The Heart of Smith 2017

Great news! 

Thanks to the support of alumnae, parents, and friends of Smith College like you, we have officially met the $120,000 challenge from Susan Termohlen '72, Joan Butler Ford '55, Francie Pepper '62 and an anonymous member of the class of 1968. More than 2,800 contributions were made to Smith during the month of June.

Because of the high volume of activity on 6/30, and the 4th of July holiday, we are continuing to finish data entry of offline gifts. We will update this site (GiveCampus: https://www.givecampus.com/sch...) with the final dollar and gift totals in the next few days.

Thank you to everyone who supported The Smith Fund in June, and throughout our 2016-2017 fiscal year.

While The Heart of Smith campaign officially ends at midnight Eastern on June 30, staff at Smith will be busy tallying all of the fiscal year-end gifts for a few days. Thanks to all of you, we are seeing a tremendous amount of gift activity, so it will take a bit to get caught up. 

Please keep checking back—we will continue to update the website as we work through the gift entry process. We anticipate that we will be able to announce our final totals in a week or so.

Since June 1, Smithies have stepped up big time for The Smith Fund.  In fact, 1,837 Smith alumnae, students, parents and friends have already donated more than $750,000 this month! This goes a long way toward getting The Smith Fund to its fiscal year end goal of $13 million and toward providing the facilities, organizations, services and financial aid that Smith students rely on. Thank YOU for your support of our Heart of Smith efforts!

To help us reach our year end goal, another generous group of alumnae have pooled their money to offer one last challenge gift.  Joan Butler Ford '55, Francie Pepper '62, Susan Termohlen '72 and an anonymous member of the class of 1968 will give a combined $120,000 to Smith if we can meet our June 30 goal of 2,800 donors this month!

You can help us today too by sharing this information with all of your Smith friends and classmates to help push us to a strong finish. When you are signed in to your GiveCampus account, you can use the unique URL that is created for you and then track your success on the Advocates tab.

Thank you for your continued support of Smith and The Smith Fund. Onward to June 30!

With just minutes to spare, the $100,000 challenge from Nealie Small '66 was met!  In one week, 807 donors gave to Smith to help boost our participation numbers and secure this incredible challenge gift.

Thank you to everyone who has donated, advocated and shared the Heart of Smith 2017 messages.  We couldn't do this without you!

TEASER ALERT:  Check back here on Monday, June 19--there just might be something exciting coming next week as well.  Stay tuned... :)

In classic Smithie style, you saw a challenge and together we did it! 

Ellen Brennan-Galvin '68 promised $75,000 if 1,000 others would join her with a gift by 6/8 and you all made it happen. 1,013 gifts from alumnae, parents, graduate alumni and friends of the college came in before the challenge deadline, helping us to secure this generous challenge gift.

Thank you!

Wow! The phones are ringing off the hook and gifts on the Smith College website are adding up quickly. We have a lot of offline gift tallying to do before we know the official results of Ellen Brennan-Galvin's $75,000 challenge, but we are confident that we not only met, but in fact exceeded this challenge.

Check back tomorrow morning for a reveal of the official final total for Ellen's $75,000 challenge!

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