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THANK YOU FORYOUR HIGH-QUALITYNEWSLETTER. ILOOK FORWARD TORECEIVING IT ANDENJOY READING IT.GREAT WORK. KELLY TURNER PRO PRINTS52

Dawn, Thanks for the many years of friendship, big thinking,encouragement and partner in crime to make a difference. I value yougreatly! I also received a tribute card from you guys. THANK YOU!!!!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!!!! Please tell your entire team howmuch I value them and what they do. Who loves you? I do 53

Lilly Scholarship Committee Community Foundation of Grant County I am emailing to express my thanks and gratitude towards the entire Community Foundation Lilly Scholarship Committee, as well as the rest of the staff at the Community Foundation of Grant County. It is an honor to have been chosen as one of the recipients of the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship. The Community Foundation does so much for the people of Grant County, an aspect for which I am incredibly grateful. Thank you again for this honor. With much gratitude, Micah Hoeksema54

Friends, Since it has been a couple of months since our Marion Summit on Community Safety and Well-being, we wanted to fill you in on some developments since then, and let you know what we are thinking about for the future.First, your feedback told us that one of the things you liked best about this Summit was thatit brought together people who don’t often have the chance to work together for the future of our city. We agree. We were reminded again of the power that comes from bringing people to the table and working together.Second, Dawn Brown has taken another step forward withthe “Thriving Families, Thriving Community: A Meeting ofthe Minds” initiative. She has sent you information about this work that promises to make a positive impact on our community well-being. Our hats are off the Dawn and all those advancing this vision. Third, Dr. David Moore followed up our meeting with some great community work throughhis organization, M-Powering Youth, Marion. Sixty-three Marion Students grades 5 though 8 partnered with teachers, staff, coaches, administrators, police, fire, and communitymembers for a Saturday neighborhood clean-up near McCulloch Junior High. This 1/2 day of Community Service was followed by a lunch that featured Community Mentor speakers including Mayor Alumbaugh, and then a basketball camp led by Coach James Blackman. This was an inspired idea from The Summit that has been acted on to impact lives and improve the well-being of our community. Thank you Dr. Moore! Fourth, we have been talking about convening meetings for smaller groups of people whohave a huge stake, and much to contribute, for our community’s safety and well-being. The next group we’d like to invite for an open discussion about our city’s needs are the pastors/spiritual leaders of our city. We believe that our city’s churches already make wonderful contributions to the well-being of our city. We wonder what might be done if wecould begin to coordinate and pool those efforts toward a common set of goals. Accordingly, we are in the early stages planning a Pastors’ Café that will provide learning, brainstorming, and share commitment to help our city.Fifth, we’ve identified other groups that we believe could benefit by talking together about how to contribute to our city’s wellbeing.These include educators, non-profit leaders, and business leaders. If you have ideas about how to engage these groups in focused conversations please share them with us. Sixth, we are thinking about holding another Summit in February next year to reviewprogress and gather further input about the ideas and projects that are going forward this year.Thank you for your interest in the safety and well-being of our community. Chancellor Alex Huskey Superintendent Brad Lindsay President David WrightSenior Counsel Karen Roorbach 55

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All, We are looking forward to a press release coming out in reference to the Donation Drop Box ordinance. But I wanted to let each of you know how much others and myself appreciated the swiftness of the passing of the Donation Drop Box ordinance. A thank you also goes out to the Ordinance Committee for their hard work on crafting the ordinance. Also, a very special thank you to Dawn Brown & Sherri Rush from the Community Foundation for bringing the situation to our attention. We have had great success in the removal of all reported and/or sighted donation drop boxes from the City of Marion limits. Some of the donation drop boxes were removed before the ordinance was evenpassed. The rest were removed at the expense of the donation drop box owners after passage of the ordinance. This would not have been possible without all of us working together as a team. Again thank you.. Kenneth A Hussong 57

Thanks Ken for your aggressive work to rid our city of these unsightly boxes and I do think it will pay off for our local charities and non-profits who benefit from the donation and the outreach to our community. Thank you Dawn for bringing this to our attention and for all of your work in helping our committee. Great effort by all. -Dave Homer I want to add my voice to others expressing theirappreciation to Dawn Brown for bringing this matter to our attention and to Ken Hussong for seeing that the boxesdisappeared. The role of the city council, while necessary, was really a no-brainer. ALAN MILLER MARION CITY COUNCIL WARD 2 58

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I KEPT THE 10 THINGS YOU SHARED A LONG TIME BACK…LIKE YEARS. :) THIS MORNING I HUNG THEM UP ON MY WALLFOR MY INTERNS TO READ NEXT TUESDAY WHEN THEY BEGIN.I FORGET THE TITLE YOU GAVE, BUT THE ITEMS WERE:1.) GIVE BACK TO COMMUNITY2.) BE NICE3.) LEADERS ARE READERS4.) REMEMBER THE AIR IS VERY THIN ON THE HIGH ROAD5.) BE A LOVE CAT6.) DO SOMETHING FOR SOMEONE ELSE THAT NO ONE HASDONE FOR YOU.7.) 3-2-18.) DO THINGS BIGGER THAN YOURSELF.9.) LEAD FROM WHERE YOU ARE10.) LET GOOD BE THE ENEMY OF GREAT!THEY WILL DEFINITELY HEAR THAT THE LIST CAME FROMYOU. THANKS FOR THE WISDOM THAT YOU SHARE WITH ALL!KELLIE ENGELMANCOMMUNITY COORDINATORAFFORDABLE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTCORPORATION 63

JUST GOT OUR NS CONFIRMATION-I WANT TO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR FABULOUS \"GUIDE\" FOR COMPLETION. IT WAS MADE FOR JUST MY LEARNING/TASK STYLE AND MADE IT SO MUCH EASIER. YOU'RE AN AWESOME UNICORN! HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY! LISA OUR MISSION IS TO PRODUCE POSITIVE AND SUSTAINABLE CHANGE IN THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE. LISA A. FLOYD, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SOUTH MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION64

Good morning: Thanks for the very kind Christmas wishes and bottle of spice. The feeling of contributing somethingto our community is gift enough for me. This is home, and it's a place worthfighting for. Thanks for letting me have a spot in the line of fire. Bless you all for your kindness, dedication and work. Mike. 65

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Dawn and all involved in making Santa appear at theoffices of Cancer Services,When I read Adam’s letter (which I am sure isresponsible for Santa’s generosity), I was fairly certainthat his style would appeal to certain elves in theoffice. As the newly elected (in absentia) president ofthe Cancer Service board, I thank you from thebottom of my heart. I am sure a more formalacknowledgment will be forthcoming.May Santa continue to bless the CommunityFoundation and all who toil there!Karen L. Behnke, CPA 68

I wanted to thank you so very much from the entire committee as well aspersonally.We are so honored to have been chosen to receive a Santa Grant, and flooredthat it was $3,000!!!!We are so honored.Thank you very much!That was fun!!!And I honestly had NO idea!I was looking at banking and trying to figure out what I could help with!Then saw Santa and it still didn’t click!Then saw Dawn, and figured it out!!!!Thank you so very much, we are honored and humbled.Now….who was santa?I cant figure it outThank you again so very much and Merry CHRISTmas!Michael Belcher 69

Thanks Dawn. It was nice seeing youand the team in your festive spirits.Thanks for your continued love of theIWU community.Have a GREAT weekend!-JohnJOHN C. JONES 70

Wanted to make sure you received ourDecember newsletter that included apicture and small article on the SantaGrant the foundation gave over theholidays.Hope you have a happy new year.Greg MaynardCarey Services 71

Access A monthly look inside Carey Services Volume 1, Issue 5 ◊ December 2016Holidays a time to reflect, to give It seems not that long ago that Christmas was all about a jolly Holiday To-Do Listold elf and colorfully wrapped presents and wondering who theheck Round John Burgon was and why we were singing a song 3‡BBuey Presents Dailyabout him every Christmas Eve while we lit candles and werescared we’d drip wax all over everything. ‡Wrap Gifts Sinoma eHonueg Fast forward a few more years than I’d like ‡Send Gifts Loveto admit, and December has taken on aslightly di erent tone from those earlier days. 3‡Dream of Sugarplums It’s less about the things and the trappings A Better Worldof the holiday season and increasingly about ‡Make CookieMs emoriesthe spirit of the season. It’s about giving and ‡BSeee athe Lightsto Othershelping others. It’s more about working tomake this world a better place and seeing ‡SpendTMimoenweityh Loved Oneslittle glimpses of others having success alongthe way. 3‡Take A TrTipime to Help It’s been an eventful year at Carey Services. Change is one of that Round John Burgon really doesn’t need to be added to thethe constants in life, and Carey Services has been no di erent. nativity scene. And, here’s to discovering they’re making newWe’re excited that we’re beginning to see the fruits from the plastic cups to hold that candle wax much more successfully thanprogramming changes we’ve made, and even in this season of those little green and white cardboard circles of years gone by.re ection, we are looking forward to what 2017 will bring. We’remaking plans and looking ahead with the expectation that the And, here’s to helping more people gure out, in the words ofcoming year will be our best year yet. Peter Bailey from A Wonderful Life, “All you can take with you is that which you’ve given away.” But, in the midst of all of that change, there has been anoverarching constant to what we do: the people we serve. Every Here’s to a life of giving.day of the year, we’ve provided quality services to help people Happy Holidays!take their abilities and barriers and turn them into opportunities.It might be seeing someone learn a basic life skill they’ve tried to Director of Fundmaster for a long time or it might have been seeing the smile on & Strategic Advancementsomeone’s face when they created a painted canvas for the rsttime in our new art program. ose glimpses make the days worthwhile. We have visitors tour our facilities regularly, and those of uswho routinely lead those tours have discovered something manyof those tours have in common. For people who have nevervisited our Marion campus or our remote sites throughout NorthCentral Indiana, there’s a time on almost every tour wheresomeone will make a comment that sounds something similar to:“I never knew you did so many things.” All of those “things” take people and resources. Many of you have generously supported our work, some formany years and some just recently. To all of you, we say thankyou. Many of the things we are able to do are because of yoursupport. We look forward to continuing our relationships andbuilding new ones in days ahead. So, as we wrap up the year 2016, here’s to nally guring out Carey Services gets Santa visit Apparently Carey Services made Santa Claus’s nice list this year. e jolly old elf and a couple of his helpers took time out of their frantic Christmas Eve delivery preparations to present Jim Allbaugh, the agency’s president and CEO, with an early Christmas present. e early gi was a $1,000 check that Santa graciously agreed to present on behalf of the Community Foundation of Grant County’s Santa Grant program. Carey Services was one of nine organi- zations to receive the gi s, which were the result of people sending letters to the foundation describing the good works organizations were doing. Carey Services Carey Services is a 501 (c)(3) organization. 2724 S. Carey St., Marion, IN 46953 To nancially support our work,72(765) 668-8961 / www.careyservices.com visit http://www.careyservices.com/connect/donate/

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WOW that is a wonderfully clever Annual Report. What a great way to communicate in an easy manner what we do! Congratulations on a job well done and done well. Suzie Light Kosciusko County Community Foundation76

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We're grateful for all your work and the \"Giving Back to Our Community\" piece in the Chronicle-Tribune. Thank you! Keith Newman Indiana Wesleyan University 78

Thanks much Dawn we hope to hear back.One more quick note... I forgot to mention earlier. Myteam has read/reviewed literally thousands of AnnualReports, Community Health Needs Assessments,Community Health Strategic Plans, etc. I really want togo out of my way to stress that your \"Cookbook\" styleAnnual Report was our favorite read of any documentwe've reviewed in the past few years. Simplyoutstanding and brilliant. Both original/creative andhad serious content with depth and weight. We lookedback and your other concepts were equally awesome.Anyhow, we're looking for passionate teams that alsohave an edge and could be fun to engage with, andthat was sort of a key driver for why reached out. If youwork with any third party design or creative teams todevelop those please do let me know who they are.We'd be interested in working with them on someprojects we are working on.Anyhow, please keep up the great work and reachback out to us if you'd like to connect.All best,Ken MarshallCimpatico 79

We actually discussed this for a fewminutes just speculating... \"do theydo this themselves or do they havesome local creative agency thatthey've got a sweet deal with... and ifso, we should probably find out whothat is.\" Well kudos to your teamthat's so cool.Maybe your team should open up acreative studio and sell projects tonational mega foundations! ;)Ken 80

Dawn – I realized earlier today that I had a draft of a message back to you that was never sent…please forgive me! I want to thank you for taking the time to send me the IBJ article andthoughtful message about Brandon. It is one of the most sincere and special messages I have ever received, and it nearly brought me to tears. Not a day goes by that I don’t remember my best friend and the sacrifices he made. Anything we can do to keep his memory alive and reflect on his true love ofpeople and the City of Marion is certainly well worth it. I sincerely appreciate our partnership with you and the Community Foundation. Your communication, inspiration and hard work are truly a blessing. Thanks again, Dawn. Sincerely, Kristin 81

DAWN, SORRY I MISSED YOU AT ROTARY ON TUESDAY! I BELIEVE THAT IS TWO YEARS IN A ROW THAT I HAVE MISSED YOUR PRESENTATION. TUESDAY WAS DUE TO WEATHER. I WAS TALKING TO DEBBY RIBBLE ON THE PHONE WHO IS RETIRED BUT SUBBING. MISSISSINEWA HAD A TWO-HOUR DELAY AND DEB SAID HER PORCH STEP WAS ICY, REQUIRING SALT. SO I BAILED ON ATTENDING THE MEETING. ALSO, CONGRATULATIONS ON THE COOKBOOK IDEA! HOW CREATIVE! ALL THE BEST TO YOU AND YOUR TEAM FOR ALL YOU DO FOR GRANT COUNTY! LAREA82

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Thank you Dawn, And thank you for being so amazing and such an inspiration to us! It’s a blessing to be working with you! H HERB VINCENT PETERSON84

Good morning, Dawn...thank you for responding to my email about Ginny Martin. She and her husband, Hank (Henry), were truly assets to Marion while they lived here. I so appreciate your kind words, their retirement address, and Ginny's obituary that you sent. I will return home in April and plan to attend the memorial for Ginny at Matter Park in June. Keep up thevery informative news letter that you do. I enjoy reading it! I truly believe in the work the foundation does and when I'm home if you ever need a volunteer to \"copy...staple...paste\" just email me or give me a call... Judy Cook 85

Dawn, You are a true Rock Star! I hope you know WE all see you, your passion for good, and your commitment to leave a powerful legacy in Grant County. Lisa Dominisse86

Dawn,Thanks to you and your team forthe work that has gone into thisCollective Impact initiative. Yourboard should be thrilled with all that you all accomplish. Also, thanks to all of the teamwho work so diligently to ensure our families have a wonderfulcommunity that is committed to helping us thrive. Best, ALEX HUSKEY INTERIM CHANCELLOR EAST CENTRAL & RICHMOND REGION IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE 87

Love your blog, Dawn! You are such a good writer!- Andrea Womack88

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Hi Dawn, I just love looking at the CommunityFoundation website.  I appreciate your team’s innovation and cheerfulnessthat shows up in the little details.  It communicates, “we love what we do.”  Congratulations! Thank you so much, Dawn, for all you do for Grant County and for students at Taylor and IWU.  I know that youhelped a Taylor Social Work professorwith a proposal writing project for his class in the fall.I am seeing the results of my students’learning; a few have told me that they have helped organizations with theirproposal writing needs. It is thrilling to see young people take information offered to them and use it to make a difference.  It is motivating and encouraging.Thanks for considering my request tocome and speak into the lives of our students.Adjunct Lisa Ritchie and Professor, Philanthropy Grant Writing 95

Dearest Dawn We can't thank YOU enough for the extraordinary efforts & yummy lasagna & salad meal(s) you delivered to us here at CO on Sat evening. You thought of simply everything, including ice tea, homemade cookies & elegant table ware. It was so delightful to have a home cooked meal and eat at 6 pm, instead of 9 or 10 pm. We are so very grateful for your thoughtfulness to us -- and even more so for your care & compassion you've shown Ned in his hour of need -- with your frequent visits and help in getting him help. Thank YOU - and God Bless You & your entire terrific team at the Community Foundation. Katie & I will likely stop by your office Tues or Weds am to drop off your dishes etc & tour your office. Best & Blessings, Maureen Gillum96

Dawn,Your random act of kindness mademy morning! While the doughnut is wonderful, I really appreciate the time & effort you & your intern made to carry it through. Thanks! Sue Bratton Marion Public Library 97

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I always enjoy your namepopping into my inbox! Thanksfor the info.  It is very helpful.  Thanks again for thecommunications/stewardshipplan – we’re using it this year. William A. Rhodehamel, CFRE   President & CEO Hendricks County Community Foundation 100