About Designating Your Gift

Campbell University allows you to designate a specific use or purpose for your gifts so long as such purposes are in keeping with Campbell’s mission. 

In fact, we encourage it… we delight in seeing you interested, involved, and invested in the outcome of this great University and her students.  After all, it’s your University.  

Presented below by number are examples of ways you may designate your gift for that specific use or purpose in which you are most interested.  If you have a special interest not enumerated here, please contact the person whose name appears at the end of this section to specially tailor a use or purpose for your gift in keeping with your interest and Campbell’s mission:    

1.       Most Urgent Needs               

By designating your gift for Campbell’s “most urgent needs” (or when you make an undesignated gift, or a gift for general uses and purposes), you are allowing Campbell’s President and Board of Trustees to apply your gift to those fiscal needs which are the most serious and pressing at the time of your gift.  Even using the most sophisticated forecasting techniques, it’s sometimes impossible to foresee every need that will arise during each academic year… 

?  What if more scholarships are immediately needed for a particular school or major whose popularity has suddenly increased?

?  What if a roof suddenly springs a leak, or if costs for heating and cooling classroom buildings and residence halls suddenly skyrocket?

?  What if a sudden increase in the number of students participating dictates a new laboratory or recreational facility for the coming year?     

?  What if current student enrollment projections for the future dictate an increase now in the general operating expenses endowment?  

…a “Most Urgent Needs” designation enables Campbell to address these needs.   

2.       Capital Projects

Someone once said “without Freshmen, all is lost.”  Campbell’s current and future generations of students expect – and deserve – first-class learning and living facilities, and a campus that is attractive, appealing, and memorable.  By designating your gift for Campbell’s “capital projects,” you make that happen!   

Campbell’s President and Board of Trustees have identified the following capital projects as most needed currently, and you may designate your gift specifically to any one of them: 

• Campbell University Track…a new, 8-lane oval track is under construction outside the east end of the John W. Pope, Jr. Convocation Center. The track will be the only NCAA-regulation track in Harnett County. 

• Barker-Lane Stadium…permanent home side bleachers, concession stands, restrooms, a permanent press box, as well as an addition to the field house are planned.             

Endowment gifts are fundamental for insuring Campbell’s financial future.  Establishing an endowment fund gives you an opportunity to create a lasting legacy in your own name, in honor of your family, or in memory of a cherished loved one.  You may establish an endowment fund with an initial gift of an amount commensurate with your current finances accompanied by your pledge of future gifts necessary to attain the minimum amount required to fully fund that endowment of your choice. 

An endowment fund is prudently invested by our Board of Trustees, each fund then generating earnings year after year to provide Campbell with:

• scholarship support for worthy and needy students now and for generations to come,

• perpetual funding for academic programs that continue Campbell’s tradition of vigorous inquiry and academic excellence,

• continuing maintenance and modernization of campus facilities so that our campus remains an atmosphere highly conducive to learning at the collegiate and post-graduate level, and

• a fiscal guarantee that she will continue to be able to hire and retain a premier faculty dedicated to intellectual and spiritual rigor – and committed to providing quality Christian higher education.

3.       Endowed Scholarships

An endowed scholarship provides deserving undergraduate and graduate students with annual tuition assistance awards based on financial need, academic merit, and/or field of study, or for extra-curricular areas such as musical performance, sports, or professional internships.  Endowed scholarships may also be designated for the students enrolled in a particular school or major.  The minimum amount necessary to fully endow a scholarship is $25,000. 

4.       Endowed Facilities Funds

An endowed facilities fund insures the proper upkeep, and, when necessary, periodic renovation of Campbell’s classroom buildings, residence halls, and other facilities maintained by our Campus Physical Plant.  Such upkeep and renovation also extends to the fixtures necessary for continued effective operation of the facility.  The minimum amount necessary to fully endow a facilities fund varies, but for the usual classroom building or residence hall it has been set at $100,000. 

5.       Endowed Professorships

An endowed professorship provides additional annual stipends needed to attract, retain, and reward an outstanding faculty member and noted scholar in a field or area of particular interest to the donor and necessary to the continued excellence of Campbell’s broad curriculum.  It also enables that professor to involve students in important research or studies outside of the classroom needed by our community – an ideal way to ensure excellence in a field of interest to the donor that will also directly benefit Campbell students and the community.  Such an endowment needs a minimum investment of $1,000,000.

6.       Endowed Department Chairs

An endowed Departmental Chair provides support for a particular course of study and research within an existing college, school, or similar program.  This endowment is intended to provide annual support for an initial chairing faculty member and departmental secretary.  This is another way to ensure excellence in an academic field of interest to the donor, to directly benefit students, and to attract and retain the best in that field.  An endowment of this type needs minimum funding of $2,000,000 in order to make an effective annual distribution in support of the Chair. 

Contact person. If you have any questions about designating your gift, please call Terri Shrieves, Assistant Director of Records, at 1-800-334-4111, extension 1229; or email her at shrieves@campbell.edu.