Emory University's School of Nursing Surpasses $20 Million Fundraising Goal - Campaign Continues

Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing has exceeded its $20 million fundraising goal nearly two years ahead of schedule. To date, the School of Nursing has raised more than $20.4 million to support student scholarships, faculty research, service learning projects, and academic programming.

Emory trustee Dr. J. David Allen and his wife Beverly Dew Allen (Class of ‘68C), both Emory alumni, are proud to be leading the fundraising efforts as chairs of the School of Nursing’s campaign. “To have early success is thrilling, but more than anything it is a call to continue our work. Nearly 80 percent of our students need financial aid to pursue an Emory nursing degree. As long as there are initiatives in the School of Nursing that need additional resources — and there are — we have a job to do,” says Dr. Allen.

“This fundraising milestone is a reflection of the School of Nursing’s upward trajectory as an internationally recognized nursing program,” said Linda McCauley, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. “We are immensely grateful to our extraordinary donors whose gifts are having a meaningful impact on the School of Nursing. Because of generous support from these donors, the school is able to invest in key strategic priorities that advance our mission to educate nurse leaders and scholars, generate new knowledge, and improve health and health care—all in service to the global community.”

The School of Nursing’s fundraising success is tied to broad-based support from more than 3,000 individuals, corporations, and foundations.

Since the launch of the campaign in 2005, the School of Nursing has attained a number of notable accomplishments:

Increased the Fuld Segue Program, which provides critical financial aid to Emory nursing students with undergraduate degrees in fields other than nursing who want to become nursing leaders. This program was created with generous support from the Helene Fuld Health Trust;
Received an $8.1 million grant—the largest donation in the nursing school’s 106-year history—from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a 2 ½ year project designed to improve maternal and newborn survival rates in rural Ethiopia. This historic donation has enabled Associate Professor Lynn Sibley and a team of Emory investigators to create a community-oriented strategy to improve maternal and newborn health care services in rural Ethiopia and position the approach to be expanded throughout the country; and
Raised $100,000 from 265 alumni and friends to create the Elizabeth Mabry Scholarship in honor of longtime faculty member, Elizabeth Mabry. This scholarship provides aid to deserving undergraduate students each year.

“We deeply appreciate the overwhelming support of our alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends,” says Amy Dorrill, associate dean of development and alumni relations for the nursing school. “We also continue to count on their generosity, because although we have reached our overall fundraising goal in terms of numbers, some of our most important priorities—including student scholarships, faculty support, and service learning programs—still are not fully funded. As the School of Nursing continues to seek support for these initiatives, we look to private philanthropy to fuel our work and advance Emory’s legacy of excellence in nursing education and research.”

The School of Nursing’s fundraising campaign is part of Campaign Emory, a $1.6 billion fundraising endeavor that combines private support and Emory’s people, places, and programs to make a powerful contribution to the world. Campaign Emory is the largest and most successful fundraising campaign in Georgia.


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Georgia Natural Gas® TrueBlue Schools™ Program Tops $550,000 in Donations to Georgia Schools

/PRNewswire/ -- Georgia Natural Gas® (GNG), Georgia's leading natural gas provider, announced today that it has donated more than $550,000 to Georgia schools as a result of its successful TrueBlue Schools™ fundraising program. GNG plans to donate $2 million to Georgia schools through the program.

Now in its third year, TrueBlue Schools™ was created by GNG to help support schools throughout Georgia. When a consumer becomes a customer of GNG and elects to participate in the program, a $5 donation is made to the school of his or her choice every month. TrueBlue dollars are being used to pay for books, art supplies, music programs, field trips, sports equipment, playgrounds, scholarships, classroom technology – anything a school needs. Currently, 857 of the 2,326 schools in the GNG service area earn TrueBlue Schools™ donations.

"True Blue Schools™ is a great way for GNG to show its support for Georgia schools, and we are particularly proud of the $550,000 this innovative program already has provided to schools," said GNG CEO Mike Braswell. "The best part is the program's simplicity – just sign up with GNG, and we send checks to your school every quarter."

With this program, a school doesn't have to commit to a time-consuming fundraising project. There are no order forms, no inventory to manage and no monies to collect. All public and private elementary, middle and high schools in GNG's service area are included in the program, and any natural gas consumer who chooses GNG can participate. The more people who sign up with GNG and select a school, the more money the school receives. Once participants sign up at TrueBlueSchools.com, donations are automatic to the school. Current GNG customers also are eligible to participate.

"We are excited about what the success of this program in just two years means for our schools," said Braswell. "Making a difference in children's lives is one of our key community goals. That's why we are committed to raising $2 million through TrueBlue Schools™ to support education in Georgia."

To join TrueBlue Schools™ or learn more about the program, visit TrueBlueSchools.com or contact GNG by e-mail at support@trueblueschools.com.

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The Posse Foundation to Host Fundraiser Benefiting Public High School Students in Atlanta

/PRNewswire/ -- Posse Atlanta will host its second annual fundraiser 'The Power of 10' on Thursday, October 21, 2010, from 6:30–8:30 p.m. at the Capital City Club-Brookhaven in Atlanta. The event will honor Equifax Chairman & CEO Rick Smith for his record of accomplishment and commitment to philanthropy and youth education. The Posse Foundation President and Founder Deborah Bial will be in attendance along with Jeff Ubben, chair of The Posse Foundation National Board of Directors. Representatives from the corporate, civic, education and philanthropic communities will also attend. The Power of 10 will feature a short program with cocktails and heavy hors d'oeuvres.

"A leading focus for Equifax's philanthropic strategy includes hands-on engagement in youth education programs, with specific emphasis on disadvantaged groups," said Smith. "Organizations such as Posse are trailblazers that should be celebrated as role models of innovation. Their vision and focus on forging partnerships with corporations and academia have created an extraordinary initiative that provides our youth with every opportunity to succeed and take their rightful places as valued contributors and leaders in our workforce and communities. Equifax is honored to be recognized as a Posse partner."

Posse Atlanta opened its doors in 2007 and has since identified 87 students who have collectively won over $10 million in full-tuition scholarships from Bard College, Boston University and The College of Wooster. This year, Posse Atlanta is excited to add Brandeis University as a partner. In December 2010, Posse Atlanta will admit 40 more students into the program, with scholarships totaling over $5 million.

The Posse Foundation identifies, recruits and trains outstanding urban high school seniors and sends them to elite colleges and universities in multicultural, supportive teams— Posses—of 10 students. Since 1989, The Posse Foundation, which operates chapters in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Miami and Washington, D.C., has sent over 3,148 students to college. These students have won over $330 million in full-tuition, leadership, merit scholarships from Posse partner colleges and universities.

For more information about The Posse Foundation, please visit www.possefoundation.org.

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Georgia Regents Elevating Fundraising to New Level of Importance

When it comes to fundraising, Georgia is one of only seven states with two or more public universities ranked among the Top 100 university endowments, but there is plenty of room for Georgia’s public colleges and universities to further increase revenue in order to maintain the quality of the education they provide.

That’s the overarching conclusion of a report to the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) by a task force charged with assessing the ability of the System’s institutions to raise private funds and proposing improvements. After hearing a presentation on the report today, the regents immediately embarked on invigorating the University System’s fundraising efforts by green-lighting the task force’s plan for improvements.

“With budget cuts becoming more and more inevitable, it is important for University System institutions to look to external funds to enhance their educational quality,” said Shelley Nickel, the University System’s associate vice chancellor for planning and implementation. “This report is the first of its kind. It gives us information we can use to build fundraising capacity so that we can continue to honor our commitment to the regents’ Strategic Plan goal to maintain affordability.”

“The report delivered to the board by the Task Force on Philanthropy contains a very systematic survey of what each University System institution is doing with regard to fundraising,” said task force Chair Dr. David Potter, president of North Georgia College & State University. “Information on fundraising in higher education is very limited, so this data is extremely valuable. It gives us a baseline from which to work on improvements and monitor our progress.”

Toward that goal, the Board of Regents today instructed the task force to proceed with a plan to set philanthropic targets for USG campuses. Campus presidents will negotiate their institutional fundraising targets with the University System Office and submit 2009-2012 institutional fundraising plans to Nickel’s office that will be incorporated into their annual performance reviews.

The task force also recommended:

establishing a Strategic Funding Initiative for Philanthropy to strengthen fundraising capacity (particularly at the state and two-year college sectors, where philanthropic endeavors are under-developed as compared to other sectors), with the goal of each campus having at least one full-time professional dedicated to philanthropy; and
having the board, the USG campuses and their affiliated foundations undertake initiatives, both individually and collectively, to provide resources to increase fundraising staffs and the capacity of USG institutions to conduct effective fundraising.

The report of the Task Force on Philanthropy cited an annual listing of college and university endowments in The Chronicle of Higher Education, noting that, for Fiscal Year 2007, Georgia Tech ranked 18th among public institutions on the list, with an endowment market value of $1.6 billion, and the University of Georgia ranked 35th with an endowment market value of $771 million. The University System’s total endowment market value for this period was $2.83 billion, and the research-university sector accounted for nearly 90 percent of this total.

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