On November 19, the long-awaited Big Annual Meeting of LvBS graduates took place: Alumni Leadership Day and the presentation of Alumni Awards 2022, organized jointly with the UCU Leadership Center with the support and in partnership with the Ihor Ihnatovych Leadership Institute of Ivey Business School (London, Ontario, Canada). Despite all the circumstances, members of the LvBS Community from all over the country and abroad gathered together to talk about leadership and service within the walls of their native Ukrainian Catholic University.
This year’s event was dedicated to the memory of our Hero Oleh Vorobiov, a participant in the MSc in Technology Management program of the UCU Business School, who died at the hands of the Russian occupier on the front line on May 30, 2022.
All funds from entrance tickets, which is UAH 110,000, are directed by the UCU Business School to the a special Scholarship Fund named after Oleh Vorobiov. For the first time, we held a charity auction, the lots for which were provided by graduates and friends of the UCU, and which collected over UAH 330,000. The lottery with gifts from graduates and the UCU team raised over UAH 41,000. Direct contributions to the Fund from graduates and participants of master’s programs of the UCU Business School during the event amounted to UAH 55,000. We send funds from charity cocktails from our Bar Bro friends (over UAH 12,000) to the Fund, too.
Through joint efforts, we managed to collect more than UAH 550,000, which is more than 20% of the goal. The goal is to collect 75 thousand dollars in a permanent fund (endowment), which will allow to generate a scholarship named after Oleh Vorobiov and, accordingly, cover the costs of studies for one student at the university every year.
Thank you for the lots that were presented at the auction – namely, Bishop Borys (Gudziak) for the BG 60 t-shirt lot signed by his own hand; Yuriy Vysovnia, a graduate of the MSc in Technology Management program, for the provided keychains from the wreckage of an enemy SU-34 aircraft shot down near Kyiv from the Drones for Ukraine Fund; Inha Kordynovska, graduate of the MSc in Innovations and Entrepreneurship program; to the artist Serhiy Bozhko for the provided artwork; Uliana Krekhovets, artist, teacher of the icon-painting school “Radruzh” for providing two works of art and assistance in designing the lots; Andrii Rymaruk, director of the military department of the “Return Alive” foundation, who played one of the main roles in the film “Glare”; Kostiantyn Shumskyi, a graduate of the Key Executive MBA program of the UCU Business School, founder of the IconArt Gallery, for an artwork by Oleksandr Bryndikov. Thank you Andriy Bandrivskyi and Oksana Donets, graduates of the Key Executive MBA program, for the items from the Gorgany and Turbat companies, as well as our graduates from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who signed the flag and recorded a video message to the Community.
Gifts for the charity lottery were provided by graduates of the Key Executive MBA and MSc in Innovations and Entrepreneurship programs:
Kateryna Libman — Creative clay SET from Okto;
Oksana Gudzovata, Maria Bey, Olena Leksikova and Marta Antoniv — a set of Christmas tree ornaments from Koza Dereza;
Liudmila Ivashchuk — craft cheeses from the “Family Dairy Farms” project;
Arsen Shlapak and Jumaryk Oleksandra — a set of gifts from KREDENS coffee shops.
Olha Zharova — certificate of English language learning from “The EngL”;
Petro Pavlikha – a set of family board games from The Memology;
Mykhailo Hnyp — Calendar of good deeds from the Cooperative.
Iryna Fishchuk – Gift from the Muliarov Family Restaurant;
Postal stamp “Patron” from Sofiia Opatska – founding dean of the UCU Business School, vice-rector for strategic development of the Ukrainian Catholic University.
Collector coin in memory of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people by Oleksandra Liashenko, Doctor of Economic Sciences, professor of the UCU Business School.
Special thanks to Andrii Kurochka, head of the UCU development department and founder of the UCU permanent art museum collection, for holding the charity auction and lottery. We would like to thank our graduate Halyna Zherebetska and all friends from the development department for their help in organizing this part of the event!
We encourage everyone to join the fundraiser by donating to the Oleh Vorobiov Scholarship Fund. This noble cause will help not only the future members of the community to get a decent education at the European level, but also to forever preserve the name of our Hero, who gave his life for the happy future of our country, in the memory of generations: https://lvbs.top/2mh
