2009 business grads leaving a legacy

By Charleston Southern on August 3, 2009 - 11:59 am in Serving / no comments

Seniors in Dr. Mac Anderson’s Nonprofit Marketing class made time for a unique project on their way to graduation. The class developed a fundraising project that they hope in time will lead to an endowed scholarship for the School of Business.

The project served to provide a nonprofit marketing experience while helping a nonprofit organization achieve its service objectives.

Garrett Abel, serving as the spokesperson for the class, spoke at the graduation luncheon. “This is an appropriate time to celebrate our individual commitments,” Abel said. “Our class had a goal to start a tradition of giving by business students. We also challenge other alumni and departments to give.”

The class set an objective to establish a tradition of excellence in giving by making a class gift to the Business School. “We hope that our project will inspire future graduating classes to make class gifts to the Business School and to become annual donors,” they said. The seniors want to have more donors from the Class of 2009 than any other class this year. To date 27 members of the Class of ’09 have contributed.

In an effort to raise more money, the students offered custom car detailing services in addition to traditional fundraising efforts.
The seniors far surpassed their goal of raising $1,000 and were at $2,075 at press time.

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Photo: Nonprofit Marketing class members present President Hunter with a check at convocation. Pictured are: Garrett Abel, President Jairy Hunter, Shaun Miles, Sarah Stives, Justin Mullinax, Aundraya Camp, Chase Chambers, Logan Bennett, Jameson Wiley.

Photo by Sherry Atkinson

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