Letter from Board Chair Mike Niemeyer
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Dear Maitri Community,
Another season comes upon us at Maitri. The fog rolls in, vacations finally creep up on the calendar, and the rumble of MUNI continues apace. We meet people who are resilient, creative, and all-out funny, and sometimes they depart much too soon. Through it all, Maitri and its incredible staff continues its work on behalf of some of our most vulnerable.
Michael Smithwick came back to us with his prodigious talents for operations, finance, and organizational development. I want to personally thank Michael for the gift that he has given Maitri when he really just wanted to sink into a well-deserved retirement. Thank you, Michael -- you may head South to Palm Springs now, but I can't promise I won't call you for advice and thought-partnering.
Walter Parsley retired from the Board this month after 17 years of service. Walter's candor, adroit thinking, and intense love for the mission of Maitri will be missed. His shoes will be huge to fill and I extend the invitation to all who love Maitri to consider Board service.
Finally, I would like to join in the welcome of Rusty Smith as our new Executive Director. We are very excited to have him on board.
Sincerely,
Mike Niemeyer
Maitri Board Chair
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News from Ray Lapointe, Board Member
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I am very excited to announce that Rusty Smith has accepted the position of Executive Director of Maitri Compassionate Care. Rusty Smith’s first day is today, July 8, 2019.
As Head of the Search Committee, I want to thank the Staff, Board and others who contributed to the project of articulating the essential qualities we needed in our new Executive Director, prioritizing strong leadership and business acumen seasoned with lots of experience. Rusty brings 30 years of executive management experience, visionary leadership, and a lifelong passion for working for equality, human rights and social justice. After screening and interviewing many well qualified candidates, we are extremely fortunate that Rusty Smith and Maitri have found each other.
Rusty Smith is currently an Executive Director with the American Diabetes Association (California, Nevada and Hawaii). He was the Executive Director/CEO of St. Martin’s Hospitality Center (providing hope to those experiencing homelessness) in New Mexico where he managed a staff of 110, including 9 Directors. Under Rusty Smith’s leadership, St. Martin’s was awarded the New Mexico Entrepreneurial, Innovative Award of the year in 2015 and was awarded Non-profit of the Year in 2015.
Rusty is a graduate of Loyola University, New Orleans and also attended St. Mary’s University Seminary/Anglican Institute. Rusty is an Anglican priest, and married to his husband, Scott.
Please help welcome Rusty Smith and his family to Maitri and thank you for your continued friendship and commitment to Maitri.
Ray Lapointe
Board Member
Head of Executive Director Search Committee
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From the Desk of our New Executive Director
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I am so grateful for the opportunity to join the dedicated and devoted staff, volunteers and donors of Maitri in our life changing mission,
“No one should have to suffer or die alone.”
I am humbled at what has been accomplished and achieved by this exceptional organization. I am excited at the opportunities and possibilities of who we can become as we seek to continue our legacy of offering compassionate care and friendship for those in our community facing critical health challenges at the end of their lives.
I come from a diverse non-profit background that spans over 30 years with a primary focus on serving those who find themselves on the margins of our society; Lesbian/Gay/Bi-sexual/Transgender, people living with HIV/AIDS, End of Life, Health Equity/Chronic Illness, Inmates/Post Incarceration, Mental Health and Homelessness and my ongoing fight for full human equality for all. I am an openly gay Anglican priest with a background in liberation theology, philosophy and business. I am married to my husband and best friend, Scott, as we attempt to parent our willful and furry black standard poodle, Oreo.
Why have I come to Maitri? When I walked through the doors of Maitri for the first time I knew that I wanted to be a part of this mission and this amazing group of staff, volunteers and guests. The atmosphere and impact of compassionate friendship greets you as you enter and you cannot escape the thankful voices of guests and their families;
“Thank you for being with my son in his last hours.”
“Thank you for helping my friend feel at home.”
“We will never forget how wonderful you all were.”
“The people at Maitri are very special.”
“I will always be grateful.”
I feel privileged and grateful to be joining the Maitri family.
With deep gratitude and compassionate friendship,
Rev. Rusty Smith
Maitri Executive Director, as of July 8, 2019
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Thank You for Making Bliss 2019 a Success!
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Our 2019 Bliss Gala was a wonderful evening that brought together our compassionate community for an evening filled with exciting auctions, sumptuous food, and a heartfelt performance by longtime friend of Maitri, Paula West.
It was a delightful evening filled with friends coming together and honoring our residents. We capped the evening with a moving testimony from a Maitri resident and one of our strongest “Fund a Need”s where the community came together to support our programming and residents.
Stay tuned for details on Bliss 2020! It's an event you won't want to miss!
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A HUGE thank you to everyone for the compassion, care, and support offered to our residents this year!
On May 30, we held a celebration for five residents who were "graduating" from Maitri after meeting their treatment goals and have moved on to living independently!
The face of Maitri is changing. Nearly 50% of our residents last year were stabilized with compassionate care and are now living the rest of their lives on their terms.
We're so happy to add another 5 people to our growing list of graduates!
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Annual Report and Financials
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Thank You to our Fiscal Year 2018 Donors!
(7/1/2017 to 6/30/2018)
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Transcendent Grace ($25,000 to $49,999)
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Mimi and Peter Haas Fund
Sutter Health, CPMC
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Warming Sunlight ($10,000 - $24,999)
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Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
The Richard Grand Foundation
MAC AIDS Fund
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The Dorian Fund
Grass Roots Gay Rights West/ Real Bad
Dr. Winston C. Vaughan, MD and Jeffrey Sallot
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Gentle Breeze ($1,000 to $9,999)
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Alex-Brown
Raja S. D. Antony
William J. Aseltyne
Walter Bowman
Karl Christiansen
Costco Wholesale
Danford Foundation
Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation
Lindsay Faeder
Veronica Gibson
Anne Gimbel and Noel Gimbel
Susan (Carmela) Gold
Paul R. Grippardi and Kevin Bentley
Byron Hancock, CFP and Len Handeland
Kirsten Havrehed
James C. Hormel and Michael P. Nguyen
Robert Kahn and David Valentine
Michael Kalla
Jim King
George A. Labella Jr.
Likeminded Communities
Stuart McIntee
Peter Monti
Bill Musick
Walter Parsley
David Ralston
Safeway, Inc.
Mark A. Silva and Teddy D. Bolivar
Robert M. Simpson
Michael Smithwick and Jerry Wilder
Sterling Bank & Trust / Seligman
The Green Cross
Wells Fargo Foundation
Douglas Will and Jet Villaavicencio
Marjorie and Fred Wilson
Robert Yee and Shirley Lee
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Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Foundation
Apothecarium
Allan Berenstein
Chevron Texaco
Community Thrift Store
Dan Kelly Construction, Inc.
Dr. Tin Do
David Faeder
Fitness SF
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Jordan Gimbel
Judson Gregory
Walter and Elise Haas Fund
Chris Harris and Dr. Sally Hand
James Henry
Lewis D. Houden
Kaiser Permanente
Daniel Killar and Andrew Zimmerman
Max C. Kirkeberg and Gabriel Proo
Ray Lapointe and Matthew Reedy
Lee Magner
Mission Bay Conference Ctr at UCSF
Clare M. Murphy
Michael Niemeyer and Lucky Manuel
SPARC (SF Patient & Resource Ctr)
RPX Corporation
ScriptSite
Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Diane Speidelli
Barry Tereshkow and Andrew McConnell
James H. Wang and Tim Patriarca
Sandra and Michael Whittle
Patrick Williams
Jane Wong-Smith and Nicholas Smith
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Refreshing Rain ($250 to $999)
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Stephen H. Adams
Douglas P. Amarelo
Marvin Anderson
Anonymous
Emi Ashida
Barbary Insurance Brokerage
Jerry Bercerra
Jerime Black
Paul Bollwinkel
Elizabeth, Rand, and Blake Brandes
Eugene S. Cash
Karl Christensen
Bill Creighton
Jacob Donham and Katherine Hodge
Thomas Dumas
Nadr Essabhoy
Amie Fishman
Michael S. Furlow
Robert Glenn
Len Handeland
Leslie Hatch-Wong and Douglas Hatch
A. Hamilton Holt
Pamela Jackson
Luther Joyner
Kirk Kleinschmidt
Kutrina Lawrence
Ellen Lee
Harriet Lehmann
Local Independent Charities
Troy MacFarland
Gregory Marks
Stedman Matthew
Jon N. McFadgen
Gavin Middleton
Michelle Mongan
Alan Morcos
MSM Inc.
George Naylor
Neal Niemeyer
Richard Okiuye
Edward R. Patton
John Renke
Rainen Robbie
Joe Rudy
Peter Scott
Helga I. Sigvaldadottir and Lexi Leban
Michael Sporn
St. Francis Lutheran Church
Mary Ternes
The Castro Animal Hospital
David Tian
Varnhagen Family Trust
Therese Vogel
Kumar Vora
Peter Wohlfeiler
Ellen Woo
Jonathan Zimman and Glenn Roberts
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Adobe
Amazonsmile Foundation
Brett Andrews
Joaquin Castillo Arana
James Bair
Benevity Community Impact Fund
Aaron B. Binkley
Frances Blau
John Bosque
Sarah Cadwallader
Jimmer Cassiol
Robert Craig
Javier Davila
John H. Douglas
Valerie Erickson
John Faricy
Fronczak
Thomas Given
Gobha Clothing
Lauri Hart
REAF- Richard/Ermet Aid Foundation
IBM Employee Services Center
Samuel Jackson
Scott Keech
Sarah Large
Abbot Leban
Mike Lee
Dr. Ruth Linden and Alexandra Alznauer
Jeffrey and Eileen Loustau
Kermit Malave
Harry Martin
Michael McDonald
Jennifer Meyer
Kenneth J. Mills M.D.
Eric Moore
Steven Morton
Cecil Myers
Network for Good
Bonnie Odell
Mark Paskvan
Thomas Raffin
Curt and Mary Elizabeth Ries
June Rose
Amor Santiago
Miguel Sesana
Bill Snell
Dewey Spradlin
Edward Enno Steinforth
Rayner Ternick
Randy L. Thueme
Lance Toma
John Vlahides
Brian M. Von Reber
John B. Wilson
Stephanie Wong and Michael McKeever
Tom Yaussy
Brian Zywiciel
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Cooling Fog ($100 to $249)
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Sharon Segal Abelson
Stephany Ashley
Roderick Baldwin
Brad Blackwell
Fratelli Bologna
Stephen Botte
Charles Brown
Robert and Kathryn Bunger
Grendel Burrell
Michael J. Carney
Joanne Chadwick
Terry Clark
Sara Jane Corda
Edward De Avila Ph.D.
Neil Doherty
Luzia Ebnoether
Donald Fox
Mr Arturo Fuentes
Beth Goldstein
Robin Hall
G. William Haskell and Robert L. Gordon
Jenna Howell
Katherine Jenkins
Sandy Kain
Arthur Kontura
Sola Leban
Mark Leno
Stella Lim
Bruce Lundquist
Jeffrey A. Lyttle
Jeffrey Malkasian and Steven Masters
Francis J. Masson Jr.
David Mccrory
Robert Miller
Steven S. Muchnick, PhD. and Eric Milliren
Veronica Ng
Non-CFC
Chris Arlen Perry
Larry Pulliam
Restaurant Group, Inc.
Mark Roh and Alfredo Paz
Ron Schaer
Dr. Karyn Skultety
Matthew Spinelli
Darryl Starks
Ted Stroll
John Swayze
Laurie Farrow Tyree and John Tyree
Wells Fargo Community Support Campaign
Tajalei Willard
Shuaky Xiong
Your Cause
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Carlo V. Abruzzese
Mercedes Azcarate
Michael Bankert
Jessica Bloome
Brian Bott
Patti Breitman
Sandy Brychta
Thomas Burke and Axel Brunger
Sallyanne Campbell
Dr. Victor Carrion
Christopher Childs
Kim Coates
Pierre Crouch
Pieta Dixon
Will Dunne
Fred Fanchaly
Robert and Ruth Freis
Noel Gimbel
Joseph P. Grubb
David Halsing
Paul Haugen
Stephen S. Huey
Susan Jue
Ann Kong
Edric Kwan
Olson Lee
Caroline Lieberman
Alex Lukachova
Kiera Lynch
Jason Macario and Steve Holst
Michael J. Martin and Jeannee Parker-Martin
Raymond McCabe
George Metzger
Arthur M. Morris, III and Michael Hiller
Lee Newman
Michael Nickoloff
Jeff Patterson
Frederick Preyer
Glenn H. Reid and Frank Lanier
Sam Rodriguez
Joseph Saccone, Jr. and Jacques C. Goddard
Pamela W. Sebastian
Almena Smith
Brian Springfield
John W. Stewart
George Sugarman
TRUIST
Linda Walubengo
Tabriana Willard
Nancy C. andMichael J. Wright
Andy Yin
Andrew Zimmerman and Daniel Killar
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Healthy Seedling ($1 to $99)
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Anne Abramowitz
Theodore Aiden Jr
Silvia Ambreys
Werner G. Bachmann
Mr. Teng-How Bae
Diane Biasatti
Athanasios Broers
Mary Bunger
Pablo Candelaria
Steve and Robin Cavagnolo
Victoria Chen
Clos Du Val Winery
Pamela and Larry Dannenberg
Lewis DeSimone
Lynne Eggers
Bonnie Faigeles and Sean Hoyer
Ronald E. Fritz
Raymond and Linda Gehrke
Belcher Studios Gallery
Patricia A. Gray
Michelle and Eric Halsing
Hal Hershey
Steve Horn
Marilyn Jackson
Jean T. Johnson and Edward Egenias
Marcus Jung
Gary and Ilene Katz
Carolyn B. Kellogg
F. Ronald Laupheimer
Barbara A. Lee
Lanz Lowen and Blake Spears
Jennifer L Machlin
Emily Mariko-Sanders
Carse McDaniel
Roberta McLaughlin
Bernard Merrill
Paul J. Mustopich
Rev. Laura Ousset and Chas Lewis
John Pollard
Edna and James Ribero
Ian Roberson
Kathryn Runcie
Daniel Sauro and William O'Donnell
Jeff and Francesca Schaper
Thad Shaffer and Gordon Surface
Darlene Smigla
Carrie Stouffer
TD Ameritrade
Catherine Vo
Gary V. West
Martha Ann and Sanford Wishnev
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Jacques Achsen
Ben Allison
Dr. Jay Bachicha
Dennis Bacigalupi
Susan Baldwin and Adam Levy
John & Donna Boccadori
Dorothy Brown
Dr. James Campbell, M.D.
Debra Capitan
Joseph D. Chance
Daniel Choi
Jeanette R. Cool and Georges S. Lammam
Gary W. Davis
John A. and Kathleen C. Dyblie
Ronald R. Eisner, M.D.
Donald Farrow
Inge Frohn
Giving Assistant
Soledad Gomez
Michael Hackett
Maxine Heiliger
Beverly Joan Hines
James Howley and Anthony Augimeri
Dorothy J. Johnson
Adrienne Jonas
Cydney and William Kats
Richard Kay
Anita Kline
John and Barbara Lear
Frank Leykamm
Lynn Luckow
Mary Magee
Mari's Books
Michael E. McKeever
David E. Meders
Lou Briasco
Rod J. Ocmond
Bradley Peterson
Marissa Quaranta and Rachel Drolet
Thomas and Cheryl Rice
Mildred Daugherty Rogers
Lynne Sandy
Mary Jo Schaeffer
Victoria Seid
Sean C. Sherrard
Michael Sorensen
Paula Sugarman
Iris Vaughan
Mary Anne Voss
Patricia Whaley
Gary Wong
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Community Thrift Store
When donating items, be sure to mention Maitri and we'll get a portion of the proceeds. In 2018, donations totaled more than $2,000 for Maitri programs!
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Amazon Smile
By using Amazon Smile, 0.5% of your purchases are donated to your non-profit of choice. Select Maitri using this
link.
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Cole Hardware
Mention Maitri when you check out and we'll receive a donation for part of your purchase.
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