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Thanks to 889 individuals, the Neag School of Education garnered more than $50,000 in contributions during this spring\u2019s annual Giving Day at UConn.<\/p>\nThanks to 889 individuals, the Neag School of Education garnered more than $50,000 in contributions during this spring\u2019s annual Giving Day at UConn.<\/p>\n
The University-wide fundraising event raised upwards of $700,000 in total for UConn in just 36 hours, with incoming donations set up to support everything from scholarships and academic programs to student groups and athletics.<\/p>\n
The Neag School, including its Alumni Board, promoted six different education- and sport management-affiliated projects during this year\u2019s Giving Day campaign, held over the course of two days in March.<\/p>\n
One of these projects \u2014 the sport management program\u2019s William M. Servedio Scholarship Fund<\/a> \u2014\u00a0came in first place across all UConn Gives projects this year, raising upwards of $35,000. With more than 630 donations from all over the world, the project initially raised nearly $20,000. Two Giving Day matching gift challenges funded by the Neag School Dean\u2019s Board of Advocates as well as donors from across UConn Nation then added another $16,500 to the scholarship\u2019s total.<\/p>\n Professor Emeritus Servedio<\/a> recently launched his scholarship to help fund Neag School students in sport management,\u00a0a program he had established and built from the ground up while serving as professor and department head roughly three decades ago. From the start, Servedio ensured that a key focus of the program was the opportunity for students to gain real-world experience in the realm of sport through internships and graduate assistantships.<\/p>\n Such famed alumni as Jamelle Elliott \u201996 (BUS), \u201998 MA<\/a>, former UConn\u2019s women\u2019s basketball player and now the team\u2019s assistant coach; Sean Lester \u201996 MA, current deputy athletics director at the University of Kansas; and longtime UConn baseball coach Jim Penders \u201994 (CLAS), \u201998 MA all took part in the program during Servedio\u2019s time as its leader.<\/p>\n \u201cAs donors, the impact of future internship placements will be enhanced because of this new funding source,\u201d Servedio told the UConn Foundation<\/a>. \u201cI am indebted to all who support my vision of keeping the internship as a critical component of the learning experience.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cUConn Gives was fun and energizing as our community came together to support Dr. Servedio and student development and learning in the sport management program,\u201d added Danielle DeRosa \u201909 (CLAS), \u201916 MS<\/a>, clinical instructor in sport management. DeRosa noted that the project was coordinated by a team of sport management faculty, staff, and students that included Professor Jennifer McGarry<\/a>; Leah Ward \u201906 (ED), \u201909 MA<\/a>, program administrator; and current student Kess Elmore.<\/p>\n Additional Neag School-sponsored projects included funds to support various departments, research centers, and scholarship efforts, raising another $15,700 from 250 donors. Altogether, the Neag School more than doubled its UConn Giving Day fundraising totals compared with two years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n Thanks to 889 individuals, the Neag School of Education garnered more than $50,000 in contributions during this spring\u2019s annual Giving Day at UConn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":194118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,2472,1855],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-194117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-gifts-donors","category-neag"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-26 07:02:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194120,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194117\/revisions\/194120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/194118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194117"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=194117"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=194117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Giving Day Success for Servedio Scholarship<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Giving Day 2021 may be over, but you can still offer your support. See how you can help fund different efforts at the Neag School of Education<\/a>.<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"