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2015 Participation Goal: 5,286 Donors

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Young alumni challenge:

  • A trustee has agreed to make a $2,500 gift for every young alumni classcorrect(1999-2014) who reaches 24% or better before July 31.
  • This means that for every class that hits 24%, IWU will be able to award an additional $2,500 scholarship to a deserving student.
  • Also, an additional $2,500 gift will be made for any class that reaches 30%.
  • All gifts count! Find out how your class stacks up by visiting https://www.iwu.edu/giving/youngalumni.html

Sam Harris ’10 Works with Food Industries to Support ‘Feeding America’

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Ross Fraser '78A note from Ross Fraser ’78:

I am a graduate of IWU (’78) and in my 11th year working as the director of media relations for Feeding America, the nation’s largest hunger relief organization.  

We are the network of most of the food banks in the country. We distribute food to about 60,000 soup kitchens and food pantries across the nation.

We feed more than 5 million people each week and will distribute more than 4 billion pounds of food this year.

Forbes Magazine rates us as the 3rd largest charity in the U.S.

But I am not the only IWU graduate here. Sam Harris (2010) works with the food industry to help us get donations of food, and Tim Sunzeris (2011) is a senior budget analyst in our philanthropy department.

Please join me in congratulating Sam in supporting Ross and the Feeding America organization.

All In for Wesleyan Becomes a Tradition in 2015

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On April 9, Titans of all generations pulled together and showed their pride on the third annual All In For Wesleyan. More than 1,800 gifts of all sizes from 49 states and 17 countries totaled over $500,000 in support of Illinois Wesleyan University and our students. Our collective philanthropy served as an inspiration to the next generation as All In For Wesleyan firmly established itself as an Illinois Wesleyan tradition, both on campus and off. The class of 2010 had 53 donors on April 9th and donations totaling $3,224.92.All in for Wesleyan

Thank you 2010 Alumni for being “all in” all the time, and for continuing to make Illinois Wesleyan one of your giving priorities. If you have already made your gift this year, thank you! If you have not made your gift this year, I hope that you will join me as a donor and put us one more gift closer to our participation goal. You can make your gift by visiting iwu.edu/give. It is your support that keeps Illinois Wesleyan strong, and develops the next generation of leaders.

Your partner in support,

Van Miller ‘04

Director of Annual Giving

ALL IN FOR WESLEYAN

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Today is All in for Wesleyan 2015!  All gifts made today will be matched by an anonymous donor (up to $75,000).

And this year, there’s a twist.  Let me explain.

Gifts to the Wesleyan Fund support student financial assistance and also the little, but essential, things that create the Illinois Wesleyan experience.  So today we’re celebrating these little essentials — the unsung heroes.  Make a gift today and your name could appear next to one of these items for a limited time.*

Give today and your name could be selected to grace the hot spot, the WESN microphone, and other pieces of campus that will be announced throughout the day. (Learn more)

Give today and your gift will be matched by an anonymous donor.

Give today and show that you’re proud to be a Titan!

*Like annual gifts, naming rights expire at the end of the fiscal year…but internet photos last forever. Photos of the selected names engraved on plaques, affixed to the items will be published on the last day of spring semester, April 21.