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DEL.ICIO.USWoodruff Arts Center nears corporate campaign goal
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Only $88,355 to go. And three more days to raise it.
The Woodruff Arts Center annual corporate campaign has raised $8.61 million of its $8.7 million goal.
The feat is particularly impressive because that money was raised in only 10 months compared to the usual 12 -month effort. The shortened season was due to the arts center changing its fiscal year to end on May 31.
Not only did the center have less time to raise the money. But it also set a record campaign goal. And all that during a tough economy.
“Those factors have been balanced out by terrific leadership,” said Beauchamp Carr, executive vice president of the Woodruff Arts Center, who couldn’t say enough good things about Tommy Holder, CEO of Holder Construction Co., the chair of the campaign. “Tommy was really wonderful. The whole campaign cabinet was great.”
Carr was especially pleased with the $1.1 million raised through its challenge fund, chaired by search consultant Veronica Biggins. The challenge fund, which had 10 donors, matches new dollars raised during the campaign.
Those 10 entities were: AT&T, Bank of America, the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Deloitte, Georgia Power Foundation, Holder Construction, the Marcus Foundation, the Sara Giles Moore Foundation, SunTrust and UPS.
Carr was optimistic the goal would be met within the next few days.
“We are absolutely counting on rasing the entire campaign amount,” Carr said. “We have got to. Failure is not an option.”
Holder agreed, saying it would probably be the end of next week before they would be sure the goal had been met.
“We are very close, and we are confident we’ll get there,” Holder said. “The reporting process just takes a little longer.”
The top overall donors to the campaign are:
The one donor giving at least $450,000: the Coca-Cola Co.;
Donors giving $400,000 or more: the Georgia Power Foundation and Turner Broadcasting System;
Donors giving at least $300,000: the Cox interests, which includes a gift from Anne Cox Chambers and the combined donations from Cox Enterprises’ entities (including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, WSB-TV, Cox Radio Group Atlanta and the Cox Foundation), Deloitte partners and employees and UPS.
Those giving at least $200,000: AT&T (which increased from $200,000 to $230,000), SunTrust foundations and employees, Florence C. and Harry L. English Memorial Fund, Harriett McDaniel Marshall Trust and the Walter H. and Marjory M. Rich Memorial Fund.
Among the other key members of the campaign cabinet: Georgia Power’s Mike Garrett who will chair the campaign next year; Deloitte’s Bradford Branch; H.J. Russell’s Michael Russell, Scott Selig of Selig Enterprises; Frank McGaughey of Powell Goldstein, Gary Peacock of SunTrust and Susan Bell of Ernst & Young.
Atlanta’s YWCA Salute Raises Funds
The YWCA of Greater Atlanta has been tallying up the dollars it raised from its recent Salute to Women of Achievement luncheon two weeks ago.
“The Salute was the best ever,” said Justine Boyd, CEO of Atlanta’s YWCA. “We raised almost $480,000 through the support of corporate, individuals and theAirTran Airways auction.”
This was the 25th anniversary of the Salute to Women of Achievement recognition, and so the YWCA decided to “salute the salute” and celebrate the achievements of the 250 women in its academy.
Since it was a special year, the Salute did not identify one woman as the overall woman of achievement. But it did induct 10 new women into the academy.
They were: Pinney Allen, formerly of Alston & Bird and currently the head of the Atlanta Girls’ School; Lisa Borders, president of the Atlanta City Council; Susana Maria Chavez, vice president and Southeast regional manager of Parking Company of America; LaJean Waller Gould, president and founder of the Women in Golf Foundation; Lisa Hamilton, president of the UPS Foundation; Ceceilia Houston-Torrence, community involvement banking officer at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta; Candace Kaspers, president of Gender Plus; Penelope McPhee, president of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation; Rhonda Mims, president of ING Foundation; and Louise Sams, executive vice president and general counsel of Turner Broadcasting System.
Boyd took a moment to recognize the strides women have made in the past 25 years.
“We live in a city where the mayor’s name is Shirley [Franklin]. We live in a state where the chief justice’s name is Leah [Ward Sears], and we live in a place where Coke is known as Ingrid [Saunders Jones],” Boyd said. “We live in a place where women know no limits.”
Donna Buchanan to retire from Junior Achievement
Speaking of amazing women…. Donna Buchanan, president of Junior Achievement of Georgia, on Wednesday announced her plans to retire by the end of June.
Her successor will be Jack Harris, Junior Achievement’s chief operating officer.
Buchanan, a graduate of Georgia State University graduate, began her career with Junior Achievement in 1979 as an education manager in the New Orleans office. She left the organization for a couple of years in the 1990s, but returned in 1993 to become president of Junior Achievement of Georgia. Buchanan also is a past president of the Kiwanis Club of Atlanta.
Harris, a graduate of Princeton, has been with Junior Achievement for six years in various roles. Before that, he worked with Smith Barney and taught for two years at the Wesleyan School in Norcross.
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