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NMU Day of Giving
Northern held its fifth annual NMU Day of Giving on November 30, 2021. Alumni and friends from across the globe came together to help increase academic resources and expand critical access and aid for NMU students. NMU Day of Giving is the opportunity to keep the natural spirit that supports NMU alive and well.
For the first time ever, the Student Leader Fellowship Program was featured on NMU’s Day of Giving. This was exciting for our program as it is an amazing opportunity for us to help get even closer to having the program fully financially supported for the foreseeable future.
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30 Years of Service to our Communities
Impact of the SLFP
Since its creation in 1991 through 2022, the 1,271 graduates of the SLFP have logged 137,603 volunteer and community leadership hours at 587 different sites in the Marquette community and across the world. In addition, over 815 individual community members have served as leadership mentors and role models for SLFP members. The synergy between student leaders, community members, and nonprofit and volunteer organizations has made a positive impact on countless lives.
How You Can Make a Difference
Every gift helps provide SLFP students with mentor relationships, community internships, the Fall Retreat, a graduation ceremony, and everything in between.
There are two ways you can direct support to our program. Annual gifts designated to the SLFP fund provide immediately available financial resources to expand the SLFP experience. A gift directed to the David L. Bonsall Endowment adds to an ongoing source of income that enhances stability and allows for future program growth.
Both options are significant to funding SLFP’s current and future needs and we thank you for giving to this exceptional NMU tradition.
How Giving Supports the SLFP
Giving directly to the SLFP helps fund essential program components like the annual Fall Retreat, internship planning meetings, networking, and social events, support for the Skill Builder! workshop series, and the graduation ceremony.
Giving to the David L. Bonsall Endowment Fund will help ensure that the SLFP can continue its commitment to developing competent, ethical, and community-centered leaders well into the future. The goal of the fund is to eventually make the SLFP a self-sustaining program and guarantee that the SLFP will be a fixture of the NMU student experience.
The endowment fund was renamed to honor a key contributor and role model of the SLFP - Dave Bonsall. Dave was instrumental in creating the SLFP. He helped write the initial grant that started the program and was involved with coordinating and sustaining the program for 22 years. Dave is still involved with the SLFP in a number of ways. Perhaps most important of all, Dave lives his life in a way that exemplifies the vision and goals of this tremendous program. For these reasons and more, the SLFP endowment will forever bear his name.
Program Donors
2020-2021 Financial Donors
$500+ Student Fellow Sponsors
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Daniel Blood Dave & Sandy Bonsall David Buick |
Lindsey & Tyson Butorac Heidi Ernst ExxonMobil Foundation |
Dr. James & Kathleen Keplinger Cindy Paavola Schwab Charitable Fund |
$250+ Student Fellow Sponsors
| Dr. Jon & Maggie Barch | Shannon & Christian Schuster | Jane & Matthew Surrell |
$100+ Friends of the Student Leader Fellowship Program
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James Anderson & Vicki Wurzburg Timothy & Dianne Bennett Erin & Michael Berkowitz Merry Jo Brandimore Kelly & Brett Brende Alysa Diebolt Dr. Alexis Eckard Brendan & Sara Franklin Rachel & John Harris |
Amanda Hawkins Thomas Humphrey Kara Jacoboni Melissa & Daniel Kallio Mary Kellermann Lisa & Paul Kotz Dency Lippert J'Aimee & David Lippert Amanda Lynch
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Robert & Carolyn Myers Edward & Sara Niemi Amy Schulz Anna & Dan Sharkey Ronald & Janet Stump Stephanie Taylor Michelle & Roger Todzy II Amy Uecke Nicole Weber |
$50+ Contributors to the Student Leader Fellowship Program
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Richard Andersons James Boileau Courtney Brown Karen Dubow Barbara & Andrew Gooch |
Shannon Jedd Mary Kerlin Gregory & Christina Kleinheinz Victoria Leonhardt Jerome & Jennifer Lombardo |
Savannah Mallo Erin Sikkema & Darryn Adams Ryan Watling Connie & Faye Williams Alexander Wolfe |
Other Contributors
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Gladys & Dewar Bosel Esther Deno Henschel Hoof Care LLC Michelle Janisz |
Jane Kamps Meredith Keck Michaela McLeod Karen Saari & Dave Pausch |
Mary & Joseph Sargent Mary Snyder-Henschel & Jeremy Henschel Brianne Steele Morgan Zoeller |