{"id":18615,"date":"2014-09-19T14:48:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T19:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bemidjistate.edu\/bsutoday\/?p=14524"},"modified":"2021-11-01T16:02:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T21:02:37","slug":"hire-jonathan-yordy-bsu-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/19\/hire-jonathan-yordy-bsu-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Yordy joins BSU Foundation as chief development officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/Yordy-Jonathan-webmug-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20213 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/Yordy-Jonathan-webmug-14.jpg\" alt=\"Yordy-Jonathan-webmug-14\" width=\"180\" height=\"252\" data-bp=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/Yordy-Jonathan-webmug-14.jpg\"><\/a>Jonathan Yordy brings extensive knowledge of and commitment to higher education to the role of chief development officer for the Bemidji State University Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are excited to have Jonathan join our staff as the leader of our development team,&rdquo; University Advancement Executive Director Rob Bollinger said. &ldquo;He brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the BSU Foundation, which will be instrumental in our efforts with the Imagine Tomorrow campaign and future development efforts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>An advancement professional who has counseled university presidents and chancellors at several schools throughout the Midwest, Yordy describes himself as a product of a quality public education who has a passion for lifelong learning.<\/p>\n<p>He gained experience as vice president for university advancement and executive director of the Missouri Western State University Foundation in St. Joseph, Mo.; executive director for major gifts at Lewis University in Romeoville, Ill.; coordinator of public relations and fundraising at University of Missouri-St. Louis; among other positions. In addition, he has lectured and taught at schools in Wisconsin and New York and written works for scholarly publication.<\/p>\n<p>A summa cum laude graduate of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Yordy went on to earn a doctorate in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Yordy looks forward to building relationships and advancing the BSU Foundation&rsquo;s mission. His success working on fundraising campaigns at other institutions positions him well to continue advance BSU&rsquo;s Imagine Tomorrow comprehensive campaign to raise $35 million to create opportunities for future success at BSU.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Great things are happening at Bemidji State University, supported by a forward-thinking Foundation board,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I am excited to be joining the team entrusted with raising funds that will make a difference in the lives of current and future BSU students.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Yordy&rsquo;s office is located in the David Park House on Birchmont Drive across the street from the BSU campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong><br>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/mchadwick\">Maryhelen Chadwick<\/a>, communications &amp; marketing specialist, BSU Foundation; (218) 755-2122<br>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/jyordy\">Jonathan Yordy<\/a>, chief development officer, BSU Foundation; (218) 755-4145<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Yordy brings extensive knowledge of and commitment to higher education to the role of chief development officer for the Bemidji State University Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[681,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-updates","category-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20216,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615\/revisions\/20216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}