1st quarter 2005.pub - International Community Foundation

1ST QUARTER 2005 ANNIVERSARY EDITION
ICF TSUNAMI RELIEF EFFORTS...
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ety for disaster relief efforts in Banda Aceh by the Sempra Energy International
Community Investment Fund at ICF bringing ICF’s total tsunami
related grantmaking to over $1 million.
ICF’s “UN Tsunami Disaster Relief Fund” initiative brought together a
unique collaboration of community foundations including the San Diego
Foundation, Orange County Community Foundation, Kansas City Foundation,
Community Foundation for Boulder County, the Central Minnesota
Community Foundation as well as
community foundations in Omaha,
Buffalo, Philadelphia, Dallas, Tijuana
and Chihuahua.
UN Foundation Addresses
ICF Tsunami Fund Donors
As a way of saying thank you
and providing updated information
to all those ICF donors
that participated in our recent
tsunami related fundraising efforts,
a special donor event was
held on Friday, March 4 th , 2005
at the Institute of the Americas,
UCSD, in partnership with Project
Concern International, The
San Diego Foundation, Orange
County Community Foundation,
and the United Nations
Foundation. The event featured
Kathryn Bushkin, CFO
and Executive Vice President of
the United Nations Foundation
as the key-note speaker.
SEE COMPLETE DONOR LIST ON PAGES 6-8
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Children in a refugee camp with their gifts. Photo provided
by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Support also came from several San Diego area companies including Accredited Home
Lenders, Amylin Pharmaceutical, Hitachi Consumer Electronics, as well as Pacific Athletic
Club, its parent company, Western Athletic Clubs, and their affiliate clubs along the west
coast. Grassroots fundraising efforts were also undertaken in several San Diego area
schools including several campuses of the Del Mar Union School District. At Torrey Hills
School, for example, over $6,700 was raised by children K-6; another $2,100 was raised by
the Del Mar Hills Academy; Carmel Del Mar School, $2075; and Del Mar Heights, $3,604.
100% of all monies raised from the UN Tsunami Disaster Relief Fund at ICF has been targeted
to support relief efforts of UN agencies in those areas most affected by the tsunami:
• ICF’s first UN Tsunami Fund grant of $200,000 went to support disaster relief efforts
in Indonesia, the Maldives and Sri Lanka, matched by an additional $100,000 grant from the
UN Foundation. Total support resulted in $300,000.
• A second grant of $300,000 from ICF, matched with $150,000 by the UN Foundation
is in the process of being issued to support housing re-construction efforts in the most affected
communities of Banda Aceh, Indonesia. This project, with an overall cost of $24
million is being overseen by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and is also supported
by the Governments of Japan, Netherlands and a consortium of twelve major Mexican
donors, including Fundación Azteca, that formed an alliance called “Alianza para Asia.”
• Remaining campaign funds will go to support UNICEF’s immunization programs in
Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
According to Richard Kiy, “the collaborative efforts of the many community foundations,
corporations and clubs that came together to support the UN’s tsunami disaster relief efforts
demonstrates the power of thinking globally while acting locally.”