About the Leadership Council Committee
Helping those who face isolation, despair and serious illness is a noble mission. Gifts to our Annual Friends Appeal support ongoing resident care initiatives at The GreenFields Continuing Care Community’s skilled care homes. Each year a team of volunteers called the Leadership Council Committee meets to assist in the personal solicitation of new and renewing benefactors. All donors who make an annual gift of $500 or more are granted Leadership Council status and are entitled to special recognition opportunities, including our Benefactors Reception. Donors who make an annual gift of at least $500 and also ask others to do the same are entitled to become members of the Leadership Council Committee.
Our 2024 campaign total came to $1,056,807, which is the third-highest Leadership Council total in campaign history. 2024 was the third year in a row that our Leadership Council campaign exceeded $1 million.
With a 2024 total of over $1 million, our collective total for all of our past Leadership Council campaigns now exceeds $12 million. This funding has played a crucial role in support of important resident care initiatives of the Niagara Lutheran Health System. Your compassion and dedication greatly impacts the lives of so many who can no longer provide for themselves, and we simply can’t thank you enough for all you do for Niagara Lutheran! We are also indebted to our faithful Leadership Council Committee for all of their efforts during this campaign, and thanks also go to the Co-Chairs of our 2024 campaign, Niagara Lutheran Board Members Sharon McGuan and Rev. Mike Blackwell, for their support.
Our 2024 Leadership Council campaign supported a number of infrastructure improvement projects across The GreenFields campus. Our campaign helped to ensure that The GreenFields Continuing Care Community remains a state-of-the-art center where present and future generations of seniors can thrive in our various settings. The campaign supported the plans to redesign the lobbies, dining areas, libraries, and corridors at GreenField Manor and GreenField Court. Various assisted living apartments at GreenField Court were also remodeled. Projects at GreenField Health & Rehabilitation Center supported by the 2024 Leadership Council campaign include the refurbishment of resident rooms and the renovation of the lobby and atrium. Our 2024 campaign also continued to support new workforce development initiatives for our workforce, including training programs for new Home Health Aides and Personal Care Aides.
Your invaluable support enables us to expand our mission and overcome the growing financial challenges that our organization faces every day. For more information on how you can help make our 2025 Leadership Council campaign another successful one, please contact David McMullen, Executive Director of Development & Marketing, by calling 716-684-0202, ext. 1806.
2024 Leadership Council Committee
The Rev. Michael C. Blackwell, Co-Chair
Sharon L. McGuan, Co-Chair
Todd C. Anderson
Janet L. Loew Day
Linda A. Dobmeier
Christopher T. Greene, Esq.
Robert W. Gromer
Cary J. Haller
Roger J. Hoffman
Scott W. Jones
Judith A. Kelly
Gary P. Kenline
Christopher E. Koenig
Paul F. Kroll
The Rev. Thomas R. Mason
David E. McMullen
The Rev. Paul R. Mertzlufft
Matthew L. O’Connor
Richard C. Paul
Gerald C. Saxe
Michael C. Straeck
Kevin R. Weber
Edward G. Wright
The Niagara Lutheran Health Foundation is indebted to these previous co-chairs of the Leadership Council Committee:
2024- The Rev. Michael C. Blackwell and Sharon L. McGuan
2023- The Rev. Michael C. Blackwell and JoAnne R. Will-Kaminski
2022 – Rodger J. Hoffman and Joanne Kaminski
2021 – Rodger J. Hoffman and Keven R. Weber
2020 – David N. Richardson and Kevin R. Weber
2019 – Edward Wright and David Richardson
2018 – Edward Wright and Robert Minicucci, Sr.
2017 – Cary J. Haller and Robert Minicucci, Sr.
2016 – Gary Kenline and Cary J. Haller
2015 – Susan Fayle and Gary Kenline
2014 – Janet Loew Day and Susan Fayle
2013 – Janet Loew Day and Trent M. Voelkl
2012 – Donald E. Will
2011 – Michael C. Straeck and Trent M. Voelkl
2010 – Linda A. Dobmeier and Michael C. Straeck
2009 – Linda A. Dobmeier and James M. Sexton III
2008 – James M. Sexton III and Joseph A. Voelkl
2007 – Patricia H. Garman and Howard B. Vahue
2006 – Gerald C. Saxe and Kevin R. Weber
2005 – Christopher T. Greene, Esq., and Gerald T. Mazurkiewicz
2004 – David N. Richardson and Samuel J. Savarino
2003 – Rev. Dr. Charles D. Bang and Henry P. Semmelhack
2002 – Thomas M. Barney, Esq., and Paul J. Koessler
2001 – G. Wayne Hawk and Richard C. Paul
2000 – Charles U. Banta and Edward G. Wright
1999 – Gerald C. Saxe and Robert G. Weber
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The Niagara Lutheran Health System does not discriminate in the admittance of residents or the hiring of employees relative to age, race, creed, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, sexual preference gender, gender identity, blindness, handicap, sponsor, marital status, or religion.
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