LAST YEAR’S RESULTS

In 2010, Bond University launched its inaugural annual fund. An annual fund is something that a lot of universities do, both in Australia and internationally, but it was a first for Bond. We set the challenge of raising $150,000 to improve the educational experience at Bond, and our community of Bondies rallied to the cause.

Last Year’s Results

To achieve our fundraising goal, Bond sought donations from the University Council, the Board of Trustee Members, staff, and alumni.

Support from this community was outstanding, with every Council member making a gift, making Bond the only university in Australia to achieve this level of leadership support. In addition, we received gifts from a large number of Trustee Members, staff members and alumni. In total, Bond received more than 600 gifts during the 2010 Annual Fund appeal.

We disbursed the funds raised to the areas that our students, alumni and teachers identified as their highest priorities, as follows:

Student Opportunity Fund

More than 30 allocations were made from the Student Opportunity Fund as a direct result of donations made to the 2010 Annual Fund, including:

Grants to subsidise travel and living expenses for international and interstate internships and conferences
Grants to cover production costs for resources that benefit other students
Grants to host research lectures to provide postgraduate students with exposure to global thought-leaders
Grants to purchase equipment and resources for campus sporting and recreational clubs

Staff research projects

Many annual fund donors during the 2010 campaign asked for their contribution to be used to support research activities at Bond.

Therefore, two research grants of $5000 were awarded to university researchers in a competitive grant process that required the academics to demonstrate that their research was not only innovative but also collaborative, engaging the community in the process and providing socially-beneficial outcomes.

The recipients of the inaugural Annual Fund Campaign Research Awards were:

Associate Professor Daryl McPhee

The Design of an Integrated Ecological Monitoring Program for Gold Coast Marine Waterways

Professor Amy Kenworthy

“One Goal, One Community: Moving beyond bullying and empowering for life” anti-bullying initiative: An empirical outcomes assessment

Building Fund

Donations made during the 2010 Annual Fund were also disbursed to the Bond University Building Fund, enabling a number of the sporting clubs on campus to purchase new equipment, including a rugby scrum machine.

Sport is an important part of life and culture at Bond, with 28 sporting clubs on campus alongside a Sport and Recreation Department that comprises of the Sport Centre, student sport representatives from the Bond University Institute of Sport, and Campus Life and Student Sport Office staff members.

In the academic arena, students can take courses in sport management, sport science and exercise science.

New library materials

Supplementing the generous gift already made by Soheil Abedian to help stock the new Soheil Abedian School of Architecture library, gifts made to the 2010 annual fund were also distributed to the library to purchase additional texts and journals.

This helps ensure that the new intake of students has access to the most up-to-date educational material, and that there is enough for everyone to share.

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