Centenary University’s mission is simple, yet far-reaching: to educate leaders who will someday shape our world. Our benefactors—alumni, parents, business professionals, companies, and friends—play a critical role in this mission. Your gifts to Centenary University fund top academic programs, scholarships for deserving students, outstanding athletics, campus improvements, and much more. There are many ways you can support Centenary University and advance the future of our students. Make an immediate impact through an annual gift, create your own legacy, or make a long-lasting impact through planned or endowment giving. These flexible options allow you to design the gift that works best for you and your loved ones. Here are some ways to make the biggest impact:
The Centenary Fund provides immediate, flexible resources that make a direct impact on the student experience, including through scholarships and financial assistance. Through their gifts, donors fund bold learning initiatives that create extraordinary opportunities for Centenary University students.
Your gift to the unrestricted scholarship fund provides opportunities for young adults to experience the life-changing power of a Centenary education. At Centenary, 99% of all incoming freshmen receive a grant or scholarship, with an average award of more than $27,000. Every gift—whether large or small—helps to make a Centenary education affordable for students who may not otherwise attend college.
Create a lasting legacy while providing crucial support for the University, now and in the future.
Planned gifts allow you to support Centenary, while receiving tax and other financial incentives.
Support Centenary while gaining extra tax advantages through your gift of appreciated securities.
Centenary University relies on annual gifts from donors like you to provide a predictable source of funding that supports leading academic programs, extracurricular activities and athletics, campus improvements, and more.
Double the impact of your generosity to Centenary through a matching gift from your employer.
A select group of benefactors leads the charge in helping to shape Centenary University’s future. The dedicated members of The Centenary Society and the President’s Advisory Council (PAC) have demonstrated their commitment to the University through a high level of sustained support.
The Friends of Taylor Memorial Library is a volunteer group established to sponsor cultural events for the Centenary University community and raise funds to donate to the Library in order to enhance the services, informational resources, and equipment it provides.
By supporting Taylor Memorial Library, you are helping Centenary University provide the best possible research resources for its students and the community at large. By making gifts of time and resources, the Friends of Taylor Memorial Library will help to ensure its collections — more than 40,000 print materials, nearly 270,000 electronic journals, newspapers, and books, and a wide variety of databases and technological assets — can grow and change with the evolving needs of Centenary students.
Members of the Friends of Taylor Memorial Library will receive invitations to special Library events, as well as recognition in the Honor Roll of Donors and more. This volunteer membership group consists of alumni, faculty, staff, students and other individuals or companies in the greater Centenary University community, who are interested in promoting its goals."