Planned Giving & Endowments
The future of the student experience at Ashland relies on the generosity of our donors through support for capital projects, planned giving and endowments.
Establishing a named endowment creates a permanent legacy for donors or it can serve as a thoughtful and lasting tribute to a family member or favorite professor. A gift to create an endowment may be made in the form of a multi-year pledge, with gift payments made for up to five (5) years. The minimum gift to establish an endowment is $25,000, which is invested and only the interest is spent.
Ashland has different endowment possibilities to directly benefit our students, programs, and faculty. Establish a named endowment and provide consistent financial support to Ashland University in perpetuity.
Endowed
Scholarships
Gifts funding undergraduate student scholarships make it possible for Ashland to attract and retain the best students, regardless of their financial circumstances. You can make a difference by establishing a new endowed scholarship to benefit students enrolled in the college of your choice.
Faculty
Endowments
Since its founding, a hallmark of Ashland University is our remarkable faculty. These distinguished individuals are crucial to our mission and core values. You can help to ensure the University continues to recruit and retain leading faculty who emphasize teaching enhanced by research and scholarship through your support of endowed distinguished chairs, professorships, and faculty fellowships.
The future success of Ashland depends on attracting and retaining faculty with the drive to succeed and a heart to serve. Your gifts are needed to create capacity for new opportunities.
To paint a picture of what this looks like practically, here is an Ashland example. Earned income from a faculty endowment would allow current compensation of psychology professor, Dr. Chris Chartier to be used in other ways. Dr. Chartier founded the International Collaboration Research Center and is leading the development of the Psychological Science Accelerator—an initiative changing the entire landscape of how psychology studies are structured across the globe—providing unique student experiences through this collaboration. Due to the faculty endowment earnings, Dr. Chartier can expand his research and provide even more opportunities for students on our campus.
Directly supporting our faculty through an endowment is a powerful way to ensure we can expand the unique, world-changing opportunities happening at Ashland University.
Program Endowments
Whether you want to provide professors with equipment for research, eager students with opportunities for cultural exploration, or pathways for students to find their life calling, program endowments make a difference for specific endeavors. This type of endowment supports the long-term viability of special programs across campus.
Each year, faculty and staff initiate innovative and captivating programs which open new doors for our students. These projects can thrive long term when the program is endowed.
For example, the College of Arts & Sciences has an endowed fund for student research in the sciences. Funds from this endowment provide educational opportunities for students involved in undergraduate research projects in the natural sciences. Some examples of how funds from this program endowment can be used are: stipend support, travel for conferences, materials for presentations, research supplies and equipment.
Funding through an endowment provides innovative programs with needed longevity and stability, so our students now and into the future will continue to have world class opportunities.
Athletic
Endowment
Funds
An Athletic Endowment fund is a sport-specific endowment. Your gift will directly benefit the team of your choice and will provide ongoing opportunities for the coaches and individual student-athletes to cover their basic needs, provide further scholarship opportunities, attract the highest levels of talent to our athletic program and allow the athletic staff and coaches the flexibility to position each of their student-athletes for success.
Through the years, our teams have competed at the highest levels of their individual sports and Athletic Endowment funds ensure success continues into the future. You are vital to continuing the tradition. We are inviting you to join us in creating opportunities for both current and future student-athletes with a commitment of $25,000 or more. Whether you’ve given in the past or are waiting for the right opportunity, you are invited to become a pillar of this exciting new endeavor.
With a gift, you will leave your own legacy of lasting success, creating unique opportunities for our individual student-athletes to continue Ashland’s tradition of winning, both for today and long into the future.
Endowment Opportunities at Ashland Theological Seminary
Endowed scholarships at Ashland Theological Seminary assists students with the financial cost of their education. In addition, scholarships help to attract and retain our best students. You can make a difference by establishing a new endowed scholarship to benefit Ashland Theological Seminary students.
Ashland Theological Seminary has remarkable faculty. Your support of endowed distinguished chairs, professorships, and faculty fellowships, helps to ensure the Seminary continues to recruit and retain leading faculty who emphasize teaching enhanced by research and scholarship.
Whether you want to provide professors with equipment for the classroom or their research, students with opportunities for cultural exploration, or special lectures to enhance our programs and community outreach, program endowments make a difference for unique endeavors. This type of endowment supports the long-term viability in specific ways for Ashland Theological Seminary. This dynamic group of alumni, parents and friends plays a vital role in supporting the University with unrestricted funds. Their support affords the University leaders the flexibility to embrace new ideas and emerging opportunities while meeting the evolving needs of today’s students.
We embraced this idea as a central tenet of what we believed we could accomplish together and watched as you responded like never before, setting the stage for the most successful fundraising campaign we’ve ever undertaken.
You have proven your strength again. And with the end of The Campaign for Every Individual, the future of student opportunities at Ashland holds more promise than ever before.
Planned Giving
How can a planned gift tell your story? Your personal estate plan can be simple or very complex. Planned gifts are made through a variety of vehicles such as a last will and testament, trust, retirement assets, life insurance, real estate or other personal property. Planned gifts generate a current income tax deduction, maximize your giving potential, and can even provide lifetime income payments to enhance your current financial security.
If you already have a named endowment or currently support endowed programs or operations, consider adding a deferred gift today to enhance your giving in the future.
Contact Information
Amy Clark '08
Associate Director of Planned Giving
301 Founders Hall
aclark2@ashland.edu
419-289-5105
