“Honoring someone through Living Treasures is a way of increasing the wealth of human relationships and helping out the nonprofits.”
JoAnn Ross Cunningham
The Living Treasures Program was created as a way for donors to honor friends, relatives and community members who are valued and make a difference in a variety of ways. Your gift to the Living Treasures Program in the name of a specific person helps support the work of the many nonprofit organizations in the Chilkat Valley.
Living Treasures gifts can be made to any Chilkat Valley Community Foundation fund.
Individuals named as Living Treasures will be recognized in CVCF’s annual December newsletter, on CVCF’s Facebook page, and on this web page. They will also receive a special card acknowledging them as a treasure. Currently our Living Treasures card features artwork by Haines High School graduate Elizabeth Jurgeleit.
To make your donation in honor of someone, please indicate the name on your check or in “Additional Instructions” when donating online.
I can’t really bake enough cookies or cakes to show the depth of my appreciation to some people, but I can make a donation in their name through Living Treasures. Chilkat Valley would not be as wonderful a place to live without people who do so much for our community. I love having this option to donate money in their names to CVCF, who will then multiply the money to the benefit of our community.
Cindy Buxton
2023 Living Treasures
♥ Tracy Wirak-Cassidy
2022 Living Treasures
♥ Nancy DeCherney & the Hopper clan
♥ Chuck Mitman & all the Uglys
♥ Cynthia Allen
♥ Wendy Bergstrand
♥ Sally Boisvert
♥ Greg Brittenham
♥ JoAnn Ross Cunningham
♥ June Haas
♥ Haines Community Volunteers
♥ Warren Johnson
♥ CJ Jones
♥ Lorraine Kasko
♥ Tim McDonough & Ann Myren
♥ Doris Peck
♥ Sharon Samuels
♥ Stephanie Scott
♥ Nishan & Susan Weerasinghe
2021 Living Treasures
♥ In honor of Heather Lende’s books
♥ In honor of “anonymous” donors
♥ First responders to the weather event in December 2020
♥ Heather Lende for her wonderful books about Haines
♥ Shaleena Bott
♥ Medical clinic staff who nobly serve
♥ The people of the Chilkat – the community
♥ SEARHC nurses
♥ Georgia Haisler
♥ Ron Stotz & Nancy Bandy
♥ Jesse Pinkman
♥Melissa Aronson
♥ Janice Studley
♥ John Norton
♥ Don Turner, Jr.
♥ Roger Schnabel
♥ Winter Cheney
♥ Bryan Harman
♥ Hearts for Haines
♥ Barbara Laye
♥ Vincent & Jansy Hansen
♥ NeNe Wolfe
♥ Michelle Howell
♥ Heather Lende
♥ Jeff Baird
♥ Allen Arnone & Morgen Smith
♥ Richard & Annie Caulfield
♥ Aaron Davidman & Sarana Miller
♥ Drew Degen
♥ Celeste Grimes
♥ Haines EMS
♥ Haines EOS
♥ Haines Landslide Disaster Relief
♥ Tom Hall
♥ Michelle Howell
♥ Tom Traibush & Nomi Sundberg
♥ Helen VanNice
2020 Living Treasures
♥ Cecily Stern
♥ Annette Gregg Smith
♥ Greg Podsiki
♥ Mike Howard
♥ Steve & Ann Marie Fossman
♥ Gregg Bigsby
♥ Haines EMS
♥ Jim & Lee Graham
♥ Peter Sidmore
♥ Sam, Shannon, Owen & Emily McPhetres
♥ Celeste Grimes
♥ The Staska Family
♥ Jim Stock
♥ Tom Traibush & Nomi Sundberg
♥ Van Sundberg & Tracey Miller
♥ Richard & Annie Caulfield
♥ Sue & Sarah
♥ Haines Landslide Disaster Relief
♥ Aaron & Sarana
♥ Helen VanNice, Norma, Ruth and Esther Hurlburt
♥ Everyone in Haines
♥ Heather Lende and the residents of Haines
♥ Haines EOC
♥ Local Journalists at KHNS & Chilkat Valley News
♥ Heather Lende
♥ The Hayden-Lewis Family
♥ Danny Hill
♥ Morgen Smith & Allen Arnone
♥ Rebecca Smith & Damon Stuebner
♥ Joe Oesterling & Tracy Mikowski
♥ The Haines Community
♥ Shannon McPhetres
♥ Jerry Blood
♥ Drew Degen
♥ Dr. Bill Broste
♥ Ann Myren
♥ Sara Chapell
♥ Chuck Mitman
♥ Jerry & Barb Blood
♥ Jeanne Kitayama
2019 Living Treasures
♥ Mike Howard
♥ Gregg Bigsby
♥ Chip Lende
♥ Steve & JoAnn Cunningham
♥ Steve & Ann Fossman
♥ Liz Heywood
♥ Lea Harris
♥ Greg Podsiki
♥ Cecily Stern
♥ Annette Gregg Smith
2018 Living Treasures
♥ Dick and Julie Folta
♥ Ron and Jacque Horn
♥ Stan Jones
♥ David Olerud
♥ Nancy Nash
♥ Lora McCoy
♥ Greg & Shannon Higgins
2017 Living Treasures
♥ Dick and Julie Folta
♥ Vince and Jansy Hansen
♥ Marianne Rasmussen
♥ Nicki Hopper
♥ Dave and Valery McCandless
♥ Jim Shook
♥ Bruce Gilbert
♥ Chip & Heather Lende
2016 Living Treasures
♥ Bruce Gilbert
♥ Chuck Mitman
♥ Linda Graham
♥ Valery McCandless
♥ Marnie Hartman
♥ Anne Boyce and Paul Swift
♥ Caitlin Stern and Jessie Barker
2015 Living Treasures
♥ Sam McPhetres
♥ Vinca Gilman
♥ Patrick Shallcross
♥ Ann Myren
♥ Alan Heinrich
2014 Living Treasures
♥ Len Feldman
♥ Debra Schnabel
♥ Melissa Aronson
♥ Mardell Gunn
2013 Living Treasures
♥ Linda Graham
♥ Ralph Borders
♥ Mark and Diana Edwards
♥ Georgia Haisler
♥ Art Jess
♥ Ed and Yuko Hays
♥ Beth MacCready
♥ Sandy June Degen
♥ Diz Kistler
♥ Mardell Gunn
♥ Gershon Cohen
♥ Tim Shields
♥ Doris Ward
♥ Charlie DeWitt
♥ Liz Heywood
♥ Michelle Byer
♥ Lyle Huff
♥ Nancy Nash
2012 Living Treasures
♥ Mario and Natalie Benassi
♥ Pam Randles
♥ Lindsey Moore
♥ Stephanie Scott
♥ Steve Vick
♥ Kimberley Strong
♥ Nevada Benton
♥ Tiana Taylor
♥ Patty Brown
♥ Maisie Jones
♥ Jacky Rugirello
♥ Cheryl Stickler
♥ Maria Ackley