Mission
The Apostle Islands Area Community Fund encourages private giving for the public good.

Through its advisory board of community leaders, the Fund:

• attracts and manages a growing endowment for our area’s future
• provides quality service and resources for donors with varied philanthropic interests
• identifies and effectively responds to changing community needs through strategic grant-making

What is a Community Foundation?
Community foundations are a unique way to encourage local philanthropy and to capture charitable resources for the community. Together charitable donors, community leaders, and service providers work to create solutions to challenges at home. The gifts of many contributors are managed by the community foundation and the income from these resources is distributed to a wide variety of causes. It’s a philanthropic choice that minimizes costs and maximizes charitable impact.

What is the Apostle Islands Area Community Fund?
The Apostle Islands Area Community Fund was established in 2000, as an affiliate fund of the Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, which has served nine counties in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin since 1983.

The Apostle Islands Area Community Fund was created both as a resource to the Bayfield - La Pointe - Red Cliff area, and as an opportunity for individuals to support the well-being of our beautiful Lake Superior home.

View the Apostle Island Area Family of Funds

As an affiliate fund of an established Community Foundation, the Apostle Islands Area Community Fund enjoys the benefit of an experienced staff, administrative support, and the advantage of pooling resources for investment. The Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, a tax-exempt public charity.

Who Decides How the Funds are Distributed?
The Apostle Islands Area Community Fund Advisory Board is made up of residents, business leaders, and others with significant ties to the region representing the broad interests of the community. Unless restricted by the donor at the time of the gift, grants are recommended by the Advisory Board's Grants Committee. In turn, those recommendations must be approved by the Board of Trustees of the Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, which has legal responsibility for final distribution of funds. Grants from the Unrestricted Fund support projects in six areas: arts, environment, human rights, adult education, civic projects, and community, youth and family services. Grant guidelines for the Unrestricted Fund and the Human Rights Fund are available.

How Are The Assets Administered?
The Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation provides sound investment management. By pooling individual gifts and/or funds, one can realize economies of scale through association with Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation’s investment portfolio.

Join us!
We invite you to consider how the Apostle Islands Area Community Fund can help you accomplish your charitable goals. Donors often choose to honor loved ones with gifts given in their memory or in celebration of an event in their lives (marriage, anniversary, etc.)

Gifts to our UNRESTRICTED FUND are welcome in any amount, at any time. A variety of RESTRICTED FUNDS, including Field of Interest Funds, Designated Funds, Scholarship Funds, Donor Advised Funds can be created to meet specific needs. A description of these fund options is included in the On Giving section. All contributions are tax deductible as provided by law.

Create a Lasting Legacy
Consider joining those who have made a bequest in their will to benefit the Apostle Islands region. Donors can designate gifts to the Apostle Islands Area Community Fund, an affiliate fund of the Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, in the following forms: a gift of cash, stock or property, whether specific or by percentage; a gift of real estate, whether developed or undeveloped; a gift in trust to benefit family members during their lives, with principal conveyed to the Foundation at their passing; or a gift of the remainder of an estate when other specific bequests have been fulfilled. Other options for deferred giving are listed in the Foundation's On Giving section.

Please contact us to discuss options available and ways to give to the Apostle Islands Area Community Fund.

APOSTLE ISLANDS AREA COMMUNITY FUND
300 Manypenny Avenue
P.O. Box 332, Bayfield, WI 54814

Advisory Board
Lavetta Meyer Torke, Chair Community Representative
Kathy Bergner, Owner, Apple Grove Inn
Joe Bresette, Director, Red Cliff Tribal Operations
Patty Carver, Community Representative
Richard L. Carver, Vice Chair, Managing Director, Employee Relations Solutions LLC
Margie Frederickson, M.D., Family Practice Physician, SMDC
Fritz E. Grutzner, Community Representative
Marcia Henry, Community Representative
Beth Meyers, Community Representative
Constance Teisberg Ross, Director, Madeline Island Library

Staff
Lois Albrecht
Donor Services Officer
715-779-7021
aiacf@centurytel.net

Holly C. Sampson
President, Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation
218-726-0232
info@dsacommunityfoundation.com