Advancement

Ways to Give

How do I make a gift?
Opportunities for Named Gifts
Scholarship Fund
Matching Gifts

Harding University Gifts Programs

Harding is dedicated to preparing itself for the next century so that every student - every future generation - will receive the blessing of a solid, Christian college experience. With your help, the dream can become a reality.

How do I make a gift?

Opportunities for Named Gifts

A primary objective of the "Eagle's Wings" Campaign is to increase Harding's scholarship and endowment funds and to complete priority capital renovation and new construction projects as outlined in the case statement. Listed below are numerous general endowment opportunities that are also available. These and many other funds may be named for your family, business or corporation. They may also be named in your honor as the donor or in honor or memory of a loved one. Such arrangements are completed through formal agreement between you and the University Advancement Office.

Gifts to Establish Faculty Endowment Funds

• $1,000,000 - Endowed Chair
  for support of a distinguished professor
• $500,000 - Endowed Professorship
  for the support of senior faculty
• $250,000 - Endowed Fellowship
  for support of junior faculty
• $50,000 - Faculty Development and Enhancement

Gifts to Establish Student Endowment Funds

• $100,000 - Trustee Scholar Endowment
• $50,000 - President's Scholar Endowment
• $25,000 - Endowed Student Scholarship

Scholarship Fund

Century Club

The Century Club is designed to show a lasting appreciation for a special group of dedicated friends. Each Century Club member receives a beautiful walnut plaque with an engraved nameplate. Pendants below the plaque indicate the years and level of membership.

Becoming a donor assures that you will receive University publications, be listed in the annual report, and be recognized within the gift level for which you qualify. You may want to consider Harding's Century Club giving levels:

Tuition income, the major revenue component, drives the budget of Harding University. More than $6 million in scholarship funding make up a major cost in the annual budget. Because most of the amount comes in the form of tuition waivers or discounts, the University's annual deficit of nearly $3 million actually occurs because of revenue lost to scholarship funding and must be replaced by gifts. These awards include academic, athletic, performance, need-based and other forms of scholarship aid.

Every gift, large or small, to this fund is important. Each year the Office of University Advancement processes nearly 20,000 gifts from almost 7,000 donors. About 80 percent of these people give less than $250 annually; but those gifts combine with gifts of greater size to create a revenue to meet the budget demands of the University.

Your gifts to the Scholarship Fund are vital to Harding's maintaining a sound fiscal operation, while making the Harding experience available to another generation of students each year. It's an investment of an eternal nature -- Please plan to participate at whatever level you can by calling the Advancement Office at 800-477-4312.

Matching Gifts
While many of our donors are familiar with their company's matching gift programs, many others are not. There are two ways we have come up with to help our alumni and donors to discover if this is a possibility: (1) add information directly to our web site or (2) through a service which will link directly with our site. The second service is a fee service, so we want to try the first method first and the information listed is for possible future use only.

Matching Gift Programs

• Employer matching gift programs
• Ask Harding to see if your company will match a gift
• Partial alphabetical listing of companies that match employee contribution

Employers set up matching gift programs as a way to make charitable contributions to organizations that are important to its employees. Harding University receives more than $300,000 annually in donor-initiated matching gifts from corporations and foundations. These employer matching gift programs can double or sometimes triple your contribution to Harding.

Simple Steps to Secure a Corporate Match

1. Obtain the form and necessary instructions from your personnel or human resources department.
2. Complete the employee's section and sign the form.
3. Send the form to:
   Harding University's Advancement Office
   Box 12238
   Searcy, AR 72149
4. We will complete our section and return it to the company.

Does your spouse work for a company with a matching gift program, too? If so, your efforts to obtain a second corporate match will be greatly appreciated.

• In some cases, companies will even match gifts from retired employees, spouses, or members of board directors.
• Many companies have matching gift programs. Matching gifts are a very important way in which you can enhance your charitable giving.
• Corporate matches usually double or even triple the benefit of your gift.You have an opportunity to direct you employer's philanthropic dollars to Harding.