THREE-YEAR PLEDGES TO THE JEWELL FUND SHOW ALUMNI COMMITMENT

As of January 31st, a total of 572 alumni have agreed to a three-year pledge to the Jewell Fund, far surpassing the minimum number of donors required to successfully achieve one of two elements of this year’s Shumaker Challenge.

Dianne Shumaker ‘66 is finishing her three-year commitment to helping William Jewell increase its number of alumni donors to the Jewell Fund, and the first component of this year’s challenge has been met with overwhelming success. Wanting to see more alumni help students through the Jewell Fund year-after-year, Dianne agreed to pay $500 for every alumnus/a who commits to a three-year pledge to the Jewell Fund this fiscal year, up to a maximum of 100 alumni donors. Encouraged by the extremely popular response to this challenge, Dianne has extended her challenge beyond the first 100 donors; now, every alumni donor who commits to a three-year pledge will earn Jewell an additional challenge gift of $200.

The second component of this year’s challenge is to increase the overall alumni participation rate (the percentage of the alumni population that provides a financial gift to Jewell of any size) from 21.5% last year to 25% or more this year.

Your continued response to the third and final phase of the Shumaker Challenge has the opportunity to make an historic mark on Jewell. If more than 3,300 alumni make a gift of any size before June 30th, it will mark the highest-ever alumni participation rate for Jewell, and will help earn another $150,000 from the Shumaker Challenge.

Will you help Jewell achieve a 25% (or more) alumni participation rate by giving a gift of any amount by June 30th? Click the "Give to Jewell" link at the top of this e-newsletter to provide an online gift, or visit the Ways to Give web page to learn about others methods of giving back to Jewell.

Since 2005, Jewell alumni have responded generously to the Shumaker Challenge. With Dianne’s challenge ending in June, please join others who have proudly taken action and help make the final phase of the Shumaker Challenge a success! To read more about the Shumaker Challenge and Dianne’s commitment to increasing alumni support to William Jewell, visit the Shumaker Challenge web page.

Following are alumni donors who have agreed to a three-year pledge to the Jewell Fund: