Annual Meeting - 2005

Thursday, October 20, 2005
Log Cabin Banquet and Meeting House, Holyoke

Attended by over 500 Pioneer Valley donors, community leaders, and representatives from nonprofit organizations.

Credit Data Services Honored

Credit Data Service Inc. (CDS) is no longer in business, but the company’s generosity to the residents of the Pioneer Valley will continue in perpetuity. At the termination of the company, approximately three years ago, its assets were contributed to the endowment of the Community Foundation which now totals almost $6 million! An extraordinary act of philanthropy! The former directors of Credit Data Services are pictured with Carol Leary, Chair, Community Foundation (light blue suit).

Grants at Work

A video chronicling the work of field staff and volunteers who carry out the projects funded through the Community Foundation’s Competitive Grantmaking program was shown! We wish we could feature all 182 projects funded last year, time allowed only 5 projects!

Our highlighted projects include: Tzivia, a poetry teacher working with pregnant and parenting teens, Sandy, a home visiting volunteer who works with a blind college student, Mary, an environmental activist who preserved a 36 acre wildlife corridor; Sokleep, who serves as a role model and computer instructor for refugees and immigrants, and Charles, a youth professional who is giving back to the Boys Club he grew up in.

New Trustee Appointments Announced

1. Sandy Pearson, of Leverett, currently co-chair of WFCR’s campaign, and the former owner of Springfield Advertising.
2. Dana Barrows, of West Springfield, currently the Chair of the Board of The MacDuffie School and a Northwestern Mutual agent for the Steffen Agency.
3. Rick Steele, of Longmeadow, a member of the Board of Baystate Health Systems, and Bay Path College, and the principal of Longmeadow Capital.
4. Tim Rice, of Greenfield, the co-chair of the Franklin Medical Center’s capital campaign, and the owner of Rice Oil Company.