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Annual Report 2019-2020 Contents Staff Foundation Executive Director Report......................................... 2 Dean Moors College President Report ............................................................ 2 Executive Director 402-460-2153 or 402-469-7916 Foundation President Report....................................................... 3 [email protected] Foundation Board of Directors..................................................... 4 Jessica Rohan Balance Sheet ............................................................................. 6 Development Director 402-460-2165 or 402-469-3052 Income Statement ....................................................................... 7 [email protected] Planned Giving ............................................................................ 8 Cheri Beda Legacy Society ............................................................................ 9 CCC Alumni Director 402-460-2157 Hall of Fame .............................................................................. 10 [email protected] Memorials/Honorariums ............................................................ 12 Sharon Liske Foundation Treasurer CCC Retirees ............................................................................ 13 308-398-7577 Pro-Am Golf Tournament ........................................................... 14 [email protected] Community Appreciation Event ................................................. 15 Pat Stange Development Coordinator Warren & Velda Wilson Foundation ........................................... 16 402-460-2152 Entrepreneurship Centers ......................................................... 17 [email protected] Donor Honor Roll ....................................................................... 18 Nichole Olson Administrative Assistant Employee Donors ...................................................................... 23 402-460-2150 [email protected] Outstanding CCC Alumni for 2020 ............................................ 24 Alumni Relations........................................................................ 26 Designed by Alumni Anecdotes ...................................................................... 26 Kelsey Seidler Student Support ........................................................................ 28 Print Shop Manager/Designer Program Options and Academic Transfer Courses ................... 35 New Development Director........................................................ 36 Printed by Central Community College Hastings Printing and Creative Services Foundation Executive Director Report This year’s theme, “Make a Choice, to take a Chance, to Change a life Forever,” offers insight • Now, we are embarking on a new “Major Gift Campaign” in Columbus for the new “Center for Science and into the direction the Foundation took this past fiscal year. Technology.” The Foundation is moving forward with a $3.5 million campaign to support the Columbus campus, the Columbus community, and the surrounding area. This campaign is expected to be completed late in 2020. The Foundation has spent the past six years working on several “Major Gift Campaigns.” Key choices have been based on feasibility studies for each campaign, in the best interest of the Because the Foundation believes so strongly in the value and support of our alumni, we boldly took a strategic chance to College and students. Results have proven to be very successful: bring the development portion of alumni relationships into the Foundation during the past two years. Hard work by many • The Kearney Center project to raise $10 million is now complete, with 99% of the and a focus on a strategic direction have created a base from which to move forward to allow donors the opportunity pledges received. With enrollment up over 30%, this project is definitely making a to support our students with scholarships and quality College programs. Long-term results are expected, which should difference in Kearney and the surrounding area. provide on-going benefits to our students. • The Advanced Manufacturing Design Technology and Welding project for the Hastings The Foundation’s vision is “Improving quality of life: fulfilling one dream at a time” in order to change a life forever. campus is near completion. The AMDT portion opened in the fall of 2019, with Welding Without a doubt, we know our donors have changed many lives this past year during unprecedented times. to be completed late summer or in early fall of 2020. We’ve reached our goal of $5 Stay tuned, as the Foundation already has plans for our next strategic direction. Dean Moors million for the project, and we are nearing the goal of $500,000 for an endowment for scholarship support for both programs. College President Report Foundation President Report Thank you for the dedicated work of our Foundation board, director and staff, and Make a Choice, To Take a Chance, To Change a Life Forever. Central Community College employees and community members who regularly contribute time, ideas and resources to CCC as we strive to maximize student and Every day of our lives we make CHOICES. Hopefully, most of them are the right one. community success. The following are a few examples of how the CCC Foundation To make the right choice, we must consider the consequences. Many life choices are assists our donors with their decision to change lives forever. difficult, and many can be life-changing. This past year we have experienced significant “ups” and “downs,” not only in the In 1967 I started my banking career after serving in the U.S. Air Force for four years. I stock market, but also in our ability to support the students and communities we serve accepted every opportunity provided to me for job growth and banker education. I was throughout the central Nebraska area. We have experienced great success in reaching very involved in the Nebraska Bankers Association and also very involved in the NBA large numbers of students seeking to improve their lives through education, or in their Schools of Banking, including serving on the board, as the director of banking schools, current jobs through short-term training. While a significant challenge, the abrupt shift in and serving as an instructor. Dr. Matt Gotschall Homer Pierce mid-March to providing educational and student services remotely provided opportunities In the fall of 1989, Dr. Joe Preusser, President of Central Community College, invited me to for additional exploration of efficiencies and operations that can be used in the future. serve on the Board of Governors of the college. I decided I wanted to take on the challenge; Students were resilient in their ability to adapt to the changes and to keep learning. Faculty were able to continue to teach however, I would have to MAKE A CHOICE! I could not continue my involvement with the Nebraska Bankers Association and assess information understanding and skill competencies that graduates need to advance in their chosen career and Schools of Banking, and at the same time be a quality board member for the college. I had to CHOOSE! My focus or to transfer to a four-year college. Student support professionals, business office specialists, Board of Governors, would have to change from banking to student education. administrators, and facilities personnel remained engaged with student and community needs and rallied to provide safe, I had to TAKE A CHANCE! Was I willing to take the RISK? I was comfortable in my banking career, but I knew I had the flexible and continuous operations. The Foundation continued to provide opportunities for donors to make significant knowledge and commitment to make this change, of putting a strong effort into serving on the college board. contributions toward capital campaigns and scholarship opportunities for our students. A very big reason for my decision to join the Board of Governors was my desire…TO CHANGE A LIFE FOREVER! Dr. The pandemic had a significant impact on students and their families as many struggled to continue working, to absorb Preusser and I spent hours discussing the reason for and the value of Central Community College. I believed that I could additional costs of remote education, and to support family needs with K-12 school closings. While the college was and would make a difference and be a part of changing lives forever. assisted with federal CARES act dollars to help some students, the CCC Foundation came through with additional money for students who were not eligible for those federal dollars. This collaborative effort made a difference, and a sign of that Over the years that have followed, the Board of Governors and the high quality of instructors and staff of CCC truly have impact was the approximately 1,100 degree and diploma graduates from across our area. changed lives. What a thrill for me to see lives changed. What a thrill for me to see many people Make the Choice, Take the Chance, and change their own lives. Students have spoken at Board of Governors board meetings, to share with us As with past graduates, the members of the class of 2020 will likely go on to become successful teachers, nurses, about their lives, their commitment to change, AND, to tell us of the goals they had set for themselves. advanced manufacturing technicians, entrepreneurs, medical professionals, paramedics, childcare providers, police officers and agriculturalists - those career holders who are recognized as “front-line