We did it — our most successful BU Giving Day ever, totaling over $3k in gifts and $13k in prizes!
Dear students, alumni, faculty, family, friends—
We did it. All 144 of your donations, totaling over $3,600, helped us have our most successful BU Giving Day ever. Your enthusiasm and generosity allowed us to secure an extra $13,000 in CAS funds. We’re floored and grateful. We absolutely could not have done this without you.
Your donations—most of them $5, $10, $25—helped us win the CAS Departmental Most Improved award. That means that your $5 helped us win $10,000. Let me repeat that: Ten. Thousand. Dollars. That’s because of you.
Not only did we win the most improved award, but your participation put us in third place overall on the CAS Departmental leaderboard, securing us an additional $3,000. For a tiny department to place that high in the overall donors list is astonishing, humbling, and exciting.
All of this bounty is going right back into the department. $16,600 is a lot of money, and we have to decide how we’re going to use it to help us grow. Once we know, we’ll share with you so that you see your money at work.
With your help, we’ve been able to do great things. Let’s keep on going. You’ll hear more from us soon, but please feel free to drop us a line on Facebook and Twitter or at classics@bu.edu. From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU.
Best Wishes,
Stephen Scully, Chair
Arthur Peterson, Program Coordinator
Meghan Kelly, Department Administrator