he future of a bicycle shop once owned by flight pio-neers Orville and Wilbur Wrightwas up in the air when AviationTrail, Inc., (ATI) bought thebuilding in the early 1980s. HadATI not intervened, the shopand the Hoover block building,where the Wright Brothers rana printing business, literallywould be history.

“We had owned the bikeshop for about a week when theCity of Dayton put a demolitionorder on it,” said Gerald Sharkey,a founding member and pastpresident of ATI, a not-for-profit

eachers Shanda Nugent, Susan Irwin and AmyWilliams have learned a new wayto teach that helps all students,even the lowest performers, learnbetter and score higher on tests.

These teachers insist they’llnever again teach “the old way,”thanks to intensive training theyreceived from the Miami ValleyTeacher/Leadership Academy, athree-year, K-12 project fundedin large part by The DaytonFoundation.

“What I learned throughthe Academy will have a lastingeffect, because I’m getting greatresults in the classroom,” saidShanda Nugent, an eighth gradescience teacher at New Lebanon’sDixie Middle School. “I’m abeliever.”

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organization devoted to preserv-ing the Miami Valley’s aviationheritage.

To help ATI rebuild theHoover block building, whichhouses a restored print shop,as well as the Wright-DunbarInterpretive Center that nowis run by the National ParkService, The Dayton Foundationawarded a $25,000 grant in 1996.

ATI grew out of an economicdevelopment conference in1980, when a group of attendeesdiscovered common interests –preserving the city's history andcontributing to its economicgrowth. An ATI member learned

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Montgomery County edu-cators say that the Academy’simpacts have been considerable– surprising even veteran teach-ers – and that greater impactscan be expected two, three andfour years from now, throughhigher student scores on stateproficiency tests.

“This Academy closedthe ‘achievement gap.’ That’ssignificant. It’s something thatresearchers all over the countryare looking at,” said Dr. DonaldThompson, superintendent,Montgomery County Educa-tional Service Center (MCESC).

“Traditionally you havestudents at the high end of theacademic curve and students atthe low end,” Dr. Thompsonexplained. “You teach them,you test them and what hap-pens? Students at the high endmove farther up, and students

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Foundation K-12 leadership initiativeAcademy Has Profound Impacton Public Education

Aviation Trail, Inc.’s, newentrance to the restored Hooverblock building on the corner ofWest Third and Williams Streets

New Lebanon science teacher,Shanda Nugent, teaches studentsabout the phases of the moonand the cyclical motion of theuniverse.

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of the bike shop while workingon a book about local aviationsites.

“Dayton always has beena hotbed of aviation history,and we wanted to preserve that,”said Marvin Christian, the cur-rent ATI president. “What’sgoing on in that area is a veryimportant part of the commu-nity as a whole.”

In 2003 the Foundationawarded a second grant for$10,000, which helped ATI toopen the Aviation Trail VisitorCenter. The Center housesATI’s offices and the Dave GoldParachute Collection, whichhas been identified by TheSmithsonian Institution as theonly collection of its kind inthe world. Incredibly, ATI and the

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members. ATI also has a mem-bership spanning the U.S. andoverseas.

“Establishing the centeropened the gates to other sup-porters,” Gerald Sharkey said.“The money was very impor-tant, but I also remember therespect we got for our efforts.That enabled us to get moreassistance from people whoprobably would not have sup-ported us, had it not been forThe Dayton Foundation.”

Other benefactors includestate grants, the Wright FamilyFoundation, the Iddings Foun-dation and private donors.

Often the Wright-Dunbarcommunity gets involved withATI’s projects. For example,students from MacFarlaneMiddle School hold fundraisersfor the museum’s ongoing ex-pansion. ATI alsois working with the neighbor-hood to continue the restora-tion along Third Street.

Mr. Sharkey dreams of anaviation-oriented park on thescale of the Revolutionary Warsites operated by the National

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“It’s my thought that some-day Dayton will be a majorattraction for visitors,” he said.“I’d like to see a park specializ-ing in the Wright Brothers’

early aviation history and earlyaerospace travel. It may be justa pipe dream, but I think weneed different types of aviationsites.”

ATI also has identified andsupplies an ATI map of morethan 40 other landmarks alongDayton’s Aviation Trail, in-cluding Carillon HistoricalPark and the original 1905Wright Flyer III, the PaulLaurence Dunbar Memorial,Huffman Prairie Flying Field,the National Aviation Hall ofFame, the United States AirForce Museum and theWACO Museum & AviationLearning Center in Troy.

The Parachute Museum at the Aviation Trail Visitor Center

An ejection seat representingmodern advances in life-savingaviation equipment

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Michael M. Parks

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any people are familiar with The DaytonFoundation’s role as grant-maker and as a provider ofservices to help individualsaccomplish their charitablegiving in the best possible way.

What gets less attention,but is a very important partof our mission, is our role ascommunity convener. Thisplays out largely through lead-ership initiatives, chosen by ourGoverning Board to addressareas of substantial unmetcommunity needs.

The Foundation’s mostrecent initiatives in the pastyears, are in the areas of K-12education, downtown redevel-opment and multiculturaldiversity.

K-12 EducationThis issue of Good News in-cludes a front-page article onthe Teacher/Leadership Acad-emy, one part of our educationinitiative. The article tells thestory of how the local schooldistricts have wrestled withthe problem of student scoreson state proficiency tests andall that those results mean forthe school districts and, moreimportantly, for our youngpeople. The Teacher/Leader-ship Academy is a powerfulconcept, based on a testedprogram of educator training.Our Board became committedto making this available toMiami Valley school districtsand approved $450,000 forthis effort over three years.

The early findings indicatethat educator training works,with “every student movingup, including those tradition-ally left behind.” The resultsof this new teaching approachare only at the beginning andwill grow over time. To date,17 Miami Valley school dis-tricts have participated in theprogram, benefiting 65,000students, 5,000 teachers and250 administrators. All of thepartners involved with us inthis effort – the school districts,local businesses and the Mont-gomery County EducationalService Center – have done a

wonderful job, and we arevery optimistic for the future.

The second part of thisinitiative is the Out-of-School-Youth Program. It came aboutas a concerted effort by a num-ber of parties, including TheDayton Foundation, to cometo the aid of more than 5,000Montgomery County schooldropouts, who were deemedlost to the school system. Sta-tistically, a staggering numberof these youth were destinedto end up in prison. Our com-munity saw this possibility astotally unacceptable and madethe decision that we had toact to stem the tide.

Our Board decided tocommit $1 million over sixyears and to work with a part-nership of concerned citizens,funders and educators to finda path back for thousands oflocal youth. In the last threeyears, more than 3,000 of theseyoung people went back toschool – in a new environment,geared specifically to helpingstudents with similar circum-stances – and 518 of this num-ber already have received theirhigh school degrees or GEDequivalent. These young peoplenow have skills and a pathto becoming productive, em-ployed adults and contributingmembers of society. With thatcomes enhanced self-esteem

and better lives for them, theirfamilies and their community.

Downtown RedevelopmentThe Board’s second initiative –to help build a strong and vitaldowntown – focused on pro-viding support to help makepossible the building of theBenjamin and Marian SchusterPerforming Arts Center andto provide funding assistanceto hire the first planners fordowntown’s riverfront devel-opment project, RiverScape.

The Schuster Center,Dayton’s premiere performancecenter, in just its first year,brought people to 800 eventsand performances, with nearly750,000 attendees. RiverScapeattracts people from all walksof life from around the MiamiValley. It is a wonderful placepeople go with their familieson a hot summer day or on acold winter afternoon, to findrefreshment and relaxation inan inviting, urban setting. Weare proud to have played a partin these projects and gratefulfor the community leadershipand all the people and organi-zations that stepped forwardto make them happen.

Multi-Cultural DiversityFinally, our Board initiative tohelp mobilize people and re-sources to promote multi-cul-tural diversity and harmony asa regional strength is makingheadway in several areas, in-cluding creating a pilot diversitymodel for use by small- andmedium-sized local businessesto attract and retain a diversegroup of capable employees.

The Dayton Tooling andManufacturing Associationhas agreed to test the modelwhen it is completed. This willbe an important step to givingconcrete help to smaller busi-nesses that want greater work-place diversity and can have agreater chance of success withthe help of a tested model toguide them. (Look for moreabout this and other initiativesin upcoming issues of GoodNews.)

We owe our thanks to allof the Foundation’s GoverningBoard and Emeritus Boardmembers for their leadershipin these important areas. Spe-cial appreciation goes to theseBoard and Emeritus Boardmembers who chaired orspearheaded the Foundation’sefforts: Charles Abramovitz,Thomas J. Danis, Paula J.MacIlwaine, John E. Moore,Sr., Robert S. Neff, Burnell R.Roberts, Frederick C. Smithand John N. Taylor, Jr.

Ultimately, however, ourappreciation goes to our donorswho committed unrestricteddollars to The Dayton Founda-tion to enable us to undertakecommunity initiatives. Discre-tionary dollars are so difficultto come by, and we are deeplygrateful to these donors whohelp us meet some of ourcommunity’s most pressingneeds, today – and tomorrow.

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at the low end may move alittle or not at all – but the gapbetween them remains. Wecan say we improved, but weleft someone behind. For allstudents to meet state profi-ciency standards, we must closethe achievement gap and bringlow-performing students closerto high-performing students.That’s what this Academy did.”

Closing this gap is one ofthe four key components ofthe federal No Child Left Be-hind Act. The act says statesmust describe how they willclose the achievement gap andensure all students, includingthose who are disadvantaged,achieve academic proficiency.

“No longer can teacherssay, ‘Most of my kids get it,’”said Susan Irwin, an eighthgrade language arts teacher atEsther Dennis Middle Schoolin Northridge. “We have to say,‘Twenty-two of my studentsget it; two don’t. Here’s whatwe’re doing about it.’ No ChildLeft Behind means no childleft behind.”

UD Research Vali-dates Academy’sImpactThe Academy, which received$450,000 in support from TheDayton Foundation over threeyears, trained MontgomeryCounty teachers, principals andsuperintendents to improvestudent learning and test scores.In Phase I (2001-2002), 15school districts participated,and in Phase II (2002-2004),13 school districts participated,benefiting more than 65,000students, 5,000 teachers and250 administrators.

A partnership betweenschool districts, the businesscommunity and The Dayton

Foundation, the Academy wasan outgrowth of the Founda-tion’s Education Task Force,created after education becameone of the Governing Board’sthree leadership initiatives in1998. The task force was co-chaired by Board MemberPaula MacIlwaine and Emeri-tus Board Member CharlesAbramovitz. They insistedupfront on rigorous research to

prove the Academy’s impact.“School systems said

they’d tried other initiativesthat were supposed to ‘makeeverything better,’ but theynever knew whether anythingworked,” Ms. MacIlwainesaid. “We wanted to show thecommunity that the Academywas having an effect, and thatthe money for this initiativewas well spent.”

Margy Stevens, assistantsuperintendent for curriculuminstruction and pupil person-nel, MCESC, said Universityof Dayton research on theAcademy’s impact confirmedthat “every student moved up,including those traditionallyleft behind. This Academy hasgiven us ways to enable allstudents to learn and achieve.”

Dr. C. Jayne Brahler, re-search methodologist andstatistician for the School ofEducation and Allied Profes-sions at UD, showed thatstudents of teachers who’dattended all eight of the

Academy’s training sessionshad test score gains two timesgreater than students of teach-ers who’d attended just two tofour sessions. Her researchalso demonstrated that theachievement gap closed forthis former group of students.

“In fact, these studentswere well on their way to ad-vancing one entire category –from ‘below proficient’ to‘proficient,’” Dr. Brahler ex-plained, “or from ‘proficient’to ‘advanced proficient.’”

She also proved that theseachievement gains were re-lated directly to the Academy’sMaking Standards Work pro-gram and other training, andthat years of teaching experi-ence and academic subjectmatter weren’t affecting results.

Case in point: BeforeShanda Nugent attended theAcademy’s training, 31 percentof her class was failing scienceafter the first quarter. Afterimplementing the training lastyear, only 1 percent of herclass was failing science afterthe first quarter – “and onlybecause that student was miss-ing schoolwork,” she said.“These students knew whatthey needed to know.”

Dr. Brahler said the researchshowed that students won’timprove sufficiently if teacherstake a smorgasbord approachto professional developmentactivities such as MakingStandards Work, implement-ing snippets here and there.“They must participate inenough training to imple-ment the entire program,which moves every studentup on the achievement con-tinuum,” she said.

Focus Is 100 Percenton “Academic Con-tent Standards”Dr. Thompson said some ofthe nation’s highest performingschool districts have imple-mented Making StandardsWork and related programs,which show teachers how tofocus their teaching and theirstudents’ learning and assess-ments on each state’s “academiccontent standards.” Thesestandards, defined as “whatstudents should know and beable to do,” have been set forevery academic subject andgrade level by the Ohio De-partment of Education.

As a result, Academy-trained teachers are no longerfrantic about “getting through

the book.” “I stopped teachingall the nice-to-know stuff,”Ms. Nugent said. “That al-lowed me to spend more timeteaching the critical standardsthat students weren’t grasp-ing.”

They also know how topinpoint where each student isstruggling. In the past, SusanIrwin said, she might haveonly a general idea why “Brian”couldn’t read well. Now, shecan determine that he is strug-gling with using context cluesto decipher new vocabulary, forexample. “I’m able to get thatspecific,” Ms. Irwin said, “sothe ways I help him are com-pletely different from before.”

Ed Mathes, curriculumsupervisor, MCESC, said NewLebanon middle school mathteachers applied their trainingto develop a diagnostic mathtest, given first in December2003. After scrutinizing testresults, using their Academytraining, teachers identifiedwhere students were deficientand then retaught those con-tent standards. Students retookthe test in April 2004, and thescores improved dramatically.

“Veteran math teacherswere floored,” he said. “Before,they guessed at what studentsneeded to learn to improvetheir test scores. This approachgave them a razor-sharp focuson what the students reallyneeded.”

Lacey Gara, an eighthgrader in Shanda Nugent’s class,said she learned how rocks aremade, changed and destroyed,because she got to adopt and

Northridge language arts teacher, Susan Irwin, helps students increase their vocabulary by learning toidentify Greek and Latin roots.

Dayton Foundation BoardMember Paula MacIlwaine(top) and Emeritus BoardMember Charles Abramovitz

Teacher/LeadershipAcademy Facts

What it did: TrainedMontgomery County teachers,principals and superintendentsfrom 2001-2004 to improvestudent learning and test scores.The Academy consisted of18 professional developmentprograms, including the coreprogram, “Making StandardsWork.”

Participants: 17 Miami Valleyschool districts

Who benefited: More than65,000 students, 5,000teachers and 250administrators

Foundation support:$450,000 over three years

Cody Franklin of New Lebanon wrote an essay onhis design of a space station for a local contest andwon a week at Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama.His teacher, Shanda Nugent, says the Academytaught her to weave applicablecontests into her sciencecurriculum to reinforceOhio’s academiccontent standards.

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name a pet rock, and then drawa cartoon of her rock movingthrough the cycle.

“Two years ago, we wouldhave taken notes, and every-body’s worksheet would havelooked the same,” she said.“Because we could rememberour own rock and cartoon, welearned a lot more.”

Amy Williams, whoteaches at Oakwood’s HarmanElementary, asked her mathclass last year to use commonhousehold items to build“Geocity,” a city of shapes, toreinforce content standardsrelated to geometry.

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“The Academy taught ushow to pull apart the contentstandards and focus on essen-tial questions, like ‘How doshapes fit in our world? Are wea world of shapes? And howdo things move in our world?’”Ms. Williams explained.“Geocity let the students con-centrate on answering thesekinds of questions. As we ap-proached proficiency testingtime, we reviewed geometryquickly, because the kids reallyknew the standards.”

Academy-trained teacherstell students upfront what theymust know and do to provethey’ve mastered a particularstandard. Any unsatisfactorywork must be revised. “Wedon’t wait until the end of aproject to find out who ‘getsit’ and who doesn’t,” MargyStevens said. “Students aredemonstrating constantly what

they know, so teachers canintervene immediately ifnecessary.”

Educators agree that theAcademy never would havehappened without The DaytonFoundation’s financial support.They also agree that overallstudent achievement gains,realized because of the Acad-

Sharon and Doug Scholz proveGiving Is a Work of Heart

ften described as quiet and understated, Sharonand Doug Scholz, owners ofUnibilt Industries, Inc., a pri-vately held manufacturer ofmodular single-family homes,prefer to stay out of the spot-light when it comes to theircommunity and charitablework.

“Their quiet demeanor andability to accomplish so muchby working behind the scenesresults in people not beingaware of all the good work thatthey do for our community,”said Margo Steinbaugh, a retired

Vandalia-Butler teacher andformer co-chair of the highschool’s auditorium renovationteam, one of many communityprojects supported by theScholzes.

“Growing up, I had privi-leges that many others did not,”said Doug Scholz, a DaytonFoundation Governing Boardmember and donor. “But I alsoknew that I had an obligationto help others less fortunate.”

Together they unselfishlyhave given a significant portionof their company’s profits, theirpersonal dollars and their

leadership skills to benefitothers. Although they have nochildren of their own, their“family” includes thousandsof children whose lives theyhave touched.

Along with opening aCharitable Checking Account,the Scholzes have contributednearly $1.3 million to establishseveral endowed (long-term)funds through The DaytonFoundation and the Vandalia-Butler Foundation, a compo-nent fund group of The DaytonFoundation. In addition, theyhave given nearly $1.4 millionto benefit other charitableorganizations.

To honor Doug Scholz’sfather and the company’sfounder, they created the CarlR. Scholz Unibilt IndustriesScholarship Fund in 1994through the Vandalia-ButlerFoundation. More than$213,000 in scholarships hasbeen awarded to the childrenof Unibilt employees to date.

“My father used to say,‘The only entitlement is oppor-tunity,’” said Mr. Scholz, whoalso has served on the Vandalia-Butler Foundation Board and isa past president. “And he wouldremind me ‘Given opportunity,all dreams are possible.’ Whata travesty it would be if studentswith promise don’t go to college.Through this fund, we’re givingthese students opportunity.”

Established in 1999 throughThe Dayton Foundation, TheMuse Machine – Sharon andDoug Scholz Fund has gener-

ated to date more than $75,000in unrestricted grants for theorganization’s operations.

“The arts teach us aboutour humanity,” Sharon Scholzsaid. “Just because you’ve neverbeen to France, it doesn’t meanyou can’t experience the Frenchculture through music, paint-ings or theatre.”

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MADE A DIFFERENCE.”– Sharon Scholz, donor

As longtime volunteers forThe Muse Machine, Sharonand Doug Scholz have helpedto expose children of all agesto the arts and to enhance theprofessional development ofteachers through art. In addi-tion to attending the summerteacher workshops and in-school student programs, theScholzes have traveled to NewYork City, Los Angeles and Italyfor the organization’s annualAdvanced Teacher TrainingSeminar, an intensive artsexperience for teachers.

“If just one student is in-spired to become an arts patronor supporter later in life, thenwe know we’ve made a differ-ence,” Sharon Scholz said.

According to Susan D’Aloia,executive director for The Muse

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emy, won’t continue unlessteachers receive additionaltraining. Ms. Stevens saidMCESC will resume some ofthe Academy’s training pro-grams, and may even becomea regional service provider,with school districts payingfees for programs.

“Individual districts must

step up to the plate and sup-port ongoing professional de-velopment, so we can maintainthis momentum,” said FrankDePalma, superintendent,Centerville City Schools. “Thedanger is looking at it like thestock market: Are we an inves-tor in short-term gains, or arewe in it for the long haul? Whenit comes to professional devel-opment, we must be in it forthe long haul.”

Students likely would agree.They say they’re not onlylearning more – but they’reenjoying classes more.

“Ms. Nugent took it realslow and taught what weneeded to know, one thing at atime, so everyone understoodit,” Lacey Gara said. “I learnedso much, and the class was sofun – we had fun tests! Nothingcould beat science last year.”

New Lebanon teacher, Shanda Nugent, shows students how tosimulate varous phases of the moon with a ping-pong ball, tennisball and light source.

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Machine, “There are peoplewho give generously of theirtime and talent, and there arepeople who give generously oftheir resources. Sharon andDoug do it all.”

The Scholzes also estab-lished the Thomas SchieltzBoy Scout Troop #307 Fund in1994 through the Vandalia-Butler Foundation. The fundhonors Doug Scholz’s formerscoutmaster by generatingdollars for special outdooractivities and to send membersin need to camp.

“Thanks to the endow-ment, these funds will be avail-able to the troop in perpetuity,”Doug Scholz said.

Strong proponents of en-dowment funds for the futurewell-being of communities andthe stability of not-for-profitorganizations, the Scholzeshave provided significant seedmoney to help other charitableorganizations establish endow-ment funds.

“Endowments allow us totake care of our organizations,just as we do our retirements,”Mr. Scholz said.

“Whenever we visit, theirquestions always are aboutwhere the need is most pro-found,” said Mark Light,president of the Arts CenterFoundation and the VictoriaTheatre Association, anotherorganization that has benefitedfrom the Scholzes’ generosity.“They epitomize selfless phi-lanthropy.”

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all is a great time to think about what charitable giftsyou want to make before theend of the year. Many individu-als, corporations and agenciesof the more than 1,100 whocurrently use The Dayton

Tips on Charitable Giving:using your Charitable Checking Account creatively

Foundation Charitable Check-ing Account Service find thatthe service opens up numer-ous options for their financialand tax planning. A numberof donors have used theiraccounts in creative ways toaccommodate their uniquecircumstances or objectives.

The Charitable CheckingAccount Service acts like apersonal checking account. Adonor may deposit assets intotheir account, and then directThe Dayton Foundation to sendgrants to any IRS-approvedcharities that the donor hasselected. The Foundation issuesthe grant checks to charitiesand does all the record keeping.By using Donor Express, theFoundation’s free, secure onlineservice, donors may reviewtheir account information,including their deposit andgrant history, and make grantrequests anytime.

In addition to using cash,some individuals donate ap-preciated assets, such asstocks, mutual funds or realestate, to fund their CharitableChecking Accounts. This solvestheir liquidity problem andallows them to use the full valueof these assets for charitablepurposes, undiminished bylong-term capital gains taxes.

Some donors also findthis useful in situations wherea charity is not able to acceptgifts of non-cash assets. Instead,the donor can transfer the assetto The Dayton Foundation, andthe Foundation will liquidateit and deposit the cash in thedonor’s account. The donorthen can direct a gift of cash tothe charity. Many donors alsofind this feature helpful whenthey wish to use one asset tobenefit multiple charities.

Because a donor receivesa charitable deduction for the

year in which the assets aredeposited into their account, taxplanning opportunities exist.For example, a donor may re-ceive unexpected income orrealize significant capital gainsin a particular year. In order toobtain an off-setting charitabletax deduction for that year, thedonor can make a substantialcontribution to his or her ac-count, knowing that those fundscan be directed to charity ata later date. In this way, thedonor receives the deductionwhen it’s most needed.

Some donors may onlybe able to itemize deductionsevery other year, but they stillwant to continue makingregular annual grants to theirchurch, synagogue or othercharities. They anticipate whatamount they will want to giveto charity over two years, andthen contribute that amountto their Charitable Checking

Account. In this way the donorcan obtain a charitable deduc-tion in the year that the contri-bution was made and directtheir gifts to charity over atwo-year period.

These are just some of theways that donors have usedtheir Charitable CheckingAccounts to meet their finan-cial and charitable-givinggoals. The Foundation’s Devel-opment Department staff isavailable to talk to individualsor organizations about openinga Charitable Checking Accountor establishing other charitablefunds. For more information,contact me, Beth Schaeffer, at(937) 222-0410, or atbschaeffer@daytonfoundation.org.

stablishing a strong foun- dation for our community’sfuture is a vision shared bydonors who have endowmentfunds at The Dayton Founda-tion. Donors have started 11new endowment funds recentlyto support our region andtheir special charitable causes,now and in the future.

Eugene and GeorgetteBelden Fund serves to re-member Eugene Belden, aformer hybridizer of daylilies,by providing financial supportto the American Red CrossDayton Area Chapter and theDayton Opera Association. TheBeldens were avid volunteersand supporters of the arts.

Cancer Prevention InstituteLegacy Endowment Fundfurthers the Institute’s missionto provide cancer research,prevention education andscreenings, as well as outreachprograms.

Dayton, Ohio, Habitat forHumanity Hearts andHammers Legacy Endow-ment Fund will help in itsmission to build simple, de-cent, affordable housing forMontgomery County familiesin need.

Hochwalt Family Fundhonors the Hochwalt familyand pays tribute to Dr. JeromeP. Hochwalt, a family practitio-ner in Dayton for more than40 years. The fund designatesseven charitable organizationsto receive unrestricted incomein perpetuity.

International Missions Fundwas established by the FiveRivers Vineyard Christian

Fellowship to fund missionarywork around the world.

The Lima Police D.A.R.E.Boosters Fund will supportthe Drug Abuse ResistanceEducation and Gang ResistanceEducation programs operatedby the Lima Police Department.

Albert B. Reyes ScholarshipFund honors the director ofthe Muse Machine’s 1992production of South Pacific.

An annual scholarship willbe awarded to a high schoolsenior for exemplary partici-pation in the organization’sannual student musical.

The Pfeife Smith WorldAffairs Scholarship Fundwas established by the DaytonCouncil on World Affairs toaward an annual scholarshipin honor of Ruth Pfeiffer Smith,who was one of its founders andan active community leader.

The Charles M. Uhl, Jr., andTeresa D. Uhl Family Foun-dation enhances the chari-table activities of its founder,Charles M. Uhl, Jr., a retiredinsurance agent and formerresident of Greenfield, Ohio,for nearly 79 years. The fundalso serves as a memorial tohis beloved wife, Teresa, whopassed away in 1984.

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Wellness Connection ofthe Miami Valley Fund willfurther its mission to save livesthrough early detection, healtheducation and healthy livingservices.

The Winger Family Foun-dation helps ensure theWinger family’s future chari-table support for the arts andprograms furthering the bet-terment and enrichment ofthe community. The fundwas established by WilliamR. Winger, founder of HydePark Electronics, Inc., and hiswife Carolyn (Toni).

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Artemis Center for Alterna-tives to Domestic ViolenceArtemis Center provides earlyintervention and educationalprograms for victims of do-mestic violence and their chil-dren. To assist in hiring a full-time coordinator to recruit,train and supervise the center’sgrowing list of volunteers, theFoundation awarded a$10,000 grant.

Melissa Bess ChildDevelopment CenterFor more than 86 years thecenter has offered educationalprograms and child day-careservices to families living inWest Dayton. A $5,000 Foun-dation grant will help fund astrategic plan to assist thecenter in increasing its enroll-ment and in locating addi-tional funding resources.

Boys Scouts of America,Miami Valley CouncilThe Dayton Foundationawarded a $10,000 grant tohelp renovate both CricketHoller Camp and WoodlandTrails Scout Reservation, bothoperated by this local BoyScouts council. Improvementswill include building newcabins, a training center and aclimbing/rappelling tower, aswell as renovating existingadministrative offices.

Choices in CommunityLivingTo provide opportunities forindividuals with mental retar-dation to participate morefully in the community, theFoundation awarded a $5,000grant for the CollaborativeVolunteer Project. The projectis a joint venture betweenChoices in Community Living,Inc., and the Resident HomeAssociation, two not-for-profitagencies that provide residentialservices to individuals withdevelopmental disabilities.

Dayton Ballet AssociationThe Dayton Ballet recentlyunderwent an exhaustivemarketing study to identifyreasons for declining ticket sales

over the last four years. TheFoundation awarded a $7,500grant to fund an in-depthanalysis of the study’s results,including conducting focusgroups.

The Dayton Urban LeagueTo help purchase and renovatean office building for TheDayton Urban League’s newheadquarters, the Foundationawarded a $30,000 grant overa two-year period. Additionalfunds will be used to createnew programs and to expandcurrent programming for bothyouth and adult clients.

Downtown DaytonPartnershipRiverScape, Fifth Third Fieldand the Schuster PerformingArts Center have served ascornerstones for downtownDayton’s rebirth in recent years.To aid the Downtown DaytonPartnership in determiningthe next major amenity thatwill contribute to the city’scontinued growth, well-beingand prosperity, the Foundationawarded a $15,000 grant.

Echoing Hills Village, Inc.The Foundation awarded a$5,000 grant to purchase anelectrically operated lift sys-tem to safely transport resi-dents who are physically chal-lenged from their beds toother areas of the facility. Thenew system will help themprovide better care for theirresidents, while also reducingthe number of work-relatedinjuries for staff assisting theseindividuals.

Goodwill Industries of theMiami ValleyRecently merged with GoodwillIndustries is WORDS RadioReading Service, which broad-casts the reading of localnewspapers and other publi-cations by volunteers for thebenefit of individuals withvisual impairments. A $10,000Foundation grant will assist inconstructing a new studio inGoodwill Industries’ existingfacility.

Legal Services of NorthwestOhioLegal Services of NorthwestOhio provides free legal ser-vices, such as Living Wills andDurable Powers of Attorneyfor Health Care, for Montgom-ery and Greene County seniorcitizens in need. The Founda-tion awarded a $7,700 grant tohelp purchase wireless laptopcomputers and printers toassist them in serving moreclients more efficiently.

Mary Scott Nursing CenterThe Mary Scott Nursing Center,Dayton’s oldest not-for-profitskilled nursing facility, hasoperated since 1914. A $45,000Foundation grant will helpfund over a three-year periodrenovations to the facility,including adding additionalresidential rooms and a lounge,as well as providing staff train-ing in the areas of dementiaand memory loss.

National Conference forCommunity and JusticeChange in the Middle is a newprogram to educate seventh-and eighth-grade studentsabout diversity and preju-dices within our culture.Students will learn how

to appreciate and celebrateindividual differences and tobecome ambassadors for di-versity in their schools andcommunity. The DaytonFoundation awarded a $5,000grant in support of this program.

Rehabilitation Center forNeurological DevelopmentThe Foundation awarded an$18,000 grant to help purchaseequipment and furnishings fora new children’s therapy room.By providing separate therapyrooms with age- and size-appropriate equipment, theCenter hopes to better addressthe needs of both their youthand adult clients.

Rhythm in ShoesA $5,000 grant will assistRhythm in Shoes in choreo-graphing a new work thatblends the music of GeorgeGershwin with the classical tapdancing style of Fred Astaireand Ginger Rogers. The newlycreated dance will become a

grantsRecent Discretionary Grantssupport worthy community causes

piece in the company’s reper-toire, therefore providing addi-tional opportunities for revenue.

Vietnam Veterans MemorialParkVandals repeatedly have dam-aged the light fixtures thatilluminate the Vietnam Veter-ans Memorial Park’s Ring ofRemembrance, which lists thenames of local individuals whoperished in the Vietnam War.Thanks to a $5,000 grant fromThe Dayton Foundation, newcast-iron-shielded light fixtureswill be purchased and installedto help prevent future damage.

Wellness Connection ofthe Miami ValleyThe Wellness Connection ofthe Miami Valley, formerlyknown as the Dayton Area Heartand Cancer Association, haschanged its mission to focus onhelping people make lifestylechanges to prevent diseases.A $5,000 Foundation grantwill support the creation of aresource center with helpfulbooks, journals, audio andvideo materials, software andcomputers.

Choices in Community Living

The Dayton Ballet’s 2004 production of Peter Pan

Rhythm in Shoes performing atthe Fraze Pavilion

Vietnam Veterans MemorialPark

Mary Scott NursingCenter

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W hat started out as a typical winter’s morn-

ing on January 12, 1998,quickly turned into disasterand forever changed the livesof a community.

Not yet 30 years of age,John P. Kalaman, a five-yearofficer for the Centerville Po-lice Department, was struckand killed by a car as he wasresponding to a traffic accidenton Interstate 675. Also killedwas Washington TownshipFirefighter Robert O’Toole.

“Knowing that the accidentwould require a significantamount of time, he volunteeredto take the call so that anotherofficer, whose shift was aboutto end, could go home. That’sthe type of person he was,”said Steve Walker, chief of theCenterville Police Depart-ment. “It’s the worst tragedyinvolving personnel in thisdepartment’s history.”

Not letting his tragic deathovercome all the good that heaccomplished and stood for,his family and fellow officersestablished the John P. KalamanMemorial Scholarship Fundthrough The Dayton Foun-dation.

“When John was killed,there was a tremendous out-pouring of community sup-port,” said his father, John A.Kalaman. “We went to TheDayton Foundation, becausethey are experienced with en-

four-year renewable scholar-ships,” Mr. Kalaman said.

The success of this fundwould not be possible, however,if it wasn’t for the tireless effortsof the Centerville communityand its police force. Each yearthey rally together to host theOfficer John P. Kalaman Me-morial Golf Tournament,raising nearly $140,000 forthe scholarship fund to date.

There is no mistaking thatthe event is a Centerville PoliceDepartment-inspired golf tour-nament. Participants are greetedby police cruisers stationedat the front gates, andpolice officers carrytheir clubs to thecourse. At one of theholes officers arepositioned with alaser gun, typicallyused to clockspeeding cars, tomeasure longestdrives.

Approximately50 individuals vol-unteer on the com-

mittee and the day of the event,and dozens of businesses spon-sor holes or donate prizes forthe silent auction. Active andretired police officers, as well astheir spouses, assist at the event,many of whom use vacationtime or report to the courseimmediately after their shift.

“We lost a son, but wefeel like we have gained doz-ens of new family members,”said Paula Kalaman, John P.Kalaman’s mother. “We can’tthank the volunteers enoughfor all their hard work.”

John P. Kalaman Memorial Scholarship FundCommunity Rallies for Fallen Police Officer

dowment funds and couldhelp guide us in administeringthe scholarship.”

The fund awards threeseparate scholarships that assistgraduating Centerville or Wash-ington Township seniors, aswell as immediate familymembers of active or retiredCenterville police officers,with their college or tradeschool education.

Since 1999, 14 scholarshipstotaling $31,000 have beenawarded. “Our goal is to growthe fund to where we can offer

The men and women ofthe police force truly are goodpeople, according to Mr.Kalaman. “They don’t becomepolice officers for the car chasesor gun fights. They are com-passionate individuals whowant to help others. That’swhat John was all about, too,”he said.

This year marks the sev-enth annual golf tournament,pig roast and silent auction. Itwill be held on September 20at The Golf Club at YankeeTrace located in Centerville.

“John died so young, butthis fund keeps his dreamsalive,” Paula Kalaman said.“It’s up to us to keep his legacyalive.”

he Dayton Foundation mourns the passing ofRuth Reutinger, a dear friend,volunteer and donor of theFoundation. In 1993, not longafter retiring from GeneralMotors where she had workedfor more than 43 years in theAccounting Department, Ms.Reutinger started volunteeringfor The Dayton Foundation.She regularly gave her timeand skills in the Foundation’sFinance Department.

As a donor, Ms. Reutingerestablished two funds at TheDayton Foundation to benefitseveral religious and social-service organizations, as wellas The Dayton Foundation andThe Other Place, where she

also was a longtime volunteer.Both funds will help carry onher and her husband’s legacyin the Dayton community.

Even though her healthseverely declined in the lastmonths of her life, she stillmanaged to come into theoffice to support the Founda-tion’s work. As she often ex-pressed to staff, The DaytonFoundation was part of herfamily, just as she was partof ours.

In Remembrance of RuthReutinger

Bonds…Bonds…Who Has Bonds? ome federal bonds that are about to stop accumulatinginterest may be transferred tocurrent interest-paying bonds.If you are reading this beforethe end of August and you havefederal E/EE bonds, you maywant to be aware that August31, 2004, is the deadline forconverting them to HH bondsthat do pay interest currently.The accumulated interest onthe E/EE bonds is deferred untilthe HH bonds are cashed.

For people who give tocharity, they may find that agood use of bonds with accu-mulated interest is to bequeaththem to a charitable organiza-

tion, which can be accom-plished without paying tax onthe income.

If you’d like to make acharitable gift of your bonds,contact Bud Marks, seniordevelopment officer at TheDayton Foundation, at (937)225-9951. Your attorney or taxadvisor also can assist you inreviewing the uses of youroutstanding U.S. bonds.

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Online.A Charitable Checking Accountallows donors to deposit avariety of assets, includingappreciated securities, andthen direct the Foundation tosend contributions to any IRS-approved charity.

Secure, online applicationsnow are available for both indi-viduals and organizations onthe Foundation’s web site atwww.daytonfoundation.org/ccaintro.html – or you maydownload the applications, ifyou prefer to print them, andthen either fax or mail themto the Foundation.

Search for FoundationScholarships in New OnlineDirectoryAlso new is an online scholar-ship directory that enablesstudents and their parents tosearch through more than 120Dayton Foundation scholarships

available through Foundationendowed funds.

Located in the new “ForYouth” section of the Foun-dation’s web site, the directorycan be searched by the name ofthe scholarship, the high schoolthe student attended, county

in which the student lives orattends school and/or collegemajor or career interest. Toaccess the directory, either clickon the “For Youth” button onthe Foundation’s home pageor go directly to www.daytonfoundation.org/scholars.php.

menu is a “Tip of the Month,”offering charitable giving ad-vice, and “Ways to Fund YourAccount,” a chart that lists thetypes of assets that donors canuse to make contributions intotheir fund or account and howto do it. The “Tip of theMonth” is located on theFoundation’s main web site atwww. daytonfoundation.org/tipofmth.

Also available in this menuis “Grantmaking Opportuni-ties.” This enables donors tomake grants easily throughDonor Express to organizationsthat have applied for Founda-tion grants in the last quarter.Donors can read a brief sum-mary of each organization’sproject, link directly to its website, if available, and recom-mend a grant.

Be sure to check our website often, as we continue toadd more information andfeatures to better serve you.You also may contact ChrisSmith, public relations officer,with your comments or sug-gestions, at (937) 225-9958or at csmith@daytonfoundation.org.

Find Helpful CharitableGiving Tips in a New DonorExpress MenuDonors who use Donor Ex-press, the Foundation’s free,secure online service to viewaccount or fund informationand to recommend grants to

charities, willfind helpfulinformation andresources ina new DonorExpress “Chari-table GivingTips” menu.Included in this