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COMMUNITY MATTERS
Community Foundation of Western Nevada.... connecting people who care with causes that matter
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| A publication from the Community Foundation of Western Nevada |
April 2012 |
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You will find inside this edition of
Community Matters :
- Stop Bullying In School New Web Resource
- Partnership Grant Focus: Holland Project
- Friends of Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park joins Nonprofit Connections Grid.
- Lassen Land and Trails Trust Establish Endowment
- Community Foundation Board Retreat at Sparks Heritage Museum.
- Think of your community as one of your heirs.
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Stop Bullying In Schools
New Web Resource for Educators
Parents and Students
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bullying. |
The Celebrate Diversity Fund brings you the resources you need to combat bullying in your school or to deal with bullying if it happens to you or someone you love. New for 2012, the Stop Bullying in Schools page on the Community Foundation website is a resource for educators, parents and students.
Bullying hurts everyone and we are doing something about it.
In this comprehensive web resource, you will phone numbers and people, as well as websites to help you in your community, around the state and throughout the nation if you or someone you know is involved in bullying as a victim, bully, or bystander.
The Community Foundation will update this page as we learn of new resources. If you know of a helpful person, place, website or book let us know and we will check them out. You may be the one to help somebody deal with bullying. For resource tips: email Dani Lutzow, Program Associate.
As a permanent endowment, the Celebrate Diversity Fund will grow to help our children's children learn to live peaceful lives. Lilli Trinchero, Celebrate Diversity Fund founder continues to inspire as she leads her Fund's anit-bullying works with the Nevada Attorney General's Office, the Washoe County School District and the Child Assault Prevention Program.
 | Lilli Trinchero and Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto are working together to stop school bullying through the
Celebrate Diversity Fund. |
Read Lilli Trinchero's inspiring story about the creation of the Celebrate Diversity fund.
Do you have a passion that calls you?
Call us at 775-333-5499.
We can help you turn your passion into action and change your world.
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2011 Partnership Grant to Holland Project helps create "Momentous Year"
Thanks to the donors to the Community Foundation Partnership Grant program Holland Project received the help they need to do ALL they do for the young people of Reno.
Holland is an all-ages art and music initiative made for and by the young people in Reno and beyond. Holland strives to empower young people through access to music, art, diverse workshop opportunities, and community service and activism.
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Holland Project's 3 Minute Film Festival is accepting films of any genre (western, horror, experimental, music vids, comedy, mockumentary), any style (B&W, super saturated technicolor, 1920s grainy style, animation, stop-motion, high-def), any technology (shoot it on a fancy camera, a thrift store find, or iPhone). |
In 2011 Holland Project (HP) raised enough funds to buy and move into new space at 120 Vesta Street in Reno.
Holland Project produced more than 136 all-ages events in 2011, averaging more than 11 per month, and including more than 65 music shows, 17 art exhibits, 12 workshops, 10 special events, 10 poetry events, 2 dance events, 2 film screenings and more. HP hosted 52 events at the HPHQ, 30 at Rainshadow, 29 in their new home on Vesta Street, and 25 at venues city-wide including NMA, KNPB, Bibo III, The Studio, and UNR. WHEW!
The Holland Project programs are as diverse as an annual 3 minute film contest for young artists --- to a lesson on crocheting. 
Partnership Grants are the Community Foundation's competitive annual grants, chosen by an independent committee and given to outstanding local nonprofit organizations that do great work through their mission. Funding for the Partnership Grants comes from a collaboration of fundholders and generous community donors. This year the Community Foundation has been given a match gift of up to $50,000 for new gifts made to the Partnership Grant Program before April 30, 2012. For more information call Tracy Turner, Program Officer at 775-333-5499. |
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Lassen Land and Trails Trust Endowment Established with Community Foundation.
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photo: Mark Leder-Adams |
For all time, for all people, the Lassen Land and Trails Trust endowment will be available to receive gifts from local citizen's estates and send a stream of income to help conserve significant natural areas and agricultural landscapes, and to promote and enhance a public trail system throughout Lassen County, California. |
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Sparks Heritage Museum Hosted Community Foundation Board For All Day Strategic Planning Retreat
 | | The Sparks Heritage Museum Upstairs Meeting Room is light, spacious and beautiful. |
The recently completed upstairs meeting rooms at the Sparks Heritage Museum were a welcoming and comfortable space for 30 members of the Community Foundation Board and staff to spend an April day working on a long term plan for the Foundation. Great plans need comfortable, private and spacious places for planning and the Sparks Heritage Museum was just such a venue. |
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Quick Links
Sparks Heritage Museum
Follow us on Facebook. |
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Who We Are
Board of Trustees
Norma Webster
Board Chair
Linda Smith
Vice Chair
Butch Anderson
Treasurer
Thomas Hall
Secretary
Sallie B. Armstrong
Kathie Bartlett
Rebecca Dickson
Nora James
Brian Kennedy
Diana Kern
Cary Lurie
Jim Pfrommer
Jennifer Satre
Advisory Board
John Badwick
Kim Becker
Annette Bidart
Greg Brower
Barbara Drake
Gail Humphreys
Dong Joon "DJ" Lee
Lyle Martin
Magda Martinez-Hoffman
Lance McKenzie
Teresa Mentzer
Tina Nappe
Alicia Reban
Jim Webster
Emeritus Board
Robert Armstrong
Richard Barnard
Fred Boyd
Kathie Dees
Mendy Elliott
Nancy Fennell
Mark Knobel
John Mulligan
David Turner
Col. William Van Allen (1914- 2004)
Ronald Zurek
Staff
Chris Askin, CSPG, CFRE
President and CEO
Dani Lutzow
Program Associate
Maureen Mensing
Accounting Associate
Margaret Stewart
Communications Director
Tracy Turner, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Ralph Vroman
Controller
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The powerful documentary the Bully Project is playing at the Century Riverside Theater this week. Learn how pervasive and destructive bullying is in our children's world.
Spread the word.
Like our Bully Project post on the Community Foundation Facebook page and let your friends know about the movie.
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Nonprofit Connections
If your local nonprofit organization would like to link to Nonprofit Connections
just call Tracy Turner, 775-333-5499
It is simple and effective.
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Your Bequest can Change our World.
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You can leave a gift that touches your grandchildren's children |
Include the Community Fund in your estate plans.
Together your gift,when combined over time with your neighbors' and friends' gifts will grow to a deep and unending resource to meet pressing community needs.
Your gift will make it possible to really help in times of crisis.Your gift will address the deep problems that take time and money to change.
We cannot know what callenges our grandchildren will face. We do know that a gift to the Community Fund will always be relevant, important to our region and, most of all, available when needed.
Think of your community as one of your heirs. Leave five percent of your esate to the Community Fund.
Use the Foundation's website to learn about
Bequests
and find sample bequest languarge to help you create your charitable legacy.
Call Chris Askin for help and information about making a bequest . 775-333-5499.
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Thank You | You touch the world with your generosity and kindness. Let's keep in touch.
Let us know if you want to know more about something you've read here. If you like Community Matters, we would appreciate it if you pass this letter on to your friends. If you don't want to receive monthly enews, email me, Margaret Stewart and I will take you off the list.
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| Contact Information | | Community Foundation of Western Nevada
1885 S. Arlington Ave. Suite 103, Reno, NV 89509
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