• DEIU Virtual Event: Community Spotlight – Boys & Girls Club

All are welcome to a DEIU Virtual Event focus on a community spotlight. This session will feature the Boys & Girls Clubs of St. Joseph County’s CEO, Jacqueline Kronk, and COO, Duane Wilson.

Wed. Dec. 16, 2020 4pm – 5pm

• DEIU Discussion Group Continues 

12/11 – Episode 3
12/18 – Episode 4

• You can track all UR DEIU events and initiatives with our new DEIU Calendar.

• If you’re interested in being a part of a DEIU Task Force committee, please click here and identify which committee you would like to serve on.

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The December Matching Gift Email will send this Tuesday, December 8 to this list of assigned entities who work for matching gift companies, have made a gift since November 14, 2020, and as of today have not yet matched their gift. These gifts represent over $156K in potential matches.

Please note that individuals on the second tab of the excel file (“Fundraiser Outreach”) have not received the matching gift email message (all gifts exceeding $25,000) but may be eligible to match their gifts totaling $480K. You are encouraged to reach out to your assigned benefactors directly to discuss the details and answer questions related to the matching gift process.

If you have any questions regarding this matching gift communication, please reach out to Laura Walker.

Included in your planning for the upcoming holiday break, please ensure that your department’s requests for pre-break payments are forwarded timely for processing. During this high volume time, we ask that all requests for vendor payments, employee reimbursements, etc. be forwarded as soon as possible.

We will make every effort to generate pre-break payments for all requests received by A/P on or before Tuesday, December 15. Requests for payment received after that time may not be processed until after break as our efforts will be focused on those received by the deadline. Please allow additional time for us to process requests for international payees due to potential tax or other compliance issues that may arise.

Please make faculty, staff, or others who submit payment requests for your area, aware of this timing. Also, please consider using your Procurement Card for eligible, small dollar transactions.

Should you have any questions or concerns regarding the processing of your requests during this time, please contact me. If you have any emergency payment situations that may arise over this year’s extended time-off, please notify us at acctpay@nd.edu which will be monitored over break.

Happy Holidays!

Ed Verhamme
Accounts Payable Manager

Dear Colleagues,

Please review the year-end memo 2020 Year End Memo for important deadlines, instructions for wire/stock gifts, staffing coverage, and other relevant information associated with year-end operations.

Gift and Data Management looks forward to closing out strong with you in 2020!

– Amy Schell

Hello everyone, and good afternoon.

Please join me in welcoming Graham Jay McAllister into the world. He was born yesterday at 6lb 13oz, and is 19.75 inches long! Graham and Lindsey are both doing well.

Thanks,
Michael Loungo

Please join me in offering sympathy to our dear colleague, Mary Bueno, for the loss of her mother, Patricia DeClercq, on Tuesday, November 24.

The obituary can be found here:
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/southbendtribune/obituary.aspx?n=patricia-e-declercq&pid=197176695&fhid=7050

The family held private services this past week.

Eternal rest grant her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her.

Best,
Brian Diss

DEI & (YO)U

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• Please click here to give your feedback about our efforts related to DEIU. This feedback is completely anonymous!

Happy Birthday to all our colleagues celebrating their special days in December! You are a gift to our team!

12/2 – Kristin Schoenfeld
12/3 – Megan Macri
12/3 – Tom Cummings
12/4 – Mark Welch
12/4 – Tim Willis
12/5 – Hugo Manriquez Diaz
12/5 – Steve Nekic
12/6 – Pablo Martinez
12/6 – Wieslaw Kosidlak
12/7 – Curtis Claypool
12/8 – Devon Aragona
12/8 – Karen Deak
12/8 – Kristin Trosper
12/12 – Dolly Duffy
12/13 – Rudy Reyes
12/15 – Jennifer McGuire
12/16 – Jerry Barca
12/18 – Kim Borza
12/18 – Mike Schultz
12/20 – Lea Barthuly
12/22 – Pam Mullin
12/23 – Andrew Fiedler
12/23 – Ben Moeller
12/29 – Ken Heckel
12/29 – Luke Conway
12/30 – Sherita Jackson

Congratulations to Jess Rizzo ’07 and her husband Cody ’06, who welcomed a newborn baby girl on November 19th, Kyle Olivia Rizzo, weighing 6lbs and measuring 19 inches, despite being 4 weeks early!

Jess was unexpectedly admitted to the hospital earlier in November, and was kept and monitored in the hospital for a week before being induced on the 19th. She was originally scheduled to be induced on December 20th! Despite being early, Kyle is healthy and strong. Jess, Cody, Kyle, and their other daughter Ryan are all home and healthy.

It is with mixed emotions that I write to share that after 9 1/2 years as a member of our development team, Nathan Utz will be leaving Notre Dame to assume the position of Vice President for Industry Partnerships at Purdue University effective December 14, 2020. Special thanks to Nathan for his tireless efforts as the inaugural academic advancement director in the College of Engineering, and for his 4 1/2 years as the senior director of corporate relations. Under Nathan’s leadership, corporate relations has had several record years of production. Please join me in thanking Nathan for his service and congratulating him on his new role as a Boilermaker.

I would also like to announce that Josh Tullis has accepted the role of Interim Senior Director of Corporate Relations. Josh has been an integral member of our corporate relations team for the past four years, and led our pioneering efforts to establish the Notre Dame – IBM Tech Ethics Lab with an historic grant of $20M from IBM in 2020. He earned his BS from ND in 1996 and his Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from ND in 1999. Special thanks to Josh for taking on this important role.

-Drew Buscareno