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Alumni Council to MRU students: “We have your back” on Giving Day

For Giving Day 2023, the Alumni Council made a pledge to give monthly to provide stable, ongoing support to MRU students. The council encourages all alumni to find ways to give back to their community. Giving Day is a 24-hour campaign to celebrate philanthropy on campus and to contribute to student awards and bursaries.

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Mercedes Brown

ALUMNI COUNCIL MEMBER

Brown, a bursary recipient herself, says she will participate on Giving Day because she wants to set an example for others.

“Leadership is important, and I’m very lucky I’m at a point in my life where I want to give back with my time, and monetarily when I can.”

Alumni Council member Mercedes Brown is a nurse clinician in acute geriatric care at Calgary’s Rockyview Hospital.

 

 

Bronson Ha

ALUMNI COUNCIL MEMBER

“There are two things that are priceless that we can always give. The first is time and the second is education,” Bronson Ha says. "We are passing on time with the solutions we have discovered through our own struggles, and we are passing on education as the lessons we’ve learned in the past to make it less of a burden for the next generation.

“Money should not hold back anyone; if you remove that barrier, you can tap into so much potential.”

MRU Alumni Council member Bronson Ha speaks at a United Nations Association in Canada Calgary Branch event, 2016.

The Alumni Council is the representative body for the University’s more than 110,000 alumni, working to strengthen the bond between the University and the alumni community.

For some students, receiving a bursary can make the difference between graduating or dropping out or delaying studies.

Students in degree programs who receive a bursary are from 1.7 to 2.9 times more likely to graduate within six years than those who do not.

Bronson Ha, an Alumni Council member, worked three jobs while pursuing his Bachelor of Arts — Criminal Justice Studies degree at Mount Royal and received the Pat & Bea Graham 7th Step Bursary for financial support. He speaks from experience when he says that by supporting the MRU bursary program, “We’re lessening the burden of stress so students can focus on their dreams.”

Get involved in Giving Day

Giving Day 2023 starts at 8 a.m. on November 28 and ends on November 29 at 7:59 a.m. Several challenges take place throughout the 24-hour period, including alumni-owned gift baskets going to the first donor, the last donor, an employee donor, the 50th donor (in celebration of MRU's Lincoln Park Campus 50th Anniversary) and more. 

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Content written by Matthew Fox.