The Founders Society represents the mainspring of financial support for the College’s educational mission. Society members include donors whose annual gifts total $1,000 or more. Founders Society members contribute approximately 80% of all Annual Fund dollars.
Members of the Founders Society:
- provide educational funding flexibility through unrestricted gifts to the Annual Fund
- support students through gifts for educational facilities, scholarships and the endowment
- enable faculty to pursue excellence through gifts for library acquisitions, equipment, and faculty support funds
- foster creativity through support of new programs and enhanced services
Active membership in the Founders Society brings special privileges in recognition of the significant role that these individuals play in advancements at the College. Founders are listed each year in the College's Honor Roll and receive periodic updates and special invitations to campus lectures and events.
For more information about becoming a member of the Founders Society, please contact Cathy Nosel.
“My world got a little bigger thanks to your gifts which helped fund my scholarship, even while I studied for a semester at McDaniel’s Budapest campus. More than 85 percent of McDaniel students receive some kind of financial aid.”
“Thanks to your gifts, I could research my political science paper at 1 a.m. without ever leaving my apartment in North Village. Your support helps expand the Hoover Library collection and make more materials available online.”
“My First Year Seminar – Enterprise and Finance – has been a great experience. Your gift helps our professors develop new courses that take a more international and multicultural view. Just what I’m going to need to make it in today’s world.”
“Thanks to your gifts, my professors are scholars in their fields – in addition to being the best teachers I’ve ever known. Now there’s the new Center for Faculty Excellence to make sure the tradition of great teaching stays strong.”
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