An item in yesterday’s Log newsletter about AmazonSmile should have included more detail about the program and what is and isn’t permissible. The following includes more information: This is a reminder that the private, nonprofit UW-Green Bay Foundation Inc., has joined as a participant in the AmazonSmile program, which donates 0.5% of the price of […]
Funeral services were set to take place today (Friday, Jan. 3) in De Pere for nationally prominent standup comedian Charlie Hill, who died earlier this week at age 62 after a year-long battle with cancer. The former Oneida resident was the first American Indian comedian to appear on both “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson […]
Lou LeCalsey, the retired paper-industry executive who heads the UW-Green Bay Foundation and Chancellor’s Council of Trustees, was featured guest on the public affairs program “CW 14 Focus” last Sunday morning. He talks quite a bit about the University in the program now available online – click here. Lexi LeCalsey signs with Phoenix Her grandfather […]
Mark Murphy spent 16 years as athletics director for Colgate and Northwestern. He holds a bachelor’s from Colgate, an MBA in Finance from American University and a law degree from Georgetown.
Here’s another milestone in the launch of the UW-Green Bay Foundation, Inc.: Donors who formerly had to access the UW-Madison foundation site to direct their philanthropy toward Green Bay now enjoy an easy, direct (and secure) connection to UW-Green Bay. Visitors to www.uwgb.edu/foundation/ who click the “Give Online” button will find a simple, short and […]
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Foundation, Inc., received its first gift, toward a scholarship endowment, following its inaugural meeting last Tuesday, April 19. Diane (Dockry) Ford, vice president-controller of Integrys Energy Group, and a 1975 Managerial Systems graduate of UW-Green Bay, wrote out the first check to the newly formed Foundation. “I have been thinking […]
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Foundation received its first gift toward a scholarship endowment, April 19. Diane (Dockry) Ford, Vice President-Controller of Integrys Energy Group, and a 1975 Managerial Systems graduate of UW-Green Bay, presented Foundation President Lou LeCalsey with the first check to the newly formed Foundation.
“Donors who want to give to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay now will have a local way to contribute. The school recently launched its own foundation, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Foundation Inc., which officials say will give the school greater flexibility in managing gifts and assets.” See a Green Bay Press-Gazette recap of last […]
He has been chairperson of UW-Green Bay’s primary community advisory group for more than a decade and worked closely with three different chancellors (Harden, Shepard and Perkins) and two interims (Ward and Kuepper). As an influential businessperson, he’s a great advocate of the University’s interdisciplinary, problem-focused approach to education. Then there’s the part about being […]
On April 19, the Chancellor’s Council of Trustees at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, made up of nearly two dozen business and civic leaders, voted approval of bylaws to endorse creation of an independent University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Foundation, Inc. The creation of the Foundation gives the University greater flexibility in managing gifts and assets.