To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff
           <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Chancellor Richard Herman" <chancellor@illinois.edu>

Reply-To: chancellor@illinois.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Campus Charitable Fund Drive

Dear campus community,

As we reach the end of our 2008 Campus Charitable Fund Drive (CCFD), I 
want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has generously 
contributed. Your gifts will have a real and lasting impact on our 
community. 

I also want to urge those of you who have not yet made your pledge to 
please give strong consideration to contributing to CCFD. You may contact 
your unit leader for a pledge form or make an online pledge at 
www.ccfd.illinois.edu

The University is not an island that is isolated from the impact of our 
current national recession. And because we are not an island, we must 
also realize that the surrounding community we live in and call home also 
feels the painful pinch of layoffs, hiring freezes, and decreased 
revenues. Statistics aside, this is about real hardship. This is about 
real people and we know many people who are struggling to make ends meet. 
Let us, the fortunate ones, not turn away from our obligations in our own 
neighborhoods. Let us not look back with regret and think, I could have 
done more. Remember, every gift does matter.

Very truly yours,

Richard Herman
Chancellor

This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Chancellor

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