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school will receive a capstone gift of $750,000 to help us reach our final goal of $20,000,000. On any expedition, there are benefits to planning ahead and preparing as well as assessing one’s place on the map. As NOLS enters the final stage of our current strategic plan and Campaign NOLS, we have just over $1.4 million and eight months left to reach this goal. There are many ways to give, including irrevocable planned gifts and multi-year pledges. To learn more about how to Multiply Your Impact, read the proceeding article. We are confident that we can meet this ambitious challenge, but we need all of our supporters help to do it. Thanks to all of our supporters over the past years for helping to ensure that NOLS will remain the leader in wilderness education.
With A Five-Year Pledge By Judd Rogers, Development Officer
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ike many of our supporters, Fred Hammerman and his wife Marrisa Wesely take great pleasure in giving away a certain percentage of their income to non-profit organizations every year. As a college student in 1983, Hammerman found himself on a month-long NOLS course in the Cascade Wilderness. Thirty years later, he still looks back on his course with NOLS as a formative life experience. Wesely and Hammerman both agree that NOLS continues to do important work. Thankfully, we are among the handful of organizations that they choose to support annually. When approached about supporting Campaign NOLS, Wesely wondered if there was another way to help
beyond making a one-time gift. Campaign NOLS’ capstone challenge encourages donors to leverage their giving through multi-year pledges of up to five years. Loyal supporters, like Hammerman and Wesely, are able to help NOLS close the gap by multiplying the impact of their annual contributions. The total amount of the pledge is counted toward the campaign goal, meaning they—and you—can do more to support leadership and wilderness education today. We’re happy to talk with you about the options for leveraging your gift. If you are interested in making a multi-year pledge to Campaign NOLS, please give us a call at 800-332-4280.
Andrew Mills
Please consider making a gift to Campaign NOLS today. Give us a call at 800-332-4280 or go online to www.nols.edu/edonate.
Multiply Your Impact
At NOLS, we believe in the power of a wilderness experience to shape positive, ethical leaders. Campaign NOLS will ensure a strong future for NOLS so we can help create the leaders of tomorrow.
NOLS Volunteer Leadership GIVING BACK MORE THAN JUST TIME By Larkin Flora, Communications Coordinator
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eadership, according to NOLS’ Board of Trustees Chair Kate Williams, is about cultivating those ideas, people, and institutions that move us toward a better world. But ultimately there is a core element of giving back in the act of leadership. Williams is one of a number of NOLS’ volunteer leaders who give back to the school with their time, as well as philanthropic support. These individuals are highly motivated and committed NOLS’ future. “The NOLS mission and values continue to be as relevant today as they have been for the past 48 years,” explained John Whisnant, co-chair of the NOLS Advisory Council, “The quality of
the educational experience in pristine wilderness classrooms is without equal. The staff and instructors are loyal, highly skilled, and motivated to teach. The leadership is well governed and engaged.” Both Whisnant and Williams agree that their personal leadership skills have significantly grown from being a part of NOLS’ leadership team. They have a birds-eye view of the school and understand the importance of the values we impart on our students. For this reason, they both support Campaign NOLS: Endowing Our Core Values to insure a strong future for NOLS. “NOLS offered a great experience [on my course
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in 1966], and it offers a great experience now,” Whisnant said, “If my contribution can help the school to continue to fulfill its mission, it is money well spent.” Williams agrees. For her, the education that NOLS offers to a wide range of students across the globe is crucial. “The school has a ripple effect as students embody the NOLS values in a variety of fields. The core strength of NOLS is critical to this education,” Williams added, “Campaign NOLS is an investment in scholarships for the future, and is thus an investment in future leaders.”