McKenna Donates $1-Million For Establishment Of UdeM Centre That Will Bear Name
MONCTON – The Université de Moncton is getting closer to reaching their $50-million goal for the ‘Evolution’ fundraising campaign, thanks to a major donation from Frank McKenna, the former premier and current deputy chairman of the TD Bank Group.
McKenna’s donation will go toward the establishment of the ‘Centre de Leadership Frank McKenna – L’alUMni’.
“I really felt that if we could get this right and if it would help create more leaders that it would repay itself, over and over again,” said McKenna at an event on Friday.
He hopes the program will give students from all faculties the chance to participate in international internships and have conversations with leaders.
“We live now in global village where our trading relationships or political relationships are multi-national so we need to bee hooked in to all those big markets in the world and large communities in the world, so I want people to think bigger than New Brunswick,” said McKenna.
“We can produce more ambassadors, we can produce more jurists, more great authors and more business leaders who in turn will employ hundreds, maybe thousands of people and in that way it becomes a force multiplier that just grows and grows,” he adds.
Another one million dollar contribution from UdeM alumni will also be put towards the project.
Christina Mulherin is a reporter with The Bend, an Acadia Broadcasting radio station. Acadia is a Huddle content partner.