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Fund Raising 14 Philanthropy Journal of North Carolina Rebuilding in cyberspace Funds are being sought for the Sarajevo Center for New Media in Bosnia, a computer resource center that aims to bridge the technology gap caused by four years of war. Opening in 1998 Plans for Exploris museum proceed The effort to build a children’s museum in Raleigh has more than just a new name to show off. By Sean Bailey Raleigh The push to build Exploris, for merly the Children’s Museum About the World, has made big gains on sev eral fronts, raising more than $3 mil lion in gifts, rolling out detailed designs for the downtown Ralei^ museum and sparking serious talk of integrating a magnet school on a nearby block crucial to the city’s downtown revitalization program. “There are a lot of exciting things going on a lot of fronts,” says Anne Bryan, president of Exploris. Bryan and others confi dently predict that the muse um will be open by October 1998, and they promise that it will be one of the most innovative museums of its kind, changing the way schoois in North Carolina think about teaching and learning by fusing communications technology and museum staff and exhibits for a new type of collaborative, interactive iearniQg. Here is an update on the muse um’s progress: DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY Detailed designs for the construc tion of the 70,000-square-toot muse um are complete. Now, exhibit dekgn is being developed so that actual con struction of the exhibits can begin in June 1997. Anne Bryan CHILDREN The museum will be divided into seven exhibit areas: Living in Balance, Many Voices, Anne Frank, Trade Link, Exploris Journey, Webbing, and People and Places. Rod Brooks, director of adminis tration, says the exhibit planning emphasizes how the worid and its many systems - economy environ ment, language, culture, communica tions - are interconnected and inter dependent. To that end, the museum has worked closely with IBM and AT&T, laying the technology groundwork so that all the museum’s exhibit areas will have multi- media compo nents that will allow such things as Internet connec tions and satel- Ute hookups that will help the museum extend its reaches beyond Ralei^. “It’s going to be a dehvery sys tem for taking Exploris across the state and bringing the world to Exploris,” Brooks says. FUNDRAISING Museum officials face an uphill battle this year and next year with fundi’aising. However, now that the architectural drawings are complete, officials heUeve fundraising momen tum will pick up. The goal is $25 mil- hon. The city of Ralei^ and Wake County will contribute $12 million for the purchase of land and buildings if the museum can raise $7.5 milUon by December. At the start of this year, Exploris had raised more than $3 mll- hon toward that goal, which does not Gordon Smith Exploris fundraisers hope that this drawing of the south front of the museum will spark additional interest in its fundraising efforts. The museum is scheduled to open by October 1998. include a $1.5 million startup gift from museum founder Gordon Smith in. Starting in 1997, the museum will begin a new phase of its campaign to raise the remaining $4 million from the general pubUc. Big corporate cash contributors so far have included the former Glaxo ($1 milUon), Carolina Power & Lig^t ($500,000), Burroughs-Wellcome ($250,000), Wachovia ($125,000) and the law firm of Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein ($100,000). The museum also has received considerable in-kind gifts from Midway Airlines ($150,000 for travel), Norhern Telecom ($30,000 for phone service), AT&T ($50,000 for technolo gy design) and IBM ($23,000 in cash, a $20,000 computer system and a loaned executive). “There’s a lot more in the hopper,” Bryan says. MAGNET SCHOOL Last fall, museum founder Gordon Smith III and Wake School Superintendent Jim Surratt walked the block on the east side of Moore Square, surveying the area for a pos sible school site. That was one clear sign that a proposal to integrate a magnet middle school with the muse um has support. “It’s a totally serious idea and I think it will be Included in the school bond package,” Smith says. “And I think it has the potential of being one of the most innovative schools in the United States.” Wake voters are expected to decide on a $250 milhon school bond construction package later this year. Smith says that teachers at the school could develop curriculum and teamteach with museum staff, many of whom will he experts in their field. Middle school students would be trained as “explainers,” or junior docents, who would lead tours of the museum for visiting elementary school students. The students also could use the museum as an exten sion of their classroom. And class projects and lessons could be shared with other teachers and classes throughout the state over the Internet. The construction of the museum and the school would transform the Moore Square area on the east side of downtown Raleigh. The school would be located on property that now serves the Salvation Army and the Ralei^ Rescue Mission. Smith says those two operations would move to larger facihties that would better accommodate their chentele - home less men, women and children. Regional campaign Trian^e United Way names leaders Frank Daniels Jr., publisher of The News S Observer in Raleigh and president of The Philanthropy Journal, has been named regional chairman of the Triangle United Way’s 1996 annual campaign, and Bill Kress, vice president and site general manager for IBM Corp. in Research Triangle Park, has been named regional chairman for 1997. Kress in Fehruary announced his retirement from IBM, effective April 30. This year’s campaign will be the first hy the newly con- s 0 1 i d a t e d United Way organization, which has merged affili ates in Durham, Orange and Wake counties. Frank Daniels Bill Kress Local campaign chairs will be Kay Gresham, second vice president and financial consul tant for Smith Barney, Durham; Ted Vaden, pub lisher and editor. The Chapel Hill News, Orange; and Ed Wilier, president, residential division, York Properties, Wake. The Trian^e United Way also has named Dorothea Bitler interim vice president for marketing and commu nications. She is a former communi cations program manager for IBM who recently has been advising the company on charitable gifts cam paigns and serving as a consultant to the Wake Medical Center Foundation. March i996 Corporate partners NCCU campaign up steam The new vice chancellor for devel opment is banking on partner ships with corporations to help North Carolina Centri University exceed its $50 million campaign goal. By Todd Cohen Durham David Hoard has ambitious plans for North Carolina Central University Hired last summer as vice chan cellor for development. Hoard says the historically black school’s $50 milhon capital campaign is about to go into hi^ gear. The campaign, which had been slu^sh for the previous year or so, now has raised more than $13 mihion, and Hoard expects half the goal to be raised by late this year. In fact, he says, the goal may be increased by at least $10 mil hon. Hoard, who previously was assistant vice chancehor for advance ment tor the state system of higher education in Pennsyivania, has revamped NCCU’s development oper ations. He has strengthened commu nication among various offices that handle fundraising, modernized com puter and accounting systems, and restructured the campaign organiza tion - creating, for example, individ ual committees charged with raising parts of the overall campaign goal. A campaign chair, probabiy the chief executive of a major Trian^e corporation, is expected to be named soon. And the NCCU Foundation has taken on a iarger role: Assets are up about $1 milhon - to $4.5 milhon - the staff has tripled and a new board is being recruited. Funds raised for the foundation are part of the overall campaign goal. The administrative changes that Hoard has introduced are traditional Look for NCCU, page 17 David Hoard BRIEFLY Black publishers' group aids UNC The N.C. Block Publishers' Association has pledged $100,000 to the Sonjo Haynes Stone Block Cultural Center at UNC-CH to help build a new home for the center. The publishers' pledge brings total gifts and pledges to date to $1.84 million. Arts Council ready to wrap up campaign By mid-February, fhe Arts & Science Council of Charlotte/Mecklenburg had raised $1.7 million toward its $4.06 million annual fund drive goal. The annual cam paign, led by Duke Power Senior Vice President Ruth G. Shaw, was set to wrap up Feb. 29. State employees iploye break record Employees at UNC-Chapel Hill broke their charitable giv ing record with contributions to the 1995 State Employees Combined Campaign. University employees gave $528,156 to the Orange County campaign, which had set a goal of $500,000. The funds will benefit nonprofits. Wake Forest gets challenge grant A$1 million challenge grant to Wake Forest University from Thomas H. Davis and his family has pushed to $10 million the amount the uni versity has received in gifts and pledges for a new divini ty school. A search for the graduate school's first dean will begin this year. The Davis family, of Winston- Salem, will match every dol lar raised toward construction of the new building with two dollars - up to $1 million. The school is set to open in 2000. Graham center gets grant The US Department of Education has given a $14 million grant to the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center and asked it to coordinate nation al research efforts. The cen ter, an arm of UNC-CH, was founded 30 years ago to study child-development issues.
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