Please join the Stewardship & Donor Relations team in offering your prayers and condolences to our friend and colleague Rosie McDowell, Financial Aid Stewardship Program Director. Rosie’s much-beloved father, Terry Riordan, Sr., passed away unexpectedly last week. Visitation and services will take place in South Bend on Friday, Feb. 9th and Saturday, Feb. 10th.

Obituary for Terry Riordan, Sr.

Cristi Ganyard

Dear Colleagues,

Please join me in congratulating Patty Herrity on her promotion to the Sr. Director of Gift and Data Management effective February 1.

Patty has been a longstanding member of the Gift Management team, serving in a variety of capacities including leading the first ever data integrity team, and, most recently, overseeing the gift operations team. She has been an integral part of our gift management operations, always pushing the team to try new things, improving our processes, and bringing levity to our team meetings. Patty, who is a 1997 graduate of Notre Dame, has been at the University for 19 years and a member of the development team for 13 years.

Reporting directly to Patty in her new role will be Meg Buysse (focusing on asceND, pledge communications, and ongoing process improvement projects), Jessica Witous (leader of gift processing and biographical updates), Alyssa Strbjak (leader of gift management communications) and the Audit and Compliance Program Director (formerly held by Colleen Bailey-Knapke prior to her transition to the Gift Planning team). The posting for the Audit and Compliance Program Director will be posted in the coming days. If you have anyone you know of who may be interested in this leadership role, please contact Beth Graybill or Patty Herrity.

In Notre Dame,
Amy Schell

Happy birthday to all our UR employees celebrating their special days in February! We hope this new year brings you lots of love!

2/2—Kim Biagini
2/3—Shelby Carroll
2/3—Katie Sphor
2/3—Alyssa Strbjak
2/4—Becky Kincaid
2/8—Davida Kozlowski
2/9—Steven Asiala
2/9—Shinnell Lee
2/10—Cat Edmonds
2/10—Jessica Reasons
2/10—Chris Russell
2/12—Aaron Wall
2/13—Christa LeeVan
2/16—Matt Abernathy
2/17—Allie Griffith
2/20—Riley Koval
2/21—Ashley Bennett
2/21—Ashley Moeller
2/21—Kara Primmer
2/23—Heather Moriconi
2/23—Anu Osinubi
2/24—Shannon Longo
2/24—Hannah Thompson
2/25—Stephanie Mead
2/27—Hilary Ott
2/27—Amy Schell
2/29—Bill Kempf

With almost two weeks of gift processing under our belts, the Gift and Data Management team will be using Friday, January 26th as an opportunity to assess lessons learned, work on individual backlog items, and ensure processes implemented will be sustainable as we ramp up for fundraising initiatives coming in the next few weeks. We will not be processing gifts or pledges on Friday but will have coverage of our 1-5150 phone line and givegift@nd.edu email. We will return to our regular processing on Monday January 29th.

Dear Colleagues,

Yesterday, we started sending our 2023 Giving Statements electronically. The initial send was a subset of the overall population of 22,000+, which was comprised of payroll deduction donors, ND DAF donors, and a small sampling of donors that give through multiple pipelines (ie. stock gifts, IRAs, etc.)

The subject line is 2023 Charitable Giving Tax Statement: University of Notre Dame, and the sender was the University of Notre Dame using the givegift@nd.edu.

We anticipate all electronic copies to be sent by EOD today, January 23. All hard copies will be sent before Wednesday, January 31.

If your benefactors have questions, please encourage them to search by the subject line, sender, and/or send date (1/22 and 1/23).

FAQs and other pertinent information regarding 2023 cumulative giving letters can be found here.

Thank you,
Alyssa Strbjak

Please note that due to the construction happening on the 2nd floor of the ESC offices, the elevators are significantly delayed to the 1st floor. Kite is aware of the situation and is periodically resetting the elevators. If you are unable to wait for the elevator, please be advised to take the stairs or to take the Investment Office elevator to the 4th floor, where you can then either take the elevator down to the 3rd floor or use the stairs. Thank you for your cooperation and patience.

I am delighted to share that proud parents Tom Scrace and Sarah Carruthers welcomed baby boy John Bessette Scrace on January 7. Weighing in at 7lbs 13oz, John is settling in well at home with his new dog besties. Congrats to the wonderful family!

– Amanda Retartha

The Gift and Data Management office will be closed this Friday, January 12. givegift@nd.edu will be monitored for donor emails and calls.

Thank you,
Amy Schell

South Bend is in desperate need of blood this January. The American Red Cross is sponsoring a blood drive tomorrow, Tuesday, January 9th from 11am to 4pm at the IDEA Center. Please “Walk the Walk” and consider being a blood donor to meet our area’s needs.