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News: Roane State Foundation’s Clifton eager to help students

Dan Clifton

Oct. 17, 2016

The new executive director of the Roane State Foundation brings years of fundraising expertise to the job, which ranges from funding scholarships for deserving students to raising awareness of Roane State Community College and its educational opportunities.

“I love Roane State,” says Dan R. Clifton, who succeeded Paul Phillips, a former district attorney general, in the post.

Clifton, who grew up in the tiny Ozone community in eastern Cumberland County, was previously a 39-year employee and longtime executive with the Boy Scouts of America.

He worked his way up in leadership roles in that nonprofit organization and for years managed a staff of 250 serving 32,000 young people in scouting’s Longhorn Council in Fort Worth, Texas.

At the same time, he served a 16-year stint as CEO of the Boy Scout Foundation, which during his tenure saw its assets balloon from $4.9 million to $28.3 million.

Clifton stepped away from his career in Boy Scouts in 2011 to take care of his elderly parents before their deaths.

He had recently been counseling Phillips on a volunteer basis in fundraising to help the Roane State Foundation. When Phillips announced his resignation, Clifton was urged to seek the post, which he landed after extensive interviews.

In the 2014-'15 academic year, the foundation awarded some $400,000 in scholarships to 512 students. Clifton said he’d like to make more scholarship money available.

He said Roane State funds the salaries of the four-member foundation staff, and 100 percent of contributions to the nonprofit go directly into scholarships.

“I want to see more students helped,” he said. “Our goal is to allow them to fulfill their dreams, whatever they may be.”

Clifton said he’s in the midst of fine-tuning the new fundraising goal and trying to build a broad-based organization to reach that objective.

Clifton said there are a number of ways Roane State supporters can help the foundation, through pledges, donations of land, stocks and bonds, charitable gift annuities and bequests. He said 62 percent of Roane State's full-time staff contribute to the foundation through payroll deductions.

The Roane State Foundation was started in 1979 and is now overseen by a 27-member board of volunteers.
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