Friday, October 5, 2007

Donations!

Thanks to the External Relations Department at Wells, online donations are up and running ahead of schedule! Please click the link at the top of the sidebar to go to the Wells gifts page. Make sure you specify that you want your gift designated to the Will Liberi '05 Memorial Fund. According to External Relations, "Gifts that come in with that designation will be marked for that fund even before a decision is made as to the specifics of a prize or other memorial."

We're still counting on you to help us work out the specifics of the prize. Any bloggers out there not from Wells, please don't hesitate to comment and/or donate! All who knew Will are welcome here and we hope that this memorial fund will honor his memory and his passions at Wells and beyond.

If you have any questions and don't want to post publicly, we've set up an e-mail for the prize fund as well. Send e-mail to willmemorial@gmail.com
Posted by Katie Fong '06 at 3:15 PM

3 comments:

Chelle said...

How is this going to eventually be set up? Will there be a call for donations every year, or will the prize replenish itself based on interest & investments?

October 8, 2007 at 9:21 AM
Katie Fong '06 said...

The money awarded in the prize will be based strictly on donations. As I mentioned in my second post, setting up and maintaining an endowed prize is exponentially more difficult and time consuming. Many prizes that are awarded at Honors Convocation are not endowed and are based on giving only. What will likely happen is that we will try to raise enough money this year to award the prize for several years, and then will set up a semi-annual fund raising plan to keep the fund going.

October 8, 2007 at 10:49 AM
Chelle said...

Thanks Katie. My fault for not paying attention. :)

October 9, 2007 at 9:28 AM

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