A round of applause

Patrick Mulvey receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Fundraising Success magazine has named MD Anderson’s Patrick Mulvey, vice president for development, the recipient of its 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award. The honor is part of the magazine’s annual Fundraising Professionals of the Year Awards, celebrating the nation’s best and brightest in the field of development. It follows the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ Byron Welch Award for Lifetime Achievement, which Mulvey received in 2012.

In an article detailing Mulvey’s career and multiple achievements at
MD Anderson, Fundraising Success applauds Mulvey’s nearly three decades of dedication to raising philanthropic support for MD Anderson. Under his leadership, gifts to advance MD Anderson’s mission to eradicate cancer have totaled more than $2.7 billion.

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