Eastern Michigan University
Women in Philanthropy at EMU
Strengthening, Educating and Giving to the EMU community
FALL 2014
VOLUME 5 ISSUE 1
WIP-EMU invited to round table on Philanthropy
Linda Pritchard and Karen Paciorek parcipated in a
roundtable on philanthropy led by Denise Ilitch and sponsored by Ambassador magazine. Look for the arcle in
the December issue of Ambassador. The magazine, published by Denise Ilitch and Dennis Archer, Jr. , just rolled
out its 50th issue. Denise asked each of the parcipants
to share a bit about their role in philanthropy. All of the
other parcipants knew each other from their work in the
field of philanthropy but
♦ In this issue you will find:
everyone was truly
Denise Ilitch and EMU’s Linda Pritchard talk
Aer the roundtable
interested in WIP-EMU and what we have accomplished.
Other quesons Denise posed were: What are traits of people who give?
Can giving be taught? What are the trends in giving? She provided me for
each of us to share some final thoughts. A group photo was taken at the
end so if you are out and about Detroit in December, look for Ambassador
Magazine. Also parcipang were:
David Katz VP of the DMC
Doug Ferrick VP of the United Way for Southeast, MI
Robin Ferriby VP of the Community Foundaon
♦ Save the Date: Tuesday
December 2nd, 2014 Fall
Meeting U House
♦ Thursday May 14th
5 year anniversary event !
♦ New Members
♦ Get ready to vote
David Egner Ex. President & CEO of the Hudson-Webber Foundaon
Rishi Moudgil Director of the Center for Social Impact at U of M
Tonya Allen President & CEO of the Skillman Foundaon
Doug Stewart Ex. Director of the Max & Marjorie Fisher Foundaon
See pg. 2 for more on this story
Find us on the web: http://www.emich.edu/wip-emu/
Member To Do List:
1. Invite others to be members. Remember Voting Membership is $1,000. Membership is open to all at other giving levels with a donation to our grants fund.
2. Save the Date: Fall membership meeting 12/2/14 at
the University House. Invite to arrive soon via email.
WOMEN IN PHILANTHROPY AT EMU
Volume 5 Issue 1
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Cont. from page 1 on round table on philanthropy:
We will include a link to the article in the next newsletter. Doug Ferrick ,V.P. of United Way for Southeast MI, is an EMU
alum. Doug attended our October 22nd WIP Executive Board meeting to find out more about our group and how
we operate. He shared news about a new women’s group the United Way of Southeast MI is starting called Women
United.
This has been a busy past few months
for members joining WIP-EMU. We
Welcome the following new members:
Marcella Fox Brown
Jacqueline Goodman
Peggy Liggit
Mary Ramsey
Stephanie Robinson
Linda Pritchard presented informaon about
WIP-EMU to the EMU Foundaon Board on
October 10th. The Board was very impressed
with our accomplishments and were pleased
to hear how our grants make an impact on
campus and in the community.
WIP-EMU is turning 5 in 2015.
Grants Commi)ee set to do their work so
we can get ready to vote!
The WIP-EMU grants commi<ee members are busy reading the
31 grant applicaons just received for this year. Each member
of the commi<ee reads and evaluates the grants and the commi<ee as a whole meets to discuss each grant and provide a
short recommendaon for members to make vong less me
consuming and easy. Look for your ballot to come by email in
the next few weeks.
Please take the me to vote. This is the most important task of
our organizaon; deciding as a group which proposals are worthy of our funding for the coming year. Many thanks to the
grants commi<ee led by Nina Cons and Linda Pritchard.
The program commi<ee, chaired by Glenna Frank-Miller and
Kelly Quilter, is planning a wonderful celebraon of our organizaon and the great work that has been
done as a result of our grants. This is your Save the Date for Thursday May 14th and the special celebraon with Keynote speaker Sondra Shaw-Hardy. Longme WIP members will remember Sondra from the “Women… An Emerging Force in Philanthropy” presentaon sponsored by the EMU Foundaon June 9, 2008. She started a group of EMU women thinking about the possibilies of a giving
group on EMU’s campus and the result was WIP-EMU. Sondra will return to EMU’s campus on May
14th to share more on philanthropy and hear about our success.
The WIP-EMU Operang Fund , which supports the smooth operaon of our organizaon ,always needs donaons.
There will be an aucon at our Fall meeng Dec. 2nd. If you have a giI cerficate, item ,or service you could donate,
contact Kelly Quilter at kquilte1@emich.edu. Thank you. You can also make a direct donaon to the fund by designang your check to the EMU Foundaon for fund #01767. WIP-EMU thanks the following members for their recent donaons: to our operang fund: Linda Pritchard, Linda Polter, Jackie Tracy and Donna Schmi<-Oliver.