Donor Report | PHILANTHROPY AND TRINITY
There is another reason for Trinity alumni to become engaged with their alma mater. Providing support for Trinity and getting involved in the College’s myriad of activities offers opportunities to re-connect with friends from student days, and to interact with some of the smartest people around. And it gives the particular satisfaction that comes from helping a great institution create new knowledge.
How does Trinity rate in the highly competitive world of philanthropy? As a philanthropy professional my assessment is – ‘Much done, more to do…’
Over the past fi ve years the Trinity
Foundation, and the various graduate associations which support the College, have secured gifts worth €150m (of which €10.3m were provided by
not only CRANN but also the unique Science Gallery which has become a mecca for school students interested in exploring how science contributes to the advancement of our world. And Dr Stanley Quek, a Singaporean graduate, has made a lead gift to Trinity’s Biosciences Development. This is currently taking shape in Dublin’s Pearse Street and will be as seminal a development in modern scholarship as was Trinity’s beautiful Old Library in the intellectual life of the 17th century.
And not all gifts are in the multi-million
bracket. The Trinity Takes To The Streets
project has provided an opportunity for a wider group of supporters to raise more than €100,000 for Trinity access initiatives, by running the Dublin Marathon and organising fundraising events such as a table quiz and comedy night. In this way, graduates of former
to the Fund. The Fund supported research and teaching initiatives, the Student Hardship Fund, Trinity Access Programmes (TAP), the conservation of precious books in the Old Library, student societies, and sports scholarships.
But Trinity has over 80,000 alumni. If 10% of them could be persuaded to contribute to the Fund it could become a real force for innovation and excellence in our alma mater. And participation in the Fund will provide those alumni with the immense satisfaction of knowing that they are helping a university which has made, and will continue to make, a vital contribution to Ireland and the world.
In 1892 the College commemorated its tercentenary and an appeal was made to graduates to fund a building for student societies. The £7,500 raised went towards the construction of the Graduate Memorial Building (GMB)
members of the Trinity Foundation Advisory Board). Without these gifts it is unlikely that Trinity could have sustained its upward march.
For example, Dr Martin Naughton’s gift of €5m in 2004 gave Trinity the courage to expand its plan to provide state-of-the-art facilities for CRANN – its nanotechnology research institute – into the Naughton Institute which houses
Dr Martin Naughton, whose major gift made possible the construction of the Naughton Institute, bearing his name which houses CRANN and The Science Gallery
years open a door into the College for students who would otherwise fi nd it diffi cult to access the intellectual riches of Trinity.
At a time of constrained budgets, the
fl exible funding provided by alumni through the Trinity Annual Fund can make a real difference to the College. In the fi nancial year 2008/09, 851 alumni contributed over €400,000
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Dr Stanley Quek . In 2010 Dr Quek, a Trinity medical alumnus, announced a major challenge grant to support the School of Medicine’s new home, the Biosciences Building
Naughton Institute
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