Alumni Consistent Giving Program - An Alumni Personal Legacy

Dear Fellow Alum,

We have exciting news to share!

The Alumni Association’s Consistent Giving Program provides an opportunity for you to create a “Personal Legacy” at Clark Atlanta University.

The Consistent Giving Program is designed to allow all alums to make modest contributions on a regular basis to CAU. Alums are asked to make annual pledge contributions of a minimum of $150.00.

Even better, the total amount includes $50.00 for annual Alumni Association dues and the outstanding amount will be directed to the University as an Annual Fund contribution on your behalf.

Your annual pledge helps maintain a strong alumni support base for the University and will be used to jump-start other ongoing fund-raising initiatives for the association.

PLEASE DON’T DELAY!

Establish your Personal Legacy by making your Consistent Giving Program contribution today!

Donations can be made online using the CAU Web site www.cau.edu

Some of you may remember me from my years as a student at CAU from 1965 to 1969 and /or from my short tour as a professor from 1972 to 1974. In either case , I have always felt that I had a special relationship with the school and over the years I have searched for a way to repay the debt I owe for one of the best educations that a person could possibly have. My years at CAU were rewarding and giving, however I was always unsure of whether I would ever have an opportunity to contribute in a small way which would say “thank you, CAU, for being there for me when I needed you.”

Now that I have moved back to the Atlanta area after many years of being away, I have had a chance to visit the campus often and to those of you who haven’t seen it recently, CAU looks magnificently. When you see how it has grown and prospered and have an opportunity to see the wonderful young people who roam those hallow halls as we once did, you can’t help but want to find a way to become a part of it all again. And after all those years, I finally have done it.

About a year ago I found the easiest, most meaningful and long lasting way in which to make a contribution to CAU - life insurance. In my case there was nothing magical about it. I simply bought a life insurance policy for $50,000 and named CAU the beneficiary. Because I wanted this arrangement to serve many students over a long period of time, I established an endowment in my name which will set up a scholarship program at my death. The principal ($50,000 policy) can never be touched. Only the interest that those funds earn each year will ever be touched and the principal will remain in place forever. The interest each year will be set aside for scholarships and the principal will last forever.

You don’t have to establish an endowment scholarship program as I did. You may choose to have your insurance benefits go to any portion of the university that you choose. That’s up to you.

I have agreed to serve as the National Chairman for this new program and I will be calling on a lot of my old friends to take advantage of this opportunity to insure CAU’s future for at least the next 100 years. Why not elevate CAU to the very highest rungs of collegiate life by being among those who’s names will be recognized in this program? I guarantee that you will be included in the very best among us.

Look to hear from those of us who are spearheading this program in the near future. If you would like to reach me before then, please feel free to contact me at 770-914-9515 or at jcmays@bellsouth.net