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Thank you Buckner


Buckner wishes to thank the following corporations, foundations and other organizations for their charitable contributions of $1,000 or more during the third quarter of 2014. (As of Sept. 30, 2014)


Bailes and Company, P.C. Comerica Bank Texas Crenshaw Family Foundation


Critical Thinking for Life DixieMat Farmer Environmental Group LLC


The Fleming Fund Foundation for Christian Learning


Gibson Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc. Give With Liberty Greater Pinebelt Community Foundation


The Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust The Hawn Foundation Fund


The Hoglund Foundation


Jill and Dale Hurd Family Fund Junior League of Amarillo


Fannie and Stephen Kahn Charitable Foundation


Landmark Resources, Inc.


Local Independent Charities of America, Texas Chapter Bruce McMillan, Jr. Foundation, Inc. MERCK Partnership for Giving


Morrow Family Foundation, Inc. Oil Patch Kids PepsiCo Foundation Matching Gifts Program


Piñon Foundation Rack Room Shoes Russian Orphan’s Relief Foundation, Inc. Spindletop Charities, Inc.


B.A. Steinhagen & E.W. Steinhagen Benevolent Trust


Texas Baptist Offering for World Hunger


Texas Presbyterian Foundation


Trinity Christian School The Bank of America Charitable


Foundation, Inc. The Beaumont Foundation of America


The H. L. Brown Jr. Family Foundation


T. B. Butler Foundation The Diekemper Family Foundation


The Trull Foundation Tyler Technologies United Way of Amarillo & Canyon United Way of Tyler/ Smith County


Wolfforth Caregivers, Inc.


Yarborough Foundation 12 Buckner Today • WINTER 2015 ISSUE


zx Prior orphan gives back through charitable trust


DALLAS – Meriam Calabria has a soft spot for orphans. She knows all too well what it’s like to suddenly be left alone. At 16 years old, Calabria and her six younger sisters were orphaned when both their parents died following an illness. Her parents wanted the girls to go to Buckner Orphans Home, but Buckner


was full and unable to take them in. Calabria went to live with her grandmother in Corpus Christi, Texas, and her sisters were placed in another orphanage. Calabria wanted to help her sisters and wished they could have stayed together. She rode a bus twice a year to visit them. As an adult, she continued to help her sisters when she could, letting them live with her when they graduated from high school.


“When you are the oldest, you feel responsible. At least I did,” Calabria says. Though neither she nor her sisters could be placed at Buckner, Calabria says she appreciates the work Buckner does for vulnerable children. “I just think Buckner is


the fi nest in all of Dallas,” she says. “They do work for children. We all need to be


taken care of. These children need someone to take care of them, and Buckner does that. At Buckner, there are people who have a heart for children.” She and her late husband, J.C. Calabria, believed it was important to contribute both time and resources to charities and both had a passion to support vulnerable children. After his death in 1979, Calabria continued to be involved with orphan care.


In 2000, Calabria donated money to fund construction of a new community center on the campus of Buckner Childrens Home in Dallas. She had a birthday shoe drive where in lieu of gifts, she asked guests to her birthday party to bring several pairs of shoes to donate to Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls®


. She also


gives by donating land into a charitable trust and naming Buckner as a ben- efi ciary. Some of the benefi ts of a charitable trust are avoiding capital gains and enjoying a signifi cant charitable deduction. By planning ahead, Calabria is making a difference for orphans both now and in the future. “I have been blessed and sometimes I wonder, ‘Oh Lord, am I worthy of it?’ But he did bless me, and I accept it,” Calabria says. “And I am fortunate to be a part of Buckner and the people who are there.”


–Aimee Freston


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