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Lynn Fritz built a business around global logistics.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now using those skills to help the Bay Area prepare for the inevitableâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with an emphasis on serving the most vulnerable.

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Financial advisor Spencer Sherman promotes a new style of philanthropy.

He offers 10 tips to make your giving money-smart and soul-satisfying.

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'EPIRHEV The Opera Ball, Gladys Knight in the vineyard, family fun at the ballpark, feasting amid flora in Golden Gate Park. And more.

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Focus at the event; the late Bill Blass earlier had been a fixture, starting in 1969â&#x20AC;&#x201D;when tickets sold for $15. Both designers came to Tahoe through the generous support and encouragement of their friends Emily and Adolphus Andrews, Jr., as well as the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sponsor, Saks Fifth Avenue.

The fashion show raised about $500,000, nearly half of the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual operating budget. Consider its success a symbol of the growing concern for Tahoeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future as a natural treasureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and of the buy-in to environmental protection by diverse members of the community. Timilick Tahoe, a new Sierra golf development, hosted cocktails. Tiffany contributed a lavish dinner to the auction, and made a surprise announcement about their $70,000 gift for a study of the Upper Truckee River (Tiffany and Upper Truckee River in the same sentence!).

Homewood ski developer Art Chapman bought a charming painting donated by local artist Jack Johannsenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one of dozens of his pieces donated to the cause over the years.

Later in August, the League to Save Lake Tahoe capped off its 50th anniversary year celebration with its annual meeting sharing the same weekend and location as the Lake Tahoe Forum, attended

by Bill Clinton, and U.S. senators Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, and John Ensign. The location was the smashing new Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, Nevadaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the League made the first seed gift to the centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital campaign a decade ago.

All the talk at the Forum was about what can be done to prevent wildfires, like Juneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s devastating Angora blaze, from doing irreparable damage to the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;how to thin the combustible forest wisely without doing further environmental harm.

As Bill Clinton said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tahoe is at the intersection of the two greatest challenges faced today: global warming and the depletion of natural resources.â&#x20AC;? The League clearly has its work cut out for the next 50 years. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bill Marken

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Learning to go green The Green City Gallery, at 1950 Shattuck Avenue in downtown Berkeley, is a clearinghouse for practical, hands-on information on green roofs, grey-water systems, bio-diesel, and green construction projects—as well as inspiring touches such as sculpture celebrating the circle of life. This volunteer-run organization seeks to be an “incubator” to foster environmental awareness. digcity.coop/greencitygallery/ —Alex Gecan

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beauty, and wildlife habitat.

The new Land to Sea Conservancy in Fallbrook, California, demonstrates the banking idea’s potential. Instead of being sold off for development, the conservancy’s approximately

550 acres of pristine countryside are now set aside for protection. The landholder gets a tax break as well as earning income.

As defined by the California Department of Fish and Game, a conservation bank protects

Focus threatened and endangered species habitat: Credits are established for the particular sensitive species and habitats that occur on the site.

Conservation banks must be approved by the Department of Fish and Game, in consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The credits can be sold to developers who need mitigation credits to develop properties elsewhere. Bottom line: A conservation bank offers landowners economic incentives to protect natural resources while providing long-term protection and management of the natural habitat.

Jim Chaffin, executive director of the Land to Sea Conservancy, is enthusiastic about the conservation bank idea.

The conservancy property had been in his family for more than 30 years.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a beautiful piece of unspoiled California hillsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;much of the nearby land is planted with avocadosâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and Fish and Game encouraged the family to create a conservancy rather than develop it. Chaffin welcomed the opportunity to limit the property to â&#x20AC;&#x153;nonconjunctive useâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;no recreational use, which could threaten the fragile ecosystem. The conservancy agrees to manage and monitor the habitats to preserve their integrity in perpetuity.

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Samson and Delilah

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This lavish opera brings to life the biblical epic of Samson, who loses his heart, his hair, and nearly his soul to the seductress Delilah.

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Tannhäuser

BY RICHARD WAGNER

Torn between his love for the pure Elisabeth and his lust for the goddess Venus, a 13th-century poet Tannhäuser battles his inner demons for salvation.

SEPT 18, 23m, 26, 29; OCT 3*, 7m*, 12*

Appomattox AN OPERA BY PHILIP GLASS, LIBRETTO BY CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON MUSIC BY PHILIP GLASS Commissioned by San Francisco Opera

The historic surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War, is powerfully portrayed in this highly anticipated world premiere.

OCT 5, 10, 14m, 16*, 18*, 20*, 24

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*OperaVision, high-definition projection screens, will be featured in the balcony level for these performances.

PRODUCTION SPONSORS: Company Sponsor Mrs. Edmund W. Littlefield is proud to support Samson and Delilah, which is also made possible, in part, by the Bernard Osher Endowment Fund, Mr. and Mrs. David T. Traitel, and Opening Weekend Grand Sponsor Diane B. Wilsey. Tannhäuser is made possible, in part, by Mr. and Mrs. Reid W. Dennis, Elizabeth and Burgess Jamieson, Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Morey, and Thomas F. and Barbara A. Wolfe.

Appomattox is made possible by Company Sponsors John and Cynthia Fry Gunn; additional support is provided by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

COMPANY SPONSORS Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation John and Cynthia Fry Gunn William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Franklin and Catherine Johnson Koret Foundation Mrs. Edmund W. Littlefield Bernard and Barbro Osher

DAVID GOCKLEY General Director DONALD RUNNICLES Music Director and Principal Conductor

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Fellow traveler and current Leakey Foundation president Bill Wirthlin, who took the trip with Smith, also recalls it with a sense of awe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember the cream color of the cave walls. The artists used the color to create the bodies of the animals. Seeing the artistic sophistication of those old paintings was a real epiphany. It was like walking into a 13,000-year-old time capsule.â&#x20AC;?

On another recent Leakey expedition, Smith joined Wirthlin and preeminent French archaeologist Dr. Jean Clottes in the canyonlands of Moab, Utah. Focusing on Southwestern art and culture, the group visited sites of famous petroglyphs and pictographs, and capped the tour off with a jet-boat ride down the Colorado River to a stone amphitheater, where they attended the Moab Music Festival. At night, they bedded down at the

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The good news for travelers who prefer hiking boots and rock picks to tour buses is that you don’t need to have a Ph.D. or a fat wallet to take one of these trips.

An annual donation of $1,000 not only gives you Fellow status, it helps fund the Foundation’s important research and grants, a legacy that includes the discovery of the famous Lucy fossils, the work of primatologist Jane Goodall, and the findings of Gorillas in the Mist researcher Dr. Dian Fossey.

In the past few years, Fellows got to talk to Dr. Meave Leakey about the new fossil, Kenyanthropus platyops, on the day she announced its discovery, and were invited to hobnob with the world’s top anthropologists at the Annual Fellows Weekend in San Francisco. They have also toured the paleolithic caves of Altamira and Atapuerca in Spain, Gombe National Park in Tanzania, and Driefontein in South Africa.

“These trips make me realize the history of our humanity,” says C. Paul Johnson, vice president of the Foundation board, who has been on most of the Leakey-sponsored expeditions, including the one to Lascaux. “There were people thousands of years ago who were developing intellectually, spiritually, and artistically. That’s what evolution is all about.” B

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When I was in my thirties I revisited that boyhood vow, and decided I was coming up short.

My father, photographer Albert Gold, was the one who set me on the path to a purposeful life at an early age. When I was eight, he took me in the bathroom and had me look in the mirror and

2IX[SVOMRK Marc Gold’s philanthropic travel takes him to the municipal dump in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where he shows adolescents their photos. Children work the graveyard shift using lanterns to collect cans, bottles, tin, wire, and plastic—struggling to avoid toxic gases, infected hypodermic needles, and other dangers. This is one stop on Gold’s odyssey of giving.

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Marc: I see myself.

Albert: Okay. How old will you be in 70 years?

Marc: 78.

Albert: Okay, when you are 78 years old, look in the mirror again and ask yourself one question, because by then your life will be almost over: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Did you live a life that made this a better world or not?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Very simple. If the answer is yes, I am proud of you, and if not, I am disappointed.

Marc: But how am I going to make this a better world?

Albert: Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your job. You figure it out.

So in 1989 I went to India, and through a chance meeting with a Tibetan family I was able to save a womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life with a $1 antibiotic and restore her hearing with a $30 hearing aid. It was amazing to me that you could do so much with so little.

I returned to the U.S., compiled a list of 100 friends, wrote a letter describing the poverty I had seen and asked them to help.

That first fundraising effort netted $2,200, which I distributed in India to individuals, families, and small organizations.

I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really have a plan, especially at first. I was like a cat following a stringâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; except in my case the string led to people who needed help. Maybe they needed a few chickens, or a sewing machine, some medicine or educational opportunity, or a few dollars for building materials.

Those things may not seem like a lot, but, believe me, they can change a poor personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life.

Since that first trip, I have made 18 more trips to India, three to Afghanistan, and many more to numerous Asian and African countries. This year I will visit Mongolia and Borneo; next year: Rwanda, Malawi, and Niger. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty much a one-man operation. I will donate $20,000 to build a school for 1,000 boys and girls in Afghanistan. And $10,000 will go to help children in Iraq; $5,000 will build a school in rural Cambodia. With me itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s simple: The donors (now numbering almost 3,000) give the money to me, I give it to people who need it, I report back to the donors.

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Don’t leave Rosario Dawson a voicemail message. If you want a response, text her. When the 28-year-old star of Alexander and the Sin City films does speak, it’s a rapid-fire stream of consciousness, currently focused on Voto Latino, a non-partisan, nonprofit effort she co-founded with youth expert Phil Colon, to plant the seeds of civic identity and activism in the fertile minds of the 50,000 young American Latinos who reach voting age every month. An avid traveler and frequent Bay Area visitor, Dawson spent several months here in 2005 playing Mimi in the film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s La Boheme-inspired musical, Rent. This summer the Puerto Rican-Cuban-Irish-African-and-Native-Ameri-

“Kids know how to text-to-vote on American Idol—they know how the process works. But they are not being encouraged to translate that into political action.” can-descended actress returned for the launch of a Voto Latino voter inspiration program and fundraiser whose cohost was Mayor Gavin Newsom. She is currently garnering rave reviews—the New York Times called hers a “revelatory performance”—for the independent film Descent, which she also co-produced. Fresh off a plane in Brisbane, Australia, Dawson’s nimble fingers started the conversation: 911 2 TLK BOUT VOTO LATINO!

What inspired you to co-found Voto Latino?

My grandparents came to the United States from Puerto Rico and Cuba. Both my mother and I were always instilled with a kind of reverse racism. The message was that we were fortunate to be in this country and that we should make the most of this opportunity. So I grew up with a very strong sense of what I could achieve. I was always encouraged to be a great person, a great woman, a great American.

And I can clearly see the direct line from whatever successes I have had back to the struggles and sacrifices made by my mother and grandparents.

I’ve known Phil Colon since I was sixteen, when I was one of the kids that we are trying to reach today. I saw it [Voto Latino] as a chance to give voice to something I had lived, something I didn’t hear coming from other places, and I wanted to help make that possibility a reality for other Latinos. To be a face for an emerging Latin identity that takes pride in where we came from, but to be present in where we are and grow from that position. To say, “This is our country. Represent.”

What is your previous nonprofit experience? My

mom was always very politically active in our community, so I grew up with her stuffing envelopes, feeding people, and doing her part. Being involved just always seemed normal and natural. I have worked on projects with Planned

Parenthood, the Lower Eastside Girls Club of New York, and Eve Ensler’s V-Day. A lot of the things I’ve spent time with focus on women’s rights, HIV/AIDS, gay rights. I was a squatter on the Lower East Side, so homelessness issues really stand out for me also.

We’re now in a time, politically and in the media, where philanthropic work is getting more attention and a lot of corporations are attaching themselves to philanthropic efforts. I think it is important to really research what is actually being accomplished, how much they are really helping.

The trend is fascinating to watch, and it is definitely trickling down to young people.

What is unique in Voto Latino’s approach to advocacy? The internet has really changed the world,

and Voto Latino is looking at how new Americans express themselves in that global community. It’s a new kind of voice at the table, and it would be a mistake to dismiss how powerful that voice can be. Kids know how to textto-vote on American Idol—they know how the process works. But they are not being encouraged to translate that into political action. So we help put out that information, that awareness. To help young people realize that when they buy the hot, new brand of sneakers, they’re paying tax on them and by doing so they are participating politically whether they realize it or not.

What role does technology play? It helps cut out

the middle-men and put the tools in the hands of the user.

It’s about no paperwork and keeping it all green. It’s also about letting kids network the information among themselves, which is what they prefer anyway. Voto Latino serves to facilitate access to the technology and the information, but the dialogue is peer-to-peer.

We don’t ask for money and don’t have an agenda except for young voices to be heard. We try to help Latinos realize that politicians work for you and should be held accountable for the promises they make. Accountability is an important message for any kid to learn—especially in the political arena.

How do you encourage a population that is often suspicious of government to embrace a new civic identity? I think it is already happening.

The Latino youth vote has risen 12% from 2000 to 2004 and 8% from 2004 to 2006. Statistics say that if you get a person to vote three times you have a voter for life. But it’s really hard when there is so much information for the voter to process. It’s also hard to make it a priority in families where not everyone is a citizen.

How has your message resonated with key donors so far? Our profile is rising. We’ve been operat-

ing for a few years now, and our PSAs have been winning awards. At our most recent event, Mayor Newsom spoke on our behalf, which he had not done before. The political climate is changing, and people want to be associated with something really positive. Donors are seeing us and our message as unique, so the timing is right.

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kids For most of the year, it’s all about cancer.

At Camp Okizu, it’s all about just being a kid.

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How do you help children with cancer forget all the doctors and treatments and pain for a week? Where can they swim and play, smiling ear to ear beneath adorably bald heads?

Who manages to make the topic of childhood cancer positively uplifting? Two words: Camp Okizu—a camp for children with cancer, and their siblings and parents.

“It’s hard to explain,” says Danny Thompson, 16, who was diagnosed with leukemia at age three and has attended the camp each year since he was six. “It’s like another world.

Everything is just perfect. You get away from everything.”

“The camp offers something to those kids that most of us can’t understand,” says Danny’s mom, Patty Thompson of San Rafael.

“Every year he gets something new out of it.”

“We plan our summer around it,” concurs Jan Brooks of San Lorenzo, mother of Jack, 11, who was diagnosed with cancer at two-anda-half.

The Okizu cause inspires the beautiful and talented actress Robin Wright Penn, known for her intricate independent film roles as well as beloved iconic characters like Jenny in Forrest Gump. When a friend told Wright Penn about the camp, she was moved to participate, and has been the honorary chair of the camp’s annual fundraiser, Art Inspiring Hope, for several years.

It’s a “no-brainer” to support Camp Okizu, explains Wright Penn. “It’s such an original idea. There’s so much that wallows in and glorifies the nightmares of life. Let’s celebrate the dreams of life every day, every moment. Let’s live it. And these kids, just to see the smiles on their faces. The kids are physically able to do things that they wouldn’t be able to do at another camp, because it is facilitated there. It’s designed for them to go beyond—even if they are spiritually or emotionally fatigued.”

Camp Okizu, pronounced oak-eye-zoo (a Sioux Indian word meaning “unity”), was founded in 1982 by John Bell, in tribute to a friend who had died. It began as a collaboration with regional cancer treatment hospitals and an existing Camp Fire program to offer one camp session for 28 children with cancer.

Twenty-five years later, it has grown to an expansive haven in Berry Creek (70 miles north of Sacramento), with state-of-the-art facilities, including a ropes course and waterfront activities center, where campers aged six to seventeen find respite and recreation each summer.

Says Bell proudly, “Everything is designed for letting people achieve the most they can and doing it in a positive manner.”

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Children swim, boat, and climb trees, not prevented by blindness, walkers, or amputated limbs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even notice it when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re there. You just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even see it,â&#x20AC;? says Jan Brooks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At home, Jack struggles sometimes in sports, but he does everything there. He loves archery. And heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting to an age when people might tease him, but he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care. He knows from camp that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the only one.

So heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got a scar and a crooked smile. At camp heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s practically the most â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;normalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; one. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They come back with zillions of lanyards and friendship bracelets. Jack comes back so dirty, and he says â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have time to change my underpants because I played the whole time I was there.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

All in the Family

he Okizu program expands to fill needs as they are perceived. After observing that siblings of children with cancer face their own excruciating challengesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;parental neglect and feelings of fear, anger, and jealousy toward a sibling who may dieâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Okizu started the siblings camp. Brooksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; daughter Jane (now 16) was the first of her family to attend the camp when she was seven, after her younger brother Jackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s treatment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We learned that our issues were the unintentional neglect of the other child,â&#x20AC;? says Brooks, about her daughter Jane. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When she was eight, we got home from camp and I said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I want to tell you how sorry I am that we neglected you and we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t satisfy all the needs that you have.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And Jane said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Mama, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s okay.

I totally understand. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not alone [as the sibling of a sick child].â&#x20AC;&#x2122; She got that from camp.

She knows everybody just does the best they can, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not alone.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We realized that the disease affects the whole family and we need to serve the whole family,â&#x20AC;? says Bell, noting that parents of kids with cancer face an elevated divorce rate. For four days, the children can play with newfound friends, while parents meet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a really powerful way to exchange information.

You learn a lot about treatments, different medical facilities, long-term effects, what to expect, what to watch forâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even financial advice,â&#x20AC;? says Patty Thompson.

When parents break down, they are surrounded by people who share their experience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People call and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what to say or how to help, no matter how much they want to,â&#x20AC;? explains Mike Thompson, Dannyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At camp the kids would run off and playâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which was great, to have someone watching themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and we could go and sit with other parents and talk about treatments and

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problems and ask questions. Sharing intense stories with others is very comforting.â&#x20AC;?

Thompson adds that camp was â&#x20AC;&#x153;the first break in the actionâ&#x20AC;? during Dannyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s treatment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You go into a very high gear. We had a mini-hospital set up in the house and trips to the hospital and medications all the time. It became all-consuming. And our daughter had just been born. It was a really intense time.

The hospital recommended camp so we went up there. It was a great setting by a lake. And hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all these little kids running around half bald, taking medications. Camp gave us an instant family feeling. The staff creates the feeling that everything is okay, and everything will be okay. The kids pick up on that.â&#x20AC;?

Many campers and families attend long after treatments have ended. Veterans offer support to families newly-immersed in treatments. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to look at us as a family and see that you can come out the other side,â&#x20AC;? emphasizes Patty Thompson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your kid gets back to normal. Your family life takes on a new normalcy, though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never the same.

You will always have perspective to recognize whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important and whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s silly. You have been initiated into a club that no one wants to belong to, but it has its benefits. You recognize whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important. Going to camp now reminds me of where we were, and makes me grateful for where we are.â&#x20AC;?

Recently, Okizu added a bereavement camp (responding to the heartbreaking reality that a quarter of the kids at the camp will die from their cancer, down from half when the camp started in 1982), and Teens â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Twenties (TNT) programming for older kids. New in 2007 were Spanish-language discussion groups and bereavement camp for siblings. The 2007 schedule included three one-week sessions of camp for kids who have/had cancer, four one-week sessions of siblingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; camp, eight weekend family camps, and four weekend â&#x20AC;&#x153;Teens â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Twentiesâ&#x20AC;? tripsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;totaling more than 2,400 people.

Okizu seeks to further expand to include single parent weekends and regional family meetings.

In a story filled with awesome and inspiring feats, the most stunning part is a doozy: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all free. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an amazing thing. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to pay anything,â&#x20AC;? says Mike Thompson.

The food, lodging, medical supervision, fishing, archery, swimming, lanyards, capture the flagâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all free to the campers and their families. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had to stay home with Jack. He was so sick.

We were really poor back then. It was a vacation for us, and a vacation for our kids. And it was free.â&#x20AC;? Jan Brooks pauses in her rapid-fire enthusiasm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Four days sounds like so little, but it was a godsend.â&#x20AC;?

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nce things settled downâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both Jack and Danny have been out of treatment for several yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Thompson and Brooks families sought to give back to Camp Okizu by helping with the annual Art Inspiring Hope fundraiser, which originated at family camp 13 years ago when Mike Thompson brainstormed with the Okizu development director about ideas to raise funds. Thompson contributed art and framing to the event from his custom framing business.

Once involved, people become deeply dedicated to the camp, following the example of John Bell. Dr. Michael Amylon of Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital at Stanford has volunteered at virtually every camp session for 26 years, and supervises the medical staff (volunteer oncology doctors and nurses give all medications on schedule). Parents, kids, volunteers: Everyone mentions â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dr. Mikeâ&#x20AC;? and how the kids adore him. Jan Brooks describes him: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up late playing card games in the lodge, and then he gets up at the crack of dawn to be with the kids and counselors.â&#x20AC;?

The camp runs due to 500 volunteers giving 50,000 hours each summer, and Bell estimates that 50 percent of them used to be campers.

Jack, Jane, and Danny all plan to be counselors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll definitely be a counselor. I like working with the younger kids,â&#x20AC;? says Danny. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first question I always asked counselors was: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Have you had cancer?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; When they said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;yesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that made me feel really good, to hear that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten over it.â&#x20AC;?

Bell speaks with pride of the campâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success instilling volunteerism in campers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The people the kids come to admire while theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at camp are the kind of people who give back and are happy to see others succeed. The kids see these kinds of people and they become their heroes, and so the kids become the kind of people who are interested in making people around them better. It tends to make for stronger families.

And it tends to make for stronger selves. They become a better kind of person. It drives them to come back.â&#x20AC;?

Bell is modest about his tireless dedication.

Jan Brooks describes him happily fishing with the kids all summer long. She recalls Bell introducing himself at a benefit as â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of the camp volunteers.â&#x20AC;? He is quick to credit others for their contributions, praising local journalists Cheryl Jennings and Dan Noyes for their support. He is also effusive in his gratitude to Wright Penn for elevating the visibility of the camp and its events.

With two teenage children and a thriving career, Wright Penn makes time to support

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â&#x20AC;&#x153; Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty simple at Camp Okizu. To give that glimmer of joy in these kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives. They get to be in an environment without judgment and without boundaries. To be around kids, their own, without stigma about being bald or sick, whatever it is.

They can live as kids should live.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Robin Wright Penn

many organizations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was instilled [in me]: Be conscious of others that have less. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our duty to give to those who have less. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always our duty to give whatever we can. Everyone can.â&#x20AC;? She speaks enthusiastically about local environmental causes and about human rights work for Africa, her inspiration renewed by a trip there with her children last summer. But Camp Okizu is a favorite of the whole family.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;My daughter wants to volunteer there,â&#x20AC;? she says, sounding proud. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty simple,â&#x20AC;? sums up Wright Penn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To give that glimmer of joy in these kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives. They get to be in an environment without judgment and without boundaries. To be around kids, their own, without stigma about being bald or sick, whatever it is. They can live as kids should live.â&#x20AC;? B

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When I got started as a financial advisor in 1987, my only aim, and it seemed like the only focus of my clients as well, was to increase their portfolios. I believed that if I could add greatly to the bottom line of my clients, I could also build their happiness, financial security, peace, and ability to pursue their passions beyond their careers. If the subject of philanthropy came up, I knew the tax benefits. That was about it.

But what I discovered about 10 years later is that very few of my clients (none, to be precise) seemed to have any more happiness or security or peace as a result of their increased wealth.

In fact, most of them seemed to feel less secure and more desperate to increase their bank accounts.

What was going on? The way I saw it, my clients were suffering from a belief that they acquired in childhood: That more money would bring them happiness. But this wasn’t happening. I began to change the focus of my advising and started helping clients to discover what they really wanted and to let go of the beliefs that kept them from gaining satisfaction from their wealth—in other words, to enjoy the wealth they had and to share it too. Philanthropy emerged as a compelling way to enrich their lives. And it has.

I’ve witnessed other financial advisors also shifting toward philanthropy. Norm Boone, of Mosaic Financial Partners in San Francisco, says, “My clients can buy only so many vacation homes and toys. Empty-nesters, especially, are looking for ways to make life meaningful.” I’ve boiled down what I’ve learned about this new approach to philanthropy into 10 tips.

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;ERX XS ORS[ QSVI EFSYX XLI RI[ TLMPERXLVST]# Do you have a financial question? Maybe you want to know, â&#x20AC;&#x153;How do I talk to my kids about wanting to leave a significant portion of my estate to philanthropy rather than to them?â&#x20AC;? Or, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Exactly how does a donor-advised fund work?â&#x20AC;?

In future issues of Benefit, Spencer Sherman will answer reader questions about money and philanthropy.

Please send questions to editor@benefitmagazinesf.com.

Spencer D. Sherman, CFP, MBA, is chief executive officer of Abacus Wealth Partners: AbacusWealth.com. He is the author of an upcoming book from Doubleday Broadway: CureMoneyMadness.com.

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Lynn Fritz may well be the most valuable personal assistant on earth.

His â&#x20AC;&#x153;clientsâ&#x20AC;? are neither Hollywood superstars nor pampered professional athletes, but rather the suppliers and recipients of disaster aid around the world. When â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Big Oneâ&#x20AC;? strikes here in the Bay Area, the kind of logistical support Fritz provides could make all the difference.

Fritz is the founder of the eponymous Fritz Institute, a San Francisco-based nonprofit devoted to making disaster relief more effective. By anticipating needs, increasing accountability, and utilizing global shipping methods to deliver aid when and where lives are at stake, â&#x20AC;&#x153;weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really helping the helpers who are chartered to save people,â&#x20AC;? says Fritz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By taking care of the groundwork for them (technology, organization, coordination, and performance metrics), weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re enabling them to work at an optimal levelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and keep their focus on saving people.â&#x20AC;?

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(with over 10,000 employees in 120 countries) and sold to UPS in 2001 for more than $400 million. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Global logistics is really the art of connecting the pieces,â&#x20AC;? says Fritz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the method of getting something from one place to another efficiently and within a certain time frameâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;often under trying circumstances. People respond to disasters by sending water, food, and medicine, which is great. What isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so great is that cases of these supplies sit untouched on the tarmac because nobody knows where they need to go or how to get them there.â&#x20AC;?

After selling his company, Fritz could have retired to his Lynmar Winery and state-of-the-art crush pad in the Russian River Valley. Instead, he created the Fritz Institute so he could combine

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like one of those Whac-A-Mole games.

If you change the system so that the people at the point of help have the tools to know what their priorities and resources are, fewer moles will pop up.â&#x20AC;?

8S XLI VIWGYI Lynn Fritz pitches in on a visit to Lesotho (left).

Above, in a rare quiet moment, he relaxes at his Lynnmar Winery in the Russian River Valley.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is the first large-scale effort to assess and enhance the disaster resilience of the organizations that make up the social safety net that assists at-risk populations.â&#x20AC;?

his logistics knowledge with best business practices and academic research in order to improve disaster relief. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to be in a change environment, to use the skills and the treasure Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d acquired to make an impact for a cause I found worthwhile,â&#x20AC;? says Fritz, who has working relationships with groups such as Doctors Without Borders, CARE, Save the Children, and the UN Refugee Agency. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Among the elite of leaders committed to applying their skills to making the world a safer place to live and work, Lynn Fritz is at the top of the list,â&#x20AC;? says former mayor of Palo Alto Judy Kleinberg, the vice president and COO of InSTEDD (Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases, and Disasters). Fact-finding missions have found Fritz in places such as Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka to observe firsthand the delivery of emergency aid, and institute staffers have visited South Africa, the Maldives, India, Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Thailand, and Baghdad. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lynn Fritz has a way of inspiring people and moving them toward a consensus on taking action, even in the difficult area of grass-roots community disaster preparedness,â&#x20AC;? says Dr. Kathleen Tierney, director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Fritz is currently focused on using his expertise to help create a more efficient disaster response system in his native San Francisco via the Bay Area Preparedness Initiative. Launched this spring with a $1 million grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the BAPI was created to identify and devise solutions to preparedness gaps for The Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s community- and faith-based organizations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the ones that need to be in business immediately after a disaster. If theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re blown away, nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be helped for 72 hours,â&#x20AC;? says Fritz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bay Area Preparedness Initiative is of critical importance because it is the first large-scale effort to assess and enhance the disaster resilience of the organizations that make up the social safety net that assists at-risk populations. People who need ongoing support from the nonprofit sector on a daily basis, such as elderly and disabled community residents, people with chronic illnesses and mental health problems, and those who lack basic necessities of life such as shelter will suffer disproportionately in future disasters. Local agencies and community-based organizations must be equipped to meet the needs of these diverse groups,â&#x20AC;? says Tierney, the BAPI research leader. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lynn Fritz has ... brought his considerable expertise from the private sector and applied it to an important collaboration among the public, nonprofit, philan-

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thropic, and business sectors. Most important, he and his institute are leading the initiative with an evidencebased approach, and are committed to bringing all the diversity of the region to the table,â&#x20AC;? says Dr. Sandra R. HernĂĄndez, CEO of The San Francisco Foundation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is enlightened, results-oriented, highly-leveraging philanthropy,â&#x20AC;? says Fritz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are usually inclined to respond with money and aid after something terrible happens. Haas (Walter & Elise Haas Fund), Hewlett (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, PG&E, and The San Francisco Foundation saw the need for an objective third-party organization that would create and coordinate systems and standards of preparedness before a catastrophe hits,â&#x20AC;? says Fritz, who hopes to make the BAPI a preparedness model for other at-risk cities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For years Lynn Fritz has brought his unique perspective and expertise in logistics management to the challenge of resource readiness and deployment in times of crisis throughout the world. And now he brings that same skill to the Bay Area through the Bay Area Preparedness Initiative to ensure that his own region will be as ready as possible to respond to and recover from a major disaster,â&#x20AC;? says Kleinberg.

In that regard, Fritz is working to ensure that San Francisco is better equipped to deal with the aftermath of â&#x20AC;&#x153;the big oneâ&#x20AC;? than New Orleans was with that of Katrina. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Creating a system and a protocol now will minimize disruption and suffering and the amount of aid needed to fix things later,â&#x20AC;? says Fritz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like one of those Whac-A-Mole games. If you change the system so that the people at the point of help have the tools to know what their priorities and resources are, fewer moles will pop up.â&#x20AC;?

Perhaps the most powerful tool in the Fritz Institute arsenal is its new Helios supply chain software, whose predecessor was the Humanitarian Logistics Software that was used by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) during the 2006 Jakarta earthquake and tsunami. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The IFRC said it made them five times more effective than theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d ever been in a disaster,â&#x20AC;? Fritz says proudly.

Helios will help relief agencies manage the tons of donated supplies that pour in after a disaster, minimizing delays and duplicated efforts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Helios will allow all of the pieces of a humanitarian relief operation to work together harmoniously so that each segment will know what the other segments are doing,â&#x20AC;? says Fritz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People who need help will get the help they need where and when they need itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from organizations that have prepared themselves for what might happen.â&#x20AC;? B