 County Road C Brussels, WI 54204 (920) 824-5061 Community Church of Fish Creek 9420 Cottage Row Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 868-3811 ccfishcreek.com

Washington Island Electric Co-op, Inc. 1157 Main Rd. Washington Island, WI 54246 (920) 847-2541

Corpus Christi Catholic Church 25 N Elgin Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-4716

Washington Island Town Mutual Insurance Company 1246 Main Rd. Washington Island, WI 54246 (920) 847-2041

Door Bible Baptist Church 1302 County Road C Brussels, WI 54204 (920) 825-1380

Door County Family Fellowship-TNT Ministries Inc 3821 Gibraltar Rd Fish Creek, WI 54212

House of Praise Ministries c/o Rev Rodney Johnson PO Box 56 Brussels, WI 54204

St John Evangelical Lutheran Church 4911 Brauer Rd Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-5343

Door of Life Christian Church 2731 State Highway 42 Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 421-1525

Immanuel Lutheran Church 7973 Highway 57 PO Box 115 Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 (920) 839-2224

St Joseph Catholic Church 526 Louisiana Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-2062

Emanuel Lutheran Church 8612 County Rd D Forestville, WI 54213 Emanuel Lutheran Church of Kolberg 8612 County Rd D Forestville, WI 54213 (920) 743-6683 Ephraim Moravian Church 9970 Moravia Ephraim, WI 54211 (920) 854-2804 Christ the King Episcopal Church 512 Michigan Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-3286 Family Educational Broadcasting Corporation of Door County Wisconsin 1715 Michigan St Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-6065 Family Worship Center Assembly of God 1715 Michigan Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-6065

Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends 204 W Maple Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 iaym.org

St Luke’s Episcopal Church 2336 Canterbury Lane PO Box 559 Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 854-9600

Jacksonport United Methodist Church 6154 Cave Point Drive Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 868-3112 jacksonportmethodist.org

St. Matthew Orthodox Church, Holy Transfiguration Chapel 912 N. Bay Shore Drive Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 854-4215

Lighthouse Gospel Fellowship Ltd 11339 Homestead Dr Ellison Bay, WI 54210

St Paul Lutheran Church W4167 Juddville Rd Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 868-2826

Living Word Full Gospel Fellowship Inc 83 W Maple Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

St Peters Lutheran Church PO Box 85 Forestville, WI 54213

Peninsula Baptist Church Inc 3486 N 20th Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-2969 Prince of Peace 1756 Michigan St Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-7750

First Baptist Church 2622 S. Bay Shore Dr. Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 854-2544

Saints Peter & Paul Church 4767 E Dunn Rd Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-4842

First Baptist Church of Sturgeon Bay 610 N 5th Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-5058

Salem Lutheran Church 3339 County Road MM Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-6683

Friends Community Church 204 W Maple Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-2714 Full Gospel Churches International 4285 Cherry Rd Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Hainesville Lutheran Church PO Box 259 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-9806 hainesvillelc.com Holy Name of Mary Rectory 7491 Cty H Maplewood, WI 54226 (920) 856-6123

Seventh Day Adventist Church 9402 Hill Street Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 868-3925 Seventh Day Adventist Church 6121 Gordon Road Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-9511 Shepherd of the Bay Lutheran Church PO Box 27 Ellison Bay, WI 54210 shepherdofthebay.org Sister Bay Moravian Church 10924 Old Stage Rd. Sister Bay (920) 854-4080

Holy Trinity Eastern Orthodox Mission Sister Bay, WI 54234 (900) 622-8000

Southern Door Community Church 905 County Trunk DK Brussels, WI 54204 (920) 825-7501

Hope United Church of Christ 141 South 12th Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-2701 hopechurchdc.org

St Francis & St Mary’s Catholic Parish 9716 Cemetery Road Brussels, WI 54204 (920) 825-7555

Stella Maris Catholic Parish Parish Office: Egg Harbor Location: 7710 State Hwy 42 Egg Harbor, WI 54209 Baileys Harbor Location: 8013 Highway 57 Fish Creek Location: 4019 Highway 42 Jacksonport Location: 6236 Highway 57 Sister Bay Location: 2410 S. Bay Shore Road (920) 868-3241 stellamarisparish.com Stewards of Grace Ministries 10821 Stage Road Brussels, WI 54204 Sturgeon Bay Community Church PO Box 703 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-9587 The Orchard 7630 Logerquist Rd Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 (920) 333-3544 theorchardefca.org Transformation of our Lord Chapel 10762 North Bay Shore Dr. Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 854-4215 Trinity Lutheran Church 1765 Town Line Rd Washington Island, WI 54246 Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County 10341 Hwy 42, Ephraim PO Box 859 Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 854-7559 uufdc.org United Methodist Church of Sturgeon Bay 836 Michigan Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-3241 sturgeonbaymethodist.org

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Since 1935 patrons, donors and volunteers of Peninsula Players have supported the mission of the theater in a number of ways. Whether through tickets sales, annual/capital contributions, sponsoring a production, playbill advertising, ushering, serving on the board or as part of the spring clean Broom Squad, our dedicated and giving supporters have continually gone above and beyond to insure our ongoing success. The entire Peninsula Players family thanks you for 80 years of unwavering support which has enabled us to bring you the most professional theater experience possible!

The set of A Little Night Music, photo by Len Villano.

2015 SEASON

June 16 to October 18

920.868.3287

If you would like to make donation to Peninsula Players please contact Development and Events Coordinator Danielle Kapolnek at 920-868-3287 or danielle@peninsulaplayers.com.

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CHARITIES SERVING DOOR COUNTY White Star Church 2481 County Trunk C Brussels, WI 54204 (920) 388-2622

American Legion 0072 Archie Lockershirt Post 3035 Highland Heights Rd Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 legion.org

Catholic Order of Foresters 1963 County Road C Brussels, WI 54204 catholicforester.org

American Legion 0402 PO Box 143 Washington Island, WI 54246

Catholic Order of Foresters 9462 County D Forestville, WI 54213 catholicforester.org

Zion United Methodist 8781 County Road F Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 868-3112

American Legion 0527 Billy Weiss Post 956 N Spring Rd Sister Bay, WI 54234 legion.org

Catholic Order of Foresters 25 N Elgin Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 catholicforester.org

CIVIC GROUPS AND SERVICE CLUBS

American Legion Auxiliary 428 N 7th Place Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 legion-aux.org

Zion Lutheran Church 6710 County Rd T Egg Harbor, WI 54209 (920) 743-5153

Altrusa of Door County, a member of Altrusa International Inc c/o Sue Melarvie PO Box 523 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 altrusaofdoorcounty.org American Association of University Women c/o Peggy Odegaard 337 N 16th Drive Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

American Legion Auxiliary 2206 W. Harbor Rd. Washington Island, WI 54246 American Legion Auxiliary PO Box 305 Forestville, WI 54213 legion-aux.org

American Veterans (AM VETS) of World War II Korea and Vietnam American Federation of State, County & PO Box 183 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Municipal Employees, Local 1658 c/o Cheryl Burmeister Catholic Daughters of America 1058 Ct 151 Leeward Street Pere Marquette Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 1714 Memorial Dr (920) 746-2240 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

Friends of Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport c/o Timothy Halbrook PO Box 61 Fish Creek, WI 54212 friendsofephraimgibraltarairport.com Friends of Washington Island PO Box 222 Washington Island, WI 54246 (920) 847-2030

Door County Dairy Promotion Committee 421 Nebraska Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Door County Economic Development Corporation 185 E. Walnut Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-3113 doorcountybusiness.com Ellison Bay Service Club Inc PO Box 181 Ellison Bay, WI 54210 Ephraim Mens Club PO Box 204 Ephraim, WI 54211 Free & Accepted Mason of Wisconsin 31 S 3rd Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 493-3727 wisc-freemasonry.org

Independent Order of Odd Fellows 214 N Fulton Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 ioof.org International Association of Fire Fighters c/o Mike E Smith 605 Kentucky Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 iaff.org International Association of Lions Clubs PO Box 81 Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 854-7968 lionsclubs.org International Association of Lions Clubs Lion Jim Noll 1579 Ledge Road Brussels, WI 54204 lionsclubs.org

International Association of Lions Clubs c/o Robert Erickson 788 Egg Harbor Road Egg Harbor, WI 54209 lionsclubs.org International Association of Lions Clubs c/o Jean Koelbl 7290 Geir Rd Forestville, WI 54213 lionsclubs.org International Association of Lions Clubs 137 N 10th Place Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 lionsclubs.org International Association of Lions Clubs PO Box 164 Washington Island, WI 54246 Jacksonport Women’s Club c/o Sue Jarosh Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Kiwanis Club of Sturgeon Bay c/o Mike Wagner 4543 East Shorewood Point Road Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 559-0055 kiwanis.org Knights of Columbus 692 Tacoma Beach Rd Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-1010 kofc.org

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Sponsors, Playbill Advertisers, Auditorium Society Members, & Volunteers play a starring role at DCA. Please join us! DCA is recognized as a 501c3 non-profit arts organization. For more information about supporting DCA, call 920,868.2728 ext. 107, email director@dcauditorium.org or write to P.O. Box 397, Fish Creek, Wisconsin, 54212

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CHARITIES SERVING DOOR COUNTY Knights of Columbus 2478 Msgr Broens PO Box 533 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-1375 kofc.org Knights of Columbus 4896 Our Lady of the Bays 8357 County F Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 kofc.org

Rotary Club of Door County North Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 Rotary Club of Sturgeon Bay Breakfast Inc c/o PIP Printing 368 Jefferson Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Rotary Club of Sturgeon Bay Inc PO Box 81 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 854-2142 sturgeonbayrotary.org

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3088 United States Dept of Wis 902 Alabama Pl c/o Raymond Hogan Apt 3 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-8709 vfw.org Veterans of Foreign Wars United States Dept of Wis 112 Woodcrest Rd Sister Bay, WI 54234 vfwwebcom.org/Wisconsin

Education Association of Gibraltar Area 3924 Hwy 42 PO Box 670 Fish Creek, WI 54212 Frank Gordon Memorial Scholarship Foundation, Inc. PO Box 85 Washington Island, WI 54246

Friends of Door County Libraries Association 107 S 4th Avenue Knights of Columbus 6444 Our Lady of Good Help Council Washington Island Fire and Rescue, Inc. Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Sister Bay and Liberty Grove Firefighters PO Box 250 1003 Pleasant Ridge Road Gibraltar Area Educational Association Inc Brussels, WI 54204 Washington Island, WI 54246 Endowment Fund PO Box 287 kofc.org c/o DCCF Sister Bay, WI 54234 Wisconsin Jaycees Inc PO Box 802 (920) 854-4021 Leadership Door County Inc PO Box 284 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 sblgfd.com PO Box 874 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-1786 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 sturgeonbayjaycees.com Sons of Norway leadershipdoorcounty.com International Reading PO Box 231 COMMUNITY Association Inc Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 League of Women Voters of Door County FOUNDATIONS 410 N 19th Avenue sofn.com PO Box 306 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Door County Community reading.org Southern Door Fire Dept Inc doorcounty.wi.lwvnet.org Foundation, Inc. PO Box 158 Northeast Wisconsin Dental Study 342 Louisiana Street Forestville, WI 54213 Club Unit 5 Memorial to Door County PO Box 802 (920) 856-6264 30 N 18th Avenue Fallen Veterans Inc Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 PO Box 9 (920) 746-1786 Sturgeon Bay Breakfast Rotary Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 GiveDoorCounty.org NWTC Education Foundation Charitable Trust doorcountyveterans.com 2740 W. Mason Street c/o Stephen A Kase EDUCATIONAL PO Box 19042 368 Jefferson Street National Active and Retired Federal ORGANIZATIONS Green Bay, WI 54303 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Employees Association (920) 498-5444 (920) 743-5272 c/o Marilyn Grose Bible Students of Northeastern 214 Fulton Avenue Wisconsin Sevastopol Alumni Benefit Sturgeon Bay Optimist Door County Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 PO Box 571 c/o Gary Welch Foundation narfe.org Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 4553 State Highway 57 PO Box 9 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 National Association Björklunden vid Sjön of Letter Carriers Lawrence University of Wisconsin Sevastopol Education Association Sturgeon Bay Rotary Club Charitable c/o Imogene R Peters PO Box 10 c/o Mary Guy Trust 1245 Rhode Island Street Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 4550 Hwy 57 PO Box 9 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 839-2216 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 nalc.org lawrence.edu/dept/bjork/ (920) 743-5551 Sevastopol Education Foundation 4564 Ridge Crest Road National Society of the Daughters of the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Bordui Foundation Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 American Revolution PO Box 9 6572 Memorial Dr 4840 Country View Rd Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Egg Harbor, WI 54209 Southern Door Community Foundation Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 thrivent.com 9131 Morris Lane (202) 879-3343 Catholic Schools of Door Brussels, WI 54204 dar.org County Inc Thrivent Financial for Lutherans sdcommunity.wix.com/sdcf-try-2 PO Box 541 1443 Highview Rd Northern Door First Responders Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Ellison Bay, WI 54210 Southern Door Education Foundation PO Box 47 thrivent.com 8240 Hwy 57 Ellison Bay, WI 54210 Clearing Endowment Trust Brussels, WI 54204 Thrivent Financial for Lutherans PO Box 65 sdeducationfoundation.org Optimist International PO Box 16 Ellison Bay, WI 54210 c/o William Baudhuin Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 854-4088 St John Bosco Catholic School Inc 55 S Third Avenue thrivent.com theclearing.org 15 North Elgin Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Thrivent Financial for Lutherans optimist.org Clearing Folk School (920) 743-4144 1219 Bluebird Place PO Box 65 Order of the Eastern Star of the State of Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Ellison Bay, WI 54210 Sturgeon Bay Education Foundation thrivent.com Wisconsin (920) 854-4088 c/o Wendy Kase 729 Memorial Drive theclearing.org PO Box 191 United States Coast Guard Chief Petty Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Offi cers Association easternstar.org Door County Library (920) 743-5242 4520 Weber Road Foundation Inc Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Our Legacy US, Inc. 107 South 4th Avenue Thomas J Webb Scholarship Trust uscgcpoa.org 1266 Main Rd. Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 3931 Bay Shore Dr Washington Island, WI 54246 (920) 743-6578 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8337 (920) 743-6926 United States Dept of Wis Pioneer Fire Company Inc Door Peninsula Astronomical Society PO Box 201 421 Michigan Street 2041 Michigan Street Treehouse Learning Center Inc Ellison Bay, WI 54210 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 323 S 5th Avenue (920) 746-0357 doorastronomy.org Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 vfw.org (920) 743- 7187

Washington Island Education Association 888 Main Rd. Washington Island, WI 54246 Write On, Door County 4177 Juddville Rd. PO Box 457 Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 868-1457 writeondoorcounty.org ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS Crossroads at Big Creek Inc PO Box 608 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-5895 crossroadsatbigcreek.org Door County Environmental Council Inc PO Box 114 Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 743-6003 dcec-wi.org Door County Humane Society PO Box 93 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-1111 Door County Land Trust PO Box 65 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-1359 Door County Land Use Forum Inc 5689 Gordon Road Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-3020 Door County Quality Market Animal Sale 1419 Rhode Island Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Friends of Peninsula State Park, Inc. PO Box 502 Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 879-2841 peninsulafriends.org Friends of Potawatomi State Park Inc 3740 Park Drive Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-2890 runwild.org Friends of the Door County Park System Inc c/o Park Directors Office PO Box 228 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 co.door.wi.gov Friends of Toft Point, Inc. c/o Charlotte Lukes 3962 Hillside Rd Egg Harbor, WI 54209 Friends of Whitefish Dunes 3275 Clark Lake Road Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 823-2400 thefriendsofwhitefishdunes.org Furry Critters Wildlife Sanctuary Inc PO Box 251 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

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CHARITIES SERVING DOOR COUNTY Gibraltar Land Acquisition Directive c/o Kathleen Presnell PO Box 310 Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 868-2882 Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership c/o Jim Kettler PO Box 62 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 304-1919 lnrp.org Nature Conservancy 242 Michigan Street, Suite B103 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-8695 nature.org/wisconsin Newport Wilderness Society Inc PO Box 187 Ellison Bay, WI 54210 (920) 854-2500 newportwildernesssociety.org North American Bear Foundation 6316 Center Rd Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 nabf.org Open Door Bird Sanctuary 4114 County Road I Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 opendoorbirdsanctuary.org

Peninsula Animal Lovers Society, Inc PO Box 242 Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 Ridges Sanctuary PO Box 152 Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 (920) 839-2802 ridgessanctuary.org Sustain Door, Inc 308 S. 12th Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-9792 sustaindoor.org The Green Fund is a fund of the Door County Community Foundation, Inc P.O. Box 802 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-1786 Whitetails Unlimited Inc PO Box 720 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-6777 whitetailsunlimited.com Whitetails Unlimited Inc 816 County Road XC Forestville, WI 54213 whitetailsunlimited.com Wild Ones of Door County Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 824-5193 wildones.org

GRANTING FOUNDATIONS Cliff and Clara Herlache Foundation c/o Door County Community Foundation, Inc PO Box 802 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-1786 doorcountycommunityfoundation.org Door County Charities Inc c/o Richard Heardon Jr 5335 Horseshoe Bay Rd Egg Harbor, WI 54209 (800) 761-7070 doorcountycharities.com Door County Federation of Women’s Clubs Service Trust 3750 Rocky Shore Drive Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Dynatron Research Foundation Inc 6743 Bay Shore Dr Egg Harbor, WI 54209 (920) 868-2264

Fred J Peterson Foundation Inc 41 N 3rd Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-5574

PJ Hedeen & Children Foundation Inc 4716 Martin Road Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-6500

Fuvirese USA Inc PO Box 350 Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 854-5755

Raibrook Foundation, Inc 30 N 18th Ave Ste 4 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-2995 raibrookfoundation.com

FW De Klerk Foundation for Peace in Divided Societies 912 Memorial Drive Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-7666

Robert A and Lynn I Doneff Foundation Inc 7833 Dock Rd Egg Harbor, WI 54209 (920) 684-6940

Goldammer Family Foundation Inc PO Box 10 Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 868-2226

Rosemann Family Foundation Inc 11473 Beach Rd Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 854-5934

Hedeen Foundation Inc 218 N 14th Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-7225

Hugh and Helena Brogan Foundation 11308 Homestead Dr Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Ellison Bay, WI 54210 Foundation (920) 854-9883 55 Utopia Circle Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Jaleane Foundation Inc (920) 743-4501 1430 Memorial Drive Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Fred J & Thea J Peterson Supportive Charitable Trust James Hall Zimmerman Foundation Inc 55 Utopia Circle 1916 Viste Road Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

Tatman Foundation C/O Julia Chomeau PO Box 497 Ephraim, WI 54211 Thomas E Anschutz Foundation 2445 Sand Lane Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Timothy Foundation 9952 County Rd N Brussels, WI 54204

Partners in Preserving Ephraim’s History, Natural Beauty, and Spiritual Legacy

Ephraim Historical Foundation

Bethany Lutheran Church

Ephraim Moravian Church

Ephraim Business Council

For more information and ways to support these organizations and their missions, please visit their websites: www.ephraim.org

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www.ephraimmoravian.org

www.ephraim-doorcounty.com

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CHARITIES SERVING DOOR COUNTY Women’s Fund of Door County c/o Door County Community Foundation, Inc. PO Box 802 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 womensfundofdoorcounty.org HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS Community Clinic of Door County Inc 1623 Rhode Island PO Box 3 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-8989 communityclinicofdoorcounty.org Coventry Care 10547 Koessl Lane Sister Bay, WI 54234 Door County Medical Center Foundation Inc PO Box 230 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-1071 ministryhealth.org/DCMH/home/ Foundation/Donate.nws Dynatron Research Foundation Inc 6743 Bay Shore Dr Egg Harbor, WI 54209 (920) 868-2264 Island Memorial Medical Fund, Inc. 581 Silver Birch Lane Washington Island, WI 54246

Lake Shore Health Services Inc 1843 Michigan Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-1070 Ministry Door County Medical Center 323 S 18th Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-5566 ministryhealth.org

Door County Historical Society PO Box 71 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Door County Maritime Museum & Lighthouse Preservation Society, Inc 120 North Madison Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-5958 dcmm.org

North Shore Health Services Inc 345 South 18th Place Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-0510

Egg Harbor Historical Society Inc PO Box 264 Egg Harbor, WI 54209 (920) 868-3297

Unity Hospice 30 N. 18th Ave. Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-6440 unityhospice.org

Ephraim Foundation Heritage Fund Inc PO Box 165 Ephraim, WI 54211 (920) 854-9688

Washington Island Community Health Program PO Box 277 Washington Island, WI 54246 (920) 847-2108

Ephraim Historical Foundation Inc PO Box 165 Ephraim, WI 54211 (920) 854-9688 ephraim.org

Friends of Plum & Pilot Islands Wisconsin Foundation for the Research PO Box 61 of Pain and Chronic Washington Island, WI 54246 PO Box 27 (715) 823-6873 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Gibraltar Historical Association HISTORIC PO Box 323 PRESERVATIONISTS Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 868-2091 Citizens for our Bridge Inc historicnoblehouse.org PO Box 653 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 steelbridgesongfest.org

Jacksonport Historical Society Inc 4768 Highway 57 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-6415 jacksonporthistoricalsociety.org Liberty Grove Historical Society PO Box 94 Ellison Bay, WI 54210 (920) 839-5022 libertygrovehistorical.org Namur Belgian Heritage Foundation Inc c/o Stephen A. Kase 30 N 18th Ave Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-8381

HUMAN AND SOCIAL SERVICE CHARITIES Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Door County Inc dba NAMI/JAK’s Place PO Box 273 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 818-0525 nami.org Autism Society of America Inc 470 N 6th Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 autism-society.org

Bayview Terrace Inc Northeastern Wisconsin Antique Power 537 S Neenah Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Association Incorporated (920) 743-0011 5005 Country View Road Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Birthright of Door County Inc Sister Bay Historical Society Inc 8 2H Kentucky Street PO Box 34 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 854-7680 Boys & Girls Club of Door County sisterbayhistory.org PO Box 579 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Washington Island Farm (920) 818-1046 Museum, Inc. PO Box 127 Christ Child Society of Door County Washington Island, WI 54246 PO Box 572 (920) 847-2156 5381 D Lake Drive Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Washington Island Heritage (920) 823-2200 Conservancy Corp. 1391 Main Rd. Washington Island, WI 54246

Fine Line Designs Gallery and the Door County Humane Society have teamed together and raised over $20,000 for the shelter.

G ivi n G bac k i s what mak e s u s a b ette r c o m m u n ity partn e r. Open daily May – October Weekends Year-Round 10376 Hwy 42, Sister Bay 920-854-4343

finelinedesignsgallery.com

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THANK YOU

37 HOMES and

Your Door County Habitat for Humanity is thankful for all our volunteers and donors. Thank you for choosing to partner with us to make decent and affordable housing a reality. In our organization’s 21 year history of addressing Door County’s affordable housing shortage, you have assisted 37 families, 47 adults and 93 children to realize the American Dream of home ownership. COUNTING

VOLUNTEER • DONATE • SUPPORT

410 N. 14th Ave. Sturgeon Bay • 920.743.2869 • www.doorcountyhabitat.org

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CHARITIES SERVING DOOR COUNTY Community Resource Program of Door County, Inc dba Feed My People/Clothe My People 204 N 14th Ave PO Box 741 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-9053 Door CANcer Inc PO Box 423 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 doorcancer.com Door County Gulf Coast Relief Fund Inc 250 Smith Drive, Unit M2 Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 854-5621

Family Services of Northeastern Wisconsin, Inc. Healthy Families - (920) 746-9040 Sexual Assault Center of Door County - (920) 746-8996 57 N 12th Ave. Ste 110 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 familyservicesnew.org FISC Consumer Credit Counseling of Door County Inc 57 N. 12th Avenue Suite 104 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-1862 fisc-ccc.org

Door County Habitat for Humanity 410 North 14th Ave. Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-2869

Girl Scouts of the Northwestern Great Lakes, Inc. P.O. Box 9427 Green Bay, WI 54308 (888) 747-5945 gsnwgl.org

Door-Tran 1009 Egg Harbor Road PO Box 181 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235-0181 (920) 743-9999

GO BO Foundation c/o Door County Community Foundation, Inc. PO Box 802 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

Family Centers of Door County Inc 130 N. 5th Ave Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 825-1430 familycentersdc.com

Good Hope Counseling, Inc 275 Smith Dr Sister Bay, WI 54234

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HELP of Door County Inc 219 Green Bay Road Suite 1 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-8818 helpofdoorcounty.org

Hispanic Resource Center of Door and Kewaunee Counties Inc 1618 Texas Pl Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 559-1878

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Council Inc DCHH 1300 Egg Harbor Rd Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

Sunshine House 55 W Yew Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-7943

Kimberley Foundation Inc PO Box 751 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-9224

Neighbor to Neighbor: Volunteer Care Givers of Door County, Inc PO Box 626 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-7800

Sunshine House Foundation 55 W Yew Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-7944

Lac Baie Girl Scout Council Inc Camping Trust PO Box 9 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-5486

Northern Door Children’s Center 10520 Judith Blazer Dr Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 854-4244 northerndoorchildrenscenter.org

United Way of Door County, Inc 57 N 3rd Ave, Lower Level PO Box 223 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-9645 unitedwaydc.org

Lakeshore CAP 131 South Third Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-0192 lakeshorecap.org

Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Inc. c/o Sandy Brown PO Box 213 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

Lakeshore Child Care Services Inc 616 Florida Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

Peninsula Preschool Inc PO Box 171 Ephraim, WI 54211 (920) 854-2112 peninsulapreschool.weebly.com

Volunteer Center of Door County, Inc PO Box 441 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-7704 volunteerdoorcounty.com

Legal Aid Society of Door County Inc 131 S 3rd Avenue PO Box 846 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-3934 Lutheran Counseling and Family Services of Wisconsin 1756 Michigan Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

Washington Island Preschool, Inc. 1296 Main Road Stop 2 Washington Island, WI 54246 (920) 847-3305

Senior Citizens Agency of Northern Door Inc 290 Smith Dr Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 854-9669

Wee Child Center of Sturgeon Bay Inc 421 N 5th Place Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-4363

Sue Baldwin Fund, Inc. PO Box 383 Sister Bay, WI 54234 (920) 839-1114 suebaldwinfund.com

Wigwam Nursery School, Inc 141 S 12th Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

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RUN FOR A CAUSE DOOR COUNTY HALF MARATHON & Nicolet Bay 5k

doorcountyhalfmarathon.com • a run in peninsula state park • MAY 2ND, 2015 RUN FOR A REASON For some, it’s not enough to run 13.1 miles for themselves. That’s why the organizers of the Door County Half Marathon introduced the Run For A Cause program in 2010 - to give runners a little more motivation with each training stride. In four years the program has raised more than $72,000 for area charities. Runners can help build on that total by signing up to run for their favorite Door County charity now. 100 registrations are available free to runners who commit to raising at least $250 for an area charity. Once runners in the half marathon or the 5k raise the $250 minimum, they’ll receive a free entry for the Door County Half Marathon or the Nicolet Bay 5k.

MAJOR SPONSORS

PREMIER SPONSOR

PRESENTED BY THE

THE 2014 RUN FOR A CAUSE PARTICIPANTS.

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CHARITIES SERVING DOOR COUNTY Young Adult Parent Support of Door County 448 N 11th Place Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 559-0200

Door County Rod & Gun Club Inc PO Box 463 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 doorcountyrodandgunclub.com Door County Scottie Rally, Inc PO Box 337 Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 (920) 493-5878

RECREATIONAL GROUPS Aloha Classic Inc c/o Thomas Van Den Bogart 1567 Egg Harbor Rd Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-1588

Door County Skate Inc 1026 Michigan Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

American Bowling Congress Inc 815 S Ithaca Place Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Billy Weiss American Legion Post 527 Baseball Inc 7960 Highway 42 Egg Harbor, WI 54209 Blue Goose Tours 776 Sandhill Rd Brussels, WI 54204 Cyber Phoenix Project Ltd 385 N 3rd Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Door County Golf Association PO Box 701 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Door County Master Gardeners Association Inc PO Box 485 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 dcmga.org

Door County Snowmobile Trails Association, Inc. c/o Steve Sohns 2833 Maple Grove East Fish Creek, WI 54212

Doornet Internet Group Inc 421 Nebraska Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Ephraim Yacht Club PO Box 331 Ephraim, WI 54211 (920) 854-7107 eyc.org Kewaunee Door County Salmon Tournament Inc PO Box 555 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 883-9792 kdsalmon.com

Door County Soccer Association 415 N 12th Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 jtevers@hotmail.com

L.A.U.N.C.H. Lake Adventures Uniting Nature & Children with Hospitality 1275 Main Road Washington Island, WI 54246 (920) 535-0077

Door County Toy Library 107 S 4th Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-6578

Little League Baseball, Inc 5909 Dennis Dr Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (570) 326-1921

Door County YMCA, Inc 1900 Michigan St Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 doorcountyymca.org (920) 743-4949

Nor-Dor Youth Football Inc PO Box 403 Baileys Harbor, WI 54202-0403

Door Devils Motorcycle Club Inc c/o Tim Gauphier PO Box 804 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 495-4003 doordevilsmc.com

North Eastern Wisconsin Bikers Association Inc c/o Owen Bergwin 5030 County Trunk P Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

Northern Door County Soccer Association c/o of Richard Jacobs 12368 Blackberry Rd Ellison Bay, WI 54210 (920) 421-1005 doorsoccer.com

Soccer Assoc. for Youth PO Box 133 Washington Island, WI 54246

Northern Door Volleyball Association Incorporated c/o Peg Burchart PO Box 454 Fish Creek, WI 54212

Stock Horse of Wisconsin Inc c/o Chloe D Schopf PO Box 866 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 495-2280 stockhorseofwisconsin.com

Open Door Tae Kwon Do Inc 515 South 8th Ave. Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-0195 Peninsula Flyers Inc Chapter 630 PO Box 524 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Peninsula Golf Association Inc PO Box 275 Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 854-5791 peninsulagolf.org

Southern Door Snow Travelers Inc c/o Stanley Laviolette RR4 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

Sturgeon Bay Boys Basketball Club Inc 437 N 16th Drive Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Sturgeon Bay Girls Front Court Club c/o John R Asher 180 E Redwood Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Sturgeon Bay Open Bass Tournament Inc PO Box 242 Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 sbobt.org

Peninsula Gun Club Inc 3702 Juddville Rd Fish Creek, WI 920-868-3509 peninsulagunclub.com

Sturgeon Bay Sevastopol Wrestling Club Inc c/o Gary Shefchik 1105 S 19th Place Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

Soccer Association for Youth 1102 North 3rd Avenue Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 saysoccer.org

Sturgeon Bay Yacht Club 600 Nautical Dr Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 743-6934 sturgeonbayyachtclub.com

elebrating 25 years of brilliant classical music. C

World-class chamber musicians present riveting performances of strings, winds and piano.

Supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

501 (c)(3) Endowment Managed by Door County Community Foundation

www.MidsummersMusic.com ~ 920-854-7088

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Performances at unique venues throughout Door County, Wisconsin

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If your eyewear is not becoming, you should be coming to Door County Eye Associates

WE THANK THE INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO STRIVE TO IMPROVE DOOR COUNTY’S VISION FOR THE FUTURE.

Door County Eye Associates 165 N. 3rd Avenue | Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 Phone: 920-743-2020 | Toll Free: 1-800-873-7393 dcea.com |

FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS HELPING FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS Door County 2013-2014 • 1,055 Safe Rides • $10,059 - Cost of Rides • 60 Members Strong

Door County Tavern League Mike Lautenbach, President (920)493-7896 Sue Ebel, Safe Ride Coordinator (920)495-1385

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CHARITIES SERVING DOOR COUNTY Sturgeon Bay Yacht Club Sail Training Foundation Inc 600 Nautical Dr Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 stugeonbayyachtclub.com

Washinton Island Yacht Club, Inc. PO Box 66 Washington Island, WI 54246 wiyc.com

Trillium Quilt Guild c/o Laurie Moegenburg 11110 Ironwood Rd Sister Bay, WI 54234

Women’s International Bowling Congress 1058 Bonnie View Drive Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 bowl.com

United States Bowling Congress Inc c/o David Homan 6727 Hwy 42 Egg Harbor, WI 54209 bowl.com

Young American Bowling Alliance 59 Pine Street Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (800) 514-2695 bowl.com

United States Power Squadrons 1609 Texas Place Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 usps.org Washington Island Community Center Association Washington Island, WI 54246 Washington Island Community Foundation PO Box 68 Washington Island, WI 54246

DOOR COUNTY ESTATE PLANNING ATTORNEYS Pinkert Law Firm, LLP Richard Hauser Amy Sullivan 454 Kentucky Street Sturgeon Bay (920) 743-6505 and 350 Sunset Dr. Sister Bay (920) 854-2616 Brooks & Kase, SC Victor Dana Brooks Stephen A. Kase 30 N. 18th Ave., Building 10A Sturgeon Bay (920) 743-8485 Dahl Law Firm, Ltd. Collin J. Dahl 2350 Maple Dr. Suite 100 Sister Bay (920) 854-7100

Evan Kjellenberg Law Office Evan Kjellenberg 10568 Country Walk Ln. Sister Bay (920) 854-7400

Ross Estate Planning Robert Ross 55 S. 3rd Ave. Sturgeon Bay (920) 743-9117

Hoyerman Law Office Richard Hoyerman 10568 Country Walk Ln. Sister Bay (920) 854-6070

Schaeffer Law Office Linda Schaeffer 242 Michigan St. Sturgeon Bay (920) 743-6485

Lewis D. Clarke, Attorney at Law Lewis D. Clarke 623 Bay Point Rd. Washington Island (920) 847-2311

Stephen P. Johnson Law Offices Stephen Johnson 54 East Oak St. Sturgeon Bay (920) 743-2129

Nina Martel Law Office SC Nina H. Martel 508 Jefferson Street Sturgeon Bay (920) 746-4475

Toft Law Firm Trudy A. Toft 45 S. 3rd Ave. Sturgeon Bay (920) 743-9231

Philip Johnson Law Office Philip Johnson 14 S Third Avenue Sturgeon Bay (920) 743-2211

Washington Island Sportsman and Conservation Club, Inc PO Box 100 Washington Island, WI 54246

DOOR SHAKESPEARE’S 2015 SEASON

AND

TICKETS ON SALE MARCH 1.

JUNE 30AUGUST 15 All performances take place in the beautiful Garden at Björklunden in Baileys Harbor.

PLEASE CALL 920.839.1500 OR VISIT DOORSHAKESPEARE.COM

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DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’S GUIDE TO ENDOWMENTS

GUIDE TO ENDOWMENTS at the Door County Community Foundation

he mission of the Door County Community Foundation is to inspire people to give back to sustain and advance the community we love. We do that by serving as a conduit for giving. We’re a charity whose purpose is to make giving simpler, easier, and more tax efficient so you can be as generous as possible to the charities and causes you care about. We’ve published this Guide to Endowments as a resource to help you with your giving. For a more complete listing of the more than 360 non-profit and civic groups in Door County, visit us online at www.GiveDoorCounty.org - or just give us a call at (920) 746-1786. Help us inspire people to give back to sustain and advance the community we love.

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DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’S GUIDE TO ENDOWMENTS

ENDOWMENTS SUPPORTING CAUSES IN DOOR COUNTY Discretionary Endowment Funds offer you the best of both worlds - the opportunity to choose a broad area that interests you (such as children, the arts, or the environment) while relying on the Door County Community Foundation’s volunteer boards and committees to identify the organizations that will make the greatest impact on that issue. Your gift is endowed and will provide a permanent source of income to be granted to those organizations that are truly making a difference in Door County. We can even create a new Fund named in your honor or in memory of a loved one. Please consider donating today, or in your estate plans, to a Discretionary Endowment Fund. Education Fund

For Good Forever Fund

We simply cannot know what issues or opportunities the future will bring, but we can be confident that the Community Foundation will be there to address it because of the For Good Forever Fund - the general unrestricted endowment for Door County. We’re here For Good. And we’re here Forever. This permanent pool of money is a flexible resource to fund our sustainability and advancement grants, invest in community projects, and support future programs of the Community Foundation.

Education must go beyond traditional schooling and formal education. It should include informal modes of learning and extend beyond traditional settings. It must be integrated into the home and throughout the community - and education is not limited to children. The Community Foundation believes that learning is a lifelong pursuit - and nurtures its incorporation into the many aspects of life in Door County.

Door County Green Fund

Arts Fund

The “arts” describe a broad range of creative activities that can stimulate thought and inspire the soul. Therein lies the purpose of the Community Foundation’s Arts Fund. The Community Foundation supports creative charitable activities in Door County that use the arts to enrich the community and touch the lives of the people of Door County.

www.greenfund.com Door County is blessed with an abundance of natural resources. From our lakeshore to the wetlands, our orchards to the meadows, the open spaces and our rural roads - there is something about the beauty of this place that keeps us here or calls us back each year. The Green Fund supports land acquisition projects in our community and also invests in environmental education, funds land preservation, eradicates invasive species, and supports other types of “green” projects.

Children & Youth Fund

If the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams, then there is no greater gift to a child than to nurture their ability to believe in their own potential and promise. The Community Foundation supports charities that are working to ensure a brighter future for the community’s children - whether it be alleviating their burdens today or helping them realize the opportunities of tomorrow.

Health and Human Needs Fund

It’s difficult to appreciate the incredible beauty and quality of life here in Door County if the very basic needs of your life are not being met. The Community Foundation supports charities that are working to aid those who live in the shadows of society - those whose health or human service needs are not being adequately addressed.

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ENDOWMENTS SUPPORTING CAUSES IN DOOR COUNTY

Healthy Water Door County

www.healthywaterdoorcounty.org Door County’s unique geography makes our water vulnerable. As a peninsula situated on the Niagara Escarpment, our thin soil layer, combined with the vertical and horizontal fracturing common in our bedrock, makes protecting our water a priority. The mission of Healthy Water Door County is to protect our community’s human, environmental, and economic health by guarding against threats to our water.

Women’s Fund of Door County

www.womensfunddoorcounty.org The Women’s Fund of Door County builds, enriches, and nurtures the lives of women and girls through collective wisdom and philanthropy. The Women’s Fund invests in educational opportunities for women and girls and supports arts programs which enrich their souls. It makes grants to promote healthy activities for young girls and to provide support for seniors. It supports efforts to improve women’s health and invests in initiatives that promote equality. Because when she thrives, we all prosper.

Historic Preservation Fund

Working in partnership with the Clifford and Clara Herlache Heritage Foundation, the Community Foundation’s Historic Preservation Fund supports the appreciation, enhancement, and preservation of historical landmarks and the cultural heritage of Door County, Wisconsin.

COMMUNITY PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES The Door County Community Foundation’s Board of Directors has launched and/or endorsed several community efforts that operate as a program of the Community Foundation. Please consider supporting these important initiatives. Visit them online to learn more, or give us a call at (920) 746-1786.

Door County Scholarship Network www.DoorCountyScholarships.org

Door County Civility Project www.DoorCountyCivilityProject.org

Door County Community Opportunity Investment Network www.InvestDoorCounty.org

GO BO! Foundation www.GoBoFoundation.org

Little Lake Restoration Fund www.GiveDoorCounty.org/LittleLake.html

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DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’S GUIDE TO ENDOWMENTS

ENDOWMENTS SUPPORTING INDIVIDUAL CHARITIES Many charities entrust the administration of their Endowment Funds to the Door County Community Foundation as a safe and responsible way to manage endowed gifts, long-term assets, and operational reserves. The non-profit community also counts on the Community Foundation’s planned giving expertise to facilitate gifts into their endowments. By aggregating these assets under the umbrella of the Community Foundation, economies of scale allow for a far more diversified investment portfolio and lower investment fees than any of the charities could achieve on their own. As a donor, the Community Foundation makes it easy for you to leave a gift in your estate plans (or make a gift today) to as many of these Endowment Funds as you’d like. Simply name the Door County Community Foundation, Inc. as a beneficiary in your estate plans, and designate the specific Endowment Fund (or multiple Funds if you’d like) that should benefit from your generosity. If a charity you care about doesn’t have an Endowment Fund at the Community Foundation, you can create one for them with your gift, or we can simply pass along your generosity to the charity directly. Our goal is to make it easy for you to give back to sustain and advance the community we love. For more information, speak with an estate planning professional or contact the Community Foundation at (920) 746-1786 or visit www.GiveDoorCounty.org.

Birch Creek Music Performance Center, Inc., founded in 1976, is Door County’s unique center for music education and performance. Its mission is to provide intensive, performance-based instruction to promising young musicians by immersing them in a professional and mentoring environment.

Birch Creek Music Performance Center Building for Tomorrow Fund Lifetime for Education Fund Now & Forever Fund Scholarships Forever Fund www.birchcreek.org (920) 868-3763

Boys & Girls Club of Door County Endowment Fund Facilities Fund www.bgcdoorcounty.org (920) 818-1046

Birch Creek is a school by day and a performance center at night. During the day, students are involved in rehearsals, classes and seminars, working closely with faculty members. At night, students join faculty in large and small ensembles, performing public concerts. The concerts directly serve Birch Creek’s mission by giving students diverse training of the highest quality as well as the real-life experience of performing before live audiences, and of performing with the frequency and varied repertoire that is required of professional musicians. Since its inception in 1976, more than 5,000 students have studied and performed at Birch Creek.

The Boys & Girls Club of Door County believes every child deserves a safe place to learn and grow. By providing supportive adult relationships, life-enhancing programs, and individualized academic support, the club gives the children of our community the tools they need to be successful both in and outside the classroom. Its mission is to inspire all young people; especially those who need us most to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens. The club provides proven, data driven programs, which create a positive impact on the youth they serve, and collaborates with community partners to utilize resources in a financially prudent manner. Their philosophy is to create a culture of philanthropy in which donors are meaningfully recognized for their generosity and feel as if they are a crucial part of the organization’s success and growth.

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DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’S GUIDE TO ENDOWMENTS The Community Clinic of Door County, Inc. provides primary care, mental health counseling, family planning, and reproductive health services for those in need. Clinic locations in Sturgeon Bay and Sister Bay are generously donated, keeping overhead low and allowing donor dollars to be used where they are needed most.

Community Clinic of Door County Endowment Fund www.communityclinicofdoorcounty.org (920) 746-8989

Crossroads at Big Creek Big Creek Cove Fund Endowment Fund Ida Bay Preserve Endowment Fund www.crossroadsatbigcreek.org (920) 746-5895

Although CCDC is not a “free clinic,” no one is turned away because of an inability to pay. A sliding fee scale is based on family size and income. Patients are asked to contribute what they can. Quality care is made possible by volunteer doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, mental health providers, and other key support staff. CCDC also provides lab testing and works with patients to find the most cost effective medications. Individual counseling and support groups with a Licensed Therapist are offered as well.

Crossroads at Big Creek is a 200-acre environmental preserve offering experience-based programs in science, history, and the environment for learners of all ages. The Collins Learning Center provides a laboratory, lecture hall, greenhouse, exhibits, and classroom space which are used by a variety of educational and non-profit organizations. Its Endowment Fund ensures the long term viability of its programs, facilities, and property.

Door CANcer Inc. is a community based volunteer organization dedicated to help Door County families with cancer in times of financial need. They hope to alleviate some of the suffering through a financial aid program that is aimed to help families who are finding it a serious drain, not only in the areas of medical care but in other areas of their lives. Door CANcer assists with utility bills, food, gas, insurance, phone, and any other household expenses but does not cover any medical or doctor bills.

DoorCANcer

Endowment Fund www.doorcancer.com (920) 743-8492

Monies raised through fund raisers, memorials or donations all stay in Door County. In 2014, Door CANcer provided over $100,000 to residents dealing with cancer. Door CANcer Inc. strives to make life a little easier for those families affected by cancer. They believe in serving confidentially and without notoriety.

The Door County Folk Alliance dates back to 1995. A group of folk musicians and dance enthusiasts, led by Cy Rosenthal of Sturgeon Bay, came together to play music and hold barn dances. Cy saw contra dancing as a way to bring together multiple generations. He saw local folk bands as a way for musicians to play together, support each other, and improve their skills. Cy died in 2010, but the all-volunteer organization he founded continues his goal of building community through music and dance.

Door County Folk Alliance Endowment Fund www.dcfolk.com

The central activity of the alliance is a series of monthly barn dances. All dances are open to the public and have live music provided by the Alliance band, “Sugar on the Floor.” The Alliance also coordinates regular music “sessions” to provide local folk musicians with opportunities to get together and play music.

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DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’S GUIDE TO ENDOWMENTS Lost, abandoned, seized, and surrendered companion animals find warm beds, medical care, and ultimately a new home once they reach the Door County Humane Society. Animals arrive 24 hours a day so the facility must be constantly staffed. Animals arrive from every part of Door County, including Washington Island. DCHS provides a safe haven for lost or homeless pets while working to reunite them with their owners or place them with a new loving family. DCHS also encourages responsible pet ownership through education, training and spay/neutering.

Door County Humane Society Molly’s Fund www.doorcountyhumanesociety.org (920) 746-1111

DCHS receives less than 5% of its budget from government. Generous benefactors, members, businesses, and Humane Heroes contribute 95% of the funds needed to operate. No animal found in Door County is turned away. This is possible only because of financial and volunteer help from so many open-hearted supporters.

The Door County Library is an integral, physical, and virtual gateway to access information, ideas, knowledge, and enrichment. Its eight locations provide a welcoming atmosphere and skillfully connect people with the resources they seek.

Door County Library Foundation Endowment Fund www.doorcountylibrary.org (920) 743-6578

Door Property Owners

The libraries provide materials in a variety of media: books, newspapers, magazines, online databases, music, and films. Year ‘round informational programs for adults and youth foster learning and reading. Public access computers and free wireless connections are available at all eight locations: Sturgeon Bay, Baileys Harbor, Egg Harbor, Ephraim, Fish Creek, Forestville, Sister Bay, and Washington Island. The Door County Library Foundation supports the Door County libraries in a variety of ways, making its vision possible with funding for important community learning projects. For example, it has recently funded the digitization of almost 100 years of the Advocate and other early newspapers of Door County.

Door Property Owners, Inc. is a non-profit, non-partisan, all volunteer organization of 1,200 members who own property in Door County. It includes both part-time and year ‘round residents – and many people with experience as both. All share a love of Door County and want to preserve its natural beauty, character, and charm for years to come.

Scholarship Fund www.doorpropertyowners.org (920) 559-9292

East Shore Industries Friends of East Shore Industries Endowment Fund www.eastshoreindustries.com (920) 487-3541

East Shore Industries is a non-profit organization dedicated to its mission of assisting individuals with disabilities in achieving their personal independence and employment goals. Each individual attending East Shore has a personalized program centered on what the individual wants and needs, and is created with input from the individual, the family, and the guardian. The programs and services offered are designed to bring about greater mobility, enhance living skills, and increase independence, self-worth, and productiveness. Its programs and services include: Day Services, Adult Day Care, Community Enrichment Program, Vocational Training, Supported Employment, Community Job Placement Program, and Supportive Home Care.

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Egg Harbor Historical Society Endowment Fund www.eggharborwi.com

In 2011, the Egg Harbor Historical Society published a two volume book, “Patchwork of Family Memories,” which documents the history of many Egg Harbor families. The Society participated in the Egg Harbor Town sesquicentennial in 2012 and the 2014 fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Village of Egg Harbor. Recently, the Society purchased the original Door County bookmobile and intends to restore it and convert it to a history mobile complete with electronic media for displaying area history. The Society sponsors monthly heritage presentations and an annual member event.

Although she was just shy of two years old, Ellie was an incredible source of happiness for all who knew her. She was such a blessing to her family that they felt an obligation to carry on her legacy by spreading joy into the lives of others. That was the impetus for the creation of Ellie’s Fund, Inc., a 501(c)(3) public charity. The Fund provides grants to worthy projects to benefit the people of Northeast Wisconsin.

Ellie’s Fund, Inc. Endowment Fund www.elliesfund.org (920) 497-8463

First, it provides assistance and opportunities to young people in Ellie’s memory. Whether it be providing enrichment activities or meeting human needs, Ellie’s Fund hopes to help. Second, celebrating Ellie’s love for the outdoors, Ellie’s Fund provides assistance to initiatives which celebrate and preserve the remarkable natural beauty of Northeast Wisconsin.

The Ephraim Yacht Club is Door County’s family-oriented community sailing center, open from June through Labor Day. The club will be 105 years old this summer. It offers sailing lessons for children and adults, has 30 sailboats available for member use, and promotes amateur sailing competition on beautiful Eagle Harbor in the historic Village of Ephraim. Membership is inexpensive and is open to all.

Ephraim Yacht Club Endowment Fund www.eyc.org (920) 854-7107

The primary purposes of the EYC are education in the sport of sailing and the promotion of amateur sailboat racing. The Ephraim Yacht Club offer lessons from mid-June to mid-August. Its endowment helps provide funds for lessons for community scholarship recipients and for capital improvements to the dock.

Friends of Peninsula State Park Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to making a meaningful contribution toward the preservation and goals of Peninsula State Park. The Friends of Peninsula State Park provide volunteer services and financial support for the interpretive, educational, recreational and visitor service programs at Peninsula State Park.

Friends of Peninsula State Park For Now and for the Future Fund Interpretive Nature Center Fund Research Grant Fund www.peninsulafriends.org (920) 868-3258

The Friends have secured a matching grant from the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund to renovate the White Cedar Nature Center. Improvements will include a classroom, indoor restrooms and additional program, display, storage, and work space.

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Friends of Toft Point

The Friends of Toft Point, Inc. formed in 2000 in order to protect the Toft Point State Natural Area from unlawful destructive activities. The property is owned by the University of Wisconsin and managed by the UW Green Bay Cofrin Center for Biodiversity.

Invasive Species Fund Operating Endowment Fund www.uwgb.edu/biodiversity/outreach/friends/toftfriends.asp

Its mission is to support the management plan of the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, to help preserve the flora and fauna of this property, and to help educate visitors about the natural history and the Toft family history of this State Natural Area and National Natural Landmark. Its activities include education of visitors, trail maintenance and removal of invasive species. The endowments help preserve and protect Toft Point and assist with the control and eradication of invasive species.

The purpose of the Gibraltar Area Educational Endowment Fund is to provide a source of funding for Gibraltar Area School District. The intent of establishing this Fund was to provide an avenue for donors to make a tax deductible contribution to the district. Funds can then be used to support playground upgrades, technology upgrades, and grants that support the innovative, creative, entrepreneurial ideas of teachers. Funding can also be used to assist children and families in the district that are experiencing difficulty purchasing things like coats, hats, mittens, eyeglasses and school lunches This list is not all inclusive, and consideration is given to where the funds are needed most.

Gibraltar Area School District

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Gibraltar Historical Association Endowment Fund Flagship Fund Operating Fund www.historicnoblehouse.org (920) 868-9021

As budgets get tighter and costs continue to increase the need for a Fund such as this becomes extremely important. There is a need for this type of Fund to fill the gaps not provided by traditional funding.

The preservation of historical buildings like the Old Town Hall by some like-minded citizens was the foundation for establishing Gibraltar Historical Association in 1984. Since then, this non-profit has continued that endeavor, balanced with the collection, research and preservation of objects and archival materials that reflect Gibraltar township history. All of this is done with the intent of educating its citizens, visitors and youth. The Old Town Hall serves the community for many events, the 150 year old Alexander Noble House has been completely restored and welcomes visitors annually, and the History Center provides the organization with offices and a research center within the green space and gardens of beautiful Noble Square in downtown Fish Creek. Preserving the past by operating a museum, providing historic walks, scheduling seasonal events and presenting Gibraltar Talks has kept our founder’s vision alive. GHA is a 501(c)(3) and relies on memberships, donations, grants, and fundraising efforts to continue its work. Established in 1962 in honor of Francis Howe Hardy, Ephraim’s historic Hardy Gallery is solely dedicated to supporting Door County’s extensive and vibrant visual art community.

Hardy Gallery Endowment Fund www.thehardy.org (920) 854-2210

Hardy envisioned the existence of a gallery that would support the development of a growing Door County art community, fostering its growth, and furthering the understanding and appreciation of the visual arts and most importantly, the artists of the Door Peninsula. Upon his passing in 1960, Hardy’s vision became a reality thanks to his wife Helen’s energy and financial contributions. Today, the Hardy Gallery, as it is still affectionately known, has programs and initiatives that address the needs of the local artist community, creative enrichment of local youth, and is focused more than ever on Hardy’s original vision of educating the public and promoting the visual arts and artists of the Door County Peninsula.

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DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’S GUIDE TO ENDOWMENTS HELP of Door County, Inc. offers basic crisis counseling services, youth services and support services to victims of domestic abuse. Programming includes intervention services, legal advocacy, older adult abuse intervention, and primary prevention education on domestic violence. HELP utilizes safe homes to provide emergency housing on a temporary basis for families in imminent danger of harm and manages a Transitional Living Program which provides rental assistance and case management. Transportation is provided for all clients Domestic Abuse Transitional Living Fund and for their minor children in need of such services. HELP also provides a supervised Eliminating Domestic Abuse Endowment Endowment Fund Established by Connie & Bob Erickson visitation and exchange program for children at risk. It is their philosophy to provide a safe environment for children to spend time with their parents. Thelma Windhauser Endowment Fund www.helpofdoorcounty.org (920) 743-8785

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Beyond Hope Church and its current vision, the Hope UCC Endowment Fund is today, tomorrow, and forever.

Hope United Church of Christ Endowment Fund www.hopechurchdc.org (920) 743-2701

The Hope UCC Endowment Fund grants support to our community, both locally and worldwide. It has been used to support the “All Hands In” Destination Imagination team as it raised awareness of the GOBO! Foundation Family Assistance Program. The Endowment has provided care packages to local soldiers serving abroad and helped support conversational English language classes in Door County. It has supported food assistance programs, installed a hearing loop in its sanctuary, and refurbished the Hope Library. Five percent of the total is granted annually while the balance is invested. Community needs today do not end when we move on. In your will, as a beneficiary of your retirement plans, life insurance, other accounts, or trusts – give back for today, tomorrow, and forever.

Isadoora was founded in 2002 as a company where anyone from the community could gain experience producing, directing, and acting in theatrical productions not typically accessible to amateurs. Our alumni have gone on to professional roles with AFT, Door Shakespeare, Peninsula Players, and Stage Door Theatre Co.

Isadoora Theatre Company Endowment Fund www.isadoora.com (920) 495-2777

From humble beginnings as friends gathering to read scripts, to fully staged, highquality production of deeply emotional shows such as Wit and Painting Churches. Funny and heartwarming offerings like She Loves Me and Striking 12. Provocative perspectives in Side Man, Waiting for Lefty, and The Laramie Project. Examinations of the darker side of human nature with Assassins,Why Torture Is Wrong and The People Who Love Them. To large-scale productions like Chicago, Isadoora has gone to theatrical places over the course of twelve years that few small, non-professional companies dare to go.

Midsummer’s Music Festival was co-founded in 1990 by Jim and Jean Berkenstock, long-time Door County summer residents and principal orchestral players with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The festival has drawn on the extraordinary talent of professional musicians and artist/faculty of universities throughout the Midwest. The name Midsummer’s Music is connected to the summer solstice (a time celebrated in areas of Scandinavian heritage). The festival presents concerts mid-June to mid-July and over Labor Day.

Midsummer’s Music Festival Endowment Trust Fund www.midsummersmusic.com (920) 854-7088

Midsummer’s Music offers chamber music for winds, strings, and piano performed in intimate and unique settings throughout Door County. Venues include art galleries, churches, and private homes. From the masters such as Mozart, Schubert, and Dvorak to some lesser-known but very accomplished composers, each concert is an unforgettable musical experience.

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NEW Audubon Society Endowment Fund www.newaudubon.org

Members of the Northeast Wisconsin Audubon Society incorporated in 1954. The NEW Audubon Society is one of over 500 local chapters of the National Audubon Society, including 14 chapters in Wisconsin. The NEW Audubon Society has over 800 member families that live in 8 counties and 55 communities throughout Northeast Wisconsin. Its board of directors sets policies and, with the help of other members, carries out the work of the society. The board meets every third Wednesday evening in Green Bay. All members are welcome to attend board meetings.

American Folklore Theatre, now Northern Sky Theater, has been providing heartwarming musicals to delight folks of all ages at their amphitheater in Peninsula State Park in the summer and at indoor venues throughout Door County each fall for more than 25 years. Their shows are tailored for Door County audiences and celebrate our culture and the heritage of the United States. They are dedicated to creating new musical works through their Fred Alley New Musical Fund established in memory of Fred Alley, cofounder and playwright of many of the company’s most popular productions.

Northern Sky Theater Endowment Fund northernskytheater.com (920) 854-6117

Northern Sky Theater strives to provide the highest quality original musicals priced so that families can enjoy live theater together. The company relies on philanthropic support to continue to create new works and maintain their family-friendly prices. See you under the stars!

Since 1937, the Peninsula Arts Association (PAA) has nourished the arts in Door County. Nourishment means providing funds to encourage new ventures (fledgling organizations, projects that take established organizations in new directions, experiences that allow working artists to explore new media) and also means opportunities for exposure to the arts for people of all ages.

Peninsula Arts Association Living Culture Endowment Fund facebook.com/doorcountyPAA (920) 495-0893

Over the years PAA has had many successes with its granting process. They believe it is due to the vision and passion of the artists and organizations and the vision and generosity of the donors.

For 50 years, Peninsula School of Art has served the community through exceptional learning experiences in the visual arts. It provides workshops with nationally recognized artist-teachers; visual arts classes for children; educationally-themed exhibitions featuring the works of national, regional, and local artists; and free community outreach programs for over 3000 children and families.

Peninsula School of Art

Youth and Community Outreach Fund www.peninsulaschoolofart.org (920) 868-3455

The Youth and Community Outreach Fund provides critical support for free, accessible arts programming, including: ceramics arts education to 500 school age children; monthly Family Art Days; a participatory exhibition for 300 school children with no access to arts education in their schools; and partnership programs with local community organization and schools, like the Girl Scouts, Boys & Girls Club of Door County, Habitat for Humanity, the Hardy Gallery, Northern Door Adult Day Care Services and many others to bring art to underserved populations and new audiences.

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DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’S GUIDE TO ENDOWMENTS The Richard Mauthe Center for Faith, Spirituality and Social Justice is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization located on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus, but independent from the university system. Its mission is to provide opportunities for the UWGB community to explore faith, nurture their spiritual lives, and serve others.

Richard Mauthe Center for Faith, Spirituality and Social Justice Endowment Fund www.mcenter.org (920) 465-5133

Every year the Mauthe Center touches the lives of more than 1,240 students by putting together events that inspire respect and peace, and promote justice. Today, it is invigorated to work with the next generation of authentic leaders to write a new chapter - defined by an effort to find innovative ways to continue to transform the lives of students and community members we serve. The purpose of its Endowment Fund is to ensure that the legacy of Rev. Richard Mauthe continues to flourish.

The Sister Bay Historical Society maintains archival records and photos and operates the Old Anderson House Museum and the Corner of the Past. All of the buildings are either original to the property or are historically significant buildings that have been moved to the property and restored.

Sister Bay Historical Society Endowment Fund Operating Reserve Fund www.sisterbayhistory.org (920) 854-7680

Southern Door Community Foundation

Athletes & Athletic Facilities Fund • Auditorium & Performing Arts Fund • Bleacher Reserve Fund • Booster Fund • Eagle Fund • Endowment Fund • Library & Technology Fund • Science & Agriculture Fund • Softball Field Improvement Fund www.southerndoorcommunityfoundation.org (920) 825-7373

The museum first received visitors in 1997 and the exhibits and activities have grown each year. Docents greet visitors who can use a computerized “talking” Discovery Pen to take a self-guided tour. Sister Bay’s original Farmer’s Market takes place Saturday mornings along with Heritage Programs which feature a local artist each week exhibiting their craft or folk art. Many other activities take place during the season such as an old fashioned Ice Cream Social and a Quilt Show. School age and adult groups are welcomed for escorted tours and hands on activities.

The goal of the Southern Door Community Foundation is to build its community and surrounding communities by providing financial support to the Southern Door School District to provide students with the opportunities to be productive members of their community. The foundation can also assist other supporting organizations of the school by providing a safe and responsible way to manage funds and activities. Each Endowment Fund allows a donor to target their gift to the issues most important to them. The Endowment Funds of the Southern Door Community Foundation include: the Eagle Fund, the Auditorium and Performing Arts Fund, the Athletes and Athletic Facilities Fund, the Science, Agriculture and Industrial Arts Fund, the Library and Technology Fund and the Southern Door Athletic Boosters Fund.

Sunshine House Inc. is a diverse community service organization whose purpose is to achieve full participation in society for people with special needs. Since 1971, Sunshine House has been helping create options for people with physical and/or developmental disabilities in Door County.

Sunshine House

Endowment Fund www.sunshinehouseinc.org (920) 743-7943

Each year over 20,000 individual passenger rides are provided and almost 80,000 miles are covered in providing transportation for the people served by Sunshine House. The Personal Care Area provides services for people in fragile health or with severe physical or developmental challenges. Typical activities include, reading, music, cooking, exercise, community outings, recreation and arts and crafts. The Production Area provides training and employment for individuals with disabilities both at Sunshine House and in the community. Work contracts include assembly, packaging, bulk mailing, inspection and janitorial/custodial work. Self-esteem and confidence can grow through vocational training and earning a paycheck.

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DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’S GUIDE TO ENDOWMENTS Third Avenue Playhouse is a year-round performing arts center founded in 2000. TAP’s mission is to entertain and educate by provoking thought, laughter, and tears. Facilities include the 250-seat mainstage as well as the 84-seat Studio Theatre. TAP’s Stage Door Theatre Company has produced over 20 productions featuring local and national professional actors in its 3 years of existence. Stage Door’s Internship Program provides opportunities for college students seeking experience in all aspects of professional theatre.

Third Avenue Playhouse Capital Fund Endowment Fund www.thirdavenueplayhouse.com (920) 743-1760

United Way of Door County Endowment Fund www.unitedwaydc.com (920) 746-9645

StageKids is TAP’s educational program, providing workshops to students of all ages. TAP believes that by learning theatre skills, students actually learn life skills such as creativity, collaboration, spontaneity, and public speaking. StageKids produces two full productions each year featuring young performers from throughout Door County. All StageKids offerings are led by members of Stage Door’s professional company. United Way of Door County forges strong partnerships, focuses resources on what matters, and creates measurable results. Its vision is of a community where: Family and community wellness are promoted; Childcare and early education are available to working families; Basic needs such as food, shelter, transportation, and clothing are met; The lives of special segments of the population including elderly, disabled, and mentally ill are enhanced; Healthcare is available to all; and Youth are provided with opportunities for positive development. Its aim is to use its expertise to add value by assessing community needs; collaborating with and ensuring accountability of partner organizations; and identifying and raising funds. It is a leader in Door County by facilitating, promoting, and ensuring the availability of services that meet the needs of the community as an effective and efficient conduit for philanthropic resources.

Since 1917, Wisconsin Public Radio has been a pioneer in radio broadcasting, providing strong, independent and meaningful public radio in Wisconsin. Educating, informing and entertaining have been at the core of WPR’s mission since its inception. Today WPR’s 34 radio stations, seven regional bureaus, three networks, website, online streams, and user-friendly apps serve local, regional, and statewide audiences.

Wisconsin Public Radio Door County Connection Fund www.wpr.org (888) 909-4163

WPR’s commitment to community engagement inspires programming that reflects the people and issues that impact Wisconsin. From thought-provoking discussions, to local and statewide news, to classical, folk and world music, WPR presents the highest quality programming available. Nearly 50,000 individuals provide almost half of WPR’s annual funding through membership in the non-profit Wisconsin Public Radio Association. Major gifts for specific projects as well as endowment gifts for long-term support also play an important role in funding one of Wisconsin’s most valuable assets.

The mission of Write On, Door County is to facilitate and promote writing in Door County by nurturing the work of writers, supporting readers and audiences, and developing opportunities that encourage broad participation. Everyone has a story to tell.

Write On, Door County Endowment Fund www.writeondoorcounty.org (920) 868-1457

Connecting people and connecting communities through writing, reading, and sharing stories is the core of its mission. Write On, Door County serves writers and readers of all ages and at all levels of development. It serves year-round and seasonal residents as well as visitors. Free peer critique groups support writers just starting out. Monthly book discussions connect readers. Classes with published authors help writers advance to the next level of their career. Author events bring together readers and writers in a relaxed setting. These programs take place in a variety of settings from Southern Door to Washington Island.

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WAYS TO GIVE BACK OUTRIGHT GIFT

You can make a gift of cash, stocks, bonds, real estate, or other assets to the Door County Community Foundation. Your gift qualifies for maximum charitable benefit under state and federal law.

BEQUEST

You can designate that a portion of your estate be placed in any of the Funds of the Door County Community Foundation – or you can create a new Fund in your family’s name. Generally speaking, you will also benefit from a substantial reduction in federal gift and estate taxes.

CHARITABLE REMAINDER TRUST

“The Community Foundation is a perfect fit for us. We care about a lot of different organizations. We can contribute to all the charities we love through our Fund. Working with the Community Foundation really simplifies things for us.”

You can place cash or property in a trust that pays annual income to you (or another named beneficiary) for life. After your death, the remainder of the trust transfers to the Door County Community Foundation and is placed in a Fund you’ve selected. You receive income tax benefits the year you establish your trust.

- Dick & Annie Egan

CHARITABLE LEAD TRUST

You can place cash or property in a trust that pays a fixed amount to the Door County Community Foundation for the number of years you select. Once this period ends, the assets held by the trust are transferred to the beneficiaries you name. In most cases, you receive a substantial reduction in federal gift and estate taxes.

GIFT OF STOCK

You can give publicly traded stock, or other assets that have financial value through any of the gift vehicles noted above. By donating a highly appreciated non-cash asset, you also typically avoid paying taxes on their capital gains.

GIFTS OF REAL ESTATE & CLOSELY HELD STOCK

Because the Door County Community Foundation is public charity, gifts of these types of assets normally entitle you to deduct their fair market value. The same gift to a private foundation typically is limited to its cost basis - what you paid for the asset. The Door County Community Foundation is the ideal vehicle to facilitate almost every kind of charitable giving. For more information, speak with an estate planning professional, contact the Community Foundation at (920) 746-1786, or visit GiveDoorCounty.org

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“The Community Foundation is a terrific way for us to give back through our estate plans. The attorneys like it because it centralizes our giving and really simplifies our estate documents. It also minimizes our administrative costs so we can maximize the amount of money that’s available for charity.” - John & Nell Herlache

CREATE YOUR OWN PERSONAL DONOR ADVISED FUND Donor Advised Funds are convenient, flexible tools for individuals, families, businesses, or groups that want to be personally involved in suggesting grant awards made possible by their gifts. If you have a range of community interests, you may find that it’s an ideal vehicle for fulfilling your charitable wishes. Donor Advised Funds are typically less costly and easier to administer than other forms of philanthropic giving (such as family or corporate foundations). Your gift can be combined with others to increase its impact, and you can add to the Fund you establish at any time, receiving tax benefits with each new gift. You can establish a Fund today and make grant recommendations now or in the future. Donor Advised Funds are particularly effective as an estate planning tool. Rather than naming multiple charities are beneficiaries of your estate, your retirement account, or other assets – you simply designate your Donor Advised Fund at the Door County Community Foundation, Inc. as the charitable beneficiary. Then the Community Foundation distributes your estate gift to the charities or causes you care about the most.

“While we continue to do our best to support numerous organizations and causes annually, we chose the Community Foundation as the means to demonstrate our commitment to the future of Door County. ”

If you so choose, your Donor Advised Fund can made into an endowment. Your gift – and all future earnings from your gift – then become a permanent source of community capital, giving back in your family’s name literally forever.

- Bill and Mardi Glenn

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It all begins with you. Charity is essential to our quality of life. It fills our lives with music and surrounds us with art, protects our environmental treasures and preserves our history, educates our children and cares for those in need. All this is possible because of you.

INSPIRING PEOPLE TO GIVE BACK TO SUSTAIN AND ADVANCE THE COMMUNITY WE LOVE Door County Community Foundation, Inc. Board of Directors David Eliot, Chairman Baileys Harbor

Dick Egan, Secretary Clark Lake

Jacinda Duffin Fish Creek

Linda Laarman Fish Creek

Kaaren Northrop Fish Creek

Marcia Smith Sturgeon Bay

Polly Alberts, Vice Chair Brussels

John Herlache, Past Chair Sturgeon Bay

Michael Felhofer Sturgeon Bay

Frank Maxwell Egg Harbor

Sally O’Brien Clark Lake

Jane Stevenson Nasewaupee

Richard Hauser, Treasurer Sturgeon Bay

Bill Boettcher Sturgeon Bay

Mark Jinkins Sturgeon Bay

Michael McCoy Ellison Bay

Nancy Sargent Fish Creek

Bret Bicoy, President & CEO Sturgeon Bay

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