Bunker Hill Community College

BHCC Foundation

The mission of the Bunker Hill Community College Foundation is to obtain resources to support the College, thereby enabling students with diverse educational, ethnic and cultural backgrounds to benefit from a high-quality, affordable, post-secondary education. The mission is realized by building constituencies and fund raising among groups and individuals including alumni, business, civic, community and educational leaders.

The Foundation secures resources in a variety of ways. For example, each year the Foundation hosts a benefit dinner at the famous Hampshire House restaurant in Boston's Back Bay. Culinary Arts students from Bunker Hill Community College prepare a dynamic menu that is enjoyed by corporate, civic and community friends who come to support college initiatives and celebrate its accomplishments.

The Bunker Hill Community College Foundation is a 501(c)(3), non-profit corporation that solicits, accepts, manages, invests and distributes contributions as well as regularly communicates with donors and prospects. All gifts are tax deductible to the extent approved by law.

Opportunities for Giving

• Annual Fund gifts provide support for current operations, emergency needs and other special initiatives.
• Restricted gifts are designed by the donor for current use by a department or a program.
• Memorial and Honorary gifts may be directed to a program or project or used for current annual support; they are welcomed and accepted in the same manner as all other gifts.
• Major and Capital gifts are used for specific, predetermined College priorities and provide the donor with an opportunity to link a family or company name permanently with the life and work of Bunker Hill Community College.
• Endowed gifts can be funded by a variety of giving methods. Support can be directed to a current or newly-endowed fund in which the principal is invested in perpetuity and the earned interest is used as the donor intends. Endowed gifts may be restricted or unrestricted. A gift of at least $25,000 is necessary to establish a new, named endowed fund. Income from unrestricted endowed gifts provides flexible, annual support. The Foundation is responsible for the creation, oversight and stewardship of all endowed accounts and will communicate annually with the donor as to how the funds are used.

Foundation News
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Contact the Foundation
The Foundation welcomes all inquiries and the opportunity to work with prospective donors and new Foundation members. To request further information on the Bunker Hill Community College Foundation or to submit a direct correspondence, please contact:

Michael R. Seppala
Vice President for Institutional Advancement and
Executive Director of the BHCC Foundation
Bunker Hill Community College
Room C-304
250 New Rutherford Avenue
Boston, MA 02129
Email: mseppala@bhcc.mass.edu
Phone: 617-228-2395
Fax: 617-228-3273

BHCC Foundation Board of Directors

PRESIDENT
Anne Hyde, Esq.
Retired Partner, Peabody & Brown
(now Nixon Peabody LLP)

VICE PRESIDENT
Stephen B. Weiner
President, The Weiner Company, Inc.

TREASURER
Jeanne-Marie Boylan
Executive Vice President & Treasurer
Boston Sand & Gravel Company

Mary L. Fifield, Ph.D.
President, Bunker Hill Community College

David J. Clarkson, C.P.A.
Vice President of Human Resources
Vitale, Caturano & Company, Ltd.

Thomas Kershaw
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Hampshire House Corporation

Ray Monkiewicz
President and CEO, Kayem Foods, Inc.

Thomas P. O’Neill, III
Chief Executive Officer,
O'Neill and Associates

Shirley Singleton
President and CEO, Edgewater Technology, Inc.