Our Donors
Donors provide essential support to our five key strategic initiatives, including student experience, faculty support, scholarships, diversity and inclusion, and facilities. They are key partners in Isenberg’s drive to achieve its mission – we cannot thank them enough for their invaluable support!
Read some of their stories below.
Our Donors
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Profile in Philanthropy: John Micalizzi ’94
August 17, 2018
“A number of things in my life have special meaning, special resonance. For me, Isenberg and UMass are among them,” notes Isenberg accounting grad John Micalizzi ’94. As Human Resource Leader with the Boston office of accounting firm RSM, John has catalyzed two substantial gifts of $150,000 and $100,000 to Isenberg from its alumni at RSM and the RSM Foundation.
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Profile in Philanthropy: Fran Hutchins MBA '13
July 24, 2018
For Isenberg MBA grad Fran Hutchins ‘13, giving has always been central to her family’s culture. When Fran was growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, her family endowed scholarships at the alma mater of her mother and father. Now Fran is honoring him with a scholarship of her own for Isenberg students. “I was one of very few students of color in Isenberg’s MBA program,” Hutchins recalls. “That’s one among many underrepresented populations that the scholarship will help.” Although Fran has been giving to Isenberg since graduation, this year was a first. “This year, I decided to bring that giving to a different level after Isenberg approached me.” Support for Isenberg, she says, is a worthy exception in her periodic giving to other institutions, which mostly targets politically focused advocacy groups.
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Profile in Philanthropy: John N. Spinney Jr. '87
July 01, 2018
When Isenberg’s Accounting Department honored John N. Spinney, Jr. ’87 with its Lifetime Service Award at its annual banquet in April, Spinney, in his remarks to the gathering, paid homage to several of his former accounting professors. Those mentors, he said, helped him to launch and succeed in a dynamic career in accounting and financial services. Since 2007, Spinney has excelled as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Bracebridge Capital, a Boston-based hedge fund that manages $10+ billion in assets.
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Profile in Philanthropy: Charles P. McQuaid '74
June 19, 2018
“When I was a student, a UMass education was far more affordable,” recalls Isenberg finance graduate Charles P. “Chuck” McQuaid ’74. “I want hard-working students to have the same opportunities that I had.” That is why Chuck has created a needs-based scholarship to Isenberg for undergraduates from his hometown, Ware, and surrounding communities. Chuck’s father worked in a factory; so did Chuck during his Isenberg years.
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Profile in Philanthropy: Gary Cameron '89
June 11, 2018
Isenberg finance graduate Gary Cameron ’89 has strong admiration for Isenberg students and the impact of their education. As the former director of USD swaps with J.P. Morgan for nine years, he witnessed a marked improvement in Isenberg interns at his firm after Mark Fuller became the school’s dean in 2009. “Our Isenberg interns improved year after year in both polish and drive,” Cameron says. But much of that improvement is also to Cameron’s own credit.
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Business Innovation Hub
Mark Fuller, Ed Shirley, Denise Coll and the architects talk about the significance of the new Business Innovation Hub.
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