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Jon Stone

Theresa Ahrens

Annual event held at the Madden Museum of Art in Greenwood Village

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Pioneer Legacy Society Event

The 快活app honored those who have pledged to make an estate gift at the July 7 annual Pioneer Legacy Society event. Dozens of donors were celebrated for their generosity and support of 快活app by committing to make a gift to the University through their estate.

鈥淭his event is a great opportunity to gather some of our most loyal and visionary donors, to thank them for their generosity, and to keep them connected with all that鈥檚 going on at our University,鈥 said Steve Shineman, the University鈥檚 senior director of gift planning.听听also met and spoke with the donors in attendance.

This year鈥檚 event was held at the听听at the Palazzo Verdi in Greenwood Village. The Madden art collection recently was gifted to the University by developer John Madden. Jr.听It consists of more than 120 artworks valued at $10 million.

鈥淭he collection itself is already helping us to build interest and commitment among other potential art donors," says Dan Jacobs, curator of听. "I am immensely thankful to John Madden, Jr. and to his family for their support of this gift."听The collection is rich in works by Italian painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It also features works by artists ranging from pioneering Western painters Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran to American masters Thomas Hart Benton and Robert Rauschenberg and contemporary Chinese-born American painter Hung Liu.

More than 1,200 donors have left estate gifts to the University. 快活app encourages donors to share the news of an estate commitment or other planned gift so the impact of the contribution can be shared. For more information,听.