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Permanent Funds
One of the goals of The
Southfield Community Foundation is to develop a
series of permanent funds to support ongoing grants
back to the community.
Permanent Funds provide donors with a flexible
tool for supporting their charitable interests through
perpetual grants to the community. Gifts to the Southfield
Community Foundation permanent funds qualify for the
Michigan State Tax Credit.
Individuals may qualify for a 50% MI tax credit on gifts
of up to $200 per year. Married individuals, filing
jointly, qualify for gifts up to $400. Corporations
qualify for a 50% MI tax credit on the SBT for gifts
up to $10,000.
The following is a description of permanent funds that
have been established within the Southfield Community
Foundation. For information on adding to these funds,
or creating additional funds (see Types
of Funds), please call Warren Goodell at 248-796-4190.
| Fund Name |
Fund Balance
June 30, 2004 |
Grant Allocation
7/1/2005 - 6/30/2006 |
Arts & Culture Fund
Coursen Family Endowment
Diversity Fund
Emergency Services Fund
Healthy Youth Healthy Seniors Fund
HESS Fund
Pamela S. Howitt Fund
Mayor's Fund
Memorial Scholarship Fund
Millennium Fund
Southfield Public School Education Fund
Tony Spina Enrichment Fund
Gene Taylor Memorial Fund
Mary Thompson Fund
Volunteer Impact Fund
Louise Ward Scholarship Fund
The Women's Fund
Youth Philanthropy Fund
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$7,155.00
$15,992.00
$2,287.00
$25,870.00
$11,545
$1,083.00
New
$15,974.00
$13,944.00
$664,573.00
$137,298.00
$6,289.00
$12,766.00
$185,072.00
$150,000.00
$19,619
New
$544,216.00
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$200.00
$500.00
$0.00
$1,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$500.00
$500.00
$22,500.00
$5,500.00
$200.00
$500.00
$7,500.00
$5,000.00
$750.00
$0.00
$18,500.00
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ARTS & CULTURE FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
$7,155.00 |
This fund, established
in 2001, is designed to provide support for organizations
providing arts and cultural experiences in our communities.
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DIVERSITY FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
$2,287.00 |
The Diversity Fund, established
in 2002, provides support for programs and projects
that promote the potential that our diversity has to
enhance the quality of our personal and professional
lives.
In our ever changing and shrinking world, understanding
our diversity is our strategic advantage.
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COURSEN FAMILY FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
$15,992 |
Donor Advised Funds are
created as a service to individuals who wish to manage
their charitable giving through the Community Foundation.
Family advised funds and corporate advised funds can
also be created to develop family and corporate cultures
of philanthropy.
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EMERGENCY SERVICES FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
$25,870.00 |
Founded in 1999, this critical fund provides
funds primarily to support the Southfield Human Services
Department Emergency Loan Program, a collaborative
which helps individuals at substantial risk cope with
unexpected crisis.
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HEALTHY YOUTH HEALTHY SENIORS FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
$11,545.00 |
Founded in 2001, the Healthy Youth Healthy Senior Fund was established by a grant from the Council of Michigan Foundation's made possible by an allocation of the Tobacco Settlement Funds from the State of Michigan.
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HESS FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
$1,083.00 |
The Helping Educate Surviving
Students is a scholarship fund dedicated to supporting
the victims (or dependents of victims) of drunk driving
accidents.
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PAMELA S. HOWITT FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
New |
This donor advised permanent
fund, created in 2005 supports grants for innovative youth services programs in Oakland County.
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MAYORS' FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
$15,974.00 |
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The Mayor's Fund is a permanet fund established by Southfield's Mayor Brenda L. Lawrence through a gift from the Brenda L. Lawrence Foundation in 2002.
It is Mayor Lawrence's hope that each succeeding Mayor of Southfield will help to build the fund. Grants are made with the current Mayor's advice. Mayor Lawrence has requested that the Mayor's Fund support an annual scholarship to a Southfield resident who has overcome significant odds in their life while achieving academic success and providing community service.
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MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
$13,944.00 |
Gifts given in memory
of friends and family support a scholarship for students
who have overcome significant hardship to meet their
educational goals. The fund was established through
gifts from family and friends of: Thomas Frommeyer,
Vicki Goldbaum and Vivian Hurite.
Additional gifts have been received in memory of:
Donald M. Fracassi, Shambline Quarles, Ada Moiseev,
Donald Powers, Sandra Terrell and Sigmund A.
Beras.
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MILLENNIUM FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
$664,573.00 |
This unrestricted permanent
fund, created in 1998, supports grants for a wide variety of purposes
giving the Foundation the ultimate flexibility to
meet changing community needs.
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SOUTHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
$137,298.00 |
This fund supports
the Foundation's efforts to provide support for innovative programs in the Southfield Public School Distict
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TONY SPINA ENRICHMENT FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
$6,289.00 |
The Tony Spina Enrichment Fund was created
in 2002 to support the field of photojournalism
in celebration of the life and work of Tony Spina
(1914-1995).
As Chief Photographer for the
Detroit Free Press, Spina's talents were
recognized with more than 450 national and international
honors and awards, including the Sprague Memorial
Award, the highest honor of the National Press
Photographer's Association.
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Knighted by Pope Paul VI into the order of
St. Gregory the Great, Sir Anthony became the only photojournalist
in history to ever receive this distinction. Credited
with 80+ one-person exhibitions, six published books
and a nationally syndicated column, Spina shared his
talents broadly. The Tony Spina Collection is housed
at the Walter Reuther Library in Detroit.
The initial purpose of the Fund is to give scholarship
awards in the name of Tony Spina for talented, dedicated,
financially needy students who have declared a college
major in photojournalism.
For information on contributing to the Fund or applying
for a Spina Scholarship, contact the Southfield Community
Foundation at 248-796-4190.
THE TONY SPINA ENRICHMENT FUND ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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Katheryn Spina
Giles
Terrence Ray Giles
Sharon Gioia
Theodore W. Kilar, MD
David Lawrence, Jr.
Heath J. Meriwether
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David Robinson
Neal Shine
Mrs. Tony Spina
Costan Anthony Spina
Julia Spina-Kilar
Linda Ward Spina
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GENE TAYLOR MEMORIAL FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
$12,766.00 |
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This fund was established
in 2001 to honor the memory of Gene Taylor, a member
of the Foundation's Board of Directors and active
community philanthropist.
Gene was an Emmy-award winner who wrote and produced the Dick Purtan show on Oldies 104.3 WOMC. In addition to playing the voices of Elvis, Ross Perot, and Paul Harvey, Gene also did the writing for most of the other 50 odd characters on the show. His freelance work has appeared in Parade Magazine, Canadian Life, The toronto Star and Detroit Monthly to name a few. The former stand-up comic hosted television talk shows in Toronto, New York and Detroit.
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While he used words to communicate to others, Gene Taylor was also a man of action. He found his true calling through his personal commitment to helping others. He chose to spend his private time working to give others a hope, a vision or simply a meal. He was a philanthropist in every sense of the word, giving freely of his time, his many talents and his wealth to help others find their way.
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MARY THOMPSON FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
$185,072.00 |
Originating as a bequest
to the City of Southfield, this fund was transferred to the Foundation in 1998 and is dedicated to the maintainance of
the Mary Thompson Farm as a historical and recreational
center for Southfield's senior citizens.
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VOLUNTEER IMPACT AGENCY FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
$150,000.00 |
Gifts to this important
fund, founded in 1999, provide operating support for Volunteer
Impact, a regional nonprofit organization that
promotes and facilitates community volunteerism.
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LOUISE WARD SCHOLARSHIP FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
$19,619.00 |
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The Ward Fund, founded in 2003,supports a
scholarship(s) presented annually to a student at Southfield
Lathrup High School for continued studies in vocal music.
Donations to the fund have been made by a wide range of Southfield Lathrup Madrigal Singer Alumni, Ward family and friends. It is offered in grateful memory of Louise Ward–teacher,
mentor, role model, and friend.
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THE LOUISE WARD SCHOLARSHIP FUND ADVISORY COMMITTEE
A. Jeffrey Bean
Scott Griffin
Marsha G. Kamin
Mark LoPatin
Maury Okun
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THE WOMEN'S FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
New |
The Southfield Community Foundation and a team of influential women launched The Women's Fund in 2005, joining more than 100 similarly focused funds operating in the United States and in countries around the world.
Our mission is to advance equity and social justice for women and children. We are working to champion fairness, impartiality, shared power and responsibility in all spheres of personal and community life – economic, cultural, and social, The Fund also encourages women to be philanthropists by contributing to the Fund's endowment, guaranteeing that money will be available to fund women's programs from one generation to the next.
The Women's Fund is a unique legacy, established by the generosity of one hundred founding women. These special women continue the tradition of leadership and service to our community just as their mothers and grandmothers did before.
WOMEN'S FUND FOUNDERS (As of 12/20/05)
Tonya Allen
Karen Bell
Angelena Bibb-Waller
Janet F. Blake*
Stella Boyda*
Dr. Wanda Cook-Robinson
Caroline A. Cooper
Linda Blake Cooper
Melissa Cooper-Vachon
Cynthia Cooper-Vails
Dr. Marlene Davis
Elaine S. Francis
Janie Fulton
Susan Ellis Goodell
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Connie Griffin
Julie C. Griffin
Marcia Griffin
Laura M. Hallahan
Patricia Haynie
Cynthia D. Johnson
Hon. Sheila Johnson
Silvia Jordan
Priscilla Khoury
Brenda L. Lawrence
Adrienne Luckey
Karen L. Miller
Lauren E. Miller
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Lisa R. Miller
Hon. Susan Moiseev
Providence Care of Poor
Nancy L. Quarles, Ph.D.
Christine C. Redmond
Lindsey L. Sanders
Rhonda Saunders
Barbara Selden
Joyce Silagy
Cherryl R. Thames
Laura D. Walker
Zonta Club - Southfield Area
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* In loving memory
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YOUTH PHILANTHROPY FUND |
Fund Balance as of 6/30/04 |
$850.00 |
Developing Youth Leadership and Philanthropy
are prime objective of the Foundation. This fund, founded by the Kellogg Foundtion in 1999, supports the YAC (Youth Advisory Council) providing resources for grants that they think will make a difference in the lives
of our community's youth.
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