Brother, Can You Spare a ... ?
Geoffrey Fitzgerald, The Educational Foundation’s Director of Development
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We need your help. Not for a rush function, pledge party or initiation ceremony, we need your Voluntary Graduate Dues. Why do we ask alumni to pay Voluntary Graduate Dues?
Our Educational Foundation has awarded over half a million dollars in scholarships since 1944. The Foundation has provided loans over the years to most of our house corporations to make urgently needed repairs. Charges have received grants for a host of projects, for example: to renovate a library, to provide network computing or high speed Internet to all the brothers’ rooms, and to sponsor campus educational projects and community service events.
The Educational Foundation helps to finance creation of new charges and to rebuild weak or inactive ones. The Foundation also subsidizes the Shield, Pledge Handbooks, and educational sessions at convention for alumni and undergraduates.
Voluntary Graduate Dues from alumni are the Foundation’s most important source of operating income. The concept behind VG Dues is simple. Alumni support insures that our fraternity has a future. Without your support, we could not meet the needs of our undergraduate brothers.
We call on you again to renew the bonds of friendship and brotherhood to help us perpetuate the rewards of fraternity life for a new generation of undergraduate Theta Delts.
Your dues are tax deductible. You can pay electronically by clicking here or simply mail a check to
Theta Delta Chi Educational Foundation
214 Lewis Wharf
Boston, MA 02110.
VG Levels
Theta Delta Chi Giving Recognition Levels
Theta Delta Chi is pleased to honor alumni who loyally support the Educational Foundation with membership in the following cumulative giving clubs:
$100 Century Club
$250 Stars and Arrows Club
$500 Sons of Minerva
$1000 Graduate Loyalty Club
$1847 Founders’ Circle
$5,000 PGL’s Society
$10,000 Robert Frost Society
$25,000 John Hay Leadership Society
$50,000 Norm Hackett Legacy Society
$100,000 or more Preserved for a Future Naming Opportunity
All past and future gifts of cash, securities and other tangible property on record will be credited toward membership in these giving clubs. Active donors with contributions at these levels will receive annual recognition in The Shield. Thank you for your continued generosity, which is vital to the development of today’s and tomorrow’s Theta Delts.
Be a 100%er!
We honor donors who have made at least one gift for each year since earning a baccalaureate degree. We have a painless way to become a 100%er. Contact the CFO for details.
For those who can
The Educational Foundation is not a bank, but thanks to the generous support of alumni over the years we have steadily built an endowment that has provided library grants to our Charges, scholarships to our undergraduate members, and in many cases mortgage loans for House Corporations used to fund the renovation and repair of their houses. Those Charges that have benefited from the endowments of our Founders Corporation and Educational Foundation include Berkeley, Michigan State, Tufts, UCLA, Wisconsin and many others. Gifts and bequests to our Foundation are key to the Fraternity’s continued success and survival. Consider making a lasting, significant gift or bequest to our general endowment or if you prefer to a restricted fund to benefit your own Charge.
You can reach Geoffrey Fitzgerald, The Educational Foundation’s Director of Development, at gf@tdx.org.
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