Donors' Forum - Hybrid Meeting Thursday February 27 at 8:30am

Dear Members,
Please join us for our next Donors' Forum meeting on Thursday, February 27, 2025. It will be a hybrid meeting: We will meet both on Zoom and in person. The in-person gathering, courtesy of David Brennan, will take place at the offices of Quattuor Capital Partners of Raymond James on the 12th floor at 320 Park Avenue (on the west side of Park between 50th and 51st Streets). The sign-up directions for both the Zoom connection and the in-person attendees is below.
The meeting will run from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. (EDT) We begin and end precisely on time. Please note: We record our discussions and archive them on our website, so that they will be available in the future.
Our guest will be James Maynard, the Curator of the University at Buffalo (UB) Libraries Poetry Collection - the library of record for 20th- and 21st-century poetry in English - where he directs the UB James Joyce Collection, the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of manuscripts and other works by and about the renowned Irish writer, James Joyce.
On Bloomsday 2023, UB announced $10 million in funding from New York State for the construction of a James Joyce Museum and is currently working on the design phase with a team of architects and exhibit designers. To increase public access, the goal of the UB James Joyce Museum is to enable a wider and more inclusive audience to experience the collection’s world-renowned resources.
In 2009 Maynard helped organize the exhibition "Discovering James Joyce: The University at Buffalo Collection" and edited the exhibition catalogue of the same title. The Poetry Collection launched a 36-foot mural of Joyce in downtown Buffalo for Bloomsday 2021 and celebrated the 2022 centennial of Joyce’s Ulysses with a yearlong series of programs and collaborations.
Maynard has published widely on and edited a number of collections relating to the poet Robert Duncan, including, among other works, "Ground Work: Before the War/In the Dark (2006)." His edition of "Robert Duncan: Collected Essays and Other Prose" (2014) received the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. His most recent publication (co-edited with Judith Goldman) is "Soundings in Context: Poetry's Embodiments" (2024).
A graduate of Ursinus College, Temple University, and the University at Buffalo, James was a 2020-2021 Mid-American Conference Academic Leadership Development Program Fellow and a recipient of the 2021 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service. You can learn more about him here.Truly, this will be a remarkable discussion about an American treasure. Other staff from the museum will also be joining us.You can learn about the James Joyce collection at UB and the uniquely impressive James Joyce Museum here.
As always, those who join us will engage in an interactive, discussion-oriented format. Doug White, a thought leader on nonprofits and philanthropy, whose most recent book is "Wounded Charity" (2019), is the moderator.
For those who will join us in person, please respond to this email. The in-person response (RSVP) deadline is Thursday, September 5. Please arrive at Raymond James after 8:00 a.m. but no later than 8:15 a.m.
For those joining us by Zoom, please register (RSVP) with our Eventbrite link. You'll receive the link to join the Zoom Room in the confirmation message from your registration along with reminders with the handy Zoom link embedded.
Note: Out of respect to our speaker, if you sign up, please attend. We need to provide, in advance, the building's security people with the names of those who attend in person. (The room we will be in at Raymond James holds a limited number of people.)
Many thanks!
Stanley, Deborah, and Brittany

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