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Voices of Giving: Gary and Dee Dee West
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Dee Dee and Gary have been members of CET for nearly three decades and are now in their eleventh year as CET Premier Circle donors. They bring particular passion to their work on the Premier Circle Committee, which brings new funding to CET. In 2006, Dee Dee gladly lent her considerable financial acumen to the relaunch of CET's planned giving program. Ever since, this dynamic couple has taken a leadership role in its planned giving society, the CET Visionaries. Their generous bequest gift, plus thirty years of continuous annual support and the immeasurable value of the time and talent they devote are telling testaments to their commitment to CET. It is their ardent hope that CET's incredible value in ''engaging, enlightening, entertaining, and educating'' our community and enriching our lives should flourish now and far, far into the future.
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Voices in Giving: Fred and Ruth Joffe
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Fred Joffe, retired P&G executive, joined the Talbert House board in 1967. He has served as board chair and now serves on executive, planning and program committees. He spearheaded the effort to create Talbert House's successful business model. By continuously evaluating programs through client outcomes, this model keeps Talbert House at the forefront of best practices, high quality services, and contained costs. Fred and Ruth are passionate advocates for social justice. They believe we all have a responsibility to help those who suffer from substance abuse, mental illness, the stigma of a criminal past. Through counseling, treatment, skill development, and training, Talbert House helps each client regain hope, personal dignity and sets their lives on brighter path. Fred and Ruth wish their more than 40 year commitment to Talbert House to endure for generations to come with their gift of life insurance - so that Talbert House can flourish in its mission to build a stronger community - one life at a time.
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Voices of Giving: Lucy Ward
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Lucy Ward began volunteering at the Wellness Community in the late 1990s. When two of her close friends were diagnosed with cancer, she transitioned from volunteer to Board Trustee. She now serves as Board President - helping TWC to thrive with great success through trying economic times. Lucy learned from her parents at a tender age the importance of giving back to her community. Seeing the incredible work that TWC does to support cancer patients and their loved ones, the decision to include TWC in her estate plans was very natural. Lucy's bequest will assure that TWC will continue to provide free programs of emotional support, education and hope to people battling cancer, to their care givers and loved ones. She is a true leader in sustaining TWC's present and an inspirational example in her commitment to secure its future.
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Voices of Giving: Kinnaird and Kathleen McQuade
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Kinny and Kathi McQuade chose to make their planned gift to Bayley Place because Kathi's mother, Virginia Gordon Friendship, was a Bayley Place resident - graced with excellent care and compassion until her death. This experience was so positive that Kinny joined the Board of Directors in 2004, and Kathi continues to share her talents with Bayley Place as well. The McQuades generously support BP through annual contributions and special events. However, they feel a planned gift is a crucial way to ensure its success and permanence in the community. ''We truly believe BP offers an unparalleled and unique attention to the quality of care. We know how wisely they steward their resources and how deeply they value and respect all who live and work there.'' The McQuade bequest gift will allow BP to become a stronger organization and inspire others - so that future generations of older adults will benefit from the extraordinary care and compassion provided by this outstanding organization.
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Voices of Giving: Barry Steinberg
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Barry and his late wife, Janice, have had a life-long relationship with the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens. In 1997, ''Janice's Garden'' was dedicated in Zoo's Red Panda Woodland to remember Mrs. Steinberg after she lost her battle with cancer. As Barry relates, ''Janice loved life, savored nature's bounty to the fullest, and loved the Cincinnati Zoo.'' Mr. Steinberg believes the Cincinnati Zoo stands head and shoulders above its peers. He describes the Zoo as ''a true treasure that Cincinnati is and should be very proud of.'' Hal Klink, Mr. Steinberg's financial advisor for over 15 years, is a senior Vice President and Trust Officer with USBank. Working together revisiting Barry's estate plan in 2009, it was only natural that Mr. Steinberg's strong personal commitment to the Zoo would have a central role in the gifting strategy. What resulted was a sizable increase to Mr. Steinberg's original gift to the zoo through a bequest involving both his living trust and IRA. Mr. Steinberg's estate gift will be directed towards a major capital project at the Zoo. This gift will help ensure that the zoo’s remarkable level of excellence will continue to evolve and thrive far into the future. It is with great thanks that we recognize Mr. Steinberg's generosity and forethought and Mr. Klink's pivotal role in helping make this gift a reality.
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Voices of Giving: Eric Bruestle, Esq.
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Eric Bruestle has been actively involved with Beech Acres Parenting Center for 25 years. He has held numerous volunteer and leadership positions, including serving on the Board of Directors, as chair, and planned giving committee chair. He has consistently been the ''voice for children'' - advocating for the highest quality programs to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Eric has played a pivotal role in facilitating bequests to Beech Acres totaling untold millions of dollars. His invaluable contribution is what has allowed Beech Acres the resources to transform itself from a 19th century orphanage to a 21st century parenting center - which served almost 13,000 parents and children in 2009 alone. He is most certainly a driving force in Beech Acres' ability to achieve its vision of seeing every child thrive through intentional parenting - and thus allow children to develop all their potential to the utmost.
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Voices of Giving: Christine Buttress, Esq.
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In the 1980s Chris became a member and a volunteer for CET's largest fundraiser. Throughout the late '80s and '90s, she also willingly devoted her expertise as an attorney to further CET's future - authoring planned giving articles for the member magazine and offering an estate planning seminar for donors.
In 2006, CET relaunched planned giving as one of its top strategic initiatives. Immediately ''on board,'' Chris proceeded to recruit 15 of the finest IRS, legal and financial planning talents from across the city to form CET's planned giving committee. Under Chris' leadership, the committee has guided board and staff in developing a phenomenally successful program. When they began in 2006, CET was aware of only 4 planned giving donors. Just 4 years later, there are 60 CET Visionaries of record.
Many of these CET Visionaries came to make their gifts to CET thanks to Chris' encouragement. She has worked with numerous clients and donors and helped them find the best ways to transform their passion for public broadcasting into lasting, perpetual support of CET. Our thanks to Chris for her seminal role in helping CET in its quest to ''engage, enlighten, entertain and educate'' our community and enrich our lives for generations to come.
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Voices of Giving: Richard Weiland
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In over 50 years of service, Dick Weiland has been responsible for raising more funds for the Jewish Federation and for the welfare of the Greater Cincinnati Jewish community than any other single individual. While just in his mid-twenties, he assumed a leadership role in the community's annual campaign and co founded the Young Leadership Cabinet. After decades on the Federation Board, he continues active service as a lifetime emeritus member. Ten years ago, Dick and his late wife, Marsha, established a permanent endowment fund to support members of the Jewish community with disabilities, creating living situations specifically designed to enhance their independence and ensure their dignity and quality of life. In 2010, Dick made an additional bequest commitment to endow the Federation’s ''Create Your Jewish Legacy'' initiative. With this gift, Dick continues to inspire many others to make legacy gifts to causes they most believe in and to make Cincinnati a better place.
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Voices of Giving: Robert (Bob) and Dell Ann Sathe
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Bob and Dell Ann Sathe became advocates and benefactors of Cincinnati's Ronald McDonald House thanks to their friends Gary and Joan Thompson. Bob and Dell Ann have served the House in so many ways - on the Board and Major Gifts committee, permanently naming a guest room, coming to serve meals to guest families with their own family and friends. ''What if your child were critical and the best care could only be found hours, states or continents away? What would you do, where would you stay, how would you cope?'' Bob and Dell Ann have helped answer these questions through their generous support of Cincinnati's Ronald McDonald House. With their IRA estate gift, Bob and Dell Ann want to make sure that every family with a critically ill child will always find 3 priceless gifts when they come to Cincinnati:
- all the comforts of home right next door to the hospital
- a caring community to embrace them in a city not their own
- the emotional and financial freedom to devote all their time and energy to the healing of their children. Bob and Dell Ann truly are and wish to remain ''on the front line'' of caring for families whose lives have been turned inside out by a child's critical illness and to offer the lasting gift of hope and healing.
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Voices of Giving: Mary Ann Stansfield
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For the past 95 years, no child has ever been denied an education at St. Rita School for the Deaf due to financial hardship. Endowed scholarship funds provide more than $3,000,000 each year - so that hearing impaired students can learn to communicate and express all their talents to their fullest potential.
No one understands how ''life changing'' this is more than Mary Ann Stansfield. She has dedicated 38 years to the ministry of St. Rita's - as a teacher, principal and Director of Special Services. Now, in retirement, she continues to be an extraordinary ambassador for the school throughout the community. She has created the Mary Ann Stansfield Scholarship Fund to make sure all the miracles - large and small - she has witnessed with St. Rita students and families will continue and multiply far into the future. She wants the unique ministry of St. Rita's to flourish in caring for the ''whole person'' - socially, emotionally, intellectually, physically and spiritually. And with Mary Ann's generous estate gift - indeed, St. Rita and its invaluable work will continue to thrive.
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Voices of Giving: David and Valerie Reed
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David and Valerie have been major donors to Cincinnati Christian University for many years, and Valerie has served on the Board of Trustees. The scholarship pool which they have worked so hard to create has significantly enhanced CCU's ability to enroll, retain and graduate worthy students. They have leveraged matching programs thus making the opportunity of quality higher education even more accessible to students in need. In the process, they have inspired many other donors, resulting in substantial additional gifts to CCU. To date more than $40,000 in scholarship assistance has been made available thanks to David and Valerie's great dedication. By leaving a bequest in their will to CCU, they hope to perpetuate this support - so that the path to higher learning will be open to all who seek to learn and grow at CCU.
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Voices of Giving: The Gertz Law Firm
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Anthony J. Gertz, Anthony J. Gertz II and Susan Marie Gertz are committed to helping their clients achieve their charitable goals. They have recognized that the mission and work of Cincinnati Children's aligns with several of their clients' desires to improve health care both in Cincinnati and around the world. Thanks to their expert legal guidance, Cincinnati Children's has received several bequests to support cutting edge research for the treatment and cure of heart disease and cancer-related illnesses. In choosing a research focus, their clients have made the far-sighted choice to provide on-going resources for the exploration of new ideas leading to advances in clinical care. And, as Cincinnati Children's is able to share its new discoveries and heightened expertise, children not just from across our region - but from around the world will all benefit. We gratefully recognize the Gertz Law Firm for their essential role in helping make these bequests a reality and for helping foster greater hope and healing for children.
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Voices of Giving: Harry and Ann Santen
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Harry and Ann Santen have been generous benefactors of CISE for nearly 30 years including serving on the Advisory board and Executive Committee. The 2003 annual campaign he chaired raised more than $2 million for the critical operating needs of 8 CISE schools. Having spent a year teaching at a CISE school in Over-the-Rhine, where 90% of students live under the federal poverty line, Harry knows all too well the challenges faced by inner city youth. Therefore, they are extremely dedicated to improving the odds for success for disadvantaged inner-city students. Their devotion to CISE has resulted in scholastic achievement, leadership development and graduation from both high school and college for students who, otherwise, might never have had such opportunities. Harry and Ann were among the very first to join CISE's newly established legacy giving society: ''The challenges will remain long after we are gone. With our bequest, we want the work we have started to continue.'' And, indeed it will - improving the lives of CISE students - and strengthening our entire community, as well - for generations to come.
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Voices of Giving: Tom and Ce Ce Mooney
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Tom and Ce Ce Mooney have been extremely active residents of Deupree House II since 2007. When asked why they chose Deupree, the response is simple: ''We just never thought to look anywhere else,'' - thanks to Ce Ce's mother, Alice Scott, and the wonderful experience she had as a resident of Deupree for many years. Tom and Ce Ce equally relish their life at Deupree - exercising in the pool, attending musical and educational programs and serving in leadership roles on the resident council. Tom and Ce Ce have chosen to leave a bequest to Deupree House as a special way of honoring Alice's memory and of giving back to a community of friends and neighbors whom they love. Tom and Ce Ce's generosity will enrich the lives of Deupree residents for years to come - ensuring a welcoming and supportive home for all seniors who become part of the Deupree family.
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Voices of Giving: Sparky and Linda Claypoole
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Sparky and Linda became involved with the American Cancer Society just last year. When they visited the Musekamp Family Hope Lodge, they knew they had found a ''home.'' Hope Lodge provides free housing for cancer patients and their families traveling to Cincinnati for treatment. In addition, the lodge provides invaluable assistance to those battling cancer - as well as much needed support to their caregivers. There could not be a worthier place where they could honor Sparky's mother, Texie, who died of cancer many years ago. Sparky and Linda have established a significant charitable gift annuity with the ACS which will provide ongoing support for vital patient services and fund life saving research, prevention and early detection programs. All of this will help create a world with less cancer, more birthdays and more hope - both now and far into the future.
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