Gift and Data Management will be closed this Friday, January 13 in recognition of our team’s work during the year end. The general phone and email will be covered to help donors who need assistance.

Thank you,
Amy Schell

The Office of Gift Planning will be closed this Friday, January 13 in recognition of our team’s work during the year end.

Thank you,
TJ Pillari

Colleagues,

Please help us welcome Laura Waltz, our new senior office coordinator on the Internal Engagement team. Laura’s first day is Wednesday, January 11.

Laura comes to us from Lippert Components Inc., where she worked as an Administrative Associate for the past 5 years. During her career, Laura has also held roles with Metropolitan Title Company Inc., Kruggel, Lawton & Co., LLC, and Integrity Title Agency. We’re so excited for Laura to bring her administrative and operational expertise to the ESC front desk.

Laura was born in New Castle, Indiana. She has been married to her high school sweetheart Mark for 41 years. In her free time, Laura enjoys crafting bead jewelry, going to the beach, and spending time with her family, including her daughter Liv, son-in-law Jacob, and 15-month-old grandson Arlo.

When you see Laura around the halls at ESC, please stop by and say hello.

Welcome to the team, Laura!

With gratitude,
Grace

Dear Friends,

I am excited to share that Meredith Sharwarko joins our UR Family as Senior Associate Director, Annual Giving Programs starting today, Monday, January 9, 2023!

Meredith joins us from Hope College where she served on their Annual Giving team for six years—most recently as Director of Annual Giving. Prior to her work in higher education, Meredith was an Account Executive at Inte Q, a provider of loyalty and subscription-based benefit programs, data analytics, and merchandise products.

Please join me in welcoming Meredith to Notre Dame and be sure to stop by and say hello to her.

God Bless and Go Irish,
Brandon Tabor

Colleagues,

I am delighted to announce the promotion of Caitlin Olivier as our new director for donor relations strategies, taking on the important role that Mary Fisher vacated last year. Caitlin has served on the Stewardship & Donor Relations team the last 4 ½ years, focusing on donor recognition, and I am thrilled to have an opportunity to promote from within.

Caitlin has been influential in pushing forward efficiencies, creativity, and technology in recent recognition projects. She was instrumental in the implementation of the digital donor display in the Hesburgh Library in 2020, has digitalized our ongoing capital reports, and has demonstrated incredible creativity when sourcing donor gifts in association with dedications. This demonstrated leadership in excellence will serve her well as she takes on this new challenge in donor relations strategies. With Emma Capannari, Caitlin will serve as the stewardship partner to all fundraisers, strategizing next steps in association with upcoming asks and stewardship plans. We look forward to communicating soon about updated guidelines for individualized stewardship touches and with fundraiser assignments.

Caitlin’s past experience includes serving as a CRM business analyst at Indiana University and enrollment work at Drexel University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Trinity University and anticipates becoming a “domer” this summer when she will earn her Executive Master of Nonprofit Administration degree from Notre Dame.

Please join me in congratulating Caitlin and also please help us find a new program director for donor recognition. Caitlin’s vacated position reports directly to Jessica Reasons. Please contact Jessica with interest and/or questions.

Grateful,
Katherine Lane
Sr. Director, Stewardship & Donor Relations

Happy birthday to all our UR employees celebrating their special days in January! We hope you have a great day and a wonderful new year!

1/3 – Andrea Swanagan
1/3 – Eileen Gieselman
1/5 – Nancy Cole
1/6 – Dylan Reed
1/7 – Drew Buscareno
1/9 – Kate Brown
1/11 – Colleen Bailey-Knapke
1/11 – Stu Fortener
1/12 – James Riley
1/13 – Laura Walker
1/17 – Anne Overly
1/17 – Matthew Frazier
1/19 – Jeff Fersch
1/21 – Matthew McVeigh
1/23 – Nadia Erickson
1/24 – Melissa Lechlitner
1/24 – Suzanne DeGuilio
1/25 – Kelly Courington
1/25 – Lou Nanni
1/26 – Cristian Baguer
1/26 – Joanne Norell
1/30 – Geoff Stookey
1/31 – Bryan Reaume

With the upcoming holiday break, the Building Services team has asked that we share the following information:

Please make sure that any cubicle/desk trash receptacles have been emptied in the communal trash before you leave for the holiday break. On Thursday, 12/21/22, the evening and overnight crew will be emptying the communal/common area trash receptacles only. Communal/Common area trash receptacles can be located in kitchens, breakrooms, and any area that is an open staff area. Doing this will help ensure that over the holiday break there will not be trash left in an open area.

The regular cleaning schedule will resume on Tuesday, January 3, 2023.

If you have any questions about this in regard to University Relations, please contact Lana Taylor.

Happy Holidays!

Dear Colleagues,

Please join me in congratulating Christina Ryan on her promotion to Director of Prospect Research. In this newly created position, she will lead and grow our Prospect Research team. A member of the team since August 2021, she quickly became an integral contributor, providing quality research to fundraisers and identifying process improvement opportunities in our recurring project-based work. Christina also actively pursues opportunities to enhance the team’s knowledge base and the suite of tools used to conduct research.

She will lead the team that currently consists of Ben Moeller and Megan Andedo. As our Senior Prospect Research Analyst, Ben Moeller will continue to provide direct research support to University Relations Executives, lead the team’s Advisory Council renewal and nomination research effort, and will be responsible for designing the curriculum for and conducting the training of new prospect research colleagues. Megan Andedo, Prospect Research Analyst, will continue to lead the Freshman Parent research effort and will continue to oversee the team’s research on potential prospects identified through the Daily Transaction Report.

After the first of the year, Christina will begin the process of hiring three new Prospect Research Analysts, one to fill the role that she is vacating and two that will be net additions to the team.

Again, please join me in congratulating Christina on her new role!

Andrea Swanagan

Colleagues,

With winter coming, we have been working with Kite Properties to adjust parking for the ESC Smart Cars. We wanted to provide the details about parking for the cars this winter:

• Parking for SMART Cars #12 & #14 has been moved to the south end of the parking area below the building against the brick wall directly behind 5 Guys. This parking will be in effect through March 2023. The parking signs for these cars have been switched so the #12 & #14 signage is now on the winter parking locations and the cars have been moved to the appropriate spaces.
• The normal parking spots used by cars #12 & #14 now have signage with “Restricted – No Parking”. These spots will be used by both Kite Properties through March 2023. If one of these spots (or both) is open, do not assume it is available for use. Please note, the signage includes verbiage that cars may be towed at the owner’s expense.
• Parking for SMART Car #9 will remain as is for now. We will reevaluate as winter weather approaches.
• If you need to pick up or drop off, use the circle drive adjacent to the lobby doors. The use of flashers in this loading/unloading zone is encouraged.

If you have any questions, please contact Lana Taylor (ltaylor1@nd.edu)

Colleagues,

New CRT Brochures and Endowment Charts are printed and housed in the storytelling wall. Remaining planned giving brochures are coming soon.

-Amber Cerveny