Sidebar - We Can Hit 45%!
As you’d expect, Wabash’s Development Office is really good at running numbers for us. They just sent Kip and me a spreadsheet. It shows that 51 of our classmates have given at times over the past four years, but have not given so far this year. Simple math shows that if you add all 51 of you to the 67 who have given as of this posting, we’ll reach a total of 118 donors, or 45%!
For comparison, last year 85 of you gave, or 32.46%.
Those are heartening numbers given that we have a harder job of soliciting funds from the largest class Wabash has produced.
It also points up that we have a good cadre of donors from our class and some of you guys who give one year and not the next. That’s natural. It was clear that when we contacted some of you last June, many of you had simply just forgotten. It happens. It also means that it’s incumbent on us to remind you.
So if you’re on that list of 51, expect a little reminder in the coming week.
On the macro level, if each of the 2,407 alumni who have made a gift in the last four years made a gift by June 30, the College’s alumni participation rate would be 51%. Getting a little over half of the 2,407 to give by June 30 will increase the alumni participation rate to 40%. There are less than 60 days between now and June 30 to make a gift.
Here’s how you can give:
- By phone: 877-743-4545
- On the Web: www.wabash.edu/alumni/egift
- By mail: Wabash Annual Fund/PO Box 352/Crawfordsville, IN 47933 (checks payable to Wabash College)
For questions about making gifts of stock, please call 877-743-4545
