In recognition of National Philanthropy Day, the Monroe Community College Foundation has nominated two individual and a group of corporate philanthropists for Association of Fundraising Professionals Genesee Valley Chapter awards. Each nominee has given generously in support of MCC and its students through the MCC Foundation. The award recipients will be announced at the National Philanthropy Day luncheon on November 5 at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center.
Professor Emeritus Henry P. “Pete” French, Jr., Ph.D. was nominated for the AFP Genesee Valley Chapter’s Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser 2010 award. A long-time member of the MCC President’s Circle of Donors, the Alice Holloway Young Society and the E. Kent Damon Lifetime Giving Society, Dr. French and his wife, Beverly, have personally given in excess of $100,000 to support student success and teaching excellence at MCC.
Seven organizations joined together to nominate Dr. Henry Pierson “Pete” French as the Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser of 2010. The organizations include the MCC Foundation, Rundel Library Foundation, Rochester Regional Library Council, Warner Graduate School at the University of Rochester, Christ Episcopal Church, University of Delaware and Rochester Public Library.
Please take a moment to read the nomination attached below and join the MCC Foundation and the Greater Rochester community in honoring the dedication and philanthropy of Dr. Pete and Mrs. Beverly French.
Stay tuned to the MCC Daily Tribune for information on the other two award nominees!
To learn more about the AFP Genesee Valley Chapter, please visit
https://www.afpgv.org.