Special Opportunity to Build Endowment
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Our remarkable, and remarkably generous, trustee Shelby Davis has put forward an extremely important match to benefit the United World College-USA endowments. Shelby challenges other donors to help build the support that will strengthen the College far into the future. He will donate $5,000,000 to match gifts made to endowments; fully matched, his $5,000,000 gift will equate to $10,000,000, a tremendous boost for the College.
Endowments yield annual income to be used to support students, programs, and operations. In particular, Shelby wants to help us build the general endowment that supports international scholarships, the Geier International Scholarship Fund.
Shelby’s Davis Scholar program already provides endowed support for 50 Davis Scholars from the United States each year. Of these, 25 attend UWC-USA and the other 25 attend other United World Colleges. Our goal is to be able to provide scholarships for all the students at UWC-USA, currently the 75 students admitted each year from around the world. Success in meeting Shelby’s generous challenge will mean a major stride toward realizing that goal.
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