Thanks to You! Celebrating Ryerson’s Make Your Mark Campaign Thank you for giving to create opportunities, power innovation and strengthen success. Contact us www.ryerson.ca/supporting [email protected] @StrongerRU Through the Make Your Mark campaign, more than 43,000 supporters came together to help strengthen student success and create new opportunities at Ryerson University. The most ambitious fundraising campaign in Ryerson’s history, the goal was simple – transformation. And thanks to you, we did it. Thanks to you, Canada’s distinctly urban university has emerged from this campaign as a city builder and a vibrant hub of innovation, with the vision and momentum to shape a glorious future. It is our time to lead. This comes by way of thanks Total $204,071,894 Thank you to Ryerson’s community every program and faculty have benefited Total by priority Who gave of donors – alumni, faculty and staff, from the extraordinary generosity with students and parents, corporations and which our community of donors met the foundations, and good friends – who came Make Your Mark campaign challenge. together during the Make Your Mark $45,525,969 19,902 Thank you to our volunteer campaign campaign and transformed the student Academic Programs, Library, and Technology Alumni cabinet for their dedication to the cause. experience at Ryerson University. Thank you to former Ryerson President Take a walk across campus and you can Sheldon Levy for the vision and ambition see the differences it has made. That that would drive the campaign. And thank $39,703,172 11,530 walk will take you much longer than it you to Adam B. Kahan, vice‑president, Capital Projects Parents would have 10 years ago. It might start university advancement, for providing the on Carlton Street by the former Maple leadership to accomplish it. Leaf Gardens, now our Mattamy Athletic But most of all, thank you to our donors Centre, then take you down Yonge Street who through their investment offered us $64,784,289 8,908 past the spectacular and award‑winning their confidence and trust. We meet that Student Scholarships, Awards and Bursaries Friends Student Learning Centre. Look left down offer with gratitude and humility, and a Gould Street and you’ll see the magnificent determination to achieve excellence. Ryerson Image Centre – a new research and cultural destination in the city. The Make Your Mark campaign has set us $54,058,464 649 And take a right at Yonge‑Dundas Square on a path with wonderful momentum and, Teaching and Research/Institutes and Centres Students toward Bay Street, and you come to the in your good company, we will continue to Ted Rogers School of Management. build from here. What you can’t see in passing are the On the following pages, we share just a ways this campaign comes to life through few stories of the remarkable generosity 607 its other successes – like an enhanced that flowed towards the Make Your Faculty/Staff research and teaching agenda, new and Mark campaign, and the impact that strengthened undergraduate and graduate generosity has had on Ryerson and our programs, and up‑to‑date technologies students. Thanks to you, we are in the and resources. At work too is a more robust very fortunate position to have many such 1,663 network of student awards, scholarships stories unfolding on our campus. We are Organizations and bursaries, increasing student access grateful for each and every contribution and rewarding excellence. received over the course of the campaign, and recognize and celebrate that its Our success is more than just great success is only possible through that buildings; it’s the greatness those collective effort. Thank you. buildings foster. Behind it all lies the fundamental principle of putting students first. Students and professors in virtually Celebrating Ryerson’s Make Your Mark Campaign | 32 | Thanks to You! | 2016 To help more students realize their true Alumna Monika Madik was one such potential, the Make Your Mark campaign recipient, receiving the bursary in her made it a high priority to significantly final year of study. A 2013 Ryerson increase awards, scholarships and Faculty of Science graduate in Biology bursaries for undergraduate and graduate and Mathematics, Madik says the support students. Awards create opportunities, from the Birchalls continues to influence increase access, and help attract and her life today. recognize talent. For many young people, “It helped me pay off my tuition and stay the financial support of an award can involved,” says Madik. “I was a lead mentor mean the difference between pursuing as part of the Tri‑Mentoring Program, a their educational ambitions and having student senator representing the Faculty those dreams put on hold. of Science, and senate director on the We are thankful so many alumni, friends, Ryerson Student Union.” foundations and corporations gave Following graduation, Madik went on to generously to awards for Ryerson students earn her bachelor’s degree in education so that those dreams, and that potential, and is now teaching mathematics in China. could be realized. She intends to keep teaching over the next In 2009, following a dramatic economic few years, and hopes to travel the world downturn, William and Catharina Birchall before returning to Canada to explore new came forward to ensure that the doors opportunities. After Asia, her next stop is to a quality education remained open. South America. Convinced of the need by their daughter “I am very grateful for having been picked Lillian – a Ryerson student at the time as one of the recipients,” Madik says. and now an alumna – the Birchall “I feel inspired to give back, and hope that Family Foundation donated $1 million I am doing that in a way now through my to create 75 renewable bursaries of up to teaching job here in China.” $5,000 each, making it one of the largest expendable gifts in the university’s history. Through their gift, 116 students across 33 programs – touching every faculty at Ryerson – found new opportunity. 7,389 students benefited from donor Bursaries build support for awards bridges to education during Make Your Mark. campus-wide ↑ Gift from Birchall family helps 116 students Celebrating Ryerson’s Make Your Mark Campaign | 54 | Thanks to You! | 2016 Becoming the Ted Rogers School of Management ↑ Group from the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre’s Top 200 The foundational support of the Rogers for further investment from prominent students receive added encouragement family has sparked incredible growth and leaders across the business spectrum. and support as they work to become opportunity for Ryerson students and tomorrow’s residential and commercial Rogers’ friend, Jim Pattison – founder, the university. Ted and Loretta Rogers’ property experts. chairman and CEO of the Jim Pattison transformational gift of $15 million in Group – brought his own added dimension Kathleen Ponce, third‑year student and the early days of the Make Your Mark to TRSM by creating the Jim Pattison vice‑president of marketing for the Real campaign established 52 new graduate and Ethical Leadership Education and Estate Ryerson student group, received undergraduate awards and scholarships, Research Program. His gift of $250,000 the Peter Sharpe Student Engagement created the Loretta Rogers Research to the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre Academic Award in 2015. “The money Chair to attract outstanding faculty and (TRLC) provides business students with is a tremendous help,” she says. “But research, and contributed to the creation opportunities to understand the values, more than that, the award motivates me of a prominent new building with an attitudes and practices of ethical behavior to keep pushing, to stay involved, and address in the heart of the financial centre and leadership, and how to best apply these has given me a lot of opportunities that I of Canada. Their generosity has made in decision making within a complex and didn’t have before.” business education more affordable and increasingly global marketplace. accessible, and enhanced the quality of the “The Rogers family gift is a defining educational experience at Ryerson. As TRSM branched out to include other moment for business at Ryerson specializations, it attracted additional University,” says Steven Murphy, dean Beyond this, the Rogers name and seal leading professionals to the fold. A group of TRSM. “Their support and conviction of approval catapulted the freshly minted of executives came together to mark the gave us tremendous momentum. It is our Ted Rogers School of Management retirement of long‑time Cadillac Fairview most profound and enduring legacy. We (TRSM) to new heights and put Ryerson president and CEO, Peter Sharpe, through continue to build on that today as we help on the radar of the broader business a $1 million gift to create five awards in his shape the business leaders of tomorrow.” community in a whole new way. Their name for students majoring in Real Estate act of confidence served as a catalyst Management. Thanks to their generosity, Celebrating Ryerson’s Make Your Mark Campaign | 76 | Thanks to You! | 2016 “The Ryerson Image Centre,” says Director Elaine Ling – the RIC also offers several Paul Roth, “helped connect the university research fellowships which open the to the rich cultural life of Toronto and collections to the insights of researchers Canada – and it did that by becoming an at home and abroad. One such award essential part of that activity. In a similar – the Nadir Mohamed Postdoctoral way, the building itself – designed by Fellowship – was created by a group of Toronto‑based Diamond Schmitt – now supporters who gave to the RIC in honour stands as part of the architectural legacy of of Nadir Mohamed’s retirement as CEO of the campaign, beautifying and enriching Rogers Communications. the experience of being downtown.” Heather A.