{"id":167245,"date":"2021-02-25T10:13:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T15:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?p=167245"},"modified":"2021-03-08T14:52:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T19:52:53","slug":"ar-2020_philanthropic-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/publications\/annual-report\/ar-2020_philanthropic-support\/","title":{"rendered":"AR 2020_Philanthropic Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philanthropic Support<\/h1>

Annual Report 2020<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Support for the GSO Annual Fund<\/h4>\n

\"\"205 gifts, from $15 to $15,000, were made to the GSO Annual Fund. The average gift increased 30% to $622.<\/p>\n

All Operating Funds<\/h4>\n

These individuals and organizations made gifts and commitments in excess of $1,000 and are members of the Challenger, Endeavor, Beagle or Trident Societies:<\/p>\n

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  • David E. Adams<\/li>\n
  • Elizabeth Payne Adams<\/li>\n
  • Joceline M. Boucher<\/li>\n
  • Andrew L. Brill<\/li>\n
  • Richard K. Edel<\/li>\n
  • ExxonMobil Foundation<\/li>\n
  • Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund<\/li>\n
  • Donna C. Greenlee<\/li>\n
  • Stephen M. Greenlee<\/li>\n
  • Nancy Hays<\/li>\n
  • Robert Charles Healey<\/li>\n
  • Raymond B. Langton III<\/li>\n
  • Michael T. Ledbetter<\/li>\n
  • Margaret S. Leinen<\/li>\n
  • The Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation<\/li>\n
  • John T. Merrill<\/li>\n
  • Jane Alexandra Nash<\/li>\n
  • Steven R. Ramp<\/li>\n
  • Henry M. Rines<\/li>\n
  • Jan E. Rines<\/li>\n
  • Christopher du Pont Roosevelt<\/li>\n
  • Jeffrey S. Rosen<\/li>\n
  • Lynne M. Rosen<\/li>\n
  • Southco, Inc.<\/li>\n
  • John H. Tietjen<\/li>\n
  • Polly Morgan Timken<\/li>\n
  • Judith Stern Weisman<\/li>\n

    Major commitments included a grant from the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation ($300,000) and a multi-year pledge from the Devereux Foundation ($250,000).<\/p>\n

    Support for Campus Renewal<\/h4>\n

    Gifts from the private sector will continue to be a critical component of funding for new research facilities and related campus enhancements.<\/p>\n

    In July 2019, James Austin, a member of the GSO Dean\u2019s Advisory Council, established the James Austin Campus Fund.<\/strong> His $500,000 gift is a challenge grant to evoke new giving. The fund matches, one-to-one, gifts made over the next five years that support elements of the Narragansett Bay Campus Master Plan. These individuals and organizations made qualifying gifts and commitments in excess of $1,000 and are members of the Challenger, Endeavor, Beagle or Trident Societies:<\/li>\n

  • David E. Adams<\/li>\n
  • Elizabeth Payne Adams<\/li>\n
  • Randy J. Brandenburg<\/li>\n
  • Peter A. Claypool<\/li>\n
  • Christina Lynn Cocroft<\/li>\n
  • Duncan Hunter Cocroft<\/li>\n
  • Estate of Kimberlee Ethel H. Culf<\/li>\n
  • ExxonMobil Foundation<\/li>\n
  • Robert M. Fetzer<\/li>\n
  • Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund<\/li>\n
  • Peter T. Hahn<\/li>\n
  • Robert W. Morton<\/li>\n
  • Christopher T. H. Pell<\/li>\n
  • Janet Alexander Pell<\/li>\n
  • Carl Peterson<\/li>\n
  • Kathleen A. Peterson<\/li>\n
  • Pancha Peterson<\/li>\n
  • Andrew Reilly<\/li>\n
  • Rhode Island Foundation<\/li>\n
  • Christopher du Pont Roosevelt<\/li>\n
  • Russell R. Shippee<\/li>\n
  • United Way<\/li>\n
  • Rosanne Zimmerman<\/li>\n

    In addition, these three funds were established with major gifts:<\/li>\n

  • The Collins Family GSO Redevelopment Fund, created by Barclay and Judith Collins<\/li>\n
  • The Laura Harris GSO Campus Redevelopment Fund,created by Laura Harris<\/li>\n
  • The Mirian-Sobel GSO Campus Redevelopment Fund,created by Ali Mirian and Jeffrey Sobel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Summary of Gifts Received in FY 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2773,25,1987],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2773","category-annual-report","category-publications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167245"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167772,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167245\/revisions\/167772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}