What's New
New Fund Honors Area HIV/AIDS Advocate
The Community Foundation is pleased to announce
the establishment of The Barbara H. Chaffee MD, MPH Educational Fund as
a component fund of the Foundation. The Fund’s purpose will be to
support continuing education for health professionals in the Greater
Binghamton area who wish to further their knowledge and expertise in the
field of HIV/AIDS and who work for specific area medical, health and
human service organizations.
The Fund honors the work and career of Barbara
H. Chaffee MD, MPH, who was one of the region’s first physicians to be
moved by the plight of those suffering from HIV/AIDS and who, since
1988, has been actively involved in their care. Serving as medical
director at the UHS Binghamton Internal Medicine Office, as well as the
Broome County Health Department’s HIV/STD clinics, she has contributed
not only to the HIV/AIDS education of local health care professionals,
but of professionals throughout upstate New York.
A Fund Planning Committee has been formed
comprising Binghamton IMO staff member Kate Dodge; Paul D. Rushanski
(Chairman, BFCC/OPMH Consumer Advisory Board); Dr. Chaffee and her
husband, John; Executive Director John Barry and Director of Development
Mary Kaminsky from the Southern Tier AIDS Program (STAP); Manager of the
UHS OPMH Clinic Edwin Rivera; graphic designer Eric R. Saar; and several
HIV patients who belong to the BFCC/OPMH Consumer Advisory Board. The
Fund Planning Committee will work to raise money for the Fund through
community donations so that the Fund will reach the minimum threshold
necessary (i.e., 12 months after assets in the Fund total $25,000) to
begin making grant distributions.
Once the Fund is eligible to issue grants, it
will accept applications for continuing education opportunities in the
field of HIV/AIDS for employees of UHS; Clinical Campus, Upstate Medical
Center at Binghamton; Broome County Health Department; STAP; or for
resident physicians or medical students (MD or DO) in training at UHS
Hospitals or Clinical Campus, Upstate Medical Center at Binghamton.
Contributions for The Barbara H. Chaffee MD,
MPH Educational Fund may be directed to the Community Foundation,
located at 70 Front St., Binghamton, NY 13905. Checks should be made out
to the Community Foundation, noting in the memo section that the gift is
for “The Chaffee Fund.” Credit card gifts (VISA/MC) can also be accepted
by telephone at 607-772-6773. To visit the Fund Planning Committee’s
Facebook™ page (and access an optional pledge/contribution form to print
out), click here.
Nonprofits: Learn How
Self-Assessment Can Help at Free Workshop
For Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga Nonprofits on
April 15th
Join us for the NYCON Spring Workshop and 2010
Mini-Grant Program: Improving Nonprofit Capacity & Effectiveness
through Assessment
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Thursday, April 15th from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30
p.m.
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Location: Decker Community Room, Broome
County Public Library, 185 Court St., Binghamton
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Presenter is Doug Sauer, CEO, New York
Council of Nonprofits
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Two people per organization may attend
(board and staff person)
This free workshop will focus on what your
organization can learn through self-assessment (e.g., long-term
viability, how to improve effectiveness and capacity) and offer tools to
take away. Please note, registration cannot be completed through the
Foundation.
Attendee organizations will be eligible to
apply for the 2010 Broome, Chenango, Cortland and Tioga Capacity
Building Mini-Grant program, funded by the Community Foundation, the
Stewart W. and Willma C. Hoyt Foundation and the Conrad and Virginia
Klee Foundation. Additional details and mini-grant applications will be
at the workshop.
To register, click here.
CF Website Offers New Section for Professional Advisors
The Community Foundation is pleased to offer a
new section of our website designed especially for professional advisors
who might need more highly detailed information about the Foundation,
our services and the charitable gift options we offer as they work with
their clients. The section includes a “Toolkit” of printable resources,
including the Foundation’s Gift Acceptance Guidelines, the CF Investment
Policy, suggested bequest language, detailed comparisons between the
different types of funds housed by the Foundation and more.
Click here to access the new
section.
We encourage feedback on the new “Professional
Advisors” pages; contact us or call
772-6773. And please feel free to read through the information even if
you’re not a professional advisor. All are welcome!
Community Foundation Welcomes New Member
to Board of Directors
The Foundation is pleased to welcome Heather M. Cornell, Esq. to the
Board of Directors. Ms. Cornell is a Partner with the law firm of Levene,
Gouldin & Thompson, LLP and practices in the areas of commercial and
residential real estate, general business law, oil and gas law, estate
planning and administration, and elder law.
A native of the Greater Binghamton area, Ms. Cornell is currently on
the board of the Johnson City Senior Citizens Center and volunteers with
the West Corners Youth Baseball League and the Tiahwaga Community
Players. She resides in Endicott with her husband and three sons.
The Foundation also wishes to express its thanks to departing board
member Jeffrey A. Loew, whose term on the Board expired at the end of
2009. Mr. Loew has devoted many years of dedicated service to the
Community Foundation and we are profoundly grateful for his many
contributions.
Luncheon Introduces The Women’s Fund to Cooperstown
Women and philanthropy was the theme on
Thursday, November 12th at Cooperstown’s Templeton Hall where
approximately fifty women attended a luncheon to learn more about
The Women’s Fund and its mission,
as well as the grants it has made over the past several years since its
founding.
Guest speakers at the luncheon were Community
Foundation Executive Director Diane Brown, who spoke on “Women and
Philanthropy,” and Paula Huntsman, council director of Girls on the Run
(an Otsego County-based character development program for girls, as well
as a Women’s Fund grantee organization), who shared stories about GOTR’s
program and expressed her own views on the importance of women’s
philanthropy.
All those attending expressed their
appreciation for the event, which was funded out of a special
administrative fund for Women’s Fund activities and events.
View the 2008 CF Annual Report Online
You can view “Hands-On Philanthropy,” the Community Foundation’s
2008 Annual Report, by
clicking here. Read the stories behind the grants; meet some of your
fellow community members who are working with the Community Foundation
to realize their charitable goals and dreams.
(Note: To view
the Annual Report, you’ll need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on
your computer.
Click
here for a free download of Acrobat Reader.)
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