Loyola University Maryland is deeply grateful for the gifts from alumni, parents, and friends whose support is essential for sustained excellence. The University's comprehensive advancement program includes an annual campaign to provide operating support; capital campaigns to fund construction projects, endowment needs, and other capital programs; and planned giving programs to enhance estate management and the tax benefits of giving. Through its various development efforts, Loyola strives to provide constituent groups such as alumni, parents, friends, corporations, and foundations with opportunities to take leadership roles that have a direct and meaningful impact on the University's future.
Annual Giving
Annual Giving provides critical support for the University's annual operating budget, ensuring that its programs continue to be of the highest quality and helping to keep tuition as affordable as possible. Annual Giving donations open the benefits of a Loyola education to talented students from a variety of backgrounds, allowing the University to recruit a more diverse student body and create a campus community reflecting the world Loyola graduates will enter.
Benefits of Annual Giving include:
- Investing in the value of every Loyola degree;
- Providing an important vote of endorsement of for Loyola; and
- Enhancing the Loyola experience for current and future students.
Annual gifts to Loyola can be made in support of the following:
Evergreen Annual Fund
Gifts to the Evergreen Annual Fund help meet Loyola's greatest financial challenge, which is funding academic scholarships and need-based grants for deserving students. With 99% of Loyola students receiving some form of financial aid—and most of that assistance provided by Loyola—support of the Evergreen Annual Fund is critical. Gifts to the Evergreen Annual Fund make a Loyola education possible and accessible to even more students.
Greyhounds Athletics Fund
Gifts made to the Greyhounds Athletics Fund support the well-being of more than 400 Loyola Greyhound student-athletes. These gifts provide the athletic department's administration the opportunity to invest in the areas of greatest need among all of its priorities. Academic support, sports medicine, and strength and conditioning are examples of the ways in which these dollars are invested in Loyola student-athletes.
Designated Giving
Annual gifts may be designated to enhance the student experience, including new and upgraded technology and equipment, academic programs, innovative curricula and experiences, student services, and campus life.
The annual fund campaign, giving day challenges, alumni reunion-year campaigns, the senior class gift program, the Parents' Council, the Consecutive Giving Society, and the President's Society are just some of the ways by which Loyola seeks to involve donors in Annual Giving. For more information, contact the Office of Annual Giving at 410-617-2296, or Liz Hertneck Stier, director of leadership giving programs, at ehertneck@loyola.edu.
Major and Leadership Gifts
Loyola's development officers work to raise the University's profile and grow our private base of support. These professionals collaborate with academic leadership and university administrators to secure gifts for Loyola's initiatives and campaign priorities. By establishing and nurturing relationships with members of the Loyola community, including alumni, parents, faculty, administrators, and friends of the University, the development officers elevate our donors' sights and affirm that Loyola is a philanthropic priority.
Major and leadership gifts support capital campaigns and fund-raising programs that raise funds for endowment needs, campus construction projects, programs, and other capital programs beyond the scope of the annual operating budget.
The President's Society
Members of the President's Society, Loyola's annual leadership giving society, enjoy a special relationship with Loyola University Maryland. The President's Society recognizes alumni, parents, and friends who show their support with gifts of $1,852 or more during the University's fiscal year (June 1 through May 31).
In social gatherings, special events, and personal interactions with Loyola's President and other University leaders, members have an opportunity to engage with others who share their excitement about the University's future and commitment to helping Loyola pursue its mission of educating students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.
For more information about The President's Society, contact Liz Hertneck Stier, director of leadership giving programs, at 410-617-2296 or ehertneck@loyola.edu.
The Legacy Society
The Legacy Society was established in 1983 to honor the generosity of alumni, parents, and friends who have named Loyola as the ultimate beneficiary of a gift through their estate plans. Loyola welcomes planned gifts in the form of bequests and life-income gifts such as gift annuities, which allow donors to make a current gift to the University while receiving lifetime income for themselves and/or spouse. Planned giving is a vote of confidence in Loyola's ability to sustain its rich tradition of achievement and a sign of support for the many generations of students who will discover Loyola in years to come.
Gifts made in the form of a bequest can accommodate a donor's wishes in ways like lifetime gifts. Wills can stipulate that a gift be unrestricted or designated for a specific purpose. They also can be used to establish charitable trusts to provide life income to a surviving spouse or other heirs. Bequests can be made with cash or securities, retirement assets, real estate, or other property. Loyola can be designated as the recipient of a specific dollar amount or a percentage of an estate, or as the recipient of the remainder of an estate after other bequests are satisfied. The University's legal title for the purpose of a bequest is "Loyola University Maryland, Inc."
When making a bequest or other planned gift to the University, it is advisable to consult both legal and tax advisors as well as Loyola's Office of Charitable Gift Planning. By doing so, donors are assured not only that all legal requirements will be met, but also that their wishes as to the use of the gift will be implemented in a manner that aligns the donor's passion with the University's needs.
To learn more about these topics and other charitable giving vehicles, please contact the Office of Charitable Gift Planning at 410-617-1411.
The Magis Society
The Magis Society recognizes those who, over their lifetime, have committed $1 million or more to Loyola and the Jesuit, Catholic ideals at the core of our institution. Magis Society members demonstrate the spirit of generosity, selflessness, and striving for excellence encompassed within the Ignatian term, magis.
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