The money will support opportunities for our students and programs like Onward Odyssey, Odyssey Junior, Odyssey Senior, Odyssey Beyond Bars and Odyssey Beyond Wars. Together, we can change lives and build a brighter future for all.”ĭonations made to the Odyssey Project will help to eliminate challenges in the cost of housing assistance for Odyssey students facing homelessness and eviction which have more than doubled this past year as well as for the cost of food, which Auerbach says has tripled, as the program served more families through the Odyssey Family Learning Center. I am honored to be able to support Odyssey, and I hope that my contribution will inspire others to join me in investing in the transformative power of education. “I have witnessed firsthand the incredible transformations that occur when individuals are given the chance to pursue their educational aspirations. “The Odyssey Project is an extraordinary initiative that, as a former educator, holds a special place in my heart,” Rowland said in a statement announcing the matching gift. ”She is someone who was an educator and real champion of what we do at Odyssey and she was delighted to support our Future Fund,” Auerbach says. Rowland’s house to talk to her about the Odyssey Program and enjoyed the interaction. The way we’ve come to learn to secure our future is to have an endowment where it just continues to grow and support our programming.”Īuerbach says she went to Pleasant T. “So we have to call on our donors to raise that million to get the million and that would then leave us with a $2 million endowment. “This million-dollar gift is offered as a match,” Auerbach continues. And so that’s why we’re calling it Odyssey Future Fund. “We just celebrated our 20th anniversary and this new campaign that we have this fall is to help us secure the next 20 years by building an endowment.
“This million-dollar match is intended to help us with our Future Fund,” Auerbach says. Rowland Foundation has helped the Odyssey Program in the past with a $500,000 gift for the endowment for the directorship.
So we are so very happy about this current gift,” Auerbach tells Madison365.Īuerbach says that the Pleasant T. We’ve had a couple of half-million-dollar grants – one through the state and one through the federal appropriations through Tammy Baldwin’s office, but those grants are set to end. Rowland Foundation is the largest single gift we’ve ever had. “This million-dollar donation from Pleasant T. The Odyssey Project was co-founded in 2003 by Emily Auerbach, a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The UW Odyssey Project takes a whole family approach to breaking the cycle of generational poverty through access to education, giving adult and youth learners a voice, and increasing confidence through reading, writing, and speaking. 31, every dollar you give to the Odyssey Future Fund – up to $1 million – will be matched by this generous gift. Rowland Foundation has announced that they will be making a $1 million gift to the Odyssey Future Fund as a challenge match of the UW Odyssey Project, which means that between now and Dec.
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