[Alumni-chat] AB Newsflash 9/24

[Rowan (rowankaiser at gmail.com)]

Update 9-24-07 

      Up and running: crash fundraising plan. In record time, Antioch College staff members and alums have crafted a plan to raise big money for the College Revival Fund. It will run for six weeks -- until the October meeting of the Antioch University Board of Trustees. Even before the plan was designed, alums raised $12 million in cash and pledges.

      “Under the plan, Antiochians across the country will visit identified potential donors who have expressed an interest in helping Antioch College continue,” explains alum Mathew Derr, who has taken a leave of absence from his job in Boston to volunteer as a full time fundraiser.

      Risa Grimes of the Antioch College Development office designed the effort along with staffers Fred Krauss, Aimee Lunde Maruyama, Wendy Ernst, and April Ratliff. They were assisted by Derr and alum Ina Frank.

      Grimes is now coordinating the effort and dispatching the Antioch teams.

      “The plan is designed to face the immediate emergency,” Derr says, “it’s not a full scale program. But with Risa and her team on the job, we’re all in great hands.” 


      On board: college “turn-around” expert. Tracy Filosa, a nationally respected expert in higher education finance, has agreed to work with teams of Antioch alumni in developing a plan for Antioch College to remain open during a period of rebuilding and revitalization. Filosa and her firm, TAF Consulting, has worked with NE University, Brandeis, Tufts, Boston College, and many other schools. 


      Showing art for Antioch. The New York City Antioch College Alumni Chapter and the Casa Frela Gallery are sponsoring "Greetings from Antioch College - The Postcard Show" November 3 to December 31, 2007. All submissions will be accepted, with proceeds from sales going to the Revival Fund. To learn more about the show and how to submit works of art, go to http://casafrela.gourdom.com/gallery/antioch.


      Buy a Gits CD! Help Antioch. Steve Moriarty will donate to the Antioch Revival Fund proceeds from the sale of “Kings and Queens” one of the few recordings made by the The Gits, a short lived but critically acclaimed rock and roll band formed at Antioch in the late ‘80s by Moriarity and others. To order, go to http://cdbaby.com/cd/thegits2. Please write “Save Antioch” on your order.