Report on Giving: 2006 - 2007 Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
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Osgoode Hall Law School of York University Osgoode Digital Commons Report on Giving Alumni Publications 2007 Report on Giving: 2006 - 2007 Osgoode Hall Law School of York University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/rog Recommended Citation Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, "Report on Giving: 2006 - 2007" (2007). Report on Giving. Book 5. http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/rog/5 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Alumni Publications at Osgoode Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Report on Giving by an authorized administrator of Osgoode Digital Commons. REPORT ON GIVING 2006–2007 Ignat Kaneff and students Osgoode Hall Law School of York University Director’s Message Contents his hasn’t just been a good year; it’s been our best year! Paid gifts Director’s Message . .3 Tto the Law School have increased $4,236,735 by 651% since the first Report on Annual Paid Gift Statistics . .3 Giving in 2000-2001. We have worked The Building Osgoode Campaign . .4 hard to reach out to our alumni and $3,553,194 Wonders Happen on the Golf Course . .5 friends to explain the value of Osgoode $3,110,346 Preserving Canada’s Legal Heritage . .6 Hall Law School and why it deserves their support. The message has obvi- Rudy Bratty . .6 $2,513,701 ously gotten through because we are $2,272,454 Legal and Literary Society Gift . .7 raising more every year. Deans’ Gift . .8 We have also launched The Campaign Major Gift Donors . .8 Building Osgoode Campaign, which is why this year’s Report on Giving is a little The William Osgoode Society . .9 different. We are still recognizing all the The Osgoode Hall Law School Fund . .10 donors who paid a gift to the Law School over the last fiscal year, but Chair’s Message . .10 for the first time we will also be reporting campaign pledges. It is important to note the difference. Annual Paid Gifts . .11 A campaign is a multi-year endeavour that recognizes the total Annual Paid Gifts by Class . .15 02-03 03-04 04-05 05-06 06-07 amount a donor has committed, or pledged. A donor may choose Paid Gifts to Osgoode Hall Law School The Thomas Brown Phillips Stewart Society . .19 to pay that pledge all at once or over a number of years. Until our 2002 – 2007 Contact Information . .19 campaign ends, we will be reporting on our progress by total pledge amounts, but will continue to recognize donors individually by gift payments. For example, a donor may pledge $5,000 and pay it off with five annual payments of $1,000. The $5,000 pledge 1,743 1,495 will be included in the campaign total pledges and the donor will 1,442 be recognized annually at the $1,000 level until the gift has been 1,337 1,199 paid in full. We are truly grateful to all of the individuals, corporations and This report lists all donors who gave at least $100 foundations that give to Osgoode. The support we receive helps us to Osgoode Hall Law School from May 1, 2006 to to maintain Osgoode’s leadership in Canadian legal education. April 30, 2007. Those donors who have requested anonymity do not appear in the listings. While we have made every effort to ensure accuracy, please let us know of any errors or omissions by calling 02-03 03-04 04-05 05-06 06-07 Osgoode’s Office of Advancement at 416-736-5638. Contributors to Osgoode Hall Law School Anita Herrmann 2002 – 2007 Director, Office of Advancement Report on Giving 2006-2007 3 Osgoode Hall Law School of York University Wonders Happen Campaign Pledges by Priority Total: $24,359,980 on the Golf Course • Student Access & Achievement $4,727,515 (19%) • Academic Talent $2,578,639 (11%) • Infrastructure $6,664,263 (27%) usinessman and philanthropist Ignat Kaneff LLD (Hons), member of the Kaneff Group of Companies), and the rest, as they Pioneering Programs $8,419,254 (35%) • who has given a gift of $2.5 million to the Building say, is history. His company has built thousands of homes and • Other $1,970,308 (8%) Osgoode Campaign, couldn’t believe his eyes when he apartments in the Brampton and Mississauga areas, and also first saw Osgoode Hall Law School. “I was practically owns and manages about 2,500 apartments. Bembarrassed to see such a horrible looking building,” Though he himself is a self-made man, Kaneff is a big believer he says of his visit to the school where his daughter, Kristina, is a in education. “It makes me so happy to see young people rushing student. “It was awful.” to go to school. I wish I could go there,” says Kaneff, who received Kaneff, of course, knows a thing or two about building design an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Toronto and workmanship. He is head of the Kaneff Group of Companies, in 1994 for his support and contributions to that institution. It is one one of this country’s finest builders of residential properties, office of many honours he has been awarded over the years by govern- buildings and golf courses including the world-class Lionhead Golf ments, businesses, and community organizations, associations and & Country Club in Brampton, which will play host to the second clubs in recognition of his volunteer and financial support. annual Osgoode Classic on June 17, 2008. He and his wife of 30 years, Didi, are very proud of the fact Campaign Cabinet Born in a small Bulgarian village called Gorno Ablanova on that their daughters, Anna Maria and Kristina, are well-educated. October 6, 1926, Kaneff rose from humble beginnings to become, Anna Maria has an undergraduate degree from Georgetown Ignat Kaneff James P. O’Sullivan ‘90 not only one of Canada’s business leaders, but also one of its most University and an MBA from Harvard University, while Kristina Honorary Chair (LLB/MBA) generous citizens. The list of organizations in the fields of educa- studied at Columbia then Oxford University, where she obtained a Scotia Capital Markets tion, health, social services and the arts that have benefited from Masters in Economics and Social Science, before joining Osgoode’s Patrick J. Monahan ‘80 Dean Marilyn Pilkington his philanthropy over the past six decades is staggering. LLB Program in 2005. Osgoode Hall Law School For Kaneff – who couldn’t speak a word of English when he In 2006, in honour of Kaneff’s 80th birthday, his wife and Andrew Evangelista ‘92 came to Canada – financial success and gratitude for what this daughters established the Ignat Kaneff Scholarship for Academic Evangelista Barristers Jason Reynar ‘07 country has given him have gone hand-in-hand. When he spoke in Excellence at Osgoode, which acknowledges “his strong dedication Lerners LLP David Jackson ‘72 his self-effacing way of that gratitude at the public launch of the to his community and his commitment to promoting equal oppor- Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Atul Tiwari ‘87 Osgoode Building Campaign at Toronto’s Design Exchange last May, tunities through higher education among all Canadians.” The BMO Private Client Group his heartfelt words moved some members of the audience to tears. scholarship will be awarded annually to an entering LLB student Tim Kennish ‘64 “You come to this country with nothing and people are trying with a record of academic excellence in undergraduate studies. Osler Hoskin & Harcourt John Tobin ‘87 to help you,” says Kaneff who learned to speak what he calls The family worked with Dean Patrick Monahan on the cre- Torys LLP Nathan Lindenberg ‘76 “street English.” “Right from the beginning when I started looking ation of the scholarship, which was the first step toward Ignat Lindenberg and Lindenberg Susan Wolburgh Jenah ‘80 by aka Photography Photography for job, right away people responded to my request. And when I Kaneff’s generous gift to the Building Osgoode Campaign. “Once The Investment Dealers Standing, left to right: Gillian McCullough, Marilyn Pilkington, started building my first little house, people lend me a credit the door was open, Dean Monahan was the greatest salesperson,” Alexis Levine ‘04 Association of Canada John Tobin, Alexis Levine, Patrick Monahan, Nathan Lindenberg, without even know me. I love it in this country. I was able to Didi Kaneff says with a smile. “He saw that this family was open Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Tim Kennish, Anita Herrmann, Patricia Olasker exercise my ability to maximum, and I’m very thankful for that.” to some further suggestions and he went for it. Some golf games Office of Advancement, Sitting: Susan Wolburgh Jenah, David Jackson, Lynn McGrade, Atul Tiwari Kaneff was only 14 years old when he left his home in followed – and on the golf course wonders happen.” Lynn M. McGrade ‘88 Osgoode Hall Law School Bulgaria. He worked in Germany and Austria before coming to Now Ignat Kaneff wants others to follow his lead. “Canada is Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Staff: Missing: Ignat Kaneff, Andrew Evangelista, Gary Mooney, James O’Sullivan, Jason Reynar Canada in 1951 and landing a job as a labourer. On his 25th birth- such a wealthy country with so many wealthy lawyers,” he says. Gary Mooney ‘80 Anita Herrmann day, just a year after his arrival in Canada, he bought his first “I’m expecting them to respond to Dean Monahan and enable him FNF Canada Director building lot and in the spring of 1952 he built his first house in to complete his dream to give better opportunity and better facili- Patricia Olasker ‘77 Gillian McCullough Port Credit.