Welcome to Fundraising Friday: AB Today's weekly digest of recent developments in development.
East Carolina University's Pirate Club has accepted another seven-figure donation, with the announcement Wednesday that the Derek Dunn family had made its $1 million investment in the Pirates Unite Campaign for Comprehensive Excellence. Derek and Betsy Dunn, along with their daughter Kempton, son Peyton and his wife Emily Drake, have a long history of involvement with the Pirate Club spanning four decades. The latest funds are directed toward the Isley Indoor Performance Center.
An endowment of $1.05 million will fund career development for women in sports, according to a Wednesday news release from the University of Nevada Las Vegas athletic department. The Diana Bennett Career Development Program for Women’s Sports will provide internship programming, resume building, career professional development and a variety of networking and job experience initiatives. The program is part of the “Rebel Up” Campaign, the athletics department said, as reported by local CBS affiliate KLAS.
A substantial portion of an anonymous $25 million donation will go toward the renewal of athletics and wellness facilities at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. Part of that $10 million sum will help fund the construction of the new Multipurpose Recreation Center (MRC) following the sudden closure of the Towne Field House last year, according to The Williams Record. The College plans to move activities that used to be located in the Field House to the MRC when it opens in late 2025, the College said in a press release on April 8. The donation will also help fund a long-term program study by design firm Perkins&Will to evaluate the future facilities needs of the College’s programs in athletics and wellness and the construction cost of capital projects that will be recommended by the study.
Longtime University of Arizona supporters Cole and Jeannie Davis have committed $1 million to the university's Adaptive Athletics program to help ensure equity for disabled student-athletes and expand access to resources for student support and career readiness. Adaptive Athletics, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is part of the campus Disability Resource Center, according to the university's Tuesday announcement, which added that a total of 63 disabled student-athletes compete in various sports — from wheelchair basketball, tennis and rugby to adaptive golf and track and field. Among the program's alumni are more than 50 Paralympians representing the United States, Canada, Australia and other nations.
Total amount of these gifts:
$13,050,000
