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We give to PEOPLE and ORGANIZATIONS focused on making POSITIVE IMPACTS in their communities
Our Vision
To enable our communities by expanding opportunity
First, we want to use our resources to create new opportunities. Through our personal and professional experience, we understand the barrier opportunity can present. But incredible change can occur when you can connect motivated people with the right opportunity at the right time.
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Second, our vision speaks to “enabling” as a collaborative approach to improvement. Through our work, we want to empower individuals and organizations and assist them in reaching their potential by providing a helping hand.
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Finally, we reference “our communities” because we care about who our beneficiaries are and emphasize those engaged in common interests with us. We want to give back by impacting the lives of those who share the same values, interests, and goals that we do.
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Our Focus
Education
OUR PURPOSE
To support scholarships and education programs that serve people in financial need to help them reach their full potential.
OUR MOTIVATION
We want to provide the financial means for individuals and organizations to pursue new educational endeavors that will further their long-term goals – and thus enhance the communities with which they are involved.
Arts
OUR PURPOSE
To support the creation, appreciation, and preservation of artistic experiences
OUR MOTIVATION
Like our education mission, we hold artistic experiences as an overall benefit to our communities. Art can be a powerful tool to enable creative expression, expand perceptions and inspire public conversations. By keeping an inclusive perspective for all constituents – artists, spectators, venues, educators, art organizations – we strive to enhance the impact art can make on the world around us.
Health Care
OUR PURPOSE
To improve the quality of life for those with diabetes by pursuing advancements in research for the prevention, treatment, and cure of type 1 diabetes.
OUR MOTIVATION
Diabetes’ direct impact on our family has made it a priority focus for our foundation. While we believe funding towards palliative care can be a worthwhile endeavor in any healthcare arena, we are primarily focused on providing support to those searching for innovative solutions that can eradicate type 1 diabetes or significantly impact treatment outcomes.
Disaster Relief & Resilience
OUR PURPOSE
To help people recover from disasters and support efforts to improve our communities’ resilience to future adverse events with a focus towards impacts from environmental changes
OUR MOTIVATION
Having lived in the Gulf Coast region most of our lives, our family has felt the devastating effects of natural disasters first-hand. This mission is focused two-fold on providing assistance to those families directly impacted by natural disasters as well has supporting forward-looking efforts to mitigate risks of future environmental events.
EDUCATION
Joiri Minaya presents Fleurs de liberation: an ecology of resistance at Prospect.6 with support from VIA Art Fund
For her contribution to Prospect.6, the future is present, the harbinger is home, Joiri Minaya presents Fleurs de liberation: an ecology of resistance. Building upon her Cloaking series, Minaya wrapped the New Orleans African American Museum (NOAAM) in a vibrant custom-designed fabric that incorporates hand-rendered motifs featuring local plant life with historic and cultural significance. Prospect’s mission is to present artwork by local, national, and international artists in both traditional and highly unexpected environments with an emphasis on collaborative partnerships and site-specificity. Summers Legacy Foundation is in our second year of partnership with VIA Art Fund whose mission is to support contemporary art and artists by providing grants to projects that exemplify its core values of artistic production, thought leadership, and public engagement.
Recent Charitable Activities
Summers Legacy Foundation Excellence Scholarship Fund – The Excellence Scholarship Fund was established to award scholarship grants to graduating high school seniors enrolling in an out-of-state university who have demonstrated exemplary academic performance. The fund is overseen by the Northshore Community Foundation to take advantage of the foundation’s management expertise in matching qualified students with grant opportunities. Most recently an annual $15,000 scholarship grant was awarded by Summers Legacy Foundation in 2022.
Summers Legacy Foundation Opportunity Scholarship Fund – The Opportunity Scholarship Fund was established to award scholarship grants to graduating high school seniors enrolling in an accredited college/university who have demonstrated high academic achievement while overcoming significant challenges in their pursuit of higher education. The fund is overseen by the Northshore Community Foundation to take advantage of the foundation’s management expertise in matching qualified students with grant opportunities. Most recently an annual $5,000 scholarship grant was awarded by Summers Legacy Foundation to three students in 2023.
Supporting art and artists – As part of our mission to support the creation, appreciation, and preservation of artistic experiences the Summers Legacy Foundation works to support artists by helping expand the opportunity for audiences to experience culturally significant work. In 2023, the Foundation donated an exciting new work by Bahamanian artist Tavares Strachan of a marble statue of Aphrodite and Pende mask to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The piece will be on-display for the public in a new wing at the museum dedicated to modern art.
Our Team
Charles Hubbs
Board Member
Shane Hubbs
Board Member
KYLE HUBBS
Executive Director
Ryan HUBBS
Officer