Impactful Investment

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Impactful Investment

A Message from the Director of Development

We all know the concept of an investment in our personal lives. A financial investment today helps us to prosper and live a comfortable life in the future. The College of Business is no different – a financial investment today helps ensure the future success of our College and our incredible students. It is your generosity that helps us grow and be competitive. Private support is essential to our future.

As we enter into the final year of the Infinite Impact campaign, there is no better time than now to make your own investment in the College of Business. As we brand our College under the umbrella of innovation and entrepreneurship, there are numerous opportunities available to help us uphold our mission and better position the College for the future.

Through outright gifts, annuities, personal property or real estate, bequests or gifts of stocks, bonds or other securities, you are helping us attract outstanding faculty and students, as well as keeping our College on the cutting edge of new technologies. If you are thinking of including the College in your estate planning, let us document that this year – any contributions through 2020 will count toward our capital campaign goal.

Remember, the impact of your gift may be doubled or tripled by a company match. Please be sure to check with your human resource department to see if your employer is a matching gift company.

During the year, we said goodbye to our Assistant Director of Development, Jana Berkery, who has moved to Student Affairs as Director of Development. We will be choosing her successor in the coming months. In the meantime, I am excited to welcome Erin Novorot to the development team as our Advancement Coordinator. A native of Starkville, Erin is a 2007 graduate of Mississippi State with a B.S. in Physical Education and Clinical Exercise Physiology. She is married to Chris Novorot and has two four-legged babies, pooches Poppy and Lucy. Erin has worked in the College of Business since 2016, where she has been managing our scholarship program for more than two years in addition to other duties.

Erin is excited about building stronger relationships with each of you as we partner to advance the College of Business together. Thank you for all you do for the College, and as we wind down the campaign, I look forward to visiting with you about how you can continue to make a difference in the College of Business and Mississippi State University.

Zack Harrington (’09, ’10) Director of Development, College of Business zharrington@foundation.msstate.edu 662-617-0942

Erin Novorot (’07), Advancement Coordinator enovorot@business.msstate.edu 662-325-1887