Gift Chair
Gift Chairs are vital to the success of the Wheaton College Annual Fund, which provides critical financial support to the college.
Gift Chairs are part of a team of volunteers who help the college seek annual financial support. Their main job is to ask classmates to support Wheaton through gifts to the Annual Fund.
Gift Chairs are also involved in identifying potential volunteer leaders and leadership gift prospects, and in acting as an ongoing connection between the college and their classmates. Large classes should elect multiple volunteers to share this responsibility.
Responsibilities
1. Provide active support to all other class officers as they undertake their volunteer responsibilities. This includes attending class gatherings and ALC/Homecoming Weekend.
2. Make a gift to Wheaton through the Annual Fund that reflects one's own resources and commitment to Wheaton as a philanthropic priority. This gift will serve as an example for classmates.
3. If required, work with your staff liaison to actively recruit callers each fall to participate in volunteer calling. Non-Reunion classes will be called by Students in the Phonathon program in the fall.
4. We strongly encourage class officer teams to write newsletters that include both class news and an Annual Fund appeal. Please write your own personal appeal to classmates. If your class doesn't write a newsletter, it is imperative that the Gift Chairs send a personal fall appeal.
5. In the spring, contact classmates who are prior Annual Fund donors and those with outstanding pledges by mail, e-mail, and during the spring calling program. Recruit classmates to assist with those calls.
6. Click here to learn details of Annual Fund goals and initiatives to prepare volunteers for telephone solicitations and fund appeal writing.
This page is maintained by Office of Alumnae/i Relations and Annual Giving. Last updated on 9/6/07.
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