Annual Giving
Gifts designated to one of our four annual funds are used during the year in which they are received to meet the current needs of our students. The Guilford Annual Funds include the Loyalty Fund, Quaker Club, Friend the Library, the Friends Center General Fund and the Center for Continuing Education Fund. Guilford alumni, families, faculty, staff and friends make important commitments each year to Guilford students and programs by designating support to these four funds.
Find out about our Annual Funds
Center for Continuing Education Fund
Loyalty Fund |
The Loyalty Fund consists of unrestricted gifts to support the operating expenses. These gifts are especially valuable because the money can go where it is most needed. A large portion goes to financial aid, however, students, faculty and staff benefit from funds provided for technology, programs, professional development and more. The Loyalty Fund, the largest annual fund, supports the college's mission of providing a transformative, liberal arts education.
The Loyalty Fund helps fund the college's highest priorities each year. They include:
- Providing the necessary financial aid to attract a diverse, qualified student body;
- Recruiting and retaining a strong, competitive faculty;
- Ensuring facilities and technology that offer distinctive academic programs and activities.
This year, you may designate your Loyalty Fund gift to an academic program. In order to see a list of academic programs, click here.
Quaker Club |
Gifts to the Quaker Club help build a top quality NCAA Division III program. Your tax deductible gift to the Quaker Club will be used where the college needs it most in order to meet the priorities of Guilford College Athletics. Guilford College has 16 athletic teams that compete in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC), and are supported by the Quaker Club.
Beginning this year, your gift may be directed to one of the 16 athletic teams (please note that we ask that 50% of your gift be designated to the Quaker Club). You may also direct your gift to the weight room or the athletic training program.
The following giving levels have been established for donors to the Quaker Club:
| Participant | $1 to $34 |
| Friend | $35 to $99 |
| Cardinal | $100 to $249 |
| Grey | $250 to $499 |
| Silver | $500 to $999 |
| Gold | $1,000 to $4,999 |
| Platinum | $5,000 or more |
Membership in the Quaker Club includes donors who make a gift from July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010. All gifts are 100% tax deductible.
Friends of the Library |
Friends of the Library gifts fund special collections and projects that support student use of a full range of resources in Hege Library.
Friends Center General Fund |
The Friends Center General Fund provides support for Friends Center and its various speakers and programs. The work of Friends Center includes but is not limited to providing campus ministry to Guilford College, developing and teaching college courses in Quaker studies and spirituality, supporting the Quaker Leadership Scholars Program and offering the adult education programs of the Quaker Renewal Program and Exploring Carolina Quaker Crossroads.
Center for Continuing Education Fund |
The Center for Continuing Education Fund was created in response to alumni requests to create a fund designed specifically to allow CCE graduates to give back to the program that meant so much to them and enabled them to attend Guilford College. Gifts will enable current CCE students to afford the same education alumni received while at Guilford. Gifts to this fund will directly provide for improved campus technology, physical plant improvements, counseling, mentoring programs and scholarships to help adult students succeed and graduate from Guilford.
Guilford Annual Funds Giving Levels
Participant |
$1 to $99 |
The President's Club provides special recognition to alumni, families and friends who make an annual gift of $1,000 or more to the Guilford Annual Funds.
President's Club |
$1000 to $1836 |
Giving Options
Stock and Securities - Gifts of stock and securities are welcome. Please contact June Chambliss in the advancement office at 336-316-2322 for instructions.
Matching Gifts - Do you work for a company that may double or even triple your gift to Guilford College? More than 1,000 corporations support higher education through matching gifts. Contact your Human Resources Department today to see if you are eligible.
Payment Options
Gifts to the Guilford Annual Funds may be made by:
- Check (payable to Guilford College)
- VISA, MasterCard, Discover or American Express
- If you would prefer to send your gift by mail or fax, please click here for a printable form.
- Gifts of stock or securities (please contact the advancement office)
Thank you for supporting Guilford College.