Giving Tuesday, a global generosity movement encouraging people and organizations to transform their communities and the world, is on Dec. 3 this year. Kenyon’s Generosity Project encourages every member of the College community to get involved by lending their support to the causes at Kenyon that positively impact today’s students’ experiences.

Why Giving to Kenyon on Giving Tuesday Matters

The poet Wendell Berry has said “a community is a mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other’s lives.” Kenyon’s Generosity Project is here to help people recognize what it means to share in this place and how we define our community. 

Giving and being generous to your community helps you to define what makes this community meaningful to you and why you choose to be an active participant in it. There is no power greater than a community discovering what it cares about. Our purpose is to weave our individual stories together so those stories lift up who we are as a collective entity. 

Below is a list of suggested options that directly impact students and their experiences at Kenyon. 

Three ways you can get involved:

  1. Make a gift of any size to the Kenyon cause you connect with.

    Two gift designations to consider:
    1. Hannah More First Generation Annual Scholarship
    2. Student Success Fund, providing financial assistance to students with unexpected needs related to course supplies, interview attire, medical and emergency expenses and more.

  2. Donate to the Theta Delta Phi and Delta Kappa Epsilon Shawn Kelly Personal Care Drive for Knox County Head Start.

    Donations of personal care items such as body wash, adult and baby shampoo, small/trial-size laundry soap, fuzzy socks, lotion, etc. will be accepted at the Generosity Project’s table at Peirce from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 3, at the Lowry Center from 3:30 - 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 3 or the Dec. 4 porch party. (See below for details.)

  3. Celebrate generosity together at our Porch Party.

    To say, “thank you,” for your Giving Tuesday generosity, the Generosity Project invites the entire Kenyon community to a porch party with hot chocolate and cookies from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 4, at the Advancement Office front porch located at 101 Chase Avenue.

On behalf of the Generosity Project, thank you for your support of your Kenyon community this Giving Tuesday, which is about all of us and humanity, our ultimate community. We look forward to connecting with you on future endeavors. If you’d like to get involved with this or other initiatives of Kenyon’s Generosity Project, contact Advancement Project Manager Luisa Barone Gantt or any member of the Generosity Project.

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