Campaign Update: Create a legacy with a planned gift

During the Ever Elon Campaign, faculty and staff members have taken advantage of planned giving to make a powerful difference in the lives of students while providing for themselves and their loved ones.

Each day, faculty and staff create legacies through their work with students. By making a planned gift, they can make those legacies permanent without sacrificing their lifestyles or retirement plans. In addition, planned giving enables most donors to make their largest contributions to Elon.

All planned or deferred gifts, regardless of the size, make a difference to students and help secure Elon’s future. They will play a critical role in finishing the $100 million Ever Elon Campaign this year. There are many ways to make a planned gift, including the following options:

  • Simply naming Elon as a beneficiary in your will
  • Naming Elon as a partial beneficiary of your retirement plan
  • Establishing a charitable trust through gifts of appreciated property or real estate

Faculty and staff may visit www.elon.edu/giftplanning to review Elon’s gift-planning tools and see which planned gift is right for them. If you have put Elon in your estate, please let us know so your gift can be counted in the campaign. Contact Jamie Killorin, director of gift planning, at 877.784.3566 or jkillorin2@elon.edu for more information. If you are interested in making Elon a partial beneficiary of your TIAA-CREF retirement plan, click here to download the form.

Faculty/Staff Campaign hits record 58 percent

With three weeks to go, the 2010-2011 Faculty/Staff Campaign has hit a record 58 percent participation. As of May 6, 696 faculty and staff had contributed $303,321 to the university to support scholarships, Elon Experiences programs, School of Law and Phoenix athletics among other priorities. All gifts to the Faculty/Staff Campaign count as part of the broader Ever Elon Campaign.

This has been the university’s most successful annual giving drive among employees. During 2009-2010, 420 faculty and staff, or 34 percent, contributed $248,796 to the university.

There is still time to participate in this year’s Faculty/Staff Campaign, which ends May 31. Click here to make your gift online. Elon thanks all faculty and staff who have made this year’s campaign a huge success.

By University Advancement Staff

 

Recent Gifts and Pledges of $10,000 or More

To view the latest list of donors, please click this link and use your full email address (name@elon.edu) and password to access the PDF file.