EMPOWERING - Middlesex County College

GREETINGS from the
Foundation’s Chair and Executive Director
Annual Report 2007:
Thank you for helping make the Foundation’s 40th Anniversary year a memorable
one. This past year we officially celebrated 40 years of “helping students to open doors
to their futures with financial aid, scholarships and educational resources.” We celebrate
40 years of individual, corporate, business and foundation commitments to our important
mission. We are most grateful to each and every donor who has made this possible.
During the past 12 months, we successfully completed our historic Community
Investment Campaign. Not only did we meet our initial goal of $3 million, we exceeded
it by more than $555,000! This was made possible by an amazing $1 million gift from
The Robert Wood Johnson 1962 Charitable Trust. This two-part gift consisted of a
$500,000 outright gift for student scholarships and a second $500,000 challenge. The
Trust agreed to match all new gifts to the Campaign between October and the end
of December 2006! This challenge empowered alumni, faculty, staff, and community
supporters to make many new or additional Campaign commitments. We wish to
express our sincere gratitude to the Johnson family for their generosity, leadership,
vision and historic commitment to Middlesex County College and the Foundation.
We have increased visibility of the Foundation’s mission via the web, print and
digital media. Our redesigned Foundation web site received over 45,000 hits to date.
Our site now includes a special “thank you” video to Johnson & Johnson for their
historic support of the College and Foundation mission. Furthermore, our site provides
prospective donors who have an interest in making a planned gift the information and
tools necessary to help them decide which method best meets their personal financial
and philanthropic goals. We are grateful to the members of our Legacy Society who
have chosen to make major planned gift commitments to ensure the continuation and
growth of the Foundation’s mission. To date, gifts of bequests, insurance, trusts and gift
annuities promised to the Foundation total nearly $800,000.
The Foundation’s mission became better known and supported as a result of the
Community Investment Campaign. This year, we will be building on our success by
using the tried and true methods that helped us surpass our campaign goal. You will
begin to hear about our Annual Campaign, whose theme is “Empowering Dreams.”
Our goal is to award 1,000 or more scholarships to deserving Middlesex County College
students in perpetuity by the end of 2010. To do this we need to broaden the base of
those who believe in our mission and will make annual gift commitments. If you are
reading this annual report, it is likely that you are already an annual supporter. If so,
you know the satisfaction that comes with helping our students achieve their academic
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