1 24 37 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/dae194aae7565d3e7ef929416efad07f.pdf 2cc99505b434dd6c71700aec05bab4a9 PDF Text Text Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Johnson Center Philanthropy Archives Johnson Center for Philanthropy Grand Valley State University Oral History Interview with Kathryn A. Agard, Ed.D., April 6, 2010 The Council of Michigan Foundations, Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University (GVSU), and GVSU Libraries’ Special Collections & University Archives Present: An oral history interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010. Conducted by Dr. James Smither of the History Department at GVSU. Recorded at the Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This interview is part of a series in the Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project documenting the history of philanthropy in Michigan. Preferred citation: Researchers wishing to cite this collection should use the following credit line: Oral history interview with Kathryn A. Agard, April 6, 2010. "Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project", Johnson Center Philanthropy Archives of the Special Collection & University Archives, Grand Valley State University Libraries. James Smither (JS): Today’s conversation is with Kathy Agard who is Executive Director of the Dorothy Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University. This oral history interview is being conducted for the Johnson Center as part of an ongoing series and the interviewer is James Smither of the History Department at Grand Valley State University. Alright, Kathy, can you start by giving us just a little bit of background on yourself? To begin with, where and when were you born? 00:00:25 Kathy Agard (KA): Sure, I was born, do I have to tell the date [laughter], in 1949 in Muskegon, Michigan. And my parents are there. We have lived there their whole lives. JS: Alright. And what did your family do for a living? KA: My dad worked in the shop. He worked at Camel White and Cannon as a tool filer and fitter. He had been a farm boy and had won a chicken scholarship, judging scholarship, to Michigan State University but he was from a big family of thirteen and Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 1 �after his freshman year they didn’t have money for him to be able to finish school, so he came back home, went to work, helped the other kids go through school and then stayed there the rest of his life. JS: Alright, and how many kids were in your family? 00:01:07 KA: Well in my family, there’s only two. I have an older brother and myself and then in his family there were thirteen and in my mother’s family there were seven. So they both came from big families. JS: But they downsized a little. And what kind of schooling did you have? KA: I went to, I was in the third graduating class from Mona Shores High School, which was a brand-new suburban high school that had just been built and it was the typical suburban high school I would say. We had a lot of advantages. One of the things that was fun about being in the third class was that there were lots of opportunities because everything was brand new. So we were setting the theme song, we were setting all of the colors, we were setting the mascot, we had all of that fun of setting up a brand new high school. JS: And when you were going through high school, was it your expectation that you were going to go on to college? 00:01:57 KA: Oh absolutely. Because of my dad’s experience, I never was, and I’m sure this story is very common, was one of those kids who never had the choice whether to go or not. It was where I was going to go or not. And then I had an unusual high school experience that probably helped to shape some of my own background, in that Mona Shores had a very unusual high school debate team. So I started debating when I was in the ninth grade and there were seventy-five kids on our debate team. And I debated all during high school ending up on a national championship team as a senior. And because of that, was able to get a scholarship to go to the college of my choice. My parents were really high on me going to community college for two years because of the money. So once I could prove that I could pay to go somewhere else, I was able to do that, which was nice. JS: And where did you want to go? 00:02:47 KA: I went to Albion College which is a small liberal arts Methodist college just down the road from Grand Rapids in Albion, Michigan. And I went there because it had beautiful gas lamps and because they gave me the money to be able to debate and had a national championship team at the time. JS: Alright and then what did you study while you were there? Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 2 �KA: I started out, I was going to be a high school debate coach because that’s what I knew. And about halfway through my schooling, about as a junior, I took my first political science course and I fell in love with political science. My dad had been very active politically on the local level. Part of the advantage of working at the shop was he was done at 2 o’clock in the afternoon and then he would start his real life. And so he was a volunteer fireman and my mother was the person who called the volunteer firemen before 9-1-1 existed and my brother was a volunteer fireman and my dad had been a founder of the city of Norton Shores, had been involved in a lot of political campaigns and so I ended up really falling in love with American political theory, had a great professor, took every course I possibly could get from him and my original intention was then to teach political science at, which would be civics at the high school level, and coach debate. And then when I graduated I found out that the combination in high school that you have to have as a teacher is English and debate not the civics and debate, so I never was able to find a high school teaching job. JS: At that point, was there not yet an expectation; you went through teacher certification process and extra certification or things like that? 00:04:25 KA: I went through…I was certified to teach at high school but I think I probably got frankly bad counseling. And because I had such a passion for political science, or I wasn’t listening, you know, I stayed on that track rather than picking up the English major. JS: So you were technically qualified to teach. The catch was that you didn’t have the right combination of fields to do what they wanted to hire. Now, what year did you finish college? KA: It would have been ’71. JS: Okay, well things are getting kind of interesting in the American political scene by then too. Antiwar protests going on, and a lot of other things going on at the same time. I mean did you get caught up in that yourself? 00:05:04 KA: Some. I considered it a very hard time to have been in college partly because I didn’t want to be involved politically. I wanted to learn. I thought, you know, I was so set to go to college and I had this vision of it being a place that would be safe and that I could go deep into a topic. I actually probably had an unusual experience. I suppose everyone in the sixties had an unusual experience, in that I wanted it to go away because I wanted to study and I was a serious student. Of course the University of Michigan was just down the road and a lot of that would fall over onto Albion or we would go back when there were protests. And there was a lot of protesting on campus. My graduation was very politicized. We had no senior year book because no one wanted to do it at the time. Everyone was too involved in things. And I suppose from that point of history the most memorable time for me was that one of my jobs, I had several on campus, was to be the Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 3 �telephone operator in our dorm which was a co-ed dorm, and the day of the first lottery I was working the telephone and watching the guys come up from the basement and tear up, and I actually tear up even thinking about it now, tearing up their all of their acceptances to medical school and to law school and to graduate school and having their moms call in tears saying, you know, “I’m really sorry you were born on this day because you were number one or number two for the draft.” I’ll never forget it. Those experiences go deep, I guess. JS: The draft itself is something that is now an unfamiliar experience to anyone not at least in their 40s, to have much clue of even what that was about. 00:06:44 KA: Yeah, that someone could come and say you have to go and that was the time. JS: And so of course, college students, in a lot of cases had deferments, or at least that was the principal. But… KA: These were the seniors. JS: So they were graduating. So they were, Uncle Sam could now catch up with them at that point. So you finished college. How long did you spend trying to find a teaching job? KA: Really my whole senior year, so just about a year. Then, I actually had fallen in love, which does, a woman’s job description ought to have a parallel line that says, you know, “fell in love, got married, husband decided to move, had a kid, had a child, had the next child, decided to move somewhere else…” because there’s this parallel structure going on in life. My husband was in the Air Force. He had been called up for the draft, had gone in for medical deferment, found out that his medical condition could in fact be fixed which was a big surprise the day before he was on his way to Detroit. So he ran and signed up right away for the Air Force and was a translator. He spent two years in Monterey, California in the language school and then a couple of years in Turkey as a Russian translator in the security service. So the timing was such that when I graduated, he was on the, just getting done with his tour and so we were planning on getting married. My first job really was hanging out at Albion as an admissions counselor and basically, I was hanging out to get married. It was an interesting job. I didn’t know what else I was going to do. I couldn’t find a teaching job and so this seemed like a fun thing to do. I went and talked to high school students about going to college. JS: Alright so you do that for a year and then what? 00:08:31 KA: Well, we decided, he decided to use his G.I. Bill to go back to school. So he went to Hope College. We were married. We were there for his last two years and again I was basically just looking for a job and I was hired that summer as a social worker for a woman who had just had a pregnancy leave. I, of course, knew nothing about social work but I was hired as a social work replacement for the regional center for people with Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 4 �disabilities, to help to, this is when Michigan was de-institutionalizing a lot of people and so my job was to make the connection from the institution back to the home community when mental health agencies were first being set up, and to begin to look at what kind of supports could be given to populations as they were returning home. So I did that for the summer and then when my husband went to Hope, as it turned out Ottawa County’s Mental Health was just getting organized and they hired me because I had a relationship with the institution that was sending people to their community. So while I was there, I developed their Life Consultation Center which is meant to be a lifelong support system for families when there’s a child with disabilities. I worked with the hospitals setting up those connections. I did a lot of getting volunteers involved in mentoring and support for families, and working with older families who never expected that their loved one would be coming home again. If you can imagine at the age of seventy, when you’ve put a child in an institution at birth to suddenly have that child be coming home to live with you was really quite traumatic for families and so we were doing a lot of support for them JS: What kind of instruction or guidance or direction did you get while you were doing this? 00:10:23 KA: [laughter] None. It’s my favorite kind of a job actually, which is make it up as you go along. I think I was well served by Albion in terms of having a general education so I knew how to learn and I knew how to teach myself. And so I would just go talk to people and I would go read things. I would go to conferences and basically just picked it up as I went along. JS: So maybe, even that initial counseling experience, or just going and talking to people and meeting people you don’t know, sort of ties in with that. KA: It does. Yeah, I think it does. I would say most of my life, and this is probably, I feel fairly fearless about those kinds of things. That given some time I can figure it out, and so it wasn’t scary. It was just a matter of trying to get in there and figure it out and do the best I could with it. JS: Do you think that if you were today starting out with that kind of thing, in the world, society and government and things the way they are, could you do the same thing as easily? Could you just walk in and create programs? 00:11:26 KA: Well, probably not because the regulatory environment is much - right then was one of those moments in history where no one knew what should happen, and the surface reasons for deinstitutionalizing people were about great values: about that it’s better to be treated closer to home, it’s better to mainstream people with disabilities so that they have a more normal life circumstance. The reality was that the real reasons were dollars, and promises were made that money would follow the patients and that never happened. And so, at that point, it was a bit of a mess in terms of nobody really knew how to make it Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 5 �happen. So there’s an opportunity in that then to create what you think ought to happen. I had that chance to do that. JS: Alright. Now, how long did you stay with that work? 00:12:17 KA: I was there two years, the same two years my husband was in school and then we had our first child, my son, and moved back to Muskegon. And I was then, worked for Muskegon Community Mental Health, doing the same job now for Muskegon County. So I worked for mental health there for about two years and then had my daughter, had a second child. And then we were trying to figure out what to do with our lives, and my husband said “Well, why don’t I go back, since I have this great Russian language background, why don’t I go back and get a Ph.D. in Russian language and be a business translator?” So this sounded like a good plan. So we sold the house, packed up the kids and went to the University of Michigan, lived in married housing. My son started kindergarten there and again I was looking for a job. Oh, I missed a step. I missed a step. I’ll go back. JS: That’s alright. 00:13:07 KA: When we were in Muskegon, for about three years, I had worked as the, I was home with the kids a little while, about 2 years, and while I was home, I decided to go back and get a Master’s degree because I was not happy being home just with the kids. So I went back at night and got a Master’s degree in Public Administration because it was the closest thing to what I thought I was interested in which is this community organizing, world changing, you know, point of view. And so I went back to get the Master’s degree and while I was home one of my friends called and said well there’s an opening as the Director of Planned Parenthood in Muskegon so I took a job as a half time director of the Planned Parenthood affiliate there and then finished up my Master’s degree and then we decided that we would move. So when we moved to Ann Arbor, they had an opening in the regional office of Planned Parenthood Federation of America doing multi-state technical assistance for the nonprofit organizations. So I had a great background in terms of professional development. They did a good job with things like risk management, and human resource development, and board development and all of the things it takes to run a nonprofit. And then I was in a training position at that point, and I think that’s when I really became fascinated with how nonprofit organizations operate, and became very interested in the organizational theory underneath them. JS: Let’s plug in a couple more pieces here. Where did you get your Master’s degree from? KA: Oh, Western Michigan University because it was the closest campus available at the time. JS: And did you have to commute down to Kalamazoo to take the courses? Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 6 �KA: About half and half. I had half here and I had half at Western that I would commute down. I was one of those people who left work at 5 o’clock got to school at 7 o’clock, tried to stay awake until 9:30 and then drove home and got home at 11:30. 00:15:04 JS: Alright, and Planned Parenthood, at that point in time, we’re kind of getting at early to mid 70s here? KA: Yes. JS: Was their principal activity largely promoting knowledge and education of birth control or were they involved in abortion issues at that point? KA: I was right at the transition. It was primarily related to birth control and my real interest going in was around zero population growth. I was very concerned about, having read the books about, you know, what I would say are environmentalists by ilk and we were very concerned about how many children can this world actually support. And so I went in it from that point of view and about half way through, I ended up spending about ten years in Planned Parenthood, about halfway through was when Faye Wattleton came in as president, and there was much more of an emphasis on abortion rights. But of course the abortion, the Roe v. Wade happened in ’72 so it was a year after I graduated from college, and really, it was sort of amid the midstream, that the idea of protecting abortion rights actually started to take hold. So I was in Planned Parenthood as a Director in Philadelphia, moving forward a little bit, during the Reagan years and we literally had a GAO auditor who had an office right next to mine who would sit and watch all of our books and everything that we did. We got to know him so well we would like hold birthday parties for his kids [laughter] because he was there all the time. We decided it would be better to include him than not to include him. 00:16:35 JS: Alright, so let’s kind of follow your itinerary a little bit. You’ve gone out; you’ve been at the University of Michigan. How long were you in Ann Arbor? KA: We were in Ann Arbor about a year and a half. My husband, as he went through it, he was expecting to learn to be a translator, to deepen is knowledge in terms of translation. The University of Michigan teaches the history of Russian in English and so it was not the program that he thought he was going to get. And so he said to me “You know, I don’t know what I’m going to do. Why don’t you go ahead and do what you want to do and I’ll figure it out.” And so we, I then went as the Associate Director of Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia which is a multi-county… there were fourteen birth control clinics for example. It was a big organization. And then he came along and he stayed home and then took some photography classes, and tried to figure out what he wanted to do with his life. So he was the stay at home dad and I was the working mom at a time when that was not, it was new. It was the leading edge I would say of that kind of lifestyle. Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 7 �JS: Alright, then how long did you spend in Philadelphia? 00:17:44 KA: I think it was about four years and I really became tired a) of always being on the front lines because it was a top-ten media market. Always being on the top, the front lines on the abortion issue because it’s not my favorite issue to be advocating. And we also decided that we wanted our children to be raised in the Midwest. There’s a different style from the East coast than the Midwest, and we wanted our kids to be around their grandparents and their cousins. And so we actually made one of those choices where we stood in the kitchen one day and said let’s go home, and sold the house, no jobs, came back, just shipped the kids and everybody came back home. So I was literally looking for a job. And a hospital there, a local hospital, had had a number of years where they had had fairly bad publicity, and because I had had so much PR experience in Philadelphia, they hired me on as a public relations director. Again, I knew nothing about public relations. I remember bringing in the, one of our guys who was working on our brochures. One afternoon I said, “Okay, now I need to know everything you can tell me about print media and I have about an hour and a half.” [laughter] And, you know, only later did I realize what an outrageous question that was. But you know I did the job as public relations and then I was promoted there to be vice president of planning, so I did their planning and their marketing and handled the volunteers, and was their lobbyist for about six years at Hackley Hospital in Muskegon. And while I was there, they had this great benefit that they paid for higher education. So I was going to go back and get a second Masters in health administration when my advisor at Western said why don’t you get the Doctorate in public administration that we have. So I started in the D.P.A. program, and that was held in Lansing and I did that for two years and decided I didn’t like it because it was mainly about state government. And at this point in my life, I knew what I wanted to learn, and I didn’t know where I could get it. I wanted a place like the Johnson Center and it didn’t exist. So I went back and I took six months off and then I went into the Ed school at Western because it had the most electives of any of the doctoral programs. And I was able to, I sat through the higher-ed finance courses that you have to, but then I was able to pick and choose from the university what courses I wanted to take. I really knew what I wanted to learn so I was able to piece together really my own doctorate. 00:20:16 JS: So you were kind of in a program geared towards people who were superintendents and things like that, and to what degree did you sort of fit in or not with the people who were in your classes? KA: Not at all. In fact my dissertation took me about ten years. And the reason was that I was educating my committee all the time because they were not in that discipline, in fact no one was in that discipline. And I was trying to say to them, you know there is this whole field called nonprofit, and so I had two educators and a political scientist on my committee that I’m not sure, I think the only reason that I actually got my dissertation Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 8 �was that my chairman wanted to retire, and he finally one day said to me “We need to wrap this up.” And I thought this sounds like a good thing. Let’s wrap this up. JS: What kind of schedule did you have while you were doing that because you’re having to juggle dissertation, work and everything else? 00:21:04 KA: Yes, It was a lot. I mean not only was I working full time at the hospital but then two days a week I was driving to Lansing for classes during the early part of this, and then when I left the hospital, I had finished my coursework at Western, and was ready to start my dissertation work, and I decided that I was tired of hospital work. And I actually had an interview here to come in as a faculty member in the Communications school. In the morning I had that interview and I met with the Dean at noon, and then at 1 o’clock I met with this woman named Dorothy Johnson. And I asked Dottie, I talked to Dottie. One of my friends said that before you take the job at Grand Valley you have to talk to Dottie cause she has a job that should be interesting. So I met Dottie and she said to me, why don’t, I have this job its doing organizational development work for community foundations. I didn’t know what a community foundation was, but she said, “And it will only be three years. You’ll learn about foundations which will be interesting and then you can go teach at Grand Valley.” So I said okay, I’ll do that. And that was a twenty year span that I spent at the Council of Michigan Foundations. So while I left the hospital I went to the Council of Michigan Foundations and then while I was there was when I did my dissertation work. JS: Alright. Explain a little bit, what is the Council of Michigan Foundations. 00:22:25 KA: Yes, the Council of Michigan Foundations is a membership association of the foundations in the state of Michigan that make grants. So you might, for example, have a school foundation that raises money for a school, they would not be members of the Council of Michigan Foundations. So it’s Kellogg, Kresge, Mott, all of the community foundations, corporate grant makers like Steelcase, and what they have in common is their role as grant makers. And it was founded in ’69 following the ’69 Tax Act. Because, at that point, Congress had put a lot of restrictions on foundations, and the foundations came together to act politically to begin to roll back some of those restrictions that had been placed on them. JS: What kinds of restrictions had been placed on them? 00:23:09 KA: Well, it was interesting. Partly it goes back further to the 60s, in that the Ford Foundation had been using its money to register voters in the south, and the Congress did not like the fact that all of these black folks who hadn’t ever been able to vote, suddenly were able to vote, knew where to vote, knew that they had the right to vote. And so Congress got upset with Ford about that. And then they also got upset with Ford because they had put majority ownership of the company into the foundation so that it couldn’t be Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 9 �touched by anybody else coming in wanting to buy the foundation, I’m sorry, buy the company. So they called in Ford and the Ford president, at the time, said to them, “Who are you? You have no right to control us. We were here before you were. The nonprofit sector existed before government did in this country.” And we both argue over the Mayflower Compact, whether it was government [laughter], whether it was a nonprofit association and Congress said, here’s who we are. So they put a whole bunch of restrictions. One of the restrictions was, for example, they required a payout that if you’re having a private foundation that gets tax advantage, you have to give some of the money away. You just can’t sit on it. They put restrictions on the amount of money that can be spent on your own overhead or on travel, on what they call self-dealing, so you can’t hire your own children at exorbitant salaries. And there were, in fact, abuses at the time. So the regulations weren’t unwarranted, and the field, the mature part of the field like the Council of Michigan Foundations, when they responded, basically said some of this we like, some of it we think went too far. Let’s roll back what we think went too far. And some of that was taxation that they thought would erode the value of the asset over time. And so what they did instead was they rolled back some of the requirement for payout and then they gave, private foundations gave some of the money to the IRS to help support regulating the industry. So the Council of Michigan Foundations started out very small and ended up, and still is the largest association of its kind in the country, and is a national leader. JS: Alright, and now what range of things did you do for them? 00:25:30 KA: I had a little project that was going to be three years and it was funded by the Kellogg Foundation, and it was to encourage the foundations to engage young people under the age of 21 as grant makers. This was really the beginning of youth empowerment and the healthy youth, where instead of always looking at young people as problems or always looking for distress in young people, the Kellogg Foundation’s philosophy was, you know, young people are very strong, very healthy, very smart. Let’s use that energy now. Let’s not wait for them as potential leaders. Let’s use it currently. And so the community foundations, and at the time there were about thirteen of them in Michigan, got together through the Council of Michigan Foundations and asked the Kellogg Foundation for a grant to build youth advisory committees, and also to help them build their assets. At the same time, there was new research coming out of Boston College, that talked about the largest inter-generational transfer of wealth in the history of mankind which is the fact of course that the United States had the only major industrial economy in the world post WWII for lots of years. So there’s a generation that had a tremendous amount of wealth, and still is in the process of transferring that over to their children who are now in their fifties and sixties. I mean the children are getting up there. But that, there was a lot of conversation in the field about, Muskegon is a good example, about how at one point in time, Muskegon had more millionaires than anywhere else in the country, post the cutting of all the white pine, and that money totally dissipated. And it would, we think how could we go from being one of the most wealthy places in the world, to having almost nothing in a couple three generations. So the community Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 10 �foundations were talking how do we capture some portion of this intergenerational transfer of wealth, and keep it working in our communities forever? So Kellogg gave this grant. We tested this theory that young people would be good grant makers, and what we found out was that they were fabulous grant makers, and we went back to Kellogg and said we think we now have a model. What if we do this in a big way? And the proposal that we gave to Kellogg was they should invest sixty million dollars over five years as challenges to Michigan’s communities, and we promised that we would cover the state of Michigan with community foundation service, and that every community foundation would have a youth advisory committee that would have real power over money, not just advisory power, and that they, we would bring each organization up to a minimum level of organizational viability. So for the next six years that was my job. I would drive into little towns in Michigan and I would say, have you ever heard of a community foundation? Let me tell you about it. I have a million dollars in Kellogg challenge for you if you can raise two million dollars, and one of your commitments has to be that forever there will be an advisory committee of young people. And Kellogg’s million dollars would go into that fund that the young people would advise on the giving, so that young people would be giving away fifty or sixty thousand dollars a year of interest earnings on that endowment, and then the money that was raised locally, the two million to match it would be unrestricted or very broadly restricted, so the community could make decisions about urgent needs. 00:29:02 JS: Now, when you’re saying young people, what age range are we talking about? KA: Under the age of twenty-one. Most of them were high-schoolers, and most of the community foundations made the decision to try to build community capital in that generation by having young people from various schools. And we used to have a phrase that would say leave your letter jacket at the door because when you come into the room you need to be looking at the whole community not just your own high school, and would engage young people then from every high school in the community. And then Kellogg really encouraged us, and smartly so, to encourage young people and bring them in, draw in young people who were not the normal kids that you might put on that kind of committee, particularly if you were concerned about handing them fifty thousand dollars a year. So we would go after the kids who might be leaders but are leading in the wrong way...kids smashing mailboxes. You know, they haven’t murdered anybody but they were headed the wrong direction. And we have fabulous stories of young people that this experience helped to turn around, because it was the first time adults had ever given them real authority and real responsibility to make decisions. And what we found was that the youth committees were incredibly honest outside of the normal politics of the community. So they didn’t care who you were that was asking for money and then they would ask hard questions. Can’t you get this copying done somewhere else? Why are you spending $5.50 on postage when you could hand deliver it cheaper? Really, I have great stories of one sheriff that, the Grand Haven Community Foundation is right next door to the Council of Michigan Foundations, so one day we were coming in, all of us, and the local sheriff was standing in the hallway, shuffling papers and looking nervous and we Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 11 �said well, we know, hi. How are you? What are you doing? I have this proposal to make to the youth committee and I’m really afraid they’re not going to fund it. They’re going to ask me hard questions. And they did. I mean, they were really terrific. And that still is going on. That is a forever commitment on the part of the Community Foundations. 00:31:15 JS: Is that something you find across Michigan in a lot of different communities? KA: Oh yes. We met our goals. Every community is now covered by a community foundation. Almost all of them have a youth advisory committee, and almost all of them are doing well. They have had a professional staff. They’ve begun to grow and they’ve begun to capture some of this inter-generational transfer of wealth. JS: And the youth committees themselves. Are they still kind of made up of the same kind of people or have they gotten more conventional over time? KA: Well, you know, I don’t know. I haven’t watched them lately. But my guess is that those who, not every committee ended up doing unconventional kids, but those who did have stayed that way. One of them, for example, held their meeting at Juvenile Justice Hall up at Traverse City because the chair of the committee had been picked up for grand theft auto. [laughter] So a really nice car that he thought he’d like to take for a spin and ended up having his committee there. But many of them, of the kids have ended up, who would not have normally gone on to school, or even those who had other career paths, have changed their career path because of this experience of being able to give away money. JS: Alright. So that’s kind of the first thing that you go and develop for the Michigan Foundations and what does that grow into or lead in to? 00:32:34 KA: Well, it led a lot of, it led into a lot of different things and one of them that it led into was that, we became–we do a summer camp for the young people because we were, actually we weren’t, but a lot of the community foundation board members, who as you can imagine are the bankers and the lawyers and the more conservative people in the community, were concerned about turning a million dollars over to a group of seventeen year olds. And so we would have a summer camp every summer for the young people and begin to talk with them about grantmaking, about evaluating budgets, you know, what kind of questions to ask. And at this summer camp what we began to realize is that they didn’t have the background or the depth of background, they didn’t have a language, they didn’t have a way to think about the nonprofit sector. And on a parallel course to this project was the development of the IU Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University which was really the first big academic center that began to consciously build a field of study. So they had a historian looking at the history of philanthropy, they have an economist looking at the economics; they have a geographer looking at the spread. I mean they really took all of the major academic Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 12 �disciplines and said, okay let’s put our focus and really begin to build a field of knowledge. So that was happening at the same time, and as we were working with the young people we thought we ought to be teaching them all of this great material that’s being created, and the Johnson Center started, sort of, in the middle of all of this. And so we looked at whether we could infuse into the curriculum of the K-12 school, the teaching of philanthropic principals. That was my next project for the Council of Michigan Foundations. I had gotten tired of doing workshops and seminars on Saturdays and evenings which was when the Community Foundation boards are available, and so really my passion has been around these ideas, so we created this project called Learning to Give. And it was taking the content, the graduate level at this point, content on philanthropy and looking at where the connections were kindergarten through 12th grade, and knowing that the teachers have way too much to teach K-12 than they possibly have time to do. That we couldn’t add another course called Philanthropy, and actually we thought that probably wasn’t the smartest way to do it because philanthropy is woven throughout our culture. So we took a look at everything that’s taught and said, how can we begin to infuse philanthropic messages? And so we started with the social studies because they are our most natural home. So we started with history and geography and civics and began to look at every place that’s taught. And we would, again I went to teachers and said I don’t know anything about your lives in the classroom. You’re the experts on that but we have this content. We think it’s really important because our thesis, at the time, was that having knowledge about the sector, also would have an impact on student behavior, because people would begin to think of themselves as philanthropists, students would. We had a group of thirty-five teachers from various ages and various kinds of schools who helped to shape the curriculum and we built a whole standards and benchmarks and learning outcomes for philanthropy K-12. And then off of that we built a set of classroom lessons, lesson plans, and because of Kellogg’s support they were always, they are currently still all available for free to teachers on the website and they’ve all been recently coded to every set of state standards. So a teacher, a third grade teacher, I want to teach about the Underground Railroad, I can go online and find a lesson plan that talks about the Underground Railroad because it’s required by my state, and on the M.E.A.P. test, but this lesson plan talks about the fact that they were all volunteers, and who were the abolitionists and how did they organize themselves, and why do they think they have a right to confront government, and who were the Underground Railroad conductors, and what was this role as volunteers that they held? So we tried to take this theory of philanthropy in every single thing that was taught. The next big area we picked up was English, because there’s a lot of philanthropy in the normal books that are taught in all the way through the K-12 curriculum. And then we did a high school level text book that has been out there. I don’t know how many copies they’ve sold but it’s available and available online and that project is still continuing. 00:37:26 JS: Now, a text book in philanthropy or is it an English textbook that has philanthropy in it? Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 13 �KA: It’s a textbook in philanthropy, but the chapters are in civics. So it’s philanthropy in history—American history, philanthropy in U.S.—in world history, philanthropy in government, philanthropy in world government, world governments, politically plural, philanthropy in geography, and so we went—I think it’s a seven chapter book. It was about the discipline that is required to be taught in high school, but it’s from the philanthropic slant. JS: You’re combining the different disciplines in the one volume? KA: Yes. It’s one volume. JS: Is that designed actually for student use or for teachers? KA: We did both a student volume and then we did a teacher volume. And of course at high school it’s a little difficult because the teachers are in their own slot; you know they don’t teach across the disciplines. But it was cheaper to do them as one volume for each, so there’s a teacher guide and a student textbook. JS: Was there any way to measure the extent to which anybody is using it? 00:38:33 KA: Only on the sales and I don’t think it has sold very well. Most people are going to the website and downloading lesson plans, and they were downloadable so that, every classroom, they always want to make them their own, so you can download the lesson plan into a word document and then actually manipulate it and add your own content. JS: Are the lesson plans set up to be geared towards specific topics that are in these different fields? You mentioned the Underground Railroad for example. You’re trying to look for material on the Underground Railroad that you can go use in your class. You can find this and in its design to work for them that it has the philanthropic part of it emphasized or woven into it. KA: There’s a search engine and you can search by academic strand or requirement. So like the Underground Railroad, that’s how you would search, or you can search by philanthropic topic, or you can search by grade level, or you can search by keyword. So it has a lot of ways to be able to get at the material. JS: Have you got then additional programs or initiatives, or kind of what after you’ve developed this, what then did you kind of get into? 00:39:41 KA: I was there ten years. That was a long haul for me. That was ten years. And we were ready to take it to, we were beta testing it in Michigan, with the idea that it would be a national model, and we were looking for ways to make it national. And there are all kinds of issues, as you can imagine, between being able to do something in depth in one state, versus trying to go broad in multiple states, especially in K-12 education because it’s Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 14 �state by state. I had a very wonderful group of advisors, Michigan advisors. And I bet we looked for two years about how to take it national, when a young guy came in who has done these kinds of projects before, and he was very interested in service learning, which would be a teaching methodology for all of this content. And he had asked if we couldn’t partner in it. As we talked more and more with them, we decided that we would merge Learning to Give with this project called The League. And that we would be the academic content, and then he would have a sort of jazzy marketing. And it allows, what happens is there’s a calendar during the year in The League, that starts with a fall cleanup and then young people earn so many points for doing these kinds of acts of kindness and philanthropy. And so they would learn about it in their classroom and then they would go out and do the service learning and get points for it and then they would be set up in leagues and there would be league play and national reporting on it. And I think maybe this spring will be the first time in Parade Magazine they’re going to start to talk about how The League is doing in different parts of the country. So it’s gone to that level. So we were ready to, we merged with them; we were ready for it to go national. The organizational role was that I would become the chief operating officer and Bill would be the CEO and then I decided that I a) didn’t want to be a chief operating officer. That’s not really my good skills. And that I was at a point in my life where I didn’t want to do a national launch because it would mean not only working hard but traveling a lot nationally. And this job was open at the Johnson Center, so every time it has been open I would lay it face down on my desk and I would look at it and think, ooh, that’s a really nice job. I really like that job. And this is the first time that it’s happened to be open at a time when I could leave a project and it’s just a place where I wanted to be so I was fortunate enough to come here. JS: And then when was that exactly when you started? 00:42:10 KA: Four years ago in April. So I’ve just been here four years JS: Alright. Now tell us a little bit just about the Johnson Center itself for people outside of here. What is it designed to do? What is its function? What kind of function does it have? KA: Yes. We’re one of forty-four, what are called academic centers on philanthropy, that are university-based. We’re probably the second or the third largest depending on what you count, and we’re maybe the second or the third oldest depending on which programs you count. Often some of the programs are a faculty member or two, who have had an interest in philanthropy and have built their own scholarly work in that field. But once those faculty members retire, probably that program will go away. So the Johnson Center is different in that we’re institutional. And it really doesn’t matter who’s here. The institution will continue because the university and the Kellogg Foundation have both made a commitment to it. So we started when Kellogg looked at the IU Center and said we really like what’s happening there. We’d like one of these for the state of Michigan. And the president of the Kellogg Foundation at the time, Russ Mawby, brought together all of the university presidents from the state of Michigan, had a meeting, and said we Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 15 �would like to fund one of these, but university, we want you to make a commitment of money, and a real commitment that you will develop a center. And of the fourteen universities, two put in proposals and Grand Valley’s was the strongest so it ended up at Grand Valley. There was a $990,000 challenge grant from Kellogg matched by $900,000 from Grand Valley which launched the Center. So in our early years, the first director, Thom Jeavons, again this was the start of service learning, he really stressed bringing service learning to the faculty members at Grand Valley, trying to introduce this as teaching methodology, as a pedagogy, and that they would begin to embrace it. He left and our second director was Dott Freeman and she came out of the corporate philanthropy side of the family, and so she was really stressing work with corporations. And then when she left one of the faculty members from our School of Public Administration, Donna VanIwaarden, came, and Donna was the third director and really stressed more of the scholarship and the research. At that same time, Joel Orosz, who had been the head of the program officer for philanthropy and volunteerism at Kellogg, came here as our distinguished professor, and really helped to launch the Center as a national presence. Before that, we were pretty Grand Valley and pretty West Michigan focused. And Donna, because of her ties in the community, launched one of our main services which is the Community Research Institute. So taking them kind of one a time, the Community Research Institute, the Grand Rapids Community Foundation wanted to do data-based decision-making and they had to make a choice, do we build this capacity inside our own organization or do we build it at Grand Valley, so it’s available to everyone? And they made the choice to do it at Grand Valley. So the Community Research Institute started doing research first for the Grand Rapids Community Foundation, and now we do it for most of the foundations in West Michigan. And we’re looking, it makes us a little different from the other centers on philanthropy, because they’re looking at doing research about the sector, so their research says how many volunteers are there, how much are people giving, what kinds of organizations are in the sector. Our research is more research for the sector. So we’re looking at what are the rates of child abuse, then giving that information to the nonprofit organizations, so they can use that data to make data-based decision-makings, working with the food pantries to find out where is hunger. And we do a lot of geo-coding and mapping, so where does hunger exist in West Michigan? And then we work with the food pantries to help them look at where they should be delivering services. So that’s the Community Research Institute. 00:46:24 JS: So you have, sort of, organizations or groups or whatever, who have an idea, they think they want to help in a particular sector or do something but they’re not sure where exactly to put the money. This information helps them figure out how to do that. KA: We’ll do regular program evaluations, so some of them get grants and we do the program evaluation for them. But the more interesting work is this work, and the food pantries is a good example. We did research about where do senior citizens live in Kent County, who are hungry, who need food support. And then on the geo-mapping what we overlaid were the pockets of concentration of those populations, and then we overlaid Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 16 �what are the public transportation routes, and then we overlaid where are the food centers, so where can they get food. And immediately, you can look at the map and say, Oh my gosh. Here’s a group of senior citizens who don’t have access to transportation and who don’t have access to food support. And then we can take that and work with the food pantries and they, we would then overlay where are the churches and synagogues and religious communities, and where are the schools, the elementary and public schools. So the pantries could begin to say, who could be our natural partner where we could deliver service and we do that kind of work for foundations and for nonprofits all the time. And so that’s the Community Research Institute. When Joel came in, we really became involved in providing support and doing research and training for foundations, for grantmaking foundations. And that again makes us very different from our peers because most of the other academic centers don’t touch the grant maker’s side of the family at all. We launched The Grantmaking School, which is a national school to help grant makers learn their craft. A problem for grant makers is that most of them when they’re hired are hired, because they have deep content knowledge. They may be the premier water quality person in the world, and the Annenberg Foundation can hire them. They’re hired; they know everything there is to know about fresh water quality in rivers in the upper Midwest. So they have this deep, deep content knowledge and suddenly their job is to look at budgets, and make decisions about how the money ought to be given away, and how do I strategically look at six grants to make sure that they interact with one another. In some ways, it’s a difficult job in that the person loves the content, and often they’re making grants to people who have very good project ideas, and they have to say no to more than, what ninety percent of them. So they’re saying no to things that they care about to people who know are doing really good work, and they have to say no just because there’s not enough money to go around. And they really need help. And what is this transition from being, from having deep content knowledge to being the person who’s giving the money away, and we do that in The Grantmaking School. We do that all over the country, we do it in major cities, and that part’s been going pretty well. 00:49:26 JS: How would you characterize your own job description right now? What is it that you do here day-to-day? KA: What do I do here? A little bit of everything. It’s a cook and bottle washer kind of job. I raise money. I do strategic planning. I have, there are seven program directors. I have a lot of staff supervision. I handle all of the, or most of the relationships, relationship building, I would say both within the university and outside in the community. Because we are not an academic center, in a sense that we don’t give the degrees. You know, the School for Public Administration is the place that actually gives the degrees. So I partner, we partner with them. We have a lot of graduate students working here, and a lot of what I do is trying to keep it all headed the right way, you know, as things pull you other directions and to be able to raise the money to be able to support it. We’re mainly supported by outside money to a great extent. Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 17 �The other, the third thing we do is, so that we don’t loose that piece, is that we also do training and support for nonprofit organizations. Grand Rapids had a program called the Direction Center. It was one of the first in the country that had been designed and funded by the area foundations to support nonprofits, and it was supposed to become selfsufficient but they never could charge enough to be able to do that. So when it failed, it came into the Johnson Center, and we still do a lot of training on how to be a nonprofit board member, how to be a CEO, and mainly we’re doing that for smaller, midsized nonprofits. Spectrum Health doesn’t need our help. They go and hire whoever they want. It’s the women’s shelter, it’s the neighborhood association, it’s the Paws for a Cause, it’s all of the, you know, it’s Latin Americans for Progress, those kind of organizations who are coming to us for assistance. 00:51:22 JS: Alright, now, to back up a little bit in another section. You talked about the Johnson Center being created and so forth. When this got set up at Grand Valley who was instrumental in terms making that happen? Was this one of these ideas that captured President Lubbers’ imagination? KA: Yes. It was launched from Russ Mawby, the president of the Kellogg Foundation, whose, I would say his 30 year tenure at Kellogg would be typified by being a builder of the infrastructure organizations to support the whole sector. That’s really how he’s known. And so when he launched it, he made the offer to President Lubbers, who had the right kind of entrepreneurial spirit and the vision to be able to say, I could see what this would look like twenty years from now. We’ll be twenty years old two years from now. So that was a natural, a natural combination, and the university has continued to be extremely supportive, even as Kellogg’s support has gone up and down. The university built this new space for us, and built it to our specifications. They want it to a place where the community comes in and interacts with the university. So we’ve been very fortunate to have the kind of support that we do. 00:52:35 JS: Okay. What’s the relationship with the Johnson family? KA: Oh, yes. What happened was that when Dottie Johnson retired from the Council of Michigan Foundations, they were looking for a way to honor her at that point twenty-five years of service. And she really had built the Council of Michigan Foundations from nothing. She was at half time in a closet, basically when she started it. And is a well known national leader; she started the Foundation Center, she was involved with the Council on Foundations, was on the Corporation for National Community Service Board. When Dottie retired, we were trying to, I was at CMF at the time, we were trying to find a way to honor her. And the thought was that we could talk with the university, because her family’s been involved and she’s been involved with Grand Valley, about naming the Center after her. So the CEO at that time of the Council of Michigan Foundations, Rob Collier, raised the money to be able to bring over all of the library resources of the Council of Michigan Foundations, and a half a million dollar endowment for the library, and then the name, the Center was named in her honor. And no one deserves it better. She Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 18 �really has been a great leader both for Grand Valley and for the field. Now, the materials that came over, some of them were videotapes, original videotapes of people like Mr. Kresge talking about his philanthropy that are irreplaceable, and those are all out at the archives. So this tape that we’re doing is a part of a continuing effort to say, let’s capture this rich Michigan history. Michigan is known nationally as being a very unusual state because we’re so well, our philanthropic community is so well organized and works so well together that we’re somewhat the envy of the rest of the country and we want to capture some of those stories. 00:54:33 JS: Alright. And finally, I would like to ask where do you see this particular center going after the next decade or so? What are you going to be trying to accomplish from here? KA: I had three goals when I started. One was our own building, a twenty million endowment, and a Ph.D. So far I have the building. (laughter) I would like to see us selfsufficient, on our own, so if we were self-sufficient with an endowment, a large endowment, then we would be able to continue to help these smaller organizations that have no where else to go, and I, we’re continuing to do that even though that’s the part of our budget that struggles. And the reason is that I think that it keeps us honest. It’s very easy to come into a very nice building and a very nice university and be taken care of, and forget what its like to run the neighborhood association where you can’t get a copy machine and you don’t know how you’re going to pay people for the next payroll. And so I want us to stay rooted deeply in the community and to become a place where nonprofit leaders can always come and always feel supported and that they’re getting the knowledge that they need. We, in partnership with the School for Public Administration, are just proposing a new Master’s degree in philanthropy that we’re hoping that we can launch in the fall. And that would be a first step towards the possibility of a Ph.D. Now, Grand Valley is not a Ph.D. granting institution, so I’ve been talking with IU about whether we could do their Ph.D. here by extension. Or there is some conversation on campus about an Ed.D. and if we did an Ed.D. whether there could be a major in philanthropy and nonprofits, because where our counter part academic centers are really focused on producing academic research and academic practitioners and faculty members for centers on philanthropy, we are much more applied and so the Ed.D. would make sense for us because we would be preparing, what I call reflective practitioners, people who want to be out in the field running nonprofits but also want to do it with, within the scope and scale of a discipline and with deep knowledge about what they’re doing, and I can see us preparing that kind of a professional here and would like us to be on the cutting edge of that. 00:56:53 JS: Alright. Now let’s see. Do you think that there is anything significant about what you’ve done in your career that we’ve managed to leave out at this point? KA: No. The kids grew up. My husband became a teacher [laughter], a sixth grade science teacher. So yes, the life went on, but yes, I think that’s a good coverage. Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 19 �JS: Alright. Well, thank you very much then. KA: Thank you, Jim. Good. Oral History Interview with Kathy Agard, April 6, 2010 20 � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/aa10b790082faa25d40504056ef5df6d.mp4 83a33cc988eafb1345a03dcdec8986fc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Stover-Cummings Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Betsy Upton-Stover and Julie Fisher Cummings Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Upton-Stover, Betsy Fisher Cummings, Julie Description An account of the resource Betsy Upton Stover, trustee of the Frederick S. Upton Foundation in St. Joseph, Michigan, and Julie Fisher Cummings, trustee of the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation in Southfield, Michigan talk about the influence each of their philanthropic fathers had on their lives and personal philanthropy. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Frederick S. Upton Foundation Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-24 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/1dd77b5950d3d5f05e9b3bf33df74329.pdf f6146302710f3da52a97b21c7a8941fd PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Bruce Fetzer Interviewer: Mike Gergeley Date: 10/17/06 Time: 25:01 Facilitator: Elaine D. Location: CMF- Kalamazoo (1:00) Bruce is great-nephew of John Fetzer, describes how he helped give birth to radio- other business accomplishments (2:20) The John E. Fetzer Institute and Fetzer Memorial Trust- the spiritual dimension of these organizations (3:50) How Mike knew J.E. Fetzer, their friendship, describes John spiritualityan inspirational man (5:40) Mike’s kids, a story about John eating Sunday dinner at Mike’s house (7:55) Michigan Supreme Court Hall of justice Dedication (8:20) Book written about John “On a Handshake” (8:40) Story about John as owner of Detroit Tigers “don’t own the team, he is just the steward” thought about the public even to his detriment, his goal wasn’t to accumulate wealth but to benefit men (10:30) Where John’s commitment to philanthropy started- influenza epidemic in 1910s (12:05) Bruce describes the John E. Fetzer Memorial Trust- how its creation is different from most foundation, they are both trustees (15:15) Description of John’s appearance so he didn’t look “rich” (15:34)Mike talks more about John’s spirituality and how it influenced his business like, he believed in guardian angels, mission of Fetzer Institutw is love and forgiveness. “How is your spirituality coming?” instead of “How are you?” (18:55) America’s Agony- Mike reads an excerpt written by John Fetzer in the ‘70s (20:55) Bruce says John inspired him to live a life of learning and serving (21:15) Story about Tiger’s game in 1954 (World Series) Mike passed up free tickets to it and still brings it up �(23:00) Bruce’s memory of Tiger’s game- how John dealt with being a Public figure and still having a private life Track 2 (0:00) More about Memorial Trust- people on the board and their backgrounds (a diverse group) (2:10) how knowing John influenced the way Mike views philanthropy and law, his work led to International Center for the Healing and Law- lawyers as healers (4:25) more about the Fetzer Institute (5:45) role of trustees and Mike’s role in starting International Center � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/1078d57b8272653c4c3e363cfacfeb44.mp3 eb18121883c9fc3e092e5a1b62b667d9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Fetzer-Gergeley Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Bruce Fetzer and Mike Gergely Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Fetzer, Bruce Gergeley, Michael C. Description An account of the resource Mike Gergeley, Co-Trustee of the Fetzer Institute Memorial Trust, talks with friend Bruce Fetzer, Treasurer of The Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and great nephew of John E. Fetzer, about John Fetzer's legacy, including: his radio station business accomplishments, spirituality, ownership of the Detroit Tigers and the Fetzer Institute's work in the world. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Fetzer Institute Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-10-17 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/232fd749f1824dddef690d6863c005fc.pdf 9bb54ef91ccf5bcf6feabe1c9fff21b7 PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Gerald Smith, Carol Goss Interviewer: Elaine Davenport Date: 10/17/06 Time: 42:34 Facilitator: Elaine D. Location: CMF- Kalamazoo (1:31) Carol explains her role at Skilman Foundation- their mission (1:40) Gerald- President of Detroit Youth Foundation (3:45) Carol’s background in non-profits with young people, Kellogg Initiative (5:30) Role of the foundation (5:55) Gerald started the Detroit Youth Foundation, Kellogg Youth Initiative (7:20) When Gerald came to Detroit, when he and Carol worked together at Family and Neighborhood Services (8:30) Carol always has been in the field of social work, describes the model at F&N Services, how it was different than most agencies- community outreach, how that work influenced her, Gerald’s experience there (12:20) Gerald’s big influence- Russ Mawby (13:20) Gerald’s experience at Settlement House (14:05) Carol talks about Russ Mawby’s influence on her, his values (15:50) Carol’s personal background and how it influenced her work in philanthropy, her mom was a great influence, also influenced her children, her daughter organized Katrina relief (18:30) Gerald’s background- influenced by being in YMCA in Cincinnati (20:15) How Gerald moved from education to marketing/sales to human services (21:45) Kellogg Youth Initiative- Gerald suggested Carol’s name to work with them, then she suggested him to take over when she left (25:15) Gerald talks about Kellogg Youth Initiative and how it led to the spin off of the Detroit Youth Foundation (28:00) Changes in community since Kellogg Youth Initiative �(29:05) Carol talks about Skilman’s grant making strategies, how it has changed (32:40) Examples of people (35:45) Gerald talks about Detroit school systems- need to improve (36:30) Carol: we need people to be leaders, role of philanthropy (38:25) Why they had recommended each other to Kellogg � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/6c535466551f431d4831978147847070.mp3 3f49bd2244379c37b7f474eb273112d3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Goss-Smith Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Carol Goss and Gerald Smith Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Smith, Gerald Goss, Carol Description An account of the resource Friends and colleagues Carol Goss, President & CEO of The Skillman Foundation, and Gerald Smith, President & CEO of YouthVille Detroit, talk about their philanthropic influences (Russ Mawby, parents, YMCA), the creation of the Detroit Youth Foundation from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's youth initiative, and both of their commitment and work to improve the lives of children and youth in the City of Detroit, Michigan. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Skillman Foundation W.K. Kellogg Foundation Youth Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-10-17 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3dd5ea52446379a757008cb420e149eb.pdf f7bc9df8a1849bce7f1ea1522ed27654 PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Rob Morley Interviewer: Carol and Sue Morley Date: 10/15/06 Time: 33:12 Facilitator: Elaine D. Location: CMF Kalamazoo (1:12) Came to talk about family foundation- 4th generation started in 1948 w/ Rob’s grandmother. Prevention of cruelty to children and to animals (2:11) How Rob became involved (34 years ago) (2:40) His grandmother and her children and husband- how 3rd generation became involved (3:27) Rob’s first board meeting, learned and listened, other family members who became trustees, the foundation deals with Saginaw County, MI (5:30) Early grants, organization (5:55) 5 areas of focus: cultural, community development, education, environmental, and one more (6:34) Biggest challenge that’s faced the organization (7:30) What he’s personally proud of (8:30) Carol talks about specific organizations, she remembers starting another environmental foundation (9:50) What his grandmother Morley would say what Rob would ask them (10:30) Interlochen music camp sponsor scholarships, a building in his grandmother’s name (11:30) what he sees for the future generations (12:20) How board members contribute to their community, help family members do their own philanthropy (13:45) How the foundation has influenced family members (14:45) How foundations might change in the U.S. (16:15) Describes her grandmother Morley, memories �(18:35) Rob’s background before the foundation, Carol remembers her parent’s volunteerism (19:20) When Carol joined the foundation (20:50) The relationships between the 3rd and 4th generation (21:45) Any fights on the board? None to memory (23:30) Carol talks about why she thinks she was invited to be a trustee (24:05) On-site visits to organization they donate to (27:40) Rob’s personal projects- Philanthropy and YMCA (29:00) Carol’s personal projects- Toledo Junior League (32:10) 1st 20 years the organization was anonymous- but now use names to encourage others to step forward � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/7e9179fe3e15ef26bcc16419d0822746.mp3 33ff15e4bd299731a4043d5041c9e5b5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Morley Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Carol Morley-Beck and Robert and Sue Morley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Morley-Beck, Carol Beck, Robert Beck, Sue Description An account of the resource Carol Morley-Beck interviews her parents Robert and Sue Morley about being the 3rd and 4th generations involved in the Morley Foundation, founded in 1948 in Saginaw, Michigan, and the causes and organizations they've supported over the years including Interlochen Music Camp, YMCA and Toledo Junior League. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Morley Foundation Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-10-15 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/7d6d90432717238c9ddb2029c282710a.pdf 3806e498bf52e069708e5c9f0f56600f PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Carrie Pickett-Erway Interviewer: Deborah Higgins Date: 10/16/06 Time: 41:32 Facilitator- Nick Pumilia Location: CMF- Kalamazoo (0:50) Describes how she came to philanthropy work, introduced to someone at Kellogg Foundation, had an internship, shifted to Kalamazoo Community Foundation and eventually hired to permanent staff (3:00) Discusses where she has drawn inspiration for her philanthropic work- Bill Strickland from Pittsburg (4:45) Discusses doing work in Kalamazoo with urban communities, working on the “front line” in the “real world” (9:20) Describes how working in philanthropy has influenced her understanding of and relation to the world and her community (13:30) Fetzer Institute, discusses a disconnect between family and friends outside of philanthropic work, a different sensibility to those that are not part of their community (15:45) Discusses surprises she has encountered in work of philanthropy. Having to turn down grantees has been harder than she thought. High standards have been selfimposed due to importance of work (20:15) Discusses how she copes with difficulties and stress of work (21:30) Discusses what she would have done differently in her career in philanthropy (23:00) Describes difference between grant-making and community initiatives. The role of the Kalamazoo Community Foundation in community initiative work (28:00) Most challenging and pride filled work that she has been involved with. Challenge Day- initiative to remove bullying from school- program based out of California (32:00) “How did you first hear about the Challenge Day program?” She did work in Bangor High School outside of Kalamazoo County, Michigan. Hopes to do Challenge Day program in every school in Kalamazoo County (37:00) Carrie describes what she learned as a facilitator at a Challenge Day in a local school �(38:00) Excited to bring stories of Challenge Day experience to local donors (40:00) Deborah talks about what she hopes is ahead for her future in philanthropy work � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/76b6e2c089c7038d839112f5b09c4cde.mp3 63f22bc7482c98109dbc03b9700ad77e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Erway-Higgins Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Carrie Pickett Erway and Deborah Higgins Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Erway, Carrie Pickett Higgins, Deborah Description An account of the resource Carrie Pickett Erway, Senior Community Investment Officer at the Kalamazoo Community Foundation, tells colleague Deborah Higgins, Program Associate at The Fetzer Institute, about how she entered the field of philanthropy as an intern and ended up as program officer. Carrie also talks about grantmaking's challenges - like turning down grantees - but also positives like participating as a facilitator at a local Challenge Day activity at Bangor High School. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Fetzer Institute Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-10-16 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b80e95eb81bb94b3139b8d4eafd15d7b.pdf 48807762f66ccbeaaa2dd5e2091cf9d8 PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Stella and Charles Royce Interviewer: Rebecca Noricks Date: 10/27/08 Time: Facilitator: P. Littlewood Location: Grand Rapids, MI (0:00) Introductions (1:50) They discuss how Chuck met Stella at church. He agreed to go meet Stella in Mexico City and bought a car and drove down there 55 years ago (3:15) Stella discusses the difficulties she faces during her childhood; not being able to wash her hair for weeks, leaving the family, welfare, walking to school (5:10) She talks about working for her room and board across the street from school and she was very happy to do so (6:45) She got a chance to go to college and worked in the registrar’s office. She signed up for Foreign Service (8:15) She was posted in the Dominican Republic and chauffeured around. It was nice for two years. She then went to Mexico (9:50) She talks about the highlight of her time here: Maria Callas performing (10:40) She and Chuck met and had a quick courtship. “Marry in haste and repeat at leisure” (12:00) Stella discusses the importance of the arts- her daughter was a professional harpist (12:50) Chuck discusses his family; his mother was a pianist (13:10) He discusses St. Sicilia; the mission has been the same for over 100 years; it is a music center with 800 or more young people involved (15:00) New Horizons band is successful around the country; St. Sicilia Center has grown and bringing out great performances (16:30) They discuss the ballet which was practicing in the basement of the Masonic Temple before moving to a new space through aid (18:20) Ballet space was a sign of Grand Rapid’s character; willingness to pitch in and help �(20:25) They discuss the schools cutting down on arts due to Michigan’s budget problems. Importance of arts to building discipline, example of 40 students and having the arts in their background (23:00) Moving downtown 22 years ago- they were the only ones in the building at that time (25:00) Chuck talks about some of the movers and shakers (26:00) They discuss the impact of the depression on themselves; importance of the value of the dollar. They also talk about the reconstruction of some of Grand Rapids (30:00) They talk about various people who planned for the future- Mayor, Dick Gillette, others (31:30) They talk about the importance of the arts in pulling more people/conventions into Grand Rapids’ museums, symphony, etc. as forms of entertainment (34:00) Community leaders; Dick Gillette, Frey Meyer, etc. (35:30) The talk about the importance of encouraging the arts to children and grandchildren (36:25) They discuss the Stella Royce Piano Program teaching piano for young children in collaboration with St. Sicilia � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/ad91e24b1ad9c76f009c7f95d252bf0e.mp3 18079ee720d1cc2f90f6449a9a3c1584 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Royce-Noricks Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Charles and Stella Royce Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Royce, Charles Royce, Stella Description An account of the resource Grand Rapids, Michigan, philanthropists Charles and Stella Royce tell Rebecca Noricks, Communications Manager at the Council of Michigan Foundations, the story of how they met and about their passion for supporting the arts and commitment to their city. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-10-15 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/9146880634b3324cb115c7f97dff76ac.pdf 996dd372feab850dc95a1c3b2a907404 PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Chris T. Christ Interviewer: Brenda L Hunt Date: 10/27/08 Time: Facilitator: Naomi Greene Location: Grand Rapids, MI (0:00) Introductions of Brenda and Chris (0:43) Brenda asks how Christ became involved in philanthropy; Chris talks about his mother; working for the March of Dimes; Exchange Club Dental Fund; Battle Creek (3:11) Chris talks about working for the Kellogg Foundation (3:58) Chris talks about working for the Kendall Foundation; Battle Creek Community Foundation (5:29) Chris talks about helping others; meeting with others and organizations who help people. Chris talks about his wife’s involvement with philanthropy (7:56) Brenda asks him about the most significant achievement Chris has made; Chris talks about working t bring a senior residence center. He remembers bringing two hospitals together (11:03) Chris talks about the Catholic/Protestant hospital merger in Battle Creek, MI (12:36) Brenda asks “What was the most significant thing you saw on the board of the Kellogg Foundation?” Chris talks about allowing for spouses to travel with the trustees, meeting people overseas’ Nelson Mandela, Bishop Tutu (15:18) Chris remembers visiting the prison Nelson Mandela was incarcerated in, South Africa (16:55) Brenda asks Chris about his career as an attorney and helping people plan estates; Chris talks about working with people who want to use their estate for philanthropic purposes (19:12) Chris talks about his legacy through his work (19:49) Chris talks about what he would do if he had his own foundation, helping youth, Community foundations dyslexia (21:45) Chris talks about wanting to go on vacation with his family; “sharing the wealth” �(22:59) Chris talks about one of his mentors; becoming a trustee in the Kellogg Foundation (24:49) Chris talks about why he loves working for the Kellogg Foundation; Salzburg Seminar (26:46) He talks about his parents; immigrating from Greece, becoming American � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/d8d3019efcbf46c5e9bc7488bdb91796.mp3 61f08361381a8b05e8370f89b32c1598 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Christ-Hunt Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Chris T. Christ and Brenda L. Hunt Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Christ, Chris T. Hunt, Brenda L. Description An account of the resource Brenda L. Hunt, President & CEO, Battle Creek Community Foundation (BCCF), talks with her good friend and foundation attorney Chris T. Christ about his involvement in philanthropy working with BCCF, the Kendall Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation; what he hopes to leave as his legacy; and his Greek heritage. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-10-15 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/432a06a2ea44ffdf156aa9cb4e50e401.pdf 15541433c76a100e0213345d0de79685 PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Diana Sieger Interviewer: Joseph Medcalf Date: 10/15/06 Time: 41:24 Facilitator: K. Duggins Location: CMF- Kalamazoo (0:00) Introductions (1:00) Kellogg Foundation gave the Grand Rapids Community Foundation a matching grant to begin a Youth Grant Committee and the Grand Rapids Community Foundation (4:28) How Medcalf became involved in the Youth Grant Committee and discusses his first youth working there (6:00) Sieger discusses unique aspects of a community foundation (7:46) Medcalf discusses the benefits of being involved in the Youth Community and how they reconciled their actions via the grant-making process (14:36) Medcalf discusses the decision making process during youth grant committee meetings and how intense it can be. Uses experience of debating teen pregnancy case as well (18:07) Sieger remembers this teen pregnancy case as well (24:35) Medcalf discusses his experience of sitting on the real board of the Grand Rapids Community Foundation with full voting privilege (25:39) Sieger discusses her favorite memory of Medcalf during a board meeting (26:46) Medcalf discusses his career and life aspirations (28:42) Sieger remembers what led her to the foundation (30:04) Medcalf’s most memorable grant-making experience (32:18) Medcalf discusses the line of work in general (33:54) Medcalf discusses how his work at the Foundation affected his work as a youth representative on the Grand Rapids board of Education (36:59) Medcalf always felt welcome and respected as a board member (38:19) Medcalf expresses gratitude about the Foundation experience �(40:25) Sieger praises Medcalf for his persuasive powers and assets as a leader � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a27584a45288b0e856afc8d8bf4afb63.mp3 ce022ad02f06d32f2d584248fdaea00f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Seiger-Medcalf Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Diana Sieger and Joseph Medcalf Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seiger, Diana Medcalf, Joseph Description An account of the resource Diana Seiger, President of the Grand Rapids Community Foundation (GRCF), talks with youth grantmaker Joseph Medcalf about how his experience as a youth trustee on GRCF's board and a member of their Youth Advisory Council has developed his leadership skills. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Grand Rapids Community Foundation Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-10-15 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e8d6d92857a1278211773cde443d8891.pdf 7e38cecda3b9ca334937f6756750c7cc PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Dottie Johnson Interviewer: Rob Collier Date: 10/27/08 Time: Facilitator: Littlewood Location: Grand Rapids, MI (0:00) Introductions (1:00) they discuss the beginning of Council of Michigan Foundation- largest regional association in the country (1:55) The starting of a foundation in Grand Haven, MI; and how Dottie was invited to join the board of the CMF (3:00) Rob came to Michigan through VISTA position (4:30) Family philanthropy donor who wanted to start a family foundation called Dottie from a pay phone in Florida on New Years Eve – He started it all in five hours (6:20) They discuss the differences in the beginning and how things begin to snowball as one family starts a foundation and others follow (8:00) Growth of family foundations- but the difficulty of how to get the next generation involved (10:00) They talk about one family that didn’t even tell their children they were on the board. They were having too much fun running it themselves (11:00) How to start a foundation- donor advice and funding (12:55) 30 years ago there were less foundations than now. Kellogg Foundation gave a challenge grant- if the community raises $2 million then Kellogg will donate $1 million to youth programs- Youth Fund (15:45) They discuss how the community foundations in Michigan are growing. Impact of tax credit, helping people give, leverage lots of resources. CMF is now over $2 ½ billion. (20:00) Restitution funds from law suits, etc. (21:00) Tobacco restitution funds- community foundations as convener of funds, brought many groups together (23:30) Working on environmental issues. Challenges facing the Great Lakes �(25:00) Youth trained by community foundations going on to aid government and organizations. Youth Advisory Commissions (27:00) Youth philanthropy spreading over the Korea. Access to learning about philanthropy in schools an issue. “Learning to Give.” Response to the 2004 tsunami as part of an educational curriculum (30:00) Challenges facing Michigan, how corporate resources are responding (34:30) Priorities shift in response to economic issues. Job retraining, domestic violence prevention (35:40) Kellogg Foundation founded during the Depression (37:45) Dottie talks about it being the best job in the world. Working with people who felt good about helping � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/6013df7fc83655b2e8d6dbc85d52501b.mp3 bf513974ac6dcf248b3aaa35ac014261 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Johnson-Collier Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Dorothy A. Johnson and Robert Collier Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson, Dorothy A. Collier, Robert Description An account of the resource Dorothy A. Johnson, President Emeritus of the Council of Michigan Foundations (CMF), and Robert Collier, CMF President & CEO, recall CMF's beginnings and how Michigan philanthropy has grown, changed and adjusted changed over the years as more foundations form, youth philanthropy develops and priorities shift. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Council of Michigan Foundations Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-10-15 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/64fdb22b68ed0af682e0dbfa38c8668a.pdf 2982799b858acb3aca316f3efb2d3067 PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Edward Downing Interviewer: George Bearup Date: 6/25/07 Time: 42:32 Facilitator: N. Pumilia Location: Traverse City, Michigan (1:20) Remembering 25 years of the Traverse City Rotary Charity (3:28) Discuss how oil changed the rotary club (3:52) Oil/gas distinction (4:42) How the integrity of the club changed after the oil was discovered (5:43) Divide between Rotary Club and Rotary Charities (8:00) Bearup was the President at the 25th Anniversary organization (9:40) Seed money for community foundations (11:10) Discuss the Interlochen Charities (11:52) Discuss the difficulty of giving away money (12:45) Difference between the modern approach- investigate (13:45) Discuss the close oversight and mentorship with the organizations that money is given to (15:08) Rotary Community Foundations, conserve land. T.A.R.T. Trails (15:50) Help efficiency and effectiveness of grantees (organizations to aid rotary) (17:09) Discuss when the board started thinking of the wells going dry (18:30) Discuss the strategic planning process that has most benefited the future (22:40) Talk about the challenges that the Rotary Charities face (25:29) Preserving the integrity of the organization (26:30) Discuss the restoration of the Park Place Hotel, revitalize the area (27:30) The future development of the downtown area and how to keep it together �(28:34) Discuss his favorite grant: Paper Works that employed disabled citizens, Dow Family (31:44) Main intense areas: Recreation, water, sports, education, arts and culture, water quality (40:00) Discuss the lawyer that negotiated 40% of the revenue from the oil wells, around $42 million � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/da29328c38da973d2f3726ea0429cd63.mp3 087a812c4e898f9869d16702ecd7a551 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Downing-Bearup Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Edward Downing and George Bearup Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Downing, Edward Bearup, George Description An account of the resource Rotary Charities of Traverse City Trustee Edward Downing and Former Trustee George Bearup reflect on 25 years of Rotary's work - from the early years and how oil changed the organization to incubating other organizations like the community foundation, NorthSky Nonprofit Network, Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy and others. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Rotary Charities of Traverse City Traverse City (Mich.) Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-25 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/cf279d12995b7b4b79c3a24c81d1b784.pdf 73f86c262cecfab494879654e45f42f5 PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: James Feeney Interviewer: Charles Betty Gross Date: 10/17/06 Time: 38:16 Facilitator: K. Duggins Location: CMF- Kalamazoo (0:00) Introductions (1:16) A bit about how they each got into the line of work they’re into with the foundation in particular (5:38) A bit about the people for whom the foundation is named. How they came to start a foundation (10:20) Also very generous when they were alive (10:55) Something they thought that the founders would be proud of (12:41) J. discuss the money the foundation has donated to the local symphony. Charles discusses the two scholarship funds (15:56) J. discusses the others on the board. Struggling with how they will perpetuate the legacy of the Stubnitz after the original board is gone (20:07) How they each have been personally affected by the line of work (25:49) Not as hard to give the money away as they thought it would be (31:25) James discusses the county in which they live in Michigan (34:11) What they’re looking forward to with the future (36:27) If they could do it again they would do it the same (36:09) Want to leave the legacy of the Stubnitz family � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/df08d8106500b6ae0102054a62a4b2c2.mp3 2b9a758dffba158528683ef11c9e021f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Feeney-Gross Title A name given to the resource Conversation with James Feeney, Charles Gross, and Betty Gross Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Feeney, James Gross, Charles Gross, Betty Description An account of the resource Husband and wife Charles and Betty Gross talk with friend James Feeney, about each of their involvement as trustees of the Maurice and Dorothy Stubnitz Foundation, an independent foundation in Adrian, Michigan, supporting causes like the local symphony. They also discuss their hopes for the foundation's future. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Maurice and Dorothy Stubnitz Foundation Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-10-17 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a24b96b8c010d334f839b51cc74caa29.pdf b9befcdc9bc502b46021cc808f8d468f PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: John Frey Interviewer: Eleonora Frey Date: 6/25/07 Time: 44:40 Facilitator: Rachel Falcone Location: Charlevoix, Michigan (0:00) Introductions (1:00) Discuss his mother and father that founded the Frey Foundation, then the children took over (2:40) Didn’t have a definite plan for the foundation after their parents passed away. Dorothy Johnson helped the family with the direction of the foundation (4:29) Discussed the passing of the mother, and how their grandfather and uncle were into philanthropy also (5:59) Discussed the early projects of the foundation, redevelopment of Grand Rapids and quality of the area (7:40) Generation of giving- John’s generation- to help strangers and those in need (8:57) Story of hay, everyone helping in a farm (9:46) “Fill the Gap” understanding grants as part of the process- grant makers become social investors. Grandmother was on the board and chose 5 area in spirit of their passions- environment, arts, children, civic progress, furthering philanthropy (12:16) Discuss how the foundation world falls into its own language (13:40) Look at the interests of the trustees, family dynamics with the family foundation, interaction of the family for greater good of the community (15:34) Family (17:17) Discuss the family involvement in the foundation, round table, how John’s generation has given a voice to the foundation, young generation now involved with the changes (19:39) John talks about the gentlemen with ideas. Zoo, Grand Rapids Civic Theater, Santa Maria, St. Mary’s. Development of the Community Foundations- YAC (21:16) Michigan was the foundation of YAC- Mott and Kellogg �(22:48) Formalization of the process of grant-making (24:40) Frey Foundation has become a model for other foundations (26:33) John’s favorite memories of Philantrhopy, family portrait (27:37) John hopes that later generations don’t start off with criticisms like his generation did (29:30) Lead with positives instead of negatives (30:43) Discuss John’s passion- families helping families (32:16) Tough questions and tough answers to be made, but not being afraid to make decisions. Education is key to getting people involved and understanding philanthropy (36:26) Challenges for philanthropy in the next generation (37:21) Discuss taking positions, speak to politicians (38:27) Discuss how John would like to see foundations connect with politicians (42:06) International community � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/4063b41a324847c21cc4d45153650204.mp4 db887f4a93188978859fad51791bb406 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Frey Title A name given to the resource Conversation with John and Eleonora Frey Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frey, John Frey, Eleonora Description An account of the resource Father and daughter pair John Frey, Vice-Chairman, and Eleonora Frey, Next Generation Trustee of the Frey Foundation, talk about the founding of the Frey Foundation in Grand Rapids, Michigan and the importance of the next generation's participation in the foundation's giving. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Frey Foundation Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp4 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-25 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3e71152b4e3ee63a00f666f0d7603d01.pdf 7fba505121333e699901d1bd0e14d415 PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: John Colina Interviewer: Jomie Goerge Date: 10/16/06 Time: 40:09 Facilitator: K. Duggins Location: CMF- Kalamazoo (0:50) Why John started the Foundation. Emerged out of a mid-life crisis. Felt he was missing something spiritual. Took a course of action. Shared three Hindu principles that led him to the path (3:42) How John narrowed down the focus of the Foundation. Decided to focus on kids (5:20) Keeps the (?) for grantmaking, decide to meet the needs to children whatever they may be (6:23) Why start the foundation instead of supporting other organizations that are in the principles they value (9:55) Jomie expresses gratitude to her dad for his example of returning to the community and doing this work (11:56) John talks about the responsibility of humans to be constantly leaving (?) (13:33) Challenges of working the foundation in three different groups. What are some of the challenges John has to face, narrowing down the arguments to give to building a network of resources in the area (16:27) How John’s involvement in the foundation has changed in 14 years. What the future of the foundation is. Discusses his role and future of the foundation (20:28) Jomie discusses the importance of involving the entire family and the impact of being involved in the work early, along with her children (23:05) John talks about amount of education at substance abuse programs, when he wanted to give up, but the amount of impact on (?) so impactful. Jomie talks and comments on how usual working, her impact, so she must do the work even with people who are hard to reach (28:00) John discusses what shapes a child’s life, how important parents are. Importance of helping families, children (32:24) John’s hope for the foundation. Focuses on the people rather than the procedures �(34:00) John asks Jomie about (?), the foundation with multiple geographic location (36:45) Discuss the idea of anonymous donations and the problem with that (39:04) Discuss the importance of doing foundation work for the right reasons � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/953460932a1371cdc974306e27bd6efb.mp3 984ddc6d8d831bca57cbc5a72c1a7d86 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Colina-George Title A name given to the resource Conversation with John Colina and Jomie Goerge Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Colina, John George, Jomie Description An account of the resource Father and daughter pair John Colina, President, and Jomie Goerge, Trustee, of the Colina Foundation, talk about why John created their family foundation in Southgate, Michigan, what he's learned along the way, and their family's ongoing commitment to early childhood issues. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Colina Foundation Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-10-15 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b2e510a4961dce7b8ecee8a203c6cddf.pdf 2edc04e01591c107ef457037da12d794 PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: John Engberts Interviewer: Mondy Jamshidi Date: 10/16/06 Time: 42:50 Facilitator: Elaine D. Location: CMF- Kalamazoo (1:00) Talk about how they’ve been friends since High School (1:15) When John first became involved in Pace Jam, he had been in a lot of fights, had to go to court (2:13) Describes relationship he was in right before he joined Peace Jam (4:52) He describes what Peace Jam is- brings Nobel laureates to Kalamazoo high schools (6:00) Met Archbishop Desmond Tutu who talked about ending apartheid (7:08) 10th anniversary conference of Peace Jam, Dali Lama attended in Denver, how it had an impart on students who go (10:35) His favorite project through Peace Jam (12:45) What impact he thinks Peace Jam service projects have on Kalamazoo (14:32) Describes his childhood- violent alcoholic father, killed his mom when he was 3, Josh had to watch “I made a decision I never wanted to be like my Dad” (16:30) Peace Jam provides and outlet (17:35) Mondy talks about how proud he is of Josh, Josh talks about how helpful Mondy is; “Most inspirational person” (19:50) Josh talks about being taught that showing emotion is considered a sign of weakness (20:32) His adoptive dad committed suicide- his reaction, his sisters’ reaction, mom’s reaction (23:56) How his life changed since Peace Jam (24:40) His birth dad is getting out of jail soon, learning how to deal with stress productively �(25:15) Josh had an eating disorder in high school, wasn’t eating, gained 40 pounds since joining Peace Jam, also no more headaches/ thanks to Mondy’s massage skills- more about dealing with eating disorder and support from Peace Jam (29:00) Mondy talks about Peace Jam “a little slice of heaven” (30:14) How he dealt with Columbine- he lost a couple of friends n the shootinghasn’t watched TV at home since that day (33:20) Hard to go to 10th anniversary conference because it was in Denver, ran into another friends who was a survivor and that made it easier (36:55) How he ended up at Peace Jam, people donated money so he could pay to go to the conference (39:00) How they met and became friend- they even have the same birthday (41:55) Mondy reflects on memories and moments they’ve shared � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a01940d69c5d9e80105c23516936b008.mp3 448c8641975562d7b00dbdc765f2d405 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Engberts-Jamshidi Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Joshua Engberts and Mondenna Jamshidi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Engberts, Joshua Jamshidi, Mondenna Description An account of the resource Longtime friends Mondenna Jamshidi and Joshua Engberts talk about PeaceJam - a project supported by The Fetzer Institute of Kalamazoo, Michigan and others - and the healing role it has played in Joshua's life as he dealt with a difficult childhood and adolescence. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Fetzer Institute PeaceJam (Organization) Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-10-16 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/5d7ab49fdf12989f599837e8536205b7.pdf c091c9e0a4edace5c17e3be5e11fbd5f PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Kate Pew Wolters Interviewer: Susan Broman Date: 10/27/08 Time: Facilitator: Naomi Greene Location: Grand Rapids, MI (0:00) Introductions of Susan and Kate (0:57) Susan gives a little background on Kate; what was your first experience in philanthropy? (2:10) Kate talks about her first experience in philanthropy; PTA; Kate talks about being a grant maker (3:33) Kate talks about her parents who were philanthropists (4:50) Susan asks what kind of philanthropist Kate is, Kate talks about the various foundations she works for; Steelcase Foundation; Kate & Richard Wolters Foundation (7:34) Susan asks which philanthropic work means the most to Kate (9:00) Kate talks about how her work has affected her personal life (11:10) Kate talks about mistakes she has made in her career; what Hate would do differently (13:08) How do you want your work to be remembered? Kate would like to be remembered for being tough and fair (13:43) Kate talks about starting the Kate & Richard Wolters Foundation; she remembers getting a call about her Uncle Bill (15:57) Kate talks about what she decided to fund with her family foundation; making decisions with her husband; United Methodist Community House (18:18) Kate talks about working with her husband; memorable moments (19:14) Kate talks about challenges managing her own foundation; saying no to organizations (20:11) Susan asks how foundation changed after Richard died; Kate talks about “spending the foundation down” (22:22) Kate says what Richard might say if he were alive; Mayo Clinic �(23:17) Kate gives her advice for couples starting a foundation (24:49) Kate talks about her parent’s foundation, public education, Palm Beach, Martin County, Steelcase Foundation (26:51) Susan asks how Kate’s role has been different in each of the foundations she’s worked for; Kate talks about how her mother’s wishes were different from hers; Kate’s father’s wishes (29:28) Kate talks about what she would ask her mom if she were alive (30:57) Kate’s advice to children who inherit their parent’s foundation (32:09) Kate talks about what she might like to do with her foundation (33:49) Kate talks about how she stays informed about the community (35:10) Kate talks about when she has the most fun in philanthropy; She also talks about the responsibility of working for a foundation (37:35) Kate talks about how philanthropic work will change due to the economic crisis (38:50) Kate talks about her various roles and going from non-profit work to foundation work � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/26e40223e281a03f9d5445e760a18693.mp3 0ff179dffe88e5b84d86d5b0a5d0032a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Wolters-Broman Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Kate Pew Wolters and Susan Broman Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pew Wolters, Kate Broman, Susan Description An account of the resource Susan Broman, President, Steelcase Foundation, talks with her colleague and friend Kate Pew Wolters, President, Kate & Richard Wolters Foundation about Kate's life experiences with philanthropy, including: being the child of philanthropists; starting her own foundation with her husband; how philanthropy has affected her and what her advice is to other children inheriting their parents' foundation. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-10-15 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/342c4d57fdfab13781a6fed24fb029c3.pdf 2e7242a45c9d242e5f1c7563f8333067 PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Breannah Alexander Interviewer: Katelin Griffin Date: 6/24/07 Time: 39:44 Facilitator: M. Premo Location: University of Michigan (0:46) Discuss how long she has been involved and how she became involved in philanthropy (4:36) Proactive grant-making (5:48) Needs assessment (9:00) Attracted to philanthropy (10:05) Discuss how its helping and making a difference (10:34) Philanthropy starts with youth (11:30) National Youth Service Day, impactful event, power of social responsibility (12:36) Knowing what to do (13:23) The importance of moving the money (14:00) Peer to peer impact of getting others involved (20:00) Important for the people who are going to inherit the world, to solve its problems (21:00) Young people helping young people (21:20) How this has changed her outlook on life (23:00) How she sees herself as a volunteer (26:55) Know applicant forward and back (31:15) Example of grant manipulation to look for (33:20) Example of grant recommendation (35:00) Best grant types, peer support �(36:30) Discuss her advice to young YACers � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/02ca3ba17c0d497ac489df467e2dc69a.mp3 03bc4d57a3ea5e44d593e2420e032404 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Alexander-Griffin Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Katelin Griffin and Breannah Alexander Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alexander, Breannah Griffin, Katelin Description An account of the resource Youth grantmakers Breannah Alexander of the Saginaw Community Foundation, and Katelin Griffin of The Eaton County Community Foundation talk about their involvement in their local Youth Advisory Councils and what philanthropy means to them as young people trying to make change. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Michigan Community Foundations Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-14 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/faf4121d67d13c4f50577a1ed36793d4.pdf dfcdda004053a0ecea192f9d345c0366 PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Kathy Agard Interviewer: Jim Kelley Date: 10/10/06 Time: 39:01 Facilitator: Elaine D. Location CMF-Kalamazoo (0:55) How Kathy got involved in CMF, talks about getting debate scholarship- 1st time she learned about philanthropy (2:45) Jim talks about how he became involved in philanthropy, his backgroundFord Foundation Scholarship to U Chicago (4:15) His mentor, John Gardener- When he and Kathy first met through CMF (5:20) Talk about how they aren’t able to go back and thank people- motivated then to pass on philanthropy through Learning to Give- Youth grantmaking, talks about ignorance of philanthropy (7:37) Kathy describes the context for starting Learning to Give, what was going on in the U.S. and around the world (9:30) Role of schools, Jim’s work with National Board Certification (for teachers)- talks about education in the U.S. and how he became involved in Learning to Give (12:45) Kathy talks about what Jim brought to the project (14:25) What Jim learned from teachers, talks about his values for education and democracy- how it affects his philanthropy- how it relates to constitutional rights- Learning to Give empowerment not just charity (17:45) Knight Foundation- their work to educate about 1st Amendment (19:00) More about John Gardener’s influence on Jim (President of Carnegie Corporation of New York and was in LBJ’s cabinet), what Jim learned working with John (22:10) The unusual community and network of foundations in Michigan and Kathy’s vision for the future (23:23) Dottie Johnson- head of CMF, her role as leader in Kellogg (25:08) Relationship between market economy and philanthropy �(28:00) Young people: interested in philanthropy but disillusioned by government- need for all sectors in the U.S. to be strong (for profit, government and non-profit). Jim wants more freedom to go between sectors (31:30) Kathy’s goals at Johnson Center at Grand Valley State University, Jim’s goals in his consultative work (33:15) Jim hopes her center will develop new leaders (34:05) His work with Asia society, his other interests (technology in schools) (37:05) Their hopes for their grandchildren, what they’ll know about philanthropy (38:40) Jim mentions the idealism of youth � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/664c1dc7aa33be6364dccd1f4f4cedaa.mp3 e2eb294815b19e1dca194ac7ac552487 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Agard-Kelly Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Kathy Agard and James Kelly Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Agard, Kathy Kelly, James Description An account of the resource Kathryn Agard, Executive Director of the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership and James Kelly, Co-Chair of Learning to Give, talk about their involvement in creating Learning to Give - a Council of Michigan Foundations supporting organization educating youth about the importance of philanthropy, the civil society sector and civic engagement. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Charities--Michigan Council of Michigan Foundations Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-10-16 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/06ca90493a6f3df8c9d93fcd32627d55.pdf bc89d56be30208b296314dd19bce0b0e PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Ranny Reicker Interviewer: Rebecca Norick Date: 6/24/07 Time: 35:56 Facilitator: Rachel Falcone Location: Ranny Reicker’s Home (0:00) Introductions (1:19) Ranny speaks about foundations, Ranny’s parents born in Midland, went to school in Ann Arbor (2:24) Rebecca also raised in Ann Arbor, Mother and grandmother funded foundation (3:04) Dow Foundation for Midland, Tousley Foundation Ranny’s mother operated, focus of foundation was early childhood (4:09) The areas of giving, both foundations give to education (5:34) Exciting projects- Michigan Conservatory, Universal Preschool, science and math issues (6:34) Discuss how “philanthropy is a way of life, you grow up with it” that’s how you teach the children (8:30) Influence of Ranny’s mother- calling folks and getting funds together (9:24) Saginaw Valley College (10:58) Philanthropy meaning for Ranny, try things that the government can’t, try and experiment with “agents of change” (11:36) Discuss the legacy of the foundations and Ranny (12:30) Look at community issues, not family issues (13:18) Discuss what she would say to her mother and grandmother if they were here, they were pioneer women. The first woman to sit on the council was her mother (13:50) Discuss what needs to be instilled in our children (14:25) Being a woman in philanthropy, people expect women to be “do-gooders” (15:42) Challenges faced in philanthropy, a lot of issues to tackle, making money for larger responsibilities �(17:32) Family foundations should have non-family trustees (18:29) More freedom for family foundations, opportunity to bring families together to share culture and values to bring to work (21:05) Generosity towards Midland (23:16) Speaking to granddaughter- instill how to be a philanthropist- get involved in community and non-profit work, also get involved with fundraising, not just giving. Community ownership, get the rest of the community involved (27:14) What does it mean to be part of Michigan Grant-makers? First meeting in Ann Arbor, Ruth and Harding Mott, big names in philanthropy in Michigan (29:20) Choosing Dottie’s successor (30:12) Highlights of CMF (33:51) Discuss the hope for Michigan as a state � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3dd7c01f207292b8bc775eaee3aedc0c.mp3 61af966b40d9be454be342ed46efba35 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Riecker-Noricks Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Margaret "Ranny" Rieker Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Riecker, Margaret Description An account of the resource Margaret "Ranny" Riecker, President/Treasurer of the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation in Midland, Michigan, tells Rebecca Noricks, Communications Manager at the Council of Michigan Foundations (CMF), about her family's philanthropy and her memories about founding CMF. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation Council of Michigan Foundations Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-24 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/4c2e3b632dc56ae4925fa84adb4e4373.pdf b89a8616fdb2e1c5d9bffe2956bfa63e PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Mark Nepo Interviewer: Shirley H. Showalter Date: 10/17/06 Time: 38:47 Facilitator: N. Pumilia Location: Kalamazoo (1:00) Nepo discusses his personal relationship to philanthropy. “All about love,” his spiritual understanding of and relation to love (3:45) Nepo talks about his work at Fetzer, trying to incorporate story telling into the work and curriculum of the Fetzer Foundation. Program called Generosity of Spirit” (5:00) Recounts a Hindi teaching story called “The Drum” in which a boy learns about generosity and giving. A series of giving encounters (10:30) Talks about how stories can figure into modern culture. Difference between out understanding “Indian Giver” as a derogatory term (14:00) Recounts an experience when a Catholic woman gave him a relic, to combat cancer, he eventually gave it back to her when she was sick (17:00) Tries to give people gifts that he used, more meaningful (18:00) Showalter used to be the president of Goshen College, gave a speech in organizing her scarf collection to the student body. Gave a faculty member who had cancer (was getting chemotherapy) a scarf she bought in Haiti, but woman was going to pass away before it was helpful (25:00) Talks about common thread of wanting and needing, leading to generosity in stories (27:45) Tells a story about a Japanese monk in the 17th century, translated Buddhist text into Japanese (30:00) Talks about precepts of Fetzer Foundation and tells a story to illustrate point- a holy man in India saving a drowning spider (32:00) “Is generosity of spirit taught?” (34:00) Talks about interviewing a Native American woman in Northwest United States, stories about her coming of age �(36:20) One last story about a survivor of the Holocaust and giving to others more in need. Doing something to affirm our own humanity � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/9a4bb250f189aac15b27844c26398b68.mp3 e18a14683cf20ff7ac4d803e28594d9c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Nepo-Showalter Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Mark Nepo and Shirley Showalter Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Showalter, Shirley Nepo, Mark Description An account of the resource Fetzer Institute colleagues Shirley Showalter, Vice President of Programs, and Mark Nepo, Program Officer of Kalamazoo, Michigan, talk about each of their personal experiences with philanthropy, including several stories drawn from around the world about generosity, giving and the true meaning of philanthropy - that it is "all about love." Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Fetzer Institute Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-10-16 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/30c1ac0da6f1a2182490446caca4c118.pdf fc7ca9affa7fb0e7a18874a49e88c35e PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: David Page Interviewer: Mariam Noland Date: 10/16/06 Time: 29:05 Facilitator: K. Duggins Location: CMF- Kalamazoo (0:00) Introductions (1:02) David discusses the Detroit Riverfront Project and remembers Detroit that he grew up in. remembers the vitality of downtown Detroit. The he discusses the decline of the downtown area. He gives a brief history of the Detroit Riverfront Project and some other revitalization projects (9:45) Page and Noland discuss Kresge’s involvement in making the Riverfront Project happen and about philanthropy in Southeastern Michigan and how that project changed the course of philanthropy in the region. Step by step on the Riverfront Project (17:32) Noland talks more about the Riverfront Project. Kresge gave $50 million with strict stipulations. Page breaks down the cost of building, running and endowing the project. Cost $300 million, must raise $140 million, already have $87 million. List corporations/foundations that have contributed to the Project. Talk about the vision of Riverfront Project. (23:46) Noland says most of river walk will be completed by next summer, will complete what it set out to do. Relays important leaders in philanthropy and community, civic leaders in making this project happen. Talk of strict dealings in completing the project (26:30) Page talks about the complete community involvement in this project and the example that this type of collaboration sets for the rest of the world. Costs to complete the project- building community, providing a space for further revitalizing the downtown Detroit area � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a23b903f85626c3382e321fa23d4c07f.mp3 98b6ec18747a17ec90eca518e2ab9390 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Noland-Page Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Miriam Noland and David Page Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Noland, Miriam Page, David Description An account of the resource Colleagues Miriam Noland, President of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, and David Page, Trustee, The Jewish Fund, talk about philanthropy's role in revitalizing downtown Detroit through the Detroit Riverfront Project. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Jewish Fund Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-10-16 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/53f9b322073e3a31ced98a404639e2ef.pdf 640e088ca97290e9165b83b224551ff5 PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Olivia Maynard Interviewer: S. Olaf Karlstrom Date: 10/17/06 Time: 37:44 Facilitator: N. Pumilia Location: Kalamazoo (1:00) OM discusses her introduction to philanthropy, through examples of family and community. (2:30) Karlstrom, mother worked in Detroit, taking care of young Swedish immigrants with Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Detroit Opera (4:00) Mother named Swedish American of the year and gave speech in Stockholm, Sweden (5:00) Maynard discusses her father’s philanthropic work, difference with OM and OK was that they included their children in the Heron Oaks Foundation, tends to focus on educational activities, through their children’s interests often determine where money is gifted. Money to victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, LA (8:10) Maynard talks about her dad, “a bit of a dictator” wanted to make his own decisions about gifting (10:45) Both their careers have led them to philanthropic groups, knowledge of process. Talk about how grant giving is determined within the Heron-Oaks Foundation (15:30) Karlstrom discusses his father’s giving money to the University of the South (16:00) Detroit-Swedish Council, Karlstrom’s mother started this program (17:20) “True rewards” of helping people unexpected gratitude, passing forward, a legacy, how to encourage dialogue in America (20:00) Move towards working to reconcile gaps in American culture (23:30) Influx of Latino population, creating understanding, dialogue, working in city of Flint, MI (26:00) Moving Democratic getting anti-racism training. C. Stewart Mott Foundation. Children moving out of house, scope widening �(28:00) Discussing how their children will arrange the Heron-Oaks Foundation (31:00)Fluidity of the foundation’s intent, Seattle, WA, Minneapolis, MN (34:00) Philanthropic world can fill in gaps that government leaves (35:00) Working with state and county government and private sector to revitalize down town, Flint, MI. � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/0fbacc2cdae1b4372cc8afcb25a05129.mp3 48cf6093be84045dce8db96e19d16b09 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Maynard-Karlstrom Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Olivia Maynard and Olof Karlstrom Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Maynard, Olivia Karlstrom, Olof Description An account of the resource Olivia Maynard, President of the Heron Oaks Foundation in Flint, Michigan, talks with her husband Olof Karlstrom, Treasurer, about the influence of her Swedish mother's volunteer work in Detroit on her understanding of philanthropy, their intentions for their children to manage the foundation in the future and how the Heron Oaks Foundation is partnering with the public and private sector to revitalize downtown Flint. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Heron Oaks Foundation Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-10-17 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a09ef83039a6383dd62fc560291a43f4.pdf 7d20b97b6de536f9c9ac6e8bb0c22b73 PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storyteller: Patrick Wilson Interviewer: Marsha Smith Date: 6/25/07 Time: 41:22 Facilitator: Rachel Falcone Location: Traverse City Rotary Club (0:00) Introductions (1:40) Marsha asks Patrick to share is experiences in his history at Rotary Club, how he came to the club (2:47) Rotary Club was looking for an attorney to handle the discovering of the oil-gas on camp in 1976, Patrick was faced with the legal issues of the Rotary Club not filing exceptions (6:42) Al Arnold and Rotary Club board had negotiations for royalty interests (9:07) Tom Power who is now a circuit court judge helped brainstorm the structure of a new organization- restructuring- Rotary Charities and Rotary Camps (15:19) Debates laid groundwork for the philanthropy of the club (17:17) Talk about the tax exempt organization in a unique way- civic league like Rotary club who were not fully exempt were able to apply under special revenue ruling (20:09) Discuss the pay-out requirement for private foundations (21:09) Key players for philanthropy and rotary, Frank Power- president of Rotary Camps. Franks and his wife pushed for acquiring the Girl Scout property. Bill McCourt took over as secretary and implemented a bookkeeping system (25:20) Discuss the consistencies- basic values of the Rotary Club, live on the income of the fund (26:56) “Excursions in Creative Philanthropy” – 1989, development of Rotary Center, hospitality, prevent urban decay, and education were the goals (32:40) Discuss the partnership with the Traverse City Film Festival, Michael Moore (33:45) Alliance of non-profits and the Dow gift of Bayfront property (37:13) How has the experience changed you? Taught ethics, pivotal in law career �(39:00) Particular grant that he is proud of – organizations that Martha incubated, gifts to colleges, Waterfront, Medical Center, Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, and the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/ff529ce4722c4eda97925a4bb9b98d7f.mp3 d4120952c6031a8cd553c862a21bbb95 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Smith-Wilson Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Patrick Wilson and Marsha Smith Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Smith, Marsha Wilson, Patrick Description An account of the resource Marsha Smith, Executive Director of Rotary Charities of Traverse City and Attorney Patrick Wilson recall the organization's history and Pat's legal involvement after the discovery of oil and gas at Rotary's camp in 1976 and the development of the organization's philanthropy. The two also talk about significant projects and partnerships, including: the Rotary Center, Traverse City Film Festival, Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy and others. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Rotary Charities of Traverse City Traverse City (Mich.) Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-25 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/542b301a33edc7d545bbca65a1137404.pdf 6994dcc6af20484b411c5a24b578e9eb PDF Text Text The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interview Log Sheet Storytellers: Steve Upton, Dave Upton, Sibby Woods, Priscilla Byrns Interviewer: N. Punilia Date: 10/15/06 Time: 38:21 Facilitator: N. Punilia Location: CMF- Kalamazoo (2:30) Describe how they became involved in philanthropy. Steve worked at the Whirlpool Foundation (6:00) Foundation started in 1959 by mother and father for education and arts, the Frederick P. Upton Foundation. His father and brother started Whirlpool Foundation (14:00) Discuss the family connection with the foundation (16:00) They describe their father, Louis Upton (20:00) Woods gives money to Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. Steve Upton gives money to Interlochen Music Camp in Michigan (26:00) They describe how their involvement has affected their children’s lives (29:00) Further describe their father and his business practices (32:00) Talk about how their father was an inspiration in their lives and their children’s lives (35:00) Their visions for the future of the Frederick P. Upton Foundation � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/d3cfbbd0723f1f942d5e193438e082fd.mp3 8575d3c95e720eba43a0c3066a8f1dc3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project Interviews Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Description An account of the resource The Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) was initiated in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the Council of Michigan Foundations, StoryCorps, Michigan Radio and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University to create an oral history of Michigan philanthropy. Additional video interviews were created by the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to add to the depth and breadth of the collection. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/516">Michigan Philanthropy Oral History Project (MPOHP) (JCPA-08). Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-05-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Text Moving Image Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf video/mp4 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2006-2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson Center for Philantrhopy Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource StoryCorps (Project) Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context JCPA-08_Upton-Wood Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Priscilla Byrns, Stephen Upton, David Upton, and Sylvia Wood Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Byrns, Pricillia Upton, Stephen Upton, David Wood, Sylvia Description An account of the resource StoryCorps facilitator Jonathan Pumilia interviews Frederick S. Upton Foundation family members and trustees Priscilla Byrns, Stephen Upton, David Upton and Sylvia Wood about their family foundation in Saint Joseph, Michigan. Together they remember their father Louis Upton, one of the co-founders of the Whirlpool Corporation and how his life was an inspiration to them all as people and philanthropists. Subject The topic of the resource Philanthropy and society--Personal narratives Family foundations--Michigan Charities--Michigan Frederick S. Upton Foundation Women Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Archives, Council of Michigan Foundations StoryCorp Interviews Relation A related resource Johnson Center Philanthropy Collection (JCPA-08) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sound Portraits Productions StoryCorps (Project) Michigan Radio, Grand Valley State University Special Collections & University Archives Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006-10-15 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives