Though you may already be making plans for the year to come, you have the chance to impact the lives of Â鶹¹û¶³ students today by including Â鶹¹û¶³ in your year-end giving.
You can make a gift online at samford.edu/giving or give through the mail. If your gift is received online or postmarked by Saturday, Dec. 31, it will be considered fully tax-deductible for the 2016 calendar year.
During this year’s homecoming weekend, Â鶹¹û¶³ President Andrew Westmoreland announced that the university is embarking on its largest fundraising initiative in its history: the “Forever Â鶹¹û¶³” campaign.
Forever Â鶹¹û¶³ is a six-year, $300 million campaign, and it will focus on ensuring the foundation that will prepare and send dedicated, thoughtful and ethical people throughout a world that so desperately needs them.
In the year to come, Â鶹¹û¶³ will work with its network of alumni to encourage class giving within reunion years and beyond. Your gifts now feed directly into the campaign and help ensure a forever Â鶹¹û¶³.
Along with supporting Â鶹¹û¶³ through traditional means, you also have a unique opportunity to impact student life on campus by donating tangible needs university employees have identified through the Â鶹¹û¶³ Christmas Wish List.
You can help better serve students academically, spiritually and holistically by purchasing items through Â鶹¹û¶³’s Amazon Wish List. The items you purchase will be shipped to Â鶹¹û¶³, and in return, you will receive gift-in-kind donation credit for your purchase.
When you shop on Amazon, each item includes a description of the area or department on campus that will use it. With more than 100 items to choose from, you’re sure to find a gift that fits within your budget.
Please make note that when you check out with Amazon, you need to include a gift receipt with your full name, email address, mailing address and, if an alumnus, your class year. If this is not included, Â鶹¹û¶³ will not know who sent the gift and will be unable to send you a tax receipt.
Sarah Waller is marketing and communication coordinator for the Office of Alumni Programs and Annual Giving.