Annual Report 2011
Encouraging Philanthropy to serve the Adirondack Region
Arts & Humanities • Community Development • Education • Environm
Our Mission
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
Nancy Keet, Saranac Lake/NYC
Peter S. Paine, Jr., Willsboro
Advisory council
Timothy L. Barnett, 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
Rich Kroes, Lake Placid
Karen Meltzer, Brant Lake
Robert Parks, Plattsburgh
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
The Adirondack Community Trust
provides an innovative way for
everyone who cares about our special part of the world to maximize their
giving and attain their philanthropic goals.
Our purpose is simple: to generate resources from within our communities
to effect positive change, now and into the future.
ACT is a collection of endowed and pass-through funds established through
gifts that are pooled and invested. We disburse grants and scholarships
according to each fund donor’s wishes in this region and beyond.
ACT offers convenience and more: because we are local, we know the issues
facing our communities and the most effective nonprofits working on them.
We are the Adirondack region’s largest funder of nonprofit and community
institutions.
staff
Cali Brooks, Executive Director
cali@generousact.org
Beth Benson, Financial Officer
beth@generousact.org
Melissa Eisinger, Communications and
Donor Relations Officer
mel@generousact.org
Andrea Grout, Grants and Scholarship
Coordinator
andrea@generousact.org
Adirondack Community Trust
Heaven Hill Farm
P.O. Box 288
Lake Placid, NY 12946
528-523-9904
cover photo: Anja McNeil
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A gathering of Board and Advisory Board members, from left to right: Adele Connors,
Peter Paine, Vinny McClelland, Veronica Richter, Fred Calder, Michael Ellis, Jerry Hayes,
Nancy Keet, Charlie Carroll, Karen Meltzer, Sally Bogdanovitch, Jennifer Booth,
John Fritzinger, Elise Widlund, John Ernst, Frisky Irwin, Rich Kroes, Cali Brooks.
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Dear Friends,
As the Adirondack Community Trust continues to grow, we
are proud to report that the organization is healthy and
fully engaged in encouraging philanthropy that serves the
Adirondacks and environs.
One of ACT’s strategic goals is to become the principal philanthropic institution serving the Adirondack region.
Two initiatives during our fiscal year 2010-2011 lead us
in this direction. We offered an endowment challenge
investing $50,000 to boost the endowment fundraising
efforts of regional nonprofits. Secondly, we worked with
North Country Public Radio to win a nationally competitive
grant expanding access to local news and cultural
information. You’ll find more about these projects in the
pages that follow.
In addition to the significant impact our donors make,
ACT’s Executive Director is helping the region in many
important ways. In recent months, Cali Brooks has been
appointed to serve on the Governor’s Northern New York
Regional Economic Development Council, responsible for
developing a strategic five-year plan for sustainable growth.
She also serves on the Attorney General’s Committee for
Nonprofit Revitalization, to help reduce the burdens on and
improve the regulation of New York’s nonprofit sector. In
addition, Cali joined the Council on Foundations’
membership committee.
At the heart of everything we do is our awareness that ACT
is you, the people who care deeply about the Adirondack
region and who want to play a pivotal role in our
communities’ current and future prosperity. The donors
who create funds with us, the organizations who take
advantage of our stewardship services, and the wide range
of people whose lives are touched by your generosity all
make up the ACT family.
Emerging from the Storm
Tropical Storm Irene tore through the Ausable
River valley with unforeseen destructive force
on August 28, 2011. ACT immediately
reached out to the communities most obviously
in need. The Keene Community Trust quickly
set up the Keene Flood Recovery Fund at ACT.
Thanks to a rapid influx of generous donations, ACT was able to make 60 grants to individuals and small businesses almost overnight.
The Town of Jay subsequently established the
Jay Flood Relief Fund at ACT for the hamlets of
Jay, Upper Jay, and Au Sable Forks.
Irene has underscored the importance of the
Special and Urgent Needs Fund to address
short-term, unforeseen needs within
Adirondack communities. In the months
ahead, ACT will deploy this fund to help
Irene’s victims through the winter. Because it
is not tied to a specific community or disaster
event, this fund allows ACT to respond to
needs when and wherever they occur. The
Keene, Jay and Special and Urgent Needs
funds are open and ready to receive gifts.
On behalf of our board, advisory board and staff, we thank
you for joining us in making 2010-2011 such a success.
With best wishes,
Adele P. Connors
Co-Chair
Vinny McClelland
Co-Chair
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2011 Investment Report
As of June 30, 2011
ACT’s Endowment
Investment Strategy
Gifts to the Adirondack Community Trust are incorporated into a single investment pool, our endowment,
giving donors access to institutional investment strategies and management normally available only to large
investors. A system of unitization, much like a mutual
fund, allocates income and appreciation or depreciation to each of the individual funds within the pool.
ACT’s Finance Committee of regional business and
investment leaders is assisted by our investment
advisor, U.S. Trust Company (www.USTrust.com).
Our investment strategy calls for a portfolio
diversified across U.S. and international assets,
which helps to maximize investment returns at
acceptable levels of risk. We use multiple investment
managers in certain asset classes to further diversify
our holdings. As of June 30, 2011, ACT’s investments were allocated as shown in the chart below.
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 riskadjusted return that exceeds its relevant benchmark.
In any given short-run period some asset classes will
underperform these goals, while others will outperform. Over time, the portfolio’s total performance will
tend to average out these differences. Primary emphasis will be placed on ensuring that the performance of
the portfolio as a whole attains its objective of capital
preservation, net of spending, fees and inflation.
Endowment Asset Allocation
The information below includes the investment
results of all reporting community foundations with
assets under $50 million; this group of foundations
collectively has $2 billion managed with investment
advisors. In addition, we have also included a
recognized 60% S&P/40% BoAML benchmark
as an alternative comparison.
INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE - for periods ending June 30, 2011
Investment Performance Net of Fees
Latest quarter
1 Year
3 Year
5 year
Adirondack Community Trust
0.27%
20.51%1.59%4.91%6.37%
Community Foundations under $50M (1)
0.49%
20.60%4.01%4.31%5.19%
Adirondack Composite (2)
1.06%
18.29%3.98%4.39%5.43%
60% S&P/40% BoAML
0.92%
19.58%4.81%4.57%4.82%
(1) The Community Foundation returns are derived from actual results of community foundation investment programs nationwide.
(2) Performance as a whole is measured against the Adirondack Composite, which is composed of the following: 40% S&P500,
38% Barclays Aggregate, 15% MSCI EAFE, 7% HFRI fund of funds.
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Investment Goals
ACT aims to achieve the best investment return possible without taking risks inappropriate to a long-term
fund, so that we can deliver the same support in
tomorrow’s dollars as we do now. Our goal is to invest
the endowment wisely to make available the most
grant dollars now, while securing the capacity to meet
future needs.
David Goodman, Jerry Jenkins, and
Frances Beinecke were among the 80 people who
attended a symposium for multiple generations
of families who have summered here for decades.
The Prospect Hill Foundation and ACT worked in
partnership to host the August 22, 2011, event.
Statement of Financial Position
Assets:
Cash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Investments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Other
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
As of June 30,
2011 2010
$566,460$350,991
27,428,58922,576,413
60,30056,427
________________________
Total
Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . ________________________
28,055,349 22,983,831
Liabilities:
Accounts payables . . . . . . . . . .
Grants payable. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deposits Held . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Funds held for Supporting
Organization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Funds held as Organization
Endowments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Statement of Activities
Revenue:
Gifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dividends and interest. . . . . . . .
Investment gains. . . . . . . . . . . .
Management fees . . . . . . . . . . .
Other income. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Year Ended June 30,
2011 2010
$2,488,432$2,128,440
314,290343,119
2,321,113 550,914
56,53751,827
39,45632,235
________________________
Total
Revenue. . . . . . . . . . . 5,219,8283,106,535
________________________
5,4664,886
120,640100,300
5,000
3,708,8116,891,192
7,818,4543,105,079
________________________
Total
Liabilities. . . . . . . . . . 11,658,37110,101,457
________________________
Net
Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16,396,978$12,882,374
________________________
________________________
___________________
A complete, audited financial statement with accompanying notes and
opinion is available from the ACT office or from the New York Attorney
General’s Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271
Expenses:
Grants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Organization Fund transfers . . .
Investment losses . . . . . . . . . . .
Administrative expenses. . . . . .
Development services. . . . . . . .
Program services. . . . . . . . . . . .
1,269,4241,375,071
7,4508,250
——
213,707179,654
88,19685,678
126,447119,521
________________________
Total
Expenses. . . . . . . . . . 1,705,2241,768,174
________________________
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets $3,514,604 $1,338,361
Net
12,882,374 11,544,013
Assets, beginning of the year ________________________
Net
$16,396,978 $12,882,374
Assets, end of the year. . . . . ________________________
________________________
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Grantmaking
Grants Made July 1, 2010 — June 30, 2011
You, the fund donors who make up the ACT family,
awarded $1.2 million in grants during the past year
to organizations and scholarship winners in the
Adirondacks and beyond. Together, your funds help
to meet the needs of the Adirondack region.
A few of the funds at ACT offer competitive grants
for nonprofits. Grant seekers may visit
www.GenerousACT.org to find guidelines for
submitting proposals. If you have further questions
about funding eligibility, please contact our office.
ANIMAL WELFARE
ASPCA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $250
Crane Mountain Valley Horse Rescue . . . . . . . . . 500
North Country SPCA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,060
St. John Feral Cat Fund. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Tri-Lakes Humane Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,770
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $100,080
ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Adirondack Art Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,500
Adirondack Center for Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,150
Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts . . . . . . . . . 500
Adirondack Shakespeare Company . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Bluseed Studios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Champlain Valley Film Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Depot Theatre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Foothills Art Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750
Glens Falls Queensbury Historical Association. . . 1,800
The Hyde Collection Trust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,800
Lake Placid Center for the Arts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,680
Lake Placid Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
Lake Placid Sinfonietta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,300
Pendragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,400
Seagle Music Colony. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Tannery Pond Community Center Association. . . . 1,000
Toledo Symphony. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,000
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $78,480
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
13/WNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $250
Adirondack Community Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,600
Adirondack Community Housing Trust . . . . . . . . 500
Adirondack Economic Development Corporation. . 4,218
Adirondack Habitat for Humanity. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,500
Adirondack North Country Association . . . . . . . . 1,250
Adirondack Public Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,250
Anonymous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,815
AuSable Valley Habitat for Humanity. . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Central Asia Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Champlain Area Trails. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,700
Chateaugay Revitalization Committee . . . . . . . . . 4,800
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Christian Appalachian Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Council on Foundations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Creative Healing Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,780
Essex County Toys for Kids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Garden Club of Lake Placid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Hamilton County Planning, Tourism & Community.11,500
Indian Lake Theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000
Infant Jesus of Prague Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000
Iroquois Lodge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,870
Keene Valley Congregational Church. . . . . . . . . . 550
Lake Placid Community Beautification Association. 1,000
Lake Placid Kiwanis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Malone Golden Age Club. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Minerva Fire Department & Rescue Squad. . . . . . 250
Minerva Central School District. . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries. . . . . . . . . 1,500
Mountain Lake Public Broadcast Service. . . . . . . 1,500
Native American Rights Fund. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
North Country Chapter American Red Cross. . . . . 250
North Country Ministry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
North Country Public Radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,980
Northern Forest Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Placid Lake Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. . . 250
St. Eustace Episcopal Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,150
The Salvation Army. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Saranac Lake Rotary Foundation Dewey Mountain Friends. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000
Schroon Lake Area Chamber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Town of Essex - Town Historian Project. . . . . . . . 2,885
Town of Wilmington - Youth Ski Program. . . . . . . 1,500
Trauma Resource Institute, Claremont, CA. . . . . . 10,000
Trudeau Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Tupper Lake Chamber of Commerce Beautification and Revitalization. . . . . . . . . . . . 3,150
United Way of the Adirondack Region. . . . . . . . . 3,500
Vermont Public Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Whallonsburg Civic Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,650
Willsboro-Essex EMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
Wilmington Fire Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $274,147
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EDUCATION
Adirondack Community College Foundation. . . . . $1,800
Beekmantown Central School District. . . . . . . . . 500
Brushton-Moira Dollars for Scholars. . . . . . . . . . 3,500
Center for Woodlands Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,750
Chapin School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Clinton Community College Foundation. . . . . . . . 250
College For Every Student . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
College of the Atlantic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Connecticut College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Cornell University E.V. Baker Agricultural Resources. . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Eaglebrook School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750
High Peaks Education Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,065
The Hotchkiss School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
International Theater and Literacy Project. . . . . . 1,000
Johnsburg Central School District. . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Lake Placid Central School District. . . . . . . . . . . 39,100
Lakeside Preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Literacy Volunteers of Essex/Franklin Counties. . . 1,500
Little Peaks School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Long Lake Central School District. . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Malone Central School District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,180
Middlebury College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Minerva Central School District. . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
National Sports Academy at Lake Placid . . . . . . . 250
New Jersey Institute of Technology Foundation. . . 500
North Country Community College. . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
North Country School/Camp Treetops. . . . . . . . . 6,300
Northwood School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Paul Smith’s College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Plattsburgh City School District . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Plattsburgh College Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000
Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor Education Center. . . . 750
Rubenstein School, University of Vermont. . . . . . 2,500
St. Bernard’s School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
St. Lawrence University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,000
Saranac Lake Central Prize Fund. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,310
Saranac Lake Central School District. . . . . . . . . . 2,150
Shelburne Farms Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Town of Franklin Scholarship Fund. . . . . . . . . . . 250
Tupper Lake Central School District . . . . . . . . . . 17,200
United Negro College Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
University of Wyoming Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Upper Valley Educators Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,000
Vassar College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000
Vermont Institute of Natural Science. . . . . . . . . . 300
Scholarships:
Frank Besau & Pauline Besau Wamsganz
Scholarship Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,500
Alexis Coolidge, Middlebury College; Austin
Davis, University of Vermont; Christine Wemette,
Middlebury College; April Yeaney, Wellesley
College
Charles B. Decker Memorial Scholarship Fund. . . 10,300
Juliana Moore, LeMoyne College; Lindsay Reome,
The College of St. Rose; Chelsie Taddonio, SUNY
Fredonia; Amanda Voisard, Syracuse University
Essex Bar Association Scholarship Fund. . . . . . . . 500
Molly S. Hann, Vermont Law School
Howard V. Littell Scholarship Fund. . . . . . . . . . . 85,000
Jonathan Barge, Clarkson University; Anistasia
Brush, The College of St. Rose; Carter
Cruickshank, SUNY Potsdam; Kierstin Daviau,
Bard College; Wyatt Daviau, Cornell University;
Dylan Dawson, Clarkson University; Alec
Dumond, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;
Samantha Fazioli, Franciscan University; Gracey
Frenette, American University; Lillian Holmes,
University of Denver; Heleni Kuma, SUNY
Cortland; Bryan Laroe, Ithaca College; Brandon
Patraw, National Sports Academy; Samuel
Racette, Siena College; Madeline Rocque, Albany
College of Pharmacy; Cassidy Smith, Alfred State
College
William T. Lowe Scholarship Fund. . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000
Una Creedon-Carey, Oberlin College; Corinne
Mather, SUNY Oswego
Matamek Scholarship Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
Knut Gliddi, Nazareth College; Zabrina Malagon,
SUNY Plattsburgh; Miranda Wilson, College of St.
Rose
What Did the Money Do?
Hamilton County receives ACT grants from funds designated for that region.
This year, one grant funded a professional consultant that resulted in the County’s
successful application for an Adirondack Smart Growth grant of $123,000. This
project will involve a range of partners — from Adirondack Community Housing
Trust to the Adirondack Association of Towns and Villages to the Adirondack
Council — in a parkwide action plan to improve economic conditions.
When the financial crisis threatened the closure of the Moose River Plains
Recreation Area, the towns of Indian Lake and Inlet agreed to support the NYS
Department of Environmental Conservation to help provide maintenance and other
services. The Sustain the Moose River Plains Fund at ACT was set up to help fund a
youth ranger program that provides stewardship for the 500 campsites visited
annually by some 50,000 people. Among the tasks the two stewards in the photo
at left have performed is privy renovation.
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The most efficient way to support promising
Adirondack students in need of financial aid
to attend college is to make a gift to the
Crary Education Fund at ACT.
In the past 35 years,
the Crary Education
Foundation has helped
over 6,000 students
attend college,
among them Cynthia
Ford Johnston,
Superintendent of
Keene Central School.
ACT is proud to
oversee the
management of the
Crary endowment, so
that it can focus on ushering Adirondack students
toward higher education. Pictured here is
Elizabeth Izzo, now at the University of New
Hampshire.
Sean P. McCullough Memorial Scholarship Fund. . 1,000
Anna Rabideau, St. Lawrence University
Lynn G. & Alice W. Palmer Scholarship Fund. . . . 500
Rebecca Phillips, Cornell University
Dr. U. R. Plante Scholarship Fund. . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000
Tyler Hudon, University of Connecticut
School of Medicine
George & Doris Sherman Scholarship Fund . . . . . 500
James DeJong, Fulton Montgomery Community
College
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $267,605
ENVIRONMENT
Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Conservancy
and Adirondack Land Trust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $61,750
Adirondack Council. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,250
Adirondack Explorer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000
Adirondack Mountain Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000
Adirondack Park Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,300
Adirondack Watershed Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,050
Adirondack Wild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Audubon Expedition Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800
BioDiversity Research Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Black Swamp Conservancy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Boquet River Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Conservation Law Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Earthjustice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800
Empire State Forestry Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,500
Environmental Defense Fund. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Humane Farming Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
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Keeping Track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Lake Champlain Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
League of Conservation Voters Educational Fund . 1,000
Natural Resources Defense Council. . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
The Nature Conservancy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
NatureServe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,000
North Elba Land Conservancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Protect the Adirondacks!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,500
Student Conservation Association. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Trust for Public Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800
The Union of Concerned Scientists. . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Upper Saranac Lake Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000
Vermont Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. . . . 750
Vermont Land Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Vermont Natural Resources Council. . . . . . . . . . . 500
The Wild Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,900
The Wilderness Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Wildlife Conservation Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,000
World Wildlife Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $269,200
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Adirondack Community Outreach Center. . . . . . . 1,800
Adirondack Medical Center Foundation. . . . . . . . 10,550
Adirondack Tri-County Nursing &
Rehabilitation Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
American Diabetes Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000
American Foundation for the Blind. . . . . . . . . . . 800
American Heart Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,750
American Kidney Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
American Lung Association of Vermont . . . . . . . . 500
Arthritis Foundation - Northern & Southern NE . . 500
Behavioral Health Services North . . . . . . . . . . . . 820
Catholic Charities of Franklin County . . . . . . . . . 500
Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf. . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Covenant House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,050
Creative Healing Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,300
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. . . . . . . . . 1,000
Diabetes Research Institute Foundation. . . . . . . . 1,500
Ecumenical Charity Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
Epilepsy Foundation of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Essex County Office for the Aging. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Families First in Essex County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
Foundation of CVPH Medical Center. . . . . . . . . . 750
Franklin County Association of Senior Citizens. . . 500
Franklin County Down Syndrome Society. . . . . . . 500
Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind . . . . . . . . . . 500
Guide Dogs for the Blind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Christopher Emmet Hallowell Fund. . . . . . . . . . . 10,500
Landriault Family, Maneely Family, Napper
Family, Wolson Family
Heifer International. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Hereditary Disease Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
High Peaks Hospice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750
Innocence Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation . . . . . . . . 2,050
Keene Valley Neighborhood House . . . . . . . . . . . 700
Ken Hamilton Caregivers Center at NWH. . . . . . . 1,800
Lake Placid Volunteer Ambulance. . . . . . . . . . . . 7,390
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Mental Health Association of Essex County . . . . . 1,500
Mercy Care for the Adirondacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,170
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. 800
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National Glaucoma Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800
National Multiple Sclerosis Society NYC Chapter . 1,000
North Country Association for the Visually Impaired400.
400
North Country Life Flight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,050
North Elba Community Christmas Fund. . . . . . . . 10,500
Planned Parenthood Federation of America. . . . . . 500
Planned Parenthood Mohawk Hudson. . . . . . . . . 500
Planned Parenthood of the North Country New York3,310.
3,310
Project Concern International. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
Project Hope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York. . . 1,500
St. John’s Episcopal Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750
St. Paul’s Assumption Food Pantry . . . . . . . . . . . 750
Salvation Army - Plattsburgh Corps. . . . . . . . . . . 250
Samaritan Family Counseling Center. . . . . . . . . . 500
Saranac Lake Ecumenical Food Pantry. . . . . . . . . 250
Substance Abuse Prevention Team of Essex County.800
Trudeau Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,050
Tupper Lake Community Food Pantry. . . . . . . . . 250
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $95,840
LIBRARIES
Belden Noble Memorial Library, Essex/Willsboro . 500
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Long Lake Library. . 350
Friends of Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, VT. . 500
Keene Valley Library Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,050
Lake Placid Public Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,200
New York Society Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Paine Memorial Free Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
Town of Chester Public Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Town of Johnsburg Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Wadhams Free Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610
Wilmington E. M. Cooper Memorial Public Library.300
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,010
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Adirondack Architectural Heritage . . . . . . . . . . . $3,800
Adirondack Museum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,750
AuSable Club Preservation Foundation. . . . . . . . . 2,500
Casa del Herrero Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700
Fort Ticonderoga Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,500
Johnsburg Historical Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
Lake Placid North Elba Historical Society. . . . . . . 6,250
Minerva Historical Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
North Creek Depot Preservation Association . . . . 1,660
Sagamore Institute of the Adirondacks. . . . . . . . . 3,750
Schroon-North Hudson Historical Society. . . . . . . 600
Willsboro Heritage Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $131,060
RECREATION
Adirondack Ski Touring Council. . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Friends of Mount Pisgah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820
Lake Placid Central School - Mountain Bike Club . 1,500
Lake Placid Ski Club. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000
New York Ski Education Foundation. . . . . . . . . . 5,600
Schroon Lake Athletic Booster Club. . . . . . . . . . . 400
Skating Club of Lake Placid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Tri-Lakes Youth Lacrosse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Tupper Lake Youth Nordic Ski Development Club. 1,000
Uihlein-Ironman Sports Fund. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,430
Recipients: Aaron Barge, Luge; Bryan Berghorn,
Bobsled; Nathan Capone, Nordic Combined;
Annelies Cook, Biathlon; Colin Delaney, Nordic
Combined; Annie Frenette, Ski Jumping; Peter
Frenette, Ski Jumping; Colin Grady,
Snowboarding; Oliver Holmes, Freestyle Skiing;
Anna Izzo, Nordic Skiing; Joseph W. Izzo, Nordic
Skiing; Haley H. Johnson, Biathlon; Katelyn
Madden, Alpine Skiing; Sean Madden, Alpine
Skiing; Briana L. Munoz, Luge; Maile Sapp,
Nordic Skiing
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $28,600
YOUTH
Adirondack Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,850
Boy Scouts of America - Twin Rivers Council. . . . 250
Camp Dudley YMCA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Double H Hole in the Woods Camp. . . . . . . . . . . 800
Johnsburg Youth Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Make-A-Wish of Hudson Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,250
National Camps for Blind Children. . . . . . . . . . . 800
Saranac Lake Youth Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,402
Schroon Lake Youth Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Thomas A. Shipman Memorial Youth Center . . . . 2,500
Town of Burke Youth Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Youth Mentoring Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $22,402
GRAND TOTAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,274,424
What Did the Money Do?
Lake Placid Central School received a grant from the
Uihlein-Ironman Sports Fund at ACT to purchase 21 mountain
bikes for the elementary school’s physical education program.
The bikes are available for community use, as well.
“We hope to see more kids and adults riding bikes, and using
the phenomenal resources for outdoor physical activity that our
community has to offer,” said Matt Young, physical education
teacher, at left, with students in this photo of the newly
arrived shipment of bikes.
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Endowment Challenge
ACT Makes Booster Grants to Nonprofits Seeking Sustainability
ACT offered Adirondack nonprofit organizations a series of seminars designed to support board and
staff members in their efforts to build and manage the funds that underpin their very existence. At the
culmination of the series, we offered an endowment challenge to nonprofits that have invested endowment funds with ACT. Each winning applicant would receive a grant to match endowment funds they
raised. In the end, six organizations won grants: four of $10,000 and two of $5,000.
Pendragon
Winter Olympic Museum
Pendragon Theatre of
Saranac Lake, founded
in 1980, is the only
year round professional theater in the
Adirondacks. Now that
Pendragon is well
established as a
vibrant regional
resource, the organization seeks to ensure its
future capacity to take
artistic risks, provide educational programs and maintain
the continuity of three full-time employees. Its two-year
endowment fundraising goal is $70,000, which would
bring their ACT endowment fund to $200,000, a big step
on the way to Pendragon’s more distant goal of $1 million.
“An endowment is a base on which one can stand with
confidence... The future depends on it,” said Bob Pettee,
Pendragon’s Managing Director. Gifts may be made to the
Pendragon Fund for the 21st Century at ACT.
Contact Bob at pdragon@northnet.org.
The Winter Olympic
Museum in Lake
Placid is the only official Olympic museum
in the U.S. and houses
the largest collection
of winter Olympic
artifacts outside of the
International Olympic
Committee’s museum
in Lausanne,
Switzerland. ORDA
provides the exhibit space at the Olympic Center and basic
staff, so the museum is able to focus most of its resources
on the care and preservation of the collections, and the programs it creates for its 25,000 annual visitors. With a
vision of building global understanding, awareness of the
Olympic spirit for this and future generations, the museum
aims to raise $70,000 to add to its ACT endowment for
enhanced educational programs, interactive media and
extended exhibits at new sites. Contact MaryLou Brown,
Board President at Marylou@mlbassociates.com.
Briefing: Knight Foundation’s $300,000 Grant
Cali Brooks, ACT’s
Executive Director, and
Ellen Rocco, NCPR’s
Station Manager, two of
the team members behind
the Knight Foundation’s
innovation grant.
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Rural communities rely heavily on public media for local news and information. This is especially
true in the Adirondack North Country region. ACT, in partnership with North Country Public Radio
(NCPR), successfully applied for a matching challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation to make sure our region’s coverage continues to grow. Funds raised for the project will
allow NCPR to expand regional broadcast and digital news and information services and establish
an apprentice program for the next generation of public media professionals.
ACT and NCPR have progress to report. Adirondack North Country donors have responded quickly,
already matching the first $100,000 of the challenge. In September, Ellen Rocco, NCPR’s Station
Manager, attended a three-day Knight Foundation “boot camp” in Los Angeles. Through October,
NCPR collaborated with newspapers across the region to circulate a brief survey. The results will
help shape the Knight project work and will also be shared with other news and media organizations.
To help meet the second phase of the challenge, contact Cali Brooks, Cali@GenerousACT.org.
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Tri-Lakes Humane Society
High Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care
The motto of the TriLakes Humane Society,
founded in 1942, is,
“We speak for those
who cannot.” In the
past decade, TLHS has
rescued and placed
3,500 pets, improved
its facility, engaged in
programs to reduce
numbers of unwanted
animals, and provided
staff with reasonable
pay. Their no-kill shelter program stretches
from North Elba to Long Lake. In the absence of financial
sustainability, “intentions, compassion and selflessness are
no more than mere words,” said Treasurer Melinda Little.
TLHS aims to raise $100,000 to add to its endowment at
ACT for staff salaries, with a longer-range goal of reaching
$750,000. Gifts may be made to the Tri-Lakes Humane
Society Fund at ACT. Contact Melinda Little, TLHS
Treasurer at mlittle231@aol.com.
For 25 years in Warren,
Essex and portions of
Franklin and Hamilton
counties, High Peaks
Hospice & Palliative Care
has provided compassionate care for people at
the end of life. Hospice’s
goal is to help people
with life-limiting illnesses
rediscover the joy of
living one day at a time.
Fifty employees and
220 trained volunteers
care for more than 300
people annually.
HPHPC’s $50,000, two-year endowment campaign will
provide funding for ongoing training in the latest specialized skills, ensuring the most up-to-date and comprehensive
services in all areas of patient care and family support.
Gifts may be made to the Ann and C. David Merkel Fund
for Hospice Education at ACT. Contact Darsie Townsend,
HPHPC’s Development Director at dtownsend@hphpc.org.
Tri-County Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
The Sagamore Institute
Adirondack
Tri-County
Nursing and
Rehabilitation
Center makes
it possible for
older and disabled residents
to remain in
the southern
Adirondacks as
they come to
need support. The North Creek complex has 82 beds, an
adult day-care center and full therapy services for people of
all ages. In nearly four decades of work with the elderly, the
Center has seen a great increase in the need for long-term
care and habilitation services. With reductions in state and
federal funding, private contributions must grow if ATCNRC
is to continue to fulfill its role in our region. “That each
dollar we raise...will go toward generating a match from
ACT is math that resonates in a primarily rural area,” wrote
Hal G. Payne, Administrator, preparing for their $50,000
endowment campaign. Gifts may be made to the Adirondack
Tri-County Nursing Fund at ACT. Contact Hal at
halp@adirondacknursing.org.
The Sagamore
Institute, steward of Great
Camp Sagamore
in Raquette
Lake, plans a
two-phase,
$1.5 million
endowment
campaign over
five years for
historic
interpretation and preservation. Sagamore’s 27 designated
National Historic Landmark buildings were the wilderness
estate of the Vanderbilt family from 1901 to 1954. Now
open to the public for tours, accommodations and retreats
from Memorial Day to mid-October, Sagamore was the first
organization in the nation to offer grandparent-grandchild
camps with courses in canoe building, trail blazing, whittling, and water skills. A permanent endowment will create
an ongoing source of income for program and interpretive
staff. Gifts may be made to the Sagamore Endowment Fund
at ACT. Contact Beverly Bridger, Sagamore’s Executive
Director at info@greatcampsagamore.org.
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Donors
Gifts to Funds Made July 1, 2010 — June 30, 2011
In fiscal year 2010-2011, ACT donors contributed more than $1.2 million
in gifts because they care, want to provide for a specific cause or enhance
the community they love. One gift at a time, you are building your community
foundation’s capacity to serve the Adirondacks and beyond. Thank you.
Staritch Foundation
Mr. J. Scott Stringer and Ms. Megan H. Lavin
Brooknoll Fund
Mr. John Fritzinger
Chateaugay Rotary Club Fund
Chateaugay Rotary Club
ACT Board Workshop Fund and
Adirondack Nonprofit Network
ACT Operating Fund
Adirondack North Country Association
Blue Mountain Center
Hudson Headwaters Health Network Foundation
Landon Family Fund at ACT
Paul Smith’s College
ACT Chairman’s Fund
Mr. Frederick C. Calder
Adele and Tom Connors
Richard C. and Susan Ernst Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Keet
Mr. and Mrs. Rich Kroes*
Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Paine, Jr.
Meredith M. Prime Fund at ACT**
*in honor of Meredith M. Prime
**in honor of Adele Connors and
Vinny McClelland
ACT Operating Fund
Dr. Lee E. Bartholomew
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carroll
Dewey Fund at ACT
Ms. Barbara L. Glaser
Heidecorn Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. David W. Johnson
Mrs. Sally P. Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Keet
Ms. Jean Keet*
The Lack Family Fund
Landon Family Fund at ACT
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Meltzer
The Mountaineer Interbrook
Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Paine, Jr.
Meredith M. Prime at ACT
Mr. John A. Weldon
Mr. and Mrs. Ted S. Wickersham
*in honor of Nancy and Lee Keet
ACT Pass-Through Fund
Anonymous
Mr. Russell Banks and Ms. Chase Twitchell
Ms. Aurelia G. Bolton
Henry Uihlein II and Mildred Uihlein Foundation
ACT Scholarship Fund
Mr. Thomas J. Lynch
ACT Unrestricted Fund
Mr. and Mrs. James D. Crane
Heidecorn Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. William Hutchens
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Jeffrey II
Adirondack Architectural
Heritage Fund
Adirondack Architectural Heritage*
Mr. Thomas J. Lynch**
*in honor of Jocelyn R. Jerry
**in memory of Ward Shippey
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Adirondack for Kids Fund
Adirondack Energy Products
Anonymous
Ms. Nancy A. Monette
Mountain Mart
Adirondack Woodland Acorn Account
Mr. Andrew Love
ARC Children’s Corner and
Family Service Fund
Adirondack ARC
Arquit Family Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Arquit
Alice Ballard Hospice Fund
Mr. John Mark Parent
in memory of James McKee Jr.
Benware/Benoit Acorn Account
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony G. Burt*
Mr. Thomas Hadynski**
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest G. Lancto***
Mr. Norman F. Suprenant
*in memory of Winifred Benoit
**in memory of Joyce Fountain Hadynski
***in memory of Roy Benware
Bicknell’s Thrush Protection Fund
Anonymous
A. Edward Blackmar Fund
These gifts were made in memory of Ted Blackmar
Mr. J. C. Adams
Mr. Doug Bowen
Ms. Sara J. Cashen
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Cashen
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Coughlin
Mr. Bob Donaldson and Ms. Carrie Fraser
Drs. Jay and Dorothy Federman
Mr. and Mrs. Leon T. Fortune
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Gaspar
Mr. and Mrs. Jack K. Hinman
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Kelting
Mr. William F. Koegel
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas W. Kuhn
Mr. Lee
Mr. William McClellan
Mr. Peter B. Ohman
Blue Mountain Center Fund
Blue Mountain Center
Booth Family Acorn Account
Mr. and Mrs. Alan B. Booth
Brad Brinton Memorial Fund
Adirondack Community Action Programs
Kevin Broderick Fund
Mr. Patrick J. Cammarata, Jr.
Ms. Marguerite Dieffenbach
Clinton County Neighbors
Helping Neighbors
Port Jackson Fund at ACT
Corning Chisholm Fund
The Cleveland Foundation
Adele and Tom Connors
Ms. Adele E. Pierce
Ms. Mary K. Thill and Mr. Mark S. Wilson*
*in honor of Mr. Chisholm’s North Country nieces
and nephews
Linda and Sarah Cohen Fund
Ms. Linda Cohen
Ms. Sarah Cohen
P. K. Curtin Chateaugay Fund
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Aldrich
Mr. and Mrs. James P. Bessette*
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Q. Bessette
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Boyea
Fischer, Bessette, Muldowney and Hunter
Mr. and Mrs. William Fitzgerald
Mr. Owens D. Grogan
Lions Club of Malone
Mr. Donald E. Mellon
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. O’Neill
Ms. Linda A. Ryan
*in memory of Shirley L. Dumont
Charles B. Decker Memorial
Scholarship Fund
Adirondack Medical Center*
Adirondack Publishing Company*
The Adirondack Trust Company*
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight L. Anderson*
Mr. William Baldwin*
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Barnes*
Ms. Jean R. Berggren*
Ms. Elizabeth G. Bevilacqua and
Ms. Mary B. Raymond*
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Boutilier*
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Chapman*
Coreys Residents Association*
Ms. Eunice T. Cox*
Mrs. Janet P. Decker
Ms. Margaret Decker
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Forsyth
Ms. Eileen D. Gerrish*
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Gusek*
Mr. Paul J. Herrmann*
Ms. Phyllis E. Jansen*
Ms Elizabeth M. Johnson*
Ms. Olga Lopukhin-Krone*
Mr. and Mrs. Edmund E. Lynch*
Mr. Bob McGrain*
Mr. and Mrs. Brian A. McHugh*
Post Office Pharmacy*
Mrs. Meredith M. Prime*
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard E. Sochia*
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Valentine*
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Peter Drown Memorial
Scholarship Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Carroll
Michael M. Ellis Family Fund
Mr. Michael M. Ellis and Ms. Kathleen Hanna
Erenstone Family Acorn Account
Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Erenstone
Ernst Family Fund
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Ernst
Essex County Bar Association Fund
Mr. Brian P. Barrett
Ms. Cali Brooks and Mr. Galen Crane*
Mr. and Mrs. James P. Dawson
Ms. Margaret Doran
Mr. and Ms. William M. Finucane
Franklin County District Attorney’s Office
Ms. Barbara Friend
Law Offices of Reginald Bedell
Law Office of James Brooks
Law Office of Paul J. Herrmann
LeBlanc Law Offices
Manning & Scaglione
Mr. Charles J. Noth
O’Connell & Aronowitz
Russell & McCormick
Mr. Mark A. Schneider
Ms. Debra Whitson and Mr. John Haverlick
Wilkins & Griffin
*in honor of James M. Brooks
Essex Community Fund
Dr. and Mrs. Robert U. Akeret
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brink
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burley
Ms. Ann B. Cammack
Mr. Charles W. Cammack and
Ms. Samantha Sanderson
Mr. Jamie Paul Clark
Mr. Louis Comeau and Ms. Jani Lynn Spurgeon
Mr. Edward Cornell
Mr. Thomas F. Duca
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Durant, Jr.
Mrs. Mary-Jane Emmet
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Fitzgerald
Mr. and Mrs. Morris F. Glenn
Mrs. Norma W. Goff
Mr. Adam A. Guettel
Mr. and Mrs. Earl S. Hamlin
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon M. Hayes, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Heavey, Jr.
Mr. Gary F. Heurich
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
Mr. Lars I. Kulleseid
Mr. and Mrs. Nils Luderowski
Ms. Grace A. Macleod III
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Madigan, Jr.
Mr. Stephen A. Maselli
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan E. McBride
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. McCarthy
Ms. Caryl J. Stewart and Mr. Pierre J. Bouton
Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Sukel
Mr. and Mrs. Jan D. Terlouw
Mr. David A. Trost
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley W. Tuller
Mr. and Mrs. Brett A. Walker****
Mr. Jason Walker****
*in memory of Vickie Kirby
**in memory of Joe Ecclesine
***in memory of Charlie Goff
****in honor of Norma Goff
Dr. and Mrs. H. Nicholas Muller III
Mr. C. Twiggs Myers
Mr. and Mrs. Michael O. Olsen
Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Paine, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Parsons, Jr.
Ms. Katharine M. Preston and Mr. John Bingham
Mr. and Mrs. David L. Reuther
Dr. and Mrs. Fouad A. Sattar
Dr. and Mrs. Peter C. Schultz
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin F. Shaw
Mr. and Mrs. Klaus O. Shigley
Ms. Carole Slatkin**
Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Sprague III
Mr. and Mrs. Xenophon A. Stavropoulos
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Stransky
Mr. John Sharp Swan
Mr. and Mrs. L. Pierre Teillon
Ms. Patricia A. Tivnan and Ms. Kathleen Ginn
Mrs. Lila L. Touhey
Dr. and Mrs. James B. Van Hoven
Mrs. Dorothy Voorhis*
*in memory of H. M. Baird Voorhees
**in honor of the Reverend Margaret Shaw
Community Fund for the
Gore Mountain Region
ACT Unrestricted Fund,
in honor of Glenn Pearsall
Anonymous**
Ms. Eunice S. Antonucci
Mr. and Mrs. Walter K. Appelle
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Avignon
The Baco Che-Na-Wah Bazaar Foundation
Barton Mines Company
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore C. Bazil
Mr. and Ms. Joel Beaudin****
Mr. and Mrs. Larry L. Bennison
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bien
Big Shanty
Mr. and Mrs. Larry R. Blackhurst III**
Mr. Vincent A. Blando
Mr. James R. Bocchino and
Ms. Barbara E. Fox*******
Ms. Erika Bornn and Mr. Eric G. Witt
Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Borquist
Ms. Mary Ann Bowers
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Breidenbach
Ms. Cali Brooks and Mr. Galen Crane**
Brothers of Holy Cross
Ms. Nancy L. Brown**
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Budweiser
Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Burritt
The Callihan Family Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Carr
Mrs. Jane H. Castaneda
Chevron Humankind
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Civalier
Ms. Elisabeth H. Clarkson
Essex Community Pass-Through Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Cammack III
Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. French
Mrs. Francisca P. Irwin
Mr. Ronald E. Jackson
Dr. and Mrs. James R. LaForest
Dr. and Mrs. H. Nicholas Muller III
Ms. Lauren H. Murphy
Dr. and Mrs. James B. Van Hoven
Evergreen Fund
Anonymous Gift
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Spongberg
Franklin Academy Class of 1967
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. McGowan
Ms. Beverly Quenville
Friends of the Animals Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Terrance Gallagher
Will Geiger Academic
Scholarship Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Geiger
Charlie Goff Memorial Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Carrick
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Deneale
Mr. Lawrence L. Deso and
Ms. Carolyn S. Walker****
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin P. Douglas
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Drummond, Jr.* ****
Mr. and Mrs. Colin K. Ducolon
Mrs. Maureen U. Ecclesine**
Ms. Peggyanne Ecclesine
Essex Community Church****
Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Ferguson
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Goff
Mrs. Norma W. Goff***
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Hanna
Mr. Wallace W. Hill
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Ivan Ingelstrom****
Ms. Claire S. LaPine****
Ms. Joan M. Lilly and
Ms. Cynthia A. Fairbanks****
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Maningo, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. James I. Marsh
Mr. and Mrs. Allan R. Moran
Ms. Jillann Neely
Mr. and Mrs. Michael O. Olsen
Mr. and Mrs. Steve D. Pierce****
Mr. and Mrs. George Sayward****
photo: courtesy of the DeHoff Family
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Wandling
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Wandling
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Wiley*
Ms. Emily L. Woodruff*
*in memory of Janet P. Decker
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Mr. and Mrs. William Clarkson**
Mr. and Mrs. Seth R. Clifford**
Ms. Doris D. Cohen
Ms. Susan Cohen
Ms. Linda Combs
Community Foundation for the Capital Region**
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Coppola
Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Cormack**
Ms. Helen O. Cornwall
Mr. Melvin Y. Crannell and Ms. Susan D. Watson
Mr. and Mrs. David Crispino
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Cunningham**
Ms. Sarah L. Deane
Mr. and Mrs. Roger DeBerardine
Mr. David Delorme
Ms. Jane Derickson-Friar
Mr. and Mrs. C. Wesley Dingman II**
Dr. and Mrs. Steven J. Donovan
Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. duMoulin
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Durkin
Mr. Lyle Dye
Mr. John E. Elford and Ms. Anita L. Abrams**
Mr. George Edelman*****
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Elton
Equinox Foundation
Ms. Frances H. Filshie***
Mr. and Ms. Bob Foley
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Forbes
Ms. Sherry Fraser
Ms. Janet R. Friedman
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Friedman
Mr. and Mrs. Roger M. Friedman
Ms. Ellen Galluccio
Gilma Enterprises
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Giovannoli
Dr. and Mrs. David Goltzman
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Gosin
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Gregory
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Halloran
Ms. Karen L. Hanley**
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Harste
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Heidrich
Ms. Mary Lynne Heldmann
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Hezel
Mrs. Mary W. Jacobs
Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Jurow
Ms. Judith A. Juzaitis***
Mr. and Mrs. Stan Kaltenborn
Mr. George S. Karp***
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Keeler**
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Kelly
Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Klinski
Mr. and Ms. Frederick T. Krussman**
Ms. Enid H. Linden
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lomnitzer
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Ludlow
Mr. Marc W. Lustick
Peter Madison and Cooper Conway
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Magee
Ms. Elizabeth Maher and Mr. Peter Hovarth
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Maiorana
Mr. Michael G. Maxfield and Ms. Cathy Widom
Mr. and Mrs. Morgan L. McCane**
Medco Health Solutions Charitable Match Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Meltzer
Mr. Alan Michelsen and Ms. Michel M. Lee
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Millis
Mr. and Mrs. Clark Moeller**
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Molinsek
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Monroe******
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Moon
Mrs. Angela Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Morse
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Murray**
Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Murray
Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Myers
Mr. and Mrs. Norman H. Nuding
Mr. John M. Nuzum, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. William O’Dwyer
Mr. Peter Oberdorf
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Osterhout
Mr. David Pachla
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Paradis**
Mr. and Mrs. R. Douglas Paton
Mr. Armondo I. Perez and Ms. Grace S. Wolff
Mr. and Mrs. Boris Pushkarev
Ms. Susan P. Rawson
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel O. Riggins
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent J. Rinella
Dr. and Mrs. Melvin Robbins
Ms. Selma L. Robinson
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph R. Ruf
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Schultz
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Seagle
Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Shrope
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Simon
Rev. and Mrs. David A. Sloop**
Mr. and Mrs. Frank I. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Smith
Mr. Lester Sternin*
Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Thormann
Tidewater
Upstate Agency
Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. VanAntwerpen
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Varnai, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Walp
Ms. Julia E. West**
Mrs. Woody B. Widlund**
Ms. Heather Widlund and Mr. Matt Adams**
Mr. and Mrs. W. Eben Widlund**
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Winchester
Mr. and Mrs. Don Winfield
Ms. Tina Woiski**
Ms. Margaret C. Wood
Mr and Mrs. Roger Yankoupe
Ms. Janet M. Zachara
*in memory of Alice Sternin
**in honor of Woody B. Widlund
***in honor of Ann Breen Metcalf
****in honor of Carr, Combs, Dye & McNaughton
*****in honor of Beatrice Edelman
******in honor of Shannon Santonio
*******in honor of The Adirondack Mission
Alice and Paul Grulich Memorial
Scholarship Fund
These gifts were made in memory of
Mr. Francis Donalek
BAE Systems
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Carine
John C. Conte, D.M.D., P.C.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Dohnalek
Mr. Stephen J. Dohnalek, Jr.
Ms. Daria M. Golazeski
Groundwater Sciences Corp.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell E. Henneman
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Huson
Ms. Christine Jensen
Mr. John J. Killiany and Ms. Deborah Greenman
Ms. Constance M. Marzin
Mr. and Mrs. John Mitrowitz
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred L. Nielsen
Mr. and Mrs. John Ruminski
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Savichky
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel G. Thorne
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Williams
Christopher Emmet Hallowell Fund
Livingston Bailey Builders
Mr. Nicholas Bailey
Mr. and Mrs. Ian Barnett
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy L. Barnett
Ms. May P. Bartlett
Bubs Pizza & Deli
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Cammack III
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Chase
Mr. David Dalton
Ms. Fran Lewis Distasio
Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Flynn
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Flynn
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Flynn
Adirondack Nonprofit Network
ACT convened the leaders of 25 nonprofits serving
the Adirondack region for a two-day retreat in June.
The Blue Mountain Lake event focused on
collaborations and communications among nonprofits.
One participant reported, “This annual retreat is a
great opportunity to develop relationships that have
the potential to lift all boats across nonprofit fields....
This is my one chance each year to look more widely
at where my organization is, and who we could be
working with across the region.”
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Ms. Sarah Francois-Poncet
Mr. and Mrs. Mark C. Giometti
Ms. Lynn Grivakes
Ms. Donna V. Hackett
Daphne E. Hallowell Fund,
Fiduciary Charitable Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory W. Harper
Mr. and Mrs. Aaron A. Harsh
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Harsh
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Healey
Mr. and Mrs. Danny S. Henderson
Mr. Alan S. Hipps and Ms. Jane M. Preston
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Honoric
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce H. Hoskins
Mrs. Francisca P. Irwin
Ms. Katie A. Johnston
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Johnston
Mrs. Elizabeth D. Jones
Ms. Hannelore Kissam
Mr. and Mrs. Shawn T. LaFountain
Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Lopez, D.V.M.
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin P. Maloney
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Manny
Mr. and Mrs. S. Michael Martinez
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. McCormick
Mr. and Mrs. Donald McIntyre
Ms. Wendy Meguid
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Merriken, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Miller
Ms. Judith W. Miskell
Mr. and Mrs. William T. Murray III
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Myers
Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Phillips
Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Prado
Ms. Gladys P. Preston
Meredith M. Prime Fund at ACT
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton P. Reaser
Rogers-Carroll Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Sabella
Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard Seward
Mrs. Shirley Bacot Shamel
Mr. and Mrs. Jerrold A. Sherman
Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Spitler
Mr. Clay G. Stephens and Ms. Jodi Browning
Ms. Simone S. Stephens
Mr. and Mrs. W. Nicholas Thorndike
Ms. Caroline W. Treadwell
Mr. and Ms. Charles Turek
Mr. Harrison J. Uhl, Jr.
West Brothers Construction
Haris Leukemia Fund of
Franklin County
Mr. David W. Minnich
Heidecorn Family Fund
Heidecorn Family Foundation
HKH Fund
HKH Foundation
High Peaks Education Fund
High Peaks Education Foundation
Historic Saranac Lake Fund
Historic Saranac Lake
Kelly R. Huiatt Fund
Dr. Kelly R. Huiatt
Indian Lake Theater Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Denis Ackerman
Mr. Frederick A. Ackerman
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Alexander
Anonymous
Anonymous
Ms. Dolores M. Antinucci
Mrs. Louise Austin
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bahlmann, Jr.
Ms. Ann Bailey and Mr. Boren Chertkov
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Bannan
Ms. Allison K. Barlow and Mr. David Ochshorn
Ms. Harriett S. Barlow and Mr. David Morris
Mr. Thomas J. Barlow
Ms. N. Janice Basnight
Bear Trap
Ms. Eileen Benton
Dr. and Mrs. Sanders H. Berk
Big Shanty
Mr. and Mrs. Gary W. Bilsback
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bodycomb
Lynn H. Boillot Family Fund
Mr. Peter P. Boniewicz
Mr. and Mrs. Leon M. Borden
Ms. Erika Bornn and Mr. Eric G. Witt
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Bottini
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Bradley
Ms. Florence O. Brasser
Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Brooks
Mr. and Mrs. Jere H. Brophy
Ms. Elsa M. Bruton
Mr. and Mrs. Greg Burns
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Butters
Mr. and Mrs. John Cacchione
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cacciato
Ms. Julia M. Cadbury
Ms. Patricia M. Callahan
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Carr
Ms. Margaret J. Carroll and
Ms. Mary C. Mahoney
Mr. and Mrs David N. Carson
Ms. Susanne Merle Carter
Mr. David J. Caruso
Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Casazza
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Cashman
Mrs. Jane H. Castaneda
Mr. A. Douglas Chamberlain and
Ms. Anya Bickford
Mr. Scott Chase and Mrs. Jeanne Valentine-Chase
Ms. Joan Christy
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Churton, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. William Clarkson
Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Cleveland
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Cloran
Mr. and Mrs. Todd M. Clough
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Clugstone
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Collins, Jr.
Ms. Julia H. Colman
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald N. Comstock
Mr. Aims Coney
Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Cook
Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Coppock
Mr. and Mrs. Roger J. Corbin
Mr. Bennie F. Cummins
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Cummins
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Cunningham
Mr. and Mrs. Dominick J. Curcio
Mr. David S. Curry
Mr. Paul Davenport
Dr. and Mrs. Robin De Armas, Jr.
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne H. De Sorbe
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Dearmas
Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Death
Mr. and Mrs. Dechene
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Demas
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Denny
Ms. and Ms. Michelle M. Diegel
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. DiLorenzo
Ms. Helen M. Dittami
Ms. Mary Ellen Dowling
Ms. Carol Downs
Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Doyle
Ms. Marion L. Duhaime
Dunn’s Boat Service
Dr. and Mrs. Brad Dworkin
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Dymond
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Eichenlaub
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Eldridge
Mr. Kevin C. Elkin
Dr. and Mrs. Michael V. Ellis
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Erceg
Mr. Richard Evans
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Everett
Mr. and Mrs. John K. Fanning
Ms. Suzanne G. Farnham
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Farrell
Ms. Florence R. Feldman
Mr. S. Peter Feldstein and Ms. Sandra J. Mercaldi
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Fernald
Mr. Peter Ficke and Ms. Debra E. Bates
Mr. Douglas Finley and Ms. Michelle Helms
Mr. Paul F. Finnegan
Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Fish
Mr. and Mrs. Ramon R. Fish
Mr. and Ms. Frank J. Fleming
Mr. and Mrs. David M. Fletcher
Mr. and Ms. Bob Foley
Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Ford
Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Ford
Mr. and Mrs. Drew C. Forhan
Mr. and Mrs. Eric R. Frey
Ms. Jeanne C. Fricke
Mr. Fred W. Furman
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Gannon
Mr. and Mrs. John Gardner
Dr. Barbara Gates
G E Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Walter T. Geleta
Mr. Gregory T. George and Ms. Jean E. Williams
Ms. Phyllis K. Georges
Mr. and Mrs. Norman E. Gerber
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Gilligan, Jr.
Glasow Simmons Architecture
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy F. Goliber
Ms. Jennifer Gordon-Tennant
Ms. Dorothy E. Goren
Ms. Patricia A. Gorman
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Gorss
Ms. Jill Gracey
Mr. and Mrs. Don Greene
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Gross
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Grundzinski
Mr. Joseph Haberstroh and Ms. Elizabeth Moore
Mr. Tim S. Hall and Ms. Jacqueline M. Schmitt
Mr. Peter M. Halsch
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Hancock
Mr. and Mrs. Josef E. Hansen
Mr. James B. Hartwick
Mr. Frederick C. Hayes
The Hedges-Wide River Antiques
Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Heller
Mr. Robert G. Henckel and
Ms. Robin L. Richards
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A. Herrick III
Mr. and Mrs. Lee P. Herrington
Hewlett-Packard Company
Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Hildebrandt
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth G. Hinckley
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Hochschild
Homemade Quilts & Crafts
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hooper
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hovey
Mrs. Lois B. Hubbell
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hunter
Ms. Karen P. Hutchins
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Hutt
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Indian Lake Restaurant
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Ingrassia
Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Jackson
Mr. John E. Jackson
Mr. and Mrs. Jack James
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher F. Jay
Mr. and Mrs. George S. Jenkins
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Jennings
Ms. Claire A. Johnson
Mr. Conrad Johnson
Ms. Wilma Joseph
Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Joyce
Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Kallet, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Kassinger
Mr. Richard F. Kazis and Ms. Jill Medvedow
Ms. Arlene M. Kien
Mr. and Mrs. Jack B. Killon
Mr. James M. Killon
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd C. Kimball
Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. King
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan M. Kirk
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kirkham
Mr. Peter F. Klein
Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Klinski
Ms. L. Jane Klippel
Mr. Hugh W. Knox
Ms. Anita M. Kopff
Mr. and Mrs. Craig A. Kopper
Mr. and Mrs. Carl D. Korn
Mr. and Mrs. Brian P. Krzykowski
Mr. and Mrs. Sean M. Lafferty
Ms. Eva Lamoy
Mr. and Mrs. F. Joel Lamphear
Mr. Jeffrey W. Larkin
Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. LaScala
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Lazorchak
Mr. Richard H. Leadley
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Leavey
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lee
Mr. William K. Lee, M.D., P.A.
Ms. Patricia A. Leonard
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Lewis
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce D. Lomnitzer
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Lordi
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred H. Lowe
Mr. Gregory Maguire
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Mallery
Ms. Elizabeth R. Manning
Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Mathews
Mr. and Mrs. George G. McCane
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. McEwen
Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. McHugh
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. McKenzie
Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Mead
Ms. Mary Meagher
Ms. Jill S. Medvedow and Mr. Richard F. Kazis
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Menge
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce I. Merchant
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Merrifield
Ms. Mary M. Merrill*
Mr. and Mrs. Willard G. Merwin
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Meyer
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Michaels
Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Migdalen
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Mihevc
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Milazzo
Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Miller, Jr.
Mr. Robert E. Miller
Mr. Thomas L. Mills and Ms. Susan Werner
Minnewawa Associates
Mr. and Mrs. Andre E. Moglia
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Molinski
Mr. Daniel J. Monahan
Mr. and Mrs. Royal A. Monty
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley P. Moody
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Mr. and Mrs. Richard Moon
Ms. Lorraine J. Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Moore
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Morabito
Ms. Lois B. Morrill
Mrs. Lottie Morris
Ms. Christine L. Morroni
Mr. David Morse
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Moulthrop
Mr. and Mrs. Brian M. Mulligan
Mr. David L. Myers and Ms. Anne M. Vaccaro
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Nadel
Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard J. Neumaier
Ms. Cynthia Giles New
Mr. and Mrs. David New
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald C. Newbold
Mr. Dan A. Nielsen and Ms. Barbara Dodsworth
North Country Crafters
Mr. and Mrs. James Ochal
Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Ohnmacht
Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Orr
Mr. Paul R. Osterdahl and
Ms. Deborah A. Hrustich
Ms. Margaret M. Parker
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Patton
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Pausley
Mr. and Mrs. Karl M. Pelech
Mr. and Mrs. Glen G. Pfleiderer
Mr. Robert Picotte and Ms. Denise Desmond
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Pierce
Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Pietrow
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pildner, Jr.
Pine’s Country Store
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart A. Pine
Mr. Roger Plumsky
Mr. Peter G. Pollack and Ms. Judith A. Ferraro
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest W. Pollman
Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick C. Pooler
Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. Pouch
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Prine
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Proctor
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Purcell
Ms. Marsha K. Purdue
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Radler
Ms. Diana L. Ramsey
Ms. Mary Jean Rathbun
Ms. Monica M. Reed
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Regan
Ms. Jill N. Reid
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rhodes
Ms. Robin Richards
Ms. Mary Ellen Rielly
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent J. Rinella
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Rizzotti
Ms. Jane F. Robens and Ms. Esther N. Fraser
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Robertson
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Roche
Ms. Patricia A. Roesch and Ms. Louise V. Smyth
Mr. Philip Rogers and Ms. Karen Degaeta
Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Rohlf
Mr. Richard A. Rosen and Ms. Barbara Gordon
Mrs. Sharon L. Rowe
Dr. Kenneth R. Rubin and
Ms. Mary Anne Yanulis
Ms. Linda S. Rusch
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence G. Sahhler
Ms. Nancy C. Saltford
Dr. Barbara J. Schoonmaker
Ms. Elaine M. Schwab and Mr. Jeffrey DeGeyter
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Schwarting
Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Scully
Mr. Robert S. Searle
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Seldman
Ms. Margot S. Semler**
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Shaw
Franz W. Sichel Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. George Shilling
Ms. Lorraine M. Shock
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Shortt
Ms. Francine A. Siedlecki
Mr. and Mrs. Cromwell G. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Daryl E. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Sofie
Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Sokol, Jr.
Mr. Lou Spada
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Stammer
Ms. Emily A. Stanton
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Stanton
Mr. and Mrs. Roland B. Stearns
Steet-Ponte Ford
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Stephans
Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Stevens
Mr. David D. Stone, M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stores
Mr. and Ms. Ben Strader
Ms. Nancy Strader
Ms. Barbara L. Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn P. Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs. Temple G. Taylor
Timberlock
Ms. Bernadette M. Traeger
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Trometter
Mr. and Mrs. Warren M. Tunkel
Ms. Brenda B. Valentine
Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. VanAntwerpen
Mr. Robert G. VanBuren
Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Varadinek
Mr. Robert Vogt
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Wadecki
Mr. George R. Wager
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Waring
Ms. Diane C. Waterman
Drs. Daniel G. and Harriet B.Way
Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Weinberg
Ms. Helen Weydener
Ms. Maureen A. Wight
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wildermuth
Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Williams
Ms. Rosemary Williams
Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Wood
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Woodmansee
Mr. and Mrs. J. Richard Wyles
Ms. Sarah J. Yeoman
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Zahray
Mr. Anthony M. Zazula
Ms. Cynthia Austin Zimmerman
Mr. Don Zullo
*in memory of Richard Merrill and
Edward Pruden, Sr.
**in honor of Harriett S. Barlow
Infant Jesus of Prague Fund
Infant Jesus of Prague Foundation
Catherine and Wayne Johnston Fund
Ruthie’s Run
Keene Valley Library Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. Winterer
Tyler Leidig Summer Basketball
Camp Scholarship
Ms. Elizabeth G. Bevilacqua and
Ms. Mary B. Raymond
Ms. Jane Bevilacqua
Mr. George J. Campion and Ms. Mary E. Weston
Mr. and Mrs. Gerard P. Cavallo
Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Leidig
Mr. and Mrs. T. Richard Leidig
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Dr. and Mrs. Albert F. Dingley
Dr. and Mrs. Howard Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Nachbur
Mr. and Mrs. William Oppenheim
Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Paine, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Parker
Mr. Russell G. Pittenger and Ms. Linda Whittle
Mrs. Meredith M. Prime
Mr. and Mrs. Gary K. Rubin
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Salvatore
Mr. Jim Shimberg
Mr. and Mrs. Warren L. Simpson, Jr.
Sky Ambitions
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy R. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Spongberg
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew T. Sterling
Ms. Barbara R. Strowger
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Swartzwelder
Mr. David R. Tarella
Eunice E. Tenney Living Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan G. Witherbee
Lake Placid Public Library
Endowment
Sean P. McCullough Memorial
Scholarship Fund
Alethe and Frank Lescinsky Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Lescinsky
Charles H. Lewis and Renee A. Rosch
Lewis Endowment Fund
Mr. Charles H. Lewis and
Mrs. Renee A. Rosch Lewis
LPCA Fund at ACT
Lake Placid Center for the Arts
Lake Placid Garden Club
Beautification Fund
Lake Placid Public Library
Meredith M. Prime Fund at ACT
Malone Community Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Cappiello
Community Bank, N.A.
Fischer, Bessette, Muldowney and Hunter
Ms. Thelma W. Haight
Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Marshall
Mr. and Mrs. Dailon F. Patnode
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Seymour
Mr. and Mrs. Richard V. Spataro
Ms. Marian M. Stone
Ms. Judy C. Walker*
*in memory of Josephine C. Benware Walker
Master Family Fund
Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence L. Master
Matamek Scholarship Fund
Mr. and Mrs. H. Franklin Anthony III
George K. McClelland Fund
These gifts were made in memory of
George K. McClelland
The Adirondack Trust Company
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Beer
Ms. Cali Brooks and Mr. Galen Crane
Mr. T. Alan Broughton
Mr. Michael T. Carr
Champlain National Bank
Adele and Tom Connors
Mr. William G. Curtis and Ms. Storrow Hill
Mr. Gregory M. Dennin
Ms. El Edwards
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Ernst
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund—
Weber Family Charitable Fund
Mr. Edward P. Finnerty and
Ms. Nancie R. Battaglia
Mr. Sam Fisk and Ms. Linda Coe
Mr. and Mrs. Madison Ford
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Goodwin, Jr.
Graymont Materials (NY)
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Hoar
Mrs. Martha F. Hoar
Ms. Susan H. Kaloustian
The LA Group
Mr. and Mrs. Sean M. Lindsay
Mr. and Mrs. Serge Lussi
Mr. James F. McClelland III
Mr. Tyler Merritt
The Mountaineer Interbrook
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Skinner
Ms. Eleanor V. Sweeney
Ms. Aileen Townsend and Mr. Peter Parvati
Ms. Julia A. Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Woody B. Widlund
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Willis, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Wray, Jr.
Ms. Fran Yardley and Mr. Burdette Parks
Mr. Anthony M. Zazula
North Creek Depot Preservation Fund
Estate of Ernest E. Johnson
in memory of Ernest E. Johnson
Northern New York Audubon Fund
Northern New York Audubon
NSA Uihlein Scholarship Fund
National Sports Academy at Lake Placid
Paine Family Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Paine, Jr.
Lynn G. & Alice W. Palmer
Scholarship Fund
ACT Unrestricted Fund,
in honor of Michael O’Connor
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert G. Bergamini
Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Dailey
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Delauder
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Geddes
Mr. and Mrs. David R. Kokofsky
Ms. Katherine Mahon
Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. McCullough
Mr. and Mrs. Stephens M. Mundy
Family and Friends of Northern Insuring Agency
Plattsburgh Golf
Port Jackson Fund at ACT
Ms. Pamela S. Vann
L. G. Palmer Trust
Patriot Hills at Saranac Lake Fund
Grandison Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Hammond
Pendragon - Arts in Education
Bengt Ohman Fund at ACT
Pendragon - Ender Wiggin
Directors Fund
Ms. Joyce C. Henklein
Pendragon - The New Play Fund
Mirror Lake Inn Charitable Fund
Frances Murdock Memorial Fund
Mr. Thomas Duffy and Ms. Moira E. Bailey
Ms. Joyce C. Henklein
Ms. Linda F. Larkin
Lake Placid Center for the Arts
Clarence Petty Intern Fund
NCPR’s Adirondack Service Fund
Adirondack Council*
Jane N. Mooty Foundation Trust
*in honor of John L. Ernst
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Weibrecht
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart H. Angert
Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Armstrong
Ms. Nancie Battaglia
Ms. Eleanor Garrell Berger
Mr. and Mrs. Mark W. Berninghausen
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Bissell III
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Bradbury, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Christopher F. Brandy
Brooknoll Fund at ACT
Mr. and Mrs. Donald K. Clifford
Mr. Thomas Curley and Ms. Marsha Ann Stanley
Mr. Raymond P. Curran
Mr. and Mrs. C. Wesley Dingman II
Drs. Jay and Dorothy Federman
Mr. Edward P. Finnerty and
Ms. Nancie R. Battaglia
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Glennon
Mr. Leon Ewa Hammer
Mr. David E. Henry and Mrs. Erica M. Neufeld
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Kinter
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Luthringshauser
Dr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Maddocks
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Meltzer
Mr. and Mrs. Ed M. Milner
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nessle
Mr. and Mrs. Bengt Ohman
Ms. Carol Poole
Meredith M. Prime Fund at ACT
Ms. Chandler M. Ralph and Mr. David Aldrich
Ms. Lora K. Schultz
Simple Gift Fund
Sybil A. Pickett Fund
Sybil A. Pickett Charitable Trust
photo: Angie Cook
Ms. Deborah J. McGill
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pillmeier
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis A. Reynolds
Samacaddi Realty Corporation
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Port Jackson Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Roderic Giltz
Northern Insuring Agency
Margaret A. Prime Memorial Fund
Mr. Case Prime
Meredith M. Prime Fund
Mrs. Meredith M. Prime
Bev Quenville Art Fund
Ms. Beverly Quenville
Craig H. Randall Acorn Account
Microsoft Matching Gifts Program
Bob Rice Fund
Dr. Gail Rogers Rice
Rocky Bog Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bogdanovitch
Samwise Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Woody B. Widlund
Saranac Lake Public School
Education Fund
Anonymous
Thomas Shipman Memorial
Youth Center Fund
Thomas A. Shipman Memorial Youth Center
Sinfonietta Second Century
Endowment Fund
Lake Placid Sinfonietta
SOA Lake Steward Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Donnelly
Mr. Robert L. Evans, D.O.
Dr. and Mrs. Michael E. Freshman
Ms. Ellen McMillin
Placid Landmarks
Ms. Marcy E. Quinn
Mr. and Mrs. Randy Scharfe
SOA — Act for Placid Lake
Protection Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Hodgkins
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Hunt
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Irvin
Kingsley Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Henry O. Marcy
Mr. Theodore Marcy and
Mrs. Kimberly Hornung-Marcy
Mr. and Mrs. George F. Razook
Mr. Peter F. Roland
Special and Urgent Needs Fund
Ms. Barbara W. Davis*
The Kelsey Trust
Mr. Richard A. Rosen and Ms. Barbara Gordon
Dr. C. Wendell Wickersham III*
*in honor of Ted S. Wickersham
Mary Stewart Memorial Fund
Tupper Lake Public Library
Solon E. Summerfield LPCA Arts
Scholarship
Lake Placid Center for the Arts
Sustain the Moose River Plains Fund
HKH Fund at ACT
Ms. Ann E. Melious
Mr. and Mrs. Garrison R. Corwin, Jr.
“The only thing you take with you . . . is what you leave behind.”
— John Allston
photo: Anja McNeil
Philanthropy is personal. Each gift made
through ACT can be tailored to address
the charitable intentions of the donor and
his/her family. Many generous people
plan for gifts that will in the future
provide significant benefits to nonprofits
and communities in the Adirondacks and
beyond. One of the simplest ways to do
this is through a bequest that indicates
how you want this future gift to be used.
The Sullivans Give Forever, to Tupper Lake
Bob and Catherine Sullivan established a bequest to make sure they
could keep giving to the things they cared most about in the village of
Tupper Lake. Through the Infant Jesus of Prague Fund created at ACT
to assume the management of their private foundation, the Sullivans,
now deceased, will continue to support Tupper Lake’s nonprofit
community services, scholarships and Catholic churches in perpetuity.
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TAUNY Acorn Account
TAUNY (Traditional Arts in Upstate New York)
Town of Chester Library
Endowment Fund
Amica Companies Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Amyot
Ms. Naomi Bedell
Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Braim
Ms. Beverly B. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Brown
Ms. Linda C. Bullard
Mr. and Mrs. Harold V. Burdo
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Cargioli
Ms. Kay Cerrina
Mr. Richard Considine
Mr. and Mrs. L. Wallace Cross
Mr. and Mrs. Russell E. Danforth
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Dunleavy
Dr. and Mrs. Martin P. Echt
Mr. and Mrs. Keith O. Ellis
Ms. Jane E. Evanko
Mr. and Mrs. Carl T. Freiberg
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gangeri
Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Goldbecker
Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Goldfarb
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Gotto
Ms. Carol Halliday
Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Hart
Dr. and Mrs. John W. Holdcraft
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Jackowski
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Jensen
Ms. Josephine R. King
Mr. and Mrs. Conrad F. Koehler, Jr.
Ms. Maria C. Kondracki-Dwyer
Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Koppen
Ms. Judith S. Kratts
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Krauss
Ms. A. Cecelia Lauenstein
Charles M. Liddle III Insurance
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Lizzul
Mr. Wendell G. Lorang
Mrs. Joan W. Matson
Ms. Beverly D. McCarthy
Ms. Elizabeth McCartney
Mr. Robert McDermott and Ms. Linda Zila
Ms. Ruth McDowell
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. McGinnis
Mr. Robert H. McGowan
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh F. Moore
Ms. Sandra G. Morley
Ms. Mary E. Murphy
Natural Stone Bridge & Caves
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Nieradka
Mr. and Mrs. Basil R. Northam
Dr. and Mrs. William O’Dwyer
Mr. Charles A. Ranberg and Mr. Robert A. Fisher
Mr. and Mrs. Gary E. Roberts
Mr. Robert Schirmer
Ms. Mary Beth Sclafani
Mr. Robert Simon and Ms. Sandra Deak
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Sliva
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony V. Sorrentino
Mr. Peter T. Stewart
Mr. and Mrs. W John Sweeney
Ms. Barbara Tatzel
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony F. Taverni
Mr. and Mrs. W. Richard Tennyson
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. William I. Tierney, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Turner
Mr. Robert K. Urquhart
Ms. Jean J. Vetter
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wells
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis G. Wilson
Ms. Deborah E. Zack
ment • Health & Human Services • Historic Preservation • Libraries • Youth Programs
Walter & Lois Thomas and Lyndon &
Barbara Drake Scholarship Fund
Ms. Lois Thomas
Tri-Lakes Humane Society Fund
Tri-Lakes Humane Society
The Fund for Tupper Lake
Anonymous
ACT for Upper Saranac Fund
ACT supports the Upper Saranac Lake Association in
its effort to raise funds for milfoil eradication through
the sale of the Upper Saranac Lake Cookbook. Thank
you to the many people who have participated in this
delicious project by buying cookbooks for yourselves
and all your friends.
Adirondack Bank
AdkAction.org
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Barrett
Dr. and Mrs. Michael A. Bettmann
Mr. Michael Bird
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Brennan
Ms. Cheryl C. Conser
Mr. and Mrs. James D. Crane
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. Crispo
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Curley
Ms. Michelle D. Curley
Mr. Thomas Curley and Ms. Marsha Stanley
Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Elitzer
Ms. Rosemary Ellison
Forestcraft Company
Friends of Eagle Island
Mr. Jerry Hacker
Mr. and Mrs. Todd F. Hall
Hornbeck Boats
Ms. Virginia L. Kahn
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kalichstein
Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Knotts
Dr. Airlie C. Lennon
Little Bear Incorporated
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Mansfield
Ms. Judith A. Meagher
Ms. Paula Moeller
Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks
Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Oravec
Pendragon
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Ritchie, Jr.
Ms. Mechelle Roskiewicz
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Schoff
Mr. Frederick Schwarz
Ms. Sara E. Sheldon
Mr. and Mrs. Craig W. Smith
Upper Saranac Lake Association
Ms. Claire Warren
Mr. and Mrs. David R. Welch
Mr. Robert E. Wray
Susan L. Washburn Acorn Account
Susan Washburn and Kristin Rehder
The WCS Loon Conservation Fund
Ms. Catherine G. Ballard
Mr. Thomas J. Lynch
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sedransk
Tricia Woods Memorial Music
Acorn Account
Ms. Susan Arnold
Ms. Tammy Boyer-Planty
Mr. Alvin Cote
Mr. and Mrs. Donald LaBarge
Mr. Robert M. Shurtleff
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Van Horn
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Woods
Why People and Nonprofits Use ACT
ACT houses 213 funds, designated by their donors to achieve their
philanthropic goals. These funds were created by individuals and
families, both during their lifetimes and through bequests, and by
private foundations, businesses and nonprofit organizations. Many
fund donors build their charitable funds over time. Every fund is
open to receive gifts at any time.
Working with ACT, you can...
• Have what is like a “private foundation” without the hassle
With a donor advised fund at ACT, you recommend charities to receive
distributions. ACT makes grants in your name from your fund.
• Simplify your annual giving, tax-wisely
A non-endowed donor advised fund is like a “charitable checkbook.”
Consider donating appreciated stock to create a fund at ACT from which
you can support immediately or over time the organizations important to
you with grants of $250 or more.
• Address broad issues
Field of Interest Funds allow you to decide the general purpose of your
fund, and ACT helps you identify and make grants to effective organizations and projects to achieve your philanthropic goals.
• Keep on giving in perpetuity
Designated funds allow you to name charitable organizations to receive
income from your endowed fund in perpetuity.
• Help Adirondack students get higher education
You can establish your own scholarship fund, or, more efficiently,
you can add to the Crary Fund at ACT, which helps deserving students
with financial need.
• Get help managing your endowment
With an organization fund, a nonprofit can transfer all or part of its
endowment for management by ACT. An annual distribution creates a
reliable stream of income. The nonprofit also gains investment economy
and expertise while preserving staff and board time for the mission of
their organization.
• Expand the sphere of giving
Unrestricted funds allow ACT to identify needs and opportunities in the
community and, through competitive grants, target your dollars where they
will make the most difference.
• Save private foundation time and expense
By transferring a private foundation’s assets to ACT, you can leave the
paperwork to us, continue in grant decision-making as always, and there
will be no taxes to pay.
For a list of Funds at ACT, go to
www.GenerousACT.org
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ACT 2010-2011
‘In a Nutshell’
Total investments:
$28,055,349
Total grants made:
$1,269,424
Total funds:
213
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