You don’t always realize how you impact the people around you.
Gifts to the Annual Fund have the most immediate impact on the life of a student today. One dollar given to the Annual Fund has the impact of twenty dollars given to an endowed fund.
You’re on the front lines of making education accessible, because of your choice to support the Annual Fund.
The person you are every day affects the world, and it’s easy for us to miss the ways that we change the world, especially when we don’t see them in person.
Take a moment to think about the Willamette community. It is an amazing thing, that a University like Willamette, where thousands of us learn to think for ourselves, exists. It is amazing that philosophers, scientists, writers, mathematicians, artists, and hundreds of others, all collaborate at Willamette to make the world a better place.
So many young adults learn to think critically about their role in the world, and about their own ability to make the world a better place. That they recognize the words, “not unto ourselves alone are we born” and carry them for the rest of their lives.
Scientists. Teachers. Entrepreneurs. Activists. Advocates.
Each one of them trying to make the world a better place, along with you.
