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Contact: Carolyn Gonzales 277-5920
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Oct. 18, 2007

UNM’s Hurd-Knief to Receive Outstanding Fundraising Award

Pam Hurd-Knief, interim associate vice president for development, has been selected by the New Mexico Chapter of Fundraising Professionals to receive the award for outstanding fundraising professional. While chief development officer for the UNM School of Architecture and Planning, she led the development effort to raise more than $17 million in public and private funds while at the School and in her current position serves in a leadership role with the UNM Foundation that raised $72 million in FY 06-07.

Hurd-Knief will receive the award at the 21 st Annual National Philanthropy Day luncheon on Friday, Nov. 16, at the Embassy Suites Hotel.

Hurd-Knief has been at UNM for eight years, six years at the School of Architecture and Planning, with prior development-related positions at the Carrie Tingley Hospital Foundation, UNM School of Law and the UNM Children’s Hospital. In her current role as director of major gifts, she has worked closely with all UNM schools, colleges, units and campuses to facilitate interaction with donors and prospective donors.

Hurd-Knief, who is a Certified Fundraising Executive, is past president of the New Mexico Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She has also served on more than a dozen non-profit boards in the greater Albuquerque area. She earned a master’s in philanthropy and development at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota.

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