Annual Report 2012 - Martha`s Vineyard Community Services

Annual Report 2012
From the President and
Executive Director
FY 2012 Statement of Activities
JULY 1, 2011 — JUNE 30, 2012
ASSETS
Wiet Bacheller
Julia Burgess
Martha’s Vineyard Community Services is a $5 million
organization, a partnership of interconnected programs
dedicated to enhancing the lives of Islanders by meeting
their critical human needs. Our programs reach into
every corner of the Vineyard community, serving people
in every chapter of life.
Julia Burgess, Executive Director
Wiet Bacheller, President
Fixed Assets
Land, Building
& Equipment...........................3,123,484
Accumulated
Depreciation.....................-2,005,710
Net Land, Building
& Equipment........................ 1,117,774
Total Fixed Assets................... 1,117,774
Long Term Liabilities
LT Notes &
Mortgage Payable............. 1,167,272
Total Long Term Liabilities 1,167,272
TOTAL ASSETS.................... $7,314,149
Total Liabilities...................... 1,794,807
Fund Balance
Operating ....................................135,010
Temporarily Restricted...........199,136
Permanently Restricted ..............1,500
Board Designated .................5,183,696
Total Fund Balance................5,519,342
Total Liabilities
& Fund Balance ................ $7,314,149
FY 12 Expenses — $5,584,823
Fiscal year runs July 1 — June 30
Administration
$685,017 — 12%
All of our programs have two essential qualities: They are
here to serve Vineyarders of every economic and social
status, and they offer services that would otherwise be
either unaffordable or completely unavailable to many of
the people who need them.
Thank you for strengthening the fabric of our
community.
Current Liabilities
Accounts Payable .................... $76,340
Accrued Expenses and other
current liabilities .................. 318,234
Line of Credit..............................232,961
Total Current Liabilities ..........627,535
Other Assets
Long-Term Investments ......5,239,218
Deposits............................................4,000
Total Other Assets................5,243,218
The scope of our human services is incredibly broad —
Early Childhood Programs offers the Vineyard’s only
daycare service for infants, while the CORE program
provides critical counseling and help for the Island’s elderly.
Through CONNECT our young people are encouraged
to become leaders against domestic and sexual violence.
Even our Thrift Shop is a social support program in its
own right, providing clothing, household items and a
friendly place to gather.
As you read the stories in this Annual Report – of
Islanders whose lives have been enhanced and even
turned around with the help of Community Services –
we hope you will agree that the support our programs
offer to the people of Martha’s Vineyard is critical to the
ongoing health of this community. And we hope that
you will be generous with your support by making a
contribution in the enclosed envelope or on our website
at mvcommunityservices.com
mvcommunityservices.com.
LIABILITIES
Current Assets
Cash & Cash Equivalents .... $504,212
Accounts Receivable,
less allowance ........................ 383,733
Prepaid Expenses ........................65,212
Total Current Assets ................953,157
Fundraising
$335,829 — 6%
Programs
$4,563,977 — 82%
FY 12 Revenue — $5,110,160
Not including gain of investment revenue
Foundations & Grants
$190,386 — 4%
Private Contributions
$938,554 — 18%
Other Income
$462,932 — 9%
Public Contracts
$1,888,494 — 37%
Third-Party Payers
& Self Pay
$1,629,794 — 32%
Cover art: Watercolor of Gay Head Cliffs by David Grey, a member of the
Daybreak program of Community Services.
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Of Changes, Continuities, and Challenges Ahead
A
s this annual report goes to press, Community
Services is experiencing a moment of change and
transition. We must say goodbye to two of our most committed
board members, Carole Cohen and Paula Smith, and welcome
new members John Ferguson and Dr. Judith Fisher. Our board
leadership is also changing. Victor Capoccia, previously the
board’s vice president, succeeds Wiet Bacheller as president.
And as Julia Burgess, our executive director, is retiring, the
search for a successor is in its final stages.
But behind these changes is the story of a nationally-accredited
organization whose interconnected programs are wellpositioned for the efficient, effective and compassionate delivery
of high-quality services to Island people in need.
We’ve invested in new technology, including electronic health
records; building improvements that provide our staff and
clients with a safe and consumer-friendly environment; a
website and publications that keep the community informed of
our activities; and feedback mechanisms to ensure that we are
meeting the needs of our staff and clients.
In responding to these needs, we have added programs such
as the New Paths Recovery Program (intensive outpatient
addictions services) and CORE (home based counseling for the
elderly). We have strengthened our outreach and prevention
efforts through the Family Center, CONNECT’s work in the
schools, and other educational opportunities for the community
at large. And we continue to take a holistic approach in
connecting people to the help they need – whether that help is
available under the Community Services umbrella or elsewhere.
At the Oct. 25 annual meeting of the board of directors, the
auditors had high praise for the way Community Services has
operated. This is a lean, well-run set of programs. We are wellpositioned for change and transition.
And yet, the numbers in this financial report are daunting:
this past year Community Services received about $3.5 million
from public funding, self-pay and medical insurance for the
care it provided. But the cost of operating was nearly $5.6
million. This reality – the gap between reimbursement and the
real cost of providing human services – is the central challenge
facing Community Services and agencies like it across the
United States.
Currently, we bridge this gap through the hard work of
volunteers at the Thrift Shop, through various fundraising
efforts and through our investment income. But these are
challenging times, and Community Services faces difficult
decisions about how this organization should position itself for
sustainability in the years ahead.
Setting finances aside, it isn’t possible to convey the human
impact of Community Services without getting personal. At
its essence, Community Services is a people business. All of our
services go to people and almost our entire operating budget goes
to the people who provide these services. Thanks to the people
who stepped up and agreed to share their compelling personal
stories, we’re able to present the human side of Community
Services and its caring work. We hope you’ll read these stories
and agree that this organization, and its range of human services,
is critical to the ongoing health of our Island community.
A Year of Service: FY 2012 at a glance
Island Counseling Center
15,939 visits, an increase of 165% increase over five
years. Of these, 405 were visits through Emergency
Services.
CORE (Counseling, Outreach and Referral for the
Elderly) served 100 clients, mostly in their homes.
New Paths Recovery Program provided intensive
outpatient treatment for substance abuse, serving 150
clients.
Disability Services
Daybreak served 39 active members last year, and has
109 lifelong members.
Island Employment Services placed 10 participants with
Vineyard employers.
Early Childhood Programs
Head Start served 42 children and their families.
Child Care Center served 65 children and their families.
Support from the Heckscher Foundation allowed a new
partnership with the Island Grown Initiative.
Over the year, 469 families attended Family Center activities.
CONNECT to End Violence
Served 172 survivors of domestic abuse or sexual assault.
Gathered 668 signatures in support of White Ribbon
Day, promoting safety and respect in relationships.
Community Services Thrift Shop
Raised more than $460,000 for programs of Community
Services, while serving as a vital social support program
and year-round Island gathering place.
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The Caring Work of Community Services:
Meeting the Island’s Urgent Human Needs
Martha’s Vineyard Community Services serves more than
six thousand people each year, a number that represents more
than a third of the Island’s year-round population. When
you consider the impact of these services on families and
friends, employers and co-workers, this partnership of helping
programs leaves virtually no life on the Island untouched.
But statistics paint only one part of the picture. The story
of Community Services plays out in one Island family, one
Island individual, at a time.
ten years prior to being in the public
schools,” she says, “and this is by far the
best program I’ve ever seen, from staff to
administration.”
In addition to being struck by the quality
of the program, Ruth has also discovered
that the youngest Vineyarders aren’t
magically insulated from the stresses
of life that their parents face every day.
“I knew that the Vineyard isn’t just a
playground for rich people,” she says. “But
somehow I thought that all the children
would be happy. In fact, they need a lot of
love. I was a little surprised by that.”
One of Ruth’s colleagues at Early
Childhood Programs is Lorena Crespo,
a Head Start home visitor who has a son
of her own, two-year-old Daniel, in the
program’s daycare center. Lorena says she
didn’t plan to make a career of working
with preschoolers – “I just fell in love
with the children. They’re so honest, and
so beautiful, and the way the families
open their homes and welcome us is great.
And the staff is so supportive here – it’s
such a positive environment.”
Head Start home visitor Lorena Crespo, with her son Daniel, just waking up from a nap at the
Early Childhood Center.
M
y daughter EmmaJean
was born in 1994,” says Karen
Colombo, “which happened to be the year
my husband became addicted to drugs,
and my marriage began to fall apart.”
Suddenly on her own, with no family
on the Island, self-employed and with
an infant daughter, Karen turned to
Community Services, enrolling her
daughter in full-time daycare at Early
Childhood Programs. “It was great,” she
recalls. “That added structure and safety
gave me the ability to go out and work,
and it gave EmmaJean the opportunity
to experience wonderful things, to make
friends, to have trusted adults watching
over her so she could take a nap.
“We got by during a really dark time
only because of the help we got from
Community Services. Without them, I
don’t know what I would have done.”
R
uth Ambrozaitis has been the
lead teacher at the Early Childhood
Programs’ preschool just since August,
joining the program two months after
moving to the Island full-time with her
husband after a career in education. “I
worked in early childhood for eight or
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Stephanie Coulter, a parent with a son
in the daycare program and a daughter
who this year graduated from daycare
into kindergarten, says one great thing
about the program is its focus on caring
for whole families, not just the children.
She serves on the Parent Advisory Council
that has real say in decisions from new
hires to programs at the daycare center.
“It’s nice to be so involved,” she says. “I
really believe [ECP director] Debbie
Milne listens to us and values our views.”
B
rian Vanderhoop, a member
of the Daybreak program for the
past four years, has done so well in this
program of Community Services that he’s
something of a role model for his fellow
members at the clubhouse in Vineyard
Haven. “Daybreak,” he explains, “is a
place for people with mental disabilities
– not really a rehab center, but it does
help with things like housing, education,
employment, wellness and life skills.”
With the support of Ryan Schwab-Doyon
of Island Employment Services, which with
Daybreak is another part of the Disability
Services program, Brian held down three
part-time jobs this summer and now has
year-round work at the CITGO Xtra Mart
in Vineyard Haven. “It’s in my genes,” he says
with a grin: “My mother was a workaholic;
my grandfather was a workaholic. I want to
work – I don’t like sitting down.”
At Daybreak, says Brian, “You learn to
interact and get along with other people,
and about skills you need to live on your
own. It’s like being in a house with a bunch
of roomies, is the way I look at it. And
there’s staff you can go to whenever you
have an issue you need help with.”
Brian is blunt in assessing the help he’s
received at Daybreak. “Community
Services has been in my life since I was a
little kid in the Head Start program,” he
says. “If I didn’t have Daybreak, I would
not be able to live on my own and cope
with the day-to-day operation of a normal
life. I’d probably be in a hospital.”
Where would the Vineyard be without the
support of Community Services? Brian
pauses before quietly repeating the question:
“Where would this community be? I don’t
think it would really be a community.”
J
ennifer Ray, a job trainer and
developer with Island Employment
Services, says her job is helping people who
have what she calls “a barrier to work.”
IES has placed clients in paying jobs with
Island employers from Morning Glory
Farm to NAPA Auto Parts, from Stop &
Shop to the Vineyard Transit Authority.
One of her recent success stories is Allyssa
Maveety, who’s been working since May at
the Brickman’s store in Vineyard Haven.
The work IES does with each client is
as varied as the clients themselves, says
Jennifer. “Sometimes the barrier to work
is a developmental disability. It could be
a learning disability or mental illness. It
could be lots of things, so our services are
very individualized. One person might
need just a little bit of advice here and
there; another person might need one-onone support to learn a job. We try to do
whatever that person needs us to do.
“Allyssa has come so far since I first met her
in high school,” says Jennifer. “She was very
timid then. She would sit with her head
down, and at times she would panic and
leave the room. This woman today is an
entirely different person from the one I met
three years ago.”
Allyssa, who manages the sales shop in
the Brickman’s basement, couldn’t be
prouder of the independence she’s showing
with this new responsibility. “I’ve had so
many compliments on how nice I’ve kept
Brian Vanderhoop at the Daybreak Clubhouse
in Vineyard Haven.
the shop,” she says. “One lady even wrote
a letter to my boss – it made me feel so
accomplished.”
Vasska and Tarni Fondren, Allyssa’s
employers at Brickman’s, say the
partnership with Island Employment
Services has been great for them. “Allyssa
is a wonderful addition to our staff,” says
Tarni, “and Jennifer is someone we can
call whenever we have any concerns. She
understands exactly what Allyssa’s job is,
and she stops by all the time.”
Agrees Vasska: “If you’re open to helping
other people, this can be a really good
experience.”
Says Allyssa, “It feels so good to be trusted
with this job. I feel like I’m in charge, I did
this – and I’m awesome.”
T
he Family Support Center of
Community Services, another part of
Disability Services, provides exactly what
its name suggests. Program coordinator
Kathi Hackett, who’s been at this work
for two dozen years, says, “We work
with people deemed eligible by the state
Department of Developmental Services, as
young as infancy and well into adulthood,
as long as they’re living at home.
Vasska and Tarni Fondren at Brickman’s in Vineyard Haven with Allyssa Maveety (center).
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“This work is highly individualized – what
someone needs when they’re young, in
terms of early intervention, looks very
different when they’re at transition age,
L
eanna Fisher has two children, Shilah and Jax,
in the Head Start program, and she’s a graduate herself of
counseling for anxiety at the Island Counseling Center. She
sings the praises of ICC, which she says gave her exactly the help
she needed. But it did take some courage at first, she recalls, to
reach out for that help:
“It can be hard on your first visit, wondering what they’re going
to ask, whether they’re going to judge you. But they’re not
judgmental at all. After the first visit, I felt like I was walking
into my own home. I felt so safe talking about what I needed to.
It was a very good process; they helped a lot.”
Kristine Leone, a counselor at ICC and also a staff member
of New Paths, the Community Services program for people
in early recovery from addiction, insists it’s the clients of these
Island programs who are the real heroes. “They’ll say, thank
you so much for all your help, and I’ll remind them, you’re the
one who’s doing all the work. I may be the catalyst – I may be
asking the questions – but you’re out there taking what you are
discovering and putting it to work.”
With help from the Family Support Center and Island Employment
Services, Brianna Sosa is exploring her passion for work with horses.
and very different when they’re an adult and trying to move out
of their family home.”
For the family of Brianna Sosa, who recently turned 22, Kathi’s
recent work has focused on the transition that happens when
a person is handed off from the special needs program of the
Island public schools and into the state’s system of adult care.
Leah Miranda, Brianna’s mom, says the bureaucracy involved
can be daunting:
“Kathi has helped us with all the paperwork, getting her disability
services,” says Leah. “She’s helped us with insurance, Medicare,
Medicaid, Social Security, everything – it’s very
complicated, and she helps us get through it all.”
Kristine, who came to the Island in January from a position at
Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, says she’s impressed
with the team at Island Counseling Center, which last year held
nearly 16,000 counseling sessions. “It’s a really dedicated group.
There’s a lot of heart here, a lot of love and caring.”
During her counseling, Leanna says she learned a great deal. “I
learned about what my anxiety triggers were, and strategies to
deal with it.
“My graduating moment was when I could get on the ferry
without any anxiety medication. Two trips without medication,
and my counselor said, ‘I think it’s time we graduated you.
You’re over your fears.’”
Brianna, who has epilepsy, is working now
with the support of Jennifer Ray and Island
Employment Services, doing volunteer work
at the Rising Tide Equestrian Center in
West Tisbury. “Brianna has a real sense of
purpose at the barn,” says her mom, and this
has motivated her to learn new life skills.
“With a lot of help,” says Leah, “Brianna has
mastered the bus system and is able to use
public transportation now. She has a schedule
to follow at the barn, and she’s mastered that.
Everyone we’ve worked with at Community
Services has shown a great amount of respect
for Brianna, and for myself, and for our
situation. I feel so lucky that we have these
people in Brianna’s life. Without them, we’d
be in a terrible situation.”
Cindy Flanders, Marney Toole, Leanna Fisher and Mary Brissette of the Head Start program,
part of Early Childhood Programs.
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I
f there’s one program whose staff longs for the
day when their services aren’t needed on Martha’s Vineyard, it’s
CONNECT to End Violence, which works from offices in Oak
Bluffs, discreetly away from the main Community Services campus.
“I’d love to see the situation, someday, when we’re not needed,” says
Heather Arpin, a domestic violence and rape crisis counselor at
CONNECT. “As it is, unfortunately, domestic and sexual violence
is present in our community, and we need to confront it.”
Heather, who moved to the Island with her husband a year and a
half ago, recalls with a grim smile: “When I told my friends I was
accepting this job, the most common reaction I got was, ‘What?
That doesn’t happen out there, it’s Martha’s Vineyard.’ But one
of the things I knew, coming into this field, is that domestic and
sexual violence happens everywhere. This is an issue that crosses all
boundaries, regardless of gender and socioeconomic background.”
In addition to their free and confidential counseling work – they
served 172 individual clients in the past year – staff members at
CONNECT are active in public outreach, raising awareness about
abuse in the schools and across the adult community. CONNECT
has built programs at the high school which reach out to leaders in
the student body in an effort to foster new social norms regarding
teen dating, domestic and sexual violence. The annual CONNECT
walk against violence is held each October. And CONNECT
provides court accompaniment for victims/survivors in court, every
day it’s in session.
Of CONNECT’s counseling work, Heather says: “I think that
at the end of the day, what success looks like is different for each
client. What we strive for is that every client feels supported and
knows there are resources for them. By helping them to see what
their options are, we’re putting the power back into their hands.
“I have so much respect for each person who has the strength to live
through all this – the strength it takes to make whatever decisions
they make, to walk out our door and continue living their lives.”
Karen Colombo with a batch of her gourmet ice cream at her
Vineyard Haven kitchen.
R
ecalling that difficult time when she first turned
to Community Services for help, Karen Colombo says, “I
started taking EmmaJean to the Saturday morning playgroup at
Early Childhood Programs, and I didn’t realize until then that they
could be such a helping hand. When I explained my situation and
applied for daycare, instead of looking at me with disdain, they were
professional and respectful and compassionate. Frankly, they probably
appreciated what a pickle I was in more than I did at the time.”
Today, Karen has a successful business, selling her own brand of ice
cream to restaurants and shops on the Island. “This summer,” she
says, “[MVCS board member] Wiet Bacheller called me before the
Possible Dreams Auction and said she
always donates a giant cookie in the
shape of a cloud – and could I donate
a few pints of ice cream to go with it?
I contributed six pints, and our group
of auction items went for $850. It was
so much fun to be able to turn around
and help Community Services.”
In a program organized this summer by CONNECT to End Violence, members of the Vineyard Sharks
baseball team took a public stand against domestic violence on the Vineyard Haven seawall.
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Karen’s daughter is a student now
at Brown University. “And of
course, it all started at Community
Services. They read her books and
taught her the alphabet. They gave
her a wonderful day every day
and launched her into the public
school system. So I guess the help
Community Services gave us really
was a good investment.”
FY 2012 CONTRIBUTORS
Fiscal Year July 1, 2011 — June 30, 2012
We are deeply grateful for all the gifts Community Services received in the past year from our generous donors.
We strive to make this information as accurate as possible and apologize for any mistakes or omissions.
$85,000+
Mimi & Peter Haas Fund
$50,000 +
Mike Nichols & Diane
Sawyer
$25,000+
Anonymous
Comcast
John & Prudence Noon
Peter & Gwen Norton
Paula & Drew Smith
$10,000+
Anonymous
James Attwood & Leslie
Williams
John & Wiet Bacheller
Tom & Lyndsay Charron
John & Carolyn Connors
Ratus & Anne Kelly
Pamela Kohlberg & Curt
Greer
James Marshall & Carole
Simpson
Meehan Foundation
Sidney R. Baer, Jr.
Foundation
Laure Sudreau-Rippe & Bill
Rippe
Jim & Susan Swartz
$5,000 +
Wayne & Jacqui Budd
Cardinal Brook Trust
Jordan & Carole Cohen
Jack Davies
Robert & Angela Egerton
Gene Ferguson
Alice Goldman
Martin & Joanne Homlish
John Kennedy & Jane
Seagrave
Michael & Patricia Kidder
Seth A. Klarman & Beth S.
Klarman
Peter & Catherine Malone
Mat Marsden
Joshua Oboler
Hansjorg Wyss & Marcey
Olajas
Bradley & Hadley Palmer
Peter Pedro
Allan & Audrey Pekor
Paul & Sandra Pimentel
Thomas Rancich
Rosalie & Jim Shane
David Stone
$2,500+
Anonymous
Kenneth & Ann Baum
Kib Bramhall
Ann & Donald Brown
Malcolm & Jeanne Campbell
Sandy Pimentel, Possible Dreams Auction chair, displays
an auction prize: unique artwork by Norman Bridwell.
Photo courtesy Petersimon.com.
Mel & Ryna Cohen
Susan Davy & Don McKillop
Tom & Dianne Durawa
Edgartown National Bank
Jim Fishbeck & Lee Morgan
Richard & Nancy Friedman
Sheldon & Lucy Hackney
Olga Hirshhorn
Howell Family Charitable
Foundation
Edward Jepsen & Michelle
Serrao
Barbara Kravitz
Michael & Melinda Loberg
Valia Marsden
Martha’s Vineyard Savings
Bank
Barbara Norfleet
Our Island Club
Adam Peakes
Lorre Polinger
Ellen Poss
Richard & Betsy Sheerr
Doug & Gabriela Smith
Jeffrey Sudikoff
Roy & Diana Vagelos
Warren Woessner & Iris
Freeman
$1,000+
John & Linda Anderson
Anonymous
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Geoffrey & Patricia Banfield
George & Mimi Bennett
Bernier’s Market
Jules Bernstein & Linda
Lipsett
Tess Bramhall
Fenton & Margarett Burke
Dan Burstein & Julie
O’Connor
Richard & Laura Chasin
Tom & Alexandra Clancy
CMB Wireless Group, LLC
Robert & Christine Cox
Arne & Helen deKeijzer
Robert Doran
Ronald & Bonnie Dunlap
Charlotte Dunmore
East Coast Benefit Plans, Inc.
Belinda Eichler
Patrick & Courtney
Fitzgerald
Mary Greely
Christina Grudzinski
Geoffrey & Sarah Gund
Carol Guthrie
Stuart & Beverly Halpert
Hancock Real Estate
Nora Hansen
Wendy Harman
Warren & Marilyn
Hollinshead
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At the Possible Dreams Auction, Bill Rippe and Laure
Sudreau-Rippe were high bidders on the Geraldine Brooks/
Tony Horwitz Dream. Photo courtesy Petersimon.com.
Tony Horwitz & Geraldine
Brooks
Thomas & Caroline Kasper
Amalie Kass
Thomas Keller & Diane Nordin
Jeffrey Kramer
Mark & Diane LaPorte
Lee Peakes
Barbara Lee
Sandra Lippens
M.V. Auto Supply, Inc.
Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew
Center
Robert & Judith Maynes
Judy Boykin-McCarthy &
John McCarthy
Frank & Lizabeth Newman
Jeff & Ardell Otten
Mary & Carl Palmer
Jeffrey & Susan Parker
Lee Peakes
Jim & Liz Pickman
William & Lia Poorvu
Robert & Elizabeth Pozen
Rosenbaum Steinberg
Family Foundation
Burke & Susan Ross
Rotary Club of Martha’s
Vineyard
Allen Rugg & Suzanne Boyer
Jeffrey Scheuer
Judith Scheuer & Joseph
Mellicker
Ed Schlossberg & Caroline
Kennedy
Kenneth & Kathleen
Schoenberg
Stanley & Mary Ann Snider
Prudence L. Steiner
Peggy & Jeffrey Stone
Stonehouse, Inc.
Ted & Ruth Johnson Family
Foundation
Alan Willens & El Edwards
$500+
Anonymous (4)
Sue Bailey & Rex Killian
Archie & Emma Bankston
Caroline Baum
Jim Belushi
Rev. Alden Besse
Bruce & Bev Biller
Robert & Jill Bown
Emily Bramhall
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Hela Buchthal
Victor Capoccia
Joe & Rae Carter
Edward Cerullo
Chilmark Chocolates
Robert & Frances Clay
Roy & Suzzanne Cobb
Gertrude Cutler
Chas & Mae Deary
William R. Deeble III
Michaelene Durst
Bruce & Shelly Eckman
Barry & Roberta Finkelstein
Norman & Diana Freed
Jack & JoAnn Fruchtman
Myron & Cathy Garfinkle
Stewart & Patsyann Gentsch
Gertrude Goff
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Victor & Harriet Goldberg
Reginald & Fay Greene
Whit Griswold & Laura
Wainwright
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Jane Haley
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Kathleen Hedlund
Brent & Minnie Henry
Margaret Jordan
John & Hillary Keene
David & Rona Kuchta
Bernadette & Ray LaPorte
Ann & Ann Lees
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Earl & Darielle Linehan
Lee D. Magnarelli
Virginia Mattern
Helen Meleney
Herbert & Nancy Milstein
New Directions Foundation
Sandy & DiAnn Ray
Richard & Susan Regen
Harriet Sayre-McCord
Joan Scheuer
Art & Diane Smadbeck
Raymond & Ernestine Smith
Shirley Smith
Michael & Rosemary Stimola
John Stinson
Stop & Shop Supermarket
Company
Nancy & Edward Strauss
Ed & Claudia Swan
Joe & Detta Tate
George & Joan Thomas
Monina von Opel & Edward
Miller
Barbara M. Walker
Davis & Elizabeth Weinstock
David & Betsy Wice
William & Marie Woodburn
$250+
The Ruth J. Bogan Memorial
Fund
Megan & Warren Adams
Patrick & Kim Anderson
Anonymous (6)
Alison Axelrod
Norman & Alison Axelrod
Louise Bessire
Sissy Biggers
Richard & Mary Kate
Bluestein
Alan G & Nancy Brenner
Ian Brownell & Ellen Epstein
David & Catherine Carlson
Adrienne Childs
Jane Coe
Wendell Colson & Joanne
Casper
Caroline Croft
JT Dean
Doug & Jayne DeBettencourt
Vera Eberstadt
Sam Feldman
Robert & Maurie Flanagan
Tarni & Vasska Fondren
Milton Freedberg
Joseph & Sylvia Frelinghuysen
Nathalie Gilfoyle
Robert & Agatha Goodwin
Sandra Grymes
Daniel & Marcia Halperin
Albert & April Hamel
Charles Harff
Stephen & Sally Harr
James & Margaret Harris
V.V. Harrison
Margaret Harrison
Joseph & Deborah Loughrey
Joy Luke
Dr. Dominic Maxwell
Hugh & Joyce McCormick
Cathryn & Scot McCulloch
Frank McCulloch
Clark McFadden & Mary
Wagner
Mary Melvin
Julia Norman
Robert & Elizabeth
Ollwerther
Andrew & Anne Palmer
Michael Pollan & Judith
Belzer
Jim Pringle & Lorraine Wells
Marcella & Glenn Provost
Susan & Donald Rappaport
$100+
Tom Bennett & Carol
Whitmarsh
Herbert & Marilyn Abrams
John & Christine Abrams
Gerald & Corinne Adler
Jonathan Albert & Rachel
Cohan
Anonymous (11)
Sofia Anthony
Lenore Asher
J. Thomas & Jean August
Dawn & Marc Austin
Maria Aweida
Natalie Bacheller
Anwyl Bates
Susan Bellincampi
Paul & Spring Benton
Scenes from the “Blues Brothers” fundraising event held this summer: At left, Community
Services board member and host Lucy Hackney welcomes family and friends. At right,
Thomas Styron, son of author William Styron, speaks on the effects of depression and the
Island Counseling Center’s efforts to combat it.
Photos courtesy Marilyn Roos Photography.
Dan & Dodie Headington
Jeffrey Heidt & Myra Green
Philip & Carolyn Henderson
Robert & Constance Hickey
Lisina Hoch
John Houston & Katherine
Read
Kenneth & Jill Iscol
Kathleen Johnson
Wayne Johnson
Joy Street Foundation
Ward Just & Sarah
Catchpole
Nancy Kass & Sean Tunis
Ray & Lillian Kellman
Tip & Kit Kenyon
Robert & Pedie Killebrew
William Lake & Morgan
Hodgson
Shirley Langer
Frank & Kathleen Lauinger
Sarah Leahy
Elliot & Frances Lehman
Timothy Levy
Sarah Fox & Steven Lofchie
John & Sarah Lolley
Arnie Reisman & Paula Lyons
Jill Robie
Marc Rosenbaum
Stephen & Joyce Schultz
Ann Seidler
Carly Simon
South Mountain Company
Steve & Happy Spongberg
Nancy & Larry Star
Malcolm Stevenson
Rose Styron
Eva Sullivan
Paul & Louise Swartz
The Federated Church
The Lisa & Mitchell Rubin
Family Foundation
Trinity Episcopal Church
Wallace & Company
Susan & Bob Wasserman
Preston & Constance
Williams
Donna Wilmarth & Dr. Paul
Cefola
Sherry Wilson
Al & Jill Woollacott
–9–
Barbara Bernstein
Richard & Janet Birnbaum
John & Peg Bondorew
Robert Bourne & Carolann
Clynes
Joan Bowman
Thomas Bracken
Norma & Norman Bridwell
Kathryn Briggs
Alan & Joyce Brigish
Milton & Ruth Britton
Linell Broecker
William & Lynne Bruno
Julia Burgess
Isabel Cahill
John & Susan Campos
Iris Capobianco
Edward & Nancy Carson
Jean & Jenine Celestin
Carmine Cerone
Marcos & Joan Chavez
Christian Science Society of
Martha’s Vineyard
Elizabeth Church
Susan Collins
William & Bonnie Conway
Richard Coutinho
Ross & Katherine Cowan
Robert & Valerie Coyle
Mary Crary
Sarah Creighton & Philip
Lawrence
Janet & Art Crovatto
June Curme
Russell & Sally Dagnall
James Dale & Ellen Small
Nancy Davies
George Davis
Ursula Day
Jane Dean
Nelson & Sandra
DeBettencourt
Alan Dershowitz & Carolyn
Cohen
Rick & Doreen DeTucci
Jules & Judy Dienstag
David & Barbara Dutton
Educomp
Robert & Dianthe Eisendrath
Steve Engh & Mimi Davisson
Matthew Epstein & Deborah
Hiatt
Barbara Everdell
Michael Fabrikant & Carol
Dallos
David Ferraguzzi & Patricia
Carlet
Ursula & Frank Ferro
Michael Fierberg
Oliver Filley
Morris & Pamela Flam
Robert & Judith Ford
Stephen & Sally Fortlouis
Geoffrey Gibson & Pamela
Foster
John & Kristin Francisco
Ralph Franklin
David & Beatrice Frantz
Joann Frechette
Richard Freeland
Mark & Joyce Friedman
Stewart & Virginia Gager
John & Ellen Gallagher
Elizabeth & Charles
Garabedian
Dale & Robyn Garth
Stephen & Mary Gentle
Robert & Bonnie George
Marcy Glenn & Tom Goulet
Pamela & Clark Goff
Mark & Meryl Goldman
Jim & Debby Goldstein
Meredith & John Goldthwait
Jerry & Peg Goodale
Richard & Carol Gross
Lee & Elizabeth Guittar
Susan Halby
Deborah & Philip Hale
Deborah Hall
Daniel Hanavan
Paul & Cynthia Harriman
Lawrence Harrison
George & Andrea Hartman
Sandy & Helen Havens
Jean Hay
Marguerite Hiser
Cathy Hoffman
Lawrence J & Barbara Hohlt
Bernard M. Hollander
Albert Hopeman & Cynthia
Starks
Michael & Jane Horvitz
Mary Hunter
Margaret Jackson
Bob & Ceil Jacobs
Robert & Karen Jaffe
Ruth James
Lowell Johnson
Tom & Sharon Johnson
Gerald & Linda Jones
Ann Karnovsky
Richard Keeler
Barbara Keezell
Elisabeth Keller & Steven
Bonsey
Janie Kelting
Ann Lucas
David & Doris Luening
Nora MacDonald
Jill Macy
Hannah Malkin
William & Carol Maloney
Martha’s Vineyard Family
Campground, Inc.
Martha’s Vineyard
Neighborhood
Convention
Pamela Mason
Bruce McLane
Deborah Medders
Jackie Mendez-Diaz
William & Kimberly
Messenger
Susan & Robert Mitchell
At the Possible Dreams Auction, Alan Dershowitz and
Ken Sweeter are ready for the bidding fun to begin.
Photo courtesy Petersimon.com.
John & Eleanor Ketcham
Christopher & Parthenia
Kiersted
Warren & Kathryn Kimber
Trude Kleinschmidt
David Kloss
Hugh & Mary Jane Knipmeyer
Dorothy & Peter Koesler
Barbara Krakow
Jordan & Jean Krasnow
Ralph & Marianne Krause
Elliot Kronstein & May
Baldwin
Melvin Landew
Nancy Langman & Gary
Cogley
Kim & David Lawrence
Ann Fay Lawton
Peter & Linda Leahy
Kenneth & Barbara Leish
Leslie & Susan Leland
Bruce & Mary Letwin
Emily & Jacob Levett
Paul & Linda Levy
Robert Livernash & Susan
Richmond
Cynthia Livingston
George S. Lockwood III
Stuart & Mary Lollis
Ronald & Cynthia Low
Ralph & Joan Lowell
Laura Knight Lowenstein
Elliott Mittler & Howard
Klebanoff
Louis & Donna Moffa
Frederick & Judith Mopsik
Fred B. Morgan
Nancy Morris
William & Melissa Mueller
Louis Muldrow
Belleruth Naparstek
Francis & Kathleen Nasser
Francis Nelson
Jon Newman
Henry Nieder & Miryam
Gerson
Atheline Nixon
North Star Distributors, Inc.
Ginger Norton & Doug
Ruskin
Alexander Notopoulos &
Alexis Anderson
Marianna O’Brien
Robert & Marvene O’Rourke
Elizabeth Owens
Riggs & Helen Parker
Richard & Margaret Patton
Frank & Ann Pellegrino
John & Mary Petersen
Beatrice Phear
Barbara Magnuson Phillips
Charles & Lucille Plotz
Joan Porter
Warren Pyle
Vassilios & Deborah
Raptopoulos
Betty & Keith Rawlins
Boatner & Wendy Reily
Richard & Mary Jo Reston
Alan & Lynn Retik
Jon Reynolds & Margaret
Skinner
Joan Rice
Leroy & Helen Rieselbach
Thomas & Alice Robinson
Lee Halprin & Abby
Rockefeller
John Rolland & Froma Walsh
Tom & Debby Rosenthal
Sara Rosenthal & Julie
Prazich
Bruce & Susan Rosinoff
Thomas & Kathleen Ruta
James & Pamela Schwartz
Bob & Peg Schwier
Kathy Shands & Joe
Mulinare
Ralph & June Shunk
Sumner Silverman
Alan & Kylanne Silverstone
Mark & Cindy Slane
Arthur & Emma Smith
James & Susan Snider
Jessie Snyder
Joseph Spinelli
Jean-Paul St. Germain &
Sheila Gates
Norman & Susan Stahl
David & Janet Standaert
Nancy Stark
Cheryl Stark & Margery
Meltzer
Michael & Carol Steed
Daniel Steinberg
Ned Sternick & Andrea
Quigley
Lawrence Stewart
Neal & Janet Stiller
Anne Stone
Maureen Sullivan
Audria Tankard
Jane & Roger Thayer
The Homemakers Club of
Oak Bluffs
Franklin Thomas & Kate
Whitney
Melvin & Thornhill
Anna Lowell Tomlinson
Ted & Janet Urban
David & Ann Vaughan
Gay Vervaet
Valerie Vivian
Elizabeth Vorenberg
Warren & Anne Vose
Nicolas Walsh
Grace Warnecke
Andrew & Brenda Warshaw
John & Joy Washbrook
Anna Bell Washburn
Carl & Grace Watt
Ray & Nancy Watts
Pamela Weatherbee
Donald Wertlieb & Lorre
Polinger
West Tisbury Recycling Shed
James & Carol White
– 10 –
Dedie Wieler
Richard & Christine
Williams
John Willis
Robert Willis
David E. & Janet Willoughby
Dorothy Winnette
Henry & Felice Yager
Ronald Zentner & Marilyn
Miller
Amy & Michael Zoll
Brooks & Linda Zug
$50+
Siamak & Joan Adibi
Raymond & Patricia Adler
Warren & Mercedes Agard
Carolyn & Bill Aitken
Robert & Margie Aldrin
Anonymous (9)
Lindesay Aquino
Clarke & Viola Babcock
Jean & Charlotte Barbey
Claudia Bauser
Brenda Beal
Susan Bernstein
Howard & Suzanne Berwind
Hadden & Jodi Blair
Penelope Bragonier &
Franklin Mead
Miklos & Joann Breuer
Edith Brown
H. Harding & Roberta
Brown
Padraic & Ikuko Burns
Samuel & Rebecca Busselle
Dan & Nancy Cabot
Hope Callen
Sue Carroll & Jared Grant
Mark & Ann Casella
Thomas Chmielewski
Melissa Clemence
Brad & Judith Clough
Bertram & Rosalie Cohen
William & Julie Coleman
Theresa Collins
Sue Collinson
Grace Conlin
Ronald & Carol Conte
Will & Kristen Coogan
David & Marguerite Cook
Susan Coolidge
Elizabeth Cornell
Paul Cruikshank
Vivian Culin
John & Janet Cunningham
Robert & Margaret
Cunningham
Terry & Leslie Cutler
Timothy & Lisa Dacey
Ron D’agostino
Judith Damron
C. David & Doris Cron
Brian & Barbara Davis
Bob & Barbara Day
Carol Deanow
Tammy Deese
Eugene & Patti DeFelice
Cassandra F. Drake
Carlotta Draper
Gary & Sharon Eckhardt
James & Joyce Elia
Patti Elliott
Christopher & Paula Elwell
John Emery
Jackson & Carol Stevens Eno
Steve & Claudia Ewing
Robert & Joan Falkenburg
Linda Fandel
Paul & Sylvia Farrington
Jane Fay
Carol Felino
Marina Firestone
Leonard Fogg
Fred & Jennifer Fournier
Lynne Francis-Lunn
Miriam Frankel
Margaret Freydberg
Jim & Dianne Friedman
David Garvin
Sherm & Susie Goldstein
Neil & Margot Goodwin
Terry Goplerud
Gerald & Beth Green
Daniel Greenbaum & Anne
Barry
Michael & Karen Greenbaum
Edwin Greenebaum
Fain & Melissa Hackney
Robert & Sarah Hammett
Richard Harding
George & Kathleen
Haubner
Alan & Lucy Holliday
Tom Hollinger & Kathy Coe
Anita & Frederick Hotchkiss
Houghton Mifflin Company
Patricia Hughes & Henry
Minis
Carol Hulsizer
Walter Hunziker & Norma
Holmes
Leo & Eva Irrera
Jerrold & Marti Katz
Leo & Nadine Keegan
John & Elaine Kelly
Joan Kennedy
Clara & Kevin Kennedy
John Knopf & Lisa SultzmanKnopf
Phyllis Kugler
Linda Kurth
Thomas Langman
Elise LeBovit
Kenneth Leuchtenmacher &
Juleann VanBelle
Stephen & Ellen Levine
Gloria Levitas
Dora Lewin
Patricia Lewis
Sandra & Michael
Lindheimer
George & Sari Lipkin
Sanford & Karen Low
John & Irene MacKenty
Susan & Eliot Macy
Mary Maida
Lindsay Makepeace
June Manning
Daniel & Beverly Marson
Robert & Caroline Maruska
Elizabeth & Brian McBride
Frances & Francis
McDermott
Charles & Laura McGettigan
Eleanor McGrath
Mary McGuire
Charles Medler & Perrine
Colmore
Harold & Paula Meyers
Floy Miller
Mary Miller
Fielding Moore
James & Jo Ann Mosley
Nancy Muir
Paul & MJ Munafo
Virginia Murray
Peter & Elizabeth Neumann
Nora & Tony Nevin
Raymond & Patricia Noeker
Mary Beth Norton
Sharon O’Donnell
Richard & Pamela O’Neil
Ned & Ellen Orleans
Dan & Elaine Pace
Parkinson Association of
Alabama
Eric Peters
Florence Peters
Annie Scarville
John & Audrey Schneider
Lenny Schoenfeld & Gail
Shufrin
Robert & Margaret
Schwartz
Jaime Schwartzberg
Gwinn Scott
Marshall & Sally Segall
Allan & Joanne Sgroi
Sayre Sheldon
Joan Shepard
Vera Shorter
John Shriber
Stanley & Susan Shuman
Tara Simmons
Ernest & Betty Singer
Robert & Sharon Smith
Margaret Stapleton
Leslie & Myra Stark
Joseph & Maura Stella
John Stephens & Penelope
Uhlendorf
Richard Steves
Harry & Judith Stotz
John & Rosemary Williams
Mark & Lynne Wolf
Edwin Woods
Robert & Linda Zeltzer
Up to $49
CONNECT Young Sisters
Mentoring Program
Kathleen Aglieco
Marie Allen
Lisa Amols
Lesa Andreasen
Mary Ann Angelone
Anonymous (10)
Nancy & Joel Aronie
Judy Athearn
Rosalie Bassett
Richard Bayne
Edward & Esther Beck
Martin & Gail Becker
Carol Bloomberg
Doyle & Ellen Bunch
Walter & Gail Burke
Jim & Pamela Butterick
Ashleen Cafarelli
Angus and Jack Yates, grandsons of Mike Wallace, pictured with their mother,
Elizabeth, are wearing memorial T-shirts for the Blues Brothers event.
Photo courtesy Marilyn Roos Photography.
Frank Piccione & Ann Milstein
Giulio & Margaret
Pontecorvo
Everett Poole
Richard & Ellen Price
Bobbi Reed
Shirley Reiss
Glenn & Marilyn Reiter
Phil Reppert
Ian & Linda Rickard
Gus & Maria Rimpel
Catherine C. Risorto
Thomas & Barbara Rivers
John Roberts
Julie Robinson
Rupert & Eileen Robinson
Pat & John Rodgers
Sylvia & Jim Rogers
Edward Russell & Deirdre Ling
Eliza Sabra
Irving Salloway & Joan Karol
Nancy Salzman
Don Saunders
Donna & William Straw
Ali Sullo
Neville & Jane Thame
Eleanor Towles
Richard Tutt & Cheryl
Western
Michael & Brook Urban
Andrea VanOakes
James Walker
Ken & Gail Walker
Duncan & Jocelyn Walton
Maria & Maria Watson
Susan Webber
Penny Weinstein
Hugh & Suzanne Weisman
Mitchell & Ronnie Weiss
Edwin & Edith Wells
Joan Wendl
Rolfe & Sara Wenner
Laura Westlund
Jane Wilbur
Henry & Jane Wiley
Sarah Williams
Glenn & Mary Jane
Carpenter
Carla Ciampanelli
Russell Clark
Sharon Clauss-Zanger &
Dwight Zanger
George & Sally Cohn
George & Constance Cowan
Nancy Cramer
Robert Daniels
Nevenka Daniels
John & Lucy Davis
Laurence & Cynthia Doyle
Jeremy & Jeanette Driesen
Dr. Kenneth Drizen
John & Josette Ebbs
Gene Evans
Joan Firman
First Financial Merchant
Services
Peter & Laura Flynn
Tille Foster
Betty & Ross Frazier
– 11 –
Dorothy Freedman
Aaron Galvin
Evelyn Garab
Abraham Genack & Kathy
Wixon
Deborah Hilton Morrelli
Wesley & Sandra Mott
Lucy Munafo
Valerie Murphy
Marianna H. Nitchie
Possible Dreams auctioneer Dan Flynn persuades Bill
Rollnick and Nancy Ellison to keep the bidding high.
Photo courtesy Petersimon.com.
Gerald Glandon & Roberta
Shapiro
Judith Gleba
Marjorie Good
Saul Gordon
Tom & Eunice Gorman
Robert & Carolyn Goudey
Estherann Grace
David Grunden & Sharon
Stevens Grunden
Stephen & Alexandra
Gutekunst
Diane Read Haeselbarth
James & Gertrude Hart
Arnoldo & Neva Hax
Elaine Helm
Laura Hoffman
Lorraine Hoggan
Laurie W. Howick
John T. Hughes
Robert & Constance
Iadicicco
Judy & Bob Jahries
Betty Joslow
Richard Kaika
Doron Katzman
Daniel & Madeline Keating
Eleanor Keohane
Chris & Amy Kotsopoulos
Ellen Langreth
Laughing Bear
Lucille Lee
Rick & Cecelia Lindequist
Janet Lipner
James A. Lodge
Kerry Long
John & Roberta Lowe
Bob & Nancy Magill
Helen & Luis Maldonado
Jane & Stuart Marsh
James Masek
Mabel McCarthy
Marguerite McDonough
Roberta Mendlovitz
Claudia Metell
Ruth Metell
Garry & Donna Meyers
James O’Hare
Louis Oliveira
Carol Ann Osinski
Ronald & Harriet Parker
Stuart & Anita Parker
Tom & Ginny Payette
Rufus Peebles
Robert & Pauline Phillips
Eugene & Susan Piacentini
Theodore & Jeannette
Polansky
Majic & Beverly Potsaid
Abigail Potter
Arline Prince
Luciano & Martha Rebay
Joan R. Reeves
Judith Reynolds
Vhonda Ridley
Richard & Nancy Rossman
Ronnee & Heidi Schultz
Constance P. Scott
Ralph & Ethel Sherman
Jay & Janet Sigler
Inku Sim
Patricia Sirakovsky
Shirley & Philip Smith
Nancy Snow
Gretchen Snyder
Alan Sooho
Claire Spear
Janet Dickerson Stephens
Hans & Alma Stibolt
Samuel & Jean Tatelbaum
Joseph & Natalie Thibodeau
Mary Thompson
Gerard & Valerie Thompson
Matt & Kate Tully
Herbert F. Wass
Stan & Jean Wexler
William & Shirley Wilcox
Mary Jane Williams
Robert & Christine Wirtanen
Bob Woodruff
Lydia & Jim Zappacosta
Lawrence & Susan Zielinski
Edward Zlotkowski & Ellen
Wolfe
Martha’s Vineyard Community Services
111 Edgartown Road
Vineyard Haven, MA 02568
Board of Directors, FY 2012
Wiet Bacheller, President
Victor Capoccia, Vice President
Paul Pimentel, Treasurer
T. George Davis, Assistant Treasurer
Dianne Durawa, Interim Secretary
Carole Cohen, Development Chair
Elizabeth B. Rawlins, Governance Chair
Bruce Eckman
Robert E. Egerton, Jr.
Iris C. Freeman
Sandra Grymes
Lucy Hackney
John H. Kennedy
June D. Manning
Allan J. Pekor
Patricia Sirakovsky
Diane Smadbeck
Paula Smith
Administrative Staff
Julia Burgess, Executive Director
Tom Bennett, Associate Executive Director/Senior Clinical Advisor
Bernadette M. LaPorte, Director of Finance & Administration
Marcos M. Chavez, Director of Human Resources
Program Directors
Sharon Clauss-Zanger, Disability Services & Quality Improvement
Nancy Langman, Island Counseling Center
Debbie Milne, Early Childhood Programs
Christina Costello, CONNECT to end violence
Sandy Pratt, The Thrift Shop
T
Community Services
Depends on Your
Support
his annual report serves a dual
purpose — it is also our annual appeal
for your support.
To all the donors whose financial gifts
support Martha’s Vineyard Community
Services, and to the volunteers who this year
provided thousands of service hours – thank
you for your contributions. You make our
work possible.
Your generosity means Island families have
a more hopeful future, because Community
Services gives them the tools and strategies
they need to better manage life’s difficulties.
Our programs and services are available to
full and seasonal Island residents regardless
of financial situation. Please use the enclosed
envelope to send your donation today, or
donate online – and learn more about our
work – at www.mvcommunityservices.com
www.mvcommunityservices.com.