Foundation completes funding for new Multicultural Resource Center

A family whose ancestors immigrated to the United States to seek a better life has donated $1 million to help build a new Multicultural Resource Center at the University of Kansas.

The pledge to the Kansas University Endowment Association from the Sabatini Family Foundation completes the funding for the $2.7 million facility. Additional support for construction has been provided through student fees and other University funds.

“With an updated, larger facility at a more centralized and visible campus location, the Multicultural Resource Center will be able to better serve more students,” said Steve Munch, KU student body president and a junior from Bellevue, Neb. “On behalf of the student body, I thank the Sabatini family for this generous gift.”

Dan Sabatini, a’86, who spoke on behalf of his family and the foundation, said the gift was a chance to help foster diversity and celebrate the contribution of various cultures within the KU community. The gift also reflects the experiences of his father’s family, which in 1930 left Raiano, Italy, to escape the economic recession and to find new opportunities in the United States.

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