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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 Jeanne P . Darcey 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 Foundation continues to grow and prosper . As our Vice Chair Vince Lazar reported to the College Board at the Spring meeting in March , we once again exceeded our fund-raising goals to support our grant program . Our 2022 campaign raised a total of $ 459,178 , an all-time high for the Foundation . This performance exceeded not only our gifts last year of $ 412,554 — for an increase of 11 % — but also our internal goal of $ 403,000 . We continue to see strong participation by the Fellows in this worthy endeavor . Most interesting , we saw that 85 % of the contributions were from Fellows whose contributions matched or exceeded their prior year ’ s donations . We have a lot of people to thank for this success . First , Jenny Cudahy who keeps us all in line and informed throughout the campaign . She is a wealth of information , and we honestly could not do the campaign without her help . And of course , our solicitation teams led by the Board Members of each Circuit . Asking folks to give to a good cause may sound easy , until you have to do it ! These folks continue to do a yeoman ’ s job year after year . And of course , you ! I have often thought that our task to raise money for the Foundation is a bit easier because we have such a receptive and generous group of leaders in the College . And year after year you prove that true ! Now that we have completed our campaign , we can get on with the really joyful part of our job which is spending the money raised on good and worthy programs . For this I will refer you to Norm ’ s report in his capacity as the Grants Pro Bono Committee Chair . Norm has a team of over forty Committee Members who did a great job last year . Now our focus has expanded to DEI programing , and everyone will be hard at work to identify both worthy pro bono projects and DEI programs this spring and summer . As he asks in his report , please encourage any worthy programs to apply to the Foundation . Our goal is to make your donations as impactful as possible , and we welcome your help . Finally , we have several members of our board whose terms have continued on page 25