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Our mission: Growing an endowment to strengthen the charitable non-profits serving greater Ketchikan
Vintage Cocktail Evening – Everyone’s Going!
The 2014 First Annual Vintage Cocktail Evening
was such a roaring success that the Ketchikan
Community Foundation decided to do it again!
The event is a
fundraiser for the
Foundation’s
endowment fund.
But it’s also just a
fine chance to wind
down
after
the
summer, have some
fun and visit with
friends.
Mark the date –
It’s gonna
be swell!
Barbara and Wayne Kinunen 2014
September 12, 2015
Hosted by Doug Andrew
to benefit the
Ketchikan Community Foundation
$40 admission includes 2 cocktails
Delicious hors d’oeuvres
7:00 p.m. at Fish Pirates Saloon
Foundation Benefits From Governor’s
Inaugural Ball Funds
Flanked by board members of the Ketchikan Community
Foundation, Ann Graham, on behalf of Gov. Walker’s
Inaugural Ball Committee, presents Foundation president
Christa Bruce-Kotrc with a donation from the committee.
The Ketchikan Community Foundation was
thrilled to receive a check in May for $4,500
from funds that remained after Governor
Walker’s Inaugural Ball in Ketchikan.
Ketchikan Youth Initiatives also received a
similar gift from the Inaugural Ball
Committee.
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To Our Founding Donors
There’s new life in an old idea. After earlier
attempts to develop a permanent community endowment,
our Ketchikan Community Foundation has come roaring to
life.
New circumstances sometimes require a display of
courage on the part of sponsors. At the beginning, no one is
quite sure how things will develop. In March of 2013, for
example, there was no guarantee that the Ketchikan
community would be able to raise $25,000 in donations to
meet the Rasmuson Foundation $50,000 matching grant.
There was also no assurance that Ketchikan could meet the
second $25,000 necessary in 2014 to match Rasmuson’s
second grant of $50,000.
But Ketchikan stepped up! Ketchikan made it
happen! Those generous individuals and businesses that
contributed at a certain level in those first two years are now
known as our “founders.” They had the courage to support
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the birth of the Ketchikan Community Foundation. They
not only helped make the match, but they built the base of
an endowed fund that will be here for charitable nonprofits
for years to come.
Please thank them for their vision, for stepping forward,
and for making the Ketchikan Community Foundation a
strong advocate for Ketchikan.
Christa Bruce-Kotrc, Board Chair
Business Donors
Alaska Power and Telephone Co.
CPD Alaska
First Bank
Ketchikan Daily News
Ketchikan Mining Co. & Outlet Store
Madison Lumber and Hardware
Marble Construction
Rasmuson Foundation
Tatsuda’s IGA
Tongass Trading Co.
Vigor Alaska
Webber Air Investments
Ziegler Law Offices
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Individual Donors
Doug and Penny Andrew
Paul and Tessa Axelson
Christa Bruce
William B. and Kathleen Carey
Mike and Marna Cessnun
Kathryn Cessnun
Megan Cessnun
Clarence and Bess Clark
Margaret McCloy Custer
Jim and Karen Eakes
Rocky and Dana Elerding
Chere’ Klein and Loren Enright
Patrick G. Enright Sr.
Diane Gubatayao
Josh and Sonia Henrick
Jim and Bett Jakubek
Randy and Cindy Johnson
Greg and Myra Kalbaugh
Greg and Jennifer Karlik
Clay and Mary Keene
Kay Key
In memory of Lucille King
Wayne and Barbara Kinunen
Tory Korn
Ron Kotrc
Cole and Anita Maxwell
Richard and Margot Miller
A Fred Miller
Don and Nancy Mitchel
Sean and Kristel Mitchel
Lois Munch
Joe and Maura Odell
Deb O’Loane
Dan and Lori Ortiz
Andy Pankow
John Peckham
Penny Pederson
David and Karen Pitcher
Angela and Brien Salazar
Carol Schafer
Tom and Mary Schulz
George and Anna Shaffer
Alfred Slagle
David and Marggie Sweetman
Jim Taro
John and Debi Thompson
Chet and Alisa Thompson
Erin Traudt
Terry and Mary Wanzer
Judy and Dave Zenge
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John Peterson and Clay Keene,
KCF board members, give a
presentation to the Greater
Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce
in May 2015. KCF board
members would be happy to meet
with any organization to explain
the Foundation’s plans and goals.
Foundation Hosts Board
. . . . Prepares to Start First
Training and . . . .
Grant Cycle in 2016
The Sunny Point Conference Center
was filled with board members and non-profit
leaders and staff in April 2015 for a workshop
entitled “Strengthening Nonprofits”, hosted by
the Ketchikan Community Foundation.
The workshop was among the first
events to be funded with earnings from the
Foundation’s endowment fund, plus help from
The Rasmuson Foundation.
Tom Schulz, chairman of the
Foundation grants committee, said one of the
first things the Foundation board did a couple
of years ago, when starting to spearhead the
endowment campaign, was to meet with a
roundtable of non-profit leaders to gather ideas
for what kind of support they felt was needed.
“We heard from many people in town
that there was a real need for more training for
non-profits boards, so we took it on as a
service we could offer the community,” Schulz
said.
The first board development workshop
was in 2013, facilitated by Sara Lawson. The
board was able to offer similar training this
year, again with the support of The Rasmuson
Foundation. This year’s workshop was
facilitated by Susan Howlett, author of “Boards
on Fire! Inspiring Leaders to Raise Money Joyfully,”
and “Getting Funded, The Complete Guide to Writing
Grant Proposals.”
(www.susanhowlett.com)
With the Foundation endowment now at
about $217,000, the organization is making plans
for its first grant distributions to local non-profit
groups in early 2016. The total to be disbursed is
expected to be about $9,000.
The Foundation board will distribute
funds in three-year cycles rotating among three
types of non-profit community services:
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Community Enrichment
Physical and Emotional Support
Youth
Applications are expected to open in early
2016, with award winners announced in early
spring.
To maintain the sustainability of the
endowment, only interest funds are used for
grant purposes, keeping intact the principle for
future growth.
Our2020
Endowment
Goal:
TheFund
StandsToday
at:
$500,000
$217,000
Every donation, small or large, will help us build
Ketchikan’s endowment fund.
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Vintage Cocktail Evening
Hosted by Doug Andrew
7:00 p.m. Sept. 12, 2015
Fish Pirates Saloon
Tickets Available From
Ketchikan Community Foundation
Board Members
P.O. Box 5256, Ketchikan, AK 99901
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Ketchikan Community
Foundation Board
Christa Bruce-Kotrc
Tessa Axelson
George Shaffer
Mike Cessnun
Keith Anderson
Margaret Custer
Heidi Ekstrand
Clay Keene
Chere’ Klein
Don Mitchel
John Peterson
Tom Schulz
Marggie Sweetman
Chair
Vice-Chair
Secretary
Treasurer