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mission
The McNeese Foundation supports the University by providing endowed scholarships, professorships, chairs, and ancillary funding to ensure achievement of the institution’s four core values. The Foundation is composed of business, industry, and community leaders whose support and guidance facilitate achievement of the mission. Beneficiaries of the McNeese State University Foundation include students, faculty, staff, and the community of Southwest Louisiana and beyond.
HIstory
The McNeese State University Foundation was incorporated in 1965 as a 501(c)3, non-profit organization established to support student scholarships through endowments. Since 1965, the Foundation’s mission has broadened to include support for endowed faculty professorships and chairs. Centers for teaching excellence, cultural programming, athletic enhancement, and other projects linked to McNeese State University’s interests are also supported through the Foundation.
The McNeese Foundation’s purpose is to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward private gifts, including real and personal property, limited or conditional gifts, grants, planned gifts, or any other bequests offered toward advancement of the institution. The Foundation’s current trust fund annually awards over $1 million in student scholarships, faculty development awards, campus improvements, state-of-the-art technology, and academic enhancements. Requests for endowed funds originate with the Foundation Board of Directors, a volunteer entity that governs all allocations.
The Foundation Office, located in the Burton Business Center, Suite 439, may be contacted by calling (337) 475-5588. The Foundation website may be accessed at www.mcneesefoundation.org.
McNeese Foundation Federal Tax Identification- 72-6029144; McNeese State Tax ID- 101-90-2409
Office of planned giving and donor research
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The Office of Planned Giving and Donor Research supports the University’s mission through development of legacy gifts. The Office is responsible for stewarding current planned giving donors, cultivating prospective planned giving donors, and conducting prospect research to link a donor’s philanthropic interests with the priorities of the University. The goals of the Office of Planned Giving and Donor Research include the following:
- To raise community awareness of the missions of the McNeese Foundation and the Office of Planned Giving and Donor Research.
- To research prospective and current donors and to provide biographical information for development personnel.
- To establish and cultivate meaningful relationships with current planned giving donors.
- To identify prospective planned giving donors and to solicit gifts.
The Office of Planned Giving and Donor Research, located in the Burton Business Center, Suite 423B, may be contacted by calling 337.562.4191. Planned Giving may be accessed at www.mcneesefoundation.org/plannedgiving.
The Foundation offers many opportunities to pay tribute to a family member, friend or business by making a commemorative gift. These Named Endowments include:
| Named Distinguished Writer Series |
Named Music Concert Series |
| Named Faculty Chair |
Named Research Fellowship |
| Named Faculty Development Award |
Named Scholarships |
| Named Fund for Library Acquisitions |
Named Professorships
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Endowed Professorships and Chairs
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Endowed professorships and chairs provide McNeese with a way to reward excellence in the classroom and in scientific and creative research. These awards ensure that professors remain intellectually vigorous, current, and enthusiastic about the subjects they teach. Established through the Foundation, endowed professorships are supported by a $100,000 endowment, and endowed chairs are supported by a $1,000,000 endowment. Each professorship consists of $60,000 in private contributions and a $40,000 matching awarded by the Louisiana State Board of Regents. Each chair consists of $600,000 in private contributions and a $400,000 grant awarded by the Louisiana State Board of Regents.
Southwest Louisiana Industries Professorship in Engineering and Technology
JPMorgan Chase Bank Professorship in Business
JPMorgan Chase Bank Professorship in Business Research
Shearman Professorship in Liberal Arts
Shearman Academic Professorship
Jack V. Doland Academic Professorship
Louisiana Real Estate Commission Professorship
Contractor’s Educational Trust Professorship
Arthur Hollins Professorship in Accounting
Franklin L. and Laura Chavanne Miller Professorship in Science
McElveen Insurance Agency Professorship in Creative Writing
Calcasieu Parish Medical Society Professorship in Pre-Medical Science
Palermo Professorship in Education
Shearman Professorship in Creative Writing
Lakeside National Bank Professorship in Finance
Henry C. Alexander Professorship in Music (2 professorships)
Fanny Edith Winn Educational Trust Professorship in Nursing
Harrah’s Lake Charles Casino Professorship
Seaman Asahel Knapp Professorship Agriculture
Lake Charles American Press Professorship in Mass Communication
Calcasieu Parish Development Board Professorship for Industrial/Economic Development
JPMorgan Chase Bank Professorship in Finance
JPMorgan Chase Bank Professorship in Music
Fritz Lang Foundation Professorship in Agriculture
Fred and Ruth B. Zigler Foundation Professorship in Nursing
Violet Howell Professorship in Environmental Science
D. C. “Chick” Green Professorship in Mass Communication
JPMorgan Chase Bank Professorship
Emily J. and Charles W. Stokes Professorship in Nursing (6 professorships)
Violet Howell Professorship in Teaching Excellence
AT&T Professorship
Robert Jones Beauregard Parish Historic Fund College of Education Endowed Professorship
Robert Jones Beauregard Parish Historic Fund Visual Arts Endowed Professorship (2 professorships)
Thelma and Ray Dingler Professorship in Business
Professorship in Science (10 professorships)
Judge Edwin F. Hunter, Jr. Professorship in Health and Science (2 professorships)
Contractor’s Educational Trust Endowed Professorship in Mechanical Engineering
CITGO Petroleum Endowed Professorship in Engineering (4 professorships)
Hale Family Endowed Professorship in Education
Murphy/Leaton Professorship in Teaching Excellence
Lucretia M. Tupper Nursing Professorship
Capital One Bank Endowed Professorship
Olive M. Tupper Nursing Endowed Professorship
Mr. and Mrs. William D. Blake Endowed Professorship
McElveen Insurance Agency Professorship in Business
Katherine Krause Blake Endowed Professorship
Dr. O. C. Karkalits Professorship in Engineering & Technology
Mildred Scott Professorship in Math
Coca Cola Professorship in Teaching Excellence
Alice M. and Russell Chambers Professorship in Pre-Med
Delores and Tom Tuminello Professorship
Evelyn Shaddock Murray Professorship in History
First Federal Bank of Louisiana Professorship
Louie D. Barbe Endowed Professorship
Pearl and Harold Dripps Professorship in Agriculture (2 professorships)
Violet Howell Professorship for “Write to Excellence”
Walter Eugene Dripps Professorship in Music (2 professorships)
William McLeod Endowed Professorship
Juliet Hardtner Women in Science Chair
Juliet Hardtner Women in Arts and Humanities Chair
The legacy of the live oak on the McNeese campus was started in the 1940s, and now you can continue this project by endowing a live oak tree to fund its perpetual care and protection. A minimum endowment of $1,000 is needed for each oak on campus. The endowment becomes a permanent source of funds for the selected oak, and it provides for the tree’s lifetime care, and if necessary, replacement. An endowment includes a customized, permanent bronze plaque installed near the base of the selected tree.
An endowed oak is unique gift for a family member, friend or organization. It can be made in memory or in honor of someone, or it can be named for the donor. The donor may be an individual, family, organization, or company.
McNeese Athletic Foundation (MAF)
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The Athletic Foundation supports McNeese State University by promoting fundraising efforts in support of student-athlete scholarships and athletic programming. The goal of the MAF is to equip student-athletes with the ability to succeed both academically and athletically, while preparing them for successful careers in post-collegiate life. Beneficiaries of the MAF include students, faculty, staff, and the community of Southwest Louisiana and beyond. The MAF maintains a separate board of directors from the McNeese State University Foundation but falls under the same 501(c)3.
The McNeese Athletic Foundation, located in the Doland Athletic Complex, 700 East McNeese Street, or may be contacted by calling (337) 562-4141. The MAF website may be accessed at www.mcneeseathleticfoundation.org.
For further information, contact Richard H. Reid, Vice President for Development and Public Affairs, (337) 475-5588, Box 91989, Lake Charles, LA 70609; or e-mail rreid@mcneese.edu.
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