04/27/2007

Please remember that the deadline to get your pledge card to Warren is Friday, May 11.

At the breakfast a couple of weeks ago you heard about several different funds.

The Ballard fund and the IPS professional development fund are both fully funded so if you were giving to those, you will need to pick another fund. The Hensley Internship fund is only six months old but has been just about fully funded by several businesses in Maryville. It will support an intern each summer in Maryville.

Good possibilities remaining are:

the Muscatello-Rodgers Internship fund (for an intern to work with TML or TCSA)

the Managers Internship fund (to support our summer intern program)

the Jinks Scholarship fund (for the children or grandchildren of an IPS employee or retiree)

the old reliable Bingham Endowment (we use these earnings to supplement our spending for new initiatives such as the benchmarking project and the soon to be hired research consultant).

And, of course, there must be over 1,000 other opportunities for giving within the University community.

MTAS staff has always given at a high level and I appreciate it.

Thanks.