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Ethan Braunstein MD, Board Chair, Forest Highlands Foundation
Our feedback from these directors was that they were impressed by the penetrating questions and with the level of interest in their activities from our donors. We thank all of the volunteers for your participation and we hope to make this also an annual event. Our July meeting featured a presentation by Kathy Simmons, Director of Northland Hospice. Although there are five hospices in Flagstaff, Northland is the only one that is not for profit, and the Foundation has been a long tome supporter. In fact, it is only a slight exaggeration to say that, if it weren’t for the Hospice, there might not have been a Foundation. The Foundation was started 22 years ago, and it provided funding to support the Olivia White House at the Hospice. This facility was named after the relative of a Forest Highlands member who required care at the Hospice, and Olivia White House was built with funding from the Foundation. Olivia White House provides inpatient end of life care. The Hospice, being nonprofit, is available to anyone in the community who needs such care regardless of financial resources. Currently, about 40% of the patients are Native American. Today’s Foundation is proud to continue our traditional relationship with Northland Hospice. We’ll be back next month with further information about the Foundation’s activities. In the meantime, don’t forget to sign up for the Denise Martinez Memorial Golf Tournament.
As Forest Highlands is now in the midst of the summer season, the Foundation is entering its busiest time of the year. We have just completed our “horse trading”event with the Arizona Community Foundation, in which all the local charitable foundations gather to distribute funds to the nonprofits that have applied for grants. We’re happy to report that the meeting was very successful. We’ll have more information for you in next month’s column. I’ve mentioned Killip School in previous columns. Killip is a Title 1elementary school in Sunnyside, a disadvantaged neighborhood on the east side of Flagstaff, and nearly all of the students there are on the federal lunch program. Under the leadership of Ed Lesser and Jean Brown, the Foundation has provided backpacks and school supplies for all of the incoming kindergartners. We had a “backpack stuffing event” in which Foundation members and volunteers from the Forest Highlands community, well, stuffed backpacks with the supplies. The backpacks and supplies will be distributed to the children at the beginning of the school year. We hope that this will become an annual event.
We thank all of the volunteers ...
Some of you may have participated in our donor appreciation event at the Canyon Clubhouse. This party was a chance to thank all of our loyal donors and to have them interact with board members and the directors of some of the local organizations that we support.
Ethan Braunstein Board Chair, Forest Highlands Foundation
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