Charonn Woods Earns Good Neighbor Award

[Bobby Parker]

Congratulations to Charonn Woods, Bradley's recipient of the Winter 2012 MVC State Farm Good Neighbor Award:

http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=205397210&DB_OEM_ID=3400

[Da Coach]

Congratulations to Charonn and his great family!

[tornado]

The latest edition of Bradley Hilltopics is not online yet but they have a nice article about Charonn Woods..

also stories about sports communication (Jack Brickhouse, Charlie Steiner...)
and some other sports stories...also a financial summary dating back 5 years to show that overall (charitable) giving to BRADLEY UNIVERSITY peaked in 2008 and has dropped 10% or more each year since then...
The overall giving back in 2008 was 32.3% higher than is was in 2011 - a BIG dropoff....
Individual contributions (as a percentage of overall "fund revenues") are down over 90% since 2008...

[Braveman]

I wonder if that is because the economy tanked in 2008 and BU was at the start of a 161 million dollar capital campaign?

[tornado]

I am certain there are multiple factors...

-the general economy - almost every organization from charities to churches that are supported by donations have seen a dropoff the past few years
-some gave in the first year or two of the latest campaign then in the late phase there just weren't as many still giving

So the school needs fans' support- but that's up to the individual's conscience and we're just not seeing the support..

[TNel]

Great article about Charonn in the 2011-2012 BU President's Report also.

[Braveman]

That is where I saw it also....