Top leaders direct fund
raising for York University
Some of Toronto and Canada’s top business and community leaders
meet this month for the first time to form the inaugural Board of
Directors for the York University Foundation.
Chaired by Timothy Price, Chairman of Brascan Financial
Corporation, the Board of Directors of the York University Foundation will
provide fund raising leadership and support aimed at taking the
University’s goals and ambitions for student programming, research and
infrastructure to a new level.
“The directors are energized and ready to focus on helping
deliver results for York University,” says Price. “Our goal is to
provide leadership and open doors for the Foundation staff and other
volunteers. The local and national communities look to York to produce
graduates who challenge the ordinary, research that defies boundaries and
a culture that thrives on daring thinking and curiosity. Leading
universities like York need top-level financial support and we’re here
to build that capacity.”
Fund raising through the York University Foundation is an
innovative approach to building leadership and mobilizing community
support for the University’s goals and ambitions. Modeled on the
approach taken by some Canadian and U.S. universities, the Foundation is
an independent entity with its own Board of Directors. This arm’s-length
entity supports the University’s fund raising priorities and provides a
high level of accountability to its donors.
Paul Marcus, President and CEO of the Foundation, remarks, “Since
the Foundation was established earlier this year, we have worked hard to
find the right leadership for the Board of Directors. We are all thrilled
to be working with a group of people who know the value of philanthropy
first hand and who are prepared to help us with our mandate to raise
significant funding for York.” Addis Marcus, “There are a lot of
worthy charities in Toronto and in Canada, and building York University is
a meaningful priority for those community leaders. Well-educated and
pioneering students build stronger societies and economies. Pairing that
education with York’s vibrant and dynamic cultural experience, our
graduates and researchers redefine the possible. The Foundation is here to
deliver enhanced resources to them.”
Directors of the Foundation
include:
Mr. Avie Bennett, O.C., O.Ont.,
Chair, McClelland & Stewart Ltd. & Chancellor of York
Mr. Marshall Cohen, O.C., Counsel,
Cassels Brock and Blackwell LLP
Mr. Ivan Fecan, President and CEO,
Bell Globemedia Inc.
Ms. Margot Franssen, O.C., President
and Partner, The Body Shop Canada
Mr. Lindsay Gordon, COO, HSBC Bank
Canada
Ms. Alonna Goldfarb, Principal,
Goldfarb Intelligence Marketing
Mr. John Hunkin, CEO, Chair and
Director, Canadian Imperial Bank at Commerce group of Companies
Ms. Julia Koschitzky, Chair, Advisory
Committee, Centre for Jewish Studies
Mr. Allan T. Lambert, O.C., Group
Chairman of Brascan Corporation
Dr. Lorna Marsden, President &
Vice-Chancellor of York University
Mr. Robert W. Martin, President and
CEO of Consumers’ Gas (retired)
Mr. Steve Mirkopoulos,
Vice-President, Cinespace Studios
Mr. Tim Price, Chair, Brascan
Financial Corp.
Mr. Seymour Schulich, C.M., Chair,
Newmont Capital Ltd.
Mr. Joseph D. Sorbara, Principal, The
Sorbara Group, Counsel, Tanzola and Sorbara
Mr. Heavy Wu, President, Liverton
Hotels International Inc.
York University is dedicated to producing graduates who apply their blue-ship credentials in ways that lead to the unexpected and the extraordinary. With internationally celebrated academic programs and visionary research, Canada'’ third-largest university is renowned for looking beyond the ordinary, challenging the boundaries and redefining the possible.
For more information, please contact:
Paul Marcus, LLB, CFRF
President & CEO, York University
Foundation
Tel: 416-650-8025
Marcusp@yorkfoundation.yorku.ca