PROFILES OF LEADERS
Leading the Effort

Leading the Effort | Norman Augustine | Colleen Conway-Welch | Elkan Blout | Your Opportunity

A large portion of the $300 million raised by The Campaign for the National Academies will be contributed by outside organizations -- such as foundations and corporations -- demonstrating tangible support for our mission, programs, and projects. But the Campaign’s ultimate success will require the cumulative support of NAS, NAE, and IOM members.

The size and form of each member’s support will vary with the individual’s financial capacity and personal interests. Thus one member may make a small multi-year cash pledge directed to the endowment; another would make a generous estate bequest to underwrite a Fellowship; a third would make an outright gift of stock, supporting publication of the lay-version of an important study report.

These profiles highlight three members who made Campaign leadership gifts to support programs at the Academies -- NAE’s Norman Augustine, IOM’s Colleen Conway-Welch, and NAS’s Elkan Blout. Though their gifts serve different purposes and range in size from $25,000 to $1 million, they have a fundamental goal in common: enhancing the capacity of the National Academies to guide the science, engineering, and medicine enterprises -- and thereby improve the quality of life nationally and globally.

As you read these profiles, please consider the ways in which you too can become a leader in this important Campaign.

To learn about any of the programs mentioned on the following pages, contact us at 202-334-2431 or giving@nationalacademies.org. We welcome your ideas, too.

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