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The Sir Russell and Mab Grimwade Report to Our Donors 2006 Still Life with Kokeshi Dolls, Daniel Truscott FRONT COVER: ART FROM PHILANTHROPY The Mappamundi tapestry hangs in the Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room in the Sidney Myer Asia Centre and is on permanent loan to Asialink from Mrs Neilma Gantner and Mr Carrillo Gantner AO. Mappamundi Artist: Gulamohammed Sheik b. 1937 Title: Mappamundi Size: 302 cm x 480 cm Date: 2003 - 2004 Materials: Fine quality Australian worsted yarn and small quantities of mercerised cotton. Dyes from Ciba Geigy. Woven at the Victorian Tapestry Workshop by Cheryl Thornton, Rachel Hine, Amy Cornall, Caroline Tully. contents/ A Word of ThanKS from the Vice Chancellor 5 A Year of PASSion and ProGreSS Report of the Pro Vice Chancellor (UniverSity RelationS) 7 Our New Advancement Office Report of the Director-Advancement 9 InveStment Report for 2006 11 The UniverSity Fund 2006 RESultS 14 The Honour Roll 16 New MAJor DonorS, 2006 17 The Chancellor’S Circle, 2006 18 The HeritaGE Society 23 Diamond Firetail Finches, Helen Fitzgerald Art of EucalyptuS— SupportinG Botany A highlight of the fundraising campaign of the School of Botany Foundation was the fourth auction of artwork – paintings on gum leaves donated by well-known Australian artists including those shown above and opposite. Funds raised by the Botany Foundation provide scholarships and prizes to support research and training of honours and postgraduate students, who are the plant scientists of the future. The Pratt Oration Professor Robert Alter from the University of California, Berkeley delivering the Richard Pratt Oration on 24 August 2006 on the subject The Challenge of Translating the Bible from Ancient Hebrew to Living Literary English, hosted by the Centre for Jewish History and Culture and supported by the Pratt Foundation. The Pratt Oration first held in 2003, is sponsored annually by industry leader, philanthropist and alumnus Richard Pratt and the Pratt Foundation. Their support allows a distinguished scholar in Jewish studies to be brought to Australia each year to present the lecture. 4 www.unimelb.edu.au A Word of ThanKS from the Vice Chancellor As the University moves towards implementing our strategic plan Growing Esteem, with its bold new model for curriculum, I have been delighted with the warm responses received from alumni and friends. To hear from so many long-standing supporters who, while they were very attached to the University’s traditions and heritage, were nevertheless excited by the prospect of dynamic change, was gratifying indeed. In the past, the University of Melbourne has generally not been active in seeking out donors. To be sure, we have been fortunate to have benefited from the generosity of many, back to our earliest days; but these gifts have seldom arrived as the result of a structured fund raising program. As we launch our new Melbourne Model, though, there will be an ever greater need for new resources, especially and perhaps most urgently, for scholarships, to ensure we are able to take bright students regardless of their financial circumstances. We are therefore putting in place this year more deliberate plans to encourage philanthropy, as well as more adequate ways of reporting back to donors and thanking them for their generosity. This first Report to Our Donors is part of our plan. I hope you will find the Report informative; and to all our donors, I would like to express my sincere thanks. Glyn Davis, AC Vice Chancellor www.unimelb.edu.au 5 PriZES in Architecture, BuildinG and PlanninG Pictured from left to right are: Mr Robert Barber, Managing Director, Ability Building Chemicals and prize winners Naomi Onas, Hamish Hill and Alex Selenitsch. In 2006 Mr Robert Barber of Ability Building Chemicals pledged 3 years of support for two new student awards in Architecture and in Landscape Architecture, as well as two awards for teaching excellence in each area. Inaugural student prize winners were Naomi Onas and Jarrad Morgan respectively. The teaching prize for Architecture was awarded jointly to Mr Alex Selenitsch and Mr Hamish Hill, and to Professor Catherin Bull, the Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Chair in Landscape Architecture. 6 www.unimelb.edu.au A Year of PASSion and ProGreSS Report OF the Pro Vice Chancellor (UniverSity RelationS) 2006 was a year of dramatic change for the University: change not only in its strategic direction and curriculum profile, but equally in the approach we have had to seeking resources to achieve our goals. An Advancement Office was established, combining the work of our previous Alumni Relations staff with new teams focusing on fund raising, our database of alumni records, and the services we offer to alumni and friends. For the first time, we began reviewing how we thank, report back to, and care for those who have been our donors in the past. My own role was a new one, established so the University might have oversight of its alumni relations, community and cultural relations, key public events, and fund raising activities. Coming to the position from 14 years as Dean of the University’s Faculty of Music, I had long been accustomed to meeting keen supporters and loyal donors. Yet nothing had prepared me for the passion I encountered talking more widely to the University’s alumni and friends, beyond the campus locally and internationally. The generosity with which our community responded to our new University Fund appeal exceeded all our expectations. Over 400 supporters made gifts of $1,000 or more, entitling them to membership of the Chancellor’s Circle, a new reward program connected to the Fund. As well, we continued to have those who stepped forward to offer a bequest in their Will, and for these we created the Heritage Society, a recognition program for our long-term benefactors. And our largest donors, some honoured in this report, continue to be a source of the greatest encouragement to us all. To all our 2006 donors, I would like to express my sincere thanks, and pledge that we will live up to your expectations in wise and prudent use of your gift. Warren Bebbington Pro Vice Chancellor (University Relations) www.unimelb.edu.au 7 2006 Student Appeal Student Appeal volunteers in action, Zhuyun Yu, Jane Li and Nadhira Razack The Student Appeal was the University of Melbourne’s first ever student-focused fundraising campaign. The aim of the appeal was to educate students about the importance of philanthropy and to encourage them to leave a legacy for current and future students. Led by a leadership committee of 17 undergraduate students from a range of faculties and backgrounds and supported by an additional 20 volunteers, the Student Appeal was launched in August and gave all students an unprecedented opportunity to make a significant and lasting contribution to the University. The Appeal raised more than $3,600 to support 2 new scholarships in 2007 for the Student Exchange and Study Abroad programs. These scholarships enable students to spend a semester or part of their course at a university overseas, a life-changing opportunity from which they might not otherwise have benefited. 8 www.unimelb.edu.au Our New Advancement Office Report of the Director-Advancement Could there be a more exciting university to be involved with at the moment? I doubt it. Certainly from the Advancement Office perspective, this time of change and progress at the University of Melbourne has stimulated wonderful opportunities for increased engagement with our alumni and benefactors. From a small group of staff with limited resources, the Advancement Office has in the past months greatly increased its efforts and staffing numbers in all areas. Following my appointment as Director, I had the pleasure of selecting new leaders of both the Alumni Relations team - Campbell Bairstow, and the Development team - Ross Coller. They joined the existing Manager of Advancement Services, Michael Bicknell to form with me the Advancement management group. As we have all welcomed our increasing complement of new staff colleagues over the past few months, the levels of energy and activity in the office have risen immeasurably. In 2006, the Development team managed a very successful annual appeal; initiated a Thank-a-thon program with student volunteers which involved sending handwritten thank-you letters to all of you who gave to the University appeal; ran a memorable inaugural Chancellor’s Circle event; developed a cutting edge new Student Giving Program, led by another group of very committed students aiming to raise the profile of philanthropy with their colleagues; and re-established contact with many of our very generous supporters who have remembered the University in their will. Alumni activities, particularly those with an international base, also increased considerably. Selected highlights included events held in London, Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong, Thailand and Indonesia. As a new initiative, an Alumni Resources Guide was produced and distributed to all alumni both in Australia and overseas. The Advancement Office also moved its base, and our contact details are given on the back cover of this report. Please do get in touch with us if you have any questions about our programs for benefactors and alumni, or if you would like to know more about opportunities to join with other volunteers in University activities. On behalf of the Advancement team, I send our most grateful thanks for your generosity and involvement and we look forward to meeting with many of you in 2007. Jenny Stephens Director, Advancement www.unimelb.edu.au 9 The Alfred Felton Chair of Child and Family Welfare Professor Cathy Humphreys, the Alfred Felton Chair of Child and Family Welfare (left) with Coleen Clare, CEO of the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare (right). In 2006 the Alfred Felton Bequest provided the third year of funding to a five-year grant endowing a professorial chair in social work, a position which will then continue as a permanent role within the University.
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