Honoring Mentors by Supporting Community Initiatives
The Student Health Coalition Legacy Fund was established in 2020 by former Coalitioners to provide financial support and give back to the communities we worked with as students many decades ago, all in the spirit of the original mission of the Student Health Coalition. Coalitioners with experience in fundraising and nonprofit management coordinate the Legacy Fund, which is structured as a “Donor Advised Fund” and is housed at the East Tennessee Foundation, a 501(c)(3) certified community foundation in Knoxville.
Mission Statement
To empower residents in underserved communities to craft their own solutions for their own challenges; support organizations and their leaders who comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable; and nurture service that is committed to improving the lives of the least of us.
Grant Recipient Selection Process
The coordinating team, comprised of former Coalitioners and their supporters, select recipients annually. The coordinating team conducts research and interviews with potential organizations, working with past and present community leaders to identify organizations whose work resonates with our own mission. Recipient organizations work in areas where the Coalition used to work: Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia.
To learn more about recent recipients of Legacy Fund grants, click on the menu to the left.
How to Make a Donation
Online Donation:
Using your credit card, you can make a donation at East Tennessee Foundation (ETF)/Student Health Coalition Legacy Fund. You will receive an email receipt of your tax-deductible gift. Please note that ETF receives 97% of your gift; three percent is deducted for the credit card fee.
Online, you can provide honoree contact information if you wish to make your gift in honor or memory of an individual. ETF will send an acknowledgment to the contact you provide. To make a donation online, click here.
Mail-In Donation:
If you prefer to mail a check to ETF, which preserves 100% of your donation, make the check payable to East Tennessee Foundation and state in the memo line: For Student Health Coalition Legacy Fund. Include honoree contact information if you wish to make your gift in honor or memory of an individual. ETF will send an acknowledgment to the contact you provide. ETF will mail you a receipt for your tax-deductible gift. Please mail your gift to East Tennessee Foundation, 520 W. Summit Hill Drive, Suite 1101, Knoxville, TN 37902. Attention: Student Health Coalition Legacy Fund.
Donor Advised Fund Transfer:
If you have your own donor advised fund from which you would like to donate to the SHC Legacy Fund, follow the instructions from your own fund. Include in the memo to direct the money to the Student Health Coalition Legacy Fund. ETF will send a confirmation once they have received the monies from your fund.
Donation of Assets (publicly traded securities, retirement assets, real property, etc.):
Please contact Traci Sisson, tsisson@ETF.org or 865 524-1223.
Special Note regarding IRA Direct Distributions:
By current law, the Legacy Fund cannot receive gifts directly from an IRA/Retirement Account. You can still make donations to any of the agencies that the Fund supports, as we explain here.
The Legacy Fund is a Donor Advised Fund (DAF) which is not technically or legally considered a 501(c)(3) organization. It is therefore not considered a “qualified charity” for purposes of IRA direct distributions. The East Tennessee Foundation (ETF) is the sponsor of our DAF and ETF is itself a 501(c)(3) organization, but it cannot deposit IRA funds in specific DAF accounts.
You may still use proceeds from your IRA to make charitable donations directly to our grant recipients. In this way, you can support Legacy Fund grantees with Direct Distributions from your IRA accounts while avoiding tax liabilities from withdrawals from your IRA. All Legacy Fund grantees are themselves 501(c)(3) charities, or they have Fiscal Sponsors who are. Simply send donations directly to any grantees, rather than going through the Legacy Fund.
To ensure that you are publicly credited for such donations, and to help the Legacy Fund to track its growth, do let us know whenever you make such a contribution. To let us know, or for more details about any of the above information, contact the Legacy Fund at shc.legacyfund@gmail.com
DONORS
through August 2023
Nancy Bagwell
Jack Beckford
C. Bradley and Family
Caryl Carpenter
Barbara Clinton
Heleny Cook
Bill Corr
Rick Davidson
John Davis and Bonnie Acker
Margaret Ecker
John Gaventa
Hattie Gresham
Rosie Hammond and Magnus Persmark
Linda Hart
Bob Hartmann and Mel Welsh
Lark Hayes
Randy Hodges and Mary Ann Atwell
Becca and Joe Ingle
Paul Joffrion
Tom John and Brenda Butka
Patricial Kalmans
John Kennedy
Cathryn Stanley Krebs
Diane Lauver
Sue and Cliff Love
Taylor Loy and Rebecca Shelton
Dal Macon and Marion Collette
Jean Masey
Moriah McArthur
Polly and John McArthur
Neil McBride
Mary Mikell
Ginnie Munford
Ellen Ormand
Nancy Raybin and Bill Portlock
Dale Strasser and Ann VanSlyke
Anne and Richard Thomas
John Troidl
Irwin Venick and Jeanne Ballinger
Daryl Walker
Ellen Weiss
Cathy Walsh Welsh
Robert and Deede Wyatt
DONATION TRIBUTES
through August 2023
John Davis and Bonnie Acker in memory of Byrd W. Duncan, Sr
Polly M. and John T. McArthur in memory of Kate Bradley and in honor of J. W. Bradley
Dr. Rick Davidson in memory Odes McKamey
Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Thomas in memory of “Aunt Lillie” Ayers and “Aunt Verne” (Luverna) Walker
Mr. Irwin Venick in memory of Kate Bradley and in honor of J. W. Bradley
Ms. Connie G. Bradley in memory of Kate Bradley and in honor of J. W. Bradley
Ms. Polly M. McArthur in memory of Carolyn Burr
Rebecca K. Shelton and Taylor A. Loy in memory of Kate Bradley and in honor of
J. W. Bradley
Ms. Diane R. Lauver in memory of Maxine Welch
Ms. Jean A. Massey, Ph.D. in memory of Carolyn Burr
Ms. Daryl F. Walker in memory of Bill Dow
Ms. Patricia A. Kalmans in memory of Bill Dow
Ms. Patricia A. Kalmans in memory of Kate Bradley and in honor of J. W. Bradley
Dr. John Joseph Troidl in memory of Bill Dow
Dr. J. Thomas John and Ms. Brenda J. Butka in memory of Bill Dow
Ms. Connie G. Bradley in memory of Kate Bradley and in honor of J. W. Bradley
Ms. Cathryn Stanley Krebs in memory of Kate Bradley and in honor of J. W. Bradley
Mr. Robert Clyde Allen in honor of Dr. Bryan Giemza, Texas Tech University
Ms. Polly M. McArthur in honor of Dr. Lewis Lefkowitz
Ms. Polly M. McArthur in memory of Howard and Elsie Elliott, Sr. Family
Ms. Hattie D. Gresham in honor of Rosie Hammond
Ms. Daryl F. Walker in memory of Kate Bradley and in honor of J. W. Bradley
Ms. Connie G. Bradley in memory of Dick Hall
Ms. Barbara Clinton in honor of Marian Colette
Dr. Rick Davidson in memory of Odes McKamey
Ms. Connie G. Bradley in memory of Kate Bradley and in honor of J. W. Bradley
Mr. Dal R. Macon and Ms. Marian Colette in honor of Marie Cirillo, Tonia Brookman, and
Lester Hatfield
Mr. Irwin Venick memory Dr. Lewis Benjamin Lefkowitz, Jr.
Ms. Linda S. Hart in memory of Bill Egbert
Dr. Rick Davidson in memory of Odes McKamey
Ms. Connie G. Bradley in memory of Kate Bradley
Ms. Daryl F. Walker in memory of Bill Dow
Ms. Connie G. Bradley in memory of Kate Bradley, Ralph Liles, Sue Ann Liles, James Ledford, and Randy Lovegrove
Ms. Daryl F. Walker in memory of Bill Dow
Rebecca K. Shelton and Taylor A. Loy in memory of Kate Bradley
Ms. Linda S. Hart in memory of Bill Egbert
Mr. Dal R. Macon in memory of Marian Elizabeth Colette
Ms. Cathryn Stanley Krebs in memory of Kate Bradley and in honor of J. W. Bradley
Ms. Connie G. Bradley in memory of Kate Bradley, Don Cox, and Gary Taylor
Ms. Catherine Welsh Walsh in honor of Polly McClanahan McArthur
Ms. Connie G. Bradley in memory of Edna “Faye” Justes
SHC Legacy Fund Team
Polly McArthur, PhD, RN retired professor of nursing; student nurse with SHC in St. Charles, Virginia 1973-4.
Nancy Raybin, Of Counsel, Marts & Lundy, philanthropic fundraising; community organizer and clinic manager in St Charles Virginia, 1973-77.
Jack Beckford, Beckford Consulting, organizational development for nonprofits; community organizer Mud Creek, Kentucky 1971.
John Gaventa, Professor, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex; author Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley, 1980. SHC East Tennessee 1971.
Taylor Loy, PhD candidate in Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech; grandson of Kate and J.W. Bradley.