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Modern philanthropy adapts to donors BECKY RASPE | SPECIAL SECTIONS STAFF REPORTER @BeckyRaspeCJN braspe@cjn.org |
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hilanthropy has changed as trends change. Simon Bisson, vice president, institutional relations and development at University Hospitals; Laura Desmond, senior partner, advancement at JumpStart; and Natalie Ronayne, chief development officer at Cleveland Metroparks, all in Cleveland, said Bisson philanthropy has changed over the years in big ways. “It’s still all about building relationships and finding what people are passionate about and how they can further their own dreams through an Desmond organization’s mission,” Ronayne said. “But, there are a bunch of new tools to reach people now. It will always fall back to how we’re communicating impact.” Bisson agreed, saying philanthropy is still a personal business. But, its changes are more Ronayne fundamental. “Modern philanthropy, as opposed to charity, which was its predecessor, is characterized by private action for the public good,” he said. “This is voluntary activity and people investing in causes they are passionate about.” Desmond said modern philanthropy more so looks at the theory of change to “coalesce things in the community.” “The parts people use today are giving their time, talent and treasure,” she explained. “Not only giving financial support but bringing their advocacy or volunteerism.” The professionals noted the rise in technology use as one of the factors driving change. Ronayne stated, “Technology has been a big part of this change, and from that perspective, the individual choices are more informed. There are more causes, more ways to give. A supporter’s expectations have changed, too. Digital is instant and the way we live is changing. That is also permeating philanthropy in the way donors want instant knowledge of how their gift is making a difference. Everything is tailored to your specific desires and notion of giving.” Desmond added, “Obviously, with
everything in the advent of the internet and social media, that has really changed this on a large continuum. You still have your megagifts, ones that are really large and make outsized impacts, and crowdfunding. These are much smaller gifts and are more like a movement.” Bisson credited specific aspects of technology like the use of data and analytics. “That tells us a lot about people’s behavior and how they might give,” he said. “But at its core, the tenants of modern philanthropy haven’t changed. It’s building trust, credibility, and respect and helping donors achieve their philanthropic mission.” Bisson also said transparency in philanthropy has grown, too. “Most organizations are posting their fundraising information online,” he explained. “Years ago, that wasn’t the case as information wasn’t as readily available. So, donors are able to make more informed decisions on their own based on their own research.” With philanthropy changing all the time, it’s important for organizations to also have a bit of flexibility. “You have to change or be left behind,” Desmond noted. “It’s very positive that we have people who are willing to give both their voice and time to furthering a mission.” Ronayne added, “The role of the organization is understanding how the donor wants to be engaged with. Accessibility and, frankly, staying relevant is important.” Bisson said it’s important to adapt, but not change everything. “You’ve always got to stay relevant,” he stated. “If you become old and antiquated, you become less visible and less effective. But, I wouldn’t say an organization should do all their fundraising online. That’s only one of the avenues. You still need to have the oldfashioned way of fundraising as those things are always going to have a relevant place. You need to adapt and change, but I wouldn’t throw out your fundraising strategy for one trend.” As for the future of philanthropy, the professionals expect specific things to arise. “We know that there will be a transfer of wealth,” Bisson said. “That will be different from the way (the younger generation’s) grandparents connected with nonprofits. Organizations can’t stand still and assume it will continue. We have to reach out to younger generations and pass the torch of philanthropy onto them.” Ronayne said,“Watching this group is important to the long-term health of an organization. Young people have a lot of voice and power, so their role in philanthropy and how they want to give is important.”
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Downtown Cleveland Alliance Our Mission: Downtown Cleveland Alliance’s mission is to make Downtown Cleveland the region’s most dynamic place to live, work, play and visit. We help to create a vibrant city center by enhancing the pedestrian experience and attracting more investment into Downtown Cleveland through strategic initiatives and advocacy efforts.
1010 Euclid Ave, Suite 300 | Cleveland, OH 44115 (216) 736-7799 www.downtowncleveland.com Year Established: 2005 Number of Employees: 18 Top Three Fundraising Recipients
Upcoming Events: • Light Up the Lake- 4th of July Fireworks Celebration: The best fireworks display in Northeast Ohio can be viewed from multiple locations across Downtown Cleveland. • 2019 Cleveland Tall Ships Festival- Cleveland is proud to host the return of the TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE® July 11th -14th, 2019. • SPARX City Hop- August 17, 2019. Hop on Free Trolley’s for this celebration of the arts and culture in Downtown Cleveland and surrounding neighborhoods.
SEEDS – Workforce Training Program Downtown Homeless Fund Public Square Preservation
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Interested in Helping? Allison Retter Director, Development & Community Engagement (216) 325 -0975 | aretter@downtowncleveland.com
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JULY 11 - 14, 2019 Downtown Cleveland Alliance (DCA) is proud to be able to return the Tall Ships Festival to Cleveland’s waterfront this summer from Thursday, July 11 – Sunday, July 14. This four-day waterfront festival that only comes to our Great Lakes region every three years, is a wonderful experience for families to enjoy live entertainment, historical exhibits, food, beverages and yes…board the Tall Ships!
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Cleveland Zoological Society Our Mission: The Cleveland Zoological Society is Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s nonprofit advancement partner and helps raise awareness and support for the zoo. The Zoo Society is governed by a Board of Directors and is an independent 501(c)3. Zoo Society donors have contributed $70 million toward zoo operations, conservation projects and capital improvements since 1998. Philanthropic priorities include international wildlife conservation, campus renewal and maintaining the zoo’s national leadership role in educational programming, research, and positive animal health and welfare standards. We are committed to engaging donors in zoo programs and initiatives of greatest impact for our community. Individuals, foundations and corporations can support our work in many ways.
Upcoming Events: • ZippityZooDoo - June 7, 6 - 11 p.m. Enjoy an elegant evening, innovative food stations, a silent auction and more at Cleveland’s longest running benefit gala. • Tails + Cocktails Speaker Series - July 24, 6 – 8 p.m. Panel discussion and interactive stations that will help connect the dots between STEM education, conservation, and inquiry-based learning for students of all ages. • Zoo Clues & Brews - Aug. 21, 6 – 10 p.m. Hosted by the Zoo Society’s young professionals program, this event features a smartphone-based scavenger hunt through the Zoo.
3900 Wildlife Way, Cleveland, OH, 44109 (216) 635-3329 ClevelandZooSociety.org Year Established: 1957 Number of Employees: 19 full-time; 5 seasonal Top Three Funding Priorities International wildlife conservation Campus renewal and improvement General operating support
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Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland Our Mission: Ronald McDonald House® of Cleveland, Inc., a nonprofit organization, supports families whose children receive treatment at area medical centers by providing a home-like environment and essential resources and services. Our House on University Circle offers comfortable guest rooms, meals and activities for up to 55 families per night. Ronald McDonald Family Rooms® in four area hospitals give caregivers a place to rest and recharge just steps from their child’s treatment room, and STAR Centers provide support at two area outpatient centers. The Ronald McDonald Family Resource Link, www.redtreehouse.org, helps families find support resources in their local communities.
Upcoming Events: • 40th Annual Pro-Am Golf Tournament – June 24, 2019 - Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to play 9 holes with a PGA touring pro and 9 holes with a PGA local-club pro at NE Ohio’s most prestigious charity golf event, held at Mayfield Country Club. • Wine Women & Shoes – October 26, 2019 - Save the date for the 5th Annual Wine Women & Shoes benefiting the Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland. If you like wine, fashion, and pampering, this is the event for you! • Find out more at www.rmhcleveland.org/events
10415 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106 216-229-5757 www.rmhcleveland.org Ways We Serve Families Ronald McDonald House Ronald McDonald Family Rooms STAR Centers RedTreehouse.org
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Craig Wilson Executive Director
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A 40-Year Legacy of Love Forty years ago, the Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland opened its doors, providing a welcoming and supportive place to stay for families whose children receive treatment at area medical centers. Since then, thousands of families have passed through those doors to find comfort and strength for their children. The generosity and commitment of our community, corporate partners and volunteers keep the vision of our founders going strong. A passionate group of parents, medical professionals and friends worked tirelessly to create this legacy of love. We dedicate this anniversary year to them: Michael and Susan Clegg Edward and Eileen Davis Sam Gross, M.D. Ronald and Susan Kahn Albert and Nancy Kirchner Phillip and Mary Jo Py Donald Smith Ronald and Roberta Watson Stephen and Betty Zayac
Make a difference with us today. www.rmhcleveland.org
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any organizations use personal stories to inspire others to give. Fred Gold, annual fund officer at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and Sara Thomas, director of development at the Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center, both in Cleveland, said highemotion appeals are a key to philanthropic campaigns. “In broad terms, an emotional appeal is one that persuades a donor to support an organization based on an emotive response,” Gold said. “In every element of fundraising, there is some level of emotional
connection, whether it is a love of dinosaurs, a sense of justice, fond memories, service to others, etc. Generally speaking, nonprofits seek to connect the importance of their work with their audience to inspire giving.” Since Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center is a health-care organization, Thomas said emotional appeals come natural as many people relate emotion to their health. “A lot of the people who become donors or serve on our board have had a very personal impact from our services,” she said. “They came here at a time where they didn’t know what was going to happen. In a sense, there tends to be a lot of emotion around giving like
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that.” Thomas said to execute a highemotional appeal, organizations need to be aware of their audience and potential donors. “For us, we try to be politically correct, for example, in deafness,” she noted. “We wouldn’t want to make that a disease or show it in a negative way. It’s how someone Gold is born and it’s a culture. You just generally want to be careful and mindful of why you’re telling a story, when and how you’re telling it. Remind yourself that these are real people.” Gold added, “Any successful appeal is grounded in an organization’s mission and tells the story of how that mission is given Thomas life through the programs offered and people, animals or environments served. Yet, since charitable giving is so connected to emotional responses, there is a risk the intended message may not resonate with the audience.” As more people are exposed to philanthropy via social media, some individuals may come across guiltbased donor requests. Both professionals said highemotion appeals can sometimes read that way and can affect how potential donors view an organization. “It’s very important for (organizations) to show donors the real, serious impact they’re making in real time and to see the life they helped to change,” Thomas explained. “We’re more focused on reminding you of your own experience or showing you what it could be like if you haven’t experienced that, and in an honest way. It’s not about feeling bad. That takes it too far. Using guilt with real people’s stories isn’t responsible” Gold said, “Charitable giving is a choice. As a fundraiser, I hope to facilitate lifelong connections between donors and the museum. A key aspect of that connection is a sense of trust and responsibility. Every appeal we send reinforces that trust and that’s exactly how a high-emotion appeal should affect a donor’s feelings about an organization.” No matter how these appeals are executed or received, the professionals said high-emotion appeals are an important part of philanthropic plans. “When done correctly, our appeals will always affect our donors’ emotions, because our donors don’t want to give money, they want to help make the world a better place,” Gold stated. “Giving money is the way they choose to do that. Showing them the good they’ve done in the world through and with us will always be emotional.” Thomas added, “There is very little that makes sense about giving away your money. You might not be getting a direct thing back from that. For the most part, if you’re generally writing a check, you’re getting nothing tangible. So, you should feel like you’ve done something good and know that it helped someone else. An emotional appeal is an important part of that.”
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ideastream Our Mission: ideastream serves the people of Northeast Ohio as a trusted and dynamic multimedia source for illuminating the world around us. Publicly supported and locally owned, ideastream is indispensable and highly valued for its unique ability to strengthen our community. ideastream is the consolidation of WVIZ/PBS, with five channels of public television service; 90.3 WCPN, Northeast Ohio’s NPR news and public affairs radio station; WCLV 104.9, Northeast Ohio’s classical music radio station; ideastream Education, with educational resources, services and the award-winning children’s series NewsDepth; and management of The Ohio Channel and the Ohio Public Radio and Television Statehouse News Bureau.
Upcoming Events: • The Sound of Ideas Community Tour - June 19, 2019 I 3-5pm Board the GOODTIME III for a community discussion about Northeast Ohio’s Cuyahoga River sponsored by Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District. • Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! - July 18, 2019 I 7:30pm Join host Peter Sagal at Blossom Music Center as he leads NPR’s comedy news quiz show presented by The Cleveland Orchestra in partnership with 90.3 WCPN ideastream and WKSU. • Be My Neighbor Day - August 9, 2019 I 10am-2pm Attend a family literacy event for children 3-8 and their parents sponsored by Cleveland Public Library, ideastream, PNC Grow Up Great, PRE4CLE, Starting Point and Fred Rogers Productions.
1375 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115 216-916-6100 ideastream.org Year Established: 2001 Number of Employees: 180 Become an ideastream Member! Visit ideastream.org/donate, or call 216-916-6100.
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Interested in Helping? Contact: Ella Fong Director, Major Gifts 216-916-6154 | ella.fong@ideastream.org | ideastream.org
Kevin E. Martin President & CEO
Julie Adler Raskind Board Chair
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Volunteers crucial to nonprofit organization’s success ED CARROLL | STAFF REPORTER @EdCarrollCJN ecarroll@cjn.org |
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ost nonprofit organizations need volunteers to survive, but finding them can be difficult. Both Dianna M. Kall, communications manager for Greater Cleveland Volunteers, and Bob Cohen, a certified small business mentor with SCORE, both in Cleveland, said their organizations hold information sessions to help inform potential volunteers. “We hold monthly information sessions and these are held either at our office (in Cleveland) or a library in the community,” Kall said. “It’s basically just information about what volunteering is all about, the benefits to the volunteer and what opportunities are available in Cuyahoga County. It’s an hour, it’s pretty informal, people can ask questions. They can also find out if there’s a specific volunteer opportunity they’d like to do, if it’s someone we’re partnered with and can help them out.” Cohen said SCORE provides business education to entrepreneurs that are starting a business or growing a
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business. “We also put together workshops that are geared to the business education subjects, and so forth, and we attract a lot of people to our workshops,” Cohen said. “We attract people in that we’ve kind of gotten our brand out there through all these workshops we’ve done. We also invite people to become volunteers when we’re out in the community and trying to be active. ... It’s word of mouth that helps us get that.” Cohen noted SCORE is also a national organization with 340 chapters
and nationally, the organization is constantly looking for new volunteers. “Our brand is out there and people do seek us out as much as we seek them out, but I would say the majority of the last several volunteers we’ve gotten have come to us because we reached out to the community and asked for people specifically to volunteer and work with us,” he said. Kall said Greater Cleveland Volunteers is partnered with more than 100 nonprofits looking for volunteer help and people can enroll to be a volunteer on the organization’s website. Both Cohen and Kall said the biggest barrier to people volunteering is typically the time commitment. “It’s commitment of time on their part,” she said. “We ask them how much time would you like to volunteer and if they say (for example) five hours a month, we find out what they’d like to do. There’s anything from working with the arts and cultural section, community centers, food distribution
centers, senior living facilities ... just trying to find out do they want to do something for an interest they have or do they want to look for something geographically. Some people say, ‘I don’t care what it is, but it just has to be within “X” amount of miles from my house.’ They don’t feel like driving across town or they don’t want to take the time to do that.” Cohen said his experience with SCORE has been rewarding. “From a personal level, anybody that is of the age of retirement and is looking for ways to keep their minds very, very active, volunteering for any kind of an organization where part of what you do is advising other people, I think, is a tremendous way to use your own mind,” he said. “It keeps you active, it keeps you engaged, it keeps you, in particularly with SCORE, part of the local community.”
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The Cleveland Orchestra Our Mission: The Cleveland Orchestra inspires and enriches lives by creating extraordinary musical experiences at the highest level of artistic excellence. Under the leadership of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, The Cleveland Orchestra has become one of the most sought-after and highly acclaimed performing ensembles in the world. The Orchestra’s commitment to education and community service was central to its establishment in 1918 and remains a priority today. Over the past ten decades, The Cleveland Orchestra has introduced more than 4 million young people to symphonic music.
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11001 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 216-231-1111 clevelandorchestra.com Year Established: 1918 Number of Employees: 140+ staff members, 100+ full-time musicians
Top Three Areas of Support Upcoming Events: • Keenlyside Sings Sibelius – May 23-25: Music Director Franz Welser-Möst leads music by Grieg, Strauss, and selections by Sibelius, with baritone Sir Simon Keenlyside. • Gershwin’s An American in Paris – May 30-June 1: Experience this classic film on the big screen, with the score performed by The Cleveland Orchestra. • Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra Tour Send-Off Concert – June 7: This free concert features music the youth orchestra will perform in Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary
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Make-A-Wish Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana Our Mission: Make-A-Wish® creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. We are on a quest to bring every eligible child’s wish to life, because a wish is an integral part of a child’s treatment journey. Research shows children who have wishes granted can build the physical and emotional strength they need to fight a critical illness. There are currently over 250 children in northeast Ohio who are awaiting their wish. For more details on how to get engaged with our chapter, please visit www.oki.wish.org or follow us on social media @makeawishohkyin.
6060 Rockside Woods Blvd, Suite 315, Independence, OH 44131 (216) 241-3670 oki.wish.org Year Established: 1983 Number of Employees: 10 Thank You
Upcoming Events: • 27th ANNUAL NORTHEAST OHIO WALK FOR WISHES - October 5, 2019 at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Walk with wish families to help grant local wishes. • W.I.S.H. CELEBRATION LUNCHEON - November 7, 2019. Join us at The Union Club of Cleveland to honor our 2019 class of Women Inspiring Strength & Hope. • NORTHEAST OHIO BIG WISH GALA - April 3, 2020. Join us at Hilton Downtown Cleveland to celebrate the impact a Make-A-Wish experience has on local wish families.
to our 324 local volunteers who helped us grant wishes in northeast Ohio in 2018!
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Interested in Helping? Contact: Amy Kocian Regional Director of Development (216) 367-5655 | akocian@oki.wish.org | oki.wish.org
Keri Haibach
Amy Kocian
Sr. Director of Major Gifts Regional Director of Development
Make-A-Wish Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana is a non-profit organization that grants the wishes of children battling critical illnesses. Wishes are powerful medicine that help deliver hope, strength and joy to children when they need it most. They restore a child’s fighting spirit and groundbreaking new research shows wishes may even help sick children get and stay better. Our vision is to grant the wish of every eligible child. But, for every wish we grant there is another child waiting.
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See firsthand how a wish restores hope, transforms lives and helps heal. Donate. Volunteer. Share Our Mission. (216) 241-3670
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Cleveland Metroparks Our Mission: Cleveland Metroparks will conserve significant natural resources and enhance people’s lives by integrating high-quality outdoor education, recreation and zoological opportunities into people’s lives.
Upcoming Events: • ZippityZooDoo – June 7 | Enjoy an elegant evening and support Cleveland Metroparks Zoo at the Cleveland Zoological Society’s annual summer fundraising gala. • Mounted Unit Beach Ride – September 15 | Participants (and horses) in the Ride the Beach event will enjoy a guided beach ride around Edgewater Park while supporting the Mounted Unit. • Raise the Roof! – October 12 | Join us for a fun, casual evening benefiting one of the most loved destinations in Cleveland Metroparks: Squire’s Castle.
4101 Fulton Parkway, Cleveland OH 44144 216-635-3200 clevelandmetroparks.com Year Established: 1917 Number of Employees: 680 Top Fundraising Recipients Cleveland Metroparks Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
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Interested in Helping? Bisi Mikleus Director of Stewardship 216-954-3430 (office) | bm11@clevelandmetroparks.com
Brian M. Zimmerman Chief Executive Officer
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Israel Medical Fund Our Mission: Israel Medical Fund (IMF) is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization. IMF’s mission is to bridge the gap between advanced medical care and the socialized medicine in Israel. Some of our projects include providing children and adults with high-end prosthetics, children born with cleft lip and palate receive technical and emotional support along with their families. Israeli Medical Fund and our services are operated mainly by volunteers. Your financial support is invaluable and will make a world of diffrence to chidren and adults who have no access to so many programs and services.
israelmedicalfund.org USA 3110 Solon Road, Suite 9 Solon, Ohio 44139 216-245-2306 Israel 15 Kanfei Nesharim ST, Jerusalem, Israel 9547760 (+972) 1-700-554-700 Top Main Benefiting Projects
Upcoming Events: • The Next Step Conference - 1st annual amputee conference to take place in Israel. June 17-19 • The Next Ride - 4th annual cycling charity ride to raise funds and awareness for Israeli amputees. Nov 10-16
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Interested in Helping? Contact: Shoshana Dessler-Jacobs Executive Director sdj@israelmedicalfund.org Shoshana Dessler-Jacobs
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Cuyahoga Community College Foundation Our Mission: To provide resources for advancing student success at Cuyahoga Community College and to transform the lives of those Tri-C serves. Our vision: To ensure Tri-C has the resources needed to help every student learn, thrive and succeed and to create a prosperous community for all.
Upcoming Events: • The 40th annual Tri-C JazzFest, presented by KeyBank runs June 27-29. Join us for our 2019 Tri-C JazzFest Legends Gala and Opening Night Celebration Honoring our 2019 JazzFest Legends: Margot Copeland, Max Dehn and Joe Hunter on Thursday, June 27, 5:30 p.m. reception, 7:45 p.m. Tower of Power (funk and soul band) concert and post-concert reception. For tickets visit www.tri-c.edu/give or for concert lineup and schedule visit www.tri-c. edu/jazzfest
700 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115 216-987-4868 www.tri-c.edu/give Year Established: 1973 Advance Futures, Transform the Region Strategic Priorities: • Student Experience • Workforce- focus on in-demand careers in healthcare, information technology and manfacturing • Affordability
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Interested in Investing? Megan O’Bryan President, Tri-C Foundation and Vice President, Resource Development 216-987-4868 | Megan.Obryan@tri-c.edu | www.tri-c.edu/give#TriCFoundation
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Check out organizations before making that donation ED CARROLL | STAFF REPORTER @EdCarrollCJN ecarroll@cjn.org |
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hen people donate financially to a nonprofit organization, it’s understandable they would want to make sure their money is going to a good cause. Mark Flash, executive director of the Lake Health Foundation in Concord Township; Katie Collin Moore, gift planning officer at the Cleveland Foundation in Cleveland; and Natalie Leek-Nelson, president and CEO of Providence House in Cleveland, all said one of the most important questions a potential donor can ask before giving away their money is if the nonprofit is a registered 501(c)(3) organization with the IRS, which would confirm the nonprofit’s legitimacy. Another option suggested by the experts is using a website that tracks nonprofits to find out how effective the organization is. “I think, obviously, people want to give where their hearts are, I think they want to ask what are the results of the organization,” Leek-Nelson said. “Who are you helping? How many people or animals or whatever are you helping? What results are you achieving with the dollars that I’m giving you and can you prove that to me? I think a lot of people that are looking for organizations to donate to, an easy thing to do is to go to GuideStar or Charity Navigator and look them up.” Flash said potential donors also need to ask themselves certain questions, as well. “I guess first of all they need to ask themselves a
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couple of questions,” Flash said. “Why are they making the donation and what impact do they want to make? Is this an emotional gift? Are they thankful maybe for some medical care or education or something like that? Are they doing it for a financial reason, for taxes or estate reasons? Or do they want recognition, do they want their name on a building or department or something like that? That is one of the questions they should ask themselves before going into something: why are they doing it, what are they trying to accomplish?” Collin Moore said it’s important that donors do their own research before giving any money. “What donors should be doing when they’re thinking about making their next gift, is starting with some research of their own and really thinking about what they want to accomplish with their philanthropy,” Collin Moore said. “Whether they come up with some broad topics or something a little more specific, which can really help guide them as they’re doing research. And then as they are looking at actual nonprofit
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organizations, there are a number of tools they can look at then to see what they’ve come up with as some of their goals. Does it match some broad topics that an organization might have on their website or have listed on GuideStar or Charity Navigator that can help an individual understand if an organization might be a good fit for them? But it has to start with the donor or prospective donor doing some real research on their own as to what’s really important to them.” Another thing to consider, Flash said, is the choice between donating to a national organization or a local organization. “If it’s national, a lot of times they really don’t see where their money’s going, they don’t see the impact that it’s making,” said Flash, who also noted many national nonprofits have a local presence. “If they do give on a local level, they can really see the impact they’re making. That’s a bit harder at the national level.” Leek-Nelson also recommended not just using one’s heart when deciding to make a donation. “It’s pretty straightforward but I do think it’s really important (you) just don’t let your heart lead on all of this,” she said. “Make sure you are doing the research and finding organizations that are really being good stewards of the gift. Everybody is giving because they want their dollars to help someone or something advance and become better and you need to make sure the organizations you are giving money to are doing that.”
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vents hosted by nonprofits can be a great way to increase fundraising and awareness. Laura Gasbarro, development manager for the Parkinson’s Foundation in Northern Ohio; Liz Gage, development manager for the Northeast Ohio chapter of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation and Katie Mang, vice president of fund development for the Cleveland area chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association all said events can help increase both fundraising and awareness for a nonprofit organization and all three organizations have large events coming up this summer. Gasbarro said the Parkinson’s Foundation in Northern Ohio has an event, called “Moving Day,’ coming up on June 22 at Wade Oval in Cleveland, that will help with the goals of fundraising and raising awareness. “Parkinson’s is a neurodegenerative brain disorder that affects movement,” she said. “Moving is really what helps Parkinson’s patients combat their
systems. It helps them feel better because they’re using movement to help themselves feel better. They do boxing activities, they do biking activities, they do walking activities. So, Parkinson’s Foundation has a Moving Day so that people can come and move together. They bring their whole families. They raise awareness through bringing not only their families, but the caregivers, the doctors and nursing staff that helped them combat the disease and it really is a fun-filled family day. You kind of come together, forget about the disease somewhat and really focus on movement and how it can help you feel better as a Parkinson’s patient.” Mang said the Alzheimer’s Association’s “The Longest Day” event, which will be June 21 and happens nationally, happens during Alzheimer’s and Brain Health Awareness Month, which she said is a special time of the year for raising awareness for Alzheimer’s and dementia and showing support for those who are affected by them.
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New Directions Our Mission: New Directions provides quality life-changing treatment to substance abusing
30800 Chagrin Blvd. Pepper Pike OH 44124 (216) 591-0324 NewDirect.org Year Established: 1981 Number of Employees: 40
adolescents, young adults, and their families dealing with emotional, behavioral, or psychiatric needs. Our core values are Client-Centered, Collaborative, Diversity, Excellence, Integrity, and Tenacity.
Upcoming Events: • Night Fore Movies- Save the Date for our signature fundraising event! Join us on Sunday, May 3rd 2020 at 1:00PM for the 22nd Annual Night Fore Movies Cleveland at Chagrin Cinemas and The Golf Dome. It’s going to be a great time full of family fun, prizes and community! Proceeds support our summer school program.
Thanks to each of our generous supporters who believe in our mission to restore hope for a better tomorrow.
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Interested in Helping? Kathy Strancar Director of Development 216-360-4445 | kstrancar@newdirect.org | NewDirect.org
Mike Matoney CEO
Dan Gold Chairman - Board of Directors
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Recently, a nineteen year old client mentioned that she was going to be leaving our Recovery Housing program by end of the week. She stated, “whatever happens, happens.” She has come back to New Directions for support three separate times.
While we have served over 50,000 young people and families since 1981, the need for our programs remains critical throughout the Greater Cleveland region. Our community is being ravaged by heroin/opioid overdoses at epidemic rates.
We have thirteen year old expectant mothers in residential care. Seventeen year old young men challenged with mental health concerns along with substance abuse, while navigating adult responsibilities. We have hundreds of twenty-somethings attending intense group therapy a couple of times a week; many of which still need to secure their high school diplomas.
...and recovery is possible. Since 1981, we have helped over 50,000 young people. Today, more than we toneed YOUR support offersobriety, freedom Perhapsever, you can relate our clients, whether through your ownto personal or that of a friend. Consider an open discussion with your financial review team aligned with your from goals. addiction and provide life saving treatment. charitable Won’t You Help Us? NewDirect.org Tax Identification Number: 34-1313806
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Today, there is a critical need for our services throughout Greater Cleveland, but our funds are depleted. Heroin. Opiates. Fentanyl. Carfentanil. Once a PRESCRIPTION, now an ADDICTION. Review the scientific research of this disease, which affects people without bias against anyone regardless of age, gender, or socio-economic status.
A planned gift will provide housing, meals, transportation, education, therapy—and community—to many clients well into the future. Your gift will impact many generations faced with addictions of new substances of abuse.
We urge you to consider supporting our clients and families, to save the lives of those addicted. An unrestricted gift would have substantial impact on our community and their caregivers. Did you know that just $1.00 of funding a day saves our community $12.00 in reduced emergency room visits, hospitalizations, school drop-outs and legal charges?
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Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center Our Mission: Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center is the premier provider of hearing, speech-language, deaf services, education, and advocacy, helping people connect through communication. Our vision is a community where every individual communicates effectively.
Upcoming Events: • 7th Annual Cleveland Big Wheel Relay – Saturday, June 22, 2019, 1:00 - 4:00 pm Lincoln Park, Tremont I Join us for this free admission, family-friendly event. The “biggest little race in Cleveland” features teams wearing crazy costumes relay-racing adult-sized trikes to win Best Costume, Race Winner and Top Fundraising Team. Raffles, food & beer trucks and kid-friendly activities make this a unique FUNdraiser. Proceeds benefit programs and services of the Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center. Details at www.chsc.org/bigwheelrelay • Illuminating Communication CHSC Fall Benefit - Saturday, September 7, 2019, 6:00 -10:00 pm I TENK West Bank, Cleveland I Illuminating Communication is an annual event that brings together 300 community leaders and supports of CHSC. Your support helps us: sustain and grow new programs that are desperately needed in our community, continue to provide free and reduced-cost care, and serve more people who need us. Details at www.chsc.org/benefit
11635 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 216-231-8787 www.chsc.org Year Established: 1921 Number of Employees: 70 Top 3 Areas of Service Speech-Language and Learning Hearing Evaluations, Products & Services Deaf Programs & ASL Interpreting
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Interested in Helping? Contact: Sara Thomas Director of Development 216-325-7578 | sthomas@chsc.org | www.chsc.org
Dr. Jennell C. Vick Executive Director
Stuart Otts CHSC Board President
Making Every Connection Possible With nearly 100 years of mission-focused, nonprofit service to the community, CHSC strives to make ecvery connection possible for those with communication disorders regardless of their ability to pay. Community support makes this possible. Programs for hearing, speech, and deaf servcies continue to grow to meet the ever-increasing need.
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And your ticket does more. It enables life-saving, innovative treatments that touch the lives of the tens of thousands of patients who come through the doors of nationally ranked UH Seidman Cancer Center every year. For details on sponsorship opportunities, individual tickets and more, visit FiveStarSensation.org or call 216.844.0416.
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MAY 17, 2019 AWARENESS | 32 “The Longest Day engages companies, families and social groups to host all types of activities in honor of someone they love with a goal of raising funds and awareness,” Mang said. “Local family Gage activities include hiking, playing cards, singing, baking and running. Individuals will ask for a donation while they host their activity; many (are) asking their networks to join them. Businesses in the Greater Cleveland Gasbarro area are hosting dine and donate days, going casual for the cause, raffle basket drawings, bowling competitions and much more. The unique and exciting opportunity with The Longest Day is when a company, family or Mang organization engages their own network and community around their event. We are reaching new
Caring for those in need never goes out of style. Whether we are feeding the hungry, comforting the sick, or caring for the elderly, our Jewish values have always inspired us to act. Those same values teach us to care for the next generation. By making a legacy gift, you leave your children and grandchildren a precious inheritance and a lasting testimony to your values. Find out how you can become a member of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s Legacy Society by contacting Carol F. Wolf for a confidential conversation at 216-593-2805 or cwolf@jcfcleve.org.
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new online initiative has been launched to make the positive commandment of charitable giving easier and more accessible. Titled “Daily Giving,” it was inspired by a well-known Jewish principle that one should endeavor to give charity at least once a day. DailyGiving.org’s design is intended to allow people worldwide to easily and automatically donate at least $1 every day, allocating the money to one of a variety of charities chosen by the website’s advisory committee. Dr. Jonathan Donath, a chiropractor from White Plains, N.Y., came up with the concept for the site when he realized for many people, the physical act of giving charity each day could be a challenge or simply forgotten in life’s business. “Many of us want to be sure that we are fulfilling the mitzvah of tzedakah every day, but it either slips our minds or we aren’t in a place to give,” he said. “This concept was to make it easy, while having the full assurance that our donations will be going to a reputable and worthy cause.” After some initial research, Donath discovered that no such platform existed
within the Jewish world, so he and a team of friends and developers began to work on a website that would make it easy to give. “Our main goal is to help more people to take part in this mitzvah and show them that while they are giving something as small as a single dollar, the impact that dollar has when combined with thousands of others can make a tremendous difference to a charity,” said Donath. Organizations and charities added to the calendar of daily donations consist of those based in the United States and Israel, including HASC, OHEL, United Hatzalah, NCSY, YACHAD, Chai Lifeline, RCCS (Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society), Sharsheret, Pantry Packers and many others. Additional charities will be added in the coming months. Within days of the site’s launch on Jan. 1, the nonprofit has raised more than $30,000, with every indication that the number will continue to rise. “We are very confident that this is an idea that the Jewish world will get behind,” said Donath, “and we are hopeful that soon we will be able to report that we are distributing thousands of dollars of charity a day.”
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Shoes and Clothes for Kids Our Mission: Shoes and Clothes for Kids’ mission is to improve K-8 school attendance by eliminating lack of appropriate clothing, shoes and school supplies as barriers.
Upcoming Events:
• 21st Annual Aramark SC4K Golf Classic 2019 sc4k.org/events • Night At the Shoreby sc4k.org/events • Volunteers Needed! For more information go to SC4K.org/volunteer
3500 Lorain Ave, Cleveland, OH 44113 (216) 881-7463 sc4k.org Year Established: 1969 Number of Employees: 8 Top Three Items Needed New kids socks and underwear New core school supplies Groups of 10-15 volunteers
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Interested in Helping? Misty Musson Development Manager 216-881-7463 x 6 | mmusson@sc4k.org | sc4k.org Terence J. Uhl Executive Director
A. Lamont Mackley Board Chair
To celebrate 50 years of serving Cleveland’s families in need, SC4K iS Committed to doubling our impaCt and raiSing an additional $1 million during our 50th anniverSary year. Raising an extra $1 million is our largest fundraising goal ever, but we believe it is attainable because the community cares, teachers care, and you care. We invite you to join us in honoring the founding work of Morrie Sayre, who saw a need and took action. With support from philanthropic friends like you, that small step was nurtured into an organization that now serves thousands of children each year but could do so much more. The SC4K 50th Anniversary Program Growth Fund is our gift back the community—an opportunity to express our gratitude for the many years of support and a commitment to deliver more services to many more families in the coming years. This expanded programming allows us to serve nearly 7,000 students per year from 2020 to 2025. By removing clothing as a barrier to attendance, we will get more students to school and more students in the classroom everyday will improve student success. Please join us in helping Cleveland kids succeed.
***For more information on how to help SC4K have a bigger impact on Cleveland kids, please contact Terry Uhl at tuhl@sc4k.org.
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Gratitude, appreciation go long way toward donor satisfaction JANE KAUFMAN | STAFF REPORTER @jkaufmanCJN jkaufman@cjn.org |
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howing gratitude is the first step in the process of approaching donors for an increase in their level of giving. Char Rapoport Nance, director of the Ohio region of ORT America in Beachwood, said fundraisers who want to ask donors to increase their level of giving need to remember first and foremost to express appreciation. “The best way to ask to increase a gift is to start with thanking them,” she said. “Nothing is more important than thanking your donor, telling them how much good their gift is doing, help them to understand.” Nance said it’s important to keep donors in the loop on what an agency is doing. “It’s important after you thank them, after you express your personal thanks for their generosity, that you give them a little … inside speak so they know the value of their gift,” she sid. Passion is also an important ingredient in the mix to successfully approaching donors for more, Nance said.
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“Share your genuine – and that’s the key word – genuine enthusiasm, for the next project,” she stated. “Tell them what the financial resources you need will be, and then ask them, say, ‘Would you like to be on the ground floor on this? With a gift of ‘X’ number of dollars, you can help us start this off. You can be a named giver. You can be the first one to allow students to be able to do this.’” Telling the story is critical to making the case for a larger gift. Kim Cole, vice president of advancement at the University of Akron and executive director of the University of Akron Foundation in Akron, said transparency is a crucial component to the communication between fundraisers and donors.
“Donors are very smart investors,” she said. “Today’s donors want to know what impact their gift has.” In addition, it’s important to remember that first-time donors often give once a year and that aggressive appeals can backfire. “There’s a big risk of donor fatigue there,” she said. “That is asking too often, too quickly or too much. You’ve got to give people space.” Cole said fundraisers who intend to make requests for major gifts should expect to put in time building the relationship first, with as many as 12 contacts over an 18-month period prior to making the first ask. “Fundraising’s about relationships, so you’ve got to build it up,” she said. “Sometimes you’ve got a lot of information to share. All that takes time. You can’t rush that part.” Cole said for large requests, the relationship becomes all the more important. “For $10,000 or higher, certainly you’re meeting that person several times before you’re making that solicitation,” she said. “Big numbers like that can be scary to donors and I think that the more transparent fundraisers are with
their donor base and talking about big picture and maybe sometimes scary big numbers, the more you talk about them, the more comfortable the donor is with them, the more opportunity they have to ask questions. And again, if they’ve got the capacity, and you’ve been transparent and forthright and you have this vision, if they’ve got capacity, they’re likely going to rise to help you meet the need.” Numbers without context don’t convey the story, both professionals caution. “Don’t just throw out dollars,” Nance said. “Dollar signs and numbers, that’s not real. That’s not visceral. That’s not something that people can see, feel, touch. Tell them what it means. What does it mean if you increase your gift from this much to this much?” Ultimately, Nance said, a fundraiser’s ability to communicate is critical. “Help them to feel your enthusiasm, your genuine enthusiasm for whatever this new project is, and the difference they can make in the lives of other people.”
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Providence House Our Mission: Providence House is Ohio’s first Crisis Nursery, providing emergency shelter and care to children in crisis while partnering with parents to create safety and stability for their families. We Protect Children by providing for their physical, emotional, developmental, and educational needs. We Support Families through Crisis by connecting them to resources, cultivating nurturing practices, and encouraging responsibility. We Strengthen Communities by advocating for underserved families and demonstrating the lasting impact of prevention. As the demand for our services grows, we are expanding to the east side of Cleveland, determined to help more families achieve success and stability. Providence House keeps kids safe and families together, with a vision of a world where children everywhere are raised in safe, loving families free from abuse and neglect.
2050 West 32nd St., Cleveland, OH 44113 216-651-5982 www.provhouse.org Year Established: 1981 Number of Employees: 54 Top Three Fundraising Recipients
Upcoming Events: • Family Fun Day- June 23rd, 12pm-3pm. Join us for a day of free, family-friendly fun at Providence House! Enjoy food, drinks, games, and activities. • pARTy with PHriends- October 4th, 7pm-10pm. Join our Young Professionals Group, PHriends, for an evening of wine and beer tasting, socializing, and art at 78th Street Studios. • Deck the House- December 10th, 5:30pm-9:30pm. Mix, mingle, and shop at First Energy Stadium! Enjoy a live and silent auction, entertainment, and more!
Children’s Emergency Shelter Educational Enrichment Programs Family Education and Support
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Interested in Helping? Sarah Tuckowski Community Engagement Coordinator 216-651-5982 | sarah@provhouse.org | www.provhouse.org
Natalie Leek-Nelson CEO & President
Jane M. Cronin Chair & Executive Committee Chair
Our Programs Crisis Nursery Our traditional model provides shelter and intervention for children newborn to twelve in a home-like setting that includes play spaces, a dining area, sibling bedrooms, and a family room.
Pediatric Crisis Nursery Our Pediatric Crisis Nursery includes medically-related services for children to improve wellness, reduce hospital stays, and increase caregiver capacity to support their child’s medical needs.
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Our Family Preservation services include private onsite family visitation, parent education, case management, trauma services, and Aftercare support sessions.
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Mazal Tov to the Stark High School Class of 2015 Mazal Tov to the Stark High School Class of 2019 Tov to the Stark High School Class of 2015 Mazal Tov to the Stark High School Class of 2015 Mazal Tov to the Stark High School Class of 2015
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Slain joins AdCap Management as CIO
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haya Slain has joined AdCap Management Inc. in Cleveland as CIO, the company announced in a news release May 9. Slain will oversee the firm’s investment portfolio, with a focus on alternative investments and lending strategies. She spent more than 10 years at Parkwood, the investment office for the Mandel family and the Mandel Foundation, according to the release. Prior to working at Parkwood, she worked at Goldman Sachs. She received her Slain degree from Columbia University in New York. AdCap Management Inc. is a family office founded by father and son entrepreneurs, Shelly Adelman and Joel Adelman. “Since founding AdCap last year, I’ve been interested in diversifying my portfolio through less conventional investments,” said Joel Adelman, CEO of AdCap. “Chaya brings a wealth of experience and
access to AdCap, and I’m especially excited about her entrepreneurial spirit. Together, we’ll achieve exceptional results.” Joel Adelman is the former CEO and founder of Advance Partners, which was purchased by Paychex in 2015. AdCap serves as an alternative lender, providing capital to small and mid-sized businesses that face challenges with traditional lenders, according to the release. “After developing a strong network and expertise at one of Cleveland’s premier institutions, I’m excited to partner with the Adelmans for the next stage of my career,” Slain said. “Their approach allows for a creative and independent investment style, as well as being open to some entrepreneurial sources of returns. It’s a tremendous opportunity.” Slain’s accolades include being named to CIO Magazine’s 40 under 40 in 2014 and NextGen in 2018. Chaya Slain is a member of the Cleveland Jewish Publication Company Board of Directors.
Dworken & Bernstein donates $100,000 to ‘Stop the Hate’
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he Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage recently received $100,000 from law firm Dworken & Bernstein to support its mission to fight hate in all forms through anti-bias education. “Hate is the most dangerous disease affecting
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Giving to Menorah Park is like giving to your family, because we touch almost every family in our community. Even a small gift helps keep Elly swimming, Art writing, and Rena smiling. For more information contact Joel Fox at 216-595-7324 or go to MenorahPark.org 27100 Cedar Road • Beachwood, Ohio • 44122
humankind and addressing and stopping ‘hate’ is the most vital of all issues we all need to confront,” Irving Rosner, partner at Dworken & Bernstein, said in a news release. He said both he and his wife are children of Holocaust survivors and see the issue on a personal level, further noting the issue should be personal to all of humankind. “We all need to be vigilant, speak up and support all victims of hate,” he said. The donation generated from a doctrine known as cy pres, which the firm uses to redirect unclaimed funds to support the need of the community and hundreds of charities and causes. Past causes the firm supported addressed issues such as poverty, hunger, homelessness and opioid abuse, according to the release. The firm added the Maltz Museum to its list of beneficiaries. “The Maltz Museum is a community treasure and offers an optimal vehicle for education on the dire consequences of ‘hate,’” Rosner said. “History teaches valuable lessons that everyone needs to be mindful of. The funds are to be focused on further education of our youth using the Maltz Museum as a vehicle. Dworken & Bernstein looks forward to its alliance with the Maltz Museum in dealing with these societal issues.” As many as 30,000 visitors experience Jewish history, culture and tradition through the Maltz Museum and about one-third of those visitors are students, according to the release. “We look to our past so we can understand the present and create a better future,” said David Schafer, the Maltz Museum’s managing director, said in the release. “Today, students are confronted with and are fighting against issues like racism, abelsim, homophobia, xenophobia and more. We are so grateful to Dworken & Bernstein for their generous distribution so these students can know they are not alone.”
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JumpStart Inc. Our Mission: JumpStart unlocks the full potential of diverse and ambitious entrepreneurs to economically transform entire communities. We do this in three ways; funding tech entrepreneurs with the capital they need to grow their startup businesses quickly; providing business assistance services to help high-potential businesses navigate challenges, drive growth and create jobs; and working as a value added intermediary on behalf of private, public and philanthropic funders who want to assist entrepreneurs—making grants and convening networks to turn their vision and resources into action and impact.
6701 Carnegie Ave., Suite 100 Cleveland, Ohio 44103 (216) 363-3400 jumpstartinc.org
Year Established: 2004 Number of Employees: 69 Top 3 Fundraising Outcomes*:
Upcoming Event: • Startup Scaleup - June 19, Flats East Bank I Startup Scaleup (startupscaleup.org) is JumpStart’s annual, festival-style event for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Now in its fifth year, this event is expected to draw more than 1,600 attendees to the Flats East Bank for a day of learning, networking and celebrating entrepreneurship.
10,250+ companies engaged by JumpStart and its partners More than 10,000 jobs created by these companies $5.6B+ in economic impact contributed to the Ohio economy since 2010 *Cumulative outcomes for JumpStart and partner organizations in the Entrepreneurial Services Provider program.
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Interested in Getting Involved with JumpStart? Contact: Laura Desmond Senior Partner, Advancement (216) 363-3424 | laura.desmond@jumpstartinc.org | jumpstartinc.org
Ray Leach CEO
Cathy Belk President
Gary Shamis Board Chair
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More important than ever to plan charitable deductions MICHAEL B. KLEIN Special to the CJN
B The solution to the biggest medical challenges is smaller than you think.
JUDITH SHENKMAN Midwest Region Executive Director T: 312.329.0332 E: jshenkman@afhu.org L E A R N M O R E AT AFHU.ORG/NANO
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in partnership with Cleveland Clinic, is pioneering nanotechnology research that will radically change how physicians deliver drugs to patients. Since 1925, American Friends of the Hebrew University has connected the passions of Americans with innovation at the Hebrew University.
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y now, many of you have filed your 2018 taxes and have begun to get a better idea of the impact the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act had on your tax liability. For instance, many of you may no longer itemize and instead take advantage of the increased standard deduction. If this is the case, you may be questioning whether you have lost the ability Klein to gain tax advantages from charitable contributions. For 2018 through 2025, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act nearly doubles the standard deduction – plus, it limits or eliminates some common itemized deductions. As a result, you may no longer have enough itemized deductions to exceed the standard deduction, in which case your charitable donations won’t save you tax without making a change to your giving pattern or method of donating. You might be able to preserve your charitable deduction by bunching donations into alternating years, so you’ll exceed the standard deduction and can claim a charitable deduction and other itemized deductions every other year. You might want to consider contacting the charities you support to advise them of this change in your giving pattern so that they might plan accordingly. Another means of preserving the tax benefits of charitable contributions would
be to contribute to a donor-advised fund. The idea is you make contributions sufficient to ensure you will itemize on your tax return in the year of said donation. In a donor-advised fund, you can make suggestions as to what charities should be supported by the fund. In most instances, the donor’s wishes are followed, assuming the charity is recognized by the IRS as a not-for-profit organization. However, it is important to understand that in order to be able to claim a deduction for the contribution to a donor-advised fund, the donor must give up control of the assets. As such, the organization holding the donor-advised fund does not have to honor the donor’s wishes. Additionally, the donor cannot receive a benefit from contributions paid by the donor-advised fund, for example tickets to a special event to which a donoradvised fund has contributed. If you are 70½ years old and have an IRA or 401k, you likely have a required mandatory distribution amount. You can elect to have such RMD directed to a charity or charities of your choice and such amount will be excluded from your taxable income. This is a way to maintain a tax benefit while not itemizing on Schedule A of your tax return. Our community’s nonprofits rely upon our support. With some planning, you can still enjoy the tax benefits of contributing to go along with the good feeling of supporting worthy causes.
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French widower leaves Israel $14.5M to support bereaved families JTA
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ERUSALEM – A French widower with no children left about $14.5 million to the state of Israel to assist families who lost loved ones serving in the military or to terrorism. Most of the inheritance of Nicolas Bauman, who died in 2009, was transferred to Israel last week, Keren Kayemet L’Israel: Jewish National Fund announced on the eve of Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day. The fund established in Bauman’s will for bereaved families will operate for 10 years under the trustee management of the Ministry of Justice administrator general and KKL-JNF. The trustees decided the fund will assist siblings, who do not receive full support
from the official commemorative bodies in Israel. KKL-JNF said in a statement it will soon form a team to decide on clear criteria for areas of assistance and eligibility. “The fact that Jews around the world are deciding to leave their life’s inheritance for the benefit of the state of Israel constitutes an example of the power of the Jewish people everywhere, and the importance the state of Israel holds for those in the Diaspora,” KKL-JNF’s world chairman, Daniel Atar, said in a statement. “In this case, we were given the privilege of memorializing the name of Mr. Nicolas Bauman Z”L and, at the same time, support a group that until now did not receive the full recognition and support that it needed. That will no longer be the case.” Bauman was born in Hungary.
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Holden Forests & Gardens Our Mission: Holden Forests & Gardens is made up of two of Northeast Ohio’s most important environmental and cultural institutions — the Holden Arboretum and Cleveland Botanical Garden — whose mission is to advance and inspire a deeper understanding of plants to enhance life. We strive to create vibrant green communities throughout the region and cultivate a closer connection to the natural world for both children and adults through a variety of initiatives including Tree Corps, a community forestry workforce development program, and Green Corps, an urban agricultural program that employs area teens to manage farms in four Cleveland neighborhoods.
Upcoming Events: • Woodland Express Garden Railroad at Holden Arboretum - Step into a magical garden railroad display featuring G-scale trains, vibrant plantings and handcrafted architectural elements inspired by woodland animals. June 15 – Sept. 15 • Hershey Children’s Garden 20th Birthday at Cleveland Botanical Garden - Help us celebrate the creation of the award-winning Hershey Children’s Garden with a variety of special activities. Friday, June 28, 5:30 – 8:30pm • Woodland Twilight Annual Benefit, honoring Bill & Mary Conway - Enjoy a delightful evening celebrating summer with food, drinks, and music in the company of friends old and new. Saturday, July 13, 6 – 10:30pm
9500 Sperry Rd. Kirtland, OH 44094 440-946-4400 www.holdenfg.org Year Established: 1931 Number of Employees: 135 Top Three Fundraising Recipients Conservation and Research Educational Programs Community Forestry
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Interested in Helping? Contact: Debbie Miller VP of Development 216-707-2807 | dmiller@holdenfg.org | holdenfg.org
Jill Koski President and CEO
Brad Turner Board Chair
Let’s Grow Together Holden Forests & Gardens is making a positive impact in the region through urban greening and forestry initiatives, environmental research, nature-based education programs, and world-class visitor experiences to its two campuses - the Holden Arboretum in Kirtland, Ohio and the Cleveland Botanical Garden in University Circle. Visit us at HoldenFG.org to learn more or to make a donation and help us make a difference in our community.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art Our Mission: The Cleveland Museum of Art creates transformative experiences through art, for the benefit of all the people forever.
11150 East Blvd. Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Upcoming Events:
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30th Annual Parade The Circle – June 8, 2019
ClevelandArt.org Year Established: 1913 Number of Employees: 450 Professionals
Don’t miss the CMA’s FREE signature summer event. Wade Oval comes alive with art, music, a spectacular display of bright costumes, and more. Solstice 2019 – June 22, 2019 Art and Music come together in a celebration of the long Summer days and hot Summer nights at CMA’s 11th annual Solstice. Leadership Dinner – September 24, 2019 Annual Black Tie Dinner for Donors of $2,500 or more
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Diane M. Strachan, CFRE Director of Philanthropy 216-707-2585/dstrachan@clevelandart.org/cma.org
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WomenSafe Inc. Our Mission: WomenSafe’s mission is to provide emergency shelter and support services to all survivors of domestic violence throughout Northeast Ohio. WomenSafe provides a wide range of free services to adult and child survivors of domestic violence, including: emergency shelter, 24-hour hotline (COPEline), counseling, art therapy, court advocacy, a supportive employment program, the Empowered Parent Program, aftercare, donations, and peer support groups. For more information or to enroll in services, call COPEline at 1-888-285-5665.
Upcoming Events: • WomenSafe’s Fall Luncheon- Bring your family/friends to Landerhaven in Mayfield Heights on Friday, October 4, 2019 and enjoy lunch, a fashion show, vendors, and lots of prizes! Contact Megan at 440-286-7154 x 248 for more information. • 19th Annual Casino Night- Try your luck at our agency’s largest annual fundraiser on Saturday, February 1, 2020! The evening includes a night of casino gaming managed by professional dealers, a silent auction, lucky number auction, wine pull, open bar, sit-down dinner, and of course countless laughs!
12041 Ravenna Rd, Chardon OH 44024 24-hour Hotline COPEline 1-888-285-5665 Administrative Offices 440-286-7154 www.womensafe.org Year Established: 1980 Number of Employees: 32 WomenSafe the Resale Shoppe 12601 Chillicothe Rd, Chesterland OH 44026 440-729-2780 wsresale@womensafe.org
Interested in helping a great cause? Contact Megan Fisher, Development Director 440-286-7154 ext 248 | events@womensafe.org | www.womensafe.org Facebook: @WSGreenHouse • Twitter: @WoMenSafeInc • Instagram: @WomenSafeInc_Ohio
Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday: 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. We are always looking for volunteers and donations for the store! For more information, contact Alicia at 440-729-2780.
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5TH ANNUAL CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT WomenSafe provides emergency shelter and support services to survivors of domestic violence. Co-Chairs: Tami Kowit, Tammy Friedman, Gretchen Levy, Cynthia Kriz
MONDAY, JUNE 24, 2019 BEECHMONT COUNTRY CLUB
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11:00 AM Registration, Lunch and an Open Bar • 12:30 PM Shotgun Start - Scramble Format SPONSORSHIP LEVELS HOLE-N-ONE $2500
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Kindly respond by June 10, 2019. To attend, please email Megan Fisher at events@womensafe.org with your preferred sponsorship level and foursome names. Please make checks payable to WomenSafe. Please mail checks to: 12041 Ravenna Rd, Chardon, OH 44024. For credit card payment contact Megan Fisher at 440.286.7154 ext 248.
$65 is tax deductible per golfer as a gift to a not-for-profit organization (Tax ID #: 34-1341527)
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Nonprofits can engage in lobbying, but be careful ANDREW ZASHIN zrlaw.com
A nonprofit can engage in lobbying efforts, but you probably already knew that.
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With you by our side, the doors at Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio stay open. We are there for our patients, our communities, and our mission because nearly 65,000 Ohioans rely on our compassionate, nonjudgmental care to keep themselves healthy and safe. Make a donation at supportppgoh.org, or contact Eva Allen, Director of Development, at Eva.Allen@ppoh.org or 216-920-4026 to learn more.
It is difficult to think of a time in recent memory during which the political battle lines have been so clearly drawn. Arguably with the help of social media – even beyond the trolls – our society has become more divided and divisive. No matter one’s viewpoint, it seems much is at stake. And nonprofits have stepped up to push different political agendas. You could probably easily think of many examples of organizations that work hard to push for particular political agendas. Their activities include drumming up support from the general public, as well as lobbying local, state and federal governments for legislative change. These organizations frequently make headlines. How much can they lobby? The answer is not entirely clear and depends on the type of organization. In some cases, it can be pretty subjective. Tax-exempt charitable entities organized under Section 501(c)(3) may lobby so long as efforts don’t constitute a substantial part of their total organization’s activities. That is, the charitable cause is supposed to be the focus of their work and lobbying should only amount to a small part of that. Substantial in this context is not clearly defined and can be measured in two ways. The first way is the substantiality test, which will depend on the facts and
circumstances of each case. The second is the expenditure test, which determines allowable lobbying expenditures based upon the organization’s exempt purpose or charitable expenditures. On the other hand, social welfare entities organized under Section 501(c)(4) may exist for the purpose of lobbying, so long as the organization’s lobbying efforts are germane to the organization’s mission. That might include some participation in specific political campaigns, though not direct donations. But qualifying as a 501(c) (4) social welfare organization is much tougher than qualifying as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Rather than a charitable organization that might focus on providing help to a particular cause or subset of people, such as women or the LGBTQ community or those with cancer, or a religious institution, a social welfare organization should look to better society at large. For either type of organization, the price for violating the lobbying restrictions could be loss of tax-exempt status, a steep price, to be sure, making it important to tread carefully.
Andrew Zashin writes about law for the Cleveland Jewish News. He is a comanaging partner with Zashin & Rich, with offices in Cleveland and Columbus.
Sale of Edelman’s cleats yields $10,000 for Tree of Life families JTA
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OSTON – A California firm paid $10,000 for a pair of Julian Edelman’s game shoes to benefit families of the victims of the mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue. Edelman, a New England Patriots’ wide receiver who returned May 11 to Kent State University in Kent to receive his diploma, wore the cleats – stamped with the words “The Tree of Life” in Hebrew and an Israeli flag – at a Dec. 16 game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in solidarity with the victims of the Oct. 27 shooting. Golden West Food Group made the donation last week to the Combined
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Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, whose initials were also stamped on the shoes. Edelman, whose father is Jewish, wore the cleats, part of the NFL’s #MyCauseMyCleats campaign, during the Dec. 16 game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
BUSINESS Business briefs ON THE MOVE
HIRAM COLLEGE NAMES AD: Todd Hibbs has been selected to lead Hiram College athletics, starting July 1. He will replace Ellen Dempsey. ULMER HIRES XIE: Ulmer & Berne LLP’s Cleveland office added Mengxue Xie to its product liability practice group. BROWN NEW AKRON CHILDREN’S VP OF DEVELOPMENT: Shelly Brown was named Akron Children’s Hospital’s vice president of development. She joined the hospital in 2008 as a major gifts officer and most recently served as senior director of principal giving. She replaces John LaGuardia, who retired earlier this year. VACANTI JOINS TUCKER ELLIS: Tucker Ellis LLP hired Tony Vacanti as business litigation counsel. He will counsel property owners, tenants, developers and investors through complicated land use, zoning, eminent domain, property tax and transactional matters. SCHROER NAMED DIRECTOR OF ALLERGY, IMMUNOLOGY AT AKRON CHILDREN’S: Brian Schroer joined Akron Children’s Hospital as director of allergy and immunology. He will oversee the department’s staff and direct patient care in Akron and regional locations. BOCKELMAN JOINS ROCKET: Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse named Brooke Bockelman vice president of booking. PAXTON JOINS ACLU: The ACLU of Ohio hired Mary A. Paxton as director of development. She will work out of its Cleveland office. GERMAIN TO JOIN CIM: Vocal coach and pianist François Germain will join the Cleveland Institute of Music’s voice department as a full-time conservatory faculty member beginning with the 2019-20 academic year.
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HEINEN’S NAMED A TOP GROCER: Heinen’s Grocery Store, which operates 19 locations in Cleveland, is one of the top grocery stores in the country, ranking No. 3 nationally out of 96 grocery chains, according to rankings recently published by Consumer Reports. It received a reader score of 89 out of 100. CHAMBERS RANKS ULMER & BERNE: Ulmer & Berne LLP was recognized by “Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” as a top firm. Chambers also recognized six of the firm’s practices and 15 of the firm’s partners and counsel. They are: Evelyn K. Holmer, Peter A. Rome, Patricia A. Shlonsky, Clayton L. Kuhnell, Michael A. Marrero, Eric M. Robbins, Vance V. VanDrake, III, Stephanie Dutchess Trudeau, Frances Floriano Goins, Michael N. Ungar, Bill J. Gagliano, Lori Pittman Haas, Scott P. Kadish, Mary Forbes Lovett and Frederic X. “Fritz” Shadley. METROPARKS WINS FIVE AWARDS: Cleveland Metroparks won five national awards for excellence in parks and recreation from the 2019 National Association of County Parks and Recreation Officials Awards. FRANTZ WARD RECOGNIZED IN CHAMBERS: Frantz Ward LLP was recognized in the 2019 edition of “Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.” The firm was recognized in band 1 for its labor and employment practice, and the construction practice was also recognized. The following lawyers were recognized: T. Merritt Bumpass, Jr., Michael N. Chesney, Ian H. Frank, Michael J. Frantz, Brian J. Kelly, Nora E. Loftus, James B. Niehaus and Daniel A. Ward. TUCKER ELLIS RANKED IN CHAMBERS: Chambers USA recognized Tucker Ellis LLP lawyers and five practice areas in its “Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.” The following lawyers were recognized: Corine Corpora, Sharla J. Frost, Christopher Hewitt, Sherry Knutson, John Lewis, Robert Loesch, Rita Maimbourg, John McCaffrey, Christy Prince, Keith Raker, Ronald Stansbury, Scott Stitt and Kevin Young.
BOARDS
CHAUTAUQUA BOARD ELECTS NEW CHAIR: The Chautauqua Institution board of trustees elected Candace “Candy” Littell Maxwell as its next chair. Current chair James Pardo will conclude his term Oct. 1. CIM ELECTS TRUSTEES: The Cleveland Institute of Music’s board of trustees elected Anthony J. O’Malley and Jonathan Paul Miller to serve three-year terms.
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Homewood Suites in Beachwood completes renovation Homewood Suites by Hilton Cleveland-Beachwood recently completed a major renovation of its guest rooms and public spaces, according to a news release. “Our renovation transformation reflects our continual commitment to deliver guests the highest-quality accommodations, service and convenience they have come to expect from staying at Homewood Suites by Hilton Cleveland-Beachwood,” Jearamy Klinger, the hotel’s general manager, said in the news release. The six-story, 125-suite hotel received new carpet, bedding, floor tile, curtains, paint, wall vinyl, artwork and new seating furniture as part of a multi-million dollar renovation, completed by Buffalo Lodging Associates, LLC. The guest rooms were remodeled with “cool blues and turquoise,” and the lobby with “sleek grays and orange accents,” according to the release. Homewood Suites by Hilton Cleveland-Beachwood is at 25725 Central Parkway in Beachwood.
sponsored by the Center for Arts and innovation at Cleveland State University
COME CELEBRATE CREATIVITY 2019 Arts Summit: A Two-Part Event
FRIDAY, JUNE 21
Honorary Chair: Dr. Gregory Sadlek, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, CSU
Creative Voices Summit, Idea Center 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
“Improvisation in Art and in Life: Creative Decision-Making” A Panel Discussion
Joseph T Hallinan,
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author
Arts Education Luncheon
State Theater Stage, Playhouse Square 12 noon - 2 p.m.
“Social Justice Through the Arts” Keynote Speaker
Vijay Gupta
Concert violinist; Social Activist; Founder, Street Symphony; MacArthur award winner
Online reservations required for each event at www.csuohio.edu/cai 216-687-5018 for more information