Remove donor
article thumbnail

Obituary: Engineer Sidney Dewberry, 94, Firm Founder, Education Donor

ENR Construction

The accomplished engineer and renowned advocate of higher education, who died July 16, also authored textbooks and stepped up to impact his community.

article thumbnail

Institutions aggressively targeting private donors to fund construction projects

BD+C

A recent story in the Birmingham (Ala.) Business Journal reported that so many local nonprofit organizations are competing for private capital to fund their building projects that there might not be enough money to go around. Among those projects is a new $25 million, 4.1-acre acre headquarters campus for the Salvation Army.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Nebraska’s Midland University receives a new ‘kitchen table’ courtesy KWK Architects

BD+C

million Olson Student Center dining hall, has been described by donors as a “kitchen table” for the Nebraska campus. The new Eikmeier Commons, the final stage of Midland University’s $1.5 The Eikmeier Commons makes use of the Olson Student Center’s under-utilized 4,700-sf lower level.

article thumbnail

Top 7 Fundraising In’s and Out’s for 2018

ENR Construction

OUT: Making donors feel bad , twisting their arms, telling them to give ’til it hurts and shaming them. IN: Making donors feel good , treating them like people (not ATM’s), partnering and giving them the value they want. OUT: Over-spending your donors’ dollars on fundraising efforts that don’t work anymore.

Plans 52
article thumbnail

Paradise Lost in Childhood Inspires a Devotion to Making Better Buildings

ENR Construction

Oprah fans may only know of Stacy Smedley as a sperm-donor baby who met her DNA half-brother in 2008, thanks to the talk show.

53
article thumbnail

San Diego’s newest library branch will be family focused

BD+C

The 14,376-sf Mission Hills-Hillcrest Harley & Bessie Knox Public Library—named after the city’s former mayor and his wife, whose family is one of the new library’s donors—will be nearly four times larger than the 3,850-sf, 56-year-old branch it replaces.

article thumbnail

Stacy Smedley: Paradise Lost in Childhood Inspires a Devotion to Making Better Buildings

ENR Construction

Oprah fans may only know of Stacy Smedley as a sperm-donor baby who met her DNA half-brother in 2008, thanks to the talk show.

52