Your gifts matter. Gifts for scholarships, facilities, faculty and staff development, and more help ensure Meredith students, faculty, and staff have the resources they need to continue going strong. Gifts ensure students have the opportunity to learn and grow at one of the top-tier liberal arts colleges in the country. Your gifts make a difference every day in the life of Meredith College.
Meredith College broke ground in the fall 2023 on the Estes-Speight Family Athletic Center which will include athletic training space for softball, tennis, and golf. Chris Speight Brown, ’76, along with her siblings, gave a $1 million lead gift to name the center in memory of their mother, Mary Estes Speight, ’53, and their father, Bobby Speight.
Margaret Weatherspoon Parker, ’38, was a strict parent with high expectations of her two daughters. So when Anne Parker Phillips, ’66, and Mary Stuart Parker Alderman, ’71, decided they wanted to honor their mother with a gift to Meredith College, they wanted to make sure it would be something she would have been proud to support.
Meredith College raised $1,419,575 in 24 hours during the College’s ninth annual Make It Count for Meredith Giving Day, held on February 27, 2024. The fundraising event exceeded its $1.1 million fundraising goal by more than $300,000, and a total of 2,630 donors contributed to the campaign.
Meredith College’s first alumna President Jo Allen, ʼ80, has strengthened the institution during her tenure. Over the past 13 years, she has overseen strategic and academic advancements with increased fundraising and donor-funded projects to enhance the College’s facilities. Her leadership has enabled Meredith to Go Strong.
On February 27, Meredith College’s annual Make It Count for Meredith Giving Day brings the Meredith community together to show students we support their education. With your gift honor a strong woman or a group of strong women who have been important in your life and help the College raise $1.1 million in 24 hours
The Communication, Health, Exercise & Sport Science Building was completed in July in time for the beginning of the new academic year. The construction project was a true collaboration between communication, exercise and sports science, and athletics.
President Jo Allen encourages members of the Meredith community to join Meredith Mentors, an online platform that connects the Meredith community for mentoring and networking opportunities.
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