About DCCF

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dick Egan, Chairman of the Board

of Sister Bay, Wisconsin

Chairman Emeritus of Little Rapids Corporation

John Herlache, Vice-Chairman

of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Surgeon, Lakeside Surgical Associates, retired

Polly Alberts, Secretary

of Brussels, Wisconsin

Owner, Alberts Plastering Inc.

Michael Felhofer, Treasurer

of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Owner, Candleworks of Door County

Ruth Baldwin Barker

of Ephraim, Wisconsin

Philanthropist

Bill Boettcher

of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

President of Bill Boettcher Inc. Automotive Dealership, retired

Michael Brecke

of Fish Creek, Wisconsin

Pastor, St. Paul's Lutheran Church

David Eliot

of Bailey's Harbor, Wisconsin

Publisher, Peninsula Pulse

William R. Goldammer

of Fish Creek, Wisconsin

Senior Vice President, Sales, Morgan Stanley, retired

Marcia Peterson

of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Vice-President of Wealth Services, Marketing and Sales, Baylake Bank

Nancy Sargent

of Fish Creek, Wisconsin

Philanthropist

Jane Stevenson

of Nasewaupee, Wisconsin

Executive Director of the Door County Community Foundation, retired

Bret Bicoy

of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

President and CEO

Door County Community Foundation

The Door County Community Foundation was founded in 1999 by a group of visionary community leaders dedicated to enhancing the present and insuring the future of this extraordinary place.

The Foundation supports programs and non-profit organizations that serve Door County and its surrounding area.

We are a tax exempt public charity governed by a volunteer Board of Directors.

We use local as well as national investment professionals to prudently manage and invest our assets. Their performance is monitored by our Board of Directors. Currently, we manage more than 100 charitable funds valued at roughly $5 million.

Our staff is experienced and knowledgeable in all aspects of charitable opportunities, granting and investing that our community presents.

We identify emerging needs, secure appropriate resources, and help our area prepare for the future.

Spring, 2008 – Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

The Board of Directors of the Door County Community Foundation is pleased to announce that they have named Bret N. Bicoy as the Foundation’s new President & CEO.

Bret succeeds the retiring Jane Stevenson who has served the community well as Executive Director of the Foundation since April, 2004.

Until recently, Bret and his family lived in Las Vegas where he served as President of the Nevada Community Foundation. A personal tragedy last summer caused a yearning in him and his wife to once again be among family in Wisconsin. So with a renewed focus on family rather than career, Bret resigned from the Nevada Community Foundation and moved his family home to Northeast Wisconsin.

He began his career in the community foundation field in the late 1990s when he worked with the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation as its Senior Foundation Officer. It was during his tenure there that he played a role in launching the Door County Community Foundation. He was an early advocate for the Door County Community Foundation, helping it secure its first million dollar fund and guiding the process that awarded its very first round of grants to Door County charities. As a result, he has a unique and sound knowledge of both Door County and its Community Foundation.

Bret left the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation in 2002 to become President & CEO of the Marietta Community Foundation in Ohio, leading that organization until 2004 when he accepted the position in Nevada.

“We are very pleased to be able to engage a leader with Bret’s unique combination of personal knowledge of the Door County Community Foundation and demonstrated leadership of two successful community foundations,” says Dick Egan, Chairman of the Foundation’s Board of Directors. “Bret offers our community a tremendous opportunity to build philanthropic assets for the betterment of Door County.”

“I am honored that the Board of Directors is allowing me to follow in the footsteps of a true philanthropist like Jane Stevenson,” says Bicoy. “Door County is a remarkably beautiful and generous community. I am deeply thankful for this opportunity to serve.”

OUR MISSION . . .

Inspiring People to Give Back

to Sustain the Community We Love.

When Marion Hislop, and Dave and Vonnie Callsen DCCF Philanthropists of the Year for 2007 accepted their awards, they all spoke of their desire to “give back” to the Door County community which has given them so much. The desire to “give back” is strong and deep within all of us who love this place in a special

way.

This is why the Community Foundation has placed the phrase “give back” at the center of its new mission statement.

The strong verb “inspire” has the same root as the word spirit. It is easy to see the profound difference between a sports team with spirit and one without it. The same is true for communities. It is the

Foundation¹s role to tend to the spirit of Door County.

Some say that gratitude is a natural human response to beauty. It is easy to see, then, why gratitude is such a strongly felt dimension of the spirit of Door County. We nurture that spirit of gratitude. Out of gratitude we “give back.”

When you “give back” through the foundation, you also “give back and are looking forward.” The Community Foundation holds Door County’s future in strong hands. Like a parent we protect its future with caring and foresight.

By its very structure, the Foundation makes sure that each individual gift continues to give in a vital way, year after year into the future. Grants go to human needs, the arts, the environment, education and other charitable causes.

There is something in each of us that wants to be immortal. We want our gifts to keep giving after our own lives end. People give to capital fund drives for new buildings because they feel these gifts will endure beyond them. But even buildings and memorials have a life span that is limited. The Community Foundation’s life is unlimited, and the grants it will make the grants it will make every year will be alive, touching and sustaining the lives of people, organizations, the land and the water of Door County.

Tom Torinus

Board of Directors

Door County Community Foundation