The Kenyon Fund

The Kenyon Fund is an annual giving program made up of unrestricted gifts donated by alumni, parents, and friends of the College throughout the fiscal year. Its goals of supporting academics, student life, scholarships and financial aid, as well as of maintaining the beauty and functionality of the campus, have remained unaltered since its inception in 1942.

• How the Kenyon Fund Helps
• 2011-12 Kenyon Fund Goals
• The Impact of Your Gift - Gift Designations
• Giving Societies

How the Kenyon Fund Helps

• The dollars Kenyon receives from tuition and fees provide only part of a student's cost of attending Kenyon for one year. The difference is made up of revenue from other sources including the annual funds. This year the College will need to raise more than $4.4 million in annual funds (Kenyon Fund and Parents Fund) to balance the budget.
• Money given to the Kenyon Fund and Parents Fund help to defray the day-to-day expenses at Kenyon. Everything from financial aid and scholarships to faculty support and technology to student activities and groups could not operate at their current level without annual fund support from alumni and parents.
• Without additional support, Kenyon would need to consider the possibility of increasing tuition or cutting back on academic and/or extracurricular activities.
• The Kenyon Fund plays the role of a "silent scholarship" for every Kenyon student, even those paying full tuition.
• Money raised helps Kenyon to maintain its commitment to financial aid, facilities and resources, enhancement of the curriculum, and to attract and graduate better students.

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2011-12 Kenyon Fund Goals

Participation- increase to over 40% of Alumni
Dollars - $3.55 million

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The Impact of Your Gift - Gift Designations

Kenyon offers alumni and parents the opportunity to designate their gifts to one of eight critical areas of need. By exercising this option, donors will have a direct impact in the area of their own greatest interest. The eight unrestricted, budget-relieving areas for annual giving are:

Area of Greatest Need
Annual gifts in this area give Kenyon the flexibility to direct funds to parts of the budget that need critical, immediate support. Every gift in this category has significant impact, because it results in keeping the Kenyon experience strong across the board.

Scholarships and Financial Aid
Gifts here enable Kenyon to hold firm to a fundamental commitment: that qualified students should be able to attend the College regardless of their family finances. Approximately 65% of all students at Kenyon receive some form of financial aid. In 2010-11, the average need-based aid package totaled $37,000. Countless Kenyon "success stories" involve students who could not have considered the College without financial aid. Annual gifts make these success stories possible.

Hannah More Scholarship
A special financial-aid initiative of President S. Georgia Nugent, the Hannah More Scholarship is awarded to first-generation students -- that is, students who are the first in their family to attend college. This life-changing scholarship is named in for one of Kenyon's earliest benefactors and in keeping with her legacy of leadership.

Academic Support
Gifts in this area support teaching, learning, and a curriculum firmly grounded in the traditional liberal arts and sciences. Gifts help Kenyon attract excellent professors, maintain a 10:1 student-faculty ratio (and thus keep classes small), expand research and other enrichment opportunities for students, and provide ample, up-to-date resources for laboratories and classrooms.

Residential Life: The Kenyon Community
Gifts in this area support the myriad activities that enrich student life outside of the classroom. More than one hundred student-run clubs and organizations benefit, as do residence-hall programs that promote close-knit comunity. Gifts also support crucial services such as Health and Counseling Center and the Career Development Office.

Athletics and Physical Fitness
Gifts here support the athletic and recreational activities that large numbers of students value and depend on -- for health, personal growth, a balanced life, and leadership opportunities. Funds benefit our twenty-two varsity sports (eleven for men, eleven for women), more than a dozen club sports, the popular intramural program, and the ever-expanding fitness and recreational offerings based in the Kenyon Athletic Center.

Campus Preservation and Beautification
The special character of the Kenyon experience is deeply tied to the College's extraordinary natural environment. Kenyon's campus is recognized as one of the most beautiful in the world, and gifts in this category help keep it that way. Funds go toward maintaining Middle Path along with the College's many gardens, preserving our historic buildings, and protecting the rural character of the lands surrounding the campus.

Green Kenyon
Gifts to this area will help make Kenyon more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly. Funds will support a host of projects addressing this increasingly important priority. Among them: electric vehicles, campuswide recycling, the composting of food waste, high-efficiency appliances, sophisticated energy monitoring and control, an energy-generating elevator, low-flow water devices, citrus-based cleaning products.

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Giving Societies

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