Let’s Do Good, Together.
Our World of Good campaign is securing Central’s ability to provide scholarship support and relevant, impactful opportunities for students as well as our place as a leader within higher education now, and for generations to come. Central graduates go on to do meaningful work wherever their journeys take them. When you support our campaign, you are helping us do more good in our cities, regions, country and beyond.
— Mark Putnam, Central President
Priorities
Central Experience
Your gift to the endowment enhances academics and enriches student life. A strong endowment provides lasting support for programs, unique learning experiences, inspiring faculty and the college’s evolving needs. Every gift helps Central do more for students — empowering them to do a world of good.
Student Scholarships
Central is committed to opening doors of opportunity by making higher education as affordable as possible. Scholarship support is more important than ever. Your gift is an investment that attracts strong students, lowers costs for families and keeps Central in a position of financial strength.
Leave A Legacy
Central’s Leave A Legacy Challenge offers an impactful way to support future students through planned gifts. By documenting a planned gift, participants can unlock an immediate matching contribution, directing 10% of their gift’s estimated value (up to $10,000) to the scholarship, academic, athletics or campus program of their choice.
Stories of Support
I’m aware that what I am doing is creating things and bringing them into existence. It’s not just doing good in the world. I’m building the world I imagine and the places I want to inhabit.”
— Stefanie Vruwink Reiser ’85
I didn’t wait until I had ‘enough’ to give. Giving to Central was never about the amount — it was about gratitude. I want this place to be here forever. Not just 100 years after my grandmother attended, but 100 years beyond that. Central is a place where students can find themselves, explore and feel safe trying out different versions of who they want to become. That’s worth investing in.”
— Deanna Ver Steeg ’94
You don’t have to give it all, but if Central played a part in your life, there’s no better time to give back.”
— Larry Reynen ’71
Let’s Do a World of Good Together
There are many ways you can do a world of good that align with your financial and philanthropic goals.
For more information or to request a conversation with a gift officer, please contact us at 641-628-5154
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