2010 - Jefferson Scholars Foundation
2010 - Jefferson Scholars Foundation
2010 - Jefferson Scholars Foundation
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the year in review<br />
development<br />
I n response to uncertainty about the pace of financial recovery,<br />
the development office devoted fiscal year <strong>2010</strong> to strengthening old<br />
and building new relationships. We are pleased to report that this year the<br />
development team, along with the program directors and the president of<br />
the <strong>Foundation</strong>, met with well over 1,000 alumni, friends, and parents of the<br />
University, just as we have done in the past. It is through these relationships,<br />
some nearly thirty years old, that the <strong>Foundation</strong> can report an increase in<br />
philanthropic cash flow for the fiscal year of $10.4 million.<br />
Relationships are the cornerstone of any<br />
vital institution. This past year, the <strong>Foundation</strong>’s<br />
donors have created <strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>Scholars</strong>hips<br />
in recognition of leaders, scholars, and<br />
citizens whom they hold in high esteem.<br />
Eli Tullis, Paul Tudor Jones, and Lee and<br />
Elizabeth Ainslie created a challenge grant<br />
to fund a <strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>Scholars</strong>hip in honor<br />
of John and Betsy Casteen, to recognize<br />
their dedicated leadership and service to<br />
the University of Virginia. This challenge<br />
raised $1 million in funds to endow the John<br />
and Betsy Casteen <strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>Scholars</strong>hip. In<br />
addition, friends and colleagues of former<br />
University of Virginia Athletic Director Jim<br />
Rachael Beaton (back right), the C. Mark Pirrung Family Fellow<br />
(Astronomy), leads a group of undergraduate and graduate students at<br />
the Large Binocular Telescope on Mt. Graham in Arizona.<br />
Copeland established a <strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>Scholars</strong>hip<br />
to recognize Jim’s leadership in the classroom<br />
and on the athletics field, not only at<br />
the University of Virginia but also with the<br />
Cleveland Browns, where Jim played professional<br />
football, and at Southern Methodist<br />
University, where Jim held his last position<br />
as athletic director. Lastly, Beverly Mignerey<br />
endowed a <strong>Jefferson</strong> <strong>Scholars</strong>hip in honor of<br />
her good friend Susan Shinn and her family.<br />
Their friendship began at the University of<br />
Colorado, and this scholarship will mark the<br />
opening of a new selection region that will<br />
attract Colorado’s most outstanding students<br />
to the University of Virginia this fall.<br />
Donors also celebrated these lifelong<br />
relationships through their contributions to<br />
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