Chadron State Foundation wraps up another successful Fall Fund Drive

Brandon Davenport, Foundation Development Officer, said the efforts of everyone involved was fantastic.

“CSC faculty and staff, and members of the community really came through this year. To break the $200,000 mark was fantastic,” he said. “The scholarships and departmental support provided by this year’s Fall Fund Drive will have a lasting impact and we owe that to our Fall Fund Drive volunteers and this amazing community. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who made this year’s success possible.”

More than 100 volunteers on 10 campus teams and nine teams of volunteers from the community, took part in this year’s Fall Fund Drive. Campus Co-Chairs Shaunda French-Collins and Tena Cook, along with Community Co-Chairs Trisha Martens and Bobby Griese, led the volunteers.

Each year a campus and a community team are named as the winning teams based on a point system. The winning campus team consisted of Rob Stack, Cassie Ritzen, John Ritzen, Lorie Hunn, Jordan Haas, and Willie Hoffman. The team of Jim Gardner, Vince Ryan, Julie Duncan, Eliza Hare, and Tyler McCarthy won in the community category.

Winners were announced during the Foundation’s annual Fall Fund Drive Victory Party Nov. 18. During the event, Hunn and Brenda Morford were recognized as the drive’s top individual volunteers from the campus and community teams, respectively.

The 2021 Fund Drive theme, Giving Toward Success, and accompanying artwork were created by Kyle Rayl, Emily Hansen, and Paige Seidler while enrolled in French-Collins’s Communication Campaigns (CA 450) course during the Fall 2020 semester.

—Chadron State Foundation