ANNUAL REPORT. Encouraging Philanthropy to serve the Adirondack Region

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1 ANNUAL REPORT 2012 Encouraging Philanthropy to serve the Adirondack Region

2 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 staff Cali Brooks, Executive Director Beth Benson, Financial Officer Mel Eisinger, Communications and Donor Relations Andrea Grout, Grants and Scholarship Coordinator Adirondack Community Trust Heaven Hill Farm P.O. Box 288 Lake Placid, NY Cover photo by Larry Master; inset photos by Margaret Miller. 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, 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. 2 Arts & Humanities Community Enhancement Education

3 Our Mission Adirondack Community Trust 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 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. 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. 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. Environment Health & Human Services Youth & Recreation Annual Report

4 2012 Investment Report As of June 30, 2012 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 Large Cap Equity 24% Emerging Markets 4% Cash 7% Fixed Income 29% Endowment Asset Allocation Tangible Assets 2% International 7% Small/Mid Cap Equity 11% Alternative 16% 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. 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. 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 Adirondack Community Trust -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. 4 Arts & Humanities Community Enhancement Education

5 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 or call Photo by Anja McNeil. Assets: Statement of Financial Position As of June 30, Cash... $846,323 $566,460 Investments... 29,915,163 27,428,589 Other... 71,245 60,300 Total Assets.... $30,832,731 $28,055,349 Liabilities: Accounts payables... $4,053 $5,467 Grants payable... 94, ,640 Deposits Held... 1,726 5,000 Funds held for Supporting Organization... 7,477,774 7,818,454 Funds held as Organization Endowments... 3,891,865 3,708,811 Total Liabilities... 11,470,368 11,658,372 Net Assets... $19,362,363 $16,396,977 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 Revenue: Statement of Activities Year Ended June 30, Gifts... $5,857,263 $2,488,432 Dividends and interest , ,290 Investment gains... 95,283 2,321,113 Management fees... 57,571 56,537 Other income... 38,365 39,456 Expenses: Total Revenue.... $6,366,794 $5,219,828 Grants... $2,369,492 $1,269,424 Organization Fund transfers... 87,372 7,450 Investment losses ,487 0 Administrative expenses , ,235 Development services ,443 88,196 Program services... 90,804 85,919 Total Expenses... 3,401,408 1,704,224 Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets. $2,965,386 $3,514,604 Net Assets, beginning of the year... 16,396,977 12,882,373 Net Assets, end of the year... $19,362,363 $16,396,977 Environment Health & Human Services Youth & Recreation Annual Report

6 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 Recreation 1% Environment 13% A small number of ACT funds offer competitive grants for nonprofits; find guidelines at If you have further questions, please contact our office. Health & Human Services 7% Historic Preservation 3% Libraries 1% Youth 1% Education 10% Community Development 56% Animal Welfare 4% Arts & Humanities 4% Artwork by Nancy Bernstein ANIMAL WELFARE ASPCA... $250 Crane Mountain Valley Horse Rescue North Country SPCA... 92,792 St. John Feral Cat Fund... 1,310 Tri-Lakes Humane Society Total... $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 Essex Theater Company Foothills Art Society 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 Toledo Museum of Art... 3,500 Toledo Symphony... 5,000 Upper Hudson Musical Arts Upper Jay Art Center... 1,742 Vermont Stage Company Total... $96,044 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Adirondack Carousel... $8,300 Adirondack Habitat for Humanity... 2,000 Adirondack North Country Association... 5,910 Adirondack Public Observatory... 1,000 Adirondack Sustainable Communities Albany Rural Cemetary American Legion Auxiliary Unit AuSable Valley Habitat for Humanity ,000 Bloomingdale Volunteer Fire Department Carver Center... 5,000 Central Asia Institute ,000 Champlain Area Trails Chateaugay Revitalization Committee... 2,000 Town of Chateaugay Town of Chester Christian Appalachian Project... 1,000 Church of St. Luke the Beloved Physician 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 ,992 Flood Relief, Keene Flood Recovery Fund: 107 grants ,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, Arts & Humanities Community Enhancement Education

7 Iroquois Lodge ,500 Town of Jay... 8,414 Town of Keene... 2,000 Keene Valley Congregational Church Keene Volunteer Fire Department... 2,500 Lake Placid Community Beautification Association... 3,000 Lake Placid Kiwanis Village of Lake Placid... 9,500 Legal Community Against Violence... 1,000 Malone Adult Center Massena Neighborhood Center... 2,000 Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries... 1,500 Mountain Lake Public Telecommunications Council... 1,550 Native American Rights Fund North Country Public Radio ,800 North Country Ministry Town of North Elba... 1,121 Northern Forest Center... 3,750 Paradox Community Center Paul Smith s - Gabriels Volunteer Fire Department... 2,500 Placid Lake Foundation... 1,250 Points of Light Institute... 36,100 ReSource The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International St. Augustine s Catholic Church Soup Kitchen The Salvation Army... 2,000 Sara Holbrook Community Center 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 ,214 Vermont Council on World Affairs 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 The Hotchkiss School... 1,000 International Theater and Literacy Project... 1,000 Johnsburg Central School District Keene Central School District Lake Placid Central School District... 26,500 Lakeside Preschool... 2,150 Literacy Volunteers of Essex/Franklin Counties... 1,400 Little Peaks Preschool Long Lake Central School District Middlebury College... 2,000 Minerva Central School District North Country Community College... 1,500 New Jersey Institute of Technology Foundation New York Schools Insurance Foundation North Country School/Camp Treetops... 1,300 Northwood School 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. 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. Environment Health & Human Services Youth & Recreation Annual Report

8 Shelburne Farms Resources... 2,000 SUNY Adirondack Foundation... 2,300 Tupper Lake Central School District... 15,850 United Negro College Fund... 1,000 Upper Valley Educators Institute... 8,000 Vassar College ,000 Vermont Institute of Natural Science Scholarships: Frank Besau and Pauline Besau Wamsganz Scholarship Fund: 4 recipients... 6,000 Charles B. Decker Memorial Scholarship Fund: 2 recipients. 6,000 Essex Bar Association Scholarship Fund: 1 recipient Howard V. Littell Scholarship Fund: 13 recipients... 65,000 William T. Lowe Scholarship Fund: 2 recipients... 3,000 Matamek Scholarship Fund: 3 recipients... 4,800 Sean P. McCullough Memorial Scholarship Fund: 1 recipient... 1,000 Dr. U. R. Plante Scholarship Fund: 1 recipient... 10,000 George and Doris Sherman Scholarship Fund: 1 recipient Total... $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 AuSable River Association... 5,000 BioDiversity Research Institute Black Swamp Conservancy... 1,000 Conservation Law Foundation... 1,000 Dispatches from the Vanishing World.com... 1,900 Earthjustice Empire State Forestry Foundation... 2,000 Environmental Defense Fund... 1,000 Horseshoe Pond/Deer River Flow Association Humane Farming Association... 1,000 Keeping Track Lake Champlain Committee Lake Champlain Land Trust 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 The Union of Concerned Scientists... 1,000 The Wild Center... 34,850 The Wilderness Society... 1,000 Trust for Public Land Upper Saranac Lake Foundation... 10,000 Vermont Chapter of The Nature Conservancy Vermont Land Trust Vermont Natural Resources Council Wildlife Conservation Society... 7,250 World Wildlife Fund Yellowstone Country Guardians... 1,000 Total... $306,715 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Adirondack Community Outreach Center... $4,800 Adirondack Health Foundation... 13,500 AIDS/Life Cycle American Diabetes Association... 2,000 American Foundation for the Blind American Heart Association... 1,500 American Kidney Fund American Red Cross of Vermont and New Hampshire Valley. 1,000 Arthritis Foundation Northern and Southern New England Chapter Behavioral Health Services North Berkshire Farm Center and Services for Youth... 1,000 Brushton Moira Adult Center Comlinks... 1,000 Covenant House Creative Healing Connections... 1,550 Cystic Fibrosis Foundation CVPH Medical Center Foundation Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center... 1,000 Diabetes Research Institute Foundation... 1,500 Ecumenical Charity Program Epilepsy Foundation of America 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 Franklin County Association of Senior Citizens Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Guide Dogs for the Blind Christopher Emmett Hallowell Fund: 5 recipient families... 11,500 Heifer International Hereditary Disease Foundation... 1,500 High Peaks Hospice... 1,050 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation... 1,500 Keene Valley Neighborhood House Kennedy Krieger Institute Lake Placid Volunteer Ambulance... 5,500 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Town of Long Lake Mental Health Association of Essex County... 4,300 Mercy Care for the Adirondacks... 5,200 National Center for Missing and Exploited Children National Glaucoma Research National Multiple Sclerosis Society, NYC Chapter... 1,000 North Country Association for the Visually Impaired 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 Planned Parenthood Mohawk Hudson Planned Parenthood of the North Country NY... 4,300 Plattsburgh Interfaith Food Shelf Project Concern International... 1,500 Project Hope ,000 Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York... 1,500 Ronald McDonald House Charities of Burlington St. Eustace Episcopal Church... 5,200 St. Joseph s Rehabilitation Center... 3,000 St. Paul s Assumption Food Pantry Samaritan Family Counseling Center Saranac Lake Ecumenical Food Pantry Spectrum Youth and Family Services The Prevention Team... 2,300 Trudeau Institute, Inc.... 1,750 Tupper Lake Community Food Pantry Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties Total... $172, Arts & Humanities Community Enhancement Education

9 HISTORIC PRESERVATION Adirondack Architectural Heritage... $3,550 Adirondack Museum... 41,930 AuSable Club Preservation Foundation ,500 Casa del Herrero Foundation Essex Community Heritage Organization... 1,500 Essex County Historical Society Fort Ticonderoga Association... 5,000 Franklin County Historical and Museum Society Johnsburg Historical Society... 1,450 Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Lake Placid North Elba Historical Society... 4,250 North Creek Depot Preservation Association Sagamore Institute of the Adirondacks... 3,700 Schroon-North Hudson Historical Society U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Town of Webb Historical Association... 3,000 Willsboro Heritage Society Total... $69,780 LIBRARIES Belden Noble Memorial Library... $500 Town of Chester Public Library... 1,000 Friends of Fletcher Free Library Town of Johnsburg Library Keene Valley Library Association... 1,000 Lake Placid Public Library Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Long Lake Library New York Society Library Paine Memorial Free Library... 6,624 Saranac Lake Free Library Friends of the Schoon Lake Public Library Tupper Lake Public Library Wadhams Free Library... 3,200 Wells Memorial Library... 2,214 Total... $17,738 RECREATION Adirondack Marathon... $500 Adirondack Ski Touring Council Dewey Mountain Friends Friends of Mount Pisgah... 1,000 Lake Placid Outing Club... 1,000 Lake Placid Ski Club... 5,000 New York Ski Education Foundation... 2,250 Saranac Lake Pee Wee Hockey Association Tri-Lakes Youth Lacrosse Tupper Lake Youth Nordic Ski Development Club... 2,000 Uihlein Ironman Sports Fund: 13 award recipients... 11,600 Total... $25,650 YOUTH 4-H Camp Overlook... $400 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... 2,000 Total... $8,800 Grand Total... $2,369,492 New Funds/New Projects: 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. 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. Environment Health & Human Services Youth & Recreation Annual Report

10 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! Thinking entrepreneurial thoughts. 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. 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 Arts & Humanities Community Enhancement Education

11 Endowment Challenge Successes 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. 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. Media Matters 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. One of NCPR s interns, Jasmine Wallace, is now a senior at St. Lawrence University who plans a career in journalism. 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. Eleven apprentices, mostly 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. [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. Environment Health & Human Services Youth & Recreation Annual Report

12 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 To see a complete list of all donors and all funds they have created or contributed to, visit 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 ACT Pass-Through Fund accepts gifts for granting out to charities serving the Adirondack region Anonymous Mr. Russell Banks and Ms. Chase Twitchell Jacaranda Trust Henry Uihlein II and Mildred Uihlein Foundation The Winslow Foundation ACT Scholarship Fund for students in the Adirondack region seeking higher education. Administered by the Bruce L. Crary Foundation. Mr. Michael Bissonette and Ms. Laura Bonomo 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* Evergreen Fund at ACT 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 for needs and opportunities in the Adirondack region Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Benson Mr. and Ms. Bruce Catlin Ms. Sarah W. French Ms. Laurie George Heidecorn Family Fund at ACT Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Jeffrey II Mr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Martin Samwise Fund at ACT Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Vales Adirondack Architectural Heritage Fund endowment Adirondack Architectural Heritage Fund on behalf of its donors Adirondack Explorer Fund endowment Ernst Family Fund at ACT 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 Adirondack for Kids Fund for youth activities in the region that Adirondack Energy serves Adirondack Energy Products Adk for Kids - Turkey Trot Mr. Kenneth L. Marlow Ms. Nancy A. Monette Mr. Joseph J. Ordway Adirondack Sustainable Communities Fund supports new or existing collaborative initiatives Evergreen Fund at ACT 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 12 Arts & Humanities Community Enhancement Education

13 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 A. Edward Blackmar Fund facilitates family giving primarily 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 Enid S. Brown Fund 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 Dr. and Mrs. Richard Frost 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 New Funds/New Projects: 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. 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. Many ACT donors and the Essex Community Fund at ACT made grants to the North Country SPCA, which began construction on its new Elizabethtown shelter this summer. Photo by Margaret Miller. [New] Northern New York Audubon Fund, designated for an organization dedicated to conserving and restoring natural ecosystems in the Adirondacks. 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. Environment Health & Human Services Youth & Recreation Annual Report

14 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 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Carroll Ernst Family Fund facilitates family giving in the Adirondack region and beyond Mr. and Mrs. John L. Ernst Essex Community 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 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. Robert H. McGowan Ms. Beverly Quenville Ginsberg Family Fund provides scholarships for Tupper Lake students Ms. Muriel Ginsberg Charlie Goff Memorial Fund 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 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 14 Arts & Humanities Community Enhancement Education

15 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 Community Trust 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 Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Benson 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 New Funds/New Projects: 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. Photo courtesy of the Adirondack Shakespeare Festival Website. ACT was a sponsor of the Wild Center s wildly successful Adirondack Youth Climate Summit in 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. Environment Health & Human Services Youth & Recreation Annual Report

16 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 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 Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Keet 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 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 Mr. and Mrs. Vincent McClelland 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 16 Arts & Humanities Community Enhancement Education

17 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 New Funds/New Projects: 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 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 Environment Health & Human Services Youth & Recreation Annual Report

18 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 Ms. Patricia K. Averson 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 Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Benson 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. and Mrs. Arthur D. Bissell III 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 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 Dr. and Mrs. William DeHoff Mr. and Mrs J. Dennis Delafield 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 Ernst Family Fund at ACT 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 18 Arts & Humanities Community Enhancement Education

19 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. and Mrs. Ernest E. Keet 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 Center for the Arts 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 New Funds/New Projects: 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. 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. Environment Health & Human Services Youth & Recreation Annual Report

20 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 Mr. and Mrs. Vincent 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 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 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 20 Arts & Humanities Community Enhancement Education

21 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 Keene Fire Department Fund for replacing the fire house destroyed by Irene Anonymous Ms. Patricia K. Averson Mr. Christian Fokine Keene Flood Relief Fund at ACT The Mountaineer Interbrook Lydia B. Stokes Foundation Keene Valley Library Fund endowment Ms. Nancy L. Farrell Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. Winterer Keeping the Promise Fund an endowment for Families First of Essex County Families First of Essex County Knight Foundation Challenge Fund to expand and improve news and information dissemination across the region through a partnership with NCPR Anonymous Ms. Linda Cohen Dr. and Mrs. William DeHoff Richard C. and Susan Ernst Foundation Evergreen Fund at ACT Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Hopkins Hunt-Stein Solidarity Fund at T. Rowe Price Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Keet 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 Meredith M. Prime Fund at ACT Ms. Sarah J. Redlich Rocky Bog Fund at ACT Mr. and Mrs. John Rosenthal Mr. and Mrs. Woody B. Widlund LPCA Fund endowment for the Lake Placid Center for the Arts Evergreen Fund at ACT Lake Placid Center for the Arts Mirror Lake Inn Charitable Fund at ACT Lake Placid Garden Club Beautification Fund for beautification projects Mr. and Mrs. W. John Friedlander Kingsley Foundation Lake Placid Olympic Museum - Phillip G. Wolff Endowment 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 New Funds/New Projects: 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 thankful for their quiet neighbor s generosity. Clifton-Fine librarian, Joan White. 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. Environment Health & Human Services Youth & Recreation Annual Report

22 Lake Placid Public Library Fund endowment Lake Placid Public Library Landon Fund an unrestricted fund to help meet needs and opportunities in the Adirondacks Anonymous Gift Tyler Leidig Summer Basketball Camp Scholarship supports Saranac Lake Central School students attending basketball camp Adirondack Leathernecks #1268 Darrah and Darrah Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Leidig Mr. and Mrs. T. Richard Leidig Veterans Memorial Association Mr. Thomas Williams Lussi Family Fund endowment for the Arthur and Frances Draper Athletic Scholarship at Paul Smith s College Mr. and Mrs. Serge Lussi Master Family Fund facilitates family giving Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence L. Master Matamek Scholarship Fund for graduates of Malone Central School from the Owl s Head area Mr. and Mrs. H. Franklin Anthony Mr. Sean G. Leary and Mrs. Dana Anthony-Leary Mr. and Mrs. David F. Remington Mr. Nicholas D. Roberts George K. McClelland Fund facilitates family giving primarily in the Town of Keene 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 Sean P. McCullough Memorial Scholarship Fund for exemplary Section 7 track team members 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 Mirror Lake Inn Charitable Fund support local and regional causes Ed and Lisa Weibrecht Brian Muldowney Memorial Scholarship Fund supports exemplary Saranac Lake Central School students Mr. John Muldowney Frances Murdock Memorial Fund supports film and dance at LPCA Lake Placid Center for the Arts in memory of Mildred L. Distin NSA Uihlein Scholarship Fund endowment National Sports Academy NCPR s Adirondack Service Fund for the Adirondack Service of North Country Public Radio Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Bissell III Brooknoll Fund at ACT David Brunner and Rhonda Butler Evergreen Fund at ACT 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 Meredith M. Prime Fund at ACT Ms. Lora K. Schultz Ms. Julia A. Walker Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Willis, Jr. ZMoore Ltd. Commerce North Elba Land Conservancy Stewardship Acorn Account building endowment North Elba Land Conservancy Northern New York Audubon Fund 2 benefits the charitable mission of the organization Northern New York Audubon Pendragon Fund for the 21st Century endowments HomEnergy Services Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kalinowski Clarence Petty Internship Fund for the Adirondack Council Adirondack Council Evergreen Fund at ACT Jane N. Mooty Foundation Trust Sybil A. Pickett Fund supports theatre, music and art primarily in Lake Placid Sybil A. Pickett Charitable Trust Dr. U.R. Plante Scholarship Fund supports local medical students who will return to practice in the Adirondacks 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 facilitates family giving Mr. and Mrs. Roderic Giltz Northern Insuring Agency Meredith M. Prime Fund facilitates family giving in the Adirondacks and beyond Mrs. Meredith M. Prime Bev Quenville Art Fund to foster the connection between artists and community in Malone Ms. Beverly Quenville Craig H. Randall Acorn Account Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Mr. Jonathan Randall Rocky Bog 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 Historic Saranac Lake Fund Thomas Shipman Youth Center Fund endowment Thomas Shipman Memorial Youth Center Saranac Lake Public School Education Fund enhances education in Saranac Lake public schools and recognizes the role of public education in preserving our open society and freedoms Dr. Dorothy Swern Federman* Ms. Carol S. Rupprecht *in memory of Ann Swern SOA ACT for Placid Lake Protection Fund supports the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the Shoreowners Association Mr. and Mrs. Randy Scharfe SOA Lake Steward Fund supports the long-term health of Lake Placid 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 Dr. and Mrs. William DeHoff 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. Serge Lussi 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 22 Arts & Humanities Community Enhancement Education

23 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 The John B. Trevor Trust New Funds/New Projects: 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. 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 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Vales Dorothy J. Vanko Memorial Fund for LPCA staff professional development, in honor of Nadine Duhaime Mrs. Frances Davis Dr. and Mrs. William DeHoff Dr. and Mrs. George G. Hart Lake Placid Center for the Arts Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Mitchell Meredith M. Prime Fund at ACT Mr. and Mrs. John Rosenthal Frederick and Patricia Supper Foundation WCS Loon Conservation Fund 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 Mr. James P. Bernardin and Ms. Julie Chang Mr. and Mrs. Gerald M. Fletcher Mr. and Mrs. Bob Woods 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. We are a LOCAL ORGANIZATION with deep roots in the community. We provide highly PERSONALIZED SERVICE tailored to your individual charitable and financial goals. We offer diverse fund types which help you invest in the CAUSES YOU CARE ABOUT MOST. We accept a wide VARIETY OF ASSETS, and we can facilitate even complex giving arrangements. We partner with PROFESSIONAL advisors to create highly effective approaches to charitable giving. 10 Reasons To Give Through ACT We offer you MAXIMUM Tax ADVANTAGES under state and federal law. We are a COMMUNITY LEADER, convening resources and ideas to create positive change. We build ENDOWMENT FUNDS that create a lasting impact to benefit our community and help create personal legacies. We handle all the administrative details, MAKING IT EASY for you to give. 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. Environment Health & Human Services Youth & Recreation Annual Report

24 Non-Profit Org. US POSTAGE P A I D Lake Placid, NY Permit Number 77 Heaven Hill Farm P.O. Box 288 Lake Placid, NY XX-COC-XXXX ACT In a Nutshell Total investments: $30 million Total grants made : $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.