Foundation Celebrates Silver Anniversary

25 years of caring for Sa nta Fe
NE W S
WINTER 2006
William Keller
(left) and wife,
Helen (far right),
Al Wadle and
Glenna Goodacre
announce the
formation of the
Circle of Care Fund
in 1990.
Photo by Leslie Tallant
Foundation Celebrates Silver Anniversary
What will our community look like
in 2031? As the Foundation celebrates
its Silver Anniversary, we are asking
members of the community to share
their visions of our region 25 years
into the future.
To highlight the year, the Foundation
will create a time capsule containing
your imaginings for Santa Fe. We
will also plant 25 trees, including
a large stand at the new Southside
Library; create a Silver Fund to meet
immediate community needs and
another fund that will be endowed for
25 years; and ramp up community
celebrations year-round.
It was a quarter-century ago that the
City of Santa Fe and The Santa Fe
New Mexican partnered to donate the
seed money that enabled local residents
to form a community foundation to
meet continuing needs in education,
health care, human services, civic
affairs, environment and the arts.
The study committee for this daring
venture included John Martin, Senior
Vice President of the Bank of Santa Fe;
Carl Fisher, Executive Vice President
of Santa Fe National Bank and
Margaret Biava of Discover Santa Fe.
A year later, in 1981, the group was
expanded. New members were Dora
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Letter From the President
Twenty-five years
ago, 10 founding
board members
of the Santa Fe
Community
Foundation took a
great risk, putting
their faith and their energy behind an
idea that would not come to fruition
for many years.
The concept is difficult for some to
grasp. You give today and the earnings
from your gift are used to support
future needs – needs we cannot even
fathom today. It has been my honor to
work with donors who believe in the
Greek philosopher’s creed, “When a
person plants a tree under which they
will never sit, then you know that
civilization has come to that land.”
Like any nascent nonprofit, they
sought donations: office space from
the Sangre de Cristo Water Company
(remember pre-PNM days?), legal
services from White, Koch, Kelly &
McCarthy (which remains a devoted
friend of the Foundation) and volunteer
staffing by the board itself, most
notably from Glo Sawtell, the woman
some call “the mother of the Santa Fe
Community Foundation.”
Our endowments and growing donor
advised funds have allowed your
community foundation to help
more nonprofits than ever through
incrementally larger grants, all the
while evolving into a leadership position
that helps unite our community.
Except the Santa Fe Community
Foundation isn’t just another nonprofit –
it is an umbrella for many hundreds of
charitable groups that grace our region.
The Foundation builds endowments,
funds and strengthens nonprofits,
connects donors with the causes they
care about and acts as a community
convener and catalyst for change.
An example of the powerful results of
this form of risk-taking is a recollection
of Emeritus Council Co-chair, Bill
Keller. Bill remembers the person who
recruited him in 1988 to serve at the
Foundation retiring from the board the
same year because she didn’t want to
stay with “a losing organization” with
an endowment of only $150,000.
Today, your community foundation’s
assets have reached $22 million and
our endowment totals $17 million.
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In honor of our Silver Anniversary,
we have chosen Board member Randy
Chitto’s storyteller turtle to represent
us because, over the past 25 years, the
Foundation has become a story keeper
and a storyteller. We speak for all
residents of our community – native
and newcomer, poor and wealthy, citizen
and immigrant, gay and straight,
young and old – and, like the storyteller,
we gather people together to preserve
our heritage and plan for our future.
We are enormously grateful to all of
you who have “planted these trees,”
as the Greek philosopher put it, so that
Santa Feans 25 years from now – a
century from now, and as far ahead as
we can imagine – may sit in the peace
and comfort of their shade.
Billie Blair,
President
In This Issue
Foundation Celebrates Silver Anniversary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Letter from the President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Community College Students Help Evacuees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Setting Priorities for Grantmaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Apply for a Grant Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Local Artist Crafts Anniversary Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Silver Anniversary Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Fund News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Children and the Arts in Indian Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Nonprofits Laud Workshop Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Artful Holiday Greetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Estate Planning Expert to Address Local Advisors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Foundation Co-sponsors Dialogue on Prejudice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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Report on the Empty Stocking Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Board News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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Atkinson, Charles D. Batts, Tino
Chavez, George Ellis, Don Gonzales,
Lt. Col. Margaret Johnson, Star Jones,
Jamie Koch, John Park Lee, Richard E.
Mares, Tom Olson, Zilla Padilla,
Manuel Rodriguez, Filmore Rose,
Edwin Stockly, Richard Taffe and
Eugene Zacher.
By July, the Foundation was incorporated.
Initial board members were Burch Ault,
Margaret Biava, Lee Brown, James
Downey, Margaret R. Johnson, John
Park Lee, Tom Olson, Gloria Sawtell,
Robert Spitz and Matias Zamora.
On the occasion of our 25th year of
service to Santa Fe and Northern
New Mexico, the Santa Fe Community
Foundation is taking stock of how far
we’ve come:
Since our inception, we have returned
$16 million to the community in the
form of grants to nonprofit organizations.
From three $500 grants in 1982 to
$2.2 million in grants in 2005.
From our modest beginnings of
$5,000, the Foundation’s endowment
has grown to $17 million and total
assets to $22 million.
We’re proud of our accomplishments,
but also looking to the future.
What would you like for Santa Fe and
Northern New Mexico 25 years from
now? With your gift to the Silver Fund,
send your wish in writing to the
Foundation and we will place it in a
time capsule to be opened during the
Foundation’s 50th anniversary, in 2031.
Setting Priorities for Grantmaking We’re seeking your opinions on
community needs.
The Foundation regularly evaluates its
grantmaking priorities to ensure that
the most pressing community issues
are being addressed. As part of this
process, in 2006 we will survey residents,
conduct focus groups and personal
interviews and invite responses to an
online questionnaire.
Jewelry students
at the Community
College raise
funds for victims of
Hurricane Katrina.
Photo by John Narvaiz
Students Reach Out to Gulf Coast Evacuees
A group of Santa Fe Community
College jewelry students recently
donated more than $1,100 to the
Santa Fe Community Foundation’s
Hurricane Relief Fund by selling
jewelry. Among the participants were
Hali Moore, Charlotte Chacon, Rita
Roman, Lesley Foster, Robin Keogh,
Leasa Fortune, Ashley Young-Cox,
instructor Diane Tintor and Alan Ho.
Also Anne McGovern, Patricia Bevent,
Kamala Harbour, Marian Miller and
Bara De Marino.
Leasa Fortune recounted how the
group decided to take action:
The Saturday after Katrina hit our class
was sitting at lunch feeling confused,
frustrated and pretty helpless. In a rather
spontaneous moment we were inspired to
turn that energy into something positive.
It was decided that we would make some
easily affordable jewelry and give the
proceeds to a nonprofit organization to
assist the survivors of Katrina. Most of
the pieces were priced between $3 and $20,
with some a little more expensive. We also
decided that we wanted funds to go to a
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local organization for the needs of those
that found themselves here in Santa Fe.
Trader Joe’s generously allowed us to use
the space in front of their store to “set up
shop” which we did for two afternoons.
The response was extraordinary! People
bought for themselves as well as presents
for others. Some came and shopped on
both days. Others just gave a contribution.
It was really, really touching and so
much fun. From this experience I learned that anger
and frustration can give birth to something powerful and transformative.
And that there is nothing more satisfying than giving freely the gift of your time
and resources to those in need. No matter
how small, every cent and each second makes a difference in the lives of those on
both ends of the equation. In addition to the Hurricane Relief
Fund, which was used to assist evacuees
in Santa Fe, the Foundation distributed
$16,440 to Gulf Coast-area community
foundations working on rebuilding efforts.
Focus groups are scheduled for the week
of February 13-17. One focus group
will center on the needs of surrounding
counties in the Foundation’s service
area: Rio Arriba, Los Alamos, Mora,
San Miguel and Taos.
A grants subcommittee, chaired by
Foundation board member Alex Gancarz,
will review the information and make
recommendations to the Board of
Directors on possible revisions to
grantmaking guidelines and procedures.
This process updates research last done
in 2003.
Anyone interested in proffering an
opinion on needs in Santa Fe and
Northern New Mexico is invited to
send comments to Interim Program
Director Terry Odendahl at
[email protected].
In addition, a community needs assessment is underway, guided by Barbara
Gudwin and other members of the
Foundation’s board. The Foundation
will use the information to shape its
grantmaking and to publish a booklet to
inform Santa Feans on the community’s
most crucial concerns.
Apply for a Grant Online
This year the Santa Fe Community
Foundation begins accepting grant
applications online. Special pre-proposal
workshops will be offered in April and
May to assist prospective applicants
with proposal guidelines, the Foundation’s
application and grant process and
cycles, proposal writing in brief and
the mechanics of online submission.
Watch our website (www.santafecf.org)
for announcements. The deadline for
grant applications remains July 1.
TAX REDUCTION
Often IRAs, 401(k)s and other retirement plans for
deferring income tax-free can result in both an estate tax
and an income tax at death. One easy way to totally avoid
or reduce both is to name a charity, such as the Santa Fe
Community Foundation, as the beneficiary of such plans.
Curtis W. Schwartz, Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris and Sisk, PA
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Once, when I was visiting one of my
aunts on the reservation, she had a
drawing of a man leaning over and
below him was a turtle stretching up.
It looked like the man was listening to
the turtle. I loved that picture and it
stayed with me always.
I started out making large storage jars,
but I wanted to do something no one
else had done before. That’s why I use
the turtle.
What other animals do you use
in your art?
I do occasional bowls, but mostly bears
and turtles. They’re happy.
Artist Randy Chitto
at work in his studio.
Photo by Kate Russell
Local Artist Crafts Anniversary Icon
Foundation board member Randy
Chitto, who is Choctaw, has created a
ceramic sculpture to serve as the
symbol of the Santa Fe Community
Foundation’s Silver Anniversary.
Chitto’s pottery is in the permanent
collections of the Institute of American
Indian Arts Museum, Heard Museum,
Oklahoma Southern Plains Museum
and in many private collections.
His pieces can be viewed at Packard’s
in Santa Fe and at www.rchitto.com.
Top anniversary sponsors will receive
the Chitto piece in recognition of their
commitment to the community and to
the Foundation’s work.
We interviewed Chitto in his studio
on Upper Canyon Road:
Where were you born?
Philadelphia, Mississippi on the
reservation. I grew up in Chicago.
What brought you to Santa Fe?
School. My tribe would help me with
college if I came to the Institute for
American Indian Arts. I thought I
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would just stay for one semester, but
then I met my wife, Jackie.
Where did you learn to make pottery?
At IAIA. My teacher was Otellie Loloma,
a Hopi potter. She gave us a clump of
clay and I just grabbed it and made a
bowl. She asked me, “Who was your
teacher?” so I guess she thought it was
okay. I planned to be a commercial
artist. I had a friend in Chicago whose
father worked for Wrigley as a commercial
artist. I loved his desk with all the pens
and paper.
Why do you use the turtle in
your work?
In my tribe, the turtles are the story
keepers. When the Trail of Tears was
happening, we didn’t know if we would
ever return to our lands. Our medicine
people said, “Talk to the turtles.”
There are lots of turtles in the South
and they live forever. They keep the
stories inside their shells and nothing
can take them away. Turtles gave us our
stories back when we returned. They
kept our history.
Besides the Santa Fe Community
Foundation, for what organizations
do you volunteer?
Hands On Community Art. Recently
I was the Santa Fe coordinator for the
Pueblo Opera program. This year, I’ll
be the chair of the Community
Foundation’s Native American Advised
Endowment Committee.
Why are you a member of the Santa Fe
Community Foundation’s Board of
Directors?
I like the leadership role the Foundation
plays. I like getting involved and working on a problem, not just talking
about it. We’re here to wake people up.
Sometimes you just have to stand for
something. That’s what the Santa Fe
Community Foundation does.
Silver Anniversary
Sponsors
The Foundation is grateful for the support of
the following businesses who recognize our
quarter-century of service to the community.
Silver Anniversary
Title Sponsors - $25,000
Las Campanas
Lexus of Santa Fe
Presenting Sponsors - $10,000
Los Alamos National Bank
Elise Davis, CT Herman, Tim
Monaghan & Merrill Lynch
Packard’s on the Plaza
Sponsors - $5,000
Barraclough & Associates
Centex Homes
Columbus Capital
First National Bank of Santa Fe
La Fonda Hotel
Vanessie of Santa Fe
Underwriters - $2,500
Bellas Artes Gallery
Chapman Companies
Q. & Phil Cook
Margo Cutler
Forum Partners
Gallegos Law Firm
Hotel Santa Fe
Jackalope Pottery
Montgomery & Andrews, PA
Ortega Insurance Services
The Pension Company
Santa Fe Association of Realtors
William Siegel Galleries
Southwestern Title & Escrow
UBS Financial Services
Wadle Galleries
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Fund News
on the boards of the National Dance
Institute and Creativity for Peace.
Both volunteer with the Small Learning
Community at Santa Fe High School.
The Jurises chose the Santa Fe
Community Foundation to help manage
their local philanthropy because they
were impressed with the way the
Foundation identifies and supports
organizations which help the neediest
members of the community.
Lawrence B. Ingram
Photo courtesy Ingram family
Lawrence B. Ingram Family
Endowment
Lawrence B. Ingram was a social and
political activist who exhibited great
concern for people and a love of
Santa Fe and his native New Mexico.
Established in his memory by his
wife, Barbara, and children, Valerie,
Christopher, Carolyn and Heather, the
Ingram Family Endowment will focus
on the areas that Lawrence felt passionately about – education and the arts.
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Nathanson/Juris Family Fund
Hervey Juris and Leslie Nathanson
Juris have lived full-time in Santa Fe
since 1999 and part-time since 1992.
Hervey was a professor of labor
economics at the Kellogg School of
Northwestern University and Leslie
was founder and Managing Director
of two consulting firms specializing in
leading and managing strategic change
in organizations. She continues to serve
some Santa Fe clients. Hervey is a
volunteer with Mentoring New Mexico
and Big Brothers Big Sisters of
Northern New Mexico and Leslie is
La Familia Medical Center
Endowment
La Familia Medical Center, which was
founded in 1972 to provide high quality,
comprehensive medical, dental and
health education services to all – with
special emphasis on uninsured people –
has established an agency endowment
at the Foundation.
Katrina Huffaker, La Familia’s Director
of Development, said, “Our Board of
Directors decided to establish an
endowment with the Santa Fe
Community Foundation for the long
term financial health of La Familia.
We chose the Foundation because they
understand community needs and
have an excellent reputation of investing
wisely and ensuring good returns.
We are confident that over time the
endowment will generate income to
help support our operating expenses
and support healthcare services for the
uninsured of Santa Fe.”
Over 70 percent of La Familia’s 13,000
patients do not have health insurance
and the number of uninsured patients
grows every year. Huffaker said, “It is
essential that we continue to provide
quality medical and dental care and
health education to those most vulnerable
in our community, now and in the future.”
Las Campanas Community
Endowment Fund
Donors to the Las Campanas
Community Endowment Fund have
selected six nonprofit organizations to
receive grants of $1,000 each:
Adaptive Ski Program, which provides
the challenge of learning to snow ski,
with all the accompanying risk-taking,
physical exercise and enjoyment, to
those with disabilities.
First Serve New Mexico, a free academic
tutoring and tennis instruction program
for students at DeVargas Middle School
and the ninth grade at Santa Fe High
School. The program takes a creative
approach to improving academic
studies and aims to reduce poverty and
school dropouts.
Kindred Spirits Animal Sanctuary,
which is dedicated to providing lifelong care for older, unwanted animals.
The organization works closely with
the Santa Fe Animal Shelter and
Humane Society to provide a crucial
part of the continuum of care.
Many Mothers, which offers practical
and emotional support to any family
with a newborn and free consulting to
individuals or groups wishing to develop
a service for families in their communities.
Outside In, which organizes free, live
performances and workshops to people
confined in shelters, residential treatment and correctional facilities, nursing
homes and other institutions where
access to the arts would not be possible.
St. Elizabeth Shelter, which serves
homeless individuals and families in
Santa Fe. The organization’s new
Resource Center is the first point of
contact for street homeless and offers
lunch, consultation, referrals, showers
and clothing.
This fund was established in 2003 to
enable Las Campanas members to
jointly support needs in Santa Fe.
The fund has three parts: an endowment,
gift fund and operating fund. Donors
may give to a permanent endowment
that awards grants only from earned
income. The 2005 grantees were selected
in consultation with the Foundation
program staff. Donors may also give to
the nonprofit of their choice through
the gift fund or support the management of the fund itself.
Santa Fe’s second
annual Health and
Human Services Week
raised money for 12
local nonprofits.
Photo by Kate Russell
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Nocona Burgess, a painter from
Newton, Okla. and the great-great
grandson of Comanche Chief Quanah
Parker, said he finds New Mexico
tribes more open to the pursuit of art
by youngsters and all Native peoples.
He recommended that Indian students
pursue an education that enables them
to talk about their art.
Randy Chitto (Choctaw), a member
of the Foundation’s Board of Directors
Guests mingle at
the Foundation’s
Community
Connections forum.
This was the final session in a series of
four Community Connections events in
2005. The events, sponsored by Monte
Serano, provide intimate briefings for
top-level members of the Council of
Benefactors. For information on how
to join, contact Valerie Ingram,
Development Director, 988-9715, ext. 4.
Nonprofits Laud Workshop Series
Photo by Jane Philips
Children and the Arts in Indian Country
Joe Cajero, a clay sculptor from Jemez
Pueblo, envisions art without judgment
for Native youth. If children pursue art
in its purest form, he says, they can
parley their talents into careers ranging
from science to the culinary arts.
“Their opportunities could be limitless.”
Cajero’s remarks came last fall at a
Community Connections forum on
children and the arts in Indian Country
at the home of Doris Meyer and
Richard Hertz.
Television and video games won’t end
Native children’s love of art, he noted,
because “art is part of our DNA.” Still
he called the advent of electronic toys
in lieu of “sticks, stones and fingers,
the sadder part of our evolution.”
Barbara Gonzales, a San Ildefonso
ceramic artist and descendant of famed
potter Maria Martinez, said Indian
children today are more expressive in
their art, which includes writing,
photography, music, painting and
sculpture. Sadly, Gonzales noted,
whenever there are cutbacks in schools,
art suffers first.
Gail Bird, Santo Domingo/Laguna
artist and former chair of the
Southwestern Association of Indian
Arts’s standards committee, disagreed,
citing her disappointment with the art
of Native youth. While she believes
“spark and genius” live in youngsters’
creative output, she said that in the last
five years the level of children’s work
has declined at Indian Market, though
prices have climbed.
NEWSLETTER ONLINE
The Santa Fe Community Foundation’s newsletter is available
via e-mail. If you would prefer to receive the newsletter online,
please e-mail Annmarie Mclaughlin, [email protected].
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and chair of its Native American
Advisory Committee, moderated the
evening’s event.
Jill Heppenheimer, who led the December
technical assistance workshop, Strategic
Planning in Times of Uncertainty, was
described by one participant as “terrific.”
Heppenheimer’s session focused on
why nonprofit organizations should
plan, types of strategic plans (bottom-up,
top-down, project-driven and grantdriven), elements of a typical plan, the
planning process in phases and ensuring
that the plan has impact. This was the
last in a series of 19 workshops in 2005
attended by 720 nonprofit staff and
board members.
The Foundation is grateful to the
McCune Charitable Foundation, the
Doris Goodwin Walbridge Foundation,
Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe and Jill and
Russell Platt for their funding of the
2005 Technical Assistance Project.
In 2006, the Community Foundation
joins with NGO New Mexico, the
statewide association of nonprofits, to
present 19 technical assistance workshops. The workshop program is
organized by the Foundation’s former
Program Director, Dr. Dolores E.
Roybal, who currently serves as Executive
Director of NGO New Mexico. The
first installment of the year was Using
Online Communications to Enhance
Programs and Fundraising, presented
by Adam Rubel of the Institute for
Collaborative Change in late January.
For a schedule of upcoming workshops,
visit www.santafecf.org.
Artful Holiday Greetings
Laura Orchard, the Foundation’s
Administrative Assistant and a
representational artist who exhibits at
Klaudia Marr Gallery on Canyon
Road, designed the Foundation’s 2005
holiday card with her piece, Snowflake.
Orchard’s graphite drawing reflects her
feeling that, “It takes many hands to
build community.” The Foundation is
grateful for Orchard’s contribution.
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Estate Planning Expert to Address Local Advisors
On May 3, the Santa Fe Community
Foundation and Los Alamos National
Bank will co-host a seminar for estate
attorneys and professional advisors.
Featured speaker Jeffrey N. Pennell will
address current developments in estate
and gift-tax law.
A specialist in estate planning, trusts
and estates and wealth transfer taxation,
Pennell is the Richard H. Clark Professor
of Law at Emory Law School and has
published classroom texts on the income
taxation of trusts, estates, grantors and
beneficiaries; federal wealth transfer
taxation and estate planning.
He authored the Bureau of National
Affairs Tax Management portfolio on
the estate tax marital deduction and
co-authored the portfolio on estate tax
payment and apportionment and a text
on trust and estate planning published
by the American Bar Association. He
is the successor author of the leading
treatise on estate planning, originally
written by the late Harvard Professor
A. James Casner. The seminar will be held at La Fonda
on Wednesday, May 3 from 8:30 a.m.
to 1:00 p.m. Registration is $50 and
includes breakfast and lunch. For
attorneys, this seminar will qualify for
three continuing education credits.
To register, contact Annmarie McLaughlin,
Development Associate, at 988-9715,
ext. 3, or [email protected].
Foundation Co-sponsors Dialogue on Prejudice
discriminated against him because his
skin was darker than theirs.
A participant shares
her experiences
during a communitywide discussion on
discrimination.
Photo courtesy New Mexican
If your mother were Hispanic and your
dad Anglo, do you imagine you would
suffer discrimination as a student in
Santa Fe’s public schools? You very well
might, participants learned in one of
several small, facilitated group discussions
held in November at Cesar Chavez
Elementary School.
Tom Johnson (not his real name) said
that Hispanics discriminated against
him at Santa Fe High School because
his name wasn’t Hispanic and Anglos
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Tom and others shared their experiences
of stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination in a community-wide roundtable
sponsored by the Santa Fe Community
Foundation, the City of Santa Fe,
Santa Fe Public Schools’ Office of
Student Wellness, Adelante and the
Community Dialogue Network.
The event was the third in a series of
community dialogues held in response
to hate crimes.
Mary Ellen Gonzales, member of the
SFPS Board of Education, and Terrie
Rodríguez, City of Santa Fe Community
Development Services, invited those in
attendance to listen deeply, open their
hearts, let go of judgment and be
curious about others’ experiences with
the goal of creating a more respectful
and welcoming community.
Billie Blair and
Valerie Ingram
accept a donation to
the Empty Stocking
Fund from students
at the New Mexico
School for the Deaf.
Photo by Keri Lynn McBride
Outpouring of Generosity to Santa Feans in Need
Jennifer (not her real name), a single
mother of three young children,
recently graduated from technical
school with a medical technician’s degree.
While living in a rural community and
caring for her grandmother, she bought
a truck to drive to job interviews. After
two months she hadn’t found a job and
fell behind on her car payments.
Afraid she would lose the vehicle and
her means of finding employment, she
applied to the Empty Stocking Fund™.
Around the same time, her grandmother
died and she assumed funeral expenses.
This holiday season, generous residents
responded in force to their neighbors
in need. The 2005 Empty Stocking
Fund, a joint venture of the Santa Fe
New Mexican, Salvation Army,
Presbyterian Medical Services and the
Santa Fe Community Foundation,
brought in $180,490 in gifts from 877
families and individuals, a 2.8 percent
increase over 2004.
For the fourth time, students at the
New Mexico School for the Deaf held
a winter variety show to benefit the
fund. They raised a total of $304.
The Empty Stocking Fund bought the
truck for Jennifer. She began a new
job, and a new career, with the comfort
of a more secure future.
Have You Remembered the
in Your Will?
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This issue of the Santa Fe Community Foundation News is
underwritten by Sawtell, Wirth & Biedscheid.
Acknowledgments
The Santa Fe Community Foundation gratefully
acknowledges the following individuals and companies
whose contributions make our work possible:
Recipients of the Foundation’s Lesbian and Gay funding initiative receive their 2005 grant
awards from First Lady Barbara Richardson at a reception hosted at the Governor’s Mansion.
Photo by Kate Russell
Board News
Felice Gonzales, an attorney and
Realtor with Sotheby’s International
Realty was unanimously elected to
serve a second year as board Chair.
Vice Chairs are Alexis Girard, President
and CEO of Greer Enterprises, and
Patricia McFate, who advises the U.S.
Department of Defense in international
security arrangements and intelligence.
Steven G. Gaber, founder of the
Investment Consulting Division of
Mesirow Financial Services, was reelected Treasurer, and Jerry G. Jones,
a partner in the public accounting firm
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Swain, MacKinnon & Thurman, was
re-elected Secretary.
New members of the Board of Directors
are Bill Belzner, Director of the
Consumer and Elder Rights Division
for the New Mexico Department of
Aging and Long-Term Services; James
H. Duncan, Jr., a radio analyst, author
and historian; Richard Hertz, President
of RJH Development Corporation,
developer and manager of real estate
projects in New York and New Mexico
and Nancy R. Long, attorney with
Long, Pound & Komer, P.A.
Barker Realty
Jeff Branch
Jane Brickner
Cisneros Design
Comcast
Alex J. Gancarz, Jr. and
Jonathan Carleton
Ghost Ranch Santa Fe
Journal Santa Fe
Los Alamos National Bank
Steve and Joyce
Melander-Dayton
Doris Meyer and
Richard Hertz
Monte Sereno
Laura Orchard
Pranzo Italian Grill
Santa Fe New Mexican
Santa Fe Reporter
Curtis Schwartz
Silver Anniversary
Sponsors
Las Campanas
Lexus of Santa Fe
Los Alamos National Bank
Elise Davis, CT Herman,
Tim Monaghan &
Merrill Lynch
Packard’s on the Plaza
Barraclough & Associates
Centex Homes
Columbus Capital
First National Bank
of Santa Fe
La Fonda Hotel
Vanessie of Santa Fe
Bellas Artes Gallery
Chapman Companies
Q. & Phil Cook
Margo Cutler
Forum Partners
Gallegos Law Firm
Hotel Santa Fe
Jackalope Pottery
Montgomery & Andrews, PA
Ortega Insurance Services
The Pension Company
Santa Fe Association
of Realtors
William Siegel Galleries
Southwestern Title
& Escrow
UBS Financial Services
Wadle Galleries
SFCF Board of Directors
Felice Gonzales, Chair
Alexis Girard, Vice Chair
Patricia McFate, Vice Chair
Steve Gaber, Treasurer
Jerry Jones, Secretary
Bill Belzner
Jeff Branch
Sally Corning Buchanan
Thomas Bustamante
Randy Chitto
James Duncan, Jr.
Alex Gancarz, Jr.
Barbara Gudwin
Richard Hertz
Patricia Salazar Ives
Nancy Long
Cindy Lovato-Farmer
Francie Miles
Ruth Ortega
Sheila M. Paterson
Carol Romero-Wirth
Liz Stefanics
Stephen E. Stork
SFCF Staff
Billie Blair
President
Richard Balthazar
Program Assistant
Ann Wheelock Gonzales
Bookkeeper
Valerie Ingram
Development Director
Annmarie MacLaughlin
Development Associate
Terry Odendahl
Interim Program Director
Laura Orchard
Administrative Assistant
Sarah Sawtell
Chief Fiscal Officer
Dallas Steele
Administrative Coordinator
Winter 2006
Newsletter Editor
Dottie Indyke
Contributors
Billie Blair
Laurie Faure
Valerie Ingram
Dolores E. Roybal
Dallas Steele
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