Reunion Giving

Each year, Niagara University invites all graduates to return to campus for Alumni Weekend, held traditionally the first weekend in October. Classes celebrating five-year class anniversaries (fifth, 10th, 15th, etc.) are highlighted and celebrated throughout the weekend. The Office of Annual Giving works with each class in raising funds in honor of their anniversary. Volunteers from each class (class agents) contact their classmates and friends to encourage each one to make a gift and to "come home" to Niagara for Alumni Weekend activities.  

The Niagara Fund reunion giving program is a special fundraising initiative which involves only those alumni who are celebrating class anniversaries during Alumni Weekend. It promotes friendly competition between the anniversary classes as graduates from each class band together to achieve their class goal. The results are announced during the Alumni Weekend dinner-dance.

The importance of class agents

The success of the reunion giving program is dependent upon the efforts of "class agents" (volunteers) from each class who promote the Alumni Weekend class goal amongst their classmates by increasing alumni knowledge and enthusiasm for Niagara University, encouraging class participation in Alumni Weekend, and securing reunion gifts in support of Niagara University.

Those individual gifts are then combined with the gifts from other classmates to make one large class gift, which makes an even greater impact on Alumni Weekend and to the whole Niagara community.

How can you help?

Say "yes" to one of the Niagara Fund appeals – a phone call or a letter from a classmate, a phone call from a current Niagara student during our Phonathon, a pledge form in the Eagle alumni magazine, or an appeal letter from the university. Please consider upgrading your usual gift in recognition of your anniversary. This special gift will help the university continue its tradition of excellence and at the same time push your class closer to its class goal.

Gifts to the Niagara Fund are used for student scholarships, academic programming, and faculty-student collaborative research.

For further information about serving as a class agent, please contact Loretta C. Madia '86, senior development associate annual giving/alumni programs, at 716-286-8789 or e-mail lmadia@niagara.edu.