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DISCOVER a remarkable grassroots

leader

ASK them what tools

they need to improve their community

DEFINE a specific projectCONNECT with their

community, Beanstalk’s network, and supporting

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Remarkable leaders with engaged communities

A Simple Idea

Beanstalk Foundationa nonprofit organization

303.592.4907www.friendsofbeanstalk.org

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By involving the Community, Beanstalk, and Partners, everyone can make a personally significant contribution

The Beanstalk system is based around three types of contributions. Beanstalk or a supporting organization contributes a Seed Grant that functions as a vote of confidence

for the Garden and gets the ball rolling on fundraising. During the fundraising period, individuals from the Gardener’s community and the Beanstalk network contribute funds

to the Garden. The Garden partners with a local company or an organization interested in the project who offers a Matching Grant to leverage the community’s input.

By pairing community donations with Seed and Matching grants, everyone can give a personally significant contribution toward a meaningful impact.

Donation Matching

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It’s different with Beanstalk

Beanstalk presents you with an array of highly qualified grassroots leaders, all of whom have gone through our extensive Gardener Approval process. You have the opportunity to choose where and how to get involved with the confidence that your contributions are having a real impact.

Additionally, donations to Gardens are allocated very specifically. Our goal is to fund discrete projects rather than contribute to the general operating budget of an organization. By combining donor choice, donation matching, accountability and exceptional leadership, Beanstalk makes your contribution count.

Beanstalk supports Gardeners with and without a formal 501(c)(3) status because we believe in the power of remarkable grassroots leadership. It can be nearly impossible for individuals working in their communities to find grants and accept tax-deductible donations. Working with Beanstalk, Gardeners get accounting, legal, and community-building support, leaving them free to focus on addressing the needs in their neighborhoods.

Thirty years of building businesses and fifteen years of nonprofit experience have taught us that remarkable people make great things happen. Leaders who are resourceful, magnetic and selfless can mobilize their communities to address local needs effictively.

Meet remarkable leaders.

Choose how to get involved.

Make friends and make a difference.

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Remarkable grassroots leaders are the key to leveraged philanthropy

Sister Tesa Fitzgerald founded Hour Children in 1995 in Long Island, NY to provide safe housing for mothers returning to their children after incarceration. Hour Children now has five residences housing 45 families and has helped over 7,000 people confront the difficulties of reintegration.

The organization offers job training, a thrift shop, family counseling services, and a number of other services that make life easier for mothers rebuilding their families.

Deb Deverell has initiated a program in which she brings students from Vail Mountain School to Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Southwest Colorado. At Crow Canyon students participate in the excavation of 700-year-old Pueblo city. In addition to taking an active role in the excavation and research, Deb has organized a program in which her students convene with modern-day Pueblo students and the two groups share the culture and stories of the ancient Pueblo people, adding a cultural dimension to their scientific studies.

Susan Stocks has been a child advocate in several Colorado counties over the last four years. In an effort to make the holidays a bit more normal for her clients, Susan started Brunch With a Purpose, an annual gathering of friends and family in which guests bring gifts from the children’s wish lists. In 2009, Beanstalk worked with the program to sponsor 36 children, three foster parents, and a number of additional families through a local drug court.

Jim Tolstrup is Director of the High Plains Environmental Center and has overseen the development and conservation of a “living laboratory” within the Centerra development

in Loveland, CO. Suburbitat, as it is known, is a model for community development where shops, homes, restaurants, and businesses coexist with wetlands, bird habitat, and farmland. Most recently, Beanstalk has worked with Jim to build a garden demonstrating

the diversity of Colorado grasslands.

Anne Sneed started the East High Angel Foundation in 2001 to aid financially challenged students at East High, Denver’s most socio-economically diverse high school.

The program provides students the opportunity to work to purchase class materials including calculators, textbooks, and bus passes. A strong focus on attendance makes the

Angel Foundation one of the most effective programs of its kind.

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Business Leaders

Community Members

Offer grants to sponsor Beanstalk Gardens

• Connect with your local community

• Enhance your brand

Work with BCARE (Building Community Around Remarkable Employees) to select Gardeners from your organization

• Engage your team and boost morale

• Build a brand of excellence and generosity

Join the Friends of Beanstalk Network

• Keep in touch with Gardeners, projects, and your community

• Find projects in your neighborhood

• Sign on at www.friendsofbeanstalk.org to create a profile

Donate to a Garden

• Gardeners depend on community support to make their projects a reality, donate online or send in a check!

Contribute to Beanstalk

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Beanstalk’s founder, Ted Stolberg is inspired as a young man by his Uncle Vernon Rich. A soldier in World War II, Uncle Vern was a man of extraordinary caring and passionate generosity. He planted the early seeds for Beanstalk.

Ted establishes Stolberg Equity Partners, a for-profit investment firm established on the belief that highly capable managers can make good companies into great companies. During the last 17 years, Stolberg has generated 52% return from the growth of 35 companies.

The Stolberg family establishes the Children’s Seedling Fund, a private family foundation dedicated to addressing issues faced by women and children. The model is based on Stolberg Equity Partners’ model of “people first” investment, discovering and partnering with remarkable grassroots leaders, who would come to be known as Gardeners. Over the course of fifteen years, the Children’s Seedling Fund gives 264 Gardener Grants worth approximately $566,000. Gardener grants fund schools, cleft palate surgeries, programs for incarcerated mothers, and many other solutions to community need, all informed by those who know them best, Gardeners.

Forbes Magazine publishes “The Frugal Philanthropist,” detailing Ted’s work with the Children’s Seedling Fund and the incredible effectiveness of small, directed grants.

Growing from the Children’s Seedling Fund model, The Beanstalk Foundation is recognized as a 501(c)(3) public charity.

Beanstalk launches its website, www.friendsofbeanstalk.org, a social network for Gardeners and their communities. The site gives Gardeners the means to communicate with advisors, build community and find partners while coordinating fundraising campaigns.

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