Joe Berg Seminar Finances

 

Yes!

I would like to make an investment in the future of the Joe Berg Society and its students through a tax deductible gift to the Joe Berg Society Fund of the UNF Foundation! 

Enclosed is my gift of 

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      Please make checks payable to the UNF Foundation and write Joe Berg Seminar Series Fund in the memo section. 

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Please return this form with your payment to:

College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office • UNF • 1 UNF Drive • Jacksonville, Florida  32224 
 

Thank you for your support of the Joe Berg Society!

 

April 14, 2008  

Dear Joe Berg Parent: 

The Jacksonville Joe Berg Society needs your help! 

Since 2005, the University of North Florida’s College of Arts and Sciences has been the sole benefactor of the Jacksonville Joe Berg Society. UNF’s $10,000 annual investment has enabled the Society to provide stimulating seminars and programs to your child and hundreds more in our community over the years.  

Now, with state budget cuts forcing the University to make tough decisions of its own, the Joe Berg Society, unfortunately, will not be receiving the $10,000 necessary to support the program during the 2008-2009 school year. If funding is not obtained, the Society will cease to exist effective this summer!  

Together, we may ensure that this valuable program continues. 

The Joe Berg Society has created a tax-deductible fund with the UNF Foundation to raise the $10,000 needed to support the program next year. I ask you to join me in this endeavor for your child and for gifted local teens for years to come. Please consider the value of Joe Berg. 

In its 48th year in Jacksonville, the Joe Berg Society provides between 24 to 28 ninety-minute seminars per year, each of which is attended by 60-75 outstanding Duval County high school students. The Society today includes 158 gifted students from 18 local schools. These students attend the non-credit seminars because they value the quality and diversity of the programs. You are familiar with the topics offered in your child’s series, but a complete list is available on our student-run website, www.unf.edu/coas/chemphys/phys/csp/joeberg/index.htm.  Our dynamic speakers come from UNF, JU, FCCJ, and a variety of professional and artistic areas of expertise. They are eager to share their passion with this group of students, and many of them have come back again and again when asked. Many organizations also invite us to return repeatedly for tours and demonstrations, including the Mayo Research Laboratories, Theater Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Zoo, the Cummer Gallery, MOCA Jax, the UNF Gallery, the Haskel Corporation, Baptist Cancer Clinic, the Jacksonville Skyway, and the MOSH. The World Affairs Council of Jacksonville has begun publicly recognizing Joe Berg students attending their Global Issues Lecture Series. And UNF is happy to continue offering library privileges to Joe Berg scholars.

 

What you can do 

We have never charged students to participate, and we do not intend to. We want to help these bright scholars. But you are the best judges of the impact of the Joe Berg program. We are asking you for three kinds of help. Please consider assisting in any or all of these valuable ways. 

1. Enclosed is a contribution form for your personal tax-deductible gift to support Joe Berg through the UNF Foundation.  Please consider contributing as you are able and as you value the program for your child and the community. 
   

2. We need ongoing assistance from some organization, some firm, some foundation, or some person who will offer to support Jacksonville’s future leaders with an annual donation to keep the program going until UNF has the funds to support us once again. Are you that person, or will you introduce us to an organization or corporation that might welcome the opportunity to have this kind of impact?
   

3. To assure the future of the Jacksonville Joe Berg Society and prevent recurring financial crises, the UNF Foundation will accept large donations for a Joe Berg Endowment Fund. When this Fund balance reaches $100,000, the State of Florida will contribute $50,000. This would truly be wonderful!
   

We will be happy to knock on a door and/or make a presentation about the Jacksonville Joe Berg Society. Please contact me at djkcar@bellsouth.net with any suggestions.   

Please help us and our enthusiastic young people, so the program may resume as usual in late summer. I look forward to hearing from you. 

Sincerely, 

Davron King

Joe Berg Director