Our Latest Annual Report - the Hampton Roads Community

featuring grants, gifts and
financial data from 2015
Hampton Roads Community Foundation
Working together to
carve a bright future
for Hampton Roads
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About the cover:
Through the Tidewater Wooden Boat Workshop Joseph
Filipowski teaches the fine art of boat building to Faith
Garver. The Norfolk Public School student just finished
eighth grade and puts her math and science skills to
work while building rowboats.
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Connections. Look around our coastal community,
and you will see generosity spanning generations,
crossing boundaries and bringing people together.
A scholarship from a long-ago donor leads to a
rewarding career for a student who pays it forward
by helping others lead better lives. A mentor teaches
To inspire philanthropy
a skill and life lessons that
Our
and transform the
forever shape a child’s Mission quality of life in
Southeastern Virginia
future. A grant enables a
program to blossom and reach more people. An idea
energizes a cross-section of residents who pull
together to make their world better. We celebrate
the visionaries, volunteers, nonprofits, students,
professional advisors and donors whose efforts help
build a bright future for everyone in Hampton Roads.
Creating a Better Tomorrow
Community connections are the heartbeat of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation.
The rhythm started in 1950 when seven business leaders collected $2,350 in donations to start Virginia’s first community foundation.
Their generosity is amplified each year by caring donors from all walks of life who have built a $308 million endowment.
The charitable gifts entrusted by donors have made it possible to put more
than $230 million in grants and scholarships to work over the decades –
a record $19 million of that in 2015 alone.
Strong connections with the Hampton Roads nonprofit community lets us work
in tandem to strengthen arts and education as well as our region’ s environment
and health and human service programs. Partnerships are the link to gamechanging community leadership initiatives, including Reinvent Hampton Roads’
collaborative efforts to create a more diverse and robust regional economy.
This report is filled with connections that span generations and locations.
Among them are stories of how:
“Partnerships are the
link to game-changing
community leadership
initiatives.”
• 15 years ago ForKids Inc. helped William Milsap’s family escape homelessness.
Today the 23-year-old college student is giving back to the nonprofit that
helped him.
• A bequest from college professor Dr. Samuel Coppage keeps his memory alive
while honoring family members and helping four area nonprofits they loved.
• Learning to play the violin shapes young lives through a collaboration
between the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and The Salvation Army’s Hampton
Roads Command.
We are grateful for past community foundation leaders and their foresight and
wisdom over the last 65 years. Today we build on their legacies to make our region
a place where all residents have opportunities to thrive.
Deborah M. DiCroce
R. Bruce Bradley
President & CEO
Board Chair
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Highlights of the Year
2015
was a great year for the
2015 Grants Awarded by Fund Type
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Donor-advised
$ 308,377,000
$11,340,466
Total charitable assets, making us the 58th largest community foundation
out of more than 750 in the United States
Unrestricted
$2,584,039
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Field-of-interest
$2,170,865
$ 19,438,285
Total grants and scholarships awarded – the largest amount in our 65-year history
Designated
$1,908,222
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Scholarship
$ 12,864,560
$1,195,039
Organizational Endowments
Total charitable gifts from 601 individuals, families, businesses and organizations
$239,654
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$ 1,195,039
Total scholarships awarded to help 391 students pay for college –
the largest amount awarded in a single year
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2015 Grants Awarded by Program Area
Education
Human Services
$6,149,550
$2,117,287
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Other Grants
$1,968,983
New charitable funds created – the most funds started in a single year
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Scholarships
$1,195,039
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New members welcomed to the Legacy Society for Hampton Roads,
which honors people with plans for future charitable bequests through the community foundation
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Facilities
$575,000
Health
Arts & Culture
$6,782,897
Environment
$276,200
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$373,329
community foundation and the community it serves.
Contents
New Charitable Funds Created in 2015
P. 4
2015 Highlights
P. 6
Grants paid
P. 20
Scholarships
P. 24
Community Leadership Partners
P. 26
Community Leadership Initiatives
P. 28
Legacy Society for Hampton Roads
P. 30
Charitable Funds
P. 39
Apply for Funding & FAQs
P. 42
Generous Donors
P. 47
Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation
Donald J. Trufant Memorial Fund P P. 48
Board, Staff & Professional Advisors Committee
A donor-advised fund.
P. 49
Financial Summary
P. 50
How to Give
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An Achievable Dream Virginia Beach Endowment Fund U
Kirkland Molloy Kelley Fund
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An organizational fund for An Achievable Dream Virginia Beach.
Batten Fund for An Achievable Dream Virginia Beach
A donor-advised fund.
The Landsberger Family Fund P A designated fund to benefit the Virginia Beach school.
A donor-advised fund.
Carter Grandy Bernert Fund
Edward and Ruth Legum Family Fund
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A donor-advised fund.
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L.D. Britt, M.D., Community Health Fund
A designated fund for the L.D. Britt, M.D. Scholarship Fund.
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Broadfoot/Ambler Fund
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A donor-advised fund.
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Senator L. Louise Lucas Legacy Fund
A donor-advised fund.
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The Mermaid Fund
A donor-advised fund.
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Christadelphian Ecclesia of Hampton Roads Helping Fund
For human services with a preference for helping Norfolk residents.
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Constance Jordan Coppage, Dr. Samuel F. Coppage Sr. and
Dr. Samuel F. Coppage Jr. Fund
A designated fund for Tidewater Community College Educational
Foundation.
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Dr. Samuel F. Coppage Jr. Fund #1
A donor-advised fund.
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Museum of Chincoteague Island Endowment Fund P
An organizational fund for the Museum of Chincoteague Island.
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The Neikirk Family Fund
A donor-advised fund.
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William B. Purdy Fund
A designated fund for Norfolk Public Library.
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A designated fund for Grace Episcopal Church in Norfolk.
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Dr. Samuel F. Coppage Jr. Fund #2
A designated fund for The Basilica of St. Mary of the Immaculate
Conception in Norfolk.
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Dean-Callahan Scholarship Fund
For Norfolk Public School seniors who participate in school athletics.
Donald E. Sly, M.D., and Madeline H. Sly Medical Scholarship
For Virginia students pursuing medicine or healthcare
at in-state institutions.
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An unrestricted fund.
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Fund for Veterans
Dixon-Settle Fund for Women
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For human services with a preference for programs supporting
women in difficult situations.
Virginia Eye Foundation Fund
The Genny Hayes Fund
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Warner Family Fund
A donor-advised fund.
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Mildred Jordan Fund
A designated fund for Hampton University.
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U Established as part of the Batten Endowment Challenge
A donor-advised fund.
A designated fund to honor meritorious public service of USS John
Warner (SSN-785) submarine crew and for the morale, welfare and
recreation fund.
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P Part of the Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation family of funds.
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2015
Grants
Paid
The following organizations received grants in 2015 from endowed unrestricted or field-of-interest funds
created by donors to give our board the flexibility to address current community needs.
Human service grants paid from
donor-advised and designated funds.
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The following organizations received
grants in 2015 from community
foundation funds whose donors
either named these nonprofits in their
designated funds or recommended grants
to them from donor-advised funds:
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeast Virginia r $30,000
To help open two new Boys & Girls Clubs in Portsmouth
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Catholic Charities of Eastern Virginia Inc. r25,000
To support financial aid and housing counseling for area families
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Portco Inc. r46,800
To hire a vocational rehabilitation specialist to
coach and train disabled workers
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Samaritan House r123,200
To support social and recreational programs for adults
with Cerebral Palsy
For Connection Point, implementing “housing first”
strategies, and a planning grant for a South Hampton
Roads regional crisis line (in collaboration with
Genieve Shelter, HER Shelter, and YWCA)
Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia r10,000
The Up Center
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Cerebral Palsy of Virginia
Human Services
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2,000
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25,000
For fruits and vegetables for the Healthy Mobile
Pantry pilot program
For a collaborative pilot program to help at-risk citizens
evacuate the region in the case of a disaster
Goodwill Industries of Central Virginia r70,000
Urban League of Hampton Roads r30,000
To support a hospitality training and career pathways
program for unemployed and under-employed individuals
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HER Inc. (Help and Emergency Response) r34,000
For a hotline coordinator to provide services to help people
facing homelessness in Chesapeake and Portsmouth remain
in stable housing
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Judeo-Christian Outreach Center r 52,808
For a pilot housing stabilization program in Virginia Beach
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Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia r102,587
For an outreach worker and attorney to provide legal
services to homeless individuals and families
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The Planning Council r30,000
To help support the Data Dashboard that tracks
human service indicators in Hampton Roads
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To start the Financial Empowerment Center
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Virginia Supportive Housing r100,000
For case management for low-income and
formerly homeless people
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Voices for Kids CASA Program of Southeast Virginia 13,000
To help abused and neglected children involved
in the judicial system
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Volunteers of America Chesapeake r42,872
To hire a housing coordinator to help
lower-income citizens find homes
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Total: $ 737,267
total of all human
$2,117,287 Grand
services grants paid in 2015
Note: In addition, 2015 facilities grants to the Virginia Gentleman’s Foundation for JT’s Camp Grom ($125,000) and Virginia Supportive Housing
for Norfolk apartments for low-income residents ($150,000) are helping these organizations build these projects. (Details are on page 8)
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r Denotes a grant awarded in key community grant focus areas.
Alexandria Seaport Foundation
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
American Red Cross of Coastal Virginia
Arc of the Piedmont
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeast Virginia
Boys’ Home Inc.
Challenged Athletes of West Virginia
The Children’s Home of Virginia Baptists Inc.
Choices Pregnancy Center
Crisis Pregnancy Center of Tidewater
Doorways for Women and Families
The Endependence Center
Equi-Kids Therapeutic Riding Program
Families of Autistic Children of Tidewater
Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia
ForKids Inc.
Franklin Cooperative Ministry
Gwinnett County Habitat for Humanity
HumanKind
Jackson-Feild Homes
Knox Area Rescue Ministries
Light House Ministries
Loving and Caring for the Homeless
Martin County Department of Social Services
Meals on Wheels of Virginia Beach
Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society
Norfolk Senior Center
Orphan Helpers
The Orphan Network
C O N T I N U E D P. 8
Human Services
In the first year 80 homeless
children from 45 families were
identified with many of them participating in the ForKids program.
Tutoring and other services helped
William Milsap
raise grade point averages for
regularly collects items
64% of participants. ForKids also
to help ForKids families
helped nearly half the homeless
families find places to live.
“We know that the impact
of homelessness and long-term
housing instability has a profound
impact on educational outcomes,
particularly for children,”
McCormick says. ForKids targets
resources toward students who are
farthest behind in school. “If we’re
going to break the cycle, we have
to roll up our sleeves and address
those educational deficiencies
caused by homelessness,”
McCormick says.
Milsap, who plans a career in
human services, is a client representative on the ForKids board.
He has spearheaded donation and
fundraising efforts for the group
through his Portsmouth church,
using himself as proof that the
ForKids approach works.
“There are a lot of things to fight for in this world,”
he says. “Children are worth the fight. My own
experience tells me that. The more education we give
kids, the better the world
will be.”
McCormick and her team
know that Milsap’s success in
life is still the
exception for most
formerly homeless children.
But they strive to change that.
Connection
The Mary Ludlow Home Fund
created in 2011 at the community
foundation is among ForKids supporters. Ludlow was
orphaned as a child in Norfolk, outlived all three of her
children and was widowed twice. She knew hard times
and left a bequest for a home for women with nowhere
to live. Proceeds from the sale of her home created the
endowed fund for ForKids.
Helping to End Homelessness
Photo by Roberto Westbrook
When William Milsap was eight, he and his family
needed help — fast.
Enter ForKids Inc., the Hampton Roads nonprofit that
exists to help families like Milsap’s who face homelessness.
“ForKids fed us, clothed us, sheltered us,” says Milsap, now
a 23-year-old student working his way through Tidewater
Community College with a job at Verizon. “Without them,
I wouldn’t be where I am today,” he says of ForKids.
That’s the kind of story that keeps the ForKids staff
striving to solve the complicated problems of homelessness
and housing instability, says Thaler McCormick, ForKids
chief executive officer. ForKids started nearly 30 years ago
as an Ocean View homeless shelter with help from a
$30,000 grant from the Hampton Roads Community
Foundation. Since then more than $1.5 million in grants
from 20-plus donor funds have helped ForKids expand
facilities and services. It now serves about 200 families a day
in Hampton Roads with services ranging from housing to
mental health counseling.
A three-year $200,000 pilot program funded by the
community foundation since 2014 helps homeless students
at James Monroe and Little Creek elementary schools in
Norfolk. This aligns with ForKids’ focus on education as a
key to ending the cycle of homelessness. The grant puts a
social worker, education advocate and education assistant
in both schools to help children and their families. Students
also get after-school tutoring and meals twice a week. The
school-based program solves two ForKids challenges –
finding eligible students and making the best use of time
and money. School officials help identify children lacking
permanent homes and connect them with ForKids. Having
staff and volunteers at the schools cuts costs and time spent
transporting students to and from after-school tutoring sites.
ForKids Inc.
“We may be working with a child who is sleeping
periodically in a van or in an apartment with four other
families or living in an active domestic violence situation,”
McCormick explains. “These are tough stories.”
That’s why having reliable funding and donors willing
to invest in new ideas is critical, McCormick says.
“The Hampton Roads Community Foundation,
and all of its entities, have walked along this path
with us, every step of the way,” McCormick says.
“We wouldn’t be the organization we are today
without them. They’ve been so courageous.
They’ve really been our partner in innovation.”
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2015
Facilities
Grants
Paid
The following organizations received grants in 2015 from endowed unrestricted or field-of-interest funds
created by donors to give our board the flexibility to address current community needs.
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Elizabeth River Project r $100,000
Virginia Arts Festival r 50,000
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The Hurrah Players r 50,000
Virginia Stage Company r 100,000
For Phase II construction of Paradise Creek
Nature Park in Portsmouth
To support Phase II renovations of the
Hugh R. Copeland Center in Norfolk’s arts district
to add a family theater
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Virginia Gentlemen Foundation r 125,000
To help build JT’s Camp Grom in Virginia Beach,
a day camp for people with disabilities
and wounded veterans
For a storage facility, production equipment
and outdoor lighting at events
To help renovate the Wells Theatre
in downtown Norfolk
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Virginia Supportive Housing r 150,000
To support the development of affordable housing
units in Norfolk for formerly homeless
and low-income residents
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r Denotes a grant awarded in key community grant focus areas.
What Are Our Focus Areas?
total of all
$575,000 Grand
facilities grants paid in 2015
r This symbol in our grants section highlights Community
Grants awarded through a competitive process from donors’
unrestricted or field-of-interest funds. Nonprofits awarded grants
received funding in the following focus areas:
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Arts and Culture – offering hands-on arts and cultural experiences for area children regardless of their ability to pay.
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Education – for programs that improve educational achievement of under-performing students and provide
opportunities for them to excel and meet current and future workforce demands.
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Environment – offering hands-on innovative, sustained programs for middle school- and high school-age students
to help them become good environmental stewards.
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Health & Human Services – providing opportunities for vulnerable citizens to become self-sufficient
and have opportunities to succeed, such as by alleviating homelessness, providing access to health care
and helping them develop job skills.
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Human service grants paid from
donor-advised and designated funds.
FROM
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PIN Ministry
The Salvation Army Hampton Roads
Adult Rehabilitation Center
The Salvation Army - Hampton Roads
Area Command
The Salvation Army of Columbia, S.C.
Samaritan House
Senior Services of Southeastern Virginia
Seton Youth Shelters
Simon Family Jewish Community Center
St. Mary’s Home for Disabled Children
Sugar Plum Bakery Inc.
Tidewater Youth Services Foundation
Together We Can Foundation
United Jewish Federation of Tidewater
United Way of South Hampton Roads
United Way of Virginia’s Eastern Shore
Untamed Spirit Therapeutic &
Educational Program
The Up Center
Vanguard Landing Inc.
VersAbility Resources Inc.
Virginia Gentlemen Foundation
Virginia Supportive Housing
The Virginian-Pilot Joy Fund Foundation
YMCA of South Hampton Roads
Volunteers of America Chesapeake
Wave City Care
Westminster-Canterbury of Hampton Roads
Foundation
YWCA of South Hampton Roads
Total: $ 1,380,020
Virginia Zoo
Connection
In 1994 community
foundation donors provided
a $250,000 grant to build a new Africa exhibit. Since
then, more than $1 million in donors’ grants have
helped build the Asia exhibit and enhance the zoo’s
educational components.
Courtesy photos
Imagine spying on an opossum’s veterinary check-up,
watching cooks prepare a red panda’s dinner or seeing a toy
created especially for a lion. Nearby kids roll down a small
hill, draw on a chalkboard, race through a garden and peak
at tadpoles in water under a bridge. All this activity teaches
them about the natural world and the connections that exist
among people, animals and plants.
Welcome to the Virginia Zoo’s new Animal Wellness
Campus, which draws on best practices from around
the country in animal conservation and welfare plus
horticulture, community engagement and sustainable design.
The cheerful macaroni-and-cheese-colored building
made of recycled materials is surrounded by an outdoor
play and learning area. It opened in June 2016 after years of
planning, fundraising and construction. Hampton Roads
Community Foundation donors provided $199,100 in grants
to pay for a campus courtyard, interactive chalkboard, plant
kaleidoscope and fruit orchard.
“This area is unlike anything we’ve had before,” says Greg
Bockheim, zoo executive director. “It’s not a themed country
or geographic area. It’s a true academic area, with a strong
emphasis on nutrition and science.”
The new veterinary hospital, which includes a wellequipped surgery suite and labs, is three times bigger than
the zoo’s former hospital. It has rooms dedicated for animal
quarantine and meal preparation plus a small apartment
for zoo interns.
The center and surrounding family area seamlessly
connect animals and humans. As team members work
with animals inside, visitors watch through expansive
glass windows that allow prime viewing for small
children. The outdoor area includes a shaded picnic area
for families and a stage for animal demonstrations as well
Teaching Science and Nutrition in a Fun Way
Tiger cubs are a big hit with viewers
peering into the new Animal Wellness
Campus’ medical examination room.
as gardens and a pond shared by plants, frogs and turtles.
Hands-on elements abound. A plant kaleidoscope lets
visitors explore colorful plant life from an insect’s perspective.
A slate chalkboard along the building’s exterior encourages
imagination and art. Nearby, visitors watch staff pull toys
from the animal engagement
room, and marvel at how
similar the toys are to those
stashed in children’s playrooms
back home.
“We designed everything
with the goal of drawing people
into the curiosity of learning,”
Bockheim says. “When kids see the different ways animals
feed and play, it creates a link.”
Many elements of the campus were created with
repurposed bricks, rubber tires and milk jugs to emphasize
environmental stewardship and resonate with visitors of
all ages. “If kids are exposed to these ideas at a young age —
we recycle, we reuse materials — it becomes normal to
them,” he says. “I love that concept.”
“Some people may still think a zoo is just about showing
you animals, but this new area allows us to expand the
Virginia Zoo into the future,” Bockheim said. “It plays into
all of the important components of our education —
an animal conservation-based mission.”
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2015
Grants
Paid
The following organizations received grants in 2015 from endowed unrestricted or field-of-interest funds
created by donors to give our board the flexibility to address current community needs.
Education grants paid from
donor-advised and designated funds.
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The following organizations received
grants in 2015 from community
foundation funds whose donors
either named these nonprofits in their
designated funds or recommended grants
to them from donor-advised funds:
ACCESS College Foundation r $100,000
For the College Changes Everything Implementation Project
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An Achievable Dream Academy r
v
210,000
v
70,000
To help prepare homeless children for kindergarten
and programs to provide services to homeless students
at two area public schools
The Genieve Shelter v ...............................................
Education
ForKids Inc. r
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To expand An Achievable Dream’s program to
Seatack Elementary in Virginia Beach and to support
its Social Rotation Classes
Chesapeake Bay Academy r ...............................................
35,000
12,000
For the Grow the Know program to help students
exposed to domestic violence succeed in school
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For a maker-space program that teaches
entrepreneurial skills to students with learning differences
Hampton University i
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Children’s Literacy of Suffolk r 39,900
For a new piano in the Wainwright Auditorium
50,000
Joy Ministries v
20,000
For the Book Buddies literacy program to support
elementary school students’ reading
To support the Lighthouse Learning Center in
Virginia Beach
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The College of William & Mary Foundation i 11,888
To purchase two pianos
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Communities in Schools of Hampton Roads r 50,000
For a Norfolk Public School site coordinator to
connect students to resources they need to succeed
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E3: Elevate Early Education r 62,500
To create an early childhood curriculum for
The New E3 School in Norfolk
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The Military Child Education Coalition r
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Norfolk Public Library
3,720
For books and programs to help area residents
improve literacy skills
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Old Dominion University
Educational Foundation r
v
77,500
For the Barron F. Black Community Builder Award
in honor of Morris H. Fine
To support the Investing in Innovations and CARE Now
programs to help students in Norfolk and Portsmouth
public schools improve achievement through in-school
and after-school programs
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Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation
5,000
CONTINUED
r Denotes a grant awarded in key community grant focus areas.
v Includes a grant from the Community Leadership Partners.
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23,441
To support programs that help military students
transition between schools
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i Includes a grant from the E.K. Sloane Fund to provide pianos to nonprofit organizations.
200 Plus Men Foundation
ACCESS College Foundation
Adult Learning Center, Virginia Beach City
Public Schools
Americans for Oxford Inc.
An Achievable Dream Academy
Barry Robinson Schools of Norfolk
Bina High School for Girls
Broadwater Academy
Bryn Mawr College
Cape Henry Collegiate School
Chatham Hall
Chesapeake Bay Academy
Children’s Harbor
Children’s Health Investment Program
Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters
College Foundation of the University of Virginia
Communities in Schools of Hampton Roads
Cornell University
Davidson College
Duke University
E3: Elevate Early Education
Eastern Shore Community College Foundation
Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation
Educational Foundation Inc.
Friends of the Northampton Free Library
Friends of the Wilton Manors Library
Grymes Memorial School
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampton Roads Educational Television
Association Inc. (WHRO)
Harvard University
Hollins University
Horizons Hampton Roads
Junior Achievement of Greater Hampton Roads
Kenan-Flagler Business School Foundation
Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center Inc.
Literacy Council of Northern Virginia
Mary Baldwin College
The Masters School C O N T I N U E D P. 12
The Maury Foundation
Merton College Charitable Corporation
More 2 Give Inc.
Tidewater Wooden Boat Workshop Teaching Skills To Last a Lifetime
Connection
Since 2010 the Community
Leadership Partners, an active
philanthropy group, has provided $1.2
million in grants to 59 area nonprofits
that help propel area students onto great
paths in life through mentoring and
teaching helpful skills.
children
The nonprofit workshop
received a $5,000 grant
from the Community
Leadership Partners of
the Hampton Roads
Community Foundation
to help fund the middleschool program. It works
in partnership with Sail
Nauticus, a nonprofit
that teaches sailing,
swimming, maritime
sciences and leadership
skills to public school
students in sixth through
eighth grades. Boat
building takes place in
work space donated by the
Norfolk Redevelopment
and Housing Authority.
Students living in NRHA
properties are among the
teens learning to build
boats.
“We absolutely
couldn’t do this program
without the support
of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation and
other partners,” says Brandl, who took eight Academy
for Nonprofit Excellence courses to help him launch
the nonprofit. The community foundation sponsors
the nonprofit classes in partnership with Tidewater
Community College.
The 11-week boat-building program begins
with each student making a small boat from
cardboard and tape. This emphasizes the
importance of following instructions, using
patterns and measuring precisely. In March
after months of working after school with
wood and tools, students and volunteers
launched finished rowboats in the Elizabeth
River near Nauticus in downtown Norfolk.
That meant learning how to row. The
Photo by
by Roberto
Glen McClure
Westbrook
Faith Garver has a head start on her dream of becoming
an engineer. Faith, who recently finished eighth grade at
the Academy of International Studies at Rosemont Middle
School, was among 22 Norfolk Public School teens
building and launching three wooden rowboats this year.
“If I had enough room, I’d like to build one at home,”
Faith says of the boats she helped take from plans on
paper to finished product at the Tidewater Wooden
Boat Workshop.
The nonprofit was founded by Tom Brandl, a retired
Marine Corps colonel. He believes boat building helps
students from ages 12 to 18 strengthen math and science
skills. By turning piles of lumber into sea-worthy vessels
they also learn teamwork, problem-solving, self-confidence,
critical thinking and responsibility.
“It’s life-changing,” Brandl says of the program he brought
to Norfolk in 2014. The teens recently demonstrated their
progress by showing off three 12-foot wooden rowboats
they built. “These were just planks of wood, but now look,”
says Briana Teasley. “Crazy!”
Nearby, Faith paused from shaping an oar to add,
“It’s been really fun, really cool. I’ve learned to work with
a lot of tools, like this plane.”
During a spring visit her parents Ryan and Ruth Garver
watched in awe from behind a sawhorse a few feet away.
It was a special moment for Ryan Garver, who was home
in Norfolk on a short leave from Navy duty in Florida.
“This is my first time seeing her do something like this,”
Garver says. “We’ve always encouraged her to make her own
decisions. ... But it’s thrilling to see her working with tools.
I grew up watching my grandfather in his workshop.”
“Working with tools is really cool. . . and I used a lot of
math skills. It was better than in school,” says Neive Ara-is,
who just finished eighth grade at the same school as Faith.
Norfolk Public School eighth
grader Damair Chambers tests
the rowboat he and his twin sister
helped build with other students.
teens nervously watched as Brandl demonstrated
positioning oars and leaning into his strokes. Some were
surprised when Brandl sat with his back to the bow,
worrying he couldn’t see where he was headed.
But, soon, each life-jacketed student was paired with an
adult and was off and rowing. “I wasn’t sure how to get it
away from the dock,” Jordan Murray, a recent Lake Taylor
Middle School graduate, noted after his first spin. “Then I
wanted to stay out there and do it some more. It’s really nice
to feel we accomplished something.”
Damair Chambers, a recent Norview Middle School
graduate who wants to become a Navy SEAL, built boats
with his twin sister Dasha. Recently he confidently rowed
a visitor along the downtown Norfolk harbor. When asked
if he feared the new boat would sink, he replied: “No.
I knew we did a good job in building it.”
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2015
Grants
Paid
FROM
Education grants paid from
donor-advised and designated funds.
P. 10
...............................................
...............................................
Paul D. Camp Community College
Foundation r
Southampton County Public Schools i
30,000
Education
24,118
To expand career coaching in Western Tidewater high schools
...............................................
...............................................
Portsmouth Schools Foundation r
35,000
To improve academic outcomes and decrease repeat
suspensions for elementary students with behavioral issues
Tidewater Community College Educational
Foundation i 6,000
To help create a piano lab
...............................................
...............................................
Sinkinson Dyslexia Foundation r
Together We Can Foundation r
9,600
To provide tutoring for children with dyslexia
...............................................
Slover Library Foundation i
168,418
For technology upgrades for the
Sargeant Memorial Collection and for a grand piano
...............................................
SOAR Education Inc. r
16,000
For an after-school academy at Lindenwood
Elementary School in Norfolk
...............................................
r Denotes a grant awarded in key community grant focus areas.
v Includes a grant from the Community Leadership Partners.
P Part of the Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation family of funds.
34,056
For the Smart Transitions Guide Project to help students
in three area cities transition to life after high school
...............................................
United Way of South Hampton Roads r
v
96,387
For the United for Children Summer Academy
at Tidewater Park and Jacox Elementary Schools
...............................................
YWCA of South Hampton Roads r
48,000
To support the Tidewater Community College
Child Development Centers
...............................................
i Includes a grant from the E.K. Sloane Fund to provide pianos to nonprofit organizations.
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To purchase a piano for the Southampton
High School’s choral program
Total: $ 1,238,528
total of all education
$6,149,550 Grand
grants paid in 2015
FROM
P. 10
Norfolk Academy
Norfolk Collegiate School
Norfolk Public Library
Norfolk Public Schools
Norfolk State University Honors Program
Old Dominion Athletic Foundation
Old Dominion University Educational Foundation
Park Place School
Pomona College
Portsmouth Schools Foundation
Randolph-Macon College
The Ready Academy Christian School
Rider University
Samaritan House
Slover Library Foundation
SOAR Education, Inc.
St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School
Talmudical Academy of Norfolk
Tidewater Community College Educational Foundation
Tidewater Wooden Boat Workshop
UNCF \ United Negro College Fund
Union Presbyterian Seminary
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
University of Virginia Law School Foundation
University System of Maryland Foundation
UVA’s College at Wise
Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center
Foundation
Virginia Beach Education Foundation Inc.
Virginia Beach SPCA
Virginia Center for Public Safety
Virginia Engineering Foundation
Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges
Virginia Theological Seminary
Virginia Wesleyan College
The Virginia Zoological Society
Walk In It Inc.
Warren Wilson College
The Williams School
Woodberry Forest School
YEScarolina
Youth Outreach Urban Resources and Services
Ministry (YOURS)
Total: $4,911,022
Make CBA
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A $25,000 grant in 1996
from community foundation
donors helped buy computers
for a learning center at Chesapeake
Bay Academy, the region’s only
K-12 school dedicated to students
with learning differences.
Photo by
by Roberto
Glen McClure
Westbrook
Isaac Rubin of Norfolk is headed to college this fall to
become an entrepreneur. He already has a head start thanks
to Make CBA, a Chesapeake Bay Academy program started
in 2015 during his senior year of high school. Make CBA
helps students turn ideas into products and businesses.
Make CBA “allowed me to use my creative skills and
bring them to life,” says Isaac, 18, who will study business
at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland. “It helped me find
the skills I have and build up my confidence.” In addition
to learning to apply technology, Isaac now delivers great
presentations and knows the value of business planning.
In April 2016 Isaac and two Make CBA classmates won a
Virginia Wesleyan College shark tank competition for their
product – a GPS-guided fishing lure that alerts fishermen when
schools of fish are nearby. His team hatched and developed
their idea at Make CBA. All three high school students were
also enrolled in a Virginia Wesleyan business class.
A $35,000 grant in 2015 from Hampton Roads
Community Foundation donors helped Chesapeake
Bay Academy start Make CBA. The independent K-12
school in Virginia Beach educates bright Hampton Roads
students with learning differences such as attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder or memory and processing issues.
“Make CBA starts with the concept of design thinking
and can tie it with history, art, science or mathematics,”
says Judy Jankowski, head of school. The curriculum
emphasizes creative, hands-on problem-solving to help
students “make connections between what they learn in
class and the world beyond.”
Teacher Beau Turner is the school’s “lead entrepreneur”
in a classroom stocked with cool technology such as 3-D
printers and injection mold makers. He follows a Junior
Achievement Company curriculum that teaches students
to create and execute viable business plans.
Putting Ideas into Action
Chesapeake Bay Academy
students, including Isaac
Rubin (foreground),
use 3-D printers to
create prototypes for
potential businesses.
Jankowski’s Make CBA brainstorming team included
Turner, fellow entrepreneur Sam Weatherly, Aaron Arnold
from Junior Achievement of Greater Hampton Roads and
upper school director Jared Setnar.
“It was one of those meetings where you just watched the
sparks flying across the room. You got all these really smart
people who are there and feeding off one another’s ideas. It
was just awesome, magical,” Jankowski recalls.
The result is the Make CBA lab and a threeday-a-week program.
During one recent class Turner focused on
empathy as a key to designing products that
appeal to customers. He asked students to talk
about their wallets and features they wish they
had. He then divided them into teams to create
prototype wallets from cardboard and tape.
“The goal is to get them to realize they have options . . .
and not be limited by traditional boundaries,” Turner
explains. “As problem-solvers ... they might be the ones
who save a company millions of dollars and create more
jobs. They are the next generation that can help transform
our communities.”
Turner, an innovation consultant and software strategist,
is founder and CEO of 757 Makerspace. The Norfolk
workshop and prototyping center draws a cross-section of
Hampton Roads residents to collaborate and develop ideas
in what Turner calls a “gym for innovators.”
With the pilot program flourishing with juniors and
seniors, Jankowski hopes to expand Make CBA to every
grade level. The makerspace is “a perfect fit,” she says,
because “we have to prepare our kids for jobs that
don’t exist right now.”
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2015
Arts & Culture
Grants
Paid
The following organizations received grants in 2015 from endowed unrestricted or field-of-interest funds
created by donors to give our board the flexibility to address current community needs.
Arts & Culture grants paid from
donor-advised and designated funds.
...............................................
...............................................
Business Consortium for Arts Support
The Salvation Army Hampton Roads Area Command r16,000
The following organizations received grants
in 2015 from community foundation funds
whose donors either named these nonprofits
in their designated funds or recommended
grants to them from donor-advised funds:
$460,000
For 33 regional visual and performing arts organizations
in South Hampton Roads
...............................................
Crispus Attucks Cultural Center, Inc. r50,000
For the HeartStrings after-school violin program
for students from Title 1 schools
...............................................
For arts instruction and math and reading tutoring
at a Campostella Elementary School in Norfolk
Symphonicity the Symphony Orchestra of Virginia Beach
...............................................
For the 2015 Messiah sing-along
Governor’s School for the Arts Foundation r15,000
For the Reframe the Shame to Save Lives production
to raise awareness about depression in young people
...............................................
Isle of Wight Arts League i 39,080
...............................................
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) 20,000
For a capacity building program and a grant
of appreciation for shared venue space
...............................................
For the Isle of Wight Arts League’s first piano
Virginia Stage Company i ...............................................
For main stage and touring electronic pianos
Mosaic Steel Orchestra r30,000
For the community music program that
teaches area students to play steel drums
...............................................
Peninsula Fine Arts Center
1,200
For the #Who Are You Peninsula exhibition designed
to stimulate conversation about individual and group
identity among Peninsula residents
4,980
5,200
...............................................
Virginia Symphony r
303,700
For emergency operating funds, strategic and
financial planning and the StringLove program at
Greenbrier Middle School in Chesapeake
...............................................
Total: $ 945,160
...............................................
total of all arts & culture
$6,782,897 Grand
grants paid in 2015
Note: In addition, 2015 facilities grants to the Virginia Arts Festival ($50,000), Virginia Stage Company ($100,000)
and The Hurrah Players ($50,000) are helping these organizations renovate and expand. (Details are on page 8)
r Denotes a grant awarded in key community grant focus areas.
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i Includes a grant from the E.K. Sloane Fund to provide pianos to nonprofit organizations.
The Academy of Music
Atlantic Wildfowl Heritage Museum
Business Consortium for Arts Support
Buskaid USA Inc.
The Chrysler Museum of Art
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Columbia Museum of Art
D’Art Center
The Destiny Foundation
Eastern Shore of Virginia Barrier Islands Center
Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society
The Feldman Chamber Music Society
Generic Theater
Governor’s School for the Arts Foundation
The Hermitage Foundation Museum
Historic Smithfield-Smithfield Courthouse of 1750
The Hurrah Players
Jackson Hole Children’s Museum
James A. Fields House Inc.
The Little Theatre of Norfolk
Little Theatre of Virginia Beach
Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
Nauticus Foundation
Norfolk Society of Arts
Portsmouth Museums Foundation
Sandler Center for the Performing Arts Foundation
South Carolina Museum Foundation
Southampton County
Tidewater Opera Initiative
Virginia Arts Festival
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
Virginia Musical Theatre Inc.
Virginia Opera
Virginia Stage Company
Virginia Symphony
Young Audiences of Virginia
Total: $5,837,737
HeartStrings
More than $1.4 million in grants from
community foundation donor funds helped
build the Kroc Center, which opened in 2014.
Among them was the Alison J. and Ella
W. Parsons Fund that honors
the Norfolk couple who loved
music, children and their community.
Photo by
by Roberto
Glen McClure
Westbrook
Shirttail out and shoelace untied, Jakob Winfield, 8, draws
back his bow and focuses on his violin. As he ends his song,
he waves his hand for permission to tell HeartStrings music
teacher Charlotte Dettwiler he “messed up the G note.” Such
easy self-criticism is a long way from Jakob’s first day at the
violin instruction program at The Salvation Army’s Ray and
Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Norfolk.
Back in September 2014 the Campostella Elementary
School student cried, screamed and ran out of the first class
frustrated by unfamiliar music concepts. With lessons and
practice, Jakob has flourished in the after-school program
that is a partnership between The Salvation Army’s Hampton
Roads Command and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra.
Jakob’s two years of violin instruction help him at school
and home, where he now easily follows instructions and
maintains self-control. In addition to memorizing musical
scales, students learn three community agreements –
respect, cooperation and listening. These principles
translate to their daily lives at home and in school.
HeartStrings’ 34 first and second graders include students
from lower-income families from six Norfolk and one
Virginia Beach public schools. A $30,000 Hampton Roads
Community Foundation grant underpins the program.
HeartStrings students study three afternoons a week with
Dettwiler, a professional musician. Once a month Virginia
Symphony Orchestra violinists teach lessons and find joy
sharing their expertise with eager students. The HeartStrings
program includes homework assistance and snacks as well
as two additional days a week of after-school care at the Kroc
Center – all at a sliding scale fee based on family income.
No one pays more than $15 a week per child.
“This program is affordable and amazing,” says Thyaisha
Dyson, whose 8-year-old twins Janiya and Keontae Lambert
Partnering to Help Children Thrive
Charlotte Dettwiler
adjusts Janiya Lambert’s
bow at the Kroc Center.
from Chesterfield Academy, are both in Heartstrings for
the second year. “I read how learning music helps children,
but I couldn’t afford lessons without this program.”
Music is the pied piper leading students to learn helpful
life skills. Harmony Beeman, mother of 7-year-old Jurni
Beeman, says HeartStrings helps her daughter practice
social skills and to appreciate music. She likes that the Kroc
Center is next to her daughter’s
school, Richard Bowling
Elementary School.
During a lesson thirdgrader Olivia Nichols, 9, of
Luxford Elementary in Virginia
Beach, confidently explains
songs, like “Taco Staccato,”
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which her group was preparing to play before a Virginia
Symphony Orchestra performance. “I made up a super joke.
What is the violin’s favorite food?” Olivia adds. “Pizza-cato!”
Olivia once thought telling jokes was her only skill.
But HeartStrings has made her “way better on the violin,”
she says. “It’s inspired me to do a lot of things. Music helps
you think better. My mother says the violin will get me
ready for college!”
Jakob nods and speaks of plans to attend Old Dominion
University. He talks enthusiastically about the snacks,
recreational activities and homework assistance that
accompany his music lessons. At the Kroc Center, his
homework helper is Marleen Mallory, a former Norfolk
Public School music teacher who directs the HeartStrings
program. Jakob calls her his “best friend.”
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2015
The following organizations received grants in 2015 from endowed unrestricted or field-of-interest funds
created by donors to give our board the flexibility to address current community needs.
...............................................
Grants
Paid
Beach Health Clinic r13,000
For dental services at the Virginia Beach clinic
...............................................
Chesapeake Care r18,750
For a dentist, part-time dental hygienist
and a dental assistant at the regional clinic
Health
...............................................
Edmarc Children’s Hospice 19,500
...............................................
Hampton Roads Community
Health Center r
...............................................
To help enroll uninsured families of school children
in Affordable Care Act coverage or Medicaid
...............................................
Park Place Health & Dental Clinic r23,570
To expand the number of days a dentist treats
uninsured patients at the Norfolk clinic
8,760
PIN Ministry r15,000
To support medical and dental care
for homeless in Virginia Beach
...............................................
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v
r Denotes a grant awarded in key community grant focus areas.
v Includes a grant from the Community Leadership Partners.
Total: $ 140,510
$373,329
Grand total of all health
grants paid in 2015
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41,930
For program expansion in Portsmouth and Suffolk
A Community Leadership Partners grant helped Girls
on the Run teach more girls to enjoy exercise and
to embrace healthy, confident lifestyles.
The following organizations received grants
in 2015 from community foundation funds
whose donors either named these nonprofits
in their designated funds or recommended
grants to them from donor-advised funds:
...............................................
For a capacity building program
Girls on the Run of South Hampton Roads
Health grants paid from
donor-advised and designated funds.
Alzheimer’s Association
American Cancer Society - South Atlantic Division
American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical
Center in Jerusalem
Auxiliary of Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital
Beach Health Clinic
Bon Secours DePaul Health Foundation
Children’s Health Investment Program
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Daughter Connection of Hampton Roads
Eastern Shore Rural Health System Inc.
Edmarc Hospice for Children
Foundation for Ichthyosis and Related Skin Types
Freda H. Gordon Hospice and Palliative Care
of Tidewater
Girls on the Run of South Hampton Roads
Howard & Georgeanna Jones Foundation
for Reproductive Medicine
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Lee’s Friends
Lone Star Paralysis Foundation
Operation Smile
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
Parkinson’s Disease Foundation
Physicians for Peace
Prevent Cancer Foundation
Princess Anne Courthouse Volunteer Rescue Squad
Sentara Health Foundation
Shore Health Services Inc.
Smile Train
Virginia Beach Volunteer Rescue Squad
Virginia League of Planned Parenthood
Western Tidewater Free Health Clinic
Total: $232,819
Beach Health Clinic Giving People Good Dental Health
The need for affordable dental
care in Hampton Roads is huge,
says Candice Driskell, executive
director at Access Partnership, a
regional health-care collaborative.
What starts in the mouth travels
through the blood stream and can
lead to heart disease or diabetes
or amplify existing conditions.
Proper oral care can prevent bad
outcomes, but people with no
insurance and little income often
“avoid going to the dentist until
they have pain,” Driskell says. By
then damage has been done.
During multiple clinic visits
Holt’s medical and dental teams
collaborated on issues ranging
from dangerously high blood
pressure and high cholesterol to
painful gums. Filling cavities and
extracting a few teeth helped return
Holt to good health. A healthy
and happy Holt recently returned
for a follow-up appointment with
Dr. Lon Meader of Meader Family
Dentistry of Virginia Beach who
volunteers at the clinic.
“They took me by the hand,”
Holt recalls of her dental team, a
shy smile spreading beneath a small
well of tears. “They’re right on top
of it. I couldn’t be more blessed.”
Community foundation donors have also helped expand
dental services at Park Place Health and
Dental Clinic in Norfolk and Chesapeake
Care’s regional Hampton Roads Dental Clinic.
In 2016 the community foundation teamed with United Way
of South Hampton Roads on a new $50,000 collaborative
grant to expand free dental access for low-income residents.
Photo by Glen McClure
Gladys Holt’s smile reveals more than
pretty teeth. It reflects a healthy body, a
pain-free mouth and a grateful heart. So
much has changed for her since 2015.
Holt, 62, was “caught in the middle,”
without health insurance and too young
for Medicare, after losing her job at an
auto parts company. A vicious cycle
churned financial stress into declining
health as the Virginia Beach grandmother
ignored pain and dental concerns she
couldn’t afford to fix. Toothaches and
infection made it hard to eat and
aggravated other health conditions.
Last November Holt got relief at the
Beach Health Clinic, a volunteer- and
philanthropy-fueled center caring for
Virginia Beach residents with restrictive
incomes and health issues. The longstanding clinic added a dental clinic
in 2013 with the help of a three-year,
$85,100 grant from the Hampton Roads
Community Foundation. The grant
paid for dental chairs, drills and other
equipment. Having a well-equipped
center helped recruit enough volunteer
dentists, dental assistants and hygienists
to treat up to 15 patients each week at
little or no cost to the patient.
“The Foundation believed in us,
and that made all the difference,” says
Susan Hellstrom, Beach Health Clinic’s
executive director.
Dr. Lon Meader volunteers
his time to help patients
like Gladys Holt.
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2015
Grants
Paid
The following organizations received grants in 2015 from endowed unrestricted or field-of-interest funds
created by donors to give our board the flexibility to address current community needs.
...............................................
...............................................
Norfolk Botanical Garden Society
Tidewater Community College Educational
Foundation 15,000
For the Plants Are Weird summer education program
...............................................
20,000
To replace greenhouses used for horticulture education
...............................................
Environment
Total: $ 35,000
total of all environment
$276,200 Grand
grants paid in 2015
Environment grants paid from
donor-advised and designated funds.
The following organizations received grants
in 2015 from community foundation funds
whose donors either named these nonprofits
in their designated funds or recommended
grants to them from donor-advised funds:
Chesapeake Bay Foundation-Hampton Roads Office
Citizens for a Better Eastern Shore
Elizabeth River Project
Lynnhaven River Now
Nansemond River Preservation Alliance
The Nature Conservancy, Virginia Chapter
The Nature Conservancy, Virginia Coast Reserve
Note: In addition, a $100,000 facilities grant to the Elizabeth River project
from unrestricted and field-of-interest funds is helping expand Paradise Creek Nature Park.
Norfolk Botanical Garden Foundation
Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust
Total: $241,200
Plants and butterflies are natural
companions for children learning about
horticulture at Norfolk Botanical Garden.
Grants from the Julian Haden Gary
and Margaret Savage Gary Fund help
underwrite summer learning programs
for children of all ages.
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Courtesy photos
Grants to the Elizabeth River Project
make it possible for Mt. Hermon Preschool
Center students from Portsmouth to learn
about nature while planting seedlings
at Paradise Creek Nature Park.
2015
Grants
Paid
These nonprofit organizations received grants in 2015 from donors’ designated,
field-of-interest, unrestricted or donor-advised funds.
...........................................
...........................................
...........................................
Aspen Historical Society
First Presbyterian Church, Virginia Beach
Restoration Church Orlando
Bank Street Memorial Baptist Church
Fleet Park Little League
Royster Memorial Presbyterian Church
Bennetts Creek Baseball Association
Foundation Center
Shores of Grace Ministries
The Billfish Foundation
Franktown United Methodist Church
Southeast Virginia Community Foundation
...........................................
...........................................
...........................................
...........................................
...........................................
...........................................
...........................................
...........................................
Black Creek Baptist Church
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc.
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc.
Great Neck Baseball League
Cat Rescue Inc.
GuideStar
...........................................
Other Grants
...........................................
Portsmouth Humane Society
...........................................
...........................................
...........................................
...........................................
...........................................
Chabad of Charlottesville
Hampton Roads Community Foundation
Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation
Hickory Neck Episcopal Church
Chesapeake Humane Society
The Hummingbird Society
Christ and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Jewish Heritage Foundation
Church of the Good Shepherd
Kad Rivkah Hachnosos Kallah Fund Inc.
CIVIC Leadership Institute
Legends of Aspen Community Foundation
Community Foundation of Jackson Hole
Mount Nebo Baptist Church
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...........................................
...........................................
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Southeastern Council of Foundations
...........................................
Spring Branch Community Church
...........................................
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
...........................................
St. Simon’s by the Sea Episcopal Church
...........................................
St. Stephen Lutheran Church
...........................................
Tidewater Community College Educational
Foundation
...........................................
Torah Umesorah, The National Society for
Hebrew Day Schools
...........................................
Union Mission Ministries
...........................................
University of Virginia-Virginia Athletics Foundation
...........................................
The Community Foundation Serving Richmond
and Central Virginia
The Navigators
USS John Warner Recreation Fund and
individual awardees
Council on Foundations
New Covenant Presbyterian Church
...........................................
Virginia Beach SPCA
Nimmo United Methodist Church
Virginia Beach United Methodist Church
Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association Foundation
Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church
Norfolk Crime Line Inc.
Western Tidewater Tennis Association
Norfolk Rotary Charities
Westville Christian Church (DOC)
Eastern Shore SPCA
Norfolk SPCA
Young Life Norfolk Urban
...........................................
...........................................
First Baptist Church Norfolk
Ocean View Little League
Young Life Virginia Beach
First Presbyterian Church, Norfolk
Old Donation Episcopal Church
First Presbyterian Church, Staunton
Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia
...........................................
...........................................
Court Street Baptist Church
...........................................
Disaster Payment - Dollar Tree Associates
Disaster Relief
...........................................
Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation
...........................................
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total of all other grants
$1,968,983 Grand
paid in 2015
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2015
Scholarships
Grants
Paid
In 2015 generous donors’ scholarships helped 391 students attend 77 colleges and universities. Scholarships were paid directly to students’
educational institutions from the following charitable funds. Details on the purpose of each scholarship fund are on pages 40 and 41.
............................................
............................................
............................................
Helen Murphy Addington Scholarship
Hunter Davis Memorial Scholarship Pat Howe Jr. Health Care Scholarship
$4,500
2,000
............................................
............................................
Kay White Baker Art R. Franklin and Arbee R. Edwards
Scholarship Hampton Roads Association of
Social Workers Scholarship
500
............................................
Hampton Roads Spartan Scholarship 12,000
9,000
1,500
............................................
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Frank Fang Memorial Scholarship
The “Max” Bennis Scholarship ............................................
Hampton Roads Sanitation District
Environmental Scholarship 2,700
2,000
Palmer Farley Memorial Scholarship
Jesse T. Bonney Scholarship ............................................
Anne Hurd Memorial ............................................
Nicholas J. Georges Memorial ............................................
Julia Atwater Bristow ............................................
Indian River Ruritan Scholarship ............................................
Harry Bramhall Gilbert Merit Scholarship
............................................
Dan H. Brockwell ............................................
Louis I. Jaffe Memorial Scholarship ............................................
Victor and Ruth N. Goodman Memorial ............................................
Dan H. Brockwell Scholarship
for Architecture
............................................
James 2:26 Jennifer Mooney Greene Scholarship ............................................
47,000
118,900
1,900
3,000
5,000
4,000
............................................
1,500
22,600
84,000
1,000
............................................
4,000
2,000
16,500
102,717
............................................
............................................
Thomas G. Johnson Jr. Scholarship Clara Wahlig Burhans Memorial Scholarship 33,500
Melvin R. Green Scholarship ............................................
............................................
............................................
Charles F. and Mabel C. Burroughs
Memorial Scholarship Everette H. and Edith P. Griffin
Memorial Scholarship 40,772
1,000
9,000
Judge Floyd E. and Annie B. Kellam
Scholarship 3,000
16,500
............................................
............................................
............................................
Adrian Ryan Kirk Memorial Scholarship Community Fund for Scholarships
Colonel J. Addison Hagan Memorial
Scholarship ............................................
1,200
............................................
E. W. Chittum Memorial Scholarship 2,000
............................................
Richard Dickson Cooke and Sheppard
Royster Cooke Scholarship 20
1,400
............................................
4,000
18,000
Joseph A. Leafe Scholarship 1,000
5,728
............................................
............................................
George D. and Marion Phelps Hamar
HRBOR Scholarship Lewis K. Martin, II, M.D. and
Cheryl Rose Martin Scholarship
1,500
2,500
............................................
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Joseph E. Harry and Bertha White Harry Ellen Hitt McLaughlin Scholarship
J. Robert and Ettie Fearing Cunningham
Memorial Scholarship ............................................
............................................
Diane Reilly Hartzog Memorial Scholarship Metro Machine Scholarship
44,500
111,700
2,000
793
6,439
............................................
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Friends of Joshua P. Darden Jr. Scholarship 55,500
Tommy Horvatic Memorial Scholarship 3,000
John H. and Annie Campbell Miles Memorial 3,000
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Joseph E. & Bertha White Harry Scholarship Rusinyak Advocates for Disabled People
health and human services.
After her 2010 graduation, Rusinyak was
hired as independent living coordinator at
the Norfolk-based Endependence Center,
a nonprofit providing disability advocacy
services. She had interned there during
college.
Already dozens of area citizens with
disabilities live in better environments thanks
to Rusinyak’s mentoring and ability to cut
through red tape. “A lot of people who have
been in nursing homes and other facilities for
years don’t need to be there,” Rusinyak says.
“They just need the right support so they can
live their lives.”
Rusinyak’s “experience as a person
with a lifelong disability, her educational
background, together with a large dose of
youthful enthusiasm, have made her an
exceptional advocate,” says Stephen Johnson,
Endependence Center executive director.
Rusinyak continues to influence state policies
by serving on the Virginia Board for People
With Disabilities. She helps shape Hampton
Roads services by serving on the Norfolk
Commission for Persons With Disabilities and
Hampton Roads Transit’s Paratransit Advisory
Committee. She provides first-hand perspective
as someone who has relied on the system daily
to get to work as do many of Hampton Road’s
10,000 disabled adults.
“I have grown over the last few years,”
Rusinyak said, “It’s very humbling.”
Photo by Glen McClure
Korinda Rusinyak of Norfolk wasn’t always
a strong voice for the rights of disabled
citizens. Born with cerebral palsy, she
remained shy until finding the power to speak
out during college and through her career and
volunteer positions.
Today at age 28, this former Hampton
Roads Community Foundation scholarship
recipient has chaired the Virginia Board for
People With Disabilities. She continues to
help shape policy by serving on that statewide
board as well as three community boards
focused on helping disabled people lead better
lives. She also helps people daily through her
career at The Endependence Center where
she finds alternative homes for disabled adults
living in nursing homes.
Rusinyak of Norfolk has a knack for solving
problems, including her own. Told she’d need
a wheelchair on large college campuses, she
set her sights on Virginia Wesleyan College
in her home region. She liked its curriculum
as well as the compact campus that made it
easy to get around just with crutches. With
private-school tuition beyond her reach,
Rusinyak applied for the Joseph E. and Bertha
White Harry Scholarship administered by the
Hampton Roads Community Foundation.
The scholarship is for area students attending
Virginia Wesleyan or Old Dominion
University. Winning the renewable four-year
scholarship gave Rusinyak peace of mind
about finances as she earned her degree in
A scholarship to Virginia
Wesleyan College helped
Korinda Rusinyak forge
a career helping others
in Hampton Roads.
Neither Joseph Harry, a grocery store buyer, or his wife
Bertha attended college. But in 2015-16 they helped send
38 students to Virginia Wesleyan College and Old
Dominion University. Their 1990 scholarship
bequest has helped several hundred
Harry Scholars achieve their dreams.
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Scholarships
Grants
Paid
FROM
P. 20
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William F. Miles Memorial Wilfred G. Semple Scholarship Loan 2,500
6,000
............................................
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Carrie Biggs Morrison Memorial Felton Ray Sharp and Evelyn Berryman
Sharp 35,834
............................................
Perry and Bunny Morgan 98,756
16,750
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Florence L. Smith Ocean Lakes Scholarship
............................................
4,800
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Benjamin D. Pender Scholarship 7,000
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The Lefki and George Polizos Family
Scholarship 2,000
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Harry B. Price, Jr. Memorial 4,600
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Roland W. Proescher 6,000
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Walter Cecil Rawls Educational 12,000
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Elisabeth Kelly King Reilly Scholarship 7,000
............................................
Edwin J. Rosenbaum Scholarship 14,500
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Ellis W. Rowe Memorial Scholarship 23,000
............................................
Doctors Kirkland Ruffin and Willcox Ruffin
Scholarship 900
81,000
Jarrod Camper Smith Memorial Scholarship
750
1,200
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the Hampton Roads Community Foundation
is helping even more students with education
costs. In 2015 we provided more than
$284,434 in educational grants to support
scholarship funds at seven schools and colleges
specified by donors. The donor funds and
grant recipients were:
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Macon and Joan Brock Scholarship Fund
Enid W. and Bernard B. Spigel
Architectural Scholarship For Randolph-Macon College
5,000
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Charles F. and Mabel C. Burroughs Memorial Fund
Minton W. Talbot Scholarship For Norfolk Academy, Union Presbyterian Seminary and
Virginia Theological Seminary
1,100
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D.A. Taylor Memorial Scholarship
10,000
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George Chamberlaine Memorial Fund
Vincent J. Thomas Scholarship For Norfolk Academy
4,000
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Thomas P. Thompson Memorial F. Ludwig Diehn Fund
11,000
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For the Old Dominion University Music Department
Gertrude Ward Scholarship ............................................
6,000
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Weisberg and Clark Scholarship 2,500
Margarette Hanes Old Nurse and Student
Education Fund
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For Sentara College of Health Sciences
Captain Rexford Vinal Wheeler Jr., U.S.N., ............................................
9,000
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William A. and Lucille W. Sawyer Memorial Fund
Paul and Athena Yeonas Memorial For Norfolk Collegiate School
5,500
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Taylor Brothers Fund for Scholarships
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Helen and Buzzy Schulwolf Fund for
Smith Scholars
In addition to the scholarship recipients listed,
$1,195,039
Grand total of all scholarships
paid in 2015
For Norfolk Academy
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Donald and Madeline Sly
Donald E. Sly, M.D. was a founding member of
the Smith Scholar Society, which links the nearly
750 physicians and current medical students
helped by a Florence L. Smith Scholarship and
encourages them to pay it forward
by funding more scholarships.
public Asian garden in her
Freemason neighborhood.
The garden surrounds a
pagoda built in 1989 as a
gift to Norfolk from the
government of Taiwan.
In 2015 Madeline used
an Individual Retirement
Account charitable
rollover option to start the
permanent scholarship
fund at her community
foundation. She designed
the endowed fund to help
Virginia students pursue
medical or healthcare
studies at Virginia schools.
The Slys’ connection to
the community foundation
dates to 1957 when Don,
a University of Richmond
graduate, won a renewable,
four-year $1,400 Florence L. Smith Scholarship to attend the
University of Virginia School of Medicine. The scholarship
was administered by The Norfolk Foundation, a predecessor
to the Hampton Roads Community Foundation.
“If it weren’t for that scholarship I might still be milking
cows,” he once said. Don grew up near Portsmouth on the
Pine Grove Dairy Farm his dad managed. The Churchland
High School graduate was the first in his family to
graduate from college. He graduated from the University
of Richmond and been accepted to medical school with no
means of paying for his education.
Winning the Smith Scholarship was so important that Don
put his May 31, 1957 scholarship
award letter on the front page of
a scrapbook he made. Madeline
still has the scrapbook, which
includes photos, newspaper
clippings from when Don was
a high school football star,
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Photo by Roberto
Courtesy
photo Westbrook
Medicine played a big role in Dr. Donald and Madeline
Sly’s love story. The couple met at the University of Virginia
just as Don was finishing his otolaryngology residency and
Madeline was graduating from nursing school.
“We just hit it off,” Madeline recalls of their first meeting
in 1965. They married a year later and remained a devoted
couple until Don’s death in 2009. The new Donald E. Sly,
M.D. and Madeline Sly Medical Scholarship Fund she
created in 2015 at the community foundation pays tribute to
the couple’s commitment to excellent healthcare.
Don served in the Army as a surgeon in Vietnam and
Fort Bragg before the couple moved to Norfolk in 1968. He
co-founded Ear, Nose and Throat LTD and treated patients
for nearly 30 years. He taught at Eastern Virginia Medical
School where he helped establish the otolaryngology
program and the Sleep Disorders Center at Sentara Norfolk
General. He presided over the medical staff at two area
hospitals, served on the Sentara Healthcare board and was
president of the Virginia Society of Ophthalmology and
Otolaryngology.
Madeline was a Norfolk nursing instructor before finding
her niche serving on governing boards and organizing
community initiatives. “I realized I could make just as much
a contribution or more this way,” she says.
Madeline has served on the boards of Children’s Hospital
of The King’s Daughters, Eastern Virginia Medical School,
Sentara Health Foundation and the University of Virginia
Health System. In 1974 she organized Mobile Meals of
Tidewater and directed it for 20 years -- recruiting hundreds
of volunteers to deliver meals to area ill or elderly residents
who need nutritious food. Outside the healthcare world
Madeline is the driving force behind the Pagoda and
Oriental Garden Foundation that built and cares for a
Scholarships Support Healthcare Careers
It was love at
first sight for Donald
and Madeline Sly
and green 4-H symbols from his farm days.
“I was very blessed…the scholarship covered everything,
and I was able to finish medical school with no debt,” Don
said in a 2005 interview. His wife Madeline, a Nelson County
native, paid for her nursing education with jobs and loans.
She wants to help ease the financial burden for students
in many areas, including lab technicians, nurses, licensed
practical nurses and medical doctors.
“Don and I realized the importance of financial assistance
to reach goals and wanted to help others,” she says. “This
scholarship is broad in scope. Don was a compassionate
physician who thought everyone involved in taking care of
patients was an important part of the team.”
The couple had previously started scholarships
for nursing and medical school at UVA. A memorial
scholarship at EVMS honors Don. “I thought it was good
to have a scholarship through the community foundation,
too,” Madeline says. “Don was pleased to be a Florence
Smith Scholar, and it was important for him going
to medical school.”
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Community Leadership Partners
Active
Philanthropy
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The Community Leadership Partners hit a $1.2 million milestone in 2015. This is the total
amount of grants put into action since 2010 by the Partners – an involved and engaged giving group
affiliated with the Hampton Roads Community Foundation
These philanthropists annually pool their resources to tackle specific community concerns –
primarily helping area children from disadvantaged backgrounds prepare for great lives. Members
donate $2,100 each year to participate ($400 if both members of a couple are 39 or under). During
the year members learn about community needs and philanthropy through education sessions, going
on site visits to nonprofits and working together to recommend grants to area organizations.
Anonymous (1)
Valerie and David Arias
Morgan Barrett
Aimee and Frank Batten
Elena and Gary Baum
Denise Thompson and Bill Bell
Claudia and Tim Bellars
Jody and John Benedict
Claire and David Benjack
Amy and Larry Bernert
Carter and Larry Bernert
Sarah and Bruce Bishop
Rob Blandford and Nancy Everett
Lilly and Bruce Bradley
Joan and Macon Brock
Betty and Tom Broyles
Ann and Steve Burke
Meg and Bill Campbell
Cindy and Jim Cervera
Becky and Hap Chalmers
Martha and Lawrence Colen
Jennifer and Nick Cordovana
Denyce and James Corzatt
Courtney and Mark Coster
Cara Cotter
Ann and Clarke Crenshaw
Kim and Keith Curtis
Chelle and Glenn Davis
Kimberly and Ed Denton
Perry and Kevin DiBona
Deborah DiCroce
Victoria and Philip Dietz
Susan and Marty Einhorn
Ellen and Doug Ellis
Janet and Johnny Ellis
Joyce and John Fain
Carrie Farmer and Wills Miller
Lynne and Paul Farrell
Barbara and Andrew Fine
Mike and Blair Fine
Jan and Morris Fine
Kim and Carlton Forbes
Eric Fox
T. Ricky Frantz
Jane and Rusty Friddell
Connie and Dudley Fulton
Susan and John Gill
Martha and Richard Glasser
Karen and Michael Goldsmith
Sharon and Bernard Goodwyn
Lynanne Gornto
Debra and Ray Gromelski
David Hadder
Nancy and Robert Hall
Amie and Byron Harrell
Susan and Paul Hirschbiel
Patti and Tom Host
Susan and Bob Hume
Nita and Akhil Jain
Kay and David Kaufman
Anne Kellam
Sheila Kilpatrick
Kristina and Carr Kratovil
Ann and Rob Krebs
Amy Kurtz
Harry Laibstain
Sarah Larkin
Peggy and Aubrey Layne
Calvert and Harry Lester
Angelica and Henry Light
Linda and Ed Lilly
Stacy and Chris Long
Terry and John Lynch
Gina Lynch
Kindall and Lamont Maddox
Harriet and John Malbon
Dolly Mannix
Suzanne and Vince Mastracco
Andria and Mike McClellan
Patt and Colin McKinnon
Barbra and John Midgett
Gigi and Shep Miller
Bonnie and Wick Moorman
To join the Partners contact
Debbi Steiger, vice president
for regional outreach,
at (757) 622-7951 or
[email protected].
Jackie and Fred Napolitano
John & Wendy Napolitano
Sherri Nelson and Aashish Matani
Joe Newell
Ann Nusbaum
Jason Oliver
Maureen and Richard Olivieri
Patty and Vince Olivieri
Susan T. Pender and Dan Beck
Amy and Scott Pesesky
Ellis Pretlow and Jaeson Dandalides
Suzanne and Joe Prueher
Suzanne Puryear and Mike Borysewicz
Lisa Raines
Lee and Michael Rashkind
Jane and John Rathbone
Robin and Richard Ray
Harriet and Allan Reynolds
Katherine and Jeff Richardson
Kay and Phil Richardson
Jennell and Dwight Riddick
Shirley and Dick Roberts
Kristi and Eric Rosenfeldt
Shikma and Danny Rubin
Pru and Louis Ryan
Bev and Will Sessoms
Audrey and John Settle
Anne and George Shipp
Jane and Win Short
Anne and Conrad Shumadine
Marcy and Hunter Sims
Jean and Ed Snyder
Joan and James Spore
Kay and Ron Stine
Irene and Randy Sutton
Winship and Guy Tower
Jody and Alan Wagner
Catherine and John Wass
Lewis Webb
Randy and Leila Graham Webb
Sarah and Joey Weinberg
Ashlin and Wayne Wilbanks
Beth and Rolf Williams
Lynne and Steve Winter
Kelvin Wright
Susan and Dubby Wynne
In 2015 the Partners awarded
$225,000 in grants to these
organizations working to positively
impact academic achievement among
area children from low- to moderateincome families:
An Achievable Dream Virginia Beach
Children’s Health Investment Program (CHIP)
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Communities in Schools of Hampton Roads
ForKids Inc.
The Genieve Shelter
Girls on the Run South Hampton Roads
Hampton Roads Educational Television
Association Inc. (WHRO)
Joy Ministries
Junior Achievement of Greater Hampton Roads
More 2 Give
ODU Educational Foundation
Samaritan House
SOAR Education Inc.
Tidewater Wooden Boat Workshop
United Way of South Hampton Roads
Virginia Beach SPCA
Walk In It Inc.
Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church
for Club Sandwich
YMCA of South Hampton Roads
Youth Outreach Urban Resources & Services
See details in the grants section of this annual report.
John and Audrey Settle
philanthropy since he
enjoys being part of a
family donor-advised
fund at the community
foundation.
In their free time the
Settles enjoy tennis, arts
and travel and have been
to seven continents.
During one month-long
visit to Tanzania John
volunteered as a biology
teacher in a second
chances high school for
dropouts while Audrey
mentored women
starting businesses.
Closer to home,
Audrey serves on
the ACCESS College
Foundation board where
she and John started a
scholarship that helps
African American public
school students attend
college. She recently
joined the Virginia Stage
Company board and
each year volunteers with
AARP helping people
do tax returns. John
serves on the Virginia
Aquarium and Marine
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The Settles are supporters of the
ACCESS College Foundation,
which the community foundation helped
start in 1987 and has long supported with
grants and scholarships for college-bound
students helped by ACCESS.
Photo by Glen McClure
Virginia Beach has evolved from being a favorite
vacation spot to John and Audrey Settle’s hometown.
For years, Sandbridge beach was a weekend escape
from the Settles’ busy lives in Richmond where John
was a veterinarian and Audrey was Philip Morris USA’s
director of manufacturing, planning and analysis.
Thirteen years ago after they both retired, the couple
started building a Sandbridge house as a second home.
But “halfway through construction we decided to move
here,” Audrey recalls.
In Hampton Roads the Settles quickly embraced their
community as volunteers and philanthropists. Their
first connection was with their community foundation
when Audrey joined the Virginia Beach Foundation
board. When the foundation merged in 2010 with The
Norfolk Foundation she and John joined the merged
foundation’s Community Leadership Partners active
giving group. They deepened their ties by arranging for
a future charitable bequest and becoming members of
the Legacy Society for Hampton Roads.
In 2015 the couple created the Dixon-Settle Fund
for Women at the community foundation. Their fieldof-interest fund is in memory of Audrey’s mother
Eddythe Dixon, who worked with women’s issues
and ran a Detroit job training center. John has ties to
women’s issues, too, through his late aunt, Ophelia Settle
Egypt, who directed Washington, D.C.’s first Planned
Parenthood clinic.
The couple started their fund after their attorney
Morris Fine suggested doing that “while we are alive
so we can see the good we are doing,” Audrey Settle
says. “I thought the fund was a good way to honor my
mother.” Fine spoke from experience about the joy of
Embracing Their Adopted Home
Audrey and John Settle
enjoy helping others
in Hampton Roads.
Science Center board. The
couple also has started
scholarships at their alma
maters – Tuskegee University
School of Veterinary
Medicine, Keuka College
and Penn State where John
serves on the Educational Equity Board.
“Education has long been one of our main
priorities,” Audrey Settle says. “It is important
that people get an education so they can do
more and improve their lives and families
and their communities,”
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Positioning the Economy to Thrive
A Plan
for
The statistics are sobering:
Community Leadership Initiatives
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• From 2001to 2014 Hampton Roads ranked last in annualized employment growth
among U.S. metropolitan areas with populations between 1 and 3 million, according
to the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission.
• The region ranked 97 out of 100 among the largest U.S. metro regions in a 2009
to 2014 Brookings Institution study of post-recession economic growth.
Adding to these statistics are recent federal
spending cuts and other variables that threaten
the core of the region’s economy driven by the
military, port and tourism for centuries.
A few years ago, the Hampton Roads
Community Foundation began a community
leadership initiative focused on regional
economic competitiveness. The initiative
is rooted in the community foundation’s
commitment to improving the quality of life
for area citizens by uniting broad coalitions
to tackle specific issues. Such community
leadership has been a hallmark of the foundation
since 1950 and has built strategic coalitions to
reduce homelessness, stabilize the arts, revitalize
neighborhoods and prepare children to succeed
in kindergarten.
An outgrowth of its work in regional
economic competitiveness, in early 2016, the
Hampton Roads Community Foundation
launched Reinvent Hampton Roads as a
separately incorporated nonprofit and hired
James K. Spore, retired Virginia Beach city
manager, to lead it.
The organization serves as a community
frame for game-changing activity that will
improve the region’s economic profile and
performance over time. The overall strategy is
to embrace the region’s historical economic
drivers as manifestations of its geographic
distinctiveness while laying the groundwork
to create a more diversified base for expanded
economic growth. Its goal is job creation,
with particular attention to growing more
higher-paying jobs that entice young adults
to stay in Hampton Roads or move here to
live, work, and raise their families.
Create and
Overall Strategy
Early activities include:
• Launching a Regional Export Accelerator Program
(REAP) through Old Dominion University to assist
those small- and mid-sized existing businesses
positioned to sell their products and services beyond
Hampton Roads.
Culture
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• Identifying those industry clusters that have the most
potential for growth within five years (existing clusters)
and over 10-20 years (aspirational clusters).
• Exploring the potential regional connections between
and among academic-technical education, higher
education, the workforce investment boards, and
transitioning military to better address the existing and
projected workforce needs of the region’s businesses.
• Identifying collaborative projects that could win
Public-Private Partnerships
funding from the Commonwealth of Virginia’s recently
passed Go Virginia legislation.
The journey to a robust economy is complex
(see the infographic at right), and the Hampton
Roads Community Foundation will continue to
be an engaged strategic partner. For more
information on Reinvent Hampton Roads and its
work, visit www.ReinventHR.org.
Opportunity
for Everyone
Efficiencies/Collaboration/
Open Communications
What’s Next?
In 2016 look for the Hampton Roads Community
Foundation to launch a new collective impact
initiative focused on early care and education of
Hampton Roads youngest residents. The goal is to
bring partners together to connect and improve
existing programs, services and assets related to
prenatal care and children’s lives through age 5.
Data Analytics/
Performance Metrics
Grow More
Higher-paying Jobs f o r H a m p t o n R o a d s
Embrace the military, port & tourism
as manifestations of our region’s distinct
geography while diversifying our economy
for expanded growth opportunities.
Diversification
Collaboration
Case for Action
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Entrepreneurship
Industry Clusters
Lagging regional economy
as a result of historic over-reliance
on the port, military & tourism –
currently 55% of the economy.
Water & Geography
Embrace & Expand
Port
Current Focus
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Identify priority industry clusters
Promote operational efficiencies
across localities
Enhance workforce development,
attraction & retention
Anemic rate of
post-recession job recovery
Launch Regional Export
Accelerator Program (REAP)
Region’s weak performance
in diversifying the economy
compared to peers
Stimulate start-ups &
entrepreneurial growth
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Legacy Society for Hampton Roads
Power of
Philanthropy
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Extraordinary People Plan for the Future – In 2015 the Hampton Roads Community Foundation
welcomed 18 new members to the Legacy Society for Hampton Roads.
Already in 2016 several more people have joined this special group focused on using the power
of philanthropy to make our region even better.
The community foundation organized the society in 2003 to honor forward-thinking people with
charitable ideas. All members have made plans for future gifts to the community foundation through
their wills, IRAs, trusts or other estate plans.
We appreciate our Legacy Society members sharing their plans so we can thank them personally.
Members are honored each year at a luncheon and are also invited to other events. To learn more
about the Legacy Society for Hampton Roads, contact Kay Stine, vice president for development,
at (757) 622-7951 or [email protected]. You can learn more at leaveabequest.org.
Legacy Society for Hampton Roads (Members as of May 15, 2016)
Anonymous (30)
Nancy Alain
John M. Baillio
Theodore Baker Jr.
Robin Deal Baliles
Sandra Baylor
Lawrence A. Bernert Jr., M.D.
David Cole Bland
Tim Bostic and Tony London
Lilly and Bruce Bradley
Joan and Macon Brock
Thomas C. Broyles
Arlene T. Campsen
Rosanne Elizabeth Cary
Charlotte Coates-Wilkes, M.D.
Arthur L. Collins and Paula C. Collins
Richard P. and Cynthia M. Cook
Mary Pem L. Copeland
James W. and Denyce K. Corzatt
Kim and Keith Curtis
Cindy A. Cutler and Craig W. Haines
Ann Caldwell Dearman
Edward J. Dempsey
James R. Early
Russell D. Evett, M.D.
Francis M. Facchini
Paul and Lynne Farrell
Juanita G. Felton
Sandee Ferebee and Erik van Strien
Emil James Gasser Jr.
Valerio M. Genta, M.D.
Martha and Rob Goodman
Burton D. Goodwin, M.D.
Melvin R. Green
Barry Menser and Michael Hamar
James S. Hanner, M.D.
Sally Kirby Hartman
James High
Susan and Paul O. Hirschbiel
Bruce and Susan Holbrook
Terry S. Jenkins
Hank and Beth Kellam
Kirkland Molloy Kelley
Katherine L. Kitterman
Andrew and Esther Kline
Paul A. Kotarides
Leslie P. Langley
Aubrey and Peggy Layne
Mary Louis LeHew and Dr. Willette L. LeHew
Ernest M. Lendman
Harry and Calvert Lester
Stuart P. Levy
Angelica D. Light
Linda and Edward L. Lilly, M.D.
Harvey L. Lindsay Jr.
Robert L. and Jean A. Major
Lewis K. Martin II, M.D. and Cheryl Rose Martin
John May and Judith Whitehead
Martha Lee and Harry E. McCoy Jr.
Dorris Withers McNeal
Roberto L.R. Mercado
Gwendolyn Joyce Moss
Jacqueline and Frederick Napolitano Sr.
Sharon P. and John F. Newhard Jr.
Richard D. O’Leary and Barbara B. O’Leary
Edward A. and Susan R. O’Neal
Dal Paull Jr.
Lee and Eunice Payne
Whitney S. Peace
Powell and Jacque Peters
Jack Mueller Peirson and John Mueller
Nancy G. Plaskie
Starr Plimpton
Henry L. Rankin
Patricia Peace Rawls
Lynette S. Regan
Kurt M. and Rose R. Rosenbach
Roger F. Rowe
Dr. Burt Rubin
Louis F. and Prudence H. Ryan
Ralph E. and Joyce A. Safford
Toy D. Savage Jr.
Patricia A. Seay
Audrey and John Settle
Jane Reeb Short
Gay W. Shulman
Madeline Sly
Bobby Stein
John D. Stewart
Kay A. Stine
Hildreth and Lois B. Martin Strode
Kay and Keith Sudduth
Jeanne and John Warner
Katherine Wilkinson
Dorothy Urban Wright, M.D.
Deborah H. Wyld
John O. and Susan S. Wynne
Remembering our
Thoughtful Friends
We are saddened by the recent passing
of Legacy Society for Hampton Roads
members Carl Mangum and Ula
Motekat, Ph.D. We appreciate the
arrangement they made for gifts to the
community foundation through their
estate plans. Our honor roll of former
Legacy Society members who arranged
for gifts to the foundation through their
estate plans include the late:
W. Byron Babcock
Winifred Maddock Baldwin
Mary Rawls Cooke Berkeley
Christine Clegg Bosher
Julia Atwater Bristow
Dan H. Brockwell
Charles F. Burroughs Jr.
Judith Ball Wysong Cofer
Dr. Samuel Coppage Jr.
Joseph W. Cotten Jr.
Susan Ashburn Cotten
Joshua P. Darden Jr.
Chester William DeWalt Jr., M.D.
Thomas A. Felton Jr.
Mary Adelle Forbes
Marjorie Frame Hawkins
Carl Mangum
George Henry Marin
Linford Mason
H.P. “Sonny” McNeal
Ula Motekat, Ph.D.
Jean C. Old
Charles E. Plimpton
William Brewster Purdy
Lewis H. Shulman
Donald E. Sly, M.D.
Charles Syer
Patsy Teer
Frederick R. Ward
Ruth B. Weeks, M.D.
Barbara Upton Wilson
Morris Fine
Barron F. Black, our first board chair,
is helping others today through the
community foundation he helped
establish in 1950, the
permanent donor funds
he helped bring and his own
charitable fund he left as a bequest.
Institute of Marine
Science boards. As chair
of the Virginia Beach
Foundation board, he
helped facilitate the
2010 merger with The
Norfolk Foundation
to create the Hampton
Roads Community
Foundation – Hampton
Roads’ largest grant and
scholarship provider. It
is “important to speak
with one voice for
philanthropy,” Fine says
of the merger. At the
community foundation
he is involved with a
family donor-advised
fund and is a member
of the Community
Leadership Partners
giving group.
Like Barron Black,
Fine has been the catalyst
for gifts to benefit our
region through the
community foundation.
Among the funds Morris
helped bring to the
community foundation
is its first one started by a
Virginia Lottery winner.
Connection
Photo by Mackenzie Brunson
Virginia Beach attorney Morris H. Fine is passionate
about the power of philanthropy to create a better
community. This is one reason he won the 2015 Barron
F. Black Community Builder Award from the Hampton
Roads Community Foundation. The annual award
honors an area professional advisor who exemplifies the
spirit of Black, the community foundation’s first board
chair (from 1950 to his death in 1974). Black, a partner
in Vandeventer Black LLP was a forward-thinking
civic leader who encouraged people to volunteer and
support important causes.
Fine, a Norfolk native, knew Black as the father of
his elementary school classmate. After Granby High
School, Morris graduated from the University of
Virginia and its law school. He entered his father’s law
practice in downtown Norfolk in 1953 after three years
of active duty in the Navy. He remained in the Navy
reserve until 1976 serving as a JAG officer and retiring
as a commander.
Fine, a partner at Fine, Fine, Legum & McCracken,
thrives on solving problems. In a career that spans six
decades, he has worked on criminal cases, domestic
disputes, personal injury cases, business law, and trust
and estates. He has served as parliamentarian for the
Virginia Trial Lawyers Association and ran for the
House of Delegates before deciding politics wasn’t
for him. In the legal field, Fine is known for calming
adversaries and helping them find common ground
and their better natures.
Fine, a winner of the Virginia Beach Bar Association’s
Community Service Award, heads the Virginia Beach
Library Foundation. He previously led the Virginia
Aquarium and Marine Science Center and the Virginia
Speaking Out for Philanthropy
Morris Fine’s award
included a painting
by D’Art Center artist
Vonnie Whitworth of
a scene near the Brock
Environmental Center
in Virginia Beach.
Outside work, Fine enjoys
spending time with his wife
Jan, three children and seven
grandchildren, traveling,
volunteering and growing
vegetables in a friendly
competition with a neighbor.
He proudly displays in his office the ribbon he won
at a festival for growing a 2.2-pound tomato.
For his Barron Black award, Morris got to
recommend a $5,000 grant from the community
foundation. He chose Eastern Virginia Medical School
to receive a grant to help endow a professorship in
the Otolaryngology Department.
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2015
Donor
Where Our Grants Come From
Funds
30
Donor-advised funds let living donors recommend grants to specific nonprofits they choose. Donors can name advisors and successor advisors to
recommend grants from their funds.
F. .U. N. .D. . N. .A. M
E
YEAR FOUNDED
........................................
Winifred
. . . . . . . . Maddock
. . . . . . . . .Baldwin
. . . . . . . Charitable
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1998
....
Batten
Educational
Achievement
2003
..................................................
Bellamy
. . . . . . . .Martin
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2003
....
The
Jennet
Bernert
Helping
Hands
Charitable
2000
..................................................
Carter
. . . . . . Grandy
. . . . . . .Bernert
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2015
....
Bradley
Family
2008
..................................................
Broadfoot/Ambler2015
..................................................
Sarah
. . . . . .K.
. . Brokaw
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1998
....
Ned
and
Patsy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . Caton
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2005
....
CG2
Fund
2005
..................................................
The
. . . . Checkered
. . . . . . . . . .Flag
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2000
....
P ...............................
Cherrystone
. . . . . . . . . . . Fund
. . . . . . . .2010
Ted
. . . . Clarkson
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2006
....
Community
. . . . . . . . . . .Leadership
. . . . . . . . . .Partners
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2009
....
Mary
Rawls
Cooke
Horticultural
2012
..................................................
The
. . . . Cooke
. . . . . . Fund
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2012
....
Mary
Rawls
Cooke
Berkeley
and
Richard
D.
Cooke
Jr.
2014
..................................................
James
. . . . . . .W.
. . and
. . . . Denyce
. . . . . . .K.
. . Corzatt
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2008
....
P
Kitty
and
Tim
Croke
2014
..................................................
Homer
. . . . . . Cunningham
. . . . . . . . . . . .Fund
. . . . .for
. . .Meals
. . . . . on
. . .Wheels
. . . . . . . . . . . . 1996
....
Kim
and
Keith
Curtis
2005
..................................................
Jane
. . . . . S.
. . Curtis
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2012
....
Joshua
. . . . . . . and
. . . . Elizabeth
. . . . . . . . .Darden
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001
....
The
Davis
Family
2014
..................................................
E.
. . .J.. .Dempsey
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2005
....
R.
&
C.
Dickerson
Family
2012
..................................................
Friedrich
. . . . . . . . .Ludwig
. . . . . . .Diehn
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1987
....
Dollar
Tree
Stores
1997
..................................................
Dr.
. . . Luke’s
. . . . . . .Trust
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1991
...
Fain
Family
2002
..................................................
Fine
. . . . .Family
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1988
....
Future
Leadership
Partners
1998
..................................................
Gettier
. . . . . . .Family
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2006
....
Lee
. . . . A.
. . and
. . . . Helen
. . . . . Gifford
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1994
....
John
&
Susan
Gill
Family
2006
..................................................
William
. . . . . . . .A.. .Gooch
. . . . . .Conservation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2005
....
F. .U. N. .D. . N. .A. M
E
YEAR FOUNDED
........................................
Lewis
. . . . . . B.
. . Goode
. . . . . . Foundation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2002
....
Martha
and
Rob
Goodman
Family
Donor
Advised
2005
..................................................
Goodman
. . . . . . . . .Family
. . . . . . Donor
. . . . . .Advised
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1988
....
The
Genny
Hayes
Donor
Advised
2015
..................................................
Rebekah
. . . . . . . . L.
. . .Huber
. . . . . Family
. . . . . . .Charitable
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2007
....
Jain
Family
2014
..................................................
Julia
. . . . . &. .Rebecca
. . . . . . . .Memorial
. . . . . . . . Garden
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2002
....
Floyd
E.
Kellam
Jr.
Family
2000
..................................................
Kirkland
. . . . . . . . Molloy
. . . . . . .Kelley
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2015
....
Kirkland-Harris,
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Suitt
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2008
....
P
The
Landsberger
Family
2015
..................................................
Maureen
. . . . . . . . and
. . . . Augustine
. . . . . . . . . H.
. . .Lawrence
. . . . . . . . .III
. .P
. . .2013
............
Nancy
Bush
Lawson
Memorial
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1999
....
Robert
. . . . . . .A.. .Lawson,
. . . . . . . .Jr.
. . .Family
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2005
....
Edward
and
Ruth
Legum
Family
2015
..................................................
Lewis
. . . . . . Family
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2008
....
Sean
A.
Lovas
Memorial
2008
..................................................
Senator
. . . . . . . L.
. . .Louise
. . . . . . Lucas
. . . . . .Legacy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2015
....
Malbon
Family
1998
..................................................
Carl
. . . . W.
. . .Mangum
. . . . . . . .Jr.
. . and
. . . .Marguerite
. . . . . . . . . .S.. .Mangum
. . . . . . . Fund
. . . . . . 1995
....
Glenn
. . . . . .B.. . and
. . . .Reba
. . . . .S.. .McClanan
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2004
....
Joanne
and
Jim
McClellan
2008
..................................................
Harry
. . . . . .E.. .and
. . . .Martha
. . . . . . Lee
. . . .McCoy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2010
....
McKinnon
Fund
2004
..................................................
E.A
. . . .and
. . . George
. . . . . . . N.
. . McMath
. . . . . . . .Edgewater
. . . . . . . . . .P
. . 2007
..............
Meachum
Education
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1996
....
The
. . . . Mermaid
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2015
....
Milton-Mountjoy2007
..................................................
Sis
. . . .Nash
. . . . Memorial
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1992
....
The
Neikirk
Family
2015
..................................................
Nightingale
. . . . . . . . . . .Fund
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2004
....
Alan
. . . . .and
. . . .Susan
. . . . . Nordlinger
. . . . . . . . . .Family
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2002
....
Nancy N. Nusbaum and V.H. Nusbaum Jr.
Donor
. . . . . .Advised
. . . . . . . Fund
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2011
...
Robert
Nusbaum
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and
. . . .Linda
. . . . . Laibstain
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2014
....
Marianne
. . . . . . . . Olivieri
. . . . . . Memorial
. . . . . . . . Fund
. . . . .for
. . the
. . . Performing
. . . . . . . . . Arts
. . . . . 2007
....
Richard
and
Maureen
Olivieri
Family
2006
..................................................
P Part of the Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation family of funds.
FUND NAME
YEAR FOUNDED
..................................................
Alison
. . . . . . J.
. . .and
. . . Ella
. . . . W.
. . .Parsons
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2005
....
Dal
Paull
Endowment
2005
..................................................
Charles
. . . . . . . E.
. . .and
. . . Starr
. . . . . D.
. . Plimpton
. . . . . . . . Donor
. . . . . . Advised
. . . . . . . . . . . . 2001
....
Allen
and
Ann
Richter
2012
..................................................
Robin
. . . . . .A.
. . Rinaca
. . . . . . .and
. . . Nicholas
. . . . . . . . J.
. . .Covatta
. . . . . . .Jr.
. . .P
. . 2006
.........
Bill
Rosenow
Memorial
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2002
....
William
. . . . . . . .F.. Rountree
. . . . . . . . .Jr.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2011
...
Louis
F.
and
Prudence
H.
Ryan
2008
..................................................
Slone
. . . . . .Family
. . . . . . Donor
. . . . . .Advised
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2007
....
Louis
. . . . . .Snyder
. . . . . . Foundation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2002
....
Special
Fund
#4
2000
..................................................
Special
. . . . . . . Fund
. . . . . #5
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2003
....
Special
Fund
#6
2008
..................................................
Special
. . . . . . . Fund
. . . . . #7
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2008
....
B.
M.
Stanton
Foundation
1989
..................................................
Debbi
. . . . . .and
. . . .Jim
. . . Steiger
. . . . . . .Family
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2006
....
Kay
and
Ronald
Stine
Family
2012
..................................................
David
. . . . . .B.
. . and
. . . .Suzanne
. . . . . . . .VK.
. . . Tankard
. . . . . . . .P
. . .2005
................
P
Lisa
and
David
Tankard
Jr.
2007
..................................................
Tonya
. . . . . . T.
. . and
. . . . Samuel
. . . . . . . V.
. . Tankard
. . . . . . . .P
. . .2007
..................
Richard
. . . . . . . .and
. . . Joie
. . . . .Tankard
. . . . . . . Conservation
. . . . . . . . . . . .P
. . . 2008
............
Bob
&
Marion
Taylor
Family
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2013
....
Torrech
. . . . . . . .Family
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2004
....
Mabel
Burroughs
Tyler
2007
..................................................
George
. . . . . . .W.
. . and
. . . . Nancy
. . . . . . S.
. . Vakos
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2002
....
Christiane
and
James
Valone
Charitable
2010
..................................................
Fund
. . . . . for
. . . Veterans
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2015
....
Virginia
Eye
Foundation
Donor-Advised
2015
..................................................
Bradley
. . . . . . . .J.. .Waitzer
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1998
....
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Guilford
Dudley
Ware
Charitable
1997
..................................................
John
. . . . . Wareing
. . . . . . . .Memorial
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2000
....
Violet
. . . . . .S.. . Whitson
. . . . . . . .Memorial
. . . . . . . . Donor
. . . . . .Advised
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2005
....
Leah
S.
Wohl
Musical
Arts
2013
..................................................
Dona
. . . . . Wood
. . . . . .Family
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2002
....
Wynne
Family
2008
..................................................
$68,456,310
Value of all donor-advised
funds on 12-31-15
Bob and Marion Taylor
“If you want to connect with the
most effective and efficient nonprofits,
a community
foundation will
help you do that.”
– B ob Tay l or
Connection
Photo by
by Roberto
Glen McClure
Westbrook
Getting things done is in Bob Taylor’s blood. He is the
grandson of the founder of the Taylor’s Do-It Centers
hardware chain. While heading the Virginia Beach-based
company from 1975 to 2000 Bob chaired the Hampton
Roads Chamber of Commerce’s Virginia Beach division,
a United Way of South Hampton Roads capital campaign,
the Relay for Life and the regional Better Business Bureau.
In 2001 Bob and his wife Marion moved to Fort Wayne,
Indiana when he was tapped to head Do It Best Corp., a
$3 billion cooperative of 3,800 hardware businesses. He
immediately jumped in as an Indiana civic leader chairing
a downtown planning group, a United Way major gifts
campaign and a regional marketing partnership while
serving on several state boards.
In anticipation of retiring to Virginia Beach in 2016,
Bob and Marion started a Hampton Roads Community
Foundation donor-advised fund a few years ago. “We
want to continue to give back to our community and plan
for its future,” he says. “But what happens when we are
gone? We are proponents of community foundations” and
their ability to keep pace with changing needs in specific
geographic regions.
It was while Bob Taylor was board president of the
Foellinger Foundation, a private Indiana funder, that
he started thinking about how foundations “give you
a window into all the agencies and needs plus all the
accountability they look for” before awarding grants.
Rather than starting their own foundation the Taylors
created the permanent Bob and Marion Taylor Family
Fund at the Hampton Roads Community Foundation.
They liked knowing the Virginia Beach and Norfolk
foundations had merged in 2010 to form a single
regional community foundation.
Doing It Best Through Generosity
Bob and Marion Taylor
are happy to be back home
in Hampton Roads.
“We thought that was a great way to marshal resources
for the community,” Bob says. In April 2016 Bob and
Marion, a former Bank of America banker, moved back
to Virginia Beach, to be closer
to family, friends and the
ocean. Both grew up in the
city where Bob’s grandfather
bought an oceanfront fuel,
feed and building supply store
in 1929. That led to a 12-store
Hampton Roads hardware
chain selling everything from plants and barbecue grills to
construction supplies. Recently Taylor’s bought the sevenstore Pleasants Hardware chain based in Richmond. Bob
started working at the hardware store at age 9 earning $3
a day and joined the family business after graduating from
Randolph-Macon College. Bob’s two younger brothers
Joe and Russ now head the hardware chain, and his father
Dawson remains active in the business at age 93.
Back on their home turf, the Taylors are happy to
use philanthropy to improve the region that has given
them so much.
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2015
Donor
Where Our Grants Come From
Funds
Designated Funds provide annual grants to nonprofits named by the donors who established their funds.
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
..................................................
ACCESS Education Challenge, 1999
$838,315
For ACCESS College Foundation for “last dollar” scholarship awards to
students from Virginia Beach public high schools
..................................................
Access 20th Anniversary, 2007
217,444
For ACCESS College Foundation for scholarships to students from
Chesapeake, Suffolk and Virginia Beach public high schools
..................................................
Isaac M. Baker Jr. and Sarah Lee Baker
Memorial, 1995
66,107
2,590,901
For resident support grants at Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake
Bay in Virginia Beach
..................................................
Batten Fund for The Academy of Music, 2010 1,697,769
For The Academy of Music in Norfolk
..................................................
Batten Fund for An Achievable Dream
Virginia Beach, 2015
974,983
For An Achievable Dream in Virginia Beach
..................................................
Batten Fund for the Barrier Islands
Center, 2011
1,719,196
For the Eastern Shore of Virginia’s Barrier Islands
Center in Machipongo
..................................................
For the Children’s Museum of Virginia in Portsmouth
1,544,951
..................................................
Batten Fund for Elizabeth River Project, 2013 1,177,215
For the Elizabeth River Project based in Portsmouth
..................................................
Batten Fund for EquiKids, 2011
Batten Fund for Places and Programs, 2011
1,306,413
For Places and Programs for Children for its Children’s Harbor centers
For Equi-Kids Therapeutic Riding Program in Virginia Beach
452,382
Batten Fund for the Virginia Aquarium, 2011
Fannie R. Cooke #1, 1961
2,237,324
For the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center in Virginia Beach
..................................................
Batten Fund for Young Audiences, 2007
For Young Audiences of Virginia
1,472,030
Bay Island Yacht Club, 2009 For Lynnhaven River Now
369,848
C.M. Baylor Jr., 2001
For the Virginia Beach SPCA
5,753
..................................................
Black Creek Baptist Church Enhancement
Endowment, 2010
For Black Creek Baptist Church in Franklin
33,340
..................................................
L.D. Britt, MD, Community Health, 2015
For the L.D. Britt M.D. Fund
196,870
..................................................
Macon & Joan Brock Scholarship Fund for RandolphMacon College, 2012
468,448
For Randolph-Macon College
..................................................
George Chamberlaine Memorial, 1953
For need-based scholarships at Norfolk Academy
122,295
..................................................
Margaret G. and William T. Campbell, 1989 For the Jones Institute Foundation
9,503
..................................................
..................................................
For Park Place School in Norfolk
1,303,821
..................................................
For the Generic Theater, Little Theatre of Norfolk
and Little Theatre of Virginia Beach
The Chrissy Fund, 2008
28,742
13,389
For American Cancer Society for Hampton Roads cancer patients needing
wigs and other head covers, prostheses and transportation services
..................................................
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Fannie R. Cooke #2, 1962
344,946
For Mary Baldwin College in Staunton and Union Presbyterian
Seminary in Richmond
..................................................
Elsie Stewart Copeland, 1983
For Christ and Saint Luke’s Church in Norfolk
58,638
..................................................
Constance Jordan Coppage, Dr. Samuel F. Coppage Sr.
and Dr. Samuel F. Coppage Jr., 2015
316,052
For the Tidewater Community College Educational Foundation
..................................................
Dr. Samuel F. Coppage Jr. #1, 2015 For Grace Episcopal Church
316,052
..................................................
Dr. Samuel F. Coppage Jr., 2015
For the Basilica of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception
316,052
..................................................
Dollar Tree Associates Disaster Relief, 2014
..................................................
Batten Fund for Park Place School, 2008
..................................................
Charles F. and Mabel C. Burroughs
Memorial, 1960
For First Presbyterian Church, Christ & St. Luke’s Church, Norfolk
Academy, Union Presbyterian Seminary and Virginia Theological
Seminary
86,688
For Hampden-Sydney College, Mary Baldwin College in Staunton and
Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond
..................................................
4,101,868
626
..................................................
Lynnwood Craig, 2002
Carol Chittum Endowment for the Theatrical
Performing Arts, 2004
For Horizons Hampton Roads programs in Norfolk, Portsmouth and
Virginia Beach
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
The Colenda Fund (Art, Gerry, Jeri Colenda), 2007
For The Maury Foundation
Batten Fund for Horizons Hampton Roads, 2007 1,458,413
..................................................
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
..................................................
..................................................
..................................................
..................................................
Batten Fund for the Children’s Museum
of Virginia, 2008
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
..................................................
..................................................
For the Norfolk Botanical Garden Foundation
to benefit the Norfolk garden
The Mary F. Ballentine Fund, 2000
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
For the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation
20,550
..................................................
To help with assistance after disasters
46,561
..................................................
Early Education, 2013
For the model early childhood education center
located in the Park Place neighborhood in Norfolk
6,507,218
..................................................
East Ocean View Literary, 2005
For the Pretlow Branch of the Norfolk Public Library
130,123
..................................................
Franklin/Southampton County Relay for Life
Endowment, 2010
29,426
For the American Cancer Society, Mid-Atlantic Division Region VII for
the Franklin/Southampton County, Virginia Relay for Life
..................................................
The Garden Club of Eastern Shore, 2013 P 44,412
For grounds beautification at Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
..................................................
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
..................................................
..................................................
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
Virginia Cooke Glennan, 2012
John Jay & Ola Hill Krueger, 1999
Shore Bank, 2006 P 55,389
525,785
For Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay, the Boys’ Home in
Covington and the Jackson-Feild Homes in Jarratt
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Green Family Memorial, 1990
141,969
For Westville Disciples (Christian) Church in Mathews
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hampton Roads Committee of 200+ Men
George C. Crawley Scholarship, 2014
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
37,036
For the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center and the Atlantic
Wildfowl Heritage Museum in Virginia Beach
..................................................
Harold L. and Brooke Neilson Lowry
Memorial, 1959
For the Boys’ Home in Covington
498,909
..................................................
26,050
For the 200+ Men Foundation so it can provide scholarships for
Hampton Roads students
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hampton Roads Committee of 200+ Men, 2014
51,141
For the 200+ Men Foundation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hampton Roads Cultural Endowment, 1994
51,922
For participating Hampton Roads arts and cultural institution.
Mary Ludlow Home, 2011
To provide grants to ForKids Inc.
1,097,530
..................................................
Benjamin W. Mears, Jr. Family, 2007 P 36,692
For the Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust Inc.
..................................................
Ula Motekat Fund, 2006
80,998
For the Feldman Chamber Music Society, Chrysler Museum of Art,
Virginia Opera and WHRO
..................................................
..................................................
Healthy Neighborhood Enterprises, 2014
Neptune Festival, 2007
50,000
For Healthy Neighborhood Enterprises, a regional community
development corporation
..................................................
Gabrielle P. Hubbard, 2010
For The Williams School in Norfolk
579,993
..................................................
Lee B. Jacobs, 1993
For youth residential homes in Virginia
441,374
..................................................
Alice R. Jaffe Memorial Fund-Feldman
Chamber Music, 1994
For the Feldman Chamber Music Society
114,286
..................................................
Johnsen Peregrination, 2005 P For the Eastern Shore Community College Foundation
252,556
For the Neptune Festival in Virginia Beach
63,160
..................................................
NSU Honors Program, 1998
For Norfolk State University’s Honors Program
635,360
..................................................
Kathrina B. Powell, 2006
For Norfolk Public Library branches
25,995
..................................................
William B. Purdy, 2015
102,897
For Royster Memorial Presbyterian Church in Norfolk and need-based
scholarships for Norfolk Collegiate students
For Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
98,667
..................................................
..................................................
Kellam Family, 2005 P Sergeant Memorial, 1988
..................................................
Eugenia Smith Kennedy, 2013
216,082
For the Virginia Symphony, Virginia Opera, Virginia Musical Theatre,
Little Theatre of Virginia Beach and Virginia Beach SPCA
..................................................
P Part of the Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation family of funds.
..................................................
Slone Family Designated, 2008
For the Talmudical Academy of Norfolk
74,206
..................................................
Smithfield Courthouse of 1750 and
Clerk’s Office of 1799, 1996
For the Old Courthouse of 1750 and Clerk’s Office of 1799
in Smithfield
36,822
..................................................
Symphony Fund, 1962
999,211
For the Virginia Symphony Orchestra
..................................................
Taylor Brothers Fund for Scholarships, 2010
For Norfolk Academy for need-based scholarships
27,707
..................................................
Taylor Sisters Library, 1999
49,524
For Norfolk Public Library
..................................................
William J. and Ellamae Vakos, 1993
127,911
For Union Mission Ministries in Norfolk and Beach Health Clinic in
Virginia Beach
..................................................
..................................................
William A. and Lucille W. Sawyer
Memorial, 1999
Mary Elizabeth Semple, 1991
850,757
24,456
For Shore Health Services Inc. in support of the Shore Cancer Center
..................................................
Mildred Jordan, 2015
For the Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation
Shore Cancer Center, 2008 P Virginia Beach Foundation Administrative, 2007 139,098
For Norfolk Public Library
..................................................
For Hampton University
..................................................
186,534
..................................................
316,052
For the United Way of Virginia’s Eastern Shore
For community foundation operations
I. T. Walke Jr. Designated, 1978
3,146,701
For Eastern Virginia Medical School, Christ and Saint Luke’s Church in
Norfolk, Virginia and Norfolk General Hospital
..................................................
Warner Family, 2015
99,578
To honor meritorious public service of USS John Warner submarine
crew and for its morale, welfare and recreation fund
..................................................
77,155
For First Presbyterian Church in Staunton, First Presbyterian
Church in Norfolk, Westminster Choir College of Rider University
in Princeton, Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Norfolk Academy,
and the Arts and Culture Community Fund of the Hampton Roads
Community Foundation
$43,964,167
Value of all designated
funds on 12-31-15
..................................................
33
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Donor
Where Our Grants Come From
Funds
Field-of-interest Funds support broad areas of concern identified by donors. Grants are awarded through a competitive process to nonprofit
organizations working in these fields in Hampton Roads.
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
..................................................
Ashinoff Family Fund for the Arts, 2004
$27,244
To
benefit the arts
..................................................
Jeanne Atkinson, 2011
71,641
To
benefit early childhood education
..................................................
Benjamin R. Brown, 1985
144,782
Charles G. Brown, 1983
460,618
For
research in mental illness and for those suffering from it
..................................................
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
..................................................
Lowery D. Finley Jr. Memorial, 2002
29,262
For
youth
..................................................
Julian Haden Gary and Margaret Savage
Gary, 1998
620,397
For
horticultural educational purposes
..................................................
Lee A. and Helen G. Gifford Endowment
for the Cultural and Performing Arts, 1997
382,538
For
advanced research in mental illness
..................................................
For
cultural and performing arts
..................................................
For
arts and humanities on the Virginia Peninsula
..................................................
To support performing arts and medical services, education or
research
..................................................
Mary E. and Curtis M. Chappell Jr. , 2006
William A. and Jane M. Charters, 2004
31,479
7,757,834
William A. Goldback, 2009
4,948,954
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
..................................................
E. K. Sloane, 1997
4,813,027
To provide pianos to charitable, educational or
intellectual
institutions
..................................................
Brenda & Alan Stein Fund for Homeless &
Indigent, 1990
18,502
The Surry Fund, 1999
17,016
Taylor Sisters Library, 1999
17,337
For
food, clothing or shelter, especially for children
..................................................
To promote racial harmony and lessen the negative
impact
of race in Surry County
..................................................
For organizations serving minorities,
the
poor and homeless in Norfolk
..................................................
Victor and Ruth N. Goodman Memorial
Fund, 1996
1,931,705
Patsy G. Teer, 2014
For health and human services with a preference
for
helping Norfolk residents
..................................................
Jennifer Lynn Gray, 1993
359,403
The Laura Turner, 1997
Paul S. Huber Memorial, 1985
5,781,127
Tyler Cultural, 1995
240,659
John W. and Linda Vakos, 2014
289,765
The Virginian-Pilot Fund, 2010
2,607,224
For
essential human services
..................................................
738,389
For
students studying for a career in medicine or health care
..................................................
For
scholarship, research and fellowship
..................................................
To
support training for people with mental disabilities
..................................................
To
assist adults with cerebral palsy
..................................................
For
the preservation of Virginia history
..................................................
For
the arts
..................................................
For
arts and cultural organizations
..................................................
For
children, veterans and abandoned or abused animals
..................................................
To
improve life for the environment
..................................................
For projects that positively impact youth in certain
neighborhoods
in Virginia Beach
..................................................
To
improve life for children and youth in Norfolk
..................................................
For early childhood and elementary education and
health care and support services, particularly for those
with
Alzheimer’s disease or cancer
..................................................
For
arts and culture
..................................................
Mary Jane Kunhardt Fund for the Benefit of the Homeless
of Tidewater, 2000
9,041
Christadelphian Ecclesia of Hampton Roads
Helping, 2015
Vernon and Judith Cofer, 2013
129,358
29,486
The Colenda Fund (Art, Gerry, Jeri Colenda), 2007 2,482
Inge Family Fund for the Environment, 2013
Community Action Resource Empowerment, 2008 10,049
Ethel T. Jones, 1965
1,833,293
H. Lee Kanter, 2001
504,431
Community Fund for Arts and Culture, 2007
Community Fund for Civic Leadership, 2007
29,034
25,482
29,468
For
the performing arts
..................................................
For
civic engagement and leadership
..................................................
For
homeless people
..................................................
Community Fund for Educational
Achievement, 2007
27,541
For arts, education (particularly student scholarships)
and
essential human services
..................................................
Community Fund for the Environment, 2007
30,127
For
improving educational opportunities for students
..................................................
For
the environment
..................................................
Community Fund for Health and Human
Services, 2007
27,583
Ryan S. Crouse, 2005
21,413
Dixon-Settle Fund for Women, 2015
25,284
For
health and human services
..................................................
34
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
Perry and Bunny Morgan, 2000
Alfred L. Nicholson, 1998
10,125,936
6,204,365
For
the humane treatment and care of animals
..................................................
William Thomas Reilly III, 2013
53,124
For
the environment
..................................................
John L. Roper, 2nd and Sarah Dryfoos
Roper, 1984
645,380
For
children and teenagers
..................................................
For
cultural arts
..................................................
For human services with a preference for programs
supporting
women in difficult situations
..................................................
For
an arts and culture endowment
..................................................
The Glenn Allen Scott and Anne C. Brower
Cultural Endowment, 2001
43,924
48,262
To support the technology needs of the
Colonel
Samuel L. Slover Main Library in Norfolk
..................................................
Harry F. Wall Memorial Scholarship, 2007
288,539
For
public high schools on the Virginia Peninsula
..................................................
Skip Wilkins, 1992
4,454
For
basic human needs
..................................................
Virginia Dietrich Williams Fund for Women
and Girls, 2005
105,680
Barbara Upton Wilson Charitable, 2014
637,878
For
women and children
..................................................
For preservation of the natural environment,
environmental
education and humane treatment of animals
..................................................
Sue Cook Winfrey Memorial, 1997
4,076,676
For
organizations helping abused children and/or spouses
..................................................
$ 56,257,193
Value of all field-of-interest
funds on 12-31-15
The Up Center Fostering New Family Ties
Photo by
Westbrook
Photo
by Roberto
Glen McClure
Nicole Russell can be shy around visitors, so the
10-year-old girl sometimes lets her thumbs and her smile
do the talking.
Like when her adoptive mother, Mary Russell, explains
how Nicole came to the Russell household in Virginia
Beach as an emergency foster placement two years ago:
“We knew we wanted her after just a couple of hours,”
Mary remembers about the decision she and her husband,
Jimmy, made to make Nicole a permanent part of their
family. Double thumbs up, Nicole signals, adding a grin
for emphasis.
“I wrote about it in my journal the first night,” Nicole
says. “I wrote that I really liked it here, and I wished that
they would adopt me.”
Creating positive family situations is what The Up Center,
a regional nonprofit agency, strives to do. Its foster-to-adopt
program is one of dozens of services The Up Center provides
area citizens with help from partners like the Hampton
Roads Community Foundation, which has provided over
$1.3 million in grants to The Up Center since 2004.
That amount includes a $130,000 three-year grant
in 2012 for the foster-to-adopt program. Funding came
primarily from the Sue Cook Winfrey Fund started in
1997 by Guy Winfrey in memory of his first wife. The
grant helps The Up Center recruit and educate foster
families. During the 2015 fiscal year, 20 Hampton Roads
families were approved for foster children, and eight
children like Nicole were adopted by families.
“From the day I met Nicole and placed her with the
Russell family I knew it was a perfect match ... that this was
Nicole’s forever family,” says Heather Wilson, the center’s
intake coordinator for therapeutic foster care and adoptions.
Nicole’s placement continued in more storybook ways.
Nicole Russell and
her mom Mary like
making cookies
Nicole had wished for a family with pet dogs. The Russells
have five dogs. She wanted a kid brother and a big sister.
Her brother Brayden is a few months younger. The two
enjoy playing on the trampoline and watching videos.
Sister Paton, 17, is studying in Germany, where another
brother, Jeremy, 25, is stationed with the U.S. Army.
Nicole and her mom both like Slurpees, gymnastics,
dancing, writing and cooking. “We bake cookies,” says
Nicole, whose favorite is chocolate chip with pumpkin spice.
Nicole likes snuggling on the
sofa, wrapping herself in a
green-and purple-blanket with
Tinker Bell images. “I came
with this blanket,” Nicole says.
Mary was adopted as an
infant and is a special education
teacher at Parkway Elementary
Connection
Guy Winfrey was a Norfolk car
salesman who quit school at age
14 to support his siblings. This caring man left a bequest
in memory of his wife Sue Cook Winfrey that provides
grants that have helped organizations, including
The Up Center, help children and adults living in
abusive situations.
School in Virginia Beach. Her husband Jimmy is a merchant
mariner. When Mary told her husband the first night that
Nicole was never leaving, he said, “How do you know so
soon?” Mary’s response: “She feels safe. That’s something
I can’t take away from her.”
For four years the Russells provided short-term foster care
for children needing a safe place to stay. “We had enough
love in our house to foster,” she says. The children “needed
someone who could provide them structure and love, and
it was sad to hear their stories... The ones who were in high
school really struggled with self-esteem and education issues,
and it was just a bleak prospect for them the older they got.”
The Russells longed for a long-term placement. That wish
came true when The Up Center connected them with Nicole.
“It’s like she’s always been here. I couldn’t imagine her
not being with us,” Mary says. “The Up Center has been
amazing for us.”
35
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Where Our Grants Come From
Funds
36
Unrestricted Funds are created by donors who leave no restrictions on charitable use. This gives the community foundation board
the latitude to wisely respond to changing community needs, help solve regional issues or enhance the quality of life in southeastern Virginia.
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
..................................................
Leon
H. Ackerman, 1976
$292,690
..................................................
Anne
B. Addington, 2004
47,089
..................................................
Argyle
Fund, 1998
233,490
..................................................
Margaret
B. Atkinson, 1971
135,526
..................................................
Byron
Babcock,
2009
552,939
..................................................
Isaac
M. Baker Jr. and Sarah Lee Baker Memorial, 1995 33,654
..................................................
BAL
Group, 1988
846
..................................................
P
Chad
Ballard, 2006 120,458
..................................................
E.
C.
Barnhardt
III
Memorial,
2005
75,201
..................................................
Frank
Batten, 1988
38,657
..................................................
Beskin
& Assoc., 1988
1,523
..................................................
Mary
L. B. Birdsong, 1971
624,139
..................................................
Barron
F.
Black
Article
VIII,
1976
168,585
..................................................
Munro
Black, 1959
963,706
..................................................
Edward
J. Brickhouse, 1979
1,581,607
..................................................
Macon
& Joan Brock, 1992
32,278
..................................................
Virginia P. and Charles F. Burroughs Jr.
Memorial,
2008
2,551,886
..................................................
June
Page Camp, 1999
103,357
..................................................
Margaret
G. and William T. Campbell, 1991
11,011
..................................................
Chesapeake
Bay Wine Classic Foundation, 1997 3,540
..................................................
Richard
S.
Cohoon
Memorial, 1978
262,681
..................................................
Community
Fund, 2003
1,381,708
..................................................
Croshaw,
Seigal et al, 1989
3,802
..................................................
Colgate
and Constance Darden Memorial, 1980 9,080,021
..................................................
Joshua
P. and Elizabeth D. Darden, 2014
1,661,389
..................................................
Leroy
W.
Davis
Memorial,
1993
44,690
..................................................
Daisy
K. and William P. Dickson Jr. Memorial, 2004 151,294
..................................................
Ralph
B. Douglass, 1973
656,739
..................................................
Walter
A. Edwards, Jr., 1992
319,043
..................................................
Ellen
W.
&
Douglas
D.
Ellis
Sr.,
2003
94,942
..................................................
The
Family Channel, 1990
3,428
..................................................
Lynne
& Paul Farrell, 1992
235,988
..................................................
Alan
and Ester Fleder Foundation , 1991
1,817
..................................................
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
..................................................
Barbara
H. Fleming, 1987
221,332
..................................................
Furman
Family, 1990
10,409
..................................................
General
Unrestricted Fund, 1988
140,450
..................................................
Gornto
Fund, 1988
2,398
..................................................
Albert
H.
Grandy
Memorial,
1988
114,357
..................................................
Eva
K. Grant, 2008
209,773
..................................................
Grant
Making Fund, 2002
785,986
..................................................
Grantmaking Fund of the Eastern Shore of
Virginia
Community Foundation, 2009 P 65,625
..................................................
John
Stanley Gregory Memorial Fund, 1994
310,014
..................................................
Evelyn
D. Grones, 1990
11,417
..................................................
Isla
Vance Grover, 1980
4,173,525
..................................................
William
B. Grover, 1980
614,501
..................................................
Hall
Auto
Mall,
1988
7,581
..................................................
J.
Burton Harrison Jr., 1988
5,030
..................................................
W.
Wright Harrison Memorial, 2001
5,882
..................................................
The
Howard Association, 1987
229,944
..................................................
Johns
Brothers,
1989
2,636
..................................................
Samuel
G. Jones Jr., 2004
112,150
..................................................
Edwin
C. Kellam, 1988
4,281
..................................................
Landmark
Design Group, 1990
4,477
..................................................
The
Edmund
A.
“Ned”
Langhorne
Memorial,
2008
69,689
..................................................
Angelica
D. Light, 2012
39,391
..................................................
S.. . .E.. .Liles
Jr., 1988
8,307
.............................................
Joseph
Lust, 1994
5,091
..................................................
Ethel
and Linford Mason, 2009
3,269,869
..................................................
Francis
&
Jean
McCoy,
1989
5,998
..................................................
Gary
D. McMahan, 1991
7,708
..................................................
H.
P. McNeal, 2005
377,766
..................................................
McPhillips,
Roberts & Deans, 1990
2,517
..................................................
P
Meadville
Fund,
2005
1,618,956
..................................................
Alva
W. Mercer, 1972
52,841
..................................................
Perry
and Bunny Morgan, 1999
6,072,142
..................................................
C.
Whitley Musick, 1989
1,120
..................................................
P Part of the Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation family of funds.
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
..................................................
Nandua
Fund, 2008 P 1,852,624
..................................................
Napolitano
Family, 1989
114,676
..................................................
V.. . .H.. .Nusbaum
Jr., 1988
4,711
.............................................
Jean
C. Old, 2010
402,049
..................................................
Pat
and
Dan,
1991
3,010
..................................................
PNC
Bank, 2006 P 26,205
..................................................
C.
J. Prettyman Sr., 2008 P 164,845
..................................................
RBC
Centura, 1991
4,511
..................................................
Irene
D.
Redwood,
1977
886,203
..................................................
Langford
W. Redwood, 1962
1,741,351
..................................................
Clarence
B. Robertson, 1968
179,636
..................................................
Lelia
E. Robertson, 1980
304,735
..................................................
Walter
H.
Robertson,
1973
446,411
..................................................
The
Runnymede Corporation, 1988
7,629
..................................................
Philip
& Mary Russo, 1997
24,410
..................................................
Henry
& Phyllis Shook, 1991
4,398
..................................................
Hattie
G. Slaughter, 1964
266,440
..................................................
Mrs.
C.
Gordon
Smith
Jr.,
1990
28,399
..................................................
Special
Fund #1, 1997
5,083,151
..................................................
Special
Fund #3, 1984
8,694,079
..................................................
Dorothy
Redwood Cooke Sutherland, 2004
102,694
..................................................
Charles
Syer,
1996
5,581,372
..................................................
The
Trinder Fund, 1993
4,090
..................................................
Donald
J. Trufant Memorial, 2015 P 546,218
..................................................
Helen
W. Tucker Memorial, 2005
57,314
..................................................
Goldsborough
S. and Katherine P. Tyler Memorial, 1999 98,097
..................................................
Mabel
B.
Tyler,
1987
453,675
..................................................
Virginia
Investment Counselors Charitable, 1997 28,891
..................................................
I.. . T.. . Walke
Jr. Unrestricted, 1978
1,030,450
..............................................
Eugene
Walters Foundation, 1992
8,179
..................................................
William
P.
Woodley,
1990
89,350
..................................................
Tom
and Page Young, 2007 P 46,524
..................................................
$ 68,319,214
Value of all unrestricted
funds on 12-31-15
Dr. Samuel Coppage Living Life to the Fullest
The Constance Jordan Coppage, Dr. Samuel F. Coppage Sr.
and Dr. Samuel F. Coppage Jr. Fund will provide annual
grants to Tidewater Community College. Two other funds
named for Sam Coppage will forever
benefit Grace Episcopal Church
and the Basilica of St. Mary of the
Immaculate Conception. The Mildred Jordan Fund will
support Hampton University, alma mater of Coppage’s aunt.
“Sam was a big personality
and was brilliant,” says Lorraine
Connaughton of Norfolk Southern
Corp., who taught with Coppage
at ODU. “He had fun learning
Brazil was a favorite
new things and was ageless.”
destination for
In his 50s he mastered Portuguese
Sam Coppage.
so he could speak fluently on trips
to Salvador, Brazil – his favorite
place to visit for its music, dance,
art and Afro-Brazil heritage.
“He was one of a kind,” adds
Julie Foehrenbach, who met
Coppage during his New York
years and considers him family.
“Sam was curious and outgoing
and would strike up conversations
anywhere. You could talk to him
on any subject and he would have
a well thought out opinion on it –
books, films, art, music, history
or local, national and global
politics. You name it!”
Foehrenbach and her husband
loved playing bridge and chess with Coppage, going dancing
with him during the disco era and seeing performers Lena
Horne and James Brown with him. Both Connaughton
and Foehrenbach were among friends and students
accompanying Coppage to his beloved Brazil.
As a professor, Coppage was proud and supportive of
his students. He was “upbeat and always thinking about
everyone else,” says Dr. David Simmonds, an information
technology professor at Miami University. Coppage
advised Simmonds when
he was an ODU doctoral
student. “He was democratic
and made sure all the
graduate students had enough
courses to teach,” Simmonds
recalls. Dr. Bruce Rubin,
Coppage’s ODU business
college colleague, calls Sam
Connection
Photo courtesy of Old Dominion University
Photo courtesy of Julie Foehrenbach
With parents, an aunt and a grandmother who lived
to ages 90, 101, 104 and 106, Dr. Samuel Coppage always
assumed he was destined for longevity.
But, a short illness in 2014 ended the Old Dominion
University professor’s life at the young age of 65. Thanks to
his thoughtful charitable bequest to the Hampton Roads
Community Foundation, Sam Coppage will live forever by
helping others through the designated funds he created to
benefit organizations near to his heart – two institutions of
higher education and two family churches.
Sam Coppage was an information technology professor
who spent much of his life and career in Norfolk. As an only
child he was the center of life for Dr. Samuel F. Coppage Sr., a
Norfolk dentist and civil rights leader, and Constance Jordan
Coppage, an art teacher. At age
15 Coppage accompanied his
dad to Washington for Martin
Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”
speech.
Coppage skipped a few grades
in high school in Norfolk and
attended boarding school in
Massachusetts with President
George W. Bush. He earned
a mathematics degree from
Virginia State University and
master’s and doctoral degrees
from New York University. He loved living in New York City
where he worked for Bell Labs and as a consultant. But in
1983 with his father deceased he joined the ODU faculty and
moved into his childhood Norfolk home to help care for his
aging grandmother, mother and aunt. Coppage spent the
rest of his career at ODU.
“the conscience of the college on issues about curriculum.”
Beyond the classroom Coppage worked to improve
Hampton Roads. “He liked to be involved,” says Ann
Schwarz-Miller, his ODU colleague. She describes her
friend as “eclectic” and someone who “knew a lot about
a lot of different things.”
Coppage was a commissioner of the Norfolk
International Airport Authority and served on boards for
NATOFest, the Norfolk Sister City Association, Feldman
Chamber Music Society and Tidewater Community College.
In 2009 TCC honored Coppage with the Martin Luther
King Jr. Community Service Award. He was among the first
lifetime members of the youth branch of the NAACP.
“Sam thought he would live forever and saved his
money,” says Schwarz-Miller. The generous gift he left
through his will to his community foundation will forever
help others in his name as well as the names of his
parents and his aunt.
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Donor
Funds
Organizational Funds are created by nonprofit organizations to provide them with permanent endowments that grow over time
and enable them to receive annual grants to support their missions.
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
Where Our Grants Come From
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
..................................................
..................................................
Academy of Music Endowment, 2011 U Elizabeth River Endowment, 2014 U Norfolk Senior Center Endowment, 1998
$645,254
225,537
83,956
..................................................
..................................................
..................................................
An Achievable Dream Virginia Beach
Endowment, 2015 U Endependence Center, 2001
Park Place School, 2009 U 933
126,816
..................................................
..................................................
..................................................
Equi-Kids Therapeutic Riding Program, 2010
Auxiliary of Shore Memorial Hospital, 2006 P 85,593
..................................................
Families of Autistic Children of Tidewater
(F.A.C.T.), 2012
Peninsula Community Foundation of
Virginia, 2004
..................................................
..................................................
..................................................
Broadwater Academy, 2005 P Feldman Chamber Music Society
Endowment, 1991
Portsmouth Museums Foundation Fund
for the Children’s Museum, 2009 U 9,655
..................................................
Beach Health Clinic, 2000
31,393
30,866
..................................................
Broadwater Academy Julia B. Fleet, 2006 P 356,795
..................................................
Cerebral Palsy of Virginia, 2014
151,323
..................................................
The Children’s Center, 2008
60,089
..................................................
Children’s Harbor Anchor, 2012
U
208,193
..................................................
Chincoteague Island Library
Endowment, 2013 P 44,260
..................................................
Citizens for a Better Eastern Shore
Endowment, 2009 P 39,864
..................................................
Randy Custis Memorial , 2011 P 32,594
..................................................
Eastern Shore Community College
Foundation, 2005 P 47,035
..................................................
..................................................
Eastern Shore of Virginia Barrier Islands Center
Endowment, 2006 U P 884,256
..................................................
Eastern Shore of Virginia Community
Foundation, 2005 P 118,864
324,562
..................................................
143,862
..................................................
113,118
429,332
Physicians For Peace, 2005
42,941
368,915
..................................................
..................................................
ForKids Inc. Endowment, 1998
Seton House, 2003
43,765
85,235
..................................................
..................................................
Friends of the Northampton Free
Library, 2010 P Sugar Plum Endowment, 2003
112,015
880,421
..................................................
..................................................
Symphonicity Endowment, 2008
South Hampton Roads Habitat for Humanity Inc.
Fund for Jill House, 2002
50,553
..................................................
..................................................
Eastern Shore Family YMCA Branch of the YMCA
of South Hampton Roads, 2006 P 61,796
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FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
..................................................
The Hermitage Foundation Auxiliary
Endowment, 2000
United Way of South Hampton Roads
Endowment, 1995
25,671
647,027
..................................................
49,230
Virginia Arts Festival, 1997
747,340
..................................................
..................................................
Hope House Foundation, 2002
Virginia Beach CASA, 2008
873,240
8,301
..................................................
..................................................
Horizons Hampton Roads, 2008 U Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust, 2012 P 603,027
..................................................
The Hummingbird Fund, 2001
85,686
602,891
..................................................
Volunteer Hampton Roads, 2000
17,730
..................................................
..................................................
Mercy Medical Airlift-Angel Flight, 2003
Young Audiences of Virginia, 2008 U 271,684
..................................................
Museum of Chincoteague Island
Endowment, 2015 P 613,580
..................................................
24,755
..................................................
Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association
Foundation, 2009
38,991
..................................................
Norfolk Rotary Endowment, 1992
512,648
$ 10,961,592
..................................................
U Participated in the Batten Endowment Challenge, which encourages recipients to raise funds that are
matched by the Batten Educational Achievement Fund administered by the community foundation.
P Part of the Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation family of funds.
Value of all organizational
funds on 12-31-15
Frequently Asked Questions
.............................................................
.............................................................
What is the Hampton Roads Community Foundation?
How did the community foundation get started?
We are a regional community foundation and the largest grant and scholarship
provider in southeastern Virginia. We are the 58th largest community foundation
in the United States with more than $308 million in assets.
Seven civic leaders gathered donations of $2,350 in 1950 to create The Norfolk
Foundation – the first community foundation in Virginia. In 1987 community
leaders in Virginia Beach created The Virginia Beach Foundation. The two community
foundations merged in 2010 to form the Hampton Roads Community Foundation.
.............................................................
.............................................................
What does the community foundation do?
We are a permanent endowment working to improve life for southeastern
Virginia residents by awarding grants to nonprofit organizations, providing
scholarships to college students and spearheading community leadership
initiatives. We work in partnership with donors and nonprofits to improve
arts and culture, education, the environment, health and human services
and nonprofit facilities.
In the initiative arena, we recently incubated Reinvent Hampton
Roads, which focuses on enhancing our region’s economic competitiveness,
and Healthy Neighborhood Enterprises, which is helping revitalize Norfolk’s
Park Place neighborhood. In 2016 we are helping lead a new Early Care
and Education Collective Impact initiative to improve life for Hampton
Roads’ youngest children.
We can improve our community in a variety of ways because of
our permanent endowment created by generous people from all walks of
life. Since 1950 we have provided more than $230 million in grants
to nonprofits and scholarships to students.
.............................................................
How do your funds work?
We manage more than 450 component funds. Each retains the identity and
purpose established by the original donor and follows donor intent. For most
funds, each year we pay out a percentage of the funds’ values while investing
the remainder to grow for the future.
Some donors request to support specific nonprofits or areas of concern.
Some arrange for scholarship funds. Others leave their funds unrestricted to
meet emerging needs in the future. We also manage donor-advised funds that
have living advisors who recommend grants as well as organizational funds.
.............................................................
How are funds invested?
Our assets are primarily permanent endowment funds held and invested for
long-term growth in partnership with Spider Management Company LLC, our
investment manager. Our board of directors sets our investment policy and
monitors the performance of funds.
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Do you accept gifts of all sizes?
It is a nonprofit organization created by generous donors so it can forever
award grants and scholarships to help people living in a specific geographic
area. There are more than 750 community foundations in the United States –
29 of them in Virginia.
Absolutely. You can make a gift of any size to an existing fund, including our
family of community funds. If you want to start a named, permanent fund,
the minimum gift is $25,000. Details are at hamptonroadscf.org/donors.
We welcome current gifts as well as arrangements for future gifts
from wills, trusts, life insurance, IRA beneficiary designations or other
retirement plans. To learn more visit leaveabequest.org.
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What is a community foundation?
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Apply for Funding
Nonprofit organizations are invited
to apply for competitive funding
opportunities from our Community
Grant and Special Interest Grant
programs. Funding comes from
donors’ unrestricted and field-ofinterest funds. Grant guidelines and
online applications are available at
hamptonroadscf.org/nonprofits.
College-bound students can apply
for scholarships online starting
December 1. Most applications
are due March 1. Scholarships
are awarded each spring for the
upcoming academic year.
Details are available at
hamptonroadscf.org/scholarships.
Learn More About Grants
•Visit the nonprofit section
of hamptonroadscf.org.
•Come to our monthly nonprofit
drop-in day and meet with a
program officer on the first
Thursday of each month from
9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in our office.
No appointment is needed.
Exact dates are posted to
hamptonroadscf.org.
•Subscribe to our Grant Seekers
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Inspiring Philanthropy in Southeastern Virginia Since 1950
The foundation names, taglines and logos are trademarked.
Gazette e-newsletter to get monthly
updates on grant opportunities.
Sign up at hamptonroadscf.org.
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Donor
Funds
Scholarship Funds help students primarily from Hampton Roads attend college. The criteria for each scholarship was created by the fund’s donors. In
2015-16 391 students attended 77 colleges and universities with help from generous scholarship donors.
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
..................................................
Helen Murphy Addington Scholarship, 1986
J. Robert and Ettie Fearing Cunningham
Memorial Scholarship, 1992
Hampton Roads Association of Social Workers
Scholarship, 1959
For female graduates of Maury High School in Norfolk
$119,965
..................................................
Kay White Baker Art, 1987
13,739
For Norfolk Public Schools graduates studying art
..................................................
The “Max” Bennis Scholarship, 2007
64,376
..................................................
Barron F. Black Theological Scholarship, 1976
For students at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria
61,167
..................................................
Jesse T. Bonney Scholarship, 1981
For female students ages 25 and under
983,729
..................................................
Julia Atwater Bristow, 2010
For graduates of public high schools in Norfolk
and on the Eastern Shore of Virginia
2,944,321
..................................................
Dan H. Brockwell, 2013
For students from South Hampton Roads
30,218
..................................................
Dan H. Brockwell Scholarship for Architecture, 2014
For undergraduate or graduate students
from Virginia Beach studying architecture
73,180
1,118,925
For students from Hampton Roads with a preference for those from
Norfolk and those planning to make education their careers
..................................................
Friends of Joshua P. Darden Jr.
Scholarship, 2009
1,418,604
For students attending public high schools in South Hampton Roads
who are in need of financial aid for post-secondary education at a
college or university
..................................................
Hunter Davis Memorial Scholarship, 1979
32,952
For former Thalia Elementary School students who are graduates of
Princess Anne High School in Virginia Beach
..................................................
For graduate students in social work
32,178
..................................................
Hampton Roads Sanitation District Environmental
Scholarship, 1999
75,268
For graduate students in environmental studies
..................................................
Colonel J. Addison Hagan Memorial
Scholarship, 1980
For students at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington
364,179
..................................................
George D. and Marion Phelps Hamar HRBOR
Scholarship, 2011
29,120
For Norfolk Public School seniors who participate in school athletics
..................................................
For self-identifying lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT)
students from high schools in the cities of Chesapeake, Hampton,
Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk or Virginia Beach
R. Franklin and Arbee R. Edwards Scholarship, 1999 170,162
Joseph E. Harry and Bertha White Harry, 1990 2,759,081
Dean-Callahan Scholarship, 2015
48,635
For students from Isle of Wight County
..................................................
Frank Fang Memorial Scholarship, 2005
45,929
For Chinese or Chinese American students from Hampton Roads
..................................................
Palmer Farley Memorial Scholarship, 2008
116,287
..................................................
For graduate students pursuing the creative brand management track
at the Virginia Commonwealth University Brandcenter
Clara Wahlig Burhans Memorial Scholarship, 1986 707,712
Nicholas J. Georges Memorial, 1974
..................................................
..................................................
For students at Old Dominion University or Virginia Wesleyan College
in Norfolk
..................................................
Diane Reilly Hartzog Memorial Scholarship, 2013 54,359
For South Hampton Roads students with an interest in library science
or English
..................................................
Tommy Horvatic Memorial Scholarship, 2013
114,709
..................................................
For Old Dominion University students of Greek heritage
Charles F. and Mabel C. Burroughs Memorial, 1960 ..................................................
For students from Princess Anne High School in Virginia Beach who
may not be at the top of the class but have good character and are
active in the community and community service
Harry Bramhall Gilbert Merit Scholarship, 2004 469,349
Pat Howe Jr. Health Care Scholarship, 2005
For deserving students from Chesapeake, Norfolk and Virginia Beach
For students at Hampden-Sydney College
1,021,101
..................................................
Stephen Ashby Carpenter Memorial, 1994
For Norfolk Public Schools guidance counselors
pursuing additional education
22,383
..................................................
E. W. Chittum Memorial Scholarship, 2005
49,260
For Chesapeake Public School graduates with a preference for
students attending Washington and Lee University in Lexington
..................................................
Community Fund for Scholarships, 2007
For South Hampton Roads students attending college
44,479
..................................................
Richard Dickson Cooke and
Sheppard Royster Cooke Scholarship, 1951
For students at Union Presbyterian Seminary
186,817
..................................................
32,919
For Chesapeake Public School graduates attending The College of William &
Mary, James Madison University, the University of Virginia or Virginia Tech
..................................................
Melvin R. Green Scholarship, 2014
24,047
For students from South Hampton Roads attending a four-year
college or university with a preference for students studying
accounting at Old Dominion University
..................................................
Jennifer Mooney Greene Scholarship, 2013 53,633
For Virginia Beach City Public Schools students with a preference for
students from Green Run High School or Green Run Collegiate who
are in the Achievement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program
..................................................
Everette H. and Edith P. Griffin Memorial
Scholarship, 2002
..................................................
For students in the allied health professions
43,732
..................................................
Anne Hurd Memorial, 1987
For female students active in Key Club or the daughters
of Kiwanis Club members
80,186
..................................................
Indian River Ruritan Scholarship, 2011
54,928
For students graduating from a public high school in Chesapeake
with a preference for students from Indian River High School
..................................................
Louis I. Jaffe Memorial Scholarship, 1994
409,640
For graduate students in humanities at Old Dominion University and
for graduates of Norfolk State University pursuing graduate degrees
..................................................
198,311
For students from western Tidewater or deaf and blind students from
South Hampton Roads with a preference for students from Isle of
Wight County
..................................................
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FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
..................................................
For a student graduating from First Colonial
High School in Virginia Beach
Where Our Grants Come From
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
..................................................
James 2:26, 2008
1,554,816
For low-income students from South Hampton Roads attending a
public college in Virginia with a preference for those living in public
or subsidized housing
..................................................
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
FUND NAME, YEAR FOUNDED
VALUE AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
..................................................
..................................................
..................................................
Thomas G. Johnson Jr. Scholarship, 1990
Benjamin D. Pender Scholarship, 1957
Hy Smith Endowment, 1952
65,159
For Norfolk Public Schools graduates attending the University of Virginia
264,086
For female students at Notre Dame of Maryland University
..................................................
..................................................
Judge Floyd E. and Annie B. Kellam
Scholarship, 2013
The Lefki and George Polizos Family
Scholarship, 2000
705,686
For graduates of Kellam High School in Virginia Beach pursuing
degrees in math, science or business
..................................................
Adrian Ryan Kirk Memorial Scholarship, 2001
19,001
For students with Attention Deficit Disorder or learning disabilities
..................................................
Joseph A. Leafe Scholarship, 1992
53,475
For Norfolk Public Schools graduates attending Hampden-Sydney
College
..................................................
Lewis K. Martin, II, M.D. and Cheryl Rose Martin
Scholarship, 2005
48,124
For students at Davidson College, University of Virginia School of
Medicine, Salem College or Salem Academy
49,684
For students of Greek heritage or students at Virginia Wesleyan College
..................................................
Harry B. Price, Jr. Memorial, 1985
102,548
For students displaying qualities of leadership, initiative and ability
..................................................
Roland W. Proescher, 1987
141,513
For students in engineering or science
..................................................
Walter Cecil Rawls Educational, 2013
311,377
For graduates of public schools in Gates County, NC; Southampton
County; Isle of Wight County; Sussex County; Suffolk or Franklin
..................................................
Elisabeth Kelly King Reilly Scholarship, 2006
..................................................
For graduates of Norfolk’s Maury High School attending the
University of Virginia
Ellen Hitt McLaughlin Scholarship, 1998
Edwin J. Rosenbaum Scholarship, 1985
14,790
For students who attended Holland Elementary School in Virginia Beach
For students of the Jewish faith
Metro Machine Scholarship, 2005
Ellis W. Rowe Memorial Scholarship, 1990
For students who met reading program milestones while attending
St. Helena or Campostella elementary schools
..................................................
John H. and Annie Campbell Miles Memorial, 1990 102,569
For students from Mathews County
..................................................
William F. Miles Memorial, 1990
22,779
For students preparing for leadership in a field of religious service
..................................................
Carrie Biggs Morrison Memorial, 1958
For students from Virginia Beach or Martin County, N.C.
1,162,787
..................................................
Reverend Doctor Joyce G. Moss Theologian
Scholarship, 2014
25,302
For students at Richmond Virginia Seminary or Regent University
School of Divinity planning to pursue Christian ministry
..................................................
Ocean Lakes Scholarship, 2010
121,130
339,484
..................................................
For students from Gloucester County
870,916
..................................................
Doctors Kirkland Ruffin and Willcox Ruffin
Scholarship, 1997
For Norfolk students at Eastern Virginia Medical School
21,722
..................................................
Helen and Buzzy Schulwolf Fund for
Smith Scholars, 2011
29,793
Hampton Roads Spartan Scholarship, 2011
1,173,464
For students at Norfolk State University with a preference for single
parents
..................................................
Enid W. and Bernard B. Spigel Architectural
Scholarship, 1983
188,509
For upper-level undergraduate or graduate students studying
architecture, architectural history or architectural preservation
..................................................
Minton W. Talbot Scholarship, 2013
47,129
..................................................
D.A. Taylor Memorial Scholarship, 2006
449,677
For South Hampton Roads students with strong leadership skills and
academic abilities who exhibit overall excellence
..................................................
Vincent J. Thomas Scholarship, 1984
86,252
For Norfolk Public Schools graduates attending Virginia Military
Institute
..................................................
Thomas P. Thompson Memorial, 1976
For Norfolk residents
192,591
John W. and Linda Vakos Scholarship, 2014
100,630
Wilfred G. Semple Scholarship Loan, 1991
For students from Virginia Beach with a preference for graduates of
Princess Anne High School and those majoring in English
..................................................
273,125
For upper-level undergraduate students studying engineering,
physics or math at Virginia colleges
..................................................
Felton Ray Sharp and Evelyn Berryman Sharp, 1999 409,921
For undergraduate or graduate students
..................................................
..................................................
..................................................
..................................................
For students from Virginia Beach.
Margarette H. Old Student and Nurse
Educational, 1960
For students at Sentara School of Health Professions or Salem College
17,121
For students who participated in youth sports programs at the Kings
Grant/Lynnhaven Recreation Association in Virginia Beach
For Virginia students attending medical school at Eastern Virginia Medical
School, the University of Virginia or Virginia Commonwealth University
Donald E. Sly, M.D. and Madeline H. Sly
Medical Scholarship, 2015
231,394
Jarrod Camper Smith Memorial
Scholarship, 2000
..................................................
For graduates of Ocean Lakes High School in Virginia Beach studying
science, technology, engineering or mathematics
..................................................
57,422
..................................................
For students from Granby High School
..................................................
..................................................
101,388
196,591
For students at Virginia Theological Seminary
25,086
For Virginia students pursuing medicine or healthcare at in-state
institutions
Florence L. Smith, 1952
2,306,858
For Virginia students attending medical school at Eastern Virginia Medical
School, the University of Virginia or Virginia Commonwealth University
..................................................
..................................................
Gertrude Ward Scholarship, 2014
244,414
..................................................
Weisberg and Clark Scholarship, 2010
For students from South Hampton Roads
76,839
..................................................
Captain Rexford Vinal Wheeler Jr., U.S.N., 1988 1,329,014
For students attending Old Dominion University with a preference for
students from Norfolk
..................................................
Paul and Athena Yeonas Memorial, 1997
617,666
For students of Greek heritage or students at Old Dominion University
..................................................
$28,221,412
Value of all scholarship
funds on 12-31-15
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Thank You For Your Generosity
Our
Donors
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The Hampton Roads Community Foundation appreciates the 601 individuals,
families, organizations and businesses who donated more than $12.8 million in 2015.
We thank the following donors who made charitable donations between January 1 and December 31, 2015.
The Academy of Music
An Achievable Dream Middle and
High School Inc.
Sally and Leonard Alne
Martha and Tom Ambler
Patricia Andrews
Sabine Andrews
Carolyn and Frank Angelo
Anonymous (9)
Valerie and David Arias
The Asuelo Family
Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Atherholt Jr.
Jeffrey T. Baker, M.D.
Lawton H. Baker
Margaret Baker
Dorothy Glaize Ballard
Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Sonja Barisic
Fletcher J. Barnes III and Mary S. Barnes
Margot Reilly Barnhardt
Aimee and Frank Batten
Jane P. Batten
Dale and Donna Baugh
Andrea B. Bear and Nancy Howard
Dr. Edward B. and Deborah G. Beirne
Bill Bell and Denise Thompson
Claudia and Tim Bellars
Leslie Belsha
Jody and John Benedict
Claire and David Benjack
John and Gina Bennis
Joanne and John Berkley
Joan and Bruce Berlin
Kathryn Bernert and Lee Morgan
Amy and Larry Bernert
Carter Bernert
Carter and Larry Bernert
The Biron Family
Sarah and Bruce Bishop
Rob Blandford and Nancy Everett
Dr. and Mrs. William M. Blaylock
Carol C. Boesch
Debbie and Gary Bonnewell
Jessica and Ed Booth
L. Paul Bosher, M.D.
Jean Bowman
Rev. Jean Bozeman
Lilly and Bruce Bradley
Elizabeth A. Brichter
L.D. Britt, M.D.
L.D. Britt, M.D. Scholarship Committee
The Brock Foundation
Joan and Macon Brock
Joan and Thomas Brockenbrough
Ross Brockwell
Patrick and Ann Brogan
Chris Brown
Richard and Judith Brown
Betty and Tom Broyles
Mackenzie and Aaron Brunson
James G. Burritt
Helen S. and Larry T. Burroughs
Laura Friedman Buzard
William H. Camp Jr.
Meg and Bill Campbell
Arden and Rudy Carlson
Thomas E. Carpenter III
Rosanne and Douglas Cary
Stephanie Catherines
CauseCast
Cavanaugh Nelson PLC
Becky and Hap Chalmers
Charles Barker Toyota/Scion
Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation
Chincoteague Island Library Inc.
Christadelphian Ecclesia of
Hampton Roads
Anne Christie
Florence and David Clark
Lynn Clark
Alice A. Clarke
Anne Claud Claywell
Charlotte Coates-Wilkes, M.D.
Martha and Lawrence Colen
Mary Conover
Anne Marie Cooper and D.O. Cole
Estate of Samuel F. Coppage Jr.
Jennifer and Nick Cordovana
Courtney and Mark Coster
Rachel and Ben Cottrell
Karen and Neal Crawford
Ann and Clarke Crenshaw
Caron Crouse
Jane and Mike Cullipher
Kim and Keith Curtis
D.A. Taylor Charitable Foundation
Darrell S. Daniels, M.D.
Betty Darden
Pat and Cordon Davis
Chelle and Glenn Davis
Jason and Leigh Davis
Steve and Patty Davis
Dale Dean
Dean Callahan Scholarship Fund
Nicole Delacruz
Courtney B. Dickerson Revocable Trust
Marguerite W. Dickerson
Deborah M. DiCroce
Victoria and Philip Dietz
Dollar Tree Inc.
Meredith Donegan
Downtown Norfolk Council
Claudia Dreyfus
Captain & Mrs. Frank Dunn
John R. Eagle, M.D.
Maurice N. Early
Eastern Shore of Virginia
Barrier Islands Center
Eastern Shore of Virginia
Community Foundation
Suz Eaton
Nan and Gary Edgerton
Bill Edwards
Robert and Verne Edwards
Petra and Thomas Edwards
Elizabeth River Project
Ellen and Doug Ellis
Janet and Johnny Ellis
Sarah Ellis and Joshua Solomon
William R. Emerson
Dianne Epplein
Elizabeth L. Etheridge
Russell D. Evett, M.D.
Carrie Farmer and Wills Miller
Lynne and Paul Farrell
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Barbara and Andrew Fine
Jan and Morris Fine
Karen and Matthew Fine
Angie and Jimmy Finley
Katherine and Samuel Finney
Chester L. “Tim” Fisher Jr., M.D.
Alice Jane and Joe Fiveash
Mary P. Fleming
Robin Foreman-Wheeler and Kyle Wheeler
Coral Lee Foster
T. Ricky Frantz
Jane and Rusty Friddell
Leslie P. Friedman
Helen Furka, Georgia Bailey,
and Suzanne George
Caroline and Carter Furr
Graham A. Gaskins
Valerio M. Genta, M.D.
Shawn N. Gersman, M.D.
Howard Gill
Susan and John Gill
Mr. and Mrs. Philip B. Glaize Jr. and Family
The Richard and Martha Glasser Family
Foundation
Martha and Richard Glasser
Laura and Joe Godbolt
Jillanne Gohr
Carol S. Golden
Claiborne W. Gooch III Charitable,
Educational & Medical Needs Trust
Claiborne W. Gooch Jr. Charitable Trust
William A. Gooch
Susy and Allan Goodman, Evalyn and
Kenny Cohn
Sharon and Bernard Goodwyn
Daniel Gordon
Howard and Sandra Gordon
Marynell and Stephan Gordon
Lynanne Gornto
Graham Family Foundation
Didi Granger
F. Bradley Gray, M.D
Melvin R. Green
William H. Grigg and Kathryn P. Grigg
Ross Grogg
Debra and Ray Gromelski
Phillip Gullion
David Hadder
Chris Hall
The Hall Family
Nancy and Robert Hall
Hiroyuki Hamada Ph.D. and Mizuki Hamada,
Ph.D. and Dai Nippon Butoku Kai & ECKA
Estherine J. Harding
Amie and Byron Harrell
Joanna Hackman Harris, M.D.
Mary Lee Harris
Dr. Clark Harrison
Sally and Ron Hartman
Harvey Lindsay Commercial Real Estate
Mary and Tom Hayes
Jackie and Mike Haywood
Barbara and Joe Heckel
Dr. John Herre and Dr. Sally Clarkson
Fred Deen Herring
Susan and Paul Hirschbiel
Historic Smithfield -Smithfield
Courthouse of 1750
Virginia and John Hitch
Ernest M. Hodge
Dr. and Mrs. Roger A. Hofford
Hope House Foundation
Horizons Hampton Roads
Patti and Tom Host
Hubard Family Endowment Fund of The
Community Foundation Serving
Richmond and Central Virginia
Mrs. Paul S. Huber Jr.
Susan and Bob Hume
Barry and Bev Hunter
Amy and David Hutcheson
Jean and Jerry Jaffe
Nita and Akhil Jain
Sucheta and Rajnish K. Jain
Amy and Leslie Jerkins
William A. Jiranek, M.D.
Meghan Kanter
Susan Kaplan
Kay and David Kaufman
Patricia and William Kearon
Alexandra Kedrock
Floyd E. Kellam Jr. Charitable Lead
Annuity Trust
Anne G. Kellam
Beth and Hank Kellam
Kirkland Molloy Kelley
Kay Kemper and Denny Parker
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L.D. Britt, M.D.
L.D. Britt, M.D. likes being involved with the
Hampton Roads Community Foundation
because it “is making
the playing field level.
There is nothing better
in life than being able to thrive and
do well when the playing field is level.”
Connection
Photo by Glen McClure
Just about every University of Virginia student was headed
to the stadium for a Saturday football game on a beautiful fall
afternoon in 1968. But not Lunzy D. “L.D.” Britt. He was “sitting
in a chair in a dorm lounge with his books and a pile of sticks
and balls making molecular structures for organic chemistry,”
says friend and former classmate Lemuel Lewis.
The memory of walking by and seeing a “very, very focused”
Britt has stuck with Lewis for nearly 50 years. From day one at
UVA Britt knew he was “going to Harvard Medical School to
become a world-class surgeon,” Lewis recalls.
This dream has come true for Dr. L.D. Britt, chair of the
Eastern Virginia Medical School surgery department and one of
the country’s most renowned surgeons. In 2015 Britt joined the
Hampton Roads Community Foundation board of directors.
Shortly afterwards he created a new endowed fund to benefit his
20-year-old medical scholarship foundation that helps minority
students attend medical school.
“Britt is the most successful person in his field among
academic surgeons. He is an expert in the care of injured and
the critically ill,” says Dr. R. Scott Jones, chief of surgery at the
University of Virginia Health System, who tried to recruit Britt
for his faculty. “He also is very loyal to his community.”
Britt was born in Suffolk as one of three sons of the late
Claretta Britt, a teacher, and Vandious Britt, a Norfolk Naval
Shipyard rigger. Britt’s first community service was during
high school as a volunteer lifeguard at Suffolk’s first pool open
to African American citizens. The career path of Booker T.
Washington High School’s valedictorian was inspired by his
father-son medical doctors Dr. William Hoffler Sr. and Dr. O.W.
Hoffler. Being a physician “is part of my DNA,” Britt says. “I
always knew I was coming back here, too.”
After graduating from UVA in 1972 Britt earned doctor of
medicine and master of public health degrees from Harvard
Up at 3:19 a.m. for a Reason
L.D. Britt, M.D. is a
world-renowned surgeon
dedicated to his home region
University. Residencies took him to St. Louis, Lake Placid,
Chicago and Baltimore before he joined the EVMS faculty
in 1986. Today his list of organizations he has led and his
accolades fill a 64-page curriculum vitae.
Britt serves on the Joint Commission, which certifies all
health-care organizations in the United States and serves on the
National Board of Medical Examiners. He presided over the
American College of Surgeons, American Surgical Association
and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and
been a director of the American Board of Surgery.
He has published more than 300 articles and written
three books, including the definitive textbook on
acute care surgery. Britt also helped design the
protocol for trauma surgeons being on call wherever
the president of the United States travels.
Closer to home he is on the UVA Board
of Visitors and is trustee emeritus at EVMS.
He serves on the boards of the Paul D. Camp
Community College Foundation, Norfolk Academy, the
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Hampton Roads
Regional Advisory Board, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
and WHRO. He previously served on boards for Virginia
Opera, Virginia Symphony, the Chrysler Museum of Art and
The Salvation Army Hampton Roads Command and was
on the Norfolk State University Board of Visitors. Britt, who
enjoys mentoring future physicians, started the L.D. Britt,
M.D. Scholarship Fund 20 years ago to help outstanding
minority students attend medical school. His new fund at the
community foundation will support the scholarship fund.
The enthusiastic Suffolk resident rises at 3:19 a.m. each
day to hit the gym before starting work at 6:30 a.m. He
compartmentalizes his time to see patients, do surgery,
conduct research, travel for work, mentor students, write,
read history books, participate in volunteer boards and
spend time with his wife Sharlene, a family medicine
physician, and daughter Avery.
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Thank You For Your Generosity
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Ashby, Mariah and Marguerite Kennedy
Mariah Kennedy
Susan and Morton Kenyon
Sheila Kilpatrick
Nancy K. and Robert M. King
Anthony Kingry
King’s Grant/Lynnhaven Recreation
Association
Kristina and Carr Kratovil
Ann and Rob Krebs
Duane, Deb, Valerie, Scott, Elea, Lisa
and Eric Kunze
Amy L. Kurtz
Chip Lacy and the Ann Warrick Team
Harry Laibstain
Kenneth H. Lambert Jr.
David and Lue Landsberger
Leslie P. Langley
Sarah Larkin
Dr. Page Laws
Steve and Vivian Lawson
Peggy and Aubrey Layne
Scott Leachman
Edward and Ruth Legum
Pat and Hal Leonard
Calvert and Harry Lester
Dr. and Mrs. Steven V. Lewinski
J. Huntington Lewis
Sandra and Lem Lewis
Angelica and Henry Light
Lois P. Liles
Carolyn C. Lilla
Linda and Ed Lilly
Emily C. Lilly
Jackie and Dick Limerick
Harvey L. Lindsay Jr.
Stacy and Chris Long
Julia and David Loomis
Senator L. Louise Lucas
Gina Lynch
Kindall and Lamont Maddox
Drew Madison
Jim and Peggy Majority
Mangum Family Charitable Lead Trust
Carl W. Mangum Jr. and Marguerite S.
Mangum Inter Vivos Trust
Estate of Carl W. Mangum Jr.
Bill and Nancy Mann
Vivian and Burke Margulies
Lewis K. Martin II, M.D. and Cheryl
Rose Martin
Frank and Mary Martorano
Mary Ludlow Home
Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Mason
Suzanne and Vince Mastracco
Sherri Nelson and Aashish Matani
Evonne Matthews
Pam and Bob Matthias
Maury Guidance Office
Betty Drive and Jim McCaa
Tim and Nancy McCarthy
Carol and Joe McCartney
Andria and Mike McClellan
Jim and Joanne McClellan
Charles H. McCoy
Harry E. and Martha Lee McCoy
K. Robert McIntire, M.D.
Patt and Colin McKinnon
Bollie McLemore
McPhillips Roberts & Deans PLC
Debbie Messina
Estate of Ernestine K. Middleton
Barbra and John Midgett
Teri and Pete Mikulka
Gigi and Shep Miller
Wills Miller
The Millwards
Judy and Bill Miner
Charlotte and Gil Minor
Monarch Children’s Charities Inc.
Susanne and Kevin Mooney
Bonnie and Wick Moorman
John L. Moran, M.D.
Mt. Carmel Christian Church
Pamela and Patrick Mumey
Elizabeth and John Munford
Museum of Chincoteague Island
C. Arthur Nalls III, M.D.
Napolitano Family Foundation, Inc.
Jackie and Fred Napolitano
Christine and Christopher Neikirk
The Neikirk Family
Lynn and Dan Neumann
Joe Newell
Ron and John Newman/Osterhout
Norfolk Commission on the Arts and
Humanities
Norfolk Rotary Charities
George and Susan Nottingham
Ann Nusbaum
Bertram Nusbaum*, Charlie Nusbaum
and Beth Curtiss Families
Matthew R. Nusbaum
Bob Nusbaum and Linda Laibstain
Dr. and Mrs. James P. O’Brien
Patricia Harp O’Brien
Vivian M. Oden
The Honorable and Mrs. Norman Olitsky
Jason Oliver
Maureen and Richard Olivieri
Patty and Vince Olivieri
Delbert E. O’Meara
David W. Oslin, M.D.
Lori Overholt
Laurie and John Paganelli
Rose Marie and John Paganelli
Regina and Susan Paige
Whitney S. Peace
Dot Peebles
Nancy C. Peele
Annie Chalmers Pelphrey and
Kevin Pelphrey
Susan T. Pender and Dan Beck
Yolanda and Juan Perez
Paula Jo Perilli
Doug and Pat Perry
Amy and Scott Pesesky
Elaine M. Polizos
Portsmouth Museums Foundation
PRA Group Inc.
Ellis Pretlow and Jaeson Dandalides
The Price Family: Kevin, Maria, Nick
and Carmen
Matt Prince
Suzanne and Joe Prueher
Friends at OHM Advisors/EWRG
Estate of William Brewster Purdy
Jane M. Purrington
Suzanne Puryear and Mike Borysewicz
Allison and John Rachels
Rashkind Family Foundation
Lee and Michael Rashkind
Daryl Raskin
Jane and John Rathbone
Milton Rawles
Patricia Peace Rawls
Robin and Richard Ray
Lynne Hartman Redinbaugh
Mamie, Mike, Brian, Casey and David Reed
Harriet and Allan Reynolds
Amy and Jim Rhodes
Evon Rice
Randy and Linda Rice
Katherine and Jeff Richardson
Kay and Phil Richardson
Allen and Ann Richter
Jennell and Dwight Riddick
Shirley and Dick Roberts
Julia Robinett
Tom and Lucy Rockwood
Kurt and Rose Rosenbach
Kristi and Eric Rosenfeldt
Jeanne Polizos Ross
Betsy Rossheim
Virginia Rountree
Shikma and Danny Rubin
Judy and Bob Rubin
Anne Rossheim Rubinovitz and family
Martha B. Ruggles
Lee Ann Russo and Kevin C. Miller
Jane D. Tucker and Philip L. Russo Jr.
Pru and Louis Ryan
Tony and Kate Sakowski
Karen and Mike Sampson
Rachel and Geo Sanborn
Lynne and Steven Saunders
Rodie and Toy Savage
Sonja Schoeppel
Eric Schorr
Judi and Stephen Schultz
Alfred M. Schulwolf, M.D.
Schwab Charitable Fund
Glenn Allen Scott *
Allen, Amanda, Samantha
and Emmett Scott
Mary Carter Scott
Mr. and Mrs. Norvell O. Scott Jr.
Sandra and Mark Seaman
Wood and Ellen Selig
Bev and Will Sessoms
Audrey and John Settle
Karen Shaffer
Herb and Mary Sharpe
Jennifer L. Sharp-Warthan, M.D.
Betty and George Shaw
Christopher N. Sheap, M.D.
Mary Ellen, Michael, Elena Shevock
and Chad Bruce
Anne and George Shipp
Short Family Foundation
Jane and Win Short
Anne and Conrad Shumadine
Elizabeth and James Shumadine
Signature Printing & Graphics
Mary B. “Nancy” and Howard Simpson Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Jordan E. Slone
Norman Slone
Madeline H. Sly
Matthew Smalley
Lawrence N. Smith
Betty Lou Smithson
Jean and Ed Snyder
Bridget C. and Norman A. South Sr.
Joan and James Spore
Debbi and Jim Steiger
Brenda and Alan Stein
Brooks and Darcel Stephan
Barbara Stephens
Ann and Charles Stevens
Kay and Ron Stine
Linda Strachan
Stephen B. Stroud M.D.
Irene and Randy Sutton
Caroline B. Talbot
Kenneth Taylor
Marshall Carney Taylor, MD
Ann and Dawson Taylor
Bob and Marion Taylor
Mary Lou and Brad Tazewell
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Thomas
Tidewater Pest Control Association
Virginia T. Tomko
Winship and Guy Tower
Jane Tower
Estate of Donald J. Trufant
Hampton Tucker and Christopher Anderson
Elizabeth A. Twohy
United Way of South Hampton Roads
Estate of Mrs. Ethel Fielder Valone
Nivea T. Velazquez and Miguel A. Rosa
Deborah and Michael Via
Ross D. Vierra
Virginia Arts Festival
Virginia Beach Events Unlimited
Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust
Virginia Eye Foundation
Virginia Stage Associates
The Wagner Family
Jody and Alan Wagner
Anne D. Waldrop and Anne Talbott Jordan
Dr. Frederic R. Walker
* D e ce a s e d
Susie and Mac Walston
Warner Family Fund
John W. Warner IV Foundation
The Honorable and Mrs. John W. Warner
Virginia S. Warner Foundation
Emily and James Washington
Catherine and John Wass
Gail Zaun Watson
Sarah and Joey Weinberg
Alan and Patsy White
James L. White, M.D.
Karen Bloxom White, M.D.
Ashlin and Wayne Wilbanks
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Williams
Beth and Rolf Williams
Katherine and Ros Willis
Audrey and Nicholas Wilson
Estate of Barbara U. Wilson
Lynne and Steve Winter
Louise F. Wombolt
Dorothy Urban Wright, M.D.
Megan and Rob Wright
David I. Wynne
Susan and Dubby Wynne
Terry P. Yarbrough, M.D.
Paul and Athena Yeonas CRUT
Young Audiences of Virginia
Eileen D. Young
Honorary Gifts
We appreciate the gifts made in honor
of the following special people. Names
of donors are listed below the names of
the honorees. These charitable gifts were
given to the Hampton Roads Community
Foundation between January 1, 2015
and December 31, 2015.
Dorothy G. Ballard Family
Tom and Lucy Rockwood
The Ballard and Mahoney Families
Mr. and Mrs. Philip B. Glaize Jr. and Family
Bashara and Hubbard Law Firm
Norfolk Rotary Charities
Sully Callahan
Andrea B. Bear and Nancy Howard
Douglas Cary
Mitchell Miller M.D.
The Children of Hampton Roads
Kevin Mooney
Anne Christie and Tommy Christie
Capt. John E. Paganelli
Lynn B. Clements
Jeanne P. Ross
Matt Elliott
Mr. and Mrs. Toy D. Savage Jr.
William A. Gooch
Glenn Allen Scott*
Rosanne Cary
Pamela and Patrick Mumey
Virginia and John Hitch
Jane M. Purrington
Sally and Ron Hartman
Chip Lacy and the Ann Warrick Team
Current and Former Hampton
Roads Community Foundation
Board and Staff Members
Dr. and Mrs. Roger A. Hofford
Karen and Mike Sampson
Jillanne Gohr
Louise F. Wombolt
Leslie P. Langley
Allen, Amanda, Samantha and Emmett Scott
Mary Carter Scott
Debra Walker
Mackenzie and Aaron Brunson
Nan and Gary Edgerton
Mrs. Paul S. Huber Jr.
Leslie P. Langley
Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Lester
Fred Deen Herring
Dr. Ed Lilly
Tony and Kate Sakowski
Maury High School Class of 1952
Patricia Andrews
Leslie Belsha
Maurice N. Early
Bill Edwards
Coral Lee Foster
Kenneth H. Lambert Jr.
Patricia Harp O’Brien
Dot Peebles
Nancy C. Peele
Milton Rawles
Evon Rice
Betty Lou Smithson
Barbara Stephens
Gail Zaun Watson
Our Military Families
Pamela and Patrick Mumey
Memorial Gifts
We appreciate the gifts made in memory
of the following special people. Names of
donors are listed below the names of the
honorees. Gifts were given between
January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2015.
Anne B. Addington
Sally and Leonard Alne
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Atherholt Jr.
Jane P. Batten
Joanne and John Berkley
Jean Bowman
Joan and Thomas Brockenbrough
William H. Camp Jr.
Lynn Clark
Evalyn and Kenny Cohn
Rachel and Ben Cottrell
Betty Darden
Petra and Thomas Edwards
Katherine and Samuel Finney
Alice Jane and Joe Fiveash
Mary P. Fleming
Caroline and Carter Furr
Howard Gill
Susy and Allan Goodman
Pat and Hal Leonard
Lois P. Liles
Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Mason
Suzanne and Vince Mastracco
Betty Drive and Jim McCaa
Charles H. McCoy
Elizabeth and John Munford
Jackie and Fred Napolitano
Christine and Christopher Neikirk
Joe Newell
Susan T. Pender and Dan Beck
Rodie and Toy Savage
Lawrence N. Smith
Linda Strachan
Ann and Dawson Taylor
Bob and Marion Taylor
Mary Lou and Brad Tazewell
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Thomas
Mrs. and Mrs. John D. Williams
Audrey and Nicholas Wilson
Tom Arakas
Elaine M. Polizos
Richard C. Bayer
Cavanaugh Nelson PLC
John “Max” Bennis
John and Gina Bennis
Arden and Rudy Carlson
Carol S. Golden
Paula Jo Perilli
Herb and Mary Sharpe
Richard Bergstresser
Elaine M. Polizos
William C. Bosher Jr., D.Ed.
L. Paul Bosher, M.D.
Dan Brockwell
Ross Brockwell
John Brokaw
Dr. Clark Harrison
The Rev. Anne C. Brower, M.D.
Glenn Allen Scott*
Betty Bresnen
Elaine M. Polizos
Col. R. Maury Browne, U.S.
Marine Corps, Ret.
Ann and Charles Stevens
Stephen Ashby Carpenter
Thomas E. Carpenter III
Lambuth M. Clarke
Alice A. Clarke
Willie Chernitzer
Daniel Gordon
Lynne and Steven Saunders
Sadie and Robbie Coates
Charlotte Coates-Wilkes, M.D.
Gerry Colenda
Graham A. Gaskins
William H. Grigg and Kathryn P. Grigg
Patricia and William Kearon
McPhillips Roberts & Deans, PLC
Regina and Susan Paige
Matt Prince
Betty and George Shaw
Joshua P. Darden Jr.
Charles Barker Toyota/Scion
Dale Dean
Howard and Sandra Gordon
Ernest M. Hodge
Charlotte and Gil Minor
Pretlow and Audrey Darden
Dale Dean
Carlton Ervin Dean Jr. and
Joseph “Joey” Patrick Callahan
Elizabeth A. Brichter
Patrick and Ann Brogan
Chris Brown
Florence and David Clark
Meredith Donegan
Suz Eaton
Jane and Rusty Friddell
Laura and Joe Godbolt
Chris Hall
The Hall Family
Sally and Ron Hartman
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Thank You For Your Generosity
Our
Donors
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Meghan Kanter
Ashby, Mariah and Marguerite Kennedy
Mariah Kennedy
Nancy K. and Robert M. King
Scott Leachman
Emily C. Lilly
Drew Madison
Evonne Matthews
Carol and Joe McCartney
Bollie McLemore
Debbie Messina
Wills Miller
The Millwards
George and Susan Nottingham
Matthew R. Nusbaum
Amy and Jim Rhodes
Julia Robinett
Wood and Ellen Selig
Matthew Smalley
Tidewater Pest Control Association
Philip and Miriam Dean
Dale Dean
Courtney Beth Dickerson
Marguerite W. Dickerson
Gail K. Evett
Russell D. Evett, M.D.
Dr. Frank Fang
Pat and Cordon Davis
Claiborne W. Fitchett
Anonymous
Jennifer Mooney Greene
Carol C. Boesch
Susanne and Kevin Mooney
Karen and Mike Sampson
Connie Jean Hanna
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The Biron Family
Sonja Barisic
Laura Friedman Buzard
Stephanie Catherines
Anne Christie
Downtown Norfolk Council
Nan and Gary Edgerton
Dianne Epplein
Karen and Matthew Fine
Leslie P. Friedman
Marynell and Stephan Gordon
Didi Granger
Dr. John Herre and Dr. Sally Clarkson
Alexandra Kedrock
Dr. Page Laws
Jackie and Dick Limerick
Julia and David Loomis
Vivian and Burke Margulies
Judy and Bill Miner
Ron and John Newman/Osterhout
Dr. and Mrs. James P. O’Brien
Doug and Pat Perry
The Price Family: Kevin, Maria, Nick and
Carmen
Daryl Raskin
Lynne Hartman Redinbaugh
Judy and Bob Rubin
Sonja Schoeppel
Eric Schorr
Karen Shaffer
Brooks and Darcel Stephan
Virginia Stage Associates
Emily and James Washington
Maury Guidance Office
Virginia T. Tomko
Eileen D. Young
Dr. Edgar H. Rossheim
Tommy Horvatic
William Sale
Polly Chapman Herring
Marshall Martin
Rita Paganelli Horvatic
Nancy Nusbaum
Fred Deen Herring
The Asuelo Family
Carolyn and Frank Angelo
Margaret Baker
Helen S. and Larry T. Burroughs
Anne Claud Claywell
D.O. Cole
Anne Marie Cooper
Helen Furka, Georgia Bailey, and
Suzanne George
Jillanne Gohr
Virginia and John Hitch and The Hitch Family
Amy and David Hutcheson
Amy and Leslie Jerkins
Susan Kaplan
Susan and Morton Kenyon
Carolyn C. Lilla
Pam and Bob Matthias
Teri and Pete Mikulka
Laurie and John Paganelli
Rose Marie and John Paganelli
Sandra and Mark Seaman
Mary Ellen, Michael, Elena Shevock
and Chad Bruce
Bridget C. and Norman A. South Sr.
Anthony Kingry
Sandra and Mark Seaman
Bridget C. and Norman A. South Sr.
Rita, Tom and Tommy Horvatic
Jim and Peggy Majority
Monique Jones
Daniel Gordon
Lynne and Steven Saunders
Steven Leibowitz
Brenda and Alan Stein
Bette Lombart
Lynne and Steven Saunders
Dr. Charles Mansbach
Brenda and Alan Stein
Martha B. Ruggles
Brenda and Alan Stein
Chuck Plimpton
Nan and Gary Edgerton
Dale L. Stein
Brenda and Alan Stein
John Stein
Brenda and Alan Stein
Elisabeth Kelly King Reilly
Anonymous
Harvey Lindsay Commercial
Real Estate
Nancy K. and Robert M. King
Monarch Children’s Charities Inc.
Sarah and Joey Weinberg
Virginia Rosen
Jackie and Mike Haywood
Trudy Rosenblatt
Brenda and Alan Stein
Anne Rossheim Rubinovitz and family
Betsy Rossheim
Daniel Gordon
Helen Schulwolf
Betsy Rossheim
Thor Sjostrand
Elaine M. Polizos
Vincent Johns Thomas
Anonymous
Rev. Jean Bozeman
Claudia Dreyfus
Nan and Gary Edgerton
Ellen and Doug Ellis
William R. Emerson
Elizabeth L. Etheridge
Leslie P. Friedman
Melvin R. Green
Hiroyuki Hamada, Ph.D. and Mizuki Hamada,
Ph.D. and Dai Nippon Butoku Kai and ECKA
Mary Lee Harris
Virginia and John Hitch
Mrs. Paul S. Huber Jr.
Duane, Deb, Valerie, Scott, Elea, Lisa
and Eric Kunze
Bertram Nusbaum*, Charlie Nusbaum
and Beth Curtiss Families
Friends at OHM Advisors/EWRG
Mamie, Mike, Brian, Casey and David Reed
Kurt and Rose Rosenbach
Glenn Allen Scott*
Mary B. “Nancy” and Howard Simpson Jr.
Bob and Marion Taylor
Deborah and Michael Via
Anne D. Waldrop and Anne Talbott Jordan
Alan and Patsy White
Ashlin and Wayne Wilbanks
David I. Wynne
Helen W. Tucker
Hampton Tucker and Christopher Anderson
William F. “Tree” Rountree Jr.
Lawton H. Baker
Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation
Monarch Children’s Charities Inc.
Virginia Rountree
Smith Scholars
Honor Their Benefactor
We thank the following physicians for their
generosity. Each person listed has made a
donation in 2015, arranged for a future gift or
created a permanent fund at the community
foundation. Each donor named attended
medical school with help from a Florence
L. Smith Scholarship administered by the
Hampton Roads Community Foundation.
The Smith Scholarship started in 1952 and
over the decades has helped more than 750
physicians, including the ones named here:
Jeffrey T. Baker, M.D.
Edward B. Beirne Jr., M.D.
William M. Blaylock, M.D.
L. Paul Bosher, M.D.
Richard Brown, M.D.
Charlotte Coates-Wilkes, M.D.
Darrell S. Daniels, M.D.
John R. Eagle, M.D.
Russell D. Evett, M.D.
Chester L. Fisher Jr., M.D.
Shawn N. Gersman, M.D.
Burton D. Goodwin, M.D.
F. Bradley Gray, M.D.
James S. Hanner, M.D.
Joanna Hackman Harris, M.D.
Clark A. Harrison, M.D.
Roger A. Hofford, M.D.
William A. Jiranek M.D.
Edward L. Lilly, M.D.
Lewis K. Martin II, M.D.
Francis J. Martorano, M.D.
K. Robert McIntire, M.D.
John L. Moran, M.D.
C. Arthur Nalls III, M.D.
David W. Oslin, M.D.
Anthony D. Sakowski Jr., M.D.
George E. Sanborn, M.D.
Alfred M. Schulwolf, M.D.
Jennifer L. Sharp-Warthan, M.D.
Christopher N. Sheap, M.D.
Stephen B. Stroud, M.D.
James L. White, M.D.
Karen B. White, M.D.
Dorothy U. Wright, M.D.
Terry P. Yarbrough, M.D.
* D e ce a s e d
Affiliate Foundation: Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation
The Eastern Shore of Virginia Community
Foundation is creating a culture of philanthropy in
Additional grants paid
to Eastern Shore nonprofits
2015
Grants Paid
................................................
Accomack and Northampton counties. The affiliate
community foundation started in 2004 with a challenge
from the Hampton Roads Community Foundation –
raise at least $4 million and receive $2 million in matching
funds to start an affiliate community foundation.
Matching funds came from the Argyle Fund started at
the Hampton Roads Community Foundation by the late
Charles F. Burroughs Jr., a Norfolk donor and former
board chair. He loved the Eastern Shore where he and
his family spent many weekends and vacations.
Today the Eastern Shore of Virginia Community
Foundation has more than 30 permanent charitable funds
providing an ongoing source of grants to benefit
Eastern Shore residents. Funds are managed by
the Hampton Roads Community Foundation.
Cape Charles Museum
The following organizations
received grants in 2015 from funds
whose donors either named these
nonprofits in their designated funds
or recommended grants to them
from their donor-advised funds:
$11,625
To purchase heating and cooling systems
................................................
Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society 100,000
To help restore Historic Ker Place in Onancock and relocate
a decoy carving shed to the Museum of Chincoteague Island
................................................
Historic Cokesbury Church Auxiliary of Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital
38,634
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeast Virginia
To restore stained-glass windows
................................................
SPCA of the Eastern Shore Broadwater Academy
24,652
To improve the shelter in Onley
Citizens for a Better Eastern Shore
................................................
YMCA of the Chesapeake Eastern Shore Community College Foundation
25,000
For improvements to the Chincoteague facility
Eastern Shore of Virginia Barrier Islands Center
................................................
$332,061
Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation
Total: $ 199,911
Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society
Grand total of all Eastern
Shore grants paid In 2015
Eastern Shore Rural Health System Inc.
Eastern Shore SPCA
Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia
Franktown United Methodist Church
Eastern Shore of Virginia Community
Foundation Board of Directors
Friends of the Northampton Free Library
Photo by David Parker
Maureen A. Lawrence, chair
Dr. Linda Thomas-Glover, vice chair
Kelly Conklin, treasurer
Robert S. Bloxom
James A. Bott Jr.
Caramine Kellam
Susan D. Nottingham
Ellen S. Papetti
Norman J. Thibodeaux
David M. Parker, executive director
Light House Ministries
The Nature Conservancy, Virginia Coast Reserve
The Salvation Army - Hampton Roads Area Command
Shore Health Services Inc.
United Way of Virginia’s Eastern Shore
University System of Maryland Foundation
Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust
YMCA of South Hampton Roads
Volunteer Mary Dipietro (left)
explains decoy carving to Museum
of Chincoteague Island visitors
Total: $ 132,150
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Our
People
Board
of Directors
..............................
R. Bruce Bradley, Chair
Landmark Communications Inc., Retired President
Macon F. Brock, Vice Chair
Dollar Tree Stores, Chairman
Jody M. Wagner, Treasurer
Jody’s Inc., President
Deborah M. DiCroce, Secretary
Hampton Roads Community Foundation,
President & CEO
Hampton Roads Community Foundation
G. Robert Aston Jr.
TowneBank, CEO & Board Chair
Jane P. Batten
Community Volunteer
The Hampton Roads Community Foundation
appreciates the time and expertise provided
by the accountants, attorneys and financial
advisors who serve on our Professional
Advisors Committee.
David M. Bastiaans
Wolcott Rivers Gates
Neil L. Rose
Willcox Savage P.C.
Jane R. Short
U.S. Trust
Tazewell G. Taylor
Sullivan Andrews & Taylor
Guilford D. Ware
Crenshaw, Ware and Martin P.L.C.
Larry A. Bernert III
Wilbanks, Smith & Thomas Asset Management
Ginny E. Brown
Virginia E. Brown P.C.
Cyrus A. Dolph IV
Staff
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OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
Lynn Watson Neumann
Deborah M. DiCroce
Director of Gift Planning
[email protected]
Eastern Virginia Medical School,
Chair of the Department of Surgery
Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP
President & CEO
[email protected]
Franklin T. Dunn
Susan R. Colpitts
Nancy J. Hall
Director of Donor Services
[email protected]
Wall Einhorn & Chernitzer P.C.
Gilbert T. Bland
The Giljoy Group Inc., Chair
L.D. Britt, M.D.
Signature Family Wealth Advisors,
Chief of Client Experience
Thomas R. Frantz
Williams Mullen, Partner
Sharon S. Goodwyn
Hunton & Williams, Member
Paul O. Hirschbiel Jr.
Eden Capital LLC, President
John R. Lawson II
W.M. Jordan, President & CEO
Miles Leon
S.L. Nusbaum Realty Co., President & Board Chair
Clarke, Dolph, Rapaport, Hull & Brunick P.L.C.
Rise Flenner
Peter M. Huber
Vice President for Special Projects
[email protected]
Willcox Savage P.C.
FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION
Kirkland M. Kelley
Tim McCarthy
Kaufman & Canoles P.C.
Richard F. Kiefner Jr.
Northwestern Mutual Insurance
Lamont D. Maddox
Guidance Law Firm P.C.
Mavis McKenley
AMG National Trust Bank
Chief Financial Officer
[email protected]
Robin C. Foreman-Wheeler
Vice President for Administration
[email protected]
John F. Malbon
Edward “Ted” H. Miller
Cooper, Spong & Davis P.C.
Vice President for Regional Outreach
[email protected]
Vincent J. Mastracco Jr.
John Padgett
Leigh Evans Davis
The Planning Council, Retired President
James A. Squires
Norfolk Southern, President & CEO
John O. “Dubby” Wynne
Landmark Communications Inc.,
Retired President & CEO
Amy G. Pesesky
GRANTS & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Linda M. Rice
Vice President for Grantmaking & Community Engagement
[email protected]
Amy L. Kurtz
STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
Vice President for Development
[email protected]
Midgett & Preti, P.C.
McGuireWoods
Manager of Knowledge Systems
[email protected]
Kay A. Stine
Slover Library Foundation, President
Kaufman & Canoles, Partner
Mackenzie Morris Brunson
Grants Specialist
[email protected]
John T. Midgett
Papco Inc., President & CEO
Vivian M. Oden
DEVELOPMENT & DONOR ENGAGEMENT
Harry T. Lester
Suzanne Puryear
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Professional Advisors
Committee
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Debra R. “Debbi” Steiger
Vice President for Donor Engagement
[email protected]
Donna S. Morris
Vice President for Strategic Initiatives
[email protected]
COMMUNICATIONS
Sally Kirby Hartman
Vice President for Communications
[email protected]
Amy G. Pesesky P.L.C.
Ellis H. Pretlow
Kaufman & Canoles P.C.
Cartwright Rixey Reilly
Williams Mullen
For additional biographical information please visit hamptonroadscf.org
Financial Summary:
Assets:
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Investments
$287,633,240
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Operating cash and fixed assets
907,391
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Future interests
19,836,083
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Total assets
$308,376,714
Liabilities
and net assets:
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Funds held for others
Grants and other payables
Net assets
11,111,257
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3,921,071
..................................................................................
293,344,386
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Total liabilities and net assets
$308,376,714
Revenues:
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Contributions
$11,752,421
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Changes to future interests
Investment Income
Grant refunds and other
424,811
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5,950,360
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97,189
Year Ended December 31, 2015
The Hampton Roads Community Foundation is
a permanent endowment focused on improving
life in southeastern Virginia today and forever.
Since our founding in 1950 we have focused on being an
excellent steward of the charitable assets entrusted to us by residents
from all walks of life.
With oversight from our investment committee, we partner
with Spider Management Company LLC of Richmond. Our goal
is to invest financial resources so we can tackle today’s community
issues while our endowment grows so we can address future issues.
Since 2011 we have been among 24 nonprofit endowments
and foundations partnering with Spider Management through
its Richmond Fund. Our net return for the 2015 calendar year
was 1.55% with an annualized return of 6.77% since July 1, 2011.
Spider Management’s portfolio is invested through 80 managers
to protect assets, generate positive returns and mitigate risk.
Below is a snapshot of asset allocations as of December 31, 2015.
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Total revenues
$18,224,781
Grants
and expenses:
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Grants and other program services
$20,369,590
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Supporting services
1,539,822
Total grants and expenses
21,909,412
Cash
2%
Domestic equity
19 %
Multi-strategy
10 %
Real assets
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10 %
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Change in net assets
($3,684,631)
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Net assets beginning of year
$297,029,017
Net assets end of year
$293,344,386
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These summarized statements do not include all disclosures or the format required by
generally accepted accounting principles. Complete audited financial statements, which
include footnotes, are available upon request and are posted to hamptonroadscf.org.
Global equity
12 %
Private equity
17 %
International equity
17 %
Credit
13 %
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2015
How to
What Will Your Legacy Be?
Give
Change for Tomorrow
Hampton Roads Community Foundation donors are caring, forward-thinking, generous people with amazing
ideas for changing the world – or at least a part of it. Some donors gravitate toward improving human services
or the environment while others focus on education, the arts or the overall well-being of our region.
Through the power of endowment, donors’ gifts grow
over time while helping today and tomorrow by funding
nonprofit grants, providing college scholarships and
underpinning initiatives that tackle major issues.
To partner with us in philanthropy you can give a
tax-deductible gift now using cash, appreciated stock or a
charitable gift annuity. Or, opt for future gifts through your
will, IRA or other estate plan. You may choose to give now
and after you are gone or be like many donors and give
both ways.
We welcome and appreciate charitable donations of all
sizes. But if your gift is $25,000 or more, you can start a
permanent charitable fund, select the type of fund and
purpose that represent you best, and give it a special name.
You also can choose to remain anonymous. Your options
for permanent funds, include:
• Unrestricted funds that provide funding to tackle an array
of critical community needs, including those in the future
that no one can imagine today.
• Field-of-interest funds to provide grants to nonprofits
working in key areas of concern such as arts, human
services or the environment.
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• Donor-advised funds that enable living donors to
recommend where grants go – a great alternative to starting
or continuing a private foundation. See the listing (at right)
to explore the four types of funds available for you.
• Scholarship funds to help college students achieve their
dreams.
• Designated funds to forever provide annual grants to
specific nonprofits you name.
We also offer organizational funds to provide annual
grants to help nonprofits grow their endowments to help
them better accomplish their missions.
While many donors know exactly the type of
philanthropy that suits them, others enjoy exploring options
for connecting with causes and organizations. Our staff
is happy to work with you and your attorney, accountant
or other professional advisor to help you craft a charitable
legacy that suits you and your interests.
If we can help, contact Kay Stine, vice president for development, at (757) 622-7951 or [email protected].
Learn more at hamptonroadscf.org.
S t a r t s To d ay
Which Donor-advised Fund Fits You Best?
The Hampton Roads Community Foundation offers options for starting
a donor-advised fund – one of the fastest-growing forms of philanthropy:
Since 1950 donors
from all walks of life have
been our partners in philanthropy –
entrusting their community foundation
to do good works in their names
today and forever.
• Endowed Fund – Your legacy will last forever through this endowed,
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permanent fund. You and your successor advisors can make grant recommendations
to the causes and nonprofits you care to support. When the advising period ends,
your fund will become the type you choose, such as unrestricted, scholarship
or field of interest. (Initial charitable gift: $25,000 or more.)
• Current-use Fund – With this fund you can give one donation and then make
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grant recommendations to a variety of causes and nonprofits until you spend the
balance of your fund. (Initial charitable gift: $50,000 or more.)
• Quasi-endowed Fund – Flexible, yet permanent this fund lets you recommend
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grants to nonprofits as long as your fund keeps a minimum balance of at least $50,000.
Your successor advisors have the same opportunity. When the advising period ends,
your fund becomes a permanent fund with the purpose you specified. (Initial
charitable gift: $50,000 or more.)
• Customized Fund – If our standard donor-advised funds don’t fit your needs,
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let us help you explore your charitable goals and create a customized solution.
(Initial charitable gift: $2 million or more.)
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5 Easy Ways to Support Your Community:
1. M ail a tax-deductible check using the envelope in this publication.
2. G o to hamptonroadscf.org and donate through our secure online system.
3. Talk with us about arranging for a charitable gift of appreciated stock or other assets.
4. Include the Hampton Roads Community Foundation in your will, trust, IRA or other retirement plans.
Our donors
include teachers,
military personnel,
nurses and doctors,
a seamstress,
a telephone operator and
renowned business and
civic leaders.
All share
one primary goal –
helping people in
southeastern Virginia
lead great lives.
5. Join the Community Leadership Partners, our active philanthropy group.
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Like Lin & Ethel
Lin and Ethel Mason loved serving their signature Crab
Norfolk dish to guests at Mason’s Seafood Restaurant.
Although Lin and Ethel passed away years ago, today
they are helping expand the Virginia Aquarium & Marine
Science Center and create a river academy for area
students through Elizabeth River Project.
The Masons will always be helping their home region
because of the charitable bequest they left through the
Hampton Roads Community Foundation.
Learn how you, too, can forever invest in your
region’s future. Order a free bequest guide at
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leaveabequest.org or call (757) 622-7951.
will say about you?