Notre Dame Archives - NonProfit PRO

September 1, 2009Alumni Couple Creates Scholars Program With $35 Million Gift to Notre Dame

August 27, 2009 — University of Notre Dame graduates Mark W. and Stacey Miller Yusko of Chapel Hill, N.C., have made a $35 million gift to their alma mater to establish a new undergraduate scholarship program.

April 29, 2009The First "Community Investing Toolkit" for Faith-based Investors Published by the Social Investment Forum

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 29, 2009 — The Social Investment Forum (SIF) today launched a first-of-its-kind guide to encourage religious investors to become more engaged in the practice of “community investing“ --the fastest growing area of socially responsible investing.

November 1, 2007The Blue and the Gold (and the Green)

Few universities are as indebted to their alumni as the University of Notre Dame. Case in point: In 1879, when a fire destroyed its Main Building — which at the time housed virtually the entire university — only 35 years after it was founded, it was alumni from Chicago who rallied to raise funds to rebuild it. Their support not only got the university back on its feet, but it also set it on a path of growth that hasn’t yielded to this day.