The Dayton Foundation: For Foundation Donors: Foundation Updates

Dayton Children’s CFO Joins Dayton Foundation’s Governing Board

The Dayton Foundation welcomes David T. Miller, vice president of Finance and chief financial officer for Dayton Children’s, to its Governing Board.

David Miller has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of finance and health care. Since joining Dayton Children’s in 1985, he has been responsible for all financial transactions and policies for the hospital and for The Children’s Medical Center Foundation.

In addition to serving on The Dayton Foundation’s Finance Committee since 2004, he is a member of the boards of CareSource and the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association. He previously served as a board member and chair for Kids Voting. In 2010, he was named CFO of the Year in the nonprofit health care category by Dayton Business Journal.

New Mobile Service Helps You Make Gifts on the Go

Making online gifts to charity just got easier with The Dayton Foundation’s new credit card gift page for mobile phones. You now can use your smart phone to make a gift with your VISA, Donors and organizations establish funds to help others MasterCard or American Express credit card to any Foundation fund or Charitable Checking Account^SM.

You may designate your gift in honor or memory of someone, and you can request to remain anonymous, if you so choose. It’s fast, easy and secure. Plus, your gift is fully tax deductible. Simply visit www.daytonfoundation.org on your smart phone, click “Give” then click “Donate Now.”

Save the Date! The Dayton Foundation’s Biggest Event!

Mark your calendars for 5 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, November 6, 2013, for the best party in Dayton and the Foundation’s largest event – the 2013 Triennial Meeting Celebration of The Dayton Foundation. To be held at the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, the event will include an exciting program in the Mead Theatre, followed by live music and a Wine and Light Supper Social in the Wintergarden.

Watch for more details in the summer issue of Good News. You won’t want to miss this one!

Foundation Wins Regional Awards for Outstanding Public Relations Activities

The Dayton Foundation was named a top award winner for excellence in public relations activities by the Dayton Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. The Foundation's Annual Report to the Community and Futures, the Foundation's newsletter for financial and estate planning advisors, both received PRism awards, top awards in their respective categories.

During the first half of 2012, The Dayton Foundation awarded more than $15.8 million in grants from donor funds to a wide variety of charitable organizations in the Greater Dayton Region and beyond. A portion of this amount was made through the Foundation’s discretionary grants program, which a number of donors have made possible by providing unrestricted or largely unrestricted funds to The Dayton Foundation to be able to act on opportunities for the community and address pressing needs throughout Greater Dayton.

Discretionary grants are approved by the Foundation’s Governing Board to promote efforts in the areas of arts and culture, health, education, human services, philanthropy and other community-building endeavors in Greater Dayton. Recently the Foundation made $386,050 in discretionary grants to assist the following organizations in helping Greater Dayton.

The Dayton Foundation has named Jerome F. Tatar, retired chairman of MeadWestvaco Corporation and former chairman, CEO and president of Mead Corporation, as the new chair of its Governing Board. Mr. Tatar has been a Governing Board member since 2004 and most recently chaired the Foundation's Grants and Programs Committee and served as the Board vice chair and member of the Executive Committee. He will serve an 18-month term as chair.

The new Board members are William L. Gillispie, retired deputy city manager for the City of Dayton, and Lisa E. Hanauer, owner and president of MED-PASS, Inc., which interprets governmental regulations and creates compliance records and resources for pharmacies, long-term care facilities, assisted living communities, home healthcare agencies and hospice providers.

For the eighth consecutive year, The Dayton Foundation has been named an award winner for excellence in communications by the international Wilmer Shields Rich Awards Program, sponsored by the Council on Foundations.

Competing against entrants from the largest of the more than 700 community foundations in the U.S. and abroad (community foundations over $250 million in assets), The Dayton Foundation received two 2011 Wilmer Shields Awards for Excellence, one for Good News, the Foundation’s general newsletter, and one for the Foundation’s 2009-2010 annual report.

The Dayton Foundation also has been honored with three awards for outstanding achievement in video production for its video, A Community is Defined by the Passion of Its People – Stories of Caring & Commitment. The video premiered at the Foundation’s 2010 Biennial Meeting Celebration and is posted online at www.daytonfoundation.org/videos.html and at www.youtube.com/The Dayton Foundation.

The Foundation received a Gold 2011 Hermes Creative Award and a 2011 Award of Distinction in the Videographer Awards competition. Both international awards programs are administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals.

The video also won a Bronze Award, the second highest honor, in the 32nd annual Telly Awards competition, which is judged by industry professionals, each of whom is a past Silver Telly winner, the program’s highest honor. The award recognizes outstanding video and film production, as well as local, regional and cable TV commercials and programs, and web commercials, videos and J. Norman Eckstein Ratna Palakodeti, M.D. films.