Below is a reprint of a website news item entitled Boldy Black, Boldly Brown:
As some of you may or may not know, there have been a few fundraising requests placed at the foot of IPC-NY.
Internally, we have IPC-NY's efforts via our 501 (c) (3) organization, the Ethel Tremaine Robinson Foundation, Inc. Ethel Tremaine Robinson has several initiatives on the table, highlighted by the Marie Moses grant. As stated before on this site, this grant will be given every year and will send two middle schoolers to Brown's Pre-College SPARK program. You can download a copy of the solicitation letter that went out to many of us in the class of '82.
Meanwhile, Shelley Simms Reed recently established the Dr. Lynnea A. Stephen Memorial Fund to honor her dear classmate who died in December of 2005. This Fund will donate $25,000 to the Third World Center in Dr. Stephen's name. You can download a copy of the solicitation letter that went out to many of us in the class of '90.
While the efforts of the Ethel Tremaine Robinson Foundation and Shelley Simms Reed are grassroots and designed to have focused and immediate impact dictated by the fundraisers themselves, there are obviously more hefty and long term fundraising efforts going on as well.
President Simmons' Boldly Brown capital campaign(target goal 1.45 billion dollars!) has significant involvement by Black Alums. Wife and Husband Trustees Bernicestine McLeod Bailey and Harold Bailey are heading up the Alumni of Color initiative which as the name suggests is geared to raise money for the the Boldly Brown Campaign amongst Alumni of Color. In the same vain, Valerie Kennedy of IPC-NY arranged a meeting with the Chairman of the Boldly Brown Capital Campaign in New York, Matt Mallow, to see if synergy can be established between IPC-NY, and the Boldly Brown efforts in New York.
To say the least, there are going to be a lot of requests for dollars in the months and years to come. Some of us may have the cashflow and inclination to double and triple dip into our bank accounts, some of us will only be able to choose one cause, and some of us want to contribute in ways other than financial. Whatever any of us decide to do, we know ahead of time that our collective Brown hearts are in the right place. Stay tuned...
Welcome to the Boldly Black page. These are challenging times for our people and wherever possible, we'd like Brown University to be a resource to and a beneficiary of our individual and collective efforts in the strengthening and empowering of our community.
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