New Faces in the Advancement Office
GIVING TUESDAY 12/1/2020
GOALS EXCEEDED
$100,000
266 DONORS
Challenge match from Board of Trustees
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IN THE SPIRIT OF GIVING
CHALLENGES MET
Goal: 200 Donors
RAISED
$10,000
Challenge for 200 donors
$225,501
Goal: $200,000
Thanks to this strong support from our Gilmour community, we met our challenges, exceeded our goals, and received the following additional prizes from the Catholic Community Foundation*:
$2,000 PRIZE For largest, single online gift
$1,000 PRIZE For 3rd place for total donors (large school)
3RD PLACE In Giving Tuesday total dollars raised *out of 232 Cleveland-area Catholic organizations participating in WeGiveCatholic on Giving Tuesday Support Gilmour with a gift to The Gilmour Fund at gilmour.org/giving or scan QR Code
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Ann Coakley joins the Advancement team as the major gifts officer A seasoned fundraiser born and raised in the Greater Cleveland community, Ann Coakley’s experience dates back to the early 90s when she was raising money as a volunteer for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation during their “The Only Remedy is a Cure” campaign. Since then, Ann has served on the Boards of The Achievement Centers for Children, The American Cancer Society, the Central School of Nursing and at Boys Hope Girls Hope Northeastern Ohio. She served as the director of development for Health Space Cleveland until its closing in 2006. Ann was then recruited to take over as the development director at Boys Hope Girls Hope NEO, where she served for five years before becoming the organization’s interim executive director for two years. Most recently, Ann worked at Notre Dame College, where she was the senior donor relations and foundation manager as well as the de facto events manager for six years. Ann graduated with a degree in Chinese linguistics and East Asian Studies from Manhattanville College and Yale University.
Bryce Marshall joins the Advancement team as grant writer and stewardship officer A 2020 graduate of John Carroll University with a bachelor's degree in political science, Bryce joined Gilmour as a grant writer and stewardship officer last fall. In this role Bryce researches foundations and grant opportunities to develop grant inquiries and proposals in support of Gilmour. In addition, he coordinates donor communication and stewardship activities and looks forward to further developing and implementing a stewardship program that engages donors and demonstrates the impact of their generous philanthropy to Gilmour Academy.
