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Franklin Legacy Fund

Announcing The New
Franklin Legacy Fund

The Dream Lives On

PictureMaren Elwood Digital Media Manager & Fundraising
It has been five months since the passing of Susie Franklin, founder and executive director of the Franklin Legacy Fund. For a time, it seemed that the future of the organization was in doubt, but we are delighted to announce that the Franklin Legacy Fund will be continuing its activities. Program Director Sandra Leader, who has been with the Legacy Fund since its inception, has been named new executive director. Technology guru Maren Elwood will continue to do her website and social media magic while adding fundraising to her portfolio. We know that wherever Susie is, she is smiling at this outcome.

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Susie and Sandy in the Fall of 2020

To quote Susie, "We reach our financial goals one donation at a time." 
We thank you for your support.

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We Welcome Your Donations
The Franklin Legacy Fund will no longer be privately funded but will be a public non-profit financed by fundraising efforts, grants and client donations. Our activities will be limited while the necessary legal changes are being addressed, which will take from 1-5 months. In the meantime, we welcome your support, financial and otherwise, as we take these first steps to carry Susie’s dream into the future.

Under Susie’s leadership the mission of the Franklin Legacy Fund was to provide promising non-profits with seed funding and other support to help them build stability and excellence into their operations and ensure their success. This will not change. However, as we move forward, we will primarily focus on the educational components—classes, workshops, coaching, website and social media development, stress-reduction—that provide non-profit leadership with the tools to achieve those ends. Our focus, like Susie’s, will be on children’s welfare, the environment, the arts and social justice. After hearing about the appalling number of children in our county who are experiencing homelessness, we have decided to concentrate our efforts in that area this first year.

Message from the New Executive Director
Sandra Leader

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I am honored to be carrying forward our founder Susie Franklin’s commitment to non-profit excellence and sustainability. She was a true believer in the power of the non-profit sector to improve the lives of those less fortunate, and she was dedicated to helping this community she loved be a place where all can prosper. She was very proud of the impact the Franklin Legacy Fund had since its founding seven years ago. I invite you to check out the Sustainability Initiative and our Classes and Workshops to get a sense of some of our major efforts and what has been achieved.

While the legal paperwork is being done, we will be shaping the new iteration of what we are informally calling Franklin Legacy Fund 2.0. We know that non-profits have been hit hard during this time of COVID and that the leadership needs all the support it can get. As in the past, we are here to offer that support and help non-profits not just survive but thrive.


Coaching, Classes & Workshops

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Coaching

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Visioning

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Classes & Workshops

Stress Reduction Workshops For Non-Profits


Video Meditations Available For Download

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As if running a charitable institution isn’t enough, add in all the restrictions to our lives that have been imposed on us in the past year plus due to the pandemic and you have a formula for cumulative stress that could lead to leadership and staff exhaustion.
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Inquiries may be directed to Sandra at 831-659-5528 or sleader@franklinlegacyfund.org.

Audio Meditations Available For Download

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Project News
"Sustainability Initiative" 2020/21

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MEarth

The Franklin Legacy Fund is proud to introduce its 2020/2021 Sustainability Recipient, MEarth.

Based in Monterey County California, MEarth is a nationally recognized outdoor learning center that educates and inspires through environmental stewardship. Located at the 10-acre Hilton Bialek Habitat in Carmel Valley, California, it provides expansive hands-on learning opportunities to schools, county agencies, partner nonprofits, local businesses and interested citizens throughout Monterey County.
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Who We Are

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Sandra Leader

Executive Director

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Maren Elwood

Digital Media Manager
& Fundraising

Founders

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Susie Franklin
Founder

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Susan Rosen
Founding Staff Member

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 Franklin Legacy Fund   316 Mid Valley Center #122  Carmel, CA 93923    831.206.7366  
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    • Classes & Workshops
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    • Visioning
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  • Board Portal
  • Best Practices Vlog