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Khoury community comes together for Giving Day 2023
Photos by Cassidy Jacobsen. For the sixth consecutive year, the Northeastern network put its collective strength into Giving Day, with more than 10,000 donors contributing a record $3.2 million to […]
Photos by Cassidy Jacobsen.
For the sixth consecutive year, the Northeastern network put its collective strength into Giving Day, with more than 10,000 donors contributing a record $3.2 million to Northeastern colleges, student organizations, and sports teams.
Khoury College’s 271 donors, representing a 15 percent increase over 2022, donated about $82,000, an 82 percent spike. The college’s student groups pulled in more than $4,000, with software consultants Sandbox, nonprofit collaborators Code 4 Community, and the Computer Science Mentoring Organization leading the pack. Additionally, the college met four of its five challenges, wherein an additional donation was released to a fund if a given number of donors gave to that fund:
- Doreen Hodgkin Student Emergency Fund: 75-donor target; $10,000 released by Roxanne Donovan and Tom Scarangello, parents of a Khoury alumnus (Donovan and Scarangello made an identical matching donation last year when the Hodgkin fund launched.)
- Khoury Dean’s Fund Challenge — Part 1: 15-donor target; $500 released by Khoury faculty and staff
- Align Challenge: 20-donor target; $5,000 released from an anonymous donor
- Jelly Incubation Fund Challenge: 10-donor target; $1,000 released from alumnus Chris Jelly
“Thank you for your outstanding generosity,” Dean Elizabeth Mynatt wrote. “I cannot thank everyone enough for their generous contributions and behind-the-scenes work in making the day a huge success.”
As part of the day’s activities, five student groups joined Mynatt in Northeastern’s Xhibition Kitchen: the aforementioned Sandbox plus project-based programmers Oasis, cybersecurity enthusiasts null NEU, CS education aficionados FirstByte, and Grad Women Coders.
“Rumors of a Khoury College cookbook are spreading quickly,” Mynatt joked.
Photos by Miles Chun.
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