GENERAL POWELL‘S LEGACY

AT THE COLIN POWELL SCHOOL

On October 18, 2021, we lost General Colin Powell, our founder, leader, and the long-time chairman of our Board of Visitors.

Following his death, General Powell’s family expressed the desire that gifts in his memory be made to the school that bears his name, an extraordinary public declaration of what CCNY meant to him and the place that the Collin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership holds in his legacy. Many of General Powell’s friends, peers, and admirers responded to this call. As of June 2022, the Colin Powell School had received nearly $8 million in new gifts in General Powell’s memory.

These generous gifts support the establishment of a new endowed professorship; an additional 50 paid internship opportunities for students over the course of the next decade; and the creation of a new public event series, which will feature discussions with leaders who have taken unconventional paths to the tops of their fields, much as General Powell did. They also provide critical unrestricted funds for the Colin Powell School, which enables us to support our students and faculty, sustain existing programs, and pilot new initiatives.

Anonymous: $2,500,000 Colin and Alma Powell Family Foundation: $1,000,000 William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust: $1,000,000 Rick and Susan Goings Foundation: $1,000,000 Seymour (Sy) and Laurie Sternberg: $910,000 Marc and Lynn Benioff / Salesforce

Foundation: $400,000 Carnegie Corporation of New York: $300,000 Shahara Ahmad-Llwellyn: $287,000 Dalio Philanthropies: $250,000 Jin Roy Ryu: $200,000 Additional gifts from Board of Visitors and others: $425,000