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Donna Brace Ogilvie ’30 Pledges $5 Million to The Campaign for Andover
January 12, 2010
Donna Brace Ogilvie, honorary cochair of The Campaign for Andover, and class of 1930 Abbot alumna, has pledged $5 million to establish an endowed financial aid scholarship fund at Phillips Academy. Ogilvie’s legacy of support spans decades and includes previous gifts to financial aid, the Gelb Science Center, and the Brace Center for Gender Studies, which was established on campus in 1996.
“I believe highly in education, and I believe young children—from all circumstances—should have a chance to experience an outstanding education,” said Ogilvie, who also is an ardent supporter of Girls Inc.
“In many ways, Donna is a most remarkable lady,” said David M. Underwood, trustee emeritus and Ogilvie’s partner as honorary cochair of the campaign. “Few can rival her legacy of commitment to both Abbot and Andover.”
Head of School Barbara Landis Chase joined Underwood in thanking Ogilvie on behalf of current and future Andover students, who will benefit from her kind heart and her passionate belief that family finances should not be an obstacle for talented students to pursue the highest quality education. “Donna’s philanthropy has enriched many areas of the Andover program for years,” she said. “In this instance, we are profoundly grateful for her support of need-blind admission.”
With Ogilvie’s gift -- and the generous support of other alumni, parents and friends, who have chosen financial aid as a philanthropic priority – the Academy now stand at $39 million toward its goal of $65 million for financial aid. Such scholarship funding is part of the campaign’s overall goal of $300 million, which also includes support for the academic program and the faculty. To date, the Academy has raised more than $187 million toward the overall goal.
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- An Online Marketplace for Donors
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December 3, 2009
Phillips Academy is hoping to revolutionize giving online by providing donors with a transparent, real-time giving experience. The campaign Web site, which launched in November, showcases 12 projects within the Andover Fund that donors can choose to support.
Inspired by the 20/20 Advisory Board’s “gift registry” concept and grounded in online fund-raising data, the Andover Fund, Web, and IT teams created the Giving Guide. “This guide is a great example of the way the 20/20 Advisory Board is helping us connect with younger donors and challenging us to think differently,” says Jenn Schraut, associate director of annual giving. Originally consisting of 20 members from the 20 youngest classes, the 20/20 Advisory Board helps identify volunteers and reconnect alumni who may have become distanced from the school.
“We wanted to provide donors with a very tangible sense of how their contributions can help the Academy,” says Ann Harris, director of class, reunion, and parent giving. The Giving Guide is a type of online marketplace that empowers donors to choose a specific area of the Academy to support through their Andover Fund gift. Donation options illustrate the way a gift may be used, and each designation displays a dollar goal that needs to be reached by June 30, along with gifts and pledges received to date. “The 20/20 Advisory Board believes it’s important to connect dollars with impact on Andover,” says member Miles Lasater ’96. “When people see a correlation—that $50 could provide a wireless keyboard for the school—we hope it will motivate them to contribute to Andover.”
A donor may, for example, choose to support faculty, a priority that is 42 percent of the way to its annual goal of $600,000. “Showing the percentage raised imparts a sense of urgency and a sense that my gift counts toward achieving a very real and important goal,” says Emerson Moore ’08, 20/20 Advisory Board member. “I noticed that only two percent of the campus renewal goal has been raised,” Moore continues. “Having that information inspires me to help now.”
Donors may also choose to “Promote Big Blue” on their personal Web pages or share the giving designation through Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, or MySpace.
To take a look at projects you may wish to support, please visit the Andover Fund Giving Guide at www.andover.edu/af.
- Building Momentum, The Campaign for Andover Goes Public
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November 5, 2009
This evening the Phillips Academy community will mark with great pride the public announcement of The Campaign for Andover, Building on the Surest Foundation. “The people, programs, and facilities at the heart of the 2004 Strategic Plan now form the core elements of this campaign,” says Oscar Tang ’56, president of the Board of Trustees and chair of the campaign.
Students, faculty, alumni, parents, and guests will gather in Cochran Chapel for a program titled “Andover’s Foundations,” during which Andover’s leaders will offer remarks and special acknowledgements of the donors who have contributed to the campaign’s early efforts.
“The generosity of so many alumni and parents allows us to experience the extraordinary every day at Andover,” says Faiyad Ahmad ’10, school president and one of three speakers who will open the event. Alumni Council President Susan Urie Donahue ’73, P’05, ’08 and Dean of Faculty Temba Maqubela, P’03, ’06, ’11 will welcome guests on behalf of alumni and faculty.
Featured tonight will be performances by Fidelio, Academy organist and music instructor Patrick Kabanda, and vocalist Charlene Sadberry Tombar ’99 accompanied by pianist and faculty member Bob Baumann. In addition to the musical performances, Head of School Barbara Landis Chase, Oscar Tang, and David Underwood ’54, honorary cochair of The Campaign for Andover and former president of the board, will speak about the power and relevance of an Andover education.
Calling The Campaign for Andover a “new journey,” Underwood says that the previous campaign—The Surest Foundation—and Chase’s 15-year leadership have given Andover “the potential to achieve an even greater magnitude of excellence.”
The Campaign for Andover, a comprehensive campaign, seeks to raise $300 million in endowment and current-use funds to support students, faculty, academic programs, and campus restoration. The Andover Fund, with a fiscal year 2010 goal of $12.2 million, is a part of the campaign.
Since July 1, 2005, the campaign has been in a “silent phase,” with all gifts given to one of its priorities counted toward the $300 million goal. To date, more than 15,000 donors have made gifts and pledges totaling $178.8 million.
- Academy Receives Largest Gift
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January 2008
Oscar L. Tang ’56, president of the Board of Trustees and chair of The Campaign for Andover, commits $25 million to the Academy. This, the largest gift in the history of the school, will support several strategic initiatives, including need-blind admission for students across the economic spectrum.
- Need-Blind Admission is Achieved
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September 2008
Andover achieves need-blind admission in 2008. Though the Academy is need-blind, there is still much work to be done to fully fund the initiative. The campaign seeks $65 million to endow need-blind admission for the future and additional current-use funds to sustain it in the short-term.
- Anonymous Gift Will Help Restore the Andover Inn
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November 2008
With a $10 million unrestricted commitment from an alumnus, the Academy is now able to move forward with the renovation of the Andover Inn, which will be completed in 2011. Playing a vital role in the community, the inn graciously accommodates parents, alumni, and other visitors to the Academy.