Have you Heard?
The tradition continues on December 3rd!

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

#TuftsGivingTuesday was a great success--see below for updates.  Missed out on the fun but still want to support your favorite cause?   You can make your gift at: www.tuftsgiving.org

 

Have you heard?  There are 60+ challenge gifts to secure this #TuftsGivingTuesday.  You can support first generation students, financial aid, student life, research, athletics, our a cappella groups and countless other causes. Scroll through the challenges at the right and then pick your favorite school, program, department.

 

Whatever you do just...JOIN THE HERD & BE HEARD!         

 

Wondering what to do after you've made your gift? Easy! Post, email, and tweet your Tufts network and remind them that #TuftsGivingTuesday is on! Don't forget to tag all the Jumbos you know.

 

Join the Heard on December Third!

 

You Were Heard!
Dec 04, 2019

The noise on #TuftsGivingTuesday was off the charts. It was the sound of the Tufts community creating a brighter world. 

 

Thank you for giving! Together, our herd crushed more than 60 challenges university-wide, supporting financial aid and fellowships, student activities, veterinary medical care, athletics, global health, and so much more.  Thank you for making a resounding difference! 

Rank State Donors
1 MA 3059
2 NY 959
3 CA 724
$25,000
Be Heard Challenge #1
How quickly can we get to 2,500 gifts? Jon Levy, E83, is challenging us to start off #TuftsGivingTuesday in a Jumbo way! We got this!
2,500 / 2,500 Gifts
Completed
$25,000
Be Heard Challenge #2
Whoa, that was fast! Ken Rosh, A85, A19P, A21P, & Merideth Schlesinger, A19P, A21P, are now challenging you to reach 5,000 donors. $25,000 is on the line. Let's keep it going!
5,000 / 5,000 Gifts
Completed
$10,000
Be Heard Challenge #3
We have 5,000 gifts in the bag and are now going for 6,000! Jim Lawton, E88, is challenging us to keep the momentum going.
6,000 / 6,000 Gifts
Completed
$10,000
Be Heard Challenge #4
6,000 gifts already! Holly Kelly, J88, & Andrew Lipsky want to encourage us to make the magic happen. 1,000 more gifts secures their $10,000 challenge gift.
7,000 / 7,000 Gifts
Completed
$10,000
Be Heard Challenge #5
Bravo! Another goal reached. Another challenge to go! Courtney Murray Goldsmith, J93, putting $10,000 on the line to encourage us to get 1,000 more gifts.
8,000 / 8,000 Gifts
Completed
$5,000
Be Heard Challenge #6
We are rolling now. Tom O'Brien, A60, A92P, is so impressed and wants to see how far the Tufts community can go. Another 500 donors will unlock his $5,000.
8,500 / 8,500 Gifts
Completed
$5,000
Be Heard Challenge #7
Wow! The Tufts community is awe-inspiring! 8,500 gifts so far--Sarah Barnett, A02, is challenging us to get 9,000. Let's go!
9,000 / 9,000 Gifts
Completed
$2,500
Be Heard Challenge #8
Did you hear? We just set a #TuftsGivingTuesday donor record! Most donors ever! Tufts friends Bruce & Trudi Denlinger are launching us into new territory with another challenge. 250 gifts for $2,500! You've got this!
9,250 / 9,250 Gifts
Completed
$2,500
Be Heard Challenge #9
We can't believe this! Let's go for 250 more! $2,500 in challenge funds are available thanks to Dr. Lara Oboler, J91 & Louis Jaffe.
9,500 / 9,500 Gifts
Completed
$2,500
Be Heard Challenge #10
The global Jumbo community is the best. You are all rocking it today! And, so is George Mussalli, A95. He's putting up another $2,500 in challenge funding. Can you get us to 9,750 gifts?
9,750 / 9,750 Gifts
Completed
$15,000
Cummings School: Challenge 1
Martin & Linda Haspel believe firmly in the power of the work that Cummings School does to heal animals, help humans and transform global health. Choose your Cummings Cause this #TuftsGivingTuesday and help unlock their challenge gift.
200 / 200 Gifts
Completed
$5,000
Cummings School: Challenge 2
The Haspels believe the Cummings School community can set a #TuftsGivingTuesday record--getting to 275 total gifts would do that. Support the causes you care about and help unlock an additional challenge gift.
275 / 275 Gifts
Completed
$30,000
Dental Challenge
This #TuftsGivingTuesday, the Dental Alumni Association (TUDAA) board is banding together to challenge its community to do more. Help set new one-day giving records at Tufts Dental and support today's aspiring dental professionals!
350 / 350 Gifts
Completed
$15,000
Fletcher Sub-Challenge: Student Academic and Experiential Opportunities
Leslie Puth (F11) recognizes that some of the best learning at Fletcher happens outside the classroom. That's why she is eager to offer today's challenge to support those activities! Join her and help secure her gift.
100 / 100 Gifts
Completed
$20,000
Friedman School 150 Challenge
Every day, Friedman School faculty and students seek to improve the nutritional health and well-being of populations throughout the world. To support this global impact, a Friedman School volunteer leader is challenging us to aim high. Give to any cause at the Friedman School and help secure a $20,000 challenge gift.
150 / 150 Gifts
Completed
$25,000
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Challenge 1
The Rumsey Family is committed to supporting the work and research happening by faculty and graduate students within the departments that comprise the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Show your support and help GSAS secure their generous challenge gift.
75 / 75 Gifts
Completed
$15,000
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Challenge 2
A GSAS alumna is inspired to help the school set new #GivingTuesday records. Give to support the school, help set a new record and unlock her challenge!
100 / 100 Gifts
Completed
$25,000
TUSM: Danh Nguyen, M94’s Challenge
Danh wants to start the day off with a boom. Can we reach 250 gifts before noon?
250 / 250 Gifts
Completed
$25,000
TUSM: Tom Hedges, M75’s Challenge
How quickly can we reach 500 gifts? Tom knows that our community understands the collective power of their gifts and will rise to the challenge!
500 / 500 Gifts
Completed
$10,000
Sackler Campaign Committee Challenge
How quickly can we get to 100 gifts? Campaign Committee members are challenging the community to get us 50% of the way to a record breaking 200.
100 / 100 Gifts
Completed
$10,000
SMFA at Tufts Challenge
Walter Bentson, Carol Daynard (DIP09) and Mimi Jigarjian (DIP11) are challenging the SMFA at Tufts community to come together on #TuftsGivingTuesday. Make a gift and be heard!
100 / 100 Gifts
Completed
$3,000
SMFA at Tufts Challenge 2
Now we have 100 gifts in the bag, an anonymous donor is challenging us to do even more! Let's do this!
30 / 30 Gifts
Completed
$20,000
Twenty for Tisch College Challenge 1
Let's kick of #TuftsGivingTuesday with a celebration! Tisch College was founded twenty years ago and Andrew Chaban, A85, A23P, wants to help us mark the occasion with a $20,000 challenge for the first 100 gifts.
100 / 100 Gifts
Completed
$20,000
Twenty for Tisch College Challenge 2
If one celebration was fun, two is truly tremendous! David Fitzgerald, A81, is championing a second challenge to help us set a #TuftsGivingTuesday record. Can we get to 200 total donors by the end of the day?
200 / 200 Gifts
Completed
$25,000
Undergraduate Financial Aid Challenge
Have you Heard? Student financial aid is one of the most popular and high-impact causes to support at Tufts. Stacey Morse, E77, is challenging us this #TuftsGivingTuesday to join her and support financial aid for today's undergraduate students.
600 / 600 Gifts
Completed
$10,000
Undergraduate Greatest (Needs) Challenge
Jumbo alum from the class of 1990 is celebrating all things Tufts by encouraging donors to give to the area of greatest need within the Tufts Fund for Arts, Sciences, and Engineering. Join him and be heard!
600 / 600 Gifts
Completed
$5,000
FIRST Challenge
The FIRST center, along with the BEST and BLAST programs, support all aspects of life for first generation undergraduate students. Diane Kalishman, J87, is leading the herd on this challenge.
150 / 150 Gifts
Completed
$25,000
1852 Student Giving Challenge
Students are big supporters on #TuftsGivingTuesday. Thomas Saujet, A96, and Hannah Targoff Saujet, J98, along with Kevin Oye, E79, want to celebrate this by serving as this year's student giving challenge donors. 1852, go brown and blue!
1,852 / 1,852 Gifts
Completed
$25,000
Be Heard Around The World
If you live outside the US, this is the challenge for you. Christabel Lo, E84, A85, is encouraging Tufts fans who live farther afield to show your support. Watch the heat map light up as people from all over the world join in this Tufts tradition.
500 / 500 Gifts
Completed
Leaderboard
A CAPPELLA CHALLENGE: Who can hit the highest note?
The top three groups with the most donors walk away with a challenge gift: $500 for #1, $300 for #2 and $200 for #3.
Rank Prize Group Gifts
1 $500 sQ! 122
2 $300 Jackson Jills 98
3 $200 Shir Appeal 89
4 Full Sound Vocal Group 54
5 The Ladies of Essence 49
6 Enchanted 24
7 Amalgamates 23
8 Beelzebubs 6
9 S-Factor 3
Ended
Leaderboard
VARSITY ATHLETICS: Jumbo Division
The team that raises the highest number of gifts will receive an extra $1,000 to support their team.
Rank Prize Team Gifts
1 $1,000 Varsity Rowing (M/W) 389
2 Varsity Swimming & Diving (M/W) 386
3 Varsity Track & Field/Cross Country (W) 262
4 Varsity Track & Field/Cross Country (M) 212
5 Varsity Lacrosse (M) 174
6 Varsity Football 149
Ended
Leaderboard
VARSITY ATHLETICS: Brown Division
The team that raises the highest number of gifts will receive an extra $1,000 to support their team.
Rank Prize Team Gifts
1 $1,000 Varsity Lacrosse (W) 314
2 Varsity Sailing (Co-ed) 271
3 Varsity Field Hockey 143
4 Varsity Baseball 136
5 Varsity Ice Hockey (M) 123
6 Varsity Soccer (M) 45
7 Varsity Squash (M/W) 25
8 Varsity Basketball (M) 18
Ended
Leaderboard
VARSITY ATHLETICS: Blue Division
The team that raises the highest number of gifts will receive an extra $1,000 to support their team.
Rank Prize Team Gifts
1 $1,000 Varsity Basketball (W) 304
2 Varsity Softball 210
3 Varsity Volleyball (W) 103
4 Varsity Soccer (W) 98
5 Varsity Tennis (M) 50
6 Varsity Fencing (W) 50
7 Varsity Tennis (W) 47
8 Varsity Golf (M) 16
Ended
Leaderboard
CLUB SPORTS: Brown Division
The team that raises the highest number of gifts will receive an extra $500 to support their team.
Rank Prize Team Gifts
1 $500 Club Rugby (W) 176
2 Club Cheerleading 158
3 Club Equestrian 19
4 Club Volleyball (W) 13
5 Club Water Polo (W) 9
6 Club Volleyball (M) 8
7 Club Water Polo (M) 6
8 Club Lacrosse (W) 6
9 Club Cycling 1
10 Club Table Tennis 1
11 Club Baseball 0
12 Club Fencing (M) 0
13 Club Ice Hockey 0
14 Club Shotokan 0
Ended
Leaderboard
CLUB SPORTS: Blue Division
The team that raises the highest number of gifts will receive an extra $500 to support their team.
Rank Prize Team Gifts
1 $500 Club Tae Kwon Do 199
2 Club Skiing 172
3 Club Ultimate (W) 31
4 Club Rock Climbing 26
5 Club Rugby (M) 11
6 Club Ultimate (M) 9
7 Club Tennis 6
8 Club Soccer (W) 5
9 Club Soccer (M) 5
Ended
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