{"id":75116,"date":"2023-10-23T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=75116"},"modified":"2023-10-23T14:43:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T18:43:58","slug":"why-i-give","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/magazine\/articles\/2023\/why-i-give\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Give"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin magazine-block-editorial-leadin is-style-side-by-side has-media has-box has-media-focus-center-middle has-primary-theme\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"\/wheelock\/files\/2023\/10\/Julia-Casady-scaled.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"Julia-Casady\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2023\/10\/Julia-Casady-scaled.jpg 1920w, 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class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">Alumni<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhy I Give\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">Sustainable Growth<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar magazine-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">October 23, 2023<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-comments\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#comments\" class=\"wp-prepress-component-comment-counter label has-no-comments\"><span class=\"wp-prepress-component-comment-counter-zero\"><span>0<\/span><\/span><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/bu-author\/louise-kennedy-corrigan\/\">Louise Kennedy Corrigan<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cEducation is a passion of mine,\u201d Julia Casady says. <\/strong>A longtime teacher, Casady is cofounder, with her husband, Mark, of the One Step Forward Education Foundation, which focuses its philanthropy on education initiatives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With their giving, she says, \u201cwe\u2019re trying to level the playing field.\u201d To that end, the foundation has endowed a scholarship for aspiring educators at BU Wheelock.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s really important for our foundation is finding things that are sustainable,\u201d says Casady.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you put your time and energy into it, it needs to grow. It needs to mature. And that\u2019s what Wheelock does.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Casady grew up in a small farming community in southern Indiana; she met her husband at 15, when he joined their high school\u2019s French club shortly after moving to town. They married in college and&nbsp;raised four children. Their daughter Maggie Casady (\u201912,\u201914) studied at BU Wheelock as both an undergrad and a graduate student.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe was able to find a fabulous job right off the mark. And what we kept seeing as she interviewed was, people knew what they were getting from Wheelock. They have a great product,\u201d says Casady.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat I find really exciting, and what our foundation loves, is being entrepreneurial. We like to see a need and to fill it, to create something new,\u201d she adds. So, she\u2019s excited to see BU Wheelock expanding its offerings in education policy, in hopes of improving education systems in the US and around the world\u2014which is the objective of all of Casady\u2019s philanthropy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA lot of people look at that and go, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s overwhelming!\u2019\u201d Casady says. \u201cWell, you know, you start with a place like Wheelock, and you build on that.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEducation is a passion of mine,\u201d Julia Casady says. 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