Fundraising Efforts at Duke

• After raising $10,000 on campus, the Duke Scholars Community is starting a new initiative for students and families taught by many Robertson Scholars this past summer in New Orleans.

  Mr. Julian Robertson (founder of the Robertson Scholars Community) is matching up to $70,000 of what the Duke and local community can raise for the Erin Anderson Fund—a fund for students and families of low-income families that attend a summer educational enrichment program for six weeks and one weekend per month throughout the school year. Duke students Evan Stewart and Andy Cunningham (both '08) taught there throughout the summer and have formed close relationships with the families and students.

  Once matched, the fund-raising effort will provide a $140,000 pool, ensuring on average $1000 for each of the 150 families on behalf of which the students are working. Funds are going toward school supplies, shelter, transportation costs, and food.

  Cunningham reports that the scholars have a little over two weeks to raise $70,000 and has issued a call for campus-wide support. For more information, contact him at andrew.cunningham@duke.edu.

• After raising a spectacular $17,000 for tsunami relief earlier in the year, humanitarian and pianist Steven Lin, in collaboration with the Duke University Red Cross, hopes to raise more than $20,000 for hurricane relief through the sale of his CD of melodic piano music, titled "Passion." A minimum $10 donation is requested per CD, with every dollar raised going directly to the American Red Cross Hurricane Relief Fund. Sales of the CD will take place throughout campus or you can order a CD online. For more information, contact Steven at steven.y.lin@duke.edu.
• Performing arts groups at Duke will put on a Benefit Show for the Hurricane Relief in Page Auditorium next Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 7:30 pm. The event is co-sponsored by DSG. Performers include Sabrosura, Lady Blue, The Pitchforks, Duke University Improv, Zeta Phi Beta Step team, Defining Movements, Speak of the Devil, Dance Black and Sapphire. Free tickets are available on West Campus and at the door on the night of the event. Event sponsors collect donations while handing out tickets as well as at the show. All donations will benefit the University Hurricane Relief Fund.
• Jenni Owen, a Duke research associate in the Center for Child and Family Policy, is drawing upon a well-established fan base to help raise money for Katrina relief. She is raffling off one pair of Rolling Stones tickets -- originally sold for $95 each -- for the band's Oct. 8 concert at Duke. The proceeds will go to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina. The raffle tickets are $3 for one entry, $5 for two, $10 for four, and so forth. The winning entry wins the pair. Contact Jenni at jwowen@duke.edu for more information.
• Major Attractions in collaboration with Freewater Productions, Robertson Scholars, The Graduate Professional Student Council, and the Duke Red Cross are presenting "Rocking for a Cause: Reggae Funk Benefit Katrina Concert" on the Quad, Sept. 16 at 6pm featuring Michael Franti and Spearhead with Student Band Openers Joe Band and The Pulsar Triyo. We will be accepting flex and cash donations at the various student tables around the quad. Mardi Gras beads will be sold by the Red Cross. GPSC and the Duke University Book Stores are selling Benefit Katrina plastic solo cups. Robertson Scholars are asking for donations for the Breakthrough Collaborative and the Erin Anderson Fund. Feel free to bring your own food and drink. Duke Dining will be providing limited free food for Duke students. The Grilling Society will be grilling up meat at the far of end of the quad so feel free to participate. For more information about the concert please contact ela8@duke.edu or visit http://www.union.duke.edu. Other contacts include Duke Red Cross (syl3@duke.edu), Robertson Scholars (ajc1@duke.edu) and GPSC (elizabeth.irish@duke.edu).

• The Newman Catholic Student Center at Duke is taking up a special hurricane relief collection at both masses on campus Sunday, Sept. 11. Proceeds will go to Catholic Charities.
• On September 4, 2005, Duke Chapel raised over $17,000 for relief of Hurricane Katrina victims. This offering was the largest in the history of Duke Chapel.
• The Duke University field hockey team raised $1,000 to contribute to the Red Cross to aid relief efforts. Team members donated money and elicited contributions from family and friends to come up with the sum. The team will hand the money over to the Red Cross Tuesday [Sept. 6] but expect more donations to come in throughout the week.
• Duke Red Cross is engaged in a number of fundraising efforts:
  • Tabling in Bryan Center and East Campus Marketplace to collect funds
  • Donation bins have are being placed in residence halls
  • Spare change jars are being distributed around Duke and Durham restaurants
• Duke's Divinity School is collecting funds to support pastors who have been displaced and have offered to Hope Morgan Ward, the Bishop in Mississippi (and a Trinity and Divinity alumnus) to establish a long-term relationship for connecting with relief efforts over time.
• WRBZ radio is promoting Chris Duhon's relief effort for Slidell, La. For every phone call taken on Adam Gold's show between now and next Friday, Sept. 9, Adam will donate $1 to Chris Duhon's Stand Tall Foundation. WRBZ Radio is encouraging people/corporations to match Gold's donation or to donate what they can afford.