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“ G W E N D A V I D S O N EVENTUALLY 14 < M I C A ’ 0 5 When I started thinking about how I could contribute financially to MICA, I got a sense of the wonderful things happening there, met many students, learned about their interests, and realized that many have musical talent. There wasn’t a piano in the entire institution at the time. I talked with Nancy Haragan about this, and we decided to make it happen. It was one simple, special thing that A PIANO WILL NEED TO BE would make a tangible difference in the lives REPLACED, BUT THE ENDOWMENT WILL of students. ALWAYS BE THERE. IT’S AN ONGOING GIFT. The gift of a piano was an easy gift.You can see it, touch it, see students’ enthusiasm for it. It’s a gift you can put a bow around.A gift to endowment is more abstract. It’s less easy to see the benefit to students, but in the end it’s more important for the long-term health of the institution. Eventually a piano will need to be replaced, but the endowment will always be there. It’s an ongoing gift that provides a continuing source of income you can rely on. Chairing the Annual Fund has put me in a position to talk to alumni, parents, and friends of MICA. It has been wonderful to meet these people and hear how fond they are of MICA, how grateful for the time they spent there, and how much they want to get together with one another and to support the institution. MICA creates such a meaningful and lasting impression on people that it’s a tie they want to maintain. MICA is clearly at the top of the list of organizations I support, and it comes down to the culture of the institution. It’s a world that encourages people to think freely,to come up with creative and novel solutions.The whole institution is dedicated to the artistic enterprise, which is always an expression of one sort or another about life or the world in which we live. I’ve served on a number of different boards, and MICA’s Board of Trustees is distinguished by a sense of family, a long-term, abiding involvement in the institution. How many former board chairs are still serving on the boards after their chairmanship is up? At MICA, currently, four.That’s a strong testament to their commitment to the institution and its mission, their belief in its leadership and vision.
Gwen Davidson joined the MICA Board in 1998. She is Chair of the 2005 and 2006 Annual Funds and Ad Hoc Committee on Planning and serves on the Campaign Steering Committee, the Finance Committee,Audit Sub-committee, and Investment Sub-committee. Gwen has an undergraduate degree from Tulane University in art history and an MBA from Loyola College in Maryland. She worked in fundraising research and prospect management before completing her MBA and becoming a portfolio manager for twenty-plus years with Alex. Brown (now Deutsch Banc). She was part of a group from Alex. Brown that formed Brown Advisory, where she is now Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager. M I C A ’ 0 5 > 15
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