The good Cornellians can do: Dan Mansoor ’79, MBA ’80
Dan Mansoor '79, MBA '80 has spent his career fundraising for worthy causes. He was first recruited to work for Alumni Affairs and Development at Cornell in 1984. In 2000 he helped found the Community Foundation of Tompkins County, which has since donated $30 million dollars to the Ithaca community.
When Dan’s beloved wife, Joyce Rothschild '80, was diagnosed with leukemia in 2022, Dan felt moved to do something to help. For the past three years, Dan has ridden in VeloSano, a bike ride which supports cancer research at the Cleveland Clinic (located near their home in Shaker Heights, Ohio).
He turned his fundraising savvy into dollars—raising more than $220,000 to date. For the past three years, Dan has logged the highest number of donors among the 2,700 riders.
“Am I making a difference?” Dan asks.
His answer is a resounding yes: “Bone marrow transplant protocols did not exist 70 years ago. Fifty years ago, the five-year survival rates were very modest. Now some survival rates are approaching 70%,” he says. “Cures for cancers are coming. Funding accelerates that inevitability.”
Since 2014, VeloSano has raised more than $95M, 100% of which supports cancer research.
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