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“Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.”

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COMMUNITY DRIVEN IMPACT

In 2024, Casey King brought the El Dorado Community Turkey Drive fund to the El Dorado Community Foundation with a goal of raising money to provide Thanksgiving turkeys to El Dorado County families Over the course of 3 months, El Dorado County came together to raise the needed $40,000, which provided 2,000 turkeys for local families in need. This annual Turkey Drive allows our most vulnerable families to enjoy a Thanksgiving holiday each year The Foundation is honored to partner on these efforts again for 2025

FLAHERTY IMPACT FOUNDATION

The Flaherty IMPACT Foundation, opened here at the Foundation in 2023 and added a scholarship in 2024. Fund holder Michael Flaherty knows the importance of making a difference in the lives of students and their families who may be in need of assistance to support their basic needs, from food and clothing to fuel to drive their children to and from school.

The Flaherty IMPACT Foundation is dedicated to providing assistance to youth in need, focusing on displaced and homeless children, youth and families dealing with pediatric cancer and other life-threatening diseases, and providing college scholarships for at-risk youth Thank you to the Flaherty family for your commitment to service. We are proud to serve as your partners in philanthropy.

Michael pictured here gifting $5,000 in gift cards to support families within the Rescue Union School District.

In 2024, South Lake Tahoe Family Resource Center (FRC) received the 2 installment of a two-year, $90,000 total grant from the Katz Amsterdam Charitable Fund that was stewarded through El Dorado Community Foundation. FRC works diligently to provide mental health prevention and early intervention services to the Latino and low- income communities of the South Lake Tahoe area. This generous funding helped breathe new life into an organization looking to grow its programs and increase its service hours

VIVA LA COMUNIDAD!

South Lake Tahoe Family Resource Center serves to enable individuals and families to achieve self-sufficiency and economic stability, to develop resilience in both parents and children, and to allow families to become a contributing part of the community.

While their annual services help many, FRC shared one particular success story that speaks not only to what they do, but also what the FRC means to community they serve, highlighting the importance of their programs and extending their service hours One FRC client would regularly attend the center during office hours to receive food, work on his resume and complete job applications. His tenacity and work paid off. He not only received work at a local business, but he has been promoted and received bonuses for his work repairing equipment

Learn more about the impacts of the South Lake Tahoe Family Resource Center at sltfrc.org

This client no longer comes to the FRC to receive food, instead he now gives back to the organization that helped him by bringing food to contribute to FRC’s potluck Cafecitos meetings. Stories like this one highlight how the South Lake Tahoe Family Resource Center transforms lives through their impact in the basin The FRC serves around 500 unique clients monthly, and helps stabilize families in crisis by providing basic necessities such as food, clothing, advocacy, and translation, in order for those families to become physically and emotionally strong and selfsufficient community members

A LEGACY OF IMPACT

At a time when organizational funding is in question for many nonprofits and public services, the safety net of a legacy gift can make all the difference in the world to our local organizations. One such organization that enjoys the benefits of a legacy gift is the South Lake Tahoe Library

The legacy gift of Stephen and Jean Myers is one that came from a place of love for education and the opportunities for personal growth, expression, and learning that only a library can offer You see, it was in this kind of environment that Stephen and Jean met, while both attending Stanford University. Stephen was studying to obtain his MBA while also working in the campus library and Jean was completing her Master’s in Special Education after graduating from UC Berkeley. The two shared a mutual love and understanding for the importance of libraries as a safe place to seek enlightenment.

After their marriage, Stephen and Jean moved to South Lake Tahoe to pursue their dreams of entrepreneurialism, education, and creativity The young couple acquired a local eatery which turned out to be so successful that Jean was able to leave her teaching career to pursue her artistic side, eventually becoming a world renowned stained glass artist. In Jean’s own words, “…through my art I seek to express my own celebration of all that is brilliant, beautiful, and optimistic in the world.”

Brilliance, beauty, and optimism were also qualities the couple found within the local South Lake Tahoe Library, leading them to establish a legacy gift with the El Dorado Community Foundation to ensure annual funding for the south shore’s Library to have extended hours so that all of the community could benefit from the possibility within

DONOR ADVISED IMPACT

In 2024, El Dorado Community Foundation’s own competitive grant cycle, Endow El Dorado, tried something new For the first time ever, we empowered our Donor Advised Fund holders to participate in a competitive granting process by presenting to them a list of prescreened grant applications seeking funding and letting them choose which grants they wanted to either partially or fully fund What we found was that many of our Donor Advised Fund holders were thrilled to be asked to participate in this process. While not everyone decided to fund something, many did, and in the end all 13 applications had been fully funded at nearly $60,000 total

We are excited to be repeating this process for Endow El Dorado’s 2025 grant cycle, and this year we expect to see even more grant applications receive full funding!

Participating in this competitive grant cycle is a great way to appreciate all of the hard work our nonprofits put into their grant writing, and offers an opportunity to see the results of their grant funding when the nonprofit submits their final reporting.

in the Classroom (EDC), School Garden Revitalization Pilot Program Funded by Arenz Family Fund

ASPIREKids, Strive Scholarships • $5,000 Fully funded by the Stigall Family Fund

Cantare Chorale of the Sierra Foothills, Capacity Building • $2,500 Fully funded by the Bill Roby Family Foundation

Hands and Hoofs, Camp Horizons: Enhancing Sustainability and Accessibility • $5,000 Fully funded by Hunter Family Foundation

Music on the Divide, Student Outreach Program • $4,000 $2500 funded by the Joan Barsotti Memorial Fund & $1500 funded by the Peek Family Fund

Pioneer Union School District PTO, Drinking Water Access for Rural Schools • $5,000 $2500 funded by the Hernandez Family Foundation $1965 funded by the Guardian Angel Fund & $535 funded by Arenz Family Fund

Safe-D of El Dorado County, Safe-D of EDC • $5,000 Fully funded by Pay it Forward Project Fund

Save the Graves, Inc., Live History Theatrical Production • $5,000 Fully funded by Endow El Dorado (EDCF)

Sierra Community Access Television, Lights, Camera, Action at Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park • $1,200 Fully funded by the Bill Roby Family Foundation

Tahoe Alliance for Safe Kids, Communication & Accessible Resources Project • $5,000 $1500 funded by the David Family Fund & $3500 funded by Con Il Sole Charitable Foundation

Tahoe Composts, Tahoe Composts • $4,968 Fully funded by Endow El Dorado (EDCF)

The Stage at Burke Junction, Full Time Production Manager/Technical Director Position • $6,000 $2000 funded by Peek Family Fund

$3,000 funded by the Hunter Family Foundation & $1000 funded by the Tustin Family Fund

Walk with Austin, 4th Annual Kids TRY-athlon for kids of all abilities • $5,000

Fully funded by Bonnie Jean Tammi Memorial Fund