Our Priorities
Focused on the Future
Central College students and their experience have always been our highest priority. As we look ahead to the next 175+ years, we need your help to sustain and enhance this precious, transformative educational experience.
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Together, we can do more. Our future leaders are counting on us. Let’s do the world a world of good.
The Central Experience
Your unrestricted gift is a vital investment in Central’s future.
Central’s endowment provides essential funding that supports ongoing and future initiatives, creates transformative opportunities for students, helps attract talented, dedicated faculty and promotes access to a Central education.
Every gift empowers Central to expand its impact, enriching the student experience and preparing them to make a positive difference in the world. Your support amplifies our ability to do more for our students now and in the future.
Student Scholarships
Central is committed to keeping education accessible and affordable for all students. Scholarships are crucial in making this possible. Your gift not only attracts bright, motivated students but also alleviates financial pressure on families while helping secure Central’s financial stability.
We hope to award 100% of students with donor-funded scholarships and with your help, we know we’ll achieve this goal.
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.
Funded by Rich ’62 and Mary Roorda ’62 Glendening, Emily and Larry Reynen ’71 and the family of Terry Garvin ’72, these matching funds are available on a first-come, first-served basis. The challenge encourages new documented planned gifts, creating a lasting legacy that benefits Central students now and in the future.
Imagine More
The relationship between Central and the City of Pella is deeply rooted in history, with both growing and developing together since the college’s founding six years after Pella’s establishment. This partnership is reinforced by an impressive continuity of leadership — both at the college and within the community — leading to strong trust and shared commitment.
Because of this, Central and the Pella Area Community and Economic Alliance have partnered to launch the Imagine More initiative — a highly synergistic relationship where shared services, programs and facilities minimize redundancies and create mutual benefits.
By imagining more, we can strengthen the Pella and Central partnership, find solutions to work and living challenges on and off campus and animate new areas of collaboration.
Imagine MoreLet’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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