Kenyon Together

Thank you to each and every single person who responded to this moment and gave to support Kenyon. Your gifts speak to the lifelong bonds each student forms here and the lasting affection you have for Kenyon. 

We have a number of donors and gifts that came through other channels yet to add to our total, as if it wasn’t impressive enough already! We’re excited to share final results with you tomorrow, but the fact is: you helped raise nearly $1,000,000! 

Until then, please accept our deepest gratitude — and congratulations! You’ve been an integral part of something amazing for Kenyon.

With less than five hours remaining, the numbers keep climbing! All we can say is thank you for being part of something so amazing for the Kenyon community. Your gifts provide Kenyon with vitally needed resources to support students in and out of the classroom.

We have now received gifts from more than triple our original donor goal, thanks to you! But we’re not finished!

There are still matches and challenges available! You can use your own personal links from GiveCampus to share with your friends and invite them to join you in being part of this wonderful moment for Kenyon. 

And, again, thank you!

We’re three-quarters of the way through our 36-hour giving challenge and we continue to be amazed by the support we have seen from our Kenyon community. You and our volunteers have helped us motivate nearly 1,200 donors — on our way to three times the goal we set for this challenge! We’d like to send a special thank you to the group of volunteers who participated in last night’s phonathon, which generated more than a dozen pledges and a total of more than $25,000 for Kenyon! 

There is certainly much to celebrate as we head into the last 11 hours of this giving challenge, but we can still use your help spreading the word. Some wonderful match opportunities remain. Help us reach out to your Kenyon network to make sure they know about their opportunity to boost their impact with a gift to Kenyon before 9 p.m. ET tonight:

• Just for Alumni: Approximately $13,000 remains to match gifts from alumni of any class year, and another $25,000 has just been added by Matt Voorhees ‘95 to match $3 per $1 for gifts from Young Alumni (Classes of 2006-2019).

• Just for the Classes of 1957, 1962, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1995, 1999: Thanks to the generosity of many donors who are currently matching $1 per $1, you can double the impact of your gift while matching funds remain

• Just for Class of 1961: John A. Woollam is matching $2 per $1 donated up to $50,000.

• Just for Class of 1978: Charlotte Bahin is matching $100 per donor up to $12,000.

• Just for Parents of the Class of 2020: 2020 Parent Challengers are matching $1 per $1 donated up to $19,000.

• Just for the Kenyon Fund Pope Scholarship President Sean Decatur and William E. Lowry Jr. ’56 H ’99 are matching $2 per $1 donated up to $20,000.

Our incredible donors continue to add to this list of matches, even as we enter the homestretch of our challenge.

As always, thank you for all you do to support Kenyon!

Thank you so much for being part of an incredible show of support from the Kenyon community. We have blown past our donor goal with another 27 hours to go!

All of this comes at an incredibly difficult time for the nation and following a remote semester unlike any other at the College. 

Matthew A. Winkler ’77 H’00 P’13, a member of the Kenyon Board of Trustees, announced his desire to recognize the “unparalleled leadership” of President Sean Decatur at this time by offering a $1 to $1 match for all gifts from Kenyon alumni and parents — up to $75,000.

Winkler announced his match with gratitude to President Decatur for: “his undaunted courage, optimism and affinity with Kenyon students, parents, faculty, administrative staff and alumni — an exceptional achievement, especially now in these most perilous times.”

Wow! Thank you to everyone who gave this morning and helped us reach our 500 donor goal in just under four hours! Way to go, Kenyon people!

Now let’s keep this thing going.

Our challenge was originally created to help make up as much as possible of the loss resulting from the COVID-19 crisis — $600,000. We’re almost half-way there, with 32 hours to go!

Your generosity is inspiring donors across the country — check out that map — and new challenges are being issued frequently, helping to double (or triple!) the impact of your gift. 

A special shout out to all the alumni in Classes 2006 to 2019 who met their first $15,000 match! One of our trustees has stepped up to offer an additional $25,000 match for these classes, so keep up the good work! Thank you all!

What a way to kick off a giving challenge! Kenyon Together doesn’t officially launch for 12 hours, and we are already more than half way to our goal of inspiring 500 gifts! 

Thank you to each of our donors for stepping up for Kenyon. Special thanks to Kyra Green ’17 for going the extra mile to make our first personal plea video (see below), and to Sam Barone ’72 and Susan Berger ’85 for keeping the momentum going with their own videos. 

Help us continue to spread the word over the next 48 hours by sharing Kenyon Together on social media, drafting a personal email to your friends or uploading your own video about why you support Kenyon. If there is anything we can do to assist you, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

As always, thank you for your loyal support!