ACFE Foundation Fundraising Concert Raises More Than $20,000

Anti-fraud professionals packed into a sold-out Chief’s on Broadway in the Music City, Nashville, Tennessee, to support the future of fraud prevention and detection. The ACFE Foundation Fundraising Concert on Tuesday night during the 36th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference raised money to support academic scholarships and research grants provided through the ACFE Foundation.

Oh, and Southern rock icon The Marshall Tucker Band did not disappoint as this year’s headlining act.

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Hosted by the ACFE Middle Tennessee Chapter, this year’s fundraiser brought in more than $20,000 between ticket sales to the event and additional donations.

“I want to extend a special thank you to Michael Booher, Lauren Wesley, Andrew Hawkins, former president Jason Conner, and everyone else from the Middle Tennessee Chapter for their help organizing an amazing event,” said ACFE Chapter Development Manager Joe Broccolo, CFE. “It was a packed house, and we’re grateful to everyone who came out to support the ACFE Foundation.”

The mission of the ACFE Foundation is to increase the body of anti-fraud knowledge and support future anti-fraud professionals worldwide. The foundation provides funding for Richie-Jennings Memorial Scholarships, as well as endowments, research and other educational projects provided through the ACFE Research Institute.

To date, the ACFE Foundation has provided more than $1 million in scholarships and grants to empower and strengthen the profession’s future.

The Marshall Tucker Band have recorded continuously for more than 50 years; a cast of about three dozen musicians have kept the band’s influence alive and well since first forming in 1972.

Your fun fact of the day: Marshall Tucker was not a member of the original band, but a blind piano tuner whose name was inscribed on a key to the group’s original rehearsal space in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

“It’s nice to have an organization named after you,” Tucker said in a 1983 interview. “I always tell them: ‘Don’t desecrate my name.’”

After 20 studio albums, numerous live releases, a Grammy Award nomination and yet another U.S. tour in full swing in 2025, I think it’s safe to assume Marshall Tucker would be proud to know his namesake band presses on more than five decades later.