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Make a Gift to the Stephanie Jennings Memorial Mediation Fund

Click here to go to the Giving Green Campaign website, then select UNC Charlotte, and check the “other” box as your designation. There will be a space to fill in the fund. Please fill in the complete name: Stephanie Jennings Memorial Mediation Fund.

Stephanie Jennings, the Director of the Dispute Settlement Program for Mecklenburg County, agreed to teach the mediation course and coach the students at the regional tournament beginning in 2007. In the second year, Stephanie Jennings pleaded with her contacts in the business community to fund students to participate in the National Tournament in Chicago.

Thanks to the generous support of people like you, she raised $5,000 and took eight students to Chicago where they had an incredible experience at the National Tournament; the first of this type of competition for all of her students. On the way to the airport surrounded by her students from UNC Charlotte, Stephanie collapsed and died.

The National Mediation Collegiate Tournament Association named an overall advocacy award to recognize Stephanie’s contributions to mediation training.

The students of UNC Charlotte and the Charlotte community have much to thank Stephanie for, which is one reason we are beginning a Stephanie Jennings Memorial Mediation Fund to help fund the Mediation program and all it is doing for UNC Charlotte students.