Generosity starts within community
Chairs of the 2006/07 Community Campaign: Irvin Dudeck, Director of Budget Planning and Control, and Catherine Mulligan, Associate Professor, Concordia Research Chair in Environmental Engineering.
Rob Maguire
The Community Campaign raises money for scholarships and bursaries from within the university. It’s an important element of fundraising, not only for the sake of needy, deserving students but because it sends a strong positive signal to the wider world of alumni, business and the general public.
The theme of this year’s campaign is “Everyone Counts: Everyone is Part of the Equation.”
Last year’s campaign was a huge success with this theme. The 2005/06 Campaign goal was to raise $150,000 and increase the participation rate to 40 per cent. This goal was surpassed; the campaign raised $173,661 and had a participation rate of 41 per cent.
The goal this year is to raise $180,000 and increase the participation rate to 45 per cent.
Concordia has a great team of dedicated volunteers and donors for this campaign, and the organizers believe that we can surpass these goals.
The organizing committee is made up of faculty and staff. Besides chairs Catherine Mulligan and Irvin Dudeck, it comprises Joanne Beaudoin, Isabelle Bouvier, William E. Lynch, Caroline Clayton, Irene Sendek and Laurie Zack.