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Guilford College’s Advancing Excellence campaign has reached its $60 million goal seven months early. “Thank you to the many donors whose gifts, large and small, have helped us reach this milestone,” President Kent Chabotar said. “Your generous support benefits students not only today but for decades to come.” The campaign’s success was covered by the [...]

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) presented Guilford with an Overall Improvement Award in the 2013 Educational Fundraising Award Program.

Pete Keane ’82 has matched $25,000 given to the College’s Annual Funds by 124 new and lapsed donors. Pete offered the dollar-for-dollar match of gifts from first-time donors and those who haven’t given in five years, because he wants to help Guilford continue to provide a life-changing education. “Guilford College was a transformational chapter in [...]

Through the end of May, the Advancing Excellence campaign raised $56.3 million, 94 percent of its $60 million goal.

A scholarship allowed Marvin Shore ’24 to attend Guilford College, where he met Pansy Donnell ’26, who would become his wife. Their son, Phillip Shore, has left more than $1.7 million to the Marvin H. and Pansy D. Shore Scholarship Fund, an existing endowment to support students seeking Quaker higher education at Guilford. Phil, a [...]

The Joseph M. Bryan Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc. has made a gift of $1 million to Guilford College to honor 40 years of service to the College by Joseph M. Bryan Jr.  The commitment pushed Guilford’s Advancing Excellence campaign past $50 million toward its goal of $60 million by June 30, 2014. The gift will be [...]

The purpose of the Honor Roll of Giving

Thanks to a $50,000 gift, more Guilford students will be able to take advantage of study abroad opportunities. David ’70 and Tanya ’71 Feagins made the gift to create the Mary and Carroll Feagins Study Abroad Scholarship Fund. The fund memorializes David’s parents, both of whom were faculty members at Guilford. “Financially it’s becoming more and [...]

Donors to Guilford College gave or pledged almost $7 million during the past year, bringing the amount raised through the Advancing Excellence campaign to more than $50 million. The year saw an increase in the number of alumni donors and in alumni donations to all funds – $3 million compared to $1 million the previous year – [...]

Ed and Vivien Bauman of Greensboro, longtime friends of Guilford, have made a $900,000 real estate gift to the College’s Advancing Excellence campaign.