Welcome to Fundraising Friday: AB Today's weekly digest of recent developments in development.
Elon Director of Athletics Jenn Strawley has announced a $3 million fundraising campaign to expand and enhance training and practice facilities for the men’s and women’s golf teams, creating one of the finest golf facilities in the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) and college golf.
An alumnus has made a $1 million gift to jump-start the project and challenge other donors to join in the effort to provide student-athletes with a premier environment to learn, train and compete. The project will redesign the golf complex, enhancing resources, creating new spaces and providing cutting-edge technology to improve performance and tournament play, all in one central location on Elon’s South Campus. [Today Elon]
Two generous donations have added $20,000 to the Jamie and Jo-Ann Armstrong Centennial Arena Repair Fundraising Challenge. A $10,000 donation was made by Moodie Mair Walker LLP, a Toronto law firm that specializes in civil litigation. Three of the firm’s partners who grew up in Northern Ontario – one in Sudbury, one in Sault Ste. Marie, and one partner, Ian Mair, grew up in Elliot Lake.
MMW’s lawyers and staff were moved by the enthusiasm of Elliot Lake’s Kraft Hockeyville campaign which the community won earlier this year and earned $250K towards the arena repairs. [The Daily Press]
A major grant announced Tuesday brings the Lubbock County Expo Center millions of dollars closer to reaching its fundraising goal.
The Moody Foundation will provide $6 million for the Expo Center to will fund the construction of a multipurpose arena and warm-up arena canopy, the foundation revealed in a news release Tuesday morning. In recognition of the grant, the arena will be called Moody Arena.
“The Moody Foundation and its trustees — Francie Moody-Dahlberg, Elle Moody, and I — have a special relationship with the city and surrounding areas of Lubbock. The Lubbock County Expo Center marks an exciting era for West Texas, providing fans and citizens a world-class experience in entertainment and rodeo,” foundation Trustee Ross Moody said in the release. “We couldn’t be happier to support LCEC in this transformative gift to benefit future generations of Texans.” [Lubbock Avalanche-Journal]
A pair of philanthropists who own a ranch in Emigrant donated $1 million toward constructing a 35,000 to 40,000 square-foot recreational and aquatic complex in Livingston.
“We are incredibly thankful to Trevor and Jan Rees-Jones for their remarkable generosity,” said Andrew Field, chairman of the project’s fundraising entity, 4 Ranges Community Recreation Foundation.
Trevor Rees-Jones, worth $4.9 billion according to forbes.com, owns a ranch near Emigrant with his wife. His source of wealth is the oil and gas industry, according to Forbes. The couple lives in Dallas. [Bozeman Daily Chronicle]
Total Amount of these gifts:
$2,000,030
