Dear UR Team:

Please note that we have internally posted the administrative assistant/receptionist position for our office in 405 Main Building at the following site https://jobs.nd.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/search/Search_css.jsp (job number 13682). The position serves as a primary point of contact for both the Office of the Vice President for University Relations and the Office of the Vice President for Public Affairs and Communications. The person will report directly to me and assist with donor relations and activities coordinated by our office.

Sincerely,

Drew Buscareno

Assistant Vice President for University Relations

Dear Colleagues,

We are eager to share with you a number of communications that will be sent over the next few days to Notre Dame Alumni, Parents, and Friends.

• Friday, November 22, 2013 the Winter Appeal Mailing began dropping in the mail. As in the past, this is a letter from Father John. This engagement will invite members of the Notre Dame family to this site http://Christmas2013.nd.edu where they will see Christmas messages from our students.
• Sunday, November 24, in the evening, our Thanksgiving Message will be emailed to Alumni, Parents and Friends.  The email will contain a short message of thanks from Lou Nanni with a link to a video with a “voice-over” by Fr. Bill Lies, C.S.C.  Here’s a link to the video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQHPjZS3x0&feature=youtu.be
• And, then on Tuesday — members of the Sorin Society, President’s Circle and Advisory Councils will receive a message from Lou (via email) alerting them he has proactively signed them up to receive the daily gospel reflection from faith.nd.edu.

We hope all our constituents enjoy these pieces over the next week and that it leads us all to a successful year-end giving season.

Thank you to the numerous people who helped create these efforts!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families,

Jim Small and Amy Schell

This position provides overall administrative support to the Programs Team. In addition, the position focuses on the NDAA’s Notre Dame clubs and club structure. Duties include tracking and updating club leadership changes, providing ongoing customer service to club leaders, coordinating the club awards process as well as participating with the Clubs Committee of the NDAA Board. Other areas of concentration are; UND Celebrations Program; Club Football Ticket Allotment Process, Regional Meeting support; Club Annual Reports. If you or someone you know is interested in this position, please review the full job description at the HR jobs website.

Mike Brown

Assistant Director, Alumni Groups

Dear Colleagues,

We have created a new position in the Campaign Administration team to lead several of our critical campaign programs and projects – in particular, campaign engagement opportunities, volunteer leadership management, campaign priority packaging and campaign budget oversight. This person will report to me and will work daily with Julia Sama and Heather Hakanen.

The ideal candidate is a senior leader with deep experience in engaging alumni-parents-friends, managing multiple projects at the same time, building deep cross divisional relationships, and operating independently.

If you or someone you know is interested in this position, I encourage you to review the full job description at the HR jobs website.  It is currently posted for internal candidates only.

Should you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Ann Moran or me.

Best,

Shannon

Please join Donor Services in welcoming the following seasonal staff who have joined the team during the busy calendar year end.  We appreciate their contributions toward a successful year end.

 

From left to right:  Debbie Meek, Leslie Clark, Maureen McQuade, Amy Polhamus, Joe Sheehan, Sheryll Enright and Jimita Potter

Best wishes,

Stacy

Stacy L. Koebel-Harder, CPA, CGMA

Director

Development, Donor Services

Nothing says “Happy Holidays” like a beautiful poinsettia plant!

Decorate your home or office by purchasing a poinsettia plant to enjoy yourself or give as a gift AND support a great cause – cancer research! Our very own UR Walking on Sunshine team is partnering with Varner’s Greenhouse & Nursery in Niles to raise money for Relay for Life.

For sizes, cost and to purchase your poinsettias online please go to http://relay.nd.edu/fundraisers and click on poinsettias. Credit card and FOAPAL purchases are accepted. Red poinsettias will be available for pick-up on campus December 4^th. You may also elect to receive a voucher for pick-up at Varner’s.

Thank you for your support!

UR Walking on Sunshine Committee

Questions? Contact Giovana Heeter @ 1-3352

 

Dear Colleagues:

We are happy to share the 2012-13 Stewardship Report, which is attached here. Stewardship_Report_12_13_WEB.   This report, which shares both numbers and donor stories, will be mailed later this week to just under 5,000 benefactors who meet the following criteria:

• Have given $100,000 lifetime
• Have given over $5,000 in the last 18 months

Note that the report will be sent with a letter of gratitude from Lou Nanni. Please let me know if you have any questions.

 

In Notre Dame,

Katherine Lane

Katherine Lane, MSA ‘00

Director of Stewardship Programs

Department of Development

Dear colleagues:

I am thrilled to share that over 3,200 personalized letters and endowment reports have been mailed today (November 13, 2013) to University benefactors. You may recall that in past years, these reports were mailed piecemeal throughout the fall semester (library collection reports were mailed in October, professorships in November, and scholarships in December). Moving forward:

• All reports will be mailed at once (3,289 reports to over 2,604 donors this year)
• Donors who have numerous endowments will receive all their reports in one envelope with a cover letter from Lou Nanni (745 reports to 291 donors this year)
• Principal donors will receive special updates along with their endowment reports in a special package, again with a highly personalized note from Lou Nanni. (332 reports and updates to 101 donors this year)

These efficiencies have been achieved as a result of an official green belt project with the Office of Continuous Improvement and tremendous partnership with DIS and OIT. I want to thank Carleen Quinlan, Jim Reeves, Jay Rizzi, Donna Adams, Larry Helmsing, and Ron Rose (OIT) for their hard work and dedication! I also want to thank the entire stewardship team for their tireless efforts. Special appreciation goes to Mary Fisher, who is leading the green belt project, as well as Kris Machalleck and Libby Schleiffarth, who served on the greenbelt project team.

Future enhancements include linking all the individual endowment reports to the allocations in Advance. This should be operational within a few months. Here is a link to  an excel file containing all the donors who received reports. We grouped this by fundraiser for an easy review. If you need a copy of a report, please contact your stewardship partner as follows:

 

CFR: Sara Kassen

Central: Libby Schleiffarth

East: Mary Fisher

Gift Planning: Kris Machalleck

Midwest: Heather Moriconi

West: Beth Ferlic

VP Office: Katherine Lane

 

In Notre Dame.

Katherine Lane

 

 

Katherine Lane, MSA ‘00

Director of Stewardship Programs

Department of Development

University of Notre Dame

Eddy Street Commons at Notre Dame

1251 North Eddy Street, Suite 300

South Bend, IN  46617-1403

o:  574.631.9785

c:  574.261.0999

f:  574.631.8325

e:  katherine.lane@nd.edu

 

 

Relay for Life Massages are back on Eddy Street!

 

We still have some times available tomorrow afternoon,  if you would like to take advantage of a massage over on Eddy Street Commons!  $10 donations going towards the Relay for Life Fundraiser… Please see below for available times:

 

1:15-1:25pm

1:45-1:55
2:00-2:10
2:15 – 2:25
2:30-2:40

 

 

Kind regards,

Noell Stohler

University of Notre Dame, Department of Development

Eddy Street Commons at Notre Dame

1251 N. Eddy Street, Suite 300

South Bend, IN 46617-1403

Phone:(574)631-3040
Fax:(574)631-8325

Libby Schleiffarth’s  thank you note

 

 

 

Nothing says “Happy Holidays” like a beautiful poinsettia plant!

Decorate your home or office by purchasing a poinsettia plant to enjoy yourself or give as a gift AND support a great cause – cancer research! Our very own UR Walking on Sunshine team is partnering with Varner’s Greenhouse & Nursery in Niles to raise money for Relay for Life.

For sizes, cost and to purchase your poinsettias online please go to http://relay.nd.edu/fundraisers and click on poinsettias. Credit card and FOAPAL purchases are accepted. Red poinsettias will be available for pick-up on campus December 4^th. You may also elect to receive a voucher for pick-up at Varner’s.

Thank you for your support!

UR Walking on Sunshine CommitteeQuestions? Contact Giovana Heeter @ 1-3352

 

 

I wanted to extend an invitation to all of you to come to my husband’s first Doctorate of Musical Arts degree recital.  The recital is Sunday, December 8^th at 4:00pm in the Main Building on the 2^nd floor.  This is the first of three recitals Caleb needs to give for his degree, so if you can’t make it to this one – no worries!  I will definitely be sending out information on the next two as they are scheduled.  He’ll be doing one recital per academic year.

 About the Performance:

(Estimated length: 1 hour)

This performance is attached to a class on liturgical prayer, by which the members of the class have spent a semester examining and entering into many traditions of prayer.  This examination places us in the musical tradition of Mexico City Cathedral in the 1760’s.  At the center of this performance is a partial reconstruction of Matins (night prayer) for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception which was set to music in its entirety by Ignacio de Jerusalem, the music director of the Cathedral from 1750-1769.  Also featured in this performance are works by two earlier Cathedral music directors: Manuel Zumaya and Hernando Franco.  In music tradition of Mexico City Cathedral is, in many ways, the amalgamation of Spanish and Native Mexican influences.  The use of vernacular (both native Nahuatl and Spanish), the adaptation of Renaissance composition techniques with traditional folk music, the presence of opera arias within Latin liturgical music, and the novel use of the baroque orchestra to include folk instruments are but a few of the elements part and parcel to this musical tradition.  The rich musical tradition of Mexico City would, in turn, be highly influential on the musical life of the California Missions and on the musical infrastructure of the American West Coast.

If you enjoyed the Sacred Music presentation at the  UR Summit, you’ll definitely enjoy this performance.  If you have any questions, please let me know.

 Thanks!

Brooke Wenzel

Administrative Assistant

Office of Gift Planning

Dear Colleagues,

Yes it’s that time of year to start or finish up your Christmas shopping.  The RCLC Holiday Gift Auction is a wonderful way to get some wonderful gifts for your family, friends and even yourself.  The event is being held Saturday, December 7^th at 4pm – 6pm, here at the Robinson Community Learning Center on the corner of Howard and Eddy Street.  Tickets to enter the event is only $5.  All ticket stubs will be put into a raffle for prizes like:  free Burger King meal, RCLC water mugs, ND t-shirts, etc.

The Holiday Gift Auction is a fundraiser for the RCLC Youth Development Programs.  Money raised at this event goes to support our Teen Leadership Retreat, college visits and our My America Trip which will be to Washington, DC this year.  Please come support a wonderful program and leave with great gifts for everyone.  For more information and other ways to support this event, please contact Velshonna Luckey at 574-631-3312 or by email at vluckey@nd.edu.

 

Velshonna Luckey

Youth Development Program Director

Robinson Community Learning Center

University of Notre Dame

921 N. Eddy St.

South Bend, IN 46617

Changing Lives and Our Community One Relationship at a Time

 

On this Veteran’s Day, we are mindful of the countless sacrifices that have been made to ensure our liberty and we would like to thank all veterans for their service. We are especially proud of our Notre Dame family members who have served this country.

We know that you live and work among heroes every day. We have shared some photos of our heroes and colleagues who live God, Country, Notre Dame. Please share photos and stories of your heroes.

Let’s spend this day in gratitude and celebration for all those who have given so much for  us.

Enjoy this special Notre Dame moment

(Note: Best Experienced at Full Volume.)

It is with mixed emotions I announce Kesha Walker is leaving the NDAA  – she has accepted a position as an Account Manager within University Communications. In her new role she will be managing print, web and multimedia projects from initial conception through delivery and invoicing. 

Over the past two years Kesha has done a terrific job supporting our clubs on a day to day basis as well helping streamline the UND Celebrations process and Club Football Ticket allotment. Kesha has built great relationships with many of our club leaders and always provides excellent customer service. We will miss her friendly and warm demeanor and I want to thank her for her many contributions and her willingness to take on any project or assignment.

Please join me in congratulating Kesha and wishing her the best in this new exciting role for her. Kesha’s last day in the office will be Friday, November 15, 2013.

Mike Brown
Assistant Director, Alumni Groups
Notre Dame Alumni Association

As we begin the Boldly Notre Dame Campaign, it is with a heavy heart that I tell you we will be saying a fond farewell to an outstanding fundraiser and a loyal Notre Dame son.  George Duke will be leaving the University of Notre Dame Development team effective 11/15/13.  For over 21 years, George has set a high standard of excellence in engaging individuals and he has helped many members of the Notre Dame family find opportunities to share their time, talent and treasure with the University in order to help Notre Dame achieve its mission.  George will be joining Emmanuel College in Boston as VP of Alumni Relations and Development.  It is an incredible opportunity for George right in his back yard of Boston.

George began his career with Notre Dame in Corporate Relations in 1992.  He then made the move over to Regional Development choosing the Boston area as his home base in order to build out his own territory for Notre Dame.  He will leave an unparalleled legacy of production and engagement in the New England area.  His reputation with his donors is impeccable.  As a student, an alumnus, a ND parent and an associate, George Duke has always been a Notre Dame man and, I have no doubt, he will face this next chapter with the style and passion that has served Our Lady’s University so well.  Please join me in congratulating George on his new endeavor and thank him for his service to Notre Dame.

In Notre Dame,

Michael McLaughlin

Please join me in welcoming Jonathan Retartha to the Annual Giving Programs team as Assistant Director of Young & Next Generation Alumni.  Jonathan will coordinate marketing efforts to our undergraduate alumni that are 1-20 years post-graduation.  He will focus on applying the right message, medium and moment to drive participation and revenue.

Jonathan earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Film/TV from Notre Dame, a Master of Arts in New Media from NYU’s Tisch School of Arts, and then an MBA from Notre Dame.  Most recently, he served as Business Development Associate at Fox News Channel/Fox Business Network.  At Fox, he managed 20+ mobile products, managed analytics implementation and reporting, and built and implemented strategic business plans for new digital initiatives.  Jonathan also worked at Starlite Media and Clifford/Bratskeir Public Relations.

Jonathan and his wife, Amanda, have relocated from New York, New York.  Jonathan will officially join the team on Monday November 4th.

Mark Karim Naman ’95, ‘96
Director, Interest Groups | Proud to Be ND

University of Notre Dame
1100 Grace Hall | Notre Dame, IN 46556
o:  574.631.9188 | c:  732.299.8661 | f:  574.631.7939
e:  mnaman@nd.edu | w:  Proudtobe.nd.edu

 

I am pleased to announce Chris Harrington is transitioning to the position of Assistant Director Matching Gifts, reporting to me.  Chris will be working to transition his current Young Alumni responsibilities while taking on the new role.  This transition is part of a plan to build on our successes in Annual Giving and to ensure Notre Dame remains the #1 University Matching Gift program in the nation.

Please join me in welcoming Chris to his new role and thanking him for his commitment to Our Lady’s University,

 

Mark Karim Naman ’95, ‘96
Director, Interest Groups | Proud to Be ND

University of Notre Dame
1100 Grace Hall | Notre Dame, IN 46556
o:  574.631.9188 | c:  732.299.8661 | f:  574.631.7939
e:  mnaman@nd.edu | w:  Proudtobe.nd.edu