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Gentlemen,
In addition to my duties on the Board, I am the national chair of the Lambda Chi Alpha “Call to Lead” Campaign, the capital campaign referred to in the earlier post. I’ll bring you up to date.
We kicked the campaign off at the 2004 General Assembly. We have a campaign goal of $6.5 million, and we have raised over $4.0 million to date from a relatively small number of brothers, including members of the three boards (the Fraternity, LCAP and the Foundation), alumni volunteers, and others. Many of these men have made significant – and sacrificial – donations of six figures and above. As I speak about this campaign with brothers around the country, the depth of feeling they have for Lambda Chi Alpha is a great tribute to our brotherhood. In addition, this campaign has given us the opportunity to reconnect with and re-engage brothers with our Fraternity. For this reason, even at this stage, this campaign has been a great success.
The solicitation in this phase of the campaign will be limited to a few hundred brothers. In Phase II, which will be much broader in scope, we will have a goal in excess of $10.0 million. That Phase will be conducted in conjunction with our Centennial we will be reaching out to a much broader representation of our brothers.
The funds raised in this campaign go to the Educational Foundation, the only one of our entities legally entitled to accept tax deductible gifts. These monies are made available to the Fraternity by the Foundation to fund scholarships and educational and leadership development programming.
All the best to Tom, Jono, John G., Eric, and the rest of the good brothers on GreekChat.
In ZAX,
Lynn Chipperfield
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