Senior Challenge

Meet the Challenge!

What is the Senior Challenge?
The Senior Challenge is Knox's Senior Class gift program. The "challenge" comes from the chair of the Knox Fund Steering Committee; he/she challenges the Senior Class to make a significant gift to the Knox Fund.

If at least 90% of the Senior Class members meet that challenge, the chair will match the total class gift up to $2,500. (In recent years, the gift has been matched dollar for dollar. Or an extra match has been given for incentives.) The size of your gift does not matter -- participation is what really counts!

CONGRATULATIONS Class of 2009 for a successful campaign - 90.14%, $10,336 raised, and 265 donors! You have really made a difference!!!

This year, there is an added incentive. If 5,000 alumni give to Knox by June 30, 2009, Knox will receive an additional $100,000 from alumnus Duke Petrovich '74. Seniors WILL be counted in this group, since the Class of 2009 members will be Knox alumni by June 30!

Who makes up the Senior Challenge Committee?
Senior Class officers and two co-chairs nominate senior classmates to represent the Class of '09 on this committee. Committee members personally ask 12-15 classmates for a gift or pledge of support in honor of the Senior Class and Knox College.

How much does the Senior Class raise for the class gift?
Recent classes have raised anywhere between $14,000 and $16,500 for the class gift. The Class of 2006 shattered the record with $16,488 in gifts. The Class of 2003 still holds the all-time participation record with 94% of the class participating in Senior Challenge.

How is my class doing?
See the updated results.

How do I make a contribution to the Senior Challenge?
You can give in a number of ways:

• Make your gift online by credit card.
• Enclose a check with the pledge card you received in the mail to the Office of Advancement, Box 230, 2 E. South St., Galesburg, Illinois. (Or, if you need a pledge card, download this form (PDF).)
• If you choose to use your enrollment deposit to make a gift to Senior Challenge, mark that choice on the pledge card and send it to the Office of Advancement, Box 230, 2 E. South St., Galesburg, Illinois, or give it to a committee member. (See more information on using your enrollment deposit.)

Do we get a thank you gift for contributing to the Senior Challenge?
Yes! Persons who give $10.00 or more to the Challenge will receive a special "Class of 2009" glass. Glasses were be distributed in late May of 2009.

If you give $100.00 or more to the Challenge, you will be recognized as a new member of our young alumni giving society, the John Huston Finley Society.