Foundation Officers Jan M . Hayden Chair Vincent E . Lazar Vice Chair Lisa M . Schweitzer Secretary Rebecca A . Roof Treasurer Paul E . Harner Immediate Past Chair
Foundation Directors Isabel C . Balboa Charles Beckham Jay Bender Steven N . Berger E . Frank Childress , Jr . Katie Coleman Jay M . Goffman Paul Harner Jan Hayden John Hoffman Michael Johnson Marjorie Kaufman Vincent Lazar Julio ( Rick ) Mendoza Dwayne Murray Patrick J . Nash Norman Pernick Rebecca Roof Robert Rosenberg Lisa Schweitzer Mark Shinderman Prof . Elizabeth Tashjian Lynn Lewis Tavenner J . Scott Victor William L . Wallander David A . Warfield Scott Wolfson
Senior Director Robert J . Rosenberg
Ex Officio Charles A . Beckham , Jr .
Executive Director Shari A . Bedker
From the Foundation
Jan Hayden , Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz , PC Chair , American College of Bankruptcy Foundation
The Texas Fellows made sure we all had a wonderful time at the All Fellows luncheon in Austin this fall . Our luncheon featured their own Professor Westbrook , Westbrook , followed by President Charlie Beckham ’ s closing . We had a wonderful leadership dinner arranged by Berry Spears and the International Committee dinner at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center . My personal thanks for a wonderful time to those who worked so hard to make it happen , but on to the heart of my column . Time to tell you about the hard work of the Foundation Board made possible by your generosity !
The fall meeting was the first time since amending our bylaws that we saw the results of incorporating our DEI initiatives into our goals . As we reported in the spring , expanding our reach to implement our DEI initiatives did not hinder our fundraising efforts , but may well have bolstered them as we raised a recordbreaking $ 459,178 in 2022 , compared to $ 412,555 in 2021 . Armed with such a successful fundraising year and considering the funds available in our quasi-endowment and from the College , we were able to approve and award in excess of $ 620,000 in grant requests , with more than $ 523,000 for Pro Bono grants , $ 30,000 for the Just the Beginning internships , and over $ 66,000 in other DEI grant requests . As we noted in our Foundation Board meeting , it is hard to fathom the dramatic growth we ’ ve seen in over twenty years of awarding pro bono grants .
During the meeting , our forward-looking business included setting our 2024 grant level at $ 664,000 and our fundraising goal at $ 470,000 with the hope that , as in years past , we will exceed it ! Finally , after years of good stewardship , our quasiendowment has grown to a level that we believe will allow us to start to use some of the proceeds to fund our work on a consistent basis . The board agreed to appoint a committee headed by Becky Roof and Liz Tashjian to develop criteria to govern future withdrawals .
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