{"id":20355,"date":"2012-10-30T14:15:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T14:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=20355"},"modified":"2014-11-14T15:33:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:33:42","slug":"kickoff-for-alumni-leadership-campaign-yields-big-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2012\/10\/kickoff-for-alumni-leadership-campaign-yields-big-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickoff for Alumni Leadership Campaign yields big results."},"content":{"rendered":"

Leave it to a real leader to lead the way. At the kickoff of the Alumni Leadership Campaign<\/a>, a fundraising effort by the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU), Tom Cornish (BBA \u201985), president and CEO, Marsh & McLennan Agency, Florida Region, was the first to make a pledge, a substantial one of $25,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe evening\u2019s goal was $100,000 so I pledged 25 percent of that,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought it would get the ball rolling.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Guests received an overview of the campaign goals.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It did indeed. Other leaders stepped forward and a whopping $141,000 was pledged for the new campaign created by the Dean\u2019s Alumni Circle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled, and so grateful to our outstanding alumni,\u201d said Monique Catoggio (EMBA \u201903), director of college relations for FIU Business. \u201cAlumni asking other alumni to help has been a success.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over 200 guests attended the kickoff held September 13, 2012 at the Coral Gables Country Club. Dean Emerita Joyce J. Elam and Alumni Leadership Campaign leaders Alfredo Cepero (MACC \u201990, BACC \u201988) and Francis Hondal (MBA \u201994, BBA \u201987) addressed the group as did Ernie Diaz (BBA \u201989) of TD Bank, the event\u2019s sponsor.<\/p>\n

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Alfredo Cepero, Monique Catoggio and Francis Hondal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI am a product of FIU and much of the success I\u2019ve been fortunate to enjoy is a result of what I learned in my business classes,\u201d said Cornish, a member of the Dean\u2019s Council and a board member of the FIU Foundation. \u201cI\u2019m a believer in giving back and the goals of the Alumni Leadership Campaign are worth supporting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The goal of the campaign is to raise $2M in the next five years, to immediately have an impact on the quality of education experienced by FIU\u2019s business students and drive the continued growth and excellence of the faculty.<\/p>\n

Getting involved beyond the checkbook.<\/em><\/p>\n

Donors can \u201cearmark\u201d their gift for specific programs and Cornish chose to have his gift help the mentoring program. He also volunteered to become a mentor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI recently spent some time with the student, a very bright finance major,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve already made plans for him to become involved in some business experiences at my company.\u201d
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Leave it to a real leader to lead the way. At the kickoff of the Alumni Leadership Campaign, a fundraising effort by the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU), Tom Cornish (BBA \u201985), president and CEO, Marsh & McLennan Agency, Florida Region, was the first to make a pledge, a substantial one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":20360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[37,50,2720,590,2719,940,2718],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20355"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21078,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20355\/revisions\/21078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}