Fellow Jaycees,
Get excited to escape from the heat and enjoy the comfort of the inside of the R. David Thomas Center for one of our two July membership meetings! Our first membership meeting will be July 13th and will feature Susan Cranford Ross. Susan spent nearly three decades as a senior fundraiser at Duke University prior to her early retirement, leading teams responsible for well over $500 million in fundraising for endowment, facilities, athletics, and annual giving during her professional career. Her most recent role was Assistant Vice President for Financial Aid Development, where she led a staff and volunteer team which raised $308 million for student scholarship endowments university-wide. After leaving Duke University, Mrs. Ross co-founded moss+ross, a fundraising consulting firm based in the Triangle. She and her partner Mary Moss have worked with 18 nonprofit clients since starting the firm in 2009, when she shifted her professional role from fundraiser to consultant. And most importantly to the Durham Jaycees, she is the 1993 winner of the Distinguished Service Award for her outstanding contributions to Durham. Mrs. Ross will be giving a talk entitled Next Step Voluntarism – Providing Real Leadership for Your Favorite Cause. In addition to surely being an amazing speaker, Mrs. Ross is an amazing person to have in your network!
The second membership meeting on July 27th, we will have an athlete from the Special Olympics of North Carolina come to speak to us about how the Special Olympics has allowed them to succeed in spite of their disabilities. I am SURE that this evening will be one of the most inspirational ones we will have this year and I strongly encourage you to make an effort to come out to this one!
And sit on the edge of your seats folks, because as we head into August, we will have an amazing lineup of Haunted House focused speakers, from charities to past chairpersons, to Rooster (or too old to still be a member) Jaycees, we will be doing a ton of stuff to get you geared up!
So escape the heat and I look forward to seeing you the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month!
In Service to Humanity,
Rachel Filip
Management Development VP
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