Beacons Fall 2023

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FY 2023 GIFTS TO UMASS BOSTON

Driving Diversity in Nursing Mass General Brigham and UMass

achieved a 100 percent certification

Boston’s Manning College of

rate and a 92 percent placement

Nursing and Health Sciences

rate at Mass General Brigham

(MCNHS) are partnering to expand

hospitals. The new $20 million

the college’s Clinical Leadership

investment—$10 million from Mass

Collaborative for Diversity in Nursing

General Brigham and $10 million

program, an initiative they launched

from UMass Boston—will support

together in 2008 to support

400 additional students over five

diversity, practice-preparedness,

years. The funding will also

and behavioral health competency.

underwrite the creation of a

Since 2008, the program has provided hands-on hospital experience and career opportunities

TOTAL GIVING:

$37,366,952

behavioral health equity certificate for program participants. “Nurses are fundamental to

trained nurses, with a concerted

to 135 graduate and undergraduate

the delivery of high-quality,

focus on increasing diversity among

students at MCNHS, which offers

compassionate health care to our

our trainees. This initiative is a

the only four-year public programs

patients,” said Dr. Anne Klibanski,

powerful example of how collabora-

in nursing and exercise and health

president and CEO of Mass General

tion can drive change to overcome

sciences in the Greater Boston

Brigham. “There is an immense

monumental challenges

area. Participating students

need to increase the pipeline of

in a meaningful way.”

DONORS:

13,816

NEW ENDOWMENTS:

$12,700,000

$100K+ GIFTS:

28 ANNUAL FUND GIVING

9% Athletics 16% Academic Programs

36%

Unrestricted*

17% Student Services

22%

Scholarship Aid

Jonathan Martin (third from left), CEO of the North American arm of the global real estate investment firm AEW Capital Management, visited the College of Management in March as the inaugural speaker in the college’s new Distinguished Speaker Series. While there, Martin and AEW Chief People Officer Piper Sheer (center) also celebrated this year’s recipient of the AEW Capital Management–Pamela Strout Herbst ’77 Legacy Scholarship, Tamar Tondreau ’23 (second from left), along with fellow management students.

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* Unrestricted gifts can be used toward a variety of university needs and initiatives.

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