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BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2017 - 2018
Laura Talley, Chair Karl Murch, Vice Chair Laurie Klinkhammer, Secretary Lois Krause, Treasurer Mark Faanes, Past Chair Suzanne Ashley Kim Bodeau Linda Danielson Philip Happe M.D. Chris Hasenberg Tom Larson Leland Mayer M.D. Sherry Mohr Tim Pabich Wayne Peters Dale Wood
NEW FUNDS 2017 Anonymous Fund (1) Babbette’s Seeds of Hope Beaver Creek Reserve Jim Schwiebert Butterfly House Fund Beckermann Family Fund Bob and Louise Barfknecht Fund Boys & Girls Club of Lac Courte Oreilles Giniigaaniiminaang! For Our Future Carson Park Baseball Stadium Renovation Fund Children’s Museum of Eau Claire Play Forever Fund
MESSAGE FROM LAURA TALLEY, Chair of the Board of Trustees In 2017, the Eau Claire Community Foundation celebrated 20 years of supporting nonprofits in the greater Eau Claire area. Thanks to your generosity, ECCF has been funding programs and assets for local nonprofits since 1997. We see firsthand the far-reaching and transformative impact of grants as they make a difference in area communities. And what a difference it’s been! Between January 1 and November 15, 2017, ECCF has disbursed over $4.1 million in grants to more than 200 nonprofit organizations. The Foundation’s assets have grown to over $22,000,000! Thanks to donors like you … • The Chippewa Valley Museum can educate visitors with a new projector system and exhibits that accommodate accessibility needs. • Fierce Freedom can continue its fight against human trafficking. • The Eau Claire Skateboarders Association can build a new skate park. • The Chippewa Valley Free Clinic can offer mental health services. These are just a few of the grants awarded in ECCF’s 2017 grant cycle; the combined impact of all 51 grants has been even more phenomenal! We also continue to collaborate with our peers by supporting community projects with donations that flow through ECCF. For example, the Carson Park Baseball Stadium Renovation Fund supports the future renovation of the stadium, and the Phoenix Park Bridge Lighting Project Fund enhances our downtown. The bridge is a spectacular sight when you visit Phoenix Park during the evening hours! As 2017 moves towards a close and you consider your year-end tax alternatives, please consider a gift to ECCF of appreciated securities or other property. If you are 70 ½ years or older and have not used your IRA disbursement, this is a great time to consider using your IRA to make a charitable gift for a tax saving opportunity. We can assist you and your financial and tax advisors with the process. To ensure a seamless transfer of your gift, please call us with your gifting instructions by December 15, 2017, to guarantee timely processing and ensure that the funds will be properly transferred for IRS purposes. Our focus and energies are committed to the future and what we can accomplish together as a community of givers. Thank you all for your continued generous support of ECCF throughout our 20 years! I wish you a warm, happy, and joyous holiday season. With gratitude,
Draper Hills Financial Literacy Endowment Eau Claire Public Arts Initiative Fund Endowment for the American Birkebeiner Ida B. Fischer Scholarship Fund Lac Courte Oreilles Foundation, Inc. Lac Courte Oreilles Legacy Fund Higbee Family Fund
Laura Talley, Chair Eau Claire Community Foundation
SNAPSHOT: Jan 1 - Oct 31, 2017
Louis and Janet Frase Fund
TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS: $3,142,375
NEW FUNDS: 17
Pabich Trust Fund 2004
TOTAL ASSETS: $22,676,225
TOTAL AWARDED GRANTS: $2,473,338
Robert J. Falkner Fund
NEW LEGACY SOCIETY MEMBERS: 10
306 S. Barstow St. Suite 104, Eau Claire, WI 54701
715.552.3801
210 Grants
www.eccommunityfoundation.org
EAU CLAIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ARTIST IN CLASSROOM NEWS: The first artist for the Artist in Classroom experience has been selected. Kris Gausman and Erin Phelps-Stark are a partnership in mixed media art, bringing their talents and experience from all over the world into Flynn Elementary
WOMEN’S GIVING CIRCLE The Women’s Giving Circle is excited to announce a record setting year, with more than 260 members and eight grants that total an unprecedented $41,466. The grantees officially receive their grant awards at the “Gift of Giving” Breakfast on December 6th, 2017.
School’s art classroom. The Artist in Classroom endowed fund
The following grants were funded by the generosity of the WGC
was established by two Eastside Hill citizens to support artists
members, whose dues are pooled to support grants to local
as they share their art and technique with Flynn Elementary
nonprofits that serve women and children. (Dues also support
students over the course of a semester. Kris and Erin begin
the WGC Endowment Fund and its administrative expenses.)
their team-teaching with Flynn’s art students in February 2018.
2017 BORDER BATTLE:
ORGANIZATION
The annual Border Battle Golf Scramble was held September
Altoona School District Altoona K-3 STEM Coding and Robotics
$5966
Earn While You Learn
$5000
18 at Wild Ridge & Mill Run Golf Course. Golfers from all over the community came together to tee off on 18 holes for a great cause: the Homeless Children & Youth fund of the ECPSF. The fund directly benefits Eau Claire Area School District students in homeless situations. Despite the rain, the event raised over $30,000 for the fund!
GRANTS: With a new school year comes a new opportunity for grants
PROGRAM
APPLE Pregnancy Care Center
AMOUNT
Boys and Girls Club of CV Mary Markquart Center: Adaptive Learning
$6000
Chippewa Valley Museum Classes and Activities for Preschoolers
$5000
Sojourner House: Bras for Homeless Women
$5000
of applications for innovative projects in our schools.
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of La Crosse
Some of the grants awarded this year include: an after-school
Feed my People Food Bank
Bridging the Summer Gap
$6000
Girls on the Run Chippewa Valley
Girls on the Run $4000 Chippewa Valley Expansion
in the classrooms. This year, ECPSF received a record number
music program for Northwoods Elementary; a Makers Space at McKinley Charter; an award-winning author and illustrator visit to Manz Elementary; prairie creation at Memorial High; Longfellow Elementary’s after-school CLC program; field trips
Trinity Lutheran Church
Soles for Special Souls
$4500
to various museums, theatres and local educational hot spots; converting an old music practice room into a recording studio at North High; and more!
The WGC welcomes its many new members—too many to list in this small space! Please visit their page under the
To learn more about the Eau Claire Public Schools Foundation
“Lasting Impact” tab of the Eau Claire Community Foundation
and to make a gift, please contact Sarah French,
website (eccommunityfoundation.org) or call the ECCF
Executive Director, at sfrench1@ecasd.us or 715. 852.3015.
office at 715.552.3801 for more information about the WGC,
You can also visit www.ecpsfound.org.
including how to join it.
Create Culture
Form Futures
WALDEMAR AGER ASSOCIATION
WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVISION
The Waldemar Ager Association celebrates the life and legacy of Waldemar Ager—immigrant, journalist, author, and Eau Claire civic leader in the early 1900’s. Ager was the publisher of the Reform, a Norwegian language newspaper, and author of seven novels, several collections of stories, and numerous articles about literature and immigrant culture.
Wisconsin Public Television (WPT) enriches people’s lives through inventive local television production; community engagement activities throughout the state; and the use of communication technologies that educate, inspire, and entertain.
The Association runs the Ager Museum, which is open three times a month for tours and research in its fully catalogued library. It also offers numerous public programs and educational opportunities. Each year, the Association joins Norden Folk and Sons of Norway on May 17 to commemorate Syttende Mai with a banquet and program. In 2017, the Association was pleased to receive an ECCF grant supporting the costs of this program. The Waldemar Ager Association welcomes new members and citizen support for its programs and activities. To learn more, visit www.agerhouse.org.
Give Green
Wisconsin Hometown Stories: Eau Claire is an innovative multimedia project that documents the region’s history. It includes a one-hour television broadcast, online components, and K-12 history curriculum. WPT staff were in Eau Claire September 12-14, 2017, talking with community members, educators and historians about the documentary’s content as well as gathering footage. Funding from ECCF will support the creation of cost-free, K-12 classroom resources that enhance students’ exploration and understanding of Eau Claire’s history. Thanks to this collaboration, students will have a new appreciation of the city they call home. To learn more, visit www.wpt.org.
Offer Opportunities
BEAVER CREEK
CHIPPEWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Beaver Creek Reserve (BCR) is an environmental center that seeks to connect people to the mysteries and miracles of the natural world; it has been fulfilling this mission for 70 years.
Chippewa Valley Habitat for Humanity (CVH4H) is a nonprofit housing organization that envisions a world where everyone has a decent place to live. To fulfill this mission, it builds and improves homes in partnership with people in need of affordable housing.
Over 40,000 visitors a year enjoy events and experiences at the Eau Claire County Youth Camp, the Wise Nature Center, the Citizen Science Center, the Hobbs Observatory, and the nine miles of beautiful trails. In 2017, BCR received an ECCF grant for three new water bottle filling drinking fountains. These fountains allow visitors to conveniently find clean filtered water and refill their water bottles, creating a more positive visitor experience and reducing waste from disposable water bottles. To learn more, visit www.beavercreekreserve.org.
CVH4H recently opened its first ReStore in Eau Claire. It sells donated furniture, appliances, and construction items at discounted prices. All proceeds go directly back into local home building and repair programs. An ECCF grant helped CVH4H open the ReStore. Its proceeds have supported an exterior home repair program and helped CVH4H complete a project for a Chippewa Valley family. The ReStore is always looking for new donations, shoppers, and volunteers. To learn more, visit www.cvh4h.org.
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306 S. Barstow Suite 104, Eau Claire, WI 54701
SAVE THE DATE! ECPSF: GOLDEN APPLE AWARDS
Thursday, April 5, 2018 Wild Ridge Golf Course
WGC: SPRING GATHERING
Monday, May 7, 2018
Eau Claire Golf and Country Club
ECCF: ANNUAL MEETING
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Holiday Inn Eau Claire South
ECCF: AUTUMN SOCIAL
Thursday, September 20, 2018 Holiday Inn Eau Claire South
ECCF: 13TH ANNUAL PROFESSIONAL ADVISOR EVENT
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Eau Claire Golf and Country Club
Happy Holidays! Thank you for all you give! We wish you the happiest holiday season and look forward to the New Year … From the Staff at the Eau Claire Community Foundation
OUR MISSION
We strengthen our community by offering donors opportunities to establish charitable legacies, by making grants, and by serving as a catalyst to address community needs.