50th Reunion Giving

The Mount Holyoke Fund total includes gifts and pledges (pledges may be made for up to five years, including during the final year of this campaign) made during the 5-year period from your 46th reunion through your 50th reunion.

The comprehensive total includes all gifts and pledges to all funds during the 5-year period from your 46th reunion through your 50th reunion, including: 

• All commitments to The Mount Holyoke Fund
• All commitments to other areas of the College including endowment gifts, capital projects, restricted funding for programs such as the Art Museum
• Documented bequest intentions
• Charitable Gift Annuities and Charitable Trusts — recognized at face value

Your participation in The Mount Holyoke Fund has the greatest immediate impact, touching every student, faculty and staff person on campus. Giving to The Mount Holyoke Fund consists of gifts of all sizes — from a few dollars to more than $100,000.

You can make your gift today, or make a pledge to give at a future date. Pledges can be structured to be paid in the current fiscal year, or you can choose to make a multi-year pledge to be completed over a maximum of five years.

Class volunteers will be reaching out to encourage support of The Mount Holyoke Fund.

There are a variety of gift destinations to which you may choose to designate your gift within The Mount Holyoke Fund.

Endowed gifts generate a perpetual source of income for Mount Holyoke College and are critical to the College’s long-term financial stability and success. 

The impact of an endowed gift helps generations of Mount Holyoke students succeed.

You can establish an endowed fund with a minimum gift of $100,000. When establishing an endowed fund, you choose how the funds will be spent each year: financial aid, internships, faculty support, a specific department, buildings and grounds, or other needs of the College. Work with a gift officer to discuss your philanthropic goals and the needs of the College.

With a little bit of planning, you may take advantage of some creative tools to enhance your 50th reunion giving, and perhaps make a larger gift than you initially thought possible, increasing your impact while creating your legacy at Mount Holyoke.

Life income gifts are just what they sound like. Make a gift to Mount Holyoke, receive an income for you and/or the lifetimes of your loved ones: charitable gift annuities and charitable remainder trusts.

You can establish a charitable gift annuity (CGA) with a minimum of $10,000 to benefit up to two people with dependable fixed income for life and support any area of the College that you wish. You can choose from an immediate payment gift annuity and a deferred payment gift annuity. 

With a minimum of $100,000, you can set up a charitable remainder unitrust that offers a flexible income, with potential for growth over time, for you and/or loved ones lives or for a specific number of years.  

Making Mount Holyoke a beneficiary of your will, trust, retirement account or life insurance, is another way you can create your legacy at the College.

When approaching your 50th reunion, you have a unique opportunity to have your future gift acknowledged and celebrated. A bequest is simple and non-binding. Simply complete a bequest intention form and provide a copy of the paragraph mentioning Mount Holyoke from your will or trust, or a copy of the beneficiary form from your retirement account or life insurance policy and today’s value of your future bequest is included in your Class Comprehensive Total. Learn more about designating beneficiaries.

Contact Development’s Gift Planning professionals to learn how to “document” your future bequest and have it celebrated at Reunion.