Community Builders

How to become a Community Builder

The Community Builders Legacy Society honors the generous and forward-thinking people who provide a future gift to establish or add to a grantmaking fund of the Community Foundation. Your membership in this Legacy Society is our way of acknowledging today your commitment to our shared future. See a full list of current members below and contact Erin Stephenson to learn more about how you can be included.

Benefits of membership
In addition to the knowledge that your legacy will be part of this community forever, as a Community Builder you also receive these special benefits:

• Access to our expert staff to help you fulfill your personal philanthropic goals.
• Unique lapel pin with our hands logo, signifying your role as a leader, always reaching out to make an impact in Greater Birmingham
• Invitations to special events honoring our Community Builders Legacy Society and connecting you to the work of the Community Foundation today.
• Recognition on published lists as a member of our Legacy Society. Anonymity is also available, either during your lifetime or beyond, as you wish.
• News of important philanthropic opportunities and partnerships.

Joining the Community Builders Legacy Society is simple. When you include the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham as a beneficiary of your estate or trust, notify us that you have done so by calling the Development and Donor Relations staff. Community Builders are honored forever as a part of the Community Foundation.

Community Builders 2011
Florence S. Adams*
Kay S. and Edgar G. Aldridge
Ruby S. and John P.* Ansley
Charles P. Bagby
Gaby Savage Baldwin*
Carole and Bob Barnett
Betty A. and Roy D. Bartlett*
Dwight and Lucille Beeson*
Dr. and Mrs. Neal R. Berte
Verna and N.C.* Black
Judge Sharon L. Blackburn
Sheila and Clarence Blair
Mary J. and Thomas E. Bradford, Sr.*
Elna R. Brendel
Betty and Houston* Brice
E.T. Brown, Jr.*
Inez McKnight Brown*
Pauline B. and Carl G. Buck*
Ida C. and D. Joseph Burns*
William J. Cabaniss, Sr.*
Phyllis Cain*
Mary Elizabeth Callier*
Mae Wilson Camp*
Verda and Burnie Clifton*
Kathryn and Allen Corey
Judith Crittenden and Philippe Lathrop
Richard Dabney
Jo T. and James D. Davis
Rose I. Davis*
Maggie Dix*
Annie Edmundson*
Dr. John Durr Elmore
Marilyn Williams Elmore*
Ellen and Fred Elsas
Dorothy and Walter Fletcher
Catharine and Edward Friend
John L. Gadd*
Wilma Geels*
Elene and Brian Giattina
Betty Allenberg Goldstein
Betty and Bill* Grayson
Eleanor Griffin
Mrs. Horace K. Hammond*
Victor H. Hanson II
W. Felix Harris, Jr.*
Betsy and Phil Henle
Ronne and Donald Hess
Jean Hight*
Ora Lee and J. Ernest Hill*
Frances Spain Hodges*
Brenda and William Howell
Gloria and Bill Howton
Fay Ireland
Ken Jackson
Lynn and Michael Jared
Betty and Bill Jordan
Richard A. Kilgore
Sandra R. Killion
Liz and Jim King
Mildred Anne Lee
Beverly G. and Robert W. Lee
Judy and Bill Lewis
Virginia and Raeford Liles
Robert Luckie, Jr.*
Dr. and Mrs. Charles H. Lupton, Jr.*
Louise T. McAvoy*
Mary Louise and Edwin Burnett* Miller
William M. Miller
Kathryn W. Miree
Hugh Jackson Morgan, Jr.
Philip A. Morris
Harriet Murray*
Hazel K. Nabors*
Kate and Claude Nielsen
Mrs. Avis Norman*
Ruth W. and Edward J. Ott*
James M. Parker
Trudy M. Phillips
Margaret M. Porter
Elna B. and Richard S. Riley*
Guin Robinson
Wendy and Steve Rodde
Emily Jones Rushing
Helen S. Rust*
Carole* and Paul Samuelson
Elizabeth O’Neal White Shannon
Irvin F. and Rosalyn Siegal
Estelle Silverstein
James A. Sims*
Becky and Bill Smith
Nancy and Murray Smith
Margaret C. and Frank E. Spain*
Mr.* and Mrs. William M. Spencer III
Elton B. Stephens, Jr. Family
Martha Moore Sykes
Doris Williams Tate*
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Tate
Glenda and Tom Thompson
June* and David Thurlow
Anne W. Torrance*
Mimi W. Tynes
Jeanne B. Voigt
Cameron McDonald Vowell
John Frederick Wald*
Dr. Philip D. and Mrs. Jane C. Walton
Dr. Phillip Watkins
Louise and Edgar Welden
Thomas M. West, Jr.
Sherry and Lloyd Wilson
Plus 90 donors who wish to be anonymous

*Deceased