Category: Funding and gifts
Celebrating Ripon College! Rally Days 2024 surpasses goal
Ripon College’s loyal supporters from around the world came together again for Rally Days 2024, the seventh annual spring giving event, held April 3-5. The multi-day celebration of the College garnered spirited campus engagement and online fundraising in support of the Forever Ripon campaign. Last spring, Ripon College publicly launched the Forever Ripon capital campaign […]
Posted by Dale Devries in #OneDayRally, Funding, Funding and gifts, Special Event.
Rally Days 2024 supports Forever Ripon campaign
Rally Days 2024 is LIVE! Our goal is to secure 1,000 gifts to support the Forever Ripon campaign between Wednesday, April 3, and Friday, April 5. Celebrate the future of Ripon College and the Forever Ripon campaign today! Make your gift! Visit RALLYDAYS.RIPON.EDU to learn more about matching gift challenges and special campaign priorities: Ripon Fund, Franzen Science Center and Residence […]
Posted by Dale Devries in #OneDayRally, Alumni, Funding and gifts, Special Event.
Support for the College comes in strongly during Ripon Rally Days giving experience
Ripon Rally Days, a spring online giving experience, was held April 20-23 during Inauguration Week. Donors could choose from 14 ways to support Ripon College in honor of President Victoria N. Folse, the institution’s 14th and newly inaugurated president. The 14 ways included the Ripon Fund, Franzen Science Center, Hopp Stadium, residence halls, Friends of […]
Posted by Dale Devries in #OneDayRally, Funding, Funding and gifts.
Ripon receives $150,000 NEH grant to strengthen humanities throughout the region
A project to strengthen the humanities at Ripon College through regional collaboration has received a $150,000 Humanities Initiatives for Colleges and Universities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will fund a three-year effort to reimagine humanistic study for the 21st century and support a plan to bolster humanities education by connecting […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Funding, Funding and gifts.
Khaatim Boyd ’06 supports Ripon to bring transformative experiences to others
Becoming a student at Ripon College changed the life of Khaatim Boyd ’06 of Lansing, Michigan, and ever since graduating he has sought to help bring that same transformative experience to new classes of Ripon students. That’s why he has given back to Ripon consistently through his service and financial resources. “Ripon had a tremendous […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Funding and gifts.
Celebrating Ripon College! #OneDayRally 2022 reaches new highs
Following the most successful fundraising year in Ripon College’s history, loyal supporters from around the world came through once again with record-breaking totals for the fifth annual #OneDayRally giving day, Wednesday, April 27. The online campaign garnered a spirited show of support to sustain the Ripon Fund, Red Hawks Club in athletics and Friends of […]
Posted by Dale Devries in #OneDayRally, Alumni, Funding, Funding and gifts.
Join us when #OneDayRally returns April 27!
Join us April 27, 2022, for the fifth annual #OneDayRally of support for Ripon College. The day is meant to bring everyone together as a community to celebrate an institution that has shaped the lives of so many in unique and similar ways. Help us reach our most ambitious goal yet of 2400 donors in […]
Posted by Dale Devries in #OneDayRally, Alumni, Funding, Funding and gifts.
Portrait of a Ripon College founder donated to art collection
An 1883 oil on canvas painting of Ripon College founder Jehdeiah Bowen has been donated to the College by Erika Doss ’78 and Geoffrey Thrumston ’78 of South Bend, Indiana. The artist is early Wisconsin painter Mark R. Harrison. The portrait is now hanging in the Ripon College Museum in West Hall. Thrumston is a […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Archives, Funding and gifts.
Ripon College achieves highest fund-raising year ever
During the 2021 fiscal year which ended June 30, Ripon College achieved its most successful and largest fund-raising year in its history. More than $16.5 million in new gift production was realized. “The campus community is continually humbled and inspired by the generosity of our alumni,” said Shawn Karsten ’09, vice president for advancement and […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Administration, Funding and gifts.
Ripon receives substantial gift of laboratory supplies worth more than $54,000
Ripon College has received a significant donation of laboratory assets from Luxerin Laboratories LLC in Fond du Lac. The massive donation includes equipment, chemicals, glassware, textbooks and supplies valued at just over $54,000. Luxerin Laboratories LLC was founded in 1967 as a family business to fill microbiological testing needs. After the death of founder Patrick […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Academics, Funding and gifts.
Ripon College helps alumni take note of Make-A-Will Month
For Tracy Maher ’91, Ripon College’s FreeWill offering provided a fast and easy way to cross one major item off her to-do list. “After I saw a notice from Ripon announcing the FreeWill offering, I realized that I really needed to make a will,” Maher says. “It was super easy to do. I just followed […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Funding and gifts.
NSF grant paves the way to advancing development of the Catalyst curriculum
A three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has helped Ripon College develop the Catalyst curriculum. The grant, “A Collaborative Approach to Building Capacity for Interdisciplinary Quantitative Reasoning Instruction” was designated for the improvement of the quantitative reasoning curriculum. The principal investigators of the grant are Andrea Young, McKenzie Lamb, Steve Martin, Matt Knoester, […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Academics, Funding and gifts.
Join us when #OneDayRally returns April 28
Join us April 28 for the fourth annual #OneDayRally of support for Ripon College. The day is meant to bring everyone together as a community to celebrate an institution that has shaped the lives of so many in unique and similar ways. Help us reach our goal of 2,021 donors in 20 hours and 21 […]
Posted by Dale Devries in #OneDayRally, Funding, Funding and gifts.
New scholarship links Ripon College to Tremper High School in Kenosha
A newly endowed scholarship will link graduates of Tremper High School in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Ripon College. The Conforti and Chemerow Scholarship is substantially funded by donors Doreen Conforti Chemerow, a 1973 graduate of Ripon, and her husband, David I. Chemerow, of Boca Raton, Florida. They both are 1969 graduates of Tremper High School. Doreen […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Funding and gifts.
Dietrich family establishes funding resources of more than $2 million
An entire family’s love and commitment to higher education have culminated in two funding resources for Ripon College with a combined value of more than $2 million. The Richard V. and Frances S. Dietrich Trust Scholarship and the Richard V. and Frances S. Dietrich Faculty Development Fund have been established in the name of the […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Fine Arts, Funding, Funding and gifts.
New scholarship links Ripon College to Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Milwaukee
A new endowed scholarship will link graduates of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Milwaukee and Ripon College. The Franzen/Cristo Rey Endowed Scholarship is named for Ripon College graduates Mark Franzen ’83 and Janice Heinz Franzen ’83 of New Berlin, Wisconsin, who are supporters of the initiative. ”We are delighted to support this scholarship which […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Administration, Admission, Alumni, Funding and gifts.
Student Support Services awarded new $1.4 million grant
A new five-year grant of $1.4 million has been awarded to the Student Support Services program at Ripon College by the U.S. Department of Education, TRIO division. The goals of the Student Support Services program are to increase the retention and graduation of first-generation students, whose parents/guardians did not receive a four-year college degree; students […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Academics, Funding, Funding and gifts.
We did it together! #OneDayRally 2020 smashes records
The worldwide Ripon College community came together in this era of social distancing to smash all previous records for the annual #OneDayRally giving day. With more than three hours remaining on Wednesday, April 29, the online campaign reached 100 percent of its donor participation goal of 1,851. As #OneDayRally came to a close after 18 […]
Posted by Dale Devries in #OneDayRally, Funding and gifts.
Grant from National Science Foundation advancing chemistry research
A grant of $400,400 has been awarded to a program of the Midwestern Undergraduate Computational Chemistry Consortium (MU3C), of which Ripon College is a part. The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure and Chemistry divisions awarded the grant through its Major Research Instrumentation Program. Joe Scanlon, associate professor of chemistry at Ripon and a […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Academics, Funding, Funding and gifts.
#OneDayRally hauls in more than $1M for Ripon Fund in 18 hours, 51 mins
Ripon College’s second annual #OneDayRally giving day was a success by all accounts. With more than eight hours remaining on Wednesday, May 1, the online campaign reached $940,817 and 100 percent of its initial goal for donor participation. As #OneDayRally came to a close after 18 hours and 51 minutes, a record $1,085,314 was raised […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Funding and gifts.