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Board members' handbook, 2004.

File consists of one "Board Member's Handbook: a board members' handbook for the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation, 2004." Handbook is divided into 16 sections:

  1. Background,
  2. Enabling Documents,
  3. Vision and Mission,
  4. By-laws,
  5. Governance Model,
  6. Organizational Structure,
  7. Strategic Plan,
  8. Policies,
  9. Role of the Board,
  10. Board List,
  11. Committees,
  12. Special Projects,
  13. Agreements and Contracts,
  14. Community Foundations of Canada,
  15. Management and Administrations,
  16. Board Meeting Minutes and Agendas.

Some parts of the manual have been annotated.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Incorporation

Series consists of material relating to the incorporation and organization of the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation. Includes originals and photocopies of bills, by-laws and an Order in the Supreme Court of Ontario.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Executive Director's Files

Series consists of material relating to the responsibilities of the Executive Director. Includes budgets, accounts, memoranda, Fall Update newsletters, correspondence, subscription forms, information requests, job descriptions, letters of appreciation, promotional material, exhibit material, reports, news releases, lists of award winners, records of donations, committee records, focus group records, fundraising event records, Gala Dinner records, town meeting records, speeches, newspaper clippings, invitations, television and video scripts, and records of the launching luncheon.

Records relating to the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation's relationship with the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy, Centre In The Square, Community Foundations of Canada, Ernst & Young, Estate Planning Council, K-W Symphony Concert, Waterloo Law Association, Waterloo-Wellington Fund Raising Executives, and Leadership Waterloo Region are also included.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Executive Director's Files

Series consists of files created or accumulated by the Executive Director of Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation. Includes information on awards, charity information, office files, financial files, business plans, etc.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Board retreat : February 18, 1992.

Contains material relating to Community Foundation planning, specifically a retreat held "to establish priorities for action over the next three years." Includes minutes, an on-site consulting report done by Linda Weinstein, Rochester Area Foundation N.Y., Feb. 13-15, 1992 and a follow-up meeting held Nov. 6, 1992. Includes a retreat agenda, retreat notes, and supporting documents.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

General Board information.

Contains material relating to non-profit boards of directors in general: includes information about how boards work, how to evaluate effectiveness, developing job descriptions, recruitment, etc. Includes reports, photocopied articles, emails, newsletters, summary of seminar on "Board members and their CEOs," and a workbook on board development.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Award : Alastair Gamble selection.

Contains material relating to the presentation of the Community Foundations of Canada Alastair Gamble Memorial Award to the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation in 1996, the first year the award was given. Includes booklets, correspondence to and from the Foundation, photocopied cheques, a completed Award application, photocopied articles, memoranda, 1998 submissions from other communtiy foundations.

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Award for the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation's Annual Report : Council on Foundations.

Contains material relating to the Wilmer Shields Rich Awards Program for Excellence in Communications for Annual Reports. The Foundation was awarded a "Bronze" in the Annual Reports category Includes correspondence to the Foundation, a list of Annual Report award winners, memoranda, news release, and a booklet listing the 1998 award winners.

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Budgets.

Contains material relating to the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation budget. Includes notes, operating budgets, memoranda, draft budgets, cash flow charts, and audited financial statements.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Budgets : cash flow, etc.

Contains material relating to the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation budget. Includes cash flow charts, annual cash flow plans, lists of grants, financial highlights and summaries, notes, financial reports, agenda, draft cash flow charts and cash summaries.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Canadian Centre for Philanthropy, 1984-1996 (file 1 of 2).

Contains material relating to the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy. Includes correspondence, memoranda and information received as mailouts from the Centre to its members. Includes brochures, ephemera, newsletters, memoranda, photocopied articles, draft entries for the Canadian Directory to Foundations, information regarding the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy Employee Benefit Program for members, and notes.

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Canadian Centre for Philanthropy, 1984-1996, (file 2 of 2).

Contains material relating to the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy. Includes memoranda, Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation registration information, photocopied articles, correspondence to and from the Foundation, foundation questionnaire, summary of the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy's Policy on Dissemination of Information, and brochures.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Centre In The Square.

Contains material relating to the KWCF's response (unsuccessful) to a Centre in the Square RFP for an Investment Advisor. Includes correspondence to and from the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Communications working file.

Material relating to communications vehicles for Foundations, such as annual reports and Town meetings. Includes photocopies of presentation at a CFC workshop and a list of elements of the KWCF "Town Meeting."

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Executive Director's Files : Conferences, Seminars, Workshops

Series consists of material relating to conferences, seminars and workshops at which the Executive Director of the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation attended and often presented. Series contains records from events at the Banff Centre for Management, Canadian Association of Gift Planners, Community Foundations of Canada, Council of Foundations, Journeys in Charitable Giving and Social Entrepreneurship presentation sponsored by the Notre Dame Child and Family Institute in St. Agatha.

Includes conference agendas, lists of conference participants and exhibitors, conference proceedings, Jane Humphries' presentation notes and material, handouts, biographies, correspondence, newsletters, and presentation texts.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Community Foundations of Canada application to Trillium.

Contains material relating to an application that the Community Foundations of Canada submitted to the Trillium Foundation on behalf of its Ontario members. KWCF Executive Director Jane Humphries was the Ontario Regional Coordinator. Includes memoranda, and information about the application.

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Community Foundations of Canada : minutes and information bulletins (file 1 of 2).

Information binder maintained by KWCF, divided in sections: Tips and Tools; C.F. of C. Info Bulletin; Crown Agency Foundations; C.F. of C. Board Minutes; '95 McConnel Foundation Report; TAP [Technical and Professional Assistance Program] Evaluation; Minutes [of the Program Development Committee].

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Donations : stocks.

Information file belonging to the Executive Director (Jane Humphries) containing material relating to gifts of securities. Includes correspondence to the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation, photocopied articles, newspaper clippings, notes on donating personally owned securities, and a bulletin on the Income Tax Act.

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Donors : operating support (history) (file 1 of 2).

Contains material relating to funds donated by corporations.

Includes information about a "mini campaign" held in 1993 to raise funds "from the corporate sector to offset operating costs of the Foundation." Includes correspondence to and from the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation regarding contributions, form letters, a list of prospect companies for operating support, memoranda, a list of operating fund pledges, notes, a list of Operating Support Sub-Committee members, minutes, operating expenses, and a certificate for a plot at Memory Gardens [estate of S. Mann, misfiled?].

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Donors : prospects.

Contains material relating to potential donors. Includes correspondence to and from the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation, donation cards, newspaper clipping, notes, etc.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Ernst & Young.

Contains material relating to accounting issues, incuding unitization. Includes correspondence to and from the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation, job description for a volunteer accounting position and resumés.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Estate Planning Council.

Contains material relating to distribution of the KWCF's "Professional Advisor's Kit" to members of the Estate Planning Council, following presentations by the KWCF. Includes correspondence and mailing lists.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Fall Update, 1991.

Working file belonging to Jane Humphries. Contains material relating to the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation "Fall Update" newsletter. Includes a copy of the 1991 and 1990 "Fall Update," proofs and draft articles, a copy of the 1990 annual report, notes, suggestions for format and content of the 1991 newsletter, and a letter from the Hamilton Foundation.

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[Board of Directors manual, 1997].

Manual in a tabbed format with sections:

  1. KWCF Info, including a list of Board of Directors meetings for 1997, President's letter 1977, and a copy of the 1996 "Fall Update";
  2. Board role (organization chart);
  3. Plans/Policies;
  4. Act and Bylaws;
  5. Goals and Objectives;
  6. Asset Development;
  7. Communications;
  8. Grants;
  9. Investment;
  10. Board minutes (May 7, 1997 only);
  11. Board and Committees;
  12. Community Foundations.

Includes lists of committee members, minutes of some committees, investment information, plans and policies, Act of Incorporation, "By-law no. 4," goals and objectives, communication plan, minutes, information on grants and the grant application process.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Presentations and Speeches

Series consists of speeches and presentations pertaining to the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation. The material was presented to the Foundation as well as other organizations. Series includes originals and photocopies of speeches and presentations, draft remarks, correspondence, ephemera, agendas, a newsletter, overheads and transparencies.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Presentations and Speeches

Series consists of presentations and speeches given by employees of Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation as well as other members of the greater K-W community. Includes speeches by Charles Ormston, Ken Murray, Rosemary Smith, David Graham, Doug Letson and Susan Saunders Bellingham.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Fall Update, 1992.

Working file belonging to Jane Humphries. Contains material relating to the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation "Fall Update" newsletter. Includes copies of the 1991 and 1992 "Fall Update," layout notes, newsletter drafts and proofs, United Way newsletters for 1992, copies of the 1991 annual report, and four snapshots of the Waterloo Concert Band.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Fall Update, 1993.

Working file belonging to Jane Humphries. Contains material relating to the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation "Fall Update" newsletter. Includes a work schedule, canvasser list, canvasser letters by category, names and addresses of potential donors, a copy of the 1993 "Fall Update," proofs for the newsletter, drafts of articles, notes, suggested story ideas, copies of the 1992 "Fall Update," brochures, and a list of operating support pledges.

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Fall Update, 1994.

Working file belonging to Jane Humphries. Contains material relating to the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation "Fall Update" newsletter. Includes memoranda, canvasser lists for 1994, work schedule for 1994 "Fall Update," notes, copies of the 1994 "Fall Update," canvasser letters to potential and past donors, newsletter proofs, and draft letters.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Fall Update, 1995 (file 1 of 2).

Working file belonging to Jane Humphries. Contains material relating to production and distribution of the "Fall Update" newsletter. Includes copies of the 1995 "Fall Update," drafts of the newsletter, canvasser letters, proofs and outline of the newsletter, draft articles, correspondence from Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation, canvasser lists with addresses of potential and past donors, brochures, community program information, and a work schedule for the 1995 "Fall Update."

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Fall Update, 1996 (file 1 of 2).

Working file belonging to Jane Humphries. Contains material relating to the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation "Fall Update" newsletter. Includes copies of the 1995 and 1996 "Fall Update," work schedules for the 1996 and 1997 "Fall Update" and canvasser letters, correspondence to and from the Foundation, proofs of the newsletter, drafts of stories and suggested layout of the newsletter, invitation to the President's Reception, canvasser lists with names and addresses of past and potential donors, and notes.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Fall Update, 1997.

Working file belonging to Jane Humphries. Contains fund-raising "canvasser" form letters in nine donor categories to be mailed with copies of the KWCF "Fall Update" newsletter attached.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Focus groups.

Contains material relating to focus groups held Dec. 1992 to Feb. 1993 to obtain input on "future planning and feedback on the Foundation's role from donors and friends of the Foundation." Includes discussion summaries, notes on the focus group luncheon, memoranda, a donor group discussion summary (with names of donor participants), and notes from the Board Retreat.

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Fundraising : 10th Anniversary Council.

Contains material relating to the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation 10th Anniversary Gala Dinner held June 1, 1994. Includes a program for the celebration, correspondence to and from the Foundation, Gala Dinner seating plan, Gala Dinner invitations, a Mayoral Proclamation to declare June 4th, 1994 as "Community Foundation Week," and minutes of the 10th Anniversary Council meeting. Includes a note inside the folder, "please refer to 10th Anniversary binder, located in Executive Director's bookcase."

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Fundraising : 1986-1989.

Contains material relating to fundraising. Includes copies of fundraising form letters sent to individuals, internal list of donors to June 30, 1986, a list of pledges and potential donations from September to December 31, 1987, memoranda, draft form letters, and notes.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Board of Directors manual.

Board of Director's manual maintained in a binder, subdivided by category. Includes membership lists for committees, roles of directors, a copy of the certificate of registered charitable status, a copy of the act of incorporation, by-laws, Board of Directors minutes, brochures, and promotional material.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Fundraising : 1990 campaign contact lists (file 2 of 2).

Contains material relating to fundraising. Includes notes, presentation transparencies, lists of contacts, a donor recognition list for the K-W Symphony, brochures, correspondence to and from the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation, a list of contributions received by United Way for January 17, 1989, notes, canvasser recruitment information, projected fund growth, fundraising audio-visual script, and canvasser lists.

Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Fundraising Committee, 1989-1995.

Contains material relating to the Fundraising Committee. Includes agenda, minutes, supporting documents, correspondence and membership information. Includes an inserted files: "DEW's Fundraising, 1986-1991," containing copies of letters for bulk mailings and lists of contributions by canvasser.

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Fundraising mailing lists : W.A. Bean.

Contains material relating to Walter Bean's role in fundraising for the Foundation. Includes correspondence to and from him, form letters sent out over his signature, Fund Raising Committee material, targets of the Committee, canvasser lists, donor lists, contact lists and notes.

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Gala Dinner.

Working file relating to the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation 10th Anniversary Gala Dinner. Includes invitations to the 1994 Town Meeting, Gala invitations and tickets, invitations and programs, form letters, seating plans, canvassing mailing lists, and a Gala guest list.

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Grand River Project Committee (file 1 of 2).

Contains material relating to the Grand River Project Committee.

Includes a news release, a miniature canoe paddle, memoranda, correspondence to and from the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation, a newspaper clipping, Walter Bean Grand River Trail Project business plan and "Peterson Report" summary, agenda and minutes of meetings, newsletters, maps, committee member list, Council recommendations regarding the Grand River Corridor Conservation Plan, overview of the Grand River Project, official receipt from the City of Kitchener, summary and recommendations for future proposals for the Grand River Corridor, and lists of Grand River Trail access nodes and trail segments.

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Information requests.

Contains material relating to requests for information about the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation. Includes directory update information for several directories, surveys and questionnaires, memoranda and correspondence to and from the Foundation.

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Job description.

Contains material relating to job descriptions for the Foundation. Includes an administrative assistant job description, a list of roles and responsiblities for regional centres, position descriptions for the Hamilton Community Foundation, a summer student job description for the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation, and a resumé of an applicant for the summer student job.

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