2012 Annual Report - Adirondack Foundation

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ANNUAL REPORT
2012
Encouraging Philanthropy to serve the Adirondack Region
Board of Trustees
Adele P. Connors, Co-Chair, Lake Placid
Vincent McClelland, Co-Chair,
Keene Valley
John Ernst, Secretary/Treasurer,
North Hudson/NYC
Fred Calder, Lake Placid
Michael Ellis, North Creek/NYC
John G. Fritzinger, Jr., Keene Valley/NYC
Barbara Glaser, Raquette Lake/Saratoga
Jeremiah Hayes, Tupper Lake
David Heidecorn, Lake Placid/Armonk
Cathy Johnston, Lake Placid
Nancy Keet, Saranac Lake/NYC
Rich Kroes, Lake Placid
David Mason, Keene
Peter S. Paine, Jr., Willsboro
Susan A. Waters, Saranac Lake/Westport
Advisory council
Timothy L. Barnett, Westport/Saratoga
Sally Bogdanovitch, Paul Smiths
Jennifer Booth, Plattsburgh
Charles Carroll, Loon Lake
Linda Cohen, Old Forge
Sheila Hutt, Blue Mountain Lake
Francisca P. Irwin, Essex
Karen Meltzer, Brant Lake
Veronica Richter,
Lake Placid/Greenwich CT
Neil Seymour, Malone
Ben Strader, Blue Mountain Lake
Elise Widlund, North River
Patricia Winterer, Keene/NYC
Holly Wolff, Saranac Lake/Ridgefield CT
Dear Friends,
In the fiscal year that ended in June, ACT set a new record by making
grants totaling $2.4 million—all thanks to the generosity of people who
care. Tropical Storm Irene got our fiscal year off to a fast-paced start with a
remarkable demonstration of engaged communities at their finest. ACT was
honored to convey thousands of generous gifts directly to storm victims.
More than $800,000 of our grants went to flood recovery.
Floods of that magnitude are, we hope, exceptional, but giving and
volunteering breathe life into our communities every day, year round, and
they are increasingly important. For people from Lake George to Malone,
the charity that begins at home begins here at ACT, with opportunities for
philanthropy that are in our own backyard.
A remarkable $2.5 million bequest from a Cranberry Lake resident, along
with other wonderful donations, brought the total of funds entrusted to ACT
to over $30 million. With a growing endowment, ACT can respond to the
changing needs of the Adirondacks, serving each successive generation in a
way that is meaningful for its time.
These pages highlight the wide range of generous acts being committed
throughout the region on a daily basis. We hope you are proud and pleased
with the role you play in making the Adirondacks an even better place.
With best wishes,
staff
Cali Brooks, Executive Director
cali@generousact.org
Beth Benson, Financial Officer
beth@generousact.org
Mel Eisinger, Communications
and Donor Relations
mel@generousact.org
Andrea Grout, Grants and
Scholarship Coordinator
andrea@generousact.org
Adirondack Community Trust
Heaven Hill Farm
P.O. Box 288
Lake Placid, NY 12946
518-523-9904
info@generousact.org
Cover photo by Larry Master;
inset photos by Margaret Miller.
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Adele P. Connors
Co-Chair
Vinny McClelland
Co-Chair
Cali Brooks
Executive Director
By the time you read this, Adele Connors will have stepped down and John Ernst will have
taken her place as ACT Co-Chair with Vinny McClelland. With Adele having completed
a full term of nine years of distinguished and enlightened service to ACT, we extend a
grateful goodbye. Adele’s open-mindedness, generosity and willingness to make herself
available for consultation have made her an accomplished and beloved leader. We are
fortunate to have as her successor a highly engaged person with a profound understanding
of Adirondack communities and nonprofits.
Board member Michael Ellis, the founding father of the Community Fund for the Gore
Mountain Region, departs with our sincere thanks for years of guidance and generosity.
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Community Enhancement
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Education
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Our Mission
A gathering of board and staff, from left to right: Andrea Grout, Nancy Keet, Vinny McClelland,
Adele Connors, Rich Kroes, Cali Brooks, Mel Eisinger, Cathy Johnston, Susan Waters, Beth Benson,
Fred Calder, Michael Ellis, David Heidecorn, John Ernst, John Fritzinger.
Strong communities depend on good jobs and a healthy citizenry to thrive. A strong
community also requires engaged residents as well as public and private institutions—
including community foundations—that work together. The Adirondack Community
Trust is your community foundation. Our board and staff strive to inspire donors, build
partnerships and mobilize resources to support the needs of our entire region.
ACT administers a collection of over 218 endowed and pass-through funds established
by gifts that are pooled and invested to maximize returns at acceptable levels of risk.
We provide stewardship for endowment funds of more than 50 nonprofit organizations.
We accomplish our work in several ways:
WE HELP YOU FULFILL
YOUR CHARITABLE VISION
WE PROVIDE VISION AND LEADERSHIP
ACT responds to emerging community issues.
Recently we convened a private sector entrepreneurial
stimulus workshop to address economic challenges/
opportunities in Adirondack communities, an outgrowth
of a symposium we convened in partnership with
The Prospect Hill Foundation for multi-generational
Adirondack families. We were a sponsor of the Common
Ground Alliance and the Mapping the Future of the
Adirondacks series of workshops across the Park.
ACT makes it easy for people from all walks of life and
with all asset levels to fulfill their charitable goals by
giving to an existing fund or establishing one. Imagine
having virtually your own foundation, one that reflects
your interests, without legal and compliance headaches.
You can formalize your philanthropic intentions with
ACT, and let us manage the details of your
making-a-difference aspirations.
WE SUPPORT LOCAL RESOURCES
ACT hosts and supports community funds established to
serve specific geographic areas, such as the Community
Fund for the Gore Mountain Region, the Essex
Community Fund and the Malone Community Fund.
Thanks to a challenge grant from the Knight Foundation,
we are working in partnership with North Country Public
Radio to expand and improve news and information
services to the entire region.
Artwork by Mary Ballou Design.
Environment
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Health & Human Services
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WE STRENGTHEN
ADIRONDACK NONPROFITS
Through grants, education and strategic community
initiatives, ACT invests in the work of effective nonprofit
organizations that help transform our region. ACT formed
and continues to support the Adirondack Nonprofit
Network, offering services that help nonprofit boards
and staff to govern effectively and operate efficiently.
Through endowment challenge grants, we have helped
regional charitable organizations to stabilize finances.
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2012 Investment Report
As of June 30, 2012
Endowment Asset Allocation
At ACT, we take seriously our responsibility to be
good stewards of the community assets and donor
funds entrusted to us. It is the most important
thing we do.
Since our creation in 1997, we have grown
to include 218 charitable funds created
by individuals, families, organizations and
corporations.
We are a business—a very good one—run with
the same discipline as any private enterprise.
We answer to our donors and our nonprofit
partners, and our goal is to maximize return
on investment without taking undue risk and
transform our region through bold and proactive
philanthropy.
We have been confirmed in compliance with
National Standards for U.S. Community
Foundations since 2007.
Endowment
Endowment gifts to ACT are incorporated into a single
investment pool, giving donors access to institutional
investment strategies and fund management normally
available only to large investors.
This approach, employed in mutual funds, allocates
income and appreciation or depreciation to each of the
individual funds within the pool, while maintaining
diversification.
Tangible Assets 2%
Cash 7%
International 7%
Large Cap
Equity 24%
Small/Mid
Cap Equity 11%
Emerging
Markets 4%
Alternative 16%
Fixed
Income 29%
Artwork by Nancy Bernstein
Investment Performance
The portfolio is managed with the overall objective of
exceeding inflation over the long term. Each component
of the portfolio is designed to provide a risk-adjusted
return that exceeds its relevant benchmark.
It was a challenging year; our Finance Committee, in
consultation with U.S. Trust, our investment manager,
has made changes to our portfolio that should reduce
volatility even more than previously, while providing for
gains in a market upturn.
The return on ACT’s investment portfolio for the fiscal
year 2012 (July1, 2011-June 30, 2012) was -1.34%
net of fees, which is in line with our peer group. Clearly
this year has been a challenging environment for funds
similar to ACT in terms of performance, yet we remain
committed to our long term investment policy that
focuses on a 3- to 7-year horizon.
INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE - as of June 30, 2012
Investment Performance Net of Fees
Latest quarter
1 Year
3 Year
5 year
7 Year
-2.43%-1.34%8.48%1.56%4.96%
Community Foundation Median*
-2.62%
-0.91%
10.83%
1.04%
4.27%
Based on ACT’s fiscal year July 1 - June 30.
*The Community Foundation median is derived from actual results of community foundation investment programs nationwide.
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Arts & Humanities
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Education
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She has her dad’s eyes,
her mom’s sense of humor
and her family’s giving heart.
Kids learn by example.
Show them the importance of charitable giving by
establishing a Donor Advised Fund at ACT with
your family. Together you can recommend grants
to support your favorite charities.
It’s a great way to share your family values—and
an easy way to ensure you pass on more than the
family nose.
To learn more about setting up a Donor Advised Fund
in your family’s name, visit www.GenerousACT.org
or call 518-523-9904.
Photo by Anja McNeil.
Statement of Activities
Statement of Financial Position
As of June 30,
2012 2011
Year Ended June 30,
2012 2011
Assets:
Revenue:
Cash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $846,323$566,460
Gifts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,857,263$2,488,432
Investments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,915,16327,428,589
Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,24560,300
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Dividends and interest . . . . . . . . . . . 318,312314,290
Investment gains. . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,2832,321,113
Management fees. . . . . . . . . . . . 57,57156,537
Other income. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,36539,456
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Total
Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . ________________________
$30,832,731 $28,055,349
Liabilities:
Total Revenue. . . . . . . . . . . . $6,366,794$5,219,828
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Accounts payables . . . . . . . . . . . $4,053$5,467
Grants payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,950120,640
Deposits Held . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,7265,000
Funds held for Supporting
Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,477,7747,818,454
Funds held as Organization
Endowments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,891,8653,708,811
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Total
Liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,470,36811,658,372
________________________
Net
Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,362,363$16,396,977
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A complete, audited financial statement with accompanying notes and
opinion is available from the ACT office or from the New York Attorney
General’s Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271
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Expenses:
Grants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,369,492$1,269,424
Organization Fund transfers. . . . 87,372 7,450
Investment losses. . . . . . . . . . . . 487,487
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Administrative expenses. . . . . . . 265,810254,235
Development services. . . . . . . . . 100,443 88,196
Program services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 90,80485,919
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Total
Expenses. . . . . . . . . . . . 3,401,4081,704,224
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Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets . $2,965,386$3,514,604
Net
Assets, beginning of the year. . . 16,396,97712,882,373
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Net
Assets,
end
of
the
year. . . . . . . . $19,362,363 $16,396,977
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Grantmaking
Grants Made July 1, 2011 — June 30, 2012
A great accomplishment: You, the donors who make up
the ACT family, awarded $2.4 million in grants during
the past year to help meet the needs of the Adirondack
region and beyond.
A complete list of all the funds at ACT is available at
www.GenerousACT.org.
Recreation 1%
Historic
Preservation 3%
Libraries 1%
Youth 1%
A small number of ACT funds offer competitive grants
for nonprofits; find guidelines at www.generousact.org.
If you have further questions, please contact our office.
Environment
13%
Education
10%
Health
& Human
Services 7%
Community
Animal
Development 56% Welfare 4%
Arts &
Humanities 4%
Artwork by Nancy Bernstein
ANIMAL WELFARE
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
ASPCA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Crane Mountain Valley Horse Rescue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
North Country SPCA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
St. John Feral Cat Fund. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tri-Lakes Humane Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$250
500
92,792
1,310
550
$95,402
ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Adirondack Art Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,250
Adirondack Center for Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,852
Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,500
Burlington City Arts Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Champlain Valley Film Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
Depot Theatre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750
Essex Theater Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Foothills Art Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900
Glens Falls Queensbury Historical Association. . . . . . . . . . . 2,300
The Hyde Collection Trust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,300
Lake Placid Center for the Arts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,000
Lake Placid Sinfonietta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,800
Pendragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,700
Rebecca Kelly Ballet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,500
Seagle Music Colony. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,750
Tannery Pond Community Center Association. . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Toledo Museum of Art. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,500
Toledo Symphony. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000
Upper Hudson Musical Arts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750
Upper Jay Art Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,742
Vermont Stage Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $96,044
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Adirondack Carousel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,300
Adirondack Habitat for Humanity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Adirondack North Country Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,910
Adirondack Public Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Adirondack Sustainable Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750
Albany Rural Cemetary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 629. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
AuSable Valley Habitat for Humanity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Bloomingdale Volunteer Fire Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Carver Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000
Central Asia Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Champlain Area Trails. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Chateaugay Revitalization Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Town of Chateaugay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850
Town of Chester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Christian Appalachian Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Church of St. Luke the Beloved Physician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750
Essex Community Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Essex County Office of Community Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000
Town of Essex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,550
Flood Relief, Jay Flood Relief Fund: 93 grants . . . . . . . . . . . 192,992
Flood Relief, Keene Flood Recovery Fund: 107 grants. . . . . . 587,868
Flood Relief, Special and Urgent Needs Fund:
13 grants are listed by category
Future Generations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,200
Gardenshare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Gulf Coast Community Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Hamilton County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Homeward Bound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,776
Horicon Fire Department. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Indian Lake Theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,887
Infant Jesus of Prague Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,500
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Iroquois Lodge 715 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,500
Town of Jay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,414
Town of Keene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Keene Valley Congregational Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Keene Volunteer Fire Department. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,500
Lake Placid Community Beautification Association . . . . . . . . 3,000
Lake Placid Kiwanis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Village of Lake Placid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,500
Legal Community Against Violence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Malone Adult Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Massena Neighborhood Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
Mountain Lake Public Telecommunications Council. . . . . . . . 1,550
Native American Rights Fund. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
North Country Public Radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290,800
North Country Ministry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Town of North Elba. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,121
Northern Forest Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,750
Paradox Community Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Paul Smith’s - Gabriels Volunteer Fire Department . . . . . . . . 2,500
Placid Lake Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,250
Points of Light Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,100
ReSource. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. . . . . . . . . . . 250
St. Augustine’s Catholic Church Soup Kitchen . . . . . . . . . . . 500
The Salvation Army. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Sara Holbrook Community Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Saranac Lake Rotary Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Town of Saranac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Village of Tupper Lake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000
United Way of Chittenden County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
United Way of the Adirondack Region. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,605
Upper Jay Fire Department. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,214
Vermont Council on World Affairs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Vermont Public Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Whallonsburg Civic Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,385
Willsboro-Essex EMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,331,122
EDUCATION
Beekmantown Central School District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $500
Brushton-Moira Central School-Dollars For Scholars. . . . . . . 3,500
Center for Woodlands Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000
Chapin School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Clinton Community College Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,750
College For Every Student . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
College of the Atlantic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Connecticut College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Bruce L. Crary Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,600
Eaglebrook School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750
The Hotchkiss School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
International Theater and Literacy Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Johnsburg Central School District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Keene Central School District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650
Lake Placid Central School District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,500
Lakeside Preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,150
Literacy Volunteers of Essex/Franklin Counties. . . . . . . . . . . 1,400
Little Peaks Preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Long Lake Central School District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900
Middlebury College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Minerva Central School District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
North Country Community College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
New Jersey Institute of Technology Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . 500
New York Schools Insurance Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
North Country School/Camp Treetops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,300
Northwood School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Paul Smith’s College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,937
Petrova Elementary School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Plattsburgh City School District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
Plattsburgh College Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Resurrection School Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Rubenstein School, University of Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,500
Rye Country Day School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,500
St. Lawrence Central School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
St. Lawrence University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,500
Saranac Lake Central School District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,600
Saranac Lake Central Prize Fund. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,810
New Funds/New Projects:
education
[New] The Adirondack Foreign
Language Enhancement Fund
elevates the status of and promotes
excellence in Spanish and French
teaching through competitive
innovation grants.
Photo courtesy of KCS Website.
[New] The Saranac Lake High School Parent Faculty
Organization Fund will begin by supporting the school’s new
computer labs.
[New] The Lussi Family
established a fund that
initially will provide
scholarships for Adirondack
students of Paul Smith’s
College. Ashley Evans of
Marietta, NY, pictured with
her parents, is one of the
first two Arthur and Frances Draper Athletic Scholarship winners.
Environment
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Students from South Korea, Norway, Brazil, Spain, Vietnam, and
Taiwan with their American host family siblings.
The High Peaks Education Foundation provided initial funding
for a new international student program at Keene Central School
that brought six students from six countries to the Adirondacks
this fall.
[New] Muriel Ginsberg, a lifetime resident of Tupper Lake,
created a scholarship for students in her home town.
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Shelburne Farms Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SUNY Adirondack Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tupper Lake Central School District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
United Negro College Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Upper Valley Educators Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vassar College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vermont Institute of Natural Science. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Scholarships:
Frank Besau and Pauline Besau Wamsganz Scholarship
Fund: 4 recipients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Charles B. Decker Memorial Scholarship Fund: 2 recipients. .
Essex Bar Association Scholarship Fund: 1 recipient. . . . . . .
Howard V. Littell Scholarship Fund: 13 recipients. . . . . . . . .
William T. Lowe Scholarship Fund: 2 recipients . . . . . . . . . .
Matamek Scholarship Fund: 3 recipients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sean P. McCullough Memorial Scholarship Fund:
1 recipient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dr. U. R. Plante Scholarship Fund: 1 recipient. . . . . . . . . . .
George and Doris Sherman Scholarship Fund: 1 recipient . . .
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2,000
2,300
15,850
1,000
8,000
5,000
300
6,000
6,000
500
65,000
3,000
4,800
1,000
10,000
500
$245,647
ENVIRONMENT
Adirondack Chapter of the Nature Conservancy
and Adirondack Land Trust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $88,200
Adirondack Council. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,200
Adirondack Explorer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000
Adirondack Mountain Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,900
Adirondack Watershed Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,415
Audubon Expedition Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800
AuSable River Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000
BioDiversity Research Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Black Swamp Conservancy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Conservation Law Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Dispatches from the Vanishing World.com. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,900
Earthjustice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800
Empire State Forestry Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Environmental Defense Fund. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Horseshoe Pond/Deer River Flow Association. . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Humane Farming Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Keeping Track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Lake Champlain Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Lake Champlain Land Trust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
League of Conservation Voters Educational Fund . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Natural Resources Defense Council. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
NatureServe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,900
North Elba Land Conservancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,500
Northern New York Audubon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,450
Protect the Adirondacks!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,800
Student Conservation Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
The Nature Conservancy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
The Union of Concerned Scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
The Wild Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,850
The Wilderness Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Trust for Public Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800
Upper Saranac Lake Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000
Vermont Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Vermont Land Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750
Vermont Natural Resources Council. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Wildlife Conservation Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,250
World Wildlife Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Yellowstone Country Guardians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $306,715
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Adirondack Community Outreach Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,800
Adirondack Health Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,500
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AIDS/Life Cycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
American Diabetes Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
American Foundation for the Blind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800
American Heart Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
American Kidney Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800
American Red Cross of Vermont and New Hampshire Valley. . 1,000
Arthritis Foundation Northern and Southern
New England Chapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800
Behavioral Health Services North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820
Berkshire Farm Center and Services for Youth . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Brushton Moira Adult Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Comlinks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Covenant House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800
Creative Healing Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,550
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700
CVPH Medical Center Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Diabetes Research Institute Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
Ecumenical Charity Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Epilepsy Foundation of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Essex County Office for the Aging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,500
Families First in Essex County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,900
Family Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,000
Family Champions of the North Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
Franklin County Association of Senior Citizens. . . . . . . . . . . 400
Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Guide Dogs for the Blind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Christopher Emmett Hallowell Fund: 5 recipient families. . . . 11,500
Heifer International. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Hereditary Disease Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
High Peaks Hospice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,050
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
Keene Valley Neighborhood House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Kennedy Krieger Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Lake Placid Volunteer Ambulance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,500
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Town of Long Lake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Mental Health Association of Essex County . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,300
Mercy Care for the Adirondacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,200
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children . . . . . . . 800
National Glaucoma Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800
National Multiple Sclerosis Society, NYC Chapter. . . . . . . . . 1,000
North Country Association for the Visually Impaired. . . . . . . 400
North Country Children’s Clinic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000
North Country Life Flight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,050
North Elba Community Christmas Fund. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,500
Planned Parenthood Federation of America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Planned Parenthood Mohawk Hudson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Planned Parenthood of the North Country NY . . . . . . . . . . . 4,300
Plattsburgh Interfaith Food Shelf. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820
Project Concern International. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
Project Hope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York. . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Burlington . . . . . . . . . 500
St. Eustace Episcopal Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,200
St. Joseph’s Rehabilitation Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000
St. Paul’s Assumption Food Pantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750
Samaritan Family Counseling Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Saranac Lake Ecumenical Food Pantry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Spectrum Youth and Family Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
The Prevention Team. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,300
Trudeau Institute, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,750
Tupper Lake Community Food Pantry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden
and Grand Isle Counties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $172,595
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Adirondack Architectural Heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Adirondack Museum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
AuSable Club Preservation Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Casa del Herrero Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Essex Community Heritage Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Essex County Historical Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fort Ticonderoga Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Franklin County Historical and Museum Society. . . . . . . . . .
Johnsburg Historical Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lake Placid North Elba Historical Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
North Creek Depot Preservation Association . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sagamore Institute of the Adirondacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Schroon-North Hudson Historical Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Town of Webb Historical Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Willsboro Heritage Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
RECREATION
$3,550
41,930
1,500
800
1,500
500
5,000
400
1,450
500
4,250
500
3,700
300
400
3,000
500
$69,780
LIBRARIES
Belden Noble Memorial Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Town of Chester Public Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Friends of Fletcher Free Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Town of Johnsburg Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Keene Valley Library Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lake Placid Public Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Long Lake Library. . . . . . . . . .
New York Society Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Paine Memorial Free Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Saranac Lake Free Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Friends of the Schoon Lake Public Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tupper Lake Public Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Wadhams Free Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Wells Memorial Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$500
1,000
250
250
1,000
300
400
500
6,624
250
750
500
3,200
2,214
$17,738
Adirondack Marathon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Adirondack Ski Touring Council. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dewey Mountain Friends. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Friends of Mount Pisgah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lake Placid Outing Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lake Placid Ski Club. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
New York Ski Education Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Saranac Lake Pee Wee Hockey Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tri-Lakes Youth Lacrosse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tupper Lake Youth Nordic Ski Development Club. . . . . . . . .
Uihlein Ironman Sports Fund: 13 award recipients. . . . . . . .
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$500
250
800
1,000
1,000
5,000
2,250
500
750
2,000
11,600
$25,650
YOUTH
4-H Camp Overlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Adirondack Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Boy Scouts of America-Twin Rivers Council. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Town of Burke Youth Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Camp Dudley YMCA, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chester-Horicon Youth Commission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Double H Hole in the Woods Camp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
King Street Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Greater Malone Area YMCA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
National Camps for Blind Children. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Saranac Lake Youth Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Thomas A. Shipman Memorial Youth Center . . . . . . . . . . . .
Westchester Putnam Council, Boy Scouts of America. . . . . . .
YENGA-Saranac Lake Middle School Activities Club. . . . . . .
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Grand Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$400
750
250
800
250
450
800
400
250
400
800
250
500
500
2,000
$8,800
$2,369,492
education
The Adirondack Scholarship Fund, an endowment at ACT, is
an effective and convenient vehicle for donors who wish to
help make higher education attainable for Adirondack students.
Annual grant distribution is managed for ACT by the Bruce L.
Crary Foundation, which has made scholarship grants to 6,000
Adirondack students totaling $8.4 million during its 40-year
lifespan. There are never enough scholarship funds to meet the
needs of Adirondack students each year.
Camp $tart Up received a grant from the Evergreen Fund at ACT.
Students spent two weeks crafting plans for their own businesses.
This group founded “Cutie Pies,” ready-to-go healthy dinners for
busy Bostonian students.
Essex Community Fund
scholarship winner
Luke Barns with donors
Clint and Lawson Allen
at the July awards
ceremony.
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Adirondack native Mike Bissonette (with
wife Laura), an engineer with executive
competence in aerospace radar systems and
computer disk drives, is now a senior VP
at Aerovironment, focusing on clean-energy
solutions. He supported the fund, saying,
“Of all the financial assistance I received
for my college education, the unconditional
Crary scholarship left the biggest impression
on me. It was out of the goodness of someone’s heart that I would
receive a chance to gain a valuable education and excel, with no
strings attached other than to consider supporting the fund when
and if I ever could. Well, now I can, and I am thrilled to do so.”
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Convening
Last August, The Prospect Hill Foundation and ACT
held a symposium at the Wild Center for multiple
generations of Adirondack families. More than 80
people participated in a panel discussion featuring
ecologist Jerry Jenkins, Adirondack Nature Conservancy
director Michael Carr, and NCPR journalist Brian
Mann moderated by Open Space Institute director Kim
Elliman.
Nonprofit workers united.
From one multi-generational Adirondack family: Fred Rockefeller,
Kim Elliman and Sally Bogdanovitch.
Subsequently, ACT convened 33 business and
nonprofit leaders to explore a potential private sector
approach to economic stimulus through mentorship
of budding entrepreneurs. A new fund has been
established at ACT to support the group’s operations.
ACT was a founder of the Adirondack Nonprofit
Network, which came together in June for a multi-day
retreat that included Board and staff training on the
life cycles of nonprofits.
One post-conference comment: “ANN provided a
wonderful opportunity, place and training that allowed
me to collaborate, retreat, gain new perspectives and
strengthen my resolve to continue in this sometimes
crazy nonprofit world!”
Through its Sustainable Communities Fund, ACT
was a sponsor of the year-long Mapping the Future of
the Adirondacks project, conducted for the Common
Ground Alliance by Dave Mason and Jim Herman, to
encourage dialog and identify solutions to issues that
plague our communities. Already, movement is afoot
toward community revitalization in a host of areas.
Thinking entrepreneurial thoughts.
“You are doing exactly what the Adirondacks needs you to do! We desperately need to figure out
how to bring financial resources into the Park to fund positive, successful projects. Thank you!”
— Bill Farber, Supervisor, Town of Morehouse; Chairman, Hamilton County Board
of Supervisors; Chairman, Common Ground Alliance; Past President, Adirondack
Association of Towns and Villages.
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Endowment Challenge Successes
Media Matters
Congratulations are in order. Pendragon
Theatre of Saranac Lake, Sagamore
Institute in Raquette Lake, Tri-County
Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of
North Creek, Tri-Lakes Humane Society
in Saranac Lake, and the Winter Olympic
Museum in Lake Placid all met ACT’s
endowment matching challenge and
received grants of $5,000 to $10,000
from ACT to help build their endowment
funds.
Good news service means taking steps that enable people to
become informed and engaged, and, ultimately, to create the
community they want. Here are some of the ways ACT has been
investing in this work across the region:
• The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, acting on the
belief that we community foundations are uniquely positioned
to help identify and address the information needs of the
communities we serve, challenged ACT and North Country
Public Radio (NCPR) with a $300,000 grant to do just that.
Already, NCPR has
expanded and deepened
its news and information
service on all platforms. A
professional photographer
is training communitybased contributors to provide high-caliber visuals
for the new website and
other electronic venues.
One of NCPR’s interns, Jasmine Wallace,
is now a senior at St. Lawrence University Eleven apprentices, mostly
who plans a career in journalism.
seniors from regional
universities, have been learning at the hands of NCPR masters.
More stringers and part-time reporters are “on the ground” in
communities across the region.
Tri-County rocks.
Libraries Offer More Than Books
“Our libraries are now called upon
to support technological literacy and
skills development,” said Bobby Wages,
president of the board of the Charles
Wood Foundation. “That means they need
electronic hardware and software.”
ACT brought Charles Wood together with
the Lake Placid Education Foundation
to provide the matching funds a library
needs to qualify for a NYS Public Library
Construction Grant. A total of $85,000
went to the Chazy Public Library and the
Plattsburgh Public Library for tech-related
upgrades. The collaboration continues, and
ACT hopes to double the amount going to
Adirondack libraries this year.
Environment
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• [New] The Adirondacks’ news
magazine has established the
Adirondack Explorer Endowment
Fund at ACT. We are now working
to employ digital-marketing
methods to help expand the
Explorer’s circulation and
readership, especially among
“millennials,” the next generation
of community leaders.
The Adirondack Almanack, for
seven years an independent blog, has joined the Explorer,
becoming its online news magazine. Both are nonprofits devoted
to exploring, protecting, and unifying the Adirondack Park.
• The Charles B. Decker Fund at ACT supports the next
generation of local journalists. In 2014, the fund will send a
young reporter from the Adirondack Daily Enterprise to cover
the Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
• Mountain Lake PBS Endowment Fund at ACT bolsters its
operations, including local programming like Mountain Lake
Journal, Rustic Living and Roadside Adventures.
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Donors
Gifts Made July 1, 2011 — June 30, 2012
Thank You. No one is more active, proactive even, than our donors.
You lead the way in transforming your communities. And you leave things
even better than you found them.
Every single gift counts. Green-ness and frugality dictate that we list only
gifts of $100 or more in these pages. We had to decide between listing
everyone or putting the money toward community causes. There are 218
funds at ACT. This list shows only those that received gifts in the fiscal year
2011-2012. To see a complete list of all donors and all funds they have
created or contributed to, visit www.GenerousACT.org.
Volunteers and staff have worked hard to make this list accurate.
We apologize for errors that slipped through and welcome corrections.
ACT Chairman’s Fund
endowment in honor of ACT’s
founders and future chairs
Mr. Frederick C. Calder*
Adele and Tom Connors
Mr. and Mrs. Rich Kroes*
Oracle Corporation Matching Gifts Program
Meredith M. Prime Fund at ACT**
*in honor of Meredith M. Prime
**in honor of Adele Connors and
Vinny McClelland
ACT Operating Fund
supports programs and operations of ACT
Anonymous
Chairman’s Fund at ACT
Ms. Linda Cohen
Ms. Sarah Cohen
Melvil Dewey Fund at ACT
Mr. and Mrs. William Dietel
Ernst Family Fund at ACT
Evergreen Fund at ACT
Dr. and Mrs. Richard Frost
Ms. Jean Keet*
Kelsey Trust
Lack Family Fund
Landon Fund at ACT
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent McClelland
Mr. and Mrs. Everett A. McNeill
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Meltzer
Northern Piedmont Community Foundation,
Dowager Fund
Overhills Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Paine, Jr.
Meredith M. Prime Fund at ACT
Mr. and Mrs. John Rosenthal
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Vales
Mr. John A. Weldon
*in honor of Lee and Nancy Keet
Henry Uihlein II and Mildred Uihlein Foundation
The Winslow Foundation
ACT Scholarship Fund
Adirondack Architectural Heritage Fund
on behalf of its donors
Adirondack Explorer Fund
endowment
Barbara L. Glaser
Nordlys Foundation
Adirondack Foreign Language
Enhancement Fund
to enrich the teaching of French and Spanish
within Adirondack schools
Cadahemark Foundation
Corning Chisolm Fund at ACT
Mr. Michael Bissonette and Ms. Laura Bonomo
Adirondack Energy Products
Adk for Kids - Turkey Trot
Mr. Kenneth L. Marlow
Ms. Nancy A. Monette
Mr. Joseph J. Ordway
ACT Special and
Urgent Needs Fund
for nonprofits experiencing exigencies.
This fund made special emergency grants to
individuals following Tropical Storm Irene.
Anonymous Gift
Ms. Heidi G. Clute
Adele and Tom Connors**
Mr. and Ms. Philip M. Davis*
Drs. Jay and Dorothy Federman
Mrs. Winifred Hyson
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Keet
Kelsey Trust
Mr. and Ms. Douglas M. McKeige
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Meltzer
North Country School/Camp Treetops
Mr. Burdette Parks and Ms. Fran Yardley
Ms. Adele E. Pierce
The Prospect Hill Foundation
Mr. Ivan D. Ruiz and Mr. Felix Romero
Simple Gift Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Spongberg
Ms. Sally S. Venerable
Dr. C. Wendell Wickersham III*
Mr. and Mrs. Ted S. Wickersham
*in honor of Ted S. Wickersham
**in honor of Don and Olga Krone
ACT Unrestricted Fund
Anonymous
Mr. Russell Banks and Ms. Chase Twitchell
Jacaranda Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Benson
Mr. and Ms. Bruce Catlin
Ms. Sarah W. French
Ms. Laurie George
Heidecorn Family Fund at ACT
www.GenerousACT.org
endowment
Adirondack for Kids Fund
for needs and opportunities in the
Adirondack region
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Adirondack Architectural
Heritage Fund
for students in the Adirondack region seeking
higher education. Administered by the
Bruce L. Crary Foundation.
ACT Pass-Through Fund
accepts gifts for granting out to
charities serving the Adirondack region
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Jeffrey II
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Martin
Samwise Fund at ACT
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for youth activities in the region
that Adirondack Energy serves
Adirondack Sustainable
Communities Fund
supports new or existing collaborative initiatives
Adirondack Woodland
Acorn Account
for organizations preserving woodlands of any size
Mr. Andrew Love
Arquit Family Fund
facilitates family giving primarily
in the Adirondack region
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Arquit
Alice Ballard Hospice Fund
supports Hospice of the North Country
Mr. John Mark Parent
in memory of Mrs. George Davis
Bandshell Park Fund
for rebuilding the Mids Park bandshell, Lake Placid
Ms. Margaret Albright
Anonymous
Nancy H. Beattie Family Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Bissell III
Ms. Martha C. Briggs
Burnham Financial Services
Ms. Cynthia P. Charles
Ms. Barbara S. Cole
Community Bank
Mr. and Mrs. James P. Cushman
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Mr. Syd Cushman
Mr. Bill Edgerton
Mr. and Mrs. Reed F. Hawke
Ms. Mary Henn
Ms. Leslie W. Higgins
Holdereid Family Community Fund at ACT
Hurley Brothers
Mr. John E. Huwiler
Ms. Karen J. Ingraham**
Lake Placid Baptist Church
Lake Placid Vacation Corporation
Ms. Norma J. Lamb
Lockwood Family Fund at ACT
The David and Rosamund Lockwood
Charitable Trust*
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Long
Master Family Fund at ACT
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick R. McDonald
MCE Chemicals & Equipment
Ms. Allola Graham McGraw
Mr. and Mrs. James H. McGraw IV
Mr. and Mrs. W. Scott McGraw
Mr. and Mrs. John McMillin
Ms. Joyce Minasian
Mountain Orthotic and Prosthetic Services
NBT Bank
Sybil A. Pickett Fund at ACT
Mr. and Mrs. George F. Razook
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Roth
Dr. and Mrs. Howard Smith
Mr. Stephen D. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Taylor
Mr. Charles E. Walsh
Mr. Mark C. Yancich
Mr. and Mrs. Milan R. Yancich
Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Yancich
*in memory of May Louise Lockwood
**in memory of Bill and Midge Evans
Benware/Benoit
Acorn Account
for community projects in Malone
Mr. Henry J. Benoit**
Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Benware****
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony G. Burt
Hughes, Stewart and Race****
Mr. and Mrs. Milton G. Pender***
Ms. Cheryl Uecker*
*in memory of Verna Benware T. Jaden
**in memory of Jerome Benoit
***in memory of Archie and Gert Benware
****in memory of Richard J. Benware
Enid S. Brown Fund
A. Edward Blackmar Fund
Dr. and Mrs. Richard Frost
in the Tri-lakes region
Ms. Helen H. Berkeley
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Eisenman
Mr. Jeffrey S. Gaillard
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Gaillard
Mr. and Mrs. William D. Gaillard
Ms. Mary E. McClellan
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Savarese
all gifts are in memory of Dr. A. Edward
Blackmar
Booth Family Acorn Account
for giving in the Plattsburgh area
Mr. and Mrs. Alan B. Booth
Kevin Broderick Fund
supports young people attending designated schools
who embody love, compassion and strength
Dr. Mary Elizabeth Alexander *
Mr. Patrick J. Cammarata Jr.
Mr. Kenneth R. Giaquinto
*in memory of Kevin Broderick
Brooknoll Fund
facilitates family giving in the
Adirondacks and beyond
Mr. John Fritzinger
Fred E. Brown Fund
for maintenance of the buildings
and grounds of St. Eustace Church,
Lake Placid
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew S. Roy
to maintain lawns, gardens and signage at LPCA
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew S. Roy
Chapel Hill Fund
for initiatives involving cultural,
educational and social betterment
Town of Chester Library Fund
endowment
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne C. Baxter
Mr and Mrs. Chester F. Broman
Ms. Beverly B. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Cargioli
Mr and Mrs. Mark Carpenter
Mr. and Mrs. A. Frank Cappabianca
Dr. Frank J. Doberman
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Finnegan
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Gibbs Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Goldbecker
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Gotto
Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Hart
Dr. and Mrs. John W. Holdcraft
Mr. Kenneth C. Hopper
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Jensen
Ms. Maria C. Kondracki-Dwyer
Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Koppen
Ms. Janice G. Lippincott
Mr. Wendell G. Lorang
Mr. Randolph S. Martin M.D.,S.C.
Mrs. Joan W. Matson
Natural Stone Bridge and Caves
Mr. and Mrs. Herman F. Nied
Dr. and Mrs. William O’Dwyer
Ms. Fredericka Pereau
Mr. and Mrs. Gary E. Roberts
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Sliva
Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Smith
Michael W Stevenson Estate
Mr. and Mrs. W. John Sweeney
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony F. Taverni
Mr. and Mrs. W. Richard Tennyson
COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT
AND ENVIRONMENT
[New] Chapel Hill Fund focuses on initiatives involving cultural,
educational and social betterment in Northeastern New York with
emphasis on children and an aging society.
[New] Northern New York Audubon Fund, designated for
an organization dedicated to conserving and restoring natural
ecosystems in the Adirondacks.
Sue Therio, who donated her time, taught canning and preserving
at the North Creek Adirondack Community Outreach Center,
using produce from the Outreach garden. A grant from the
Community Fund for the Gore Mountain Region provided course
materials.
The YMCA used its
Malone Community
Fund at ACT grant
to buy field trip
equipment for its
new summer camp
program for children
ages 5 to 12.
Many ACT donors and the
at ACT made grants to the
North Country SPCA, which
began construction on its new
Elizabethtown shelter this
summer.
Photo by Margaret Miller.
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Mr. and Mrs. William I. Tierney Jr.
Town of Chester
Mr. and Mrs. Glen E. Vogel
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Watroba Jr.
Ms. Elaine Zack
Corning Chisholm Fund
facilitates family giving primarily to education
and youth in the Lake Placid region
Alvah Stone and Adele Corning Chisholm
Memorial Fund at the Cleveland Foundation
Adele and Tom Connors
Ms. Adele E. Pierce
Ms. Jean K. Wilson
Craig T. Chisum Memorial
Scholarship Fund
for Franklin Academy students
with specific qualities
Mrs. Gloria Gori
Linda and Sarah Cohen Fund
supports community projects and
nonprofits in the Central Adirondacks
Ms. Linda Cohen
Ms. Sarah Cohen
Crary Education Fund
scholarships across the Adirondacks
George Swift Trust
P.K. Curtin Chateaugay Fund
facilitates giving in the Town of Chateaugay
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Q. Bessette
Fischer, Bessette, Muldowney and Hunter
Mr. and Mrs. William K. Fitzgerald
Lions Club of Malone
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. O’Neill
Village Furniture and Design
Damoth Community Fund
supports designated organizations
in the Cranberry Lake area
Estate of Mr. Robert Damoth
Charles B. Decker Memorial
Scholarship Fund
for journalism students and professionals
in the Tri-Lakes and Watertown areas
Bruce L. Crary Foundation*
Ms. Margaret Decker*
G E Foundation
Mrs. Ann E. Merkel
*in memory of Janet P. Decker
Dooling/Danussi Fund
facilitates family giving primarily in the
Adirondacks
Mr. Paul Dooling and Ms. Sandra Danussi
Peter Drown Memorial
Scholarship Fund
currently building for future giving
Ms. Sarah Bayne
Mr. Michael Bedoin and Ms. Barbara Kunzi
Mr. John Bingham and Ms. Katharine M. Preston
Ms. Ann B. Cammack
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Cammack III
Mr. Charles W. Cammack and
Ms. Samantha Sanderson
Camp Pok-O-Moonshine
Champlain National Bank
Mr. Louis Comeau and Ms. Jani Lynn Spurgeon
Mr. and Mrs. Barry Cook
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W. Covert
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas W. Diamond
Ms. Sarah L. Disney
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew P. Dolan
Mrs. Maureen U. Ecclesine*
Mrs. Norma W. Goff
Mr. Adam A. Guettel
Mr. and Mrs. Earl S. Hamlin
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon M. Hayes, Jr.
Mr. Gary F. Heurich
Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Hoffman
Mr. and Mrs John E. Hunn
Mrs. Francisca P. Irwin
Mrs. Sally P. Johnson
The Kirk and Megan Kellogg Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Kellogg
Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Kennedy
Mr. Bruce H. Klink and Ms. Ruth Downey
Mr. and Mrs. John Klipper
Mr. Nathaniel Klipper
Ms. Pamela Krasney
Mr. Charles H. Lewis and
Mrs. Renee A. Rosch Lewis
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Madigan, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles McDuffie
Mr. and Mrs. McClain J. Moredock
Dr. and Mrs. H. Nicholas Muller III**
Mr. and Mrs. James P. Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Paine, Jr.
Ms. Cynthia B. Palen
Ms. Meredith A. Parsons
Mr. Douglas D. Peden
Mr. Franklin D. Renkoff and Mr. Peter Blaicher
Mr. and Mrs. David L. Reuther
Professor Richard Robbins and Ms. Amy Valentine
Dr. and Mrs. Fouad A. Sattar
Dr. and Mrs. Peter C. Schultz
Mr. and Mrs. Klaus O. Shigley
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce M. Stephan
Ms. Caryl J. Stewart and Mr. Pierre J. Bouton
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Stransky
Mr. and Mrs. L. Pierre Teillon, Jr.
Ms. Patricia A. Tivnan and Ms. Kathleen Ginn
Mrs. Lila L. Touhey
Dr. and Mrs. James B. VanHoven
Mrs. Dorothy Voorhis
*in memory of Joseph Ecclesine
**in memory of Sidney Couchey
Franklin Academy
Class of 1967
provides college scholarships for
Franklin Academy students
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Carroll
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. McGowan
Ms. Beverly Quenville
Ernst Family Fund
Ginsberg Family Fund
facilitates family giving
in the Adirondack region and beyond
provides scholarships for Tupper Lake students
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Ernst
Charlie Goff Memorial Fund
supports the charitable needs of the Town of Essex
Mr. Ronald A. Allbee and Ms. Susan F. Callahan
Mr. and Mrs. A. Clinton Allen III
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Ms. Muriel Ginsberg
facilitates giving in the Town of Essex,
especially for buildings and facilities
Mr. Lee Ackley and Ms. Sandra Vance
Mr. Ronald A. Allbee and Ms. Susan F. Callahan
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Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Carrick
Mr. and Mrs. Richard N. Close
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Delaughter
Mr. and Mrs. Colin K. Ducolon
Ms. Peggyanne Ecclesine***
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Goff
Mrs. Norma W. Goff*
Mr. Todd M. Goff and Mrs. Gretel Schueller
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Hanna
Mrs. Sally P. Johnson
Ms. Eileen R. Kelly
Mr. and Mrs. John Klipper
Ms. Meredith A. Parsons
Mr. Douglas D. Peden**
Mrs. Sylvia M. Tospann
*in memory of Charlie Goff
**in memory of Janice Lewis Peden
***in memory of Joseph Ecclesine
Community Fund for the
Gore Mountain Region
supports charitable needs of the Towns of Chester,
Horicon, Johnsburg, Minerva and Schroon
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Avignon
The Baco Che-Na-Wah Bazaar Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Barton
Barton Mines Company
Mr. and Ms. Joel Beaudin
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bien
Big Shanty
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Brassel
Brothers of Holy Cross
Ms. Nancy L. Brown*
Burnham Financial Services***
Mr. and Mrs. Claudio Cappabianca
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Carr
Mrs. Jane H. Castaneda
Mr. and Mrs. William Clarkson
Ms. Linda Combs
Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Cormack
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Cunningham
Mr. David Delorme
Mr. and Mrs. C. Wesley Dingman II
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Dockery
Dr. and Mrs. Steven J. Donovan
Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. duMoulin
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Elton
Equinox Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Farrell
Mr. and Ms. Bob Foley*
Mr. and Mrs. Roger M. Friedman
G E Foundation*
Gilma Enterprises
Mr. and Mrs. Travis H. Gordon
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Halloran
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Hezel
Mr. Peter Hovarth and Ms. Elizabeth Maher
Mr. Alan D. Johnson**
Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Jurow
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Kelly
Mr. and Ms. Frederick T. Krussman*
Mr. and Mrs. David C. Labar
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan S. Linen
Mr. Marcus Magee
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Magee
Mr. Michael G. Maxfield and Ms. Cathy Widom
Mr. Raymond L. McGee and Ms. Carol A. Whitney
Mr. Stuart M. Mitchell
Mrs. Angela M. Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Morse
Mountain Abstract Company
Mr. and Mrs. Norman H. Nuding
Mr. John M. Nuzum, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. James N. B. Rucker
Mr. and Mrs. Byron Shafer
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Seagle
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Lawrence and Marie Shore Fund at CFGCR
Mr. Lester Sternin****
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Thormann
Mr. William H. Tribou III
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Tuffey
Mr. Bill Weber and Ms. Amy Vedder
Ms. Heather Widlund and Mr. Matt Adams*
Mr. and Mrs. W. Eben Widlund*
Mr. and Mrs. Woody B. Widlund*
Mr. John M. Williams
*in honor of Woody B. Widlund
**in honor of Ernie Johnson
***in honor of Thomas M. Magee
****in memory of Alice Sternin
Christopher Emmet
Hallowell Fund
helps families caring for a severely ill child in
Clinton, Essex and Franklin counties
Mr. and Ms. Thomas O. Babcock
Ms. Elizabeth Bacot-Aigner
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy L. Barnett
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Cammack III
Mr. Jamie Paul Clark
Mr. and Mrs. James S. Draper II
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Flynn
Ms. Lynn Grivakes
Mrs. Daphne E. Hallowell
Mr. and Mrs. Lee H. Hallowell, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Aaron A. Harsh
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Healey
Mr. and Mrs. Danny Henderson
Mr. and Mrs. Shawn T. LaFountain
Dr. and Mrs. Edward M. Liebers
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Manny
Ms. Wendy A. Meguid
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Merriken, Jr.
Ms. Judith W. Miskell
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton P. Reaser
Rogers-Carroll Family Foundation
Mr. Jeremy Rudel
Mrs. Shirley Bacot Shamel
Mr. Robert N. Shapiro
Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Spitler
Ms. Simone S. Stephens
Mr. and Mrs. W. Nicholas Thorndike
Ms. Caroline W. Treadwell
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Trienens
West Brothers Construction
Kelly R. Huiatt Fund
facilitates giving primarily in the Adirondacks
Dr. Kelly R. Huiatt
Indian Lake Theater Fund
for the theater’s revitalization
Mr. Rollin A. Bush
Ms. Patricia M. Callahan
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Collins, Jr.
Curry’s Cottage
Ms. Judith C. Durkin
Mr. and Mrs. James Ficht
Mr. and Mrs. Drew C. Forhan
Mr. and Mrs. F. Dennis Hann
Mr. and Mrs. Jack James
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley P. Moody
Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard J. Neumaier
Mr. Dan A. Nielsen
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Radler
Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Schrade
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Seldman
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Strebel
Flood Relief Note: The outpouring of
generosity immediately following the disaster
was tracked with great care by ACT. The
Town of Jay received many gifts in the first
month and subsequently transferred them to
ACT. We recognize that these lists may contain
inconsistencies and hope donors will understand
that each gift was a blessing to flood victims, who
voiced their gratitude to all.
Jay Flood Relief Fund
for victims of Tropical Storm Irene
Peter and Dori Abbott
Adirondack Bank
Adirondack Correctional Facility’s Make a
Difference Committee
Adirondack Forty-Sixers
Adirondack Mountain Spirits
Adirondack Sauna
Adirondack Watershed Alliance
Susan Albert
Dr. Mary Elizabeth Alexander
Reverend Philip T. Allen
Richard and Leone Altieri
American Legion Post 504
Ameriprise Financial
Ms. Susan Amron
Ms. Nan Amstutz
Ms. Susan Angevine
Anonymous donors
Linda and Amy Aubin
Ausable Valley Central School’s Dance Club
AuSable Forks Fast Pitch Association
AuSable Forks Property Owners Association
AuSable Forks United Methodist Women
Ms. Patricia K. Averson
Jean and David Baker
Mr. Dale E. Balfour
Ms. Lisa Baltz
Mr. Frederick E. Balzac and
Ms. Kathleen E. Recchia
Mr. Brian Barrett
Douglas and Rosemary Barry
Mr. Andrew Bausili
Paul and Laurel Beattie
Suzanne Beaumont
Mr. and Mrs. Steven B. Bechard
Mr. and Mrs. David T. Bedore
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bellamy
P. Bruce Berra and Lorriane Duvall
Mr. and Mrs. Milton I. Bickle
Ms. Patricia Biesemeyer
Arthur and Sandy Bissell
Ms. Carol Blake
in honor of Zoe, Maeve and Tsinat
Hough-Brammer
Ms. Wendy Block
Bloomingdale Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary
Bollinger Insurance
Ms. Nancy E. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Both
Boy Scouts of America Troop 49
Ms. Lisa Bramen
Mr. Christian Brammer and Ms. Jane Haugh
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Bremer
Lloyd and Pam Brewer
Kegan Brill
Ernest and Barbara Brinkley
Mr. and Mrs. Glen F. Brooks
Orville and Joan Brown
Ms. Joyce Bruce
David Brunner and Rhonda Butler
Arts and Humanities
The Dorothy J. Vanko Memorial Fund for professional
development of the Lake Placid Center for the Arts’ staff,
established to honor the mother of retiring director Nadine
Duhaime, has doubled during its first year.
The Tricia Woods Memorial Music Fund grew from acorn
account to fund status this year. It will make grants to the Tupper
Lake High School music department for music programs and
performances.
The Community Fund for the Gore
Mountain Region at ACT awarded a
grant to the Adirondack Shakespeare
Festival for summer performances in
Schroon Lake and Chester.
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ACT was a sponsor of the Wild Center’s wildly successful
Adirondack Youth Climate Summit in 2011. More than 40
high schools and
colleges and 550
students have taken
part since 2008,
learning about
climate change and
how to reduce the
carbon footprint of
their schools and
communities.
Photo courtesy of the Wild Center.
Photo courtesy of the Adirondack
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Ms. Mary A. Buehler-Brandt
Building Envelope Specialists
Mr. and Mrs. James Burrows
David C. Butler
Caito Public Affairs
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Calhoun
Mr. Michael Caplin
in honor of Rebecca Kelly
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Carman
in honor of Elizabeth Hollister
William and Joan Carr
Paul and Edith Casson
Catholic Daughters of the Americas
Cavalry United Methodist CSM Benevolence Fund
Mari Cecil
Central Garage
Richard and Kathleen Chapman
Mr. Anthony C. Charles
Mr. Stephen Chatelle
Mr. and Mrs. David M. Chatt
Mr. Peter R. Christianson and Ms. Serena Furman
Ms. Monique Clague
Mr. Jeffrey Clark
Donald and Kimberly Colby
Mr. and Mrs. David R. Comegys
Community Bank
Mr. Eric J. Coons and Ms. Suanne M. Coonrad
Ms. Candace Cornell
Mr. Edward K. Courter and Ms. Leisa Almekinder
Earle and Pauline Crahan
Galen Crane and Cali Brooks
Patricia Creighton
Mr. Syd Cushman
Mr. Richard Cusumano
Lester and Joan Daby
Evelyn Dambro
Dannemora Community United Methodist Church
Ms. Elizabeth Z. Davidson
Caroline DeClerque
Peter and Kathy DeFina
Dr. and Mrs. William DeHoff
Timothy Devins Garage and Deli
Milton Dickerson and Katherine Mackinnon
Mr. Richard H. Dinalfo CPA
Mr. John Dirolf
Mr. Paul Dirolf
Mr. and Mrs. David Dohman
Mr. Paul Dooling and Ms. Sandra Danussi
Mr. Thomas Dorato
Lorraine Douglas
Gary Dreiblatt and Nancy Sinkoff
Mr. and Mrs. John Dreissigacker
Ducharme Dairy
Reverend Milton Dudley and Ms. Kathryn Kernan
Edenfield and Snow Accounting Services
Mr. David C. Edmonds
Mr. Bob Eilers
Dominic and Melissa Eisinger
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Elting
Essex County Democratic Committee
Robert Farkas and Anne Scavo
Feek Pharmacy
Stefany Ferrell
First Giving, Ironman athletes
First Presbyterian Church in Ogdensburg
Ms. Linda Fisher
Colonel Marc W. Fisher, Jr.
Ms. Dana Franznick
Steven Fuller Excavating
Ms. Wendy Fuller-Mora
Robert Gajarski, Jr. and Barb Oettgen
Dennis and Martha Gallagher
Warren and Jean Gallic
Garden Club of Lake Placid
GE Foundation
Ms. Brenda Gelles
Ms. Danielle Gemme
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Ms. Laurie George
in memory of Malcom Hopper
Robert and Sue Gettens
Mr. James E. Gilligan
Mr. and Mrs. David T. Godfrey
Ms. Louise L. Gregg
Ms. Susan Grenier
Mr. Peter Groome
Stephen and Wendy Hall
Hallsport Christian Church
Edward and Patricia Hanlon
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hanna
Mr. Brian K. Hart
Mr. and Mrs. Lendall L. Haskell
Hawkeye Conservationists
Mr. Wayne R. Hayes
Mr. Joseph Hedgecock
High Peaks Church
Ms. Kim Hildreth
Susan and Robert Hockert
Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Holderied
Veronica and David Hollingsworth
Holy Name Rectory
Mr. Ray Holzer
Homenergy Services
Linda Terrell Hormes
Hungry Trout Motor Inn & Restaurant
Ironman Foundation
Mr. James Jacob
Ms. Carol B. Jackman
Jay Entertaiment and Music Society
Town of Jay
Mr. John Johanson
Ms. Jody Johnson
Wayne and Cathy Johnston
Carolyn and Francis Kane
Keene Valley Congregational Church
Jackie Kelleher
Richard and Janice Kennedy
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Ketchell, Jr.
Mr. Charles B. Kingsley
Malcolm Klein and Margaret Gatz
Klotnet Software
Knights of Columbus Number 4689
Knights of Columbus Number 7273
Mr. and Mrs. James B. Kobak, Jr
Ms. Anna Kowanko
Ms. Elizabeth D. Krell
John Kronstadt
Mr. Michael Kulik and Ms. Jennifer Colver
Mr. James Lacey
Mr. Michael Lacy
Jeffrey and Lynn Ladieu
Burt and Phyllis LaGoy
Lake Placid Center for the Arts
Ms. Cheryl Ann LaMora
Mr. Geof Laughin
Frank and Alethe Lescinsky
Mr. Gary L. Leshko
Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Likewise
Lisa G’s
Little Supermarket/Roberts Enterprises
Holland Patent Lions Club
Peru Lions Club
Lions Club of Saranac Lake
Stephan and Diane Loiacono
The Lubrizol Foundation
Mr. Michael Lynch and Ms. Ariel A. Diggory
Mr. Ralph L. Macdonald, Jr.
C. L. Mack
Ms. Anne Mackinnon
Ms. Constance Main
Mr. Thomas R. Mainzer M.D.
Manson Family
Donald and Frances Marcus
Mr. Charles Marshall
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Terry and John Martino
Mr. Daniel Mason and Ms. Debora Rice
Mr. David H. Mason and Mr. James G. Herman
John and Marlene McAlevey
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. McAllister
Ms. Leslie J. McCarthy
Mr. Robert McClellan
Robert and Patricia McDermott
Ms. Marilyn McDonald
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. McDonough
Mr. and Mrs. Michael McGaughey
McLanahan Family Charitable Fund at Vanguard
Mr. and Mrs. Dean F. Melville
Memorial Chapel of All Souls
Menke Enterprises
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Meslar
Ms. Ellen I. Metcalf
Mr. and Mrs. Rick Meyer
Mr. Ralph Midiri
Richard and Sandra Mihill
Mr. John Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Steven W. Miller
Ms. Betty J. Mintzer
Mirror Lake Watershed Association
Moon Valley Farm
Mountain View Inn
Ms. Sylvia Mustelier
Stephen and Barbara Neel
NY Capital District Ski Council
Thomas Nicholl, DDS
Tom and Naomi Nicoll
North Country School/Camp Treetops
Northern Federal Credit Union
Northwood School
Michael and Nancy Nugent
J. Peter and Susan Purdy Oettgen
L’Ordine Della Vite
Ms. Barbara Peduzzi
Ms. Joni M. Pentifallo
Ms. Patricia Perrin
Mr. Paul Petroccione
Placid Management
Mr. Edmund Polubinski and Ms. Grace Offutt
Ho Ling and Siu Ying Poon
Dana and Isaac Regett
Mr. Robert F. Reid and Ms. Kathleen A. McGrail
Ms. Sarah Richards
Ms. Susan Richards
Ms. Ann V. Richardson
Mr. Philip Richter
River Rock Salon
Rotary Club of Lake Placid
Ferdinand and Billie Ruepp
Mr. John P. Runyon
Carol Rupprecht
Ruthie’s Run
John and Lottie Ryan
St. Andrews Society of the Adirondacks
St. Eustace Episcopal Church
Mr. Robert St. Ives
St. Luke’s Church
St. Mary’s Church
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Mr. George Sandarev DDS
Saranac Lake School
Knut and Marisol Sauer
Cornelia and Ralph Schmaelzle
Mr. Jeffrey Sears
Mr. Robert Segall
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce F. Semans
Elizabeth and Daniel Senkowski
Ms. Amy Shalton
Mr. Richard Shapiro
Mr. and Mrs. David J. Sherry
Annalis Simpson
Mr. and Mrs. Gary E. Slusher
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Mr. Gary Smith
Mr. Geoffrey Smith
in honor of Julie and Terry Robards
Ms. Sandra Smith
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Snow
Timothy and Christine Snow
Special and Urgent Needs Fund at ACT
Staritch Foundation
Ms. S. Letitia Stevens
Mr. Darryl W. Stout
Mr. Michael Strack
Larry and Susan Straight
Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Straight
Mr. Bob Styles
Mr. Richard Suttmeier
Ms. Eleanor Sweeney
George and Martha Lee Sweetman
Tahawus Lodge #790
Team FeXY
William and Cora Trumbull
Stephen and Joan Turbek
Mr. and Ms. Charles J. Turek
Mr. Guy Tyler
Ms. Denney Uffelman
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Vanderburgh
Ms. Joan Verner
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Visconti
Ms. Sarah Vogel
Paul and Antel Voight
VP Supply Corporation
Bruce and Elizabeth Wadsworth
Mr. William M. Waldy, Jr.
Ward Lumber Company
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Ward
in honor of Camille and Charlotte Ward
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney J. Ward, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney J. Ward III
Ms. Patricia Weckesser
Mr. Douglas Weiskopf
Whiteface Community United Methodist Church
Whiteface Lodge
Whiteface Methodist Women
Whiteface Mountain Regional Visitors Bureau
in memory of Linda Letourneau
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Wisher
David and Jean Wiswell
Mr. Jack Wolfe
Women’s College Scholarship Club
Mr. William N. Woodin
Bert and Heike Yost
Terrance and Mildred Young
Terrance and Sue Young, Young’s Studio & Gallery
Mr. Bernard Ziolkowski
Mr. Joel P. Zurlo
Keene Flood Recovery Fund
for victims of Tropical Storm Irene
Mr. and Mrs. Reed J. Abbott
Ms. Barbara Abrahamer
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Adamowicz
Adirondack Forty-Sixers
Adirondack Mountain Reserve
Adirondack Watershed Alliance
emergency response
Tropical Storm Irene illuminated the community spirit that links the
Adirondacks’ geographically isolated towns and villages to each other
and to people across the country. Thousands contributed volunteer and
financial support in the days and months that followed. Working with the
Keene Community Trust
and the Town of Jay, ACT
transformed gifts totaling
more than $800,000 into
grants that went directly
to people, small businesses
and nonprofits in need
through the Keene Flood
Recovery Fund, the Jay
Irene Flood Relief Fund
and the Special and
Urgent Needs (SUN)
A little help from our friends.
Fund.
Photo by Angie Cook.
Thank you letters poured in, matching the flow of gifts. “Survivors” who
spoke at the one-year anniversary hosted by Project Hope, a recipient of
a SUN Fund grant, said they never felt alone. The quick and constant
generosity of neighbors near and far made it possible for them to carry on.
“A group of us from Ponds Reformed
Church in New Jersey did maintenance
work around town [Jay]. We tended to
washed-out gardens, cleaned up the
pavilion, and built stairs that had been
washed away. It was a great experience.
The town employees and residents were
wonderfully welcoming. By the way,
we raised over $1,300 at a coffee house
and donated it to the Upper Jay Fire
Department.” —Missy Elfers
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The number of gifts—1,320—that arrived to support the
victims of Irene does not reflect the number of people
who contributed. The donors we were able to identify are
listed in the Donors section of this report.
Here are some of the creative methods many, many
others used to contribute. Thanks go to all who held or
attended benefits, put coins in cans, sent a cut of a day’s
receipts—you made a difference.
•A chef in California’s income for a day
•Belle of Amherst benefit performance,
Kathleen Recchia
•Cash Jars in local stores, restaurants,
farmers’ markets
•Columbus Day Square Dance, Keene Valley
•East Branch Friends of the Arts
Charlie Fisk concert
Martha Gallagher concert
Willem Lang storytelling
•Goodbye Irene Concert, Indian Lake
•Ironman athletes’ First Giving
•A church concert in Jay
•Keene Central School cash benefit
•Keene Valley Farmers’ Market,
percentage of day’s sales
•Lake Placid Center for the Arts concert benefit
•Art studio tours in the Town of Jay
•Nori’s Sunday donation day
•Block Parties in Keene Valley and Upper Jay
•Ward Lumber and Fuller Excavating
Matching Gift Challenge
•The Water is Wide, sale of Martha Gallagher’s CD
•Whiteface Lodge benefit
•Whiteface Mountain Annual Fall Festival of Colors
•Zumba class proceeds
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Affinity Group Member Services
Albany International
Mr. Arnold Alfert DMD
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Allen, Jr.
Alpine Club of Canada - Montreal
Ms. Jacqueline H. Altman
American Legion Marcy Post 1312
Amica Companies Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Andrew, Jr.
Ms. Emma H. Andrews
Mr. Robert A. Andrews and
Ms. Margaret A. Wilson
Mr. and Mrs. Woodbury H. Andrews
Anonymous donors
in honor of Karen Fraser, Ellen Barr,
Caroline Goodin
in honor of the Worth family
in memory of Mark Jones
Ms. Felicity Arengo
Mrs. Duffield Ashmead III
Mr. and Mrs. Burgess N. Ayres
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ayres
Mr. and Mrs. Colt Bagley
Mr. and Mrs. James G. Bailey
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Balaguer, Jr.
The Baldwin Foundation
Ms. Christina B. Bales M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Bales
Mr. John F. Bankes and Ms. Pamela M. Gibson
in honor of Schuyler F.E. Bankes and family
Mr. Russell Banks and Ms. Chase Twitchell
Dr. and Mrs. C. Wayne Bardin
Dr. and Mrs. James A. Barnshaw
Mr. Brian P. Barrett Esq.
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Barrett
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Barrett
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent B. Barrett
Ms. Leah Barton
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Beer
Ms. Katharine C. Bejnar
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bellamy
Ms. Diane E. Bellenger
Ms. Heidi E. Bellenger
Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Belt
Mr. and Mrs. Rodman W. Benedict
Ms. Susan S. Benedict
Ms. Anna Beresniewicz
Mr. and Ms. Tomas Bergstrand
Mr. James Bernard
Mr. and Mrs. Blaine E. Berner
Mr. P. Bruce Berra and Ms. Lorraine Duvall
Ms. Jane S. Bickford
Mr. and Mrs. Louis N. Bickford
Robert and Patricia Biesemeyer
The Birch Store
Mr. Robert Blickwedehl
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bloch
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Boardman
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bogardus
Mr. and Ms. Perry J. Bolton
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Booth, Jr.
Ms. Nancy E. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Both
Ms. Toni Bothwell
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Bradbury, Jr.
Mr. Christian Brammer and Ms. Jane Haugh
Mr. Michael Brenish and Ms. Marion D. Smith
Mr. Ronald J. Briggs
Ms. Sarah A. Britton
Brooknoll Fund at ACT
Ms. Winifred Brost
Mr. T. Alan Broughton
in memory of T. Robert S. and Annie Leigh
Broughton
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Mr. Alan Brown and Ms. Susan Moody
Ms. Deborah D. Brown
Brown Investment Advisory and Trust Company
Ms. Margaret L. S. Brownell
Mr. Dirk A. Bryant and Ms. Kara D. Page
Mr. John T. Buchanan
Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Buchanan
Ms. Joan R. Burchenal
Mr. Van V. Burger, Jr.
Ms. Sandra Burke
Mr. and Mrs. John Butterworth
Mr. and Mrs. John Butterworth, Jr.
Mr. Jonathan E. Byrd
Ms. Susan L. Byrd
Mr. Robert Cameron
Camp Dudley YMCA
Ms. Lynn Campbell
Mr. and Mrs. Harrison K. Caner III
Capital Accounting Services
Mr. Paul C. Capra
Mr. William T. Carifa
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Carlson
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Carman
in honor of Al and Jini Hood
Ms. Frances T. Carpenter
Mr. Michael T. Carr
Mr. Richard T. Carr, Jr.
Mr. Robert E. Carr
Mr. Merrill W. Carrington
Mr. Timothy T. Carrington
Mr. and Mrs. David N. Carson
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Carugati
Cascade Builders Corporation
Mr. Joseph J. Cassano and Ms. Ellen Hooker
Ms. Martha Casselman
Champlain National Bank
Ms. Karen V. Chapman
in memory of Paul Tryon
Ms. Kathleen Chapman
Mr. and Mrs. David M. Chatt
Mr. and Mrs. David Childs
Mr. William Chorske
Ms. Jane Christiansen
Church of St. Luke the Beloved Physician
Ms. Monique W. Clague
Mr. Peter L. Clarke
Coach Matching Gift Program
Mr. and Mrs. Scott S. A. Coby
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas P. Coe
The Coff E. Bean
Mr. and Mrs. David D. Coffin
Ms. Julia Cohen
in honor of the Dwyer family
Mr. John K. Colgate, Jr.
Mr. Peter W. Collinge and Mrs. Carol A. Thiel
Ms. Hope L. Colt
Mr. Ronald N. Comstock and Mrs. Barbara J. Hall
Mr. and Ms. Tom Connolly
Mr. and Mrs. Frederic W. Cook
Roger and Elizabeth Darcie Corbin Fund
for Ministry
Ms. Carol Cowen
Mr. Galen Crane and Ms. Cali Brooks
Mr. and Mrs. Darin Crippen
Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Cunningham
Mr. Michael W. Curran
Ms. Ravenel Curry
in honor of Leroy and Mimi McMakin
Mr. and Mrs. Gary M. Curtis
Mr. Syd Cushman
Ms. Julia E. Damkoehler
Ms. Elizabeth Z. Davidson
Mr. and Mrs. Scott M. De Palma
Ms. Erin DeCurtis
in honor of the Pope and Walsh families
Mr. and Mrs J. Dennis Delafield
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Ms. Suzanne Delaney
Ms. Jenifer H. Deming
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Dennis
Mr. James M. Dennis
Dental TLC
Ms. Nancy V. Deren
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Derr
Mr. and Mrs. James Detmer
Mr. Lynn P. DeWalt and Ms. Theresa M. Cary
Mr. and Mrs. John I. Dezalia
Ms. Alison S. Dittrich
Ms. Laska Dittrich
Mr. Brian J. Dixson
Dogwood Bread Company
Mr. Kevin Doody
Ms. Susan C. Doolittle
Mr. Richard Drosse
Mr. and Mrs. Alden Dumas
Ms. Laura Duncan
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Dunford
Mr. Peter Dunham
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Dwight
Mrs. Barbara S. Dwyer
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Eagan
East Branch Friends of the Arts
Ms. Anne A. Ehrlich
Dominic and Melissa Eisinger
Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Elfner III
in memory of Samuel G. Johnson
Mr. Richard R. Ellington
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas K. Emerson
in honor of Sandra Burke
Ms.Nancy J. Emrich
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Endries
Essex County Democratic Committee
Evergreen Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Farley
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory R. Farrell
Ms. Sally K. Farrell
Mr. and Mrs. Louis C.R. Farrelly
Farrelly Marketing Services
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Fates
Mr. Edward P. Finnerty and
Ms. Nancie R. Battaglia
Mr. Sam Fisk and Ms. Linda Coe
Mr. and Mrs. Philip R. Forlenza
Mr. and Mrs. G. Allan Forsyth
Mr. and Mrs. Esty Foster
Mr. and Mrs. J. Edward Fowler
Mr. Robert G. Frawley
Mr. Keith A. Freeman
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Freire, Jr.
Ms. Sarah W. French
Mr. John Fritzinger
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy C. Fritzinger
Mr. Evan Fuguet
Mr. and Mrs. Howard K. Fuguet
Ms. Wendy Fuller-Mora
Dennis and Martha Gallagher
Mr. J. Richard Gallagher
Mr. Mark T. Gallogly and
Ms. Elizabeth B. Strickler
Garden Club of Lake Placid
Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Gaudreau
GE Foundation
Genessee Valley Chapter
Adirondack Mountain Club
Dr. and Mrs. A. Giambartolomei
Mr. Frank B. Gill and Ms. Sally Coyne
Mr. James E. Gilligan
The Frederick H. Gillmore Fund
The Thomas Glasser Foundation
Golden Peaks
Mr. James Goldfarb
Ms. Carolyn M. Golojuch
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Good
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Mr. Greg M. Goodenbour
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Goodwin, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey T. Goodwin
Mr. and Mrs. Howard R. Gordon
Mr. and Mrs. David Gosda
Mr. Oscar A. Gottscho
Mr. and Mrs. Darren E. Gough
Grabe Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Jerold N. Graff
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Graham
Green Goddess Foods
Ms. Louise L. Gregg
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan S. Griffiths
Mr. David R. Griffiths and
Ms. Susan R. Lindteigen
Mr. Joseph P. Grimm
Ms. Pamela L. Griset
Harry C. Groome IV Fund at
National Philanthropic Trust
Mr. Peter Groome
Mr. Jeremy Haas
in honor of Cloudsplitter Guides
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Haberle
Mr. Lawrence C. Ham
Leita & William Hamill Family Foundation
Mr. Lewis Hamilton
Mr. William G. Hamilton
Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Hanlon
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A. Harris
Mr. David W. Harris
Mr. Robert P. Harris
Mr. Brian K. Hart
Mr. Roger Hart
Harweb Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Hay
Ms. Patricia M. Healy
Mr. Joseph Hedgecock
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Heimerdinger
Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. Heinz
Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Hendrickson
The Joan C. and David L. Henle Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Henry
Mr. John J. Herman
in honor of Jim Herman
Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Herman
Mr. Stephan Heucke
Ms. Anne C. Heyniger
Ms. Kristen A. Heyniger
Ms. Lisa R. Heywood-Drake
Ms. Mary Page F. Hickey
High Peaks Church
Ms. Sandra Hildreth
Ms. Carol J. Hillock
Ms. Charlotte Hitchcock
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Hoar
Ms. Martha F. Hoar
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hoar, Jr.
Ms. Caroline P. Hoffman
Ms. Christina Hoffman
in honor of Ed Hoffman
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hoffman
Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Holderied
Ms. Kate S. Hollos
Mr. D. Craig Holmes
Mr. and Mrs. William D. Holmes
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Hopkins
Mr. and Ms. Art Hopper
David and Ann Hough
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Hume
Hunsaker Charitable Gift Fund at Fidelity
Mr. David P. Hunt
Mr. John S. Hutchins
Dr. and Mrs. Christopher P. Hyson
Mrs. Winifred Hyson
Ms. Courtney G. Iglehart
Dr. and Mrs. Iredell W. Iglehart III
Jacaranda Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jackson
Mr. and Mrs. Harold W. Janeway
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Jaques
Mr. and Mrs. Pliny Jewell III
Mr. Rupert H. Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. David Jordan
Ms. Henrietta B. Jordan
Mr. Joseph S. Junkin
Mr. and Mrs. Agris J. Kalnajs
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kaplan
Ms. Barbara Kaufman
Mr. Michael Kaufman
Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Keeler
Keene Central Teachers Association
Keene Fitness
Keene Valley Congregational Church
Keene Valley Stove
Ms. Patricia H. Keesee
Mr. Michael Kellogg
Ms. Mary B. Kelly
Mr. and Mrs. John B. K. Kenrick
Mr. Ross H. Kenyon
Mr. Ben Kernan
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Kernan
Maud Kernan Memorial Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Kerr
Mr. and Mrs. Gayle R. Kerr
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. King
Mr. and Ms. Don Kirk
Ms. Jane P. Kirkbride
Mr. Allan Kling and Ms. Tecca Crosby
Mr. and Mrs. James B. Kobak, Jr
Mr. and Mrs. Jerrold S. Krivitzky
Mr. and Mrs. Roman Kucharczyk
Ms. Ruth M. Kuhfahl
Mr. and Mrs. Miles A. Kulukundis
Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Kurth
The LA Group
Ms. Lindsay K. and Ms. Linda A. LaBarge
Lake Placid News
Lake Placid Regatta
Ms. Eileen M. Lamb
Ms. Jo Ann Lancaster
Mr. and Mrs. Brad Landers
Ms. Janet Langlois
Mr. Alexander J. LaRosa
Mr. Daniel T. Larson and Ms. Jennifer E. Hoffman
Ms. Anne A. Laumont
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Lawton III
The Learned-Preston Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. C. Earl Ledden
Ms. Nancy Lee
Ms. Pamela W. Leighton
Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Lescinsky
Ms. Sandra J. Lessard
Ms. Charlotte Lichtenberg
Lisa G’s
Ms. Elaine E. Livote
Mr. Richard W. Longstreth
health and human services
[New] The Trevor Fund for Adirondack Medical Center,
endowment for the leading provider of health care for the
residents and visitors of the Tri-Lakes region, and the Trevor
Fund for Trudeau Institute, endowment for a biomedical
research organization working to prevent and treat cancer,
asthma, arthritis and infectious diseases.
[New] Planned Parenthood of the North Country of New York,
endowment for a family reproductive health-care provider.
Sarah Anna Petersen’s
illustration of the flood
that destroyed Keene’s
fire house accompanied
a gift to the Keene Fire
Department Fund from
AR&R, 10 families
“looking forward to your
new building.”
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Thousands of people have learned to swim at the YMCA or use
children’s summer day camp, after-school care and full-day child
care. The Port Jackson Fund made a grant to the Plattsburgh
Y’s $125,000 facility improvements campaign, celebrating its’
125th anniversary.
Photo courtesy of the Y Website.
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Mr. and Mrs. Worth Loomis
Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Lowenthal
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony F. Lucas
Mr. and Mrs. Nils Luderowski
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Luke
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Luthringshauser
Mr. Michael Lynch and Ms. Ariel A. Diggory
Mr. and Ms. Roland M. Machold
Ms. Catherine L. Mack
Ms. Anne K. MacKinnon
Ms. Judith C. Maddock
Mrs. Phyllis S. Magnus
Ms. Patricia Mahtani
Mr. James C. Makseyn
Ms. Stefani Mar
Ms. Patricia D. March
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Mare
Mr. Michael Marino
Mr. James Marsh
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Martin
Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Martin
Mr. Daniel Mason and Ms. Debora Rice
Mr. David H. Mason and Mr. James G. Herman
Ms. Mary Hope M. Mason
Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence L. Master
Mr. Edward E. Matthews
The Edward E. and Marie L. Matthews Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory E. Matthews
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Matthews
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McCabe
Ms. Noreen McCarthy
Mr. Robert McClellan
George K. McClelland Fund at ACT
Ms. Pamela K. McClelland
Ms. Catherine C. McCoy
Ms. Allola Graham McGraw
Ms. Christina McGuire
Mr. and Ms. Douglas M. McKeige
Mr. Bruce McLanahan
Ms. Leigh A. McMakin
Memorial Chapel of All Souls
Mrs. Ann E. Merkel
Mrs. Annette C. Merle-Smith
Mr. and Mrs. William Mesnard
Mr. Thomas Michalik
Ms. Carol L. Michelfelder
Mr. and Mrs. William Michelfelder
Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Michie
Mr. Avery S. Miller and Mr. Gregory Mocek
Ms. Constance A. Miller
Mr. Edward T. Miller II
Ms. Noel C. Miller
Mirror Lake Watershed Association
Ms. Marjory B. Moeller
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Moran
Ms. Sarah Morgan
Mr. James Morley
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Morley, Jr.
Mr. David Morris and Ms. Harriet S. Barlow
Mr. and Mrs. David W. Morris
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Morris, Jr.
Mountain View Inn
Honorable Robert J. Muller
Ms. Nancy Murphy
Mr. Frederick Muschenheim
Nachbur and Farrell families
Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Nason
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Nason
The Neuwirth Foundation
Ms. Jane Nigra
Nori’s Village Market
Ms. Mary B. Nottebohm
Mr. Paul Z. Nowicki
Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Nye, Jr.
Mr. Christopher O’Brien
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. O’Connor
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Ms. Sarah K. O’Connor
Ms. Patricia O’Neill
Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. O’Rourke
Mr. and Mrs. Bengt Ohman
Mr. Jonathan W. Old III
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Olmsted
Frank and Martha Lee Owen
Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Palen
Paine Family Fund at ACT
Mr. and Mrs. Sui-Kwong P. Pao
Mr. Henry Parnass
Mr. Donald T. Pascal
Mr. and Mrs. William Paternotte
Paul Smith’s College
Mr. Frank T. Peartree
in memory of the Chaffey and Hickey families,
and Lida Whitone
Ms. Louisa A. Peartree
Ms. Anitra Christoffel-Pell
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony D. Pell
Ms. Luandra Pepe and Ms. Lindsay LaBarge
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Perkins
Mr. Jeffrey L. Peters and Ms. Sally Ann Webster
Mr. Paul Petroccione
Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Pettibone
Ms. Carol J. Pinney
Ms. Mary Pitts
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey O. Plank
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Plaut
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan F. Plehn
Mr. Steven L. Plehn
The Steven Pounian Fund, Vanguard
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin R. Pratt
Mr. Rick Prescott and Ms. Lora J. Leavy
Ms. Alexandra L. Preston and
Ms. Karen M. Danjczek
Ms. Katharine M. Preston and Mr. John Bingham
Mr. Seymour Preston, Jr.
Ms. Karen Price
Mrs. Meredith M. Prime
Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Prouty
Mr. James Pugh
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Pugsley
Pumpkin Hill Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Pusateri
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred W. Putnam, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Quaintance III
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Quenell
Ms. Sarah Quigley
Mr. Peter Quimby
Mr. Sean P. Quinn
Dr. and Mrs. Warren A. Radcliffe, Jr.
Mr. John Ragusa
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Randi
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Randolph
Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Ranney
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Reagan, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Recht
Mr. William Redpath
Dr. H.L. Reed Memorial Fund at Fidelity
Mr. Robert F. Reid and Ms. Kathleen A. McGrail
Mr. Richard L. Reinhold
Mr. John Reiss
Ms. Judith N. Renzulli
Ms. Barbara Rexilius
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Reynolds, Jr.
Ms. Ann V. Richardson
Mr. and Mrs. Eric Ridder, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Steven I. Riley
River Rock Salon
Rivermede Farm
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Roberts
Ms. Andrea Q. Robinson
Mr. and Mrs. David B. Robinson
Ms. Carol Roche
Mr. Edward P. Roche and Mrs. Phyllis Stinson
Mr. Kevin Roche
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Dr. and Mrs. Gary F. Rockwell
Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop A. Rockwell
Mr. Peter Rogers
Mr. William F. Rogers IV
Mr. Antonio Rossmann
Major and Mrs. Gregory E. Roth
Mr. Peter A. Rowley
Mr. Joseph W. Rumbough, Jr
Mr. John P. Runyon
Ms. Carol S. Rupprecht
Mr. Stephen Rusmisel
Mr. and Mrs. Kurt V. Ryden
Mr. Fritz M. Sabbow and Mr. Rob Hastings
Mr. and Mrs. Vito L. Sacchetti
St. Huberts Foundation Trust
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Saranac Lake Elks Lodge
Saranac Lake Teachers’ Association
Mr. John A. Sargent
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur V. Savage
Mr. and Mrs. Hans Schachenmayr
Ms. Janet K. Schloat
Mr. Steven R. Schraeder
Ms. Janelle Schwartz
Scribe
Ms. Margaret Sennett
Mr. William A. Serjak and Ms. Betsy W. Blackmer
Service Bar
Dr. and Mrs. William R. Shakun
Mr. Richard Shapiro
Ms. Karen Sheasby
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Shipps
Ms. Susan G. Shipps
Mr. Lawrence Shopmaker
Mr. and Mrs. Steven G. Shumway
Ms. Barbara A. Skoda
Skyview Academy Foundation
Mr. Peter Slocum and Ms. Ann C. Sayers
Ms. Barbara Smith and Ms. Kimberly B. Cheney
Ms. Mary Smith
Reverend and Mrs. Roger W. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Russell J. Smith
Ms. Sandra Smith
Ms. Sarah M. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy R. Smith
Ms. Susan Soboroff
Ms. Susan S. Speers
Mr. Harold Speert
Mr. W. Richard Speidel
Ms. Harmony S. Spongberg and
Ms. Margaret L. McDermott
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Spongberg
Mr. and Mrs. E. Bevan Stanley
Ms. Phoebe R. Stanton
Staritch Foundation
Ms. Anne Linden Steele
in honor of Michael and Jane Steele
Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Stern
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Stewart III
Lydia B. Stokes Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stoeth
Mr. Michael R. Strack
Ms. Clarissa C. Street
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Strickler, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel C. Strout
Ms. Barbara R. Strowger
Mr. Richard Strowger and Ms. Patricia Ellis
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Stuart
Stuzin Family Fund at Baltimore Community
Foundation
Ms. Ruth K. Sudduth
Mr. and Mrs. T. Dennis Sullivan
Mr. William Summers
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Summo
Mr. Richard P. Suttmeier
Tamarack Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Tanis
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Mr. Douglas Tansey
Mr. Ralph J. Temple and Ms. Ann K. Macrory
Mr. Paul M. Tenan
Mr. Herbert J. Terns and Ms. Gillian V. Scott
The Atherton Thalhimer Family Partnership
Mr. Bruce Thayer
Mr. Frederic E. Theunissen and
Ms. Heather C. Clague
Mr. and Mrs. Owen D. Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. David Thomas-Train
Ms. Pamela P. Thompson
Ms. Phebe Thorne
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Tiffany
Ms. Katherine R. Torrance
Ms. Daphne A. Townsend
in honor of Art & Wendy Hopper, Courtney
Iglehart and Charles Faroe
Ms. Karen Trank
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Tupper
in honor of Betsy and Bruce Whitman
Mr. James F. Tynan
Mr. William T. Tyrrell
Ms. Denney Uffelman
Ms. Sandra Uhlig
Ms. Maris M. Van Alen
Mr. Dell L. Venarde
Ms. Sally S. Venerable
Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Vincent
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Visconti
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Visconti
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Wagner II
Ms. Julia A. Walker
Mr. and Mrs. John Walsh
Mr. Anthony J. Walton
Ms. Jeanne L. Warner
Ms. Linda Warner
Mr. Edward Watkins
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Waugh
Mr. and Mrs. John C. B. Webster
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Wei
Mr. Peter Weiland and Ms. Shannon Duffy
Mr. Douglas Weiskopf
Mr. Jonathan Weld
Mr. Michael H. Welles
Mr. Burns H. Weston
Mr. Jon Wetchler and Ms. Jean Singer
Ms. Alina R. Wheeler
Whiteface Mountain Regional Visitors Bureau
Ms. Susan Whiteman
Mr. and Mrs. D. Bruce Whitman
Ms. Elizabeth D. Whitman
Ms. Margaret G. Whitman
Mr. Devon Whitney and Ms. Kim K. Bayliss
Mr. and Ms. Wade Whitney
Mr. Daniel Wiegand
Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation
Mr. Naj M. Wikoff
Wilkins Agency
Ms. Emily W. Williams
Ms. Carol F. Willey
Mr. and Mrs. A. Morris Williams, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Quincy N. Williams
Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. Winterer
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. W. Wise
Mr. and Mrs. William T. Wise
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Witt
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory S. Wolcott
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Wolff
Women’s College Scholarship Club
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Wonham
Mr. Thomas Woodman
Ms. Alexi Worth
Mr. Monty Worth and Ms. Leslie Kernisan
Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Worth
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Wray, Jr.
Ms. Helen Wray
Ms. Jane C. Wylen
Mr. Bob Yates
Mr. and Mrs. Manoucher Yektai
Ms. Sherley Young
Ms. Denise Zevos
Knight Foundation
Challenge Fund
Keene Fire Department Fund
endowment for the Lake Placid Center for the Arts
for replacing the fire house destroyed by Irene
Anonymous
Mr. Christian Fokine
Keene Flood Relief Fund at ACT
The Mountaineer Interbrook
Lydia B. Stokes Foundation
to expand and improve news and information
dissemination across the region through a
partnership with NCPR
Anonymous
Ms. Linda Cohen
Richard C. and Susan Ernst Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Hopkins
Hunt-Stein Solidarity Fund at T. Rowe Price
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Ms. Janet Langlois
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Lievense
Mr. and Mrs. Serge Lussi
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Luthringshauser
Master Family Fund at ACT
Meadowhill Fund
Mr. and Mrs. J. Richard Munro
Paine Family Fund at ACT
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Pearsall
Port Jackson Fund at ACT
Ms. Sarah J. Redlich
Rocky Bog Fund at ACT
Mr. and Mrs. Woody B. Widlund
LPCA Fund
Mirror Lake Inn Charitable Fund at ACT
Lake Placid Garden Club
Beautification Fund
for beautification projects
Keene Valley Library Fund
Mr. and Mrs. W. John Friedlander
Kingsley Foundation
Ms. Nancy L. Farrell
Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. Winterer
Lake Placid Olympic Museum Phillip G. Wolff Endowment
endowment
Keeping the Promise Fund
an endowment for Families First of Essex County
Families First of Essex County
the millionaire next door
A Community is Surprised by a Shower of Generosity
Robert Damoth, a reclusive, simple-living former phone company
employee whom few in his community ever knew, left a stunning
legacy that few will ever forget. Mr. Damoth bequeathed his entire
$2.5 million estate to an endowed fund at ACT in order to provide
substantial annual grants to the fire and
rescue, library, school, and hospital in the
communities of Cranberry Lake. Mr. Damoth
left grant-making decisions for a fifth portion
of the bequest to ACT, so that unforeseeable
future needs can be addressed. Generations
of Clifton-Fine residents will benefit and be
Clifton-Fine librarian, thankful for their quiet neighbor’s generosity.
Joan White.
to support the Lake Placid Olympic Museum
Tom Curley and Marsha Ann Stanley
Michael and Ellen Bettman
Lake Placid Olympic Museum
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore A. Glowa
Is now the right time for you to make a gift of
appreciated assets? Would you like to use them
to support your favorite causes—forever?
ACT can help you create or contribute to a charitable fund at ACT
with immediate tax advantages. Your legacy will live on forever.
For ideas on the types of funds you can establish or join, or more
information about using your IRA, contact Cali@GenerousACT.org
Photo by Anja McNeil.
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Lake Placid Public
Library Fund
Frances Murdock
Memorial Fund
Meredith M. Prime Fund
Lake Placid Public Library
in memory of Mildred L. Distin
Mrs. Meredith M. Prime
an unrestricted fund to help meet needs
and opportunities in the Adirondacks
NSA Uihlein Scholarship Fund
to foster the connection between artists
and community in Malone
Anonymous Gift
National Sports Academy
Ms. Beverly Quenville
Tyler Leidig Summer
Basketball Camp Scholarship
NCPR’s Adirondack
Service Fund
Craig H. Randall
Acorn Account
for the Adirondack Service of
North Country Public Radio
Microsoft Matching Gifts Program
Mr. Jonathan Randall
Adirondack Leathernecks #1268
Darrah and Darrah
Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Leidig
Mr. and Mrs. T. Richard Leidig
Veterans Memorial Association
Mr. Thomas Williams
Brooknoll Fund at ACT
David Brunner and Rhonda Butler
Mr. Ed Finnerty and Ms. Nancie Battaglia
Mr. David E. Henry and Mrs. Erica M. Neufeld
Hunt-Stein Solidarity Fund at T. Rowe Price
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Magee
Mr. Peter Parvati and Ms. Aileen Townsend
Ms. Lora K. Schultz
Ms. Julia A. Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Willis, Jr.
ZMoore Ltd. Commerce
Rocky Bog Fund
North Elba Land Conservancy
Stewardship Acorn Account
Historic Saranac Lake Fund
endowment
Landon Fund
supports Saranac Lake Central School students
attending basketball camp
Lussi Family Fund
endowment for the Arthur and Frances Draper
Athletic Scholarship at Paul Smith’s College
Master Family Fund
Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence L. Master
Matamek Scholarship Fund
facilitates family giving in the
Adirondacks and beyond
supports film and dance at LPCA
endowment
Bev Quenville Art Fund
facilitates family philanthropy in the
Saranac Lake region and the Adirondacks
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bogdanovitch
Ms. Mary G. Rockefeller
Samwise Fund
gives annual support to six designated
charitable organizations
Mr. and Mrs. Woody B. Widlund
Historic Saranac Lake Fund
endowment
Thomas Shipman
Youth Center Fund
for graduates of Malone Central School
from the Owl’s Head area
building endowment
North Elba Land Conservancy
endowment
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Northern New York
Audubon Fund 2
Thomas Shipman Memorial Youth Center
George K. McClelland Fund
Northern New York Audubon
enhances education in Saranac Lake public schools
and recognizes the role of public education in
preserving our open society and freedoms
Dr. and Mrs. C. Wayne Bardin*
Mr. Charles T. Bruha and Ms. Kathleen D. Regan
The Mountaineer Interbrook*
Ms. Judy Reed Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy R. Smith
Tamarack Trust
*in memory of George K. McClelland
endowments
and Mrs. H. Franklin Anthony
Sean G. Leary and Mrs. Dana Anthony-Leary
and Mrs. David F. Remington
Nicholas D. Roberts
in the Town of Keene
benefits the charitable mission of the organization
Pendragon Fund
for the 21st Century
Saranac Lake Public School
Education Fund
Dr. Dorothy Swern Federman*
Ms. Carol S. Rupprecht
*in memory of Ann Swern
HomEnergy Services
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kalinowski
SOA ACT for Placid Lake
Protection Fund
Clarence Petty
Internship Fund
for the Adirondack Council
supports the charitable, scientific and educational
purposes of the Shoreowners’ Association
Adirondack Council
Jane N. Mooty Foundation Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Randy Scharfe
SOA Lake Steward Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. Akey
Mr. and Mrs. Randall G. Giltz
Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Giltz
Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. McCullough
Family and Friends of Northern Insuring Agency
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. O’Connor
Port Jackson Fund at ACT
Sybil A. Pickett Fund
Mirror Lake Inn
Charitable Fund
supports local medical students who will
return to practice in the Adirondacks
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew R. Barnard
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Bette
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Bogle
Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. James Burrows
Mr. Frederick C. Calder
Cottage Corporation
Mr. C. William Davis
Ms. Martha Dehli
Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Donnelly
Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Gignoux
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hunkins
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Leff
Mr. and Mrs. W. Scott McGraw
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Quaintance III
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Rhoades
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Roth
Dr. and Mrs. Howard Smith
Mr. Peter F. Tauck
Mr. William C. Ughetta
Sean P. McCullough Memorial
Scholarship Fund
for exemplary Section 7 track team members
support local and regional causes
Ed and Lisa Weibrecht
Brian Muldowney Memorial
Scholarship Fund
supports exemplary Saranac Lake
Central School students
Mr. John Muldowney
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supports the long-term health of Lake Placid
supports theatre, music and art
primarily in Lake Placid
Sybil A. Pickett Charitable Trust
Dr. U.R. Plante
Scholarship Fund
Ms. Katherine Briggs
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Florence
Mr. Russell C. Tharp, Jr.
all gifts are in memory of Annette R. Plante
Port Jackson Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Roderic Giltz
Northern Insuring Agency
Arts & Humanities
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Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Weibrecht
Dr. and Mrs. Duncan F. Winter
Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Wolford
Walter & Lois Thomas and
Lyndon & Barbara Drake
Scholarship Fund
for graduates of Brushton-Moira Central School
who have a passion for music
Ms. Lois Thomas
Trevor Fund for
Adirondack Medical Center
endowment
The John B. Trevor Trust
Trevor Fund for
Trudeau Institute
endowment
Cross Boundary Giving
Elise and Woody Widlund doubled the size
of their endowed fund, the Samwise Fund,
to support Crane Mountain Valley Horse
Rescue of Westport, Community Fund
for the Gore Mountain Region, Hudson
Headwaters Health Network Foundation,
North Country Outreach Center in North
Creek, Adirondack Theater Festival in Glens
Falls, and the Adirondack Community Trust.
Service and leadership are the way of life for
the Widlunds. We are grateful for all they do
for Adirondack communities.
Elise and Woody Widlund at an
exhibit of their photography.
The John B. Trevor Trust
Uihlein-Ironman Sports Fund
of Lake Placid
supports promising young athletes and nonprofit
sports organizations fostering an athletic lifestyle
Ironman Foundation
ACT for Upper Saranac Fund
supports the lake association’s efforts to protect
water quality and fight invasives
Mr. and Mrs. Roger E. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. Crispo
Ms. Melinda B. Curley
Ms. Michelle D. Curley
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Curley
Tom Curley and Marsha Stanley
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Lievense
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Mansfield
Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Mincher
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney R. Norris
Packaging Impressions
Ms. Mechelle Roskiewicz
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Schoff
Simply Gourmet
The Adirondack Community Trust (ACT) is a tax-exempt
public charity created by and for the people of the Adirondack region.
For over 15 years, we have been helping people establish
charitable funds to make life better in the
Adirondack communities they love, and beyond.
We work with individuals, families, financial advisors and nonprofits.
We can help you too.
10 Reasons To Give Through ACT
We are a
We offer you
LOCAL ORGANIZATION
MAXIMUM TAX ADVANTAGES
with deep roots in the community.
under state and federal law.
We provide highly
We are a
PERSONALIZED SERVICE
COMMUNITY LEADER,
tailored to your individual
charitable and financial goals.
convening resources and ideas
to create positive change.
Mrs. Frances Davis
Dr. and Mrs. George G. Hart
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Mitchell
Frederick and Patricia Supper Foundation
We offer diverse fund types
which help you invest in the
We build
WCS Loon Conservation Fund
VARIETY OF ASSETS,
We handle all the
and we can facilitate even
complex giving arrangements.
administrative details,
MAKING IT EASY
for you to give.
Dorothy J. Vanko
Memorial Fund
for LPCA staff professional development,
in honor of Nadine Duhaime
endowment
Mr. and Mrs. Lyndon W. Jones
Mr. Peter R. Prescott
The Ruder Family Foundation
Tricia Woods Memorial
Music Fund
for music program enrichment at
Tupper Lake High School
CAUSES YOU CARE
ABOUT MOST.
We accept a wide
We partner with
PROFESSIONAL
ADVISORS
to create highly effective
approaches to charitable giving.
Mr. James P. Bernardin and Ms. Julie Chang
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald M. Fletcher
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Woods
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ENDOWMENT FUNDS
that create a lasting impact
to benefit our community and help
create personal legacies.
Our professional staff has
BROAD KNOWLEDGE
of community issues and needs.
We can help you make a difference—
whatever you support, wherever you give, whenever you want.
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2011-2012
‘In a Nutshell’
Total
investments:
$30 million
Total grants made
2011-2012:
$2.4 million
Total grants made since
inception in 1997:
$17,291,115
Current number
of funds:
218
Three faces of the fringed gentian by ecologist Jerry Jenkins, who is working on a multi-volume, multi-media natural history
of the entire northern forest that will make his 45 years of field research accessible to all. To learn how to support this
project of the Northern Forest Atlas Foundation, the Wildlife Conservation Society and ACT, contact mel@generousact.org.

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