BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION | ANNUAl REpORT 2011
BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION | ANNUAl REpORT 2011
BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION | ANNUAl REpORT 2011
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about the Baton Rouge Area Foundation<br />
MISSON<br />
The Baton Rouge Area Foundation unites human and financial resources to enhance the quality<br />
of life in South Louisiana.<br />
We are a community foundation, a nonprofit that pursues its mission in two ways.<br />
1. We are intermediaries between philanthropists and the causes they seek to support. Generous<br />
donors open charitable funds with us; to help them promote their causes, we provide them with<br />
knowledge about local needs and opportunities. We also manage the funds and the paperwork,<br />
making their philanthropy effortless, effective and enduring. Our donors have granted hundreds<br />
of millions of dollars to nonprofits over nearly five decades.<br />
2. Our civic leadership staff takes on essential projects, which we believe will fundamentally alter<br />
the direction of South Louisiana in good ways. Among our largest ongoing initiatives was creating<br />
The Water Institute of the Gulf, which aims to become a global leader among scientific resources,<br />
providing intelligence to combat rising seas and land loss. You have seen some of our other civic<br />
leadership projects: downtown and inner-city redevelopment, education reform, health care<br />
reform, and urban planning in Baton Rouge and across Louisiana.<br />
How we are governed<br />
The Foundation is governed by up to 15 directors who are elected by members to three-year terms.<br />
Directors may serve two consecutive terms. The immediate past Board Chair serves as a member<br />
of the Executive Committee and member of the Board, as does the CEO of the Foundation.<br />
Board members in <strong>2011</strong><br />
Matthew G. McKay, Board Chair,<br />
All Star Automotive<br />
John G. Davies, Foundation President & CEO<br />
John M. Steitz, Vice Chair, Albemarle Corp.<br />
Leonard C. Wyatt, Secretary, Whitney Bank<br />
Candace E. Wright, Treasurer,<br />
Postlethwaite & Netterville<br />
Alice D. Greer, Past Chair, Community Activist<br />
John W. Barton Sr., Chair Emeritus,<br />
Barton Investments<br />
Albert D. Sam II, MD, At Large, Baton Rouge<br />
Vascular Specialty Center<br />
Lee Michael Berg, Lee Michaels Fine Jewelry<br />
Warren O. Birkett Jr., Wybirk and Associates<br />
S. Dennis Blunt, Phelps Dunbar<br />
Donald H. Daigle, Exxon (retired)<br />
Yolanda J. Dixon, Louisiana State Senate<br />
G. Lee Griffin, LSU Foundation<br />
C. Kris Kirkpatrick, Long Law Firm<br />
Carl S. Luikart, MD, Louisiana Cardiology<br />
Associates<br />
C. Brent McCoy, Lamar Advertising<br />
Suzanne L. Turner, Suzanne Turner Associates<br />
Lists of all boards and committees of the Foundation and its support organizations begin on page 28.<br />
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<strong>BATON</strong> <strong>ROUGE</strong> <strong>AREA</strong> <strong>FOUNDATION</strong> | annual report <strong>2011</strong>
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