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REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY 2004
As we begin a new year, we would like to express our appreciation
for the partnership of Anguilla’s residents, visitors
and friends since the Anguilla Community Foundation (ACF)
was launched on Anguilla Day, 1999. Our Foundation has made
significant strides. We are grateful for the encouragement
and support of the island. We have much further to go
to strengthen the Foundation and consolidate our financial
efforts. We are grateful for the effort and the commitment
to build a permanent philanthropic institution for Anguilla.
The Anguilla Community Foundation is an island foundation
that is fulfilling the promise of developing resources to
meet challenging needs and issues in Anguilla now and in the
future. We are encouraging donor involvement in meeting
these challenges, a major effort of the Foundation.
Through our grantmaking programs, made possible through ANGUILLA
CARES, we strive to support efforts in education, the arts,
health, sports, and services for senior citizens. We
are especially interested in serving the needs of our island’s
children, youth and families.
Over the past two years the Foundation has grown, but we still
have a long way to go. There is need in every community
to make a commitment so that every child will learn that all
citizens will have the opportunity to grow and develop, and
that there will be opportunities to share ideas and lessons
learned to collectively strengthen and improve our island.
We can do better by working together.
Each year the Anguilla Community Foundation has worked to
grow both its permanent Endowment Fund (the Fund for All Time)
and the ANGUILLA CARES Fund, which enables the Foundation
to make grants to the community. In both 2003 and 2004,
the Foundation’s grantmaking program was in full swing
because of the generosity of donors to the Campaign.
This locally conducted fund raising campaign has enabled the
Foundation to distribute more than $100,000 in grants to Anguillian
organizations over the past two years.
2003/2004 GRANTS TO THE COMMUNITY
The following is a list of grants made over
the past two years:
Anguila Beautification Club
$15,000 (2004)
This donor-advised grant was to beautify a major gateway into
Anguilla around the Blowing Point Ferry area
Anguilla Carnival Committee
$2000 (2004)
To support the Children’s Parade design programme at
Campus B
Anguilla Community Band
$1597 (2004)
To purchase additional band equipment
Anguilla Family Planning Association
To support public education program
$3000 (2003)
Anguilla National Trust
$1500 (2004)
To support youth beach clean-up programme
Anguilla National Youth Interim Committee
$1079.14 (2004)
To support island-wide youth conference
Anguilla Sailing Association
$10,000 (2004)
Donor-advised grant to help establish the youth sailing programme
Anguilla Scout Association
$2000 (2004)
To support Anguilla scouts participation in Caribbean Cuboree
Anguilla Teachers Union
$1000 (2004)
To support annual teachers conference
Anguilla Tennis Academy
$1500 (2003); $1000 (2004)
General support of summer tennis programme
Apple Theatre Company
$1000 (2003)
General support of children’s summer theatre programme
and performances
Boy’s Brigade
$2500 (2003)
To purchase band equipment
Camp Be Aware
General support for two week environmental youth camp
$1000 (2003); $1000 (2004)
Children’s Literacy Camp, Anguilla Library Services
$1000 (2003); $1000 (2004)
General support of two week summer program for children
Department of Education
$1689 (2004)
Towards the Reading Programme of the Special Needs Department,
Albena Lake Hodge Comprehensive School
Health Authority of Anguilla
$13,000 ($9700 from the Ambulance Fund of the Foundation 2004)
Towards the purchase of a used ambulance for the island
Island Books Project
$300.00 (2004)
To assist in transporting donated books for children to Anguilla
Optimist Club of Anguilla
$1726.00 (2003)
For purchase of Aids pins for local Aids public awareness
programme
Pony League Baseball/Softball
$2000 (2004)
For general support of sports programme for youth
Rotary Club of Anguilla
$1000 (2003)
Towards purchase of Jaws of Life equipment for the island
FUNDS HELD BY THE FOUNDATION
Community Foundations by definition house
charitable funds created by donors to be used for community
purposes. The following funds have been placed at the
Foundations for use in meeting island needs:
ANGUILLA CARES Fund
$14,358.84
($50,579.46 distributed in 2004)
The Anguilla Community Foundation is able to make grants to
island organizations because of the generosity of supports
who give to the Foundation’s ANGUILLA CARES Campaign.
This Jollification in the 21st Century programme is working
to increase resources for the NGO community. ANGUILLA
CARES is jollification in the true community sense –
Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Anguilla Style.
Ambulance Fund
$9700
Created through the fund raising efforts of local residents
and distributed in 2004 to assist in the purchase of an ambulance
for Anguilla. Fund closed in 2004 with grant to the
Health Authority of Anguilla to purchase an ambulance for
the island
Anguilla Tennis Academy Fund
$2,570.00 ($86,384.00) distributed in 2004)
Pass through fund
To further the development of the island’s premier tennis
facility
Children and Youth Fund
$4111.97
Created by personal contributions from the Foundation’s
Board of Directors, this fund will make grants for children,
youth and families, a major focus of the Foundation
Lucia Butler Fund
$364.00
Created in memory of long time artist Lucia Butler.
Initial grant supported the Anguilla International Arts Festival.
The Endowment Fund
$125,323.84
The core of the Foundation is its permanent Endowment Fund.
We call this our “Fund for All Time” because as
the principal grows it will provide interest for making future
grants in the community. The Endowment Fund will continue
to grow in perpetuity. In the future, the interest will
reach an amount that enables it to support the Foundation’s
grantmaking programme.
The Pauline Angela Farmer Fund
$74,980.00
Created to support a scholarship for graduate studies in social
work and services for the underserved including the Miriam
Gumbs Senior Citizens Home
Lydia and Jeremiah Gumbs Fund
$4,467.00
Created to celebrate the memory and ground breaking work of
two beloved Anguillian citizens
The Mouton Fund (2004)
$101,786.24
Created through the interests of a long time resident for
use in supporting education on the island
Teacher Muriel (Teacher Noonie) Fund (2003)
$747.00
Created by Board Member and Foundation Chair Rhona Richardson,
this fund honors excellence in teaching.
The first award in teaching recognition went to retiring teacher
Ola M. Pabbs-Garnon, a veteran of the Anguilla school system,
originally from Sierra Leone, West Africa.
Other Highlights:
• A grant from the Social Security
Board enabled the Foundation to support the ANGUILLA CARES
Campaign and administrative support to the Foundation.
• The Foundation published its 2002 and 2003 financial
statements in The Anguillian in an effort to share more
openly financial information with the public and to create
a greater awareness of the Foundation.
• In October, 2004 ACF’s Director attended the
Global Meeting on Philanthropy, an international meeting
in Berlin, Germany which brought together community foundation
staff from all over the world. A Ford Foundation travel
grant made this trip possible. The Director made a
presentation on a panel entitled “Cycles of Leadership.”
• The Foundation was responsible for creating a panel
for the University of the West Indies Conference on Philanthropy
held in Jamaica during the year.
• The Foundation met with investment advisors Smith
Barney to begin to explore investment options as the Foundation
grows and develops.
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MOVEMENT IN THE
CARIBBEAN
The Anguilla Community Foundation was instrumental
in bringing together the four other community foundations
in the Caribbean region. ACF hosted the initial meeting
of the foundations in 2003. This meeting led to the
formation of the Association of Caribbean Community Foundations
(ACCF). In addition to the Anguilla Community Foundation,
the founding members are the BVI Investment Club Foundation,
St. Croix Foundation, the Foundation of the Virgin Islands
and the National Community Foundation of St. Lucia.
The group was organized with the support of the Annie Casey
Foundation of Baltimore, Maryland, chief sponsor of a meeting
of ACCF at the Council of Foundations Fall meeting of community
foundations in 2003. Two annual meetings to develop
ACCF have taken place with an upcoming meeting scheduled for
St. Croix. An administrative grant from the Ford Foundation
will strengthen the work of ACCF in it mission to bring additional
skills and resources to the Caribbean region.
The Secretariat has been set up to be housed within the offices
of the Anguilla Community Foundation in Anguilla.
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
The future brings new opportunities and challenges
for the Anguilla Community Foundation. In addition to
finding additional resources for our work, the Foundation
seeks to strengthen and under gird our financial operation
and reporting systems. We want to more effectively tell
our story and to increase understanding of the Foundation
and its goals. Efforts will be made to computerize all
of our operating systems in the coming months. A small
grant from the Ford Foundation to ACF will make this goal
possible. In addition, the Foundation will be more proactive
in our efforts to support issues and programmes on the island.
The Foundation has a growing interest in advocacy around issues
identified by the community.
In closing, we applaud all of the work of the Board of Directors
in helping to establish the Foundation, to create a new philanthropic
organization and to help us move through growing pains and
all of the issues it takes to create a new organization. We
are especially grateful for the leadership of Rhona Richardson,
our outgoing Chair. She has provided much needed support
and energy in getting the Foundation moving and established
on the island. We are delighted she will continue her
work with the Foundation. With new leadership under
Dr. Bonnie Richardson-Lake, ACF will continue our ongoing
mission to provide support to Anguilla’s civil society.
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