‘Tis the season for alumni, students and staff to kick off the giving season saying thank you for the donations from former Cabrini students. On Dec. 2, in Founder’s lobby from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cabrini College hosted Giving Tuesday for the first time. Cabrini now celebrates Giving Tuesday, which is a national holiday throughout the United States in which non-profit organizations can raise money following Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
The Cavalier Traditions group took pictures of alumni to post on their page as a way to say “thank you.” Jillian Megna, senior exercise science major, said, “I work very closely with Nick Guldin to promote Cavalier Traditions and the organization inspires me because I was a recipient of alumni donations and I think it’s only right that we give back to other students.”
The start of this tradition on campus this year was because they saw this holiday as a way of spreading awareness about giving and philanthropy, which is the desire to benefit humanity and improve material, spiritual and social welfare of humanity, especially in charitable organizations. Nick Guldin said that he hopes this tradition will continue over the years, and he thinks it is great that students are doing it because they are the ones that benefit from these great gifts that donors make.
The goal for Giving Tuesday is to let students know about philanthropy and how it impacts them and the donations that the alumni are giving will go to the areas of greatest need at the college. They put all the gifts in the Cabrini Annual Fund to help provide facilities, financial aid and service programs to the current students to give back to those who need it most. The Cavalier Traditions group goal is to have 10 percent of alumni as donors this year.
The Giving Tuesday event spreads awareness and shows how gifts impact the community and college overall. “We can help out by bringing different groups of people to these events so they can educate the community,” Amber Dietrich, sophomore social work major, said.
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