2023 Crystal Ball - A Night in Havana

23RD ANNUAL CRYSTAL BALL GALA JANUARY 21, 2023

Founding Sponsor: Maddox Foundation Presenting Sponsors: Delta Regional Foundation First Pharmacy - Joe & Denise Pratt Casey Family Programs

Casey Family Programs is proud to support the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi Crystal Ball 2023 celebration.

Across the country, children, families and communities are on the pathway of hope.

Working together, we can influence long-lasting improvements to the safety and success of children, families and the communities where they live. Everyone has a role to play in building Communities of Hope.

Learn more at casey.org/Hope.

FROM OUR BOARD Welcome to the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi’s Crystal Ball Gala, A Night in Havana! We are excited to be back in person after a two year absence due to COVID. Despite the cancellations for 2021 and 2022, 95% of Crystal Ball sponsors renewed their donation allowing the Foundation to continue its mission of connecting people who care with causes that matter.

Thank you to our generous sponsors, in-kind donors, and volunteers whose loyalty to the Foundation has been unwavering through some very challenging years. Your loyalty and financial support have enabled the Foundation to average over $9 million in donations over the past three years! Most importantly, your support has resulted in an average of $4 million in grants bringing our all-time total in grants to $35 million since 2002.

We invite you to read the 2022 Philanthropy Report that celebrates the Foundation’s 20 years of service to nonprofits. The Community Foundation was established in 2002 with a generous grant from the Maddox Foundation. Our Board of Directors thanks Robin Hurdle for her vision of a community foundation and for the Maddox Foundation directing millions of dollars through the Community Foundation to support youth, health, and education. The Board also thanks Tom Pittman for his twenty years as President of the Community Foundation. Robin’s vision and Tom’s leadership are the two ingredients that have resulted in the assets of the Foundation reaching $38 million as of December 31, 2021, toward the goal of $50 million.

Please enjoy your evening at the Crystal Ball!

Mary Thompson 2023 Board Chair

Colie Sanford 2020.2022 Board Chair

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2023 STARS OF HOPE ERIN & BEN NAPIER OF HGTV'S HOME TOWN Erin and Ben Napier—Laurel, Mississippi natives and stars of the HGTV show Home Town—will be honored with the annual Star of Hope award.

Graduates of The University of Mississippi, and founding co-owners of Laurel Mercantile Company, have dedicated their lives to promoting the rebirth of historic downtown districts - revitalizing small-town America.

ALL TIME HONOREES 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022/23

North Mississippi All Stars & Blind Mississippi Morris Morgan Freeman Senator Thad Cochran Sam & Mary Donnelly Haskell B. B. King Community Star Men & Woman Governor & Mrs. William Winter Mary Ellen Stribling Bouldin, M.D. Archie & Olivia Manning Bob Pittman Marty Stuart Bradford Cobb Richard Grant Sela Ward Jesse Holland Wade & Jimmy Creekmore Charley Pride Erin & Ben Napier

THANK YOU, SPONSORS! FOUNDING

THE MADDOX FOUNDATION

PRESENTING

Casey Family Programs Delta Regional Foundation Joe & Denise Pratt - First Pharmacy Brown Missionary Baptist Church Cumulus Media iHeart Media Legacy New Homes, LLC

CRYSTAL

PLATINUM

GOLD

Harker Foundation Entergy Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance Northcentral Electric Power Assoc.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mississippi Heavenly Sunshine Cleaners C-Spire Foundation Mesquite Chophouse Southaven City of Southaven Paul Janoush David K. Magee ProShow Systems, LLC Delta Magazine Cocke Family FedEx McIngvale Square Gold Strike Casino Pride Hyundai Grapevine Liquor and Wine Southern Bancorp Bank Guaranty Bank Sweebe Family Holding Company V2 Media

SILVER

A&B Distributing AftrgLo Beauty & Wellness Spa Alliance Healthcare System Appling Podiatry Atmos Energy Cadence Bank cityCURRENT Bank3 Bank Plus Baptist Hospital DeSoto The Bowen Family Civil Link Community Bank Gainspoletti Financial Services Gertrude C. Ford Foundation First Horizon Bank Friends of Thomas Tuggle Hardy-Reed Capital Advisors Hollis Legal Solutions Johnny Coleman Builders

Kudzu Collective Methodist Hospital Olive Branch Mississippi Land Bank Mississippi Today Murphy Law Firm Northwest Mississippi Realtors OrthoSouth Planters Bank Paulson Printing Renasant Bank Sephora Stern Cardiovascular Sugaring NYC Mississippi Bank First Tennessee Valley Authority Tito's Vodka Trustmark National Bank Viking Williams Pitts & Beard YMCA of Memphis & The Mid-South

LETTER FROM OUR CHAIRS Welcome to the 2023 annual Crystal Ball! We are glad you are here and thanks for your continued support of the Community Foundation. The Foundation raises endowed funds throughout the year for causes you support, but they also support other nonprofits and charitable causes through their own work with youth, health, and education. Your tickets, donations, and purchases tonight will go a long way toward helping the Foundation continue to connect people who care with causes that matter in Northwest Mississippi.

The Crystal Ball would not be possible without the hard work and devotion of dozens of volunteers from our community. Over the preceding several months, they have dedicated untold hours from their busy lives to organize, create, fabricate, or construct nearly everything you see here tonight. If you meet any volunteers, please thank them for a job well done. Sincerely, Scott & Natasha Hollis Co-Chairmen of the 2023 Crystal Ball Sincerely, Scott & Natasha Hollis Co-Chairmen of the 2023 Crystal Ball

PROGRAM Welcome to the 23rd Annual Crystal Ball Gala Master of Ceremonies: Jeremy Park of cityCURRENT Dinner by Mesquite Chop House & River City Management Invocation: Pastor Jonathan Wallace of Getwell Church Recognitions Community Stars Stars of Hope: Erin and Ben Napier Live Auction - Auctioneer: Michael Lee Online Auction Closes at 10:00 P.M. (Auction check out is automatic via phone) Dance & Sing to the music of Get Sideways – until midnight!

#CB2023

COMMUNITY IMPACT

As of September 30, 2022

2022 Grant Impact

128

$4,094,492

Endowments Total Charitable giving since 2002

$35,992,516 total grants given SINCE 2002

4,506

As of September 30, 2022

149

Current Giving Funds

Strengthening Charitable Giving in Mississippi ENDOW Mississippi is a state tax credit program to encourage individuals, businesses, and organizations to make lasting investments in their local communities through charitable giving. It was created in 2019 by the state Legislature to support gifts to permanent endowments only at qualified community foundations, like the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi!

How does it work?

The ENDOW Mississippi tax credit applies only to gifts made to permanent, endowed funds at qualified Mississippi community foundations. These gifts will generate many times the initial value of the gift and will always benefit Mississippi.

Minimum gift is $1,000 ($250 tax credit) Maximum gift is $200,000 ($50,000 tax credit) There are a LIMITED number of ENDOW Mississippi state tax credits to share for the entire state, so we encourage anyone who is interested to contact us promptly. Once available credits are claimed, we will reset the process on January 1, 2023.

Gifts can go to any endowment: an established endowment or a newly created one.

Maximum gift to the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi is $200,000 through September 30, 2023.

The allocation is limited per year on a first come-first service basis. Additional allocations may be available after October 1, 2023 but are not guaranteed.

An endowed fund is defined as one that benefits Mississippi charitable causes, is held at a qualified community foundation, and has an annual granting policy less than or equal to 5%.

Donors are eligible to receive a 25% state tax credit for donations to endowed funds at the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi.

New endowments started by donors who maximized their gift through Endow MS:

Andrew & Sandra Miller Scholarship Base Camp Coding Academy Charles & Cindy Gordon Family Endowment Deborah Hector George Endowment Denton Charitable Endowment Dudley & Claire Barnes Family Foundation Endowment Emerson Family Endowment Fulcher Family Endowment Healing Hearts Child Advocacy Center Marks Project Endowment

For more information, contact Stacye Trout at 662.449.5002, strout@cfnm.org or visit www.CFNM.org

MS Coatz4Kidz Endowment Mississippi Music Foundation Endowment Patrick Davis Scholarship Pidgeon Skate Park Endowment Sanford Family Endowment Steve & Jessica Palmer Endowment Sturdivant Family Charitable Endowment Susie & LD Robertson Endowment for Palmer Home Will and Katie Brown Endowment

2023 COMMUNITY STARS The Crystal Ball affords our Community Foundation the opportunity to honor individuals, nonprofits, and businesses who exemplify our mission of connecting people who care with causes that matter. This year’s four Community Stars and honorees are outstanding representatives of the efforts being made in Mississippi to make life better for the future.

Dan Maddox Man of the Year Pastor Bartholomew Orr of Brown Missionary Baptist Church Margaret Maddox Woman of the Year

Chelesa Presley of the Diaper Bank of the Delta Non-Profit of the Year

Emmett Till Interpretive Center Business of the Year

Sephora

The Community Star Man & Woman of the Year carry the names of Dan & Margaret Maddox in tribute to their legacy of service & Philanthropy.

Margaret & Dan Maddox made a formidable team who devoted their lives to entrepreneurship, adventure and service.

WELCOME

TO A NIGHT IN HAVANA

Crystal Ball Co-Chairmen................... Scott & Natasha Hollis Decorations.........................................Rayanne Hollis Decorations Co-Chair........................ Ashley Stevenson Live and Online Auction...................... Ann Lamar Sponsorships....................................... Billy Myers & David Beene Beverage............................................. Jimmy & Courtney Tharp Registration......................................... Cassie Shearon Logistics.............................................. JD Cox Sound & Video ................................... Andy Mayhall Lighting............................................... Pat Thomasson Program Videos.................................. V2 Media Coat Check.........................................House of Grace Photography........................................Kaye Schultz Hospitality........................................... Ricky McIntyre & Stephanie Dale

THANK YOU! To ALL of our wonderful volunteers who make this evening a success!

A special THANKS goes out to the following for providing equipment, services, and entertainment needs: A&B Distributing Auctioneer - Michael Lee Baptist Memorial Hospital - DeSoto Chick-fil-A Southaven Clark Beverage Code 4, LLC DeSoto County Sheriff's Department The Guest House at Graceland Landers Auto Group Maddox Volunteer Center

Mid-South Concierge Murphy & Sons Inc. Night Train Productions Papa John's Pizza Hernando Quality Landscape & Garden Center Rancho Grande Southaven Senatobia Ice Company Stars in Motion & Jill Morris Tiger Works, Inc. White Door Events

VIP Room Sponsored By: Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance Hosted By: Mat & Sandy Lipscomb

Catering By Mesquite Chop House by River City Management

9025 Billy Pat Drive Olive Branch, MS 38654 (901) 488-9115 www.colemanbuilders.com

Joe & Denise Pratt

Supporting charitable activities that have a positive impact to those who live in the Mississippi Delta, Northwest Mississippi, and the state of Mississippi Congratulations to the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi on your 20th Anniversary. The grants from the Delta Regional Foundation are made in memory of our founder and first executive director, Mr. Charlie McGuffee from Drew, Mississippi.