Pi Kappa Alpha Educational Foundation
2007 Annual Report
From the President of the Pi Kappa Alpha Educational Foundation
Dear Brothers and Friends of Pi Kappa Alpha:
By any measure you might choose, 2007 was a remarkable year for the Pi Kappa Alpha Educational Foundation.
4,400 alumni brothers and friends made cash, security, or other gifts to the Foundation.
Total annual giving to the Foundation increased by over 20% versus 2006.
- 2,100 undergraduate brothers also contributed to the Foundation.
- In fact, in 28 of our undergraduate chapters, 100% of the members were also donors to the Foundation.
- We finished the year with 272 members of the President’s Council – the most in our history – quietly and generously underwriting the operations of the Foundation.
- 150 brothers are now members of the Oak Trust, also the most in our history, and with the current value of planned gifts now well exceeding $10 million.
- Recently we have experienced more than our share of sadness, as some of our most loyal brothers, engaged for literally their entire adult lives in the work of Pi Kappa Alpha, passed to the Chapter Eternal. Among the many we will miss, and for whose lives we will always be grateful are Trustee Emeriti Garth Grissom and Tom Wade, and Foundation Trustee and Past International President Mark Anderson. They inspire us still.
We take great satisfaction in the accomplishments of 2007, more fully recounted in the annual report which follows. More importantly, our financial success makes it possible to fund the Fraternity’s programs which support character development, leadership, and service. We do it in the personal setting of the chapter, where some of the most important gifts of our lives unfold. No one else on campus does what we do – and we do what every undergraduate needs if he is to develop into a responsible citizen of exemplary character. The Pi Kappa Alpha Educational Foundation is a vital partner in our Fraternity’s advance to the forefront of the fraternity movement, as we build character in the construct of lifelong friendship.
Investing in integrity. It’s what we do. And we do it very well.
Fraternally Yours,
Edward A. Pease
President, The Pi Kappa Alpha Educational Foundation
Our Mission:The Pi Kappa Alpha Educational Foundation exists to operate solely and exclusively as a beneficent, charitable, literary and educational organization within the meaning of 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. The Educational Foundation has its roots in the Memorial Foundation that was incorporated in 1948, and its current mission includes: • Providing grants to support educational and leadership programming developed by the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, including – but not limited to – Pike University.* • Providing grants to qualified undergraduate scholars and leaders to attend qualified educational and leadership development events. • Collecting contributions from Pi Kappa Alpha alumni, members and friends and managing a portion of those contributions as endowments to provide continuous annual support for leadership programs and student education. • Assisting in establishing, equipping and maintaining libraries, study rooms or other educational facilities within college student housing facilities. • Preserving books, archives, war records, works of art and related objects for the encouragement of patriotic and historical research, particularly research into the history of education. • Maintaining a permanent memorial for members of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity who gave their lives in military service to the United States, Canada and their allies. *Pike University is Pike University is a comprehensive educational curriculum teaching ethical leadership, organizational excellence and practical business management skills.
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