Transformational Gifts: How to set the stage to receive them, accept them and execute to ensure donor intent.
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM ET
Speaker(s): Meg Dees, Vice President of Development, Catawba College, David Nelson, President, Catawba College
Competencies: Leadership
Elective Session
In fiscal years 2021, 2022, and 2023, Catawba College received 3 transformational gifts. The first gift paid off all of the College's debt. The second gift was an endowment gift in the amount of $200,000,000, and the third gift was an endowment gift in the amount of $42,000,000. Learn how this small liberal arts college in North Carolina set the stage to be able to work with the donors to receive these gifts, what the college did to publicize these gifts, and how the college is being a good steward of these gifts today.