On April 25, 2020 ONE REPUBLIC will play the Purcell Pavilion as part of IDEA Week 2020.

https://news.nd.edu/news/onerepublic-to-headline-idea-week-2020/

There are a limited number of tickets reserved for our Notre Dame benefactors, in section 10, rows 3-5, which can be accessed only with a special registration code starting on Nov. 27, 2019.

For registration access for your benefactors, please contact Karen Deak (kdeak@nd.edu), AAD for the IDEA Center.

In order for all staff to join in our celebration this afternoon, we will be locking the main door of the Eddy Street offices at 4:00 today. If you have a benefactor scheduled to come in to pick up tickets after 4:00, please contact Carolyn Hardman (chardma1@nd.edu or ext. 9477) and she will make arrangements for a staff member to meet your donor. Thank you!

Colleagues,

Please use this link to access a shared document containing all registered guests for this weekend’s Annual Giving football events:

AGSM Boston College Football Events Attendees

Please contact Shannon Longo with any registration questions, or Sean Boudreau with any event questions. Go Irish!

Colleagues,

Tom Fuja, interim Dean of the College of Engineering, was originally scheduled to present at the Campaign College on Friday, November 22nd, but unfortunately will now be out of town on business travel. Tom is sorry to miss this event but trusts that you will understand.

Not wanting to miss an opportunity to share a College of Engineering priority with our Development colleagues, we have arranged for two student teams to present on experiential learning. This is a campaign priority for Engineering, as Tom shared during his 2018 Campaign College presentation, and as was highlighted at the 2019 UR Summit.

The Robotic Football and Rocketry teams will each share what the their team does, why experiential learning is an important part of their Engineering education, and what the experience has meant to them, personally and professionally. Additionally, they will be bringing “show and tell” hardware, expected to be a Robotic Football quarterback and kicker, and Rocketry team rockets, controllers, and example payloads. After the teams present, we have time in the agenda for small group or 1:1 conversations so please come and meet some of our Engineering students. I fully expect that you will be impressed with them and their work.

Thanks,
Jeff Arnold

Calling all blood donors!

During the Holiday and winter months, the blood bank always struggles with donations amidst the hustle and bustle! Please help us combat that this year by donating blood at Harper Cancer Research Institute on Tuesday, Dec. 17th from 11:30am-2:00pm. Your donation will save the lives of patients at our local hospitals!

As a thank you, all donors will receive a $10 Hacienda gift card. In addition, for every successful unit collected, $5 will be donated back to Harper! Click HERE to sign up!

Colleagues,

Please keep Megan Andedo and her boys Ezra and Eli in your thoughts and prayers. Megan’s husband Dave Andedo passed away last Monday, November 11th. Dave’s full obituary can be found here.

Our deepest condolences to Megan and the boys.

Dear Colleagues,

Today at 12:30 pm EST, the Office of Gift Planning will be hosting a complimentary webinar, Year-End Charitable Planning, for Notre Dame benefactors. Alisa M. Shin, J.D., Senior Wealth Planner at Vanguard will be our special guest presenter and will discuss year-end charitable planning techniques including:

• Gifting appreciated securities vs. cash
• Bunching of charitable deductions using a DAF or private foundation
• IRA Charitable Rollovers
• Bequests of retirement assets
• CRTs and Testamentary CRTs

You can access this event here through your computer audio. Please let Laura Walker know if you have benefactors that would still like to access the live event or you would like to receive a recording of this event.

A complete list of registrants is available here.

For more information about this webinar, please contact Laura Walker.

We are thrilled to announce that Abbey Johnson has been hired as the new Clubs Program Manager.

Abbey earned her MNA from Notre Dame in 2018. Abbey’s experience with Say Yes to Education, Inc., a non-profit based in NYC as well as her role as a vice-president of the Notre Dame Club of New York City make her an ideal addition to the team in service of our domestic clubs and volunteer leaders.

Abbey’s duties on the Clubs Team will also include UND Celebrations, ND Day, and Club Review & myND3 implementation. A native of Woodstock, Illinois, Abbey is moving to South Bend from New York City. Her first day in the office will be November 18.

-Ellie Kuhns