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Springtime brings new growth, new traditions
This spring marks the first year that all four graduating MBA classes will present Goizueta with a class gift. Although each class has its own theme, campaign, and goal, all four seek to obtain 100 percent participation from their students.
- The full-time MBA program set
a goal of $110,000, which will be used to further fund the Goizueta
Leadership Academy. Currently, only 12 percent of students (25 out of
199) are chosen for this special training. Jennifer
Kilshaw ’05MBA, Class Gift chair, is one of them. “We
don’t want anyone to be denied. The theme is ‘199 Leadership
Positions, Zero Vacancies,’” says Kilshaw. All donors will
get a green bracelet that says ‘Lead.’
- It’s a year of firsts
for the Evening MBA Program, led by gift chairs Rob
Stalder ’05EvMBA and Anna Johnson
’05EvMBA. Not only is this the first year the class
will make a gift, it will be the first Goizueta class gift ever to be
unrestricted and tagged for the school’s Annual Fund. “We
wanted to provide an unrestricted gift to the school to give the new
dean the flexibility to continuously improve the Evening MBA class in
a manner consistent with the school’s overall strategy,” says
Stalder. The class goal is $60,000.
- MEMBA, the Modular Executive
MBA Program, set a $25,000 goal to endow a speaker series. Students
graduating in 2006 are expected to raise an additional $25,000 to fully
fund the endowment. “The most valuable thing we can leave future
classes is insight,” says Kelly Bissell
’05 MEMBA, who is co-chairing the effort with Rex
Kizzort ’05 MEMBA. “We always have a light Wednesday
afternoon class schedule, so we want to attract peer speakers with particular
relevance to MEMBA students.”
- The Weekend MBA (WEMBA) class chose to fund an endowed scholarship for future WEMBA students, with a goal of $75,000. David Hanson ’05WEMBA, gift fundraising co-chair with John Laughter ’05 WEMBA, says “We want to give back to enable those who might not otherwise be able to attend an MBA program any other way.”
This is also the first year that MBA reunion classes—specifically
the 25th and 50th reunions—will be asked to make a class gift. The
class of 1955, with only eight members, is not setting a financial goal;
the class of 1980 hopes to raise $125,000.
Look to the fall edition of Goizueta magazine for an update on class giving.
—Sarah Banick