Donor Associations
Recognizing Your Generosity
| Trustee Associates | $250,000+ | The highest level of financial commitment to Wesleyan. |
| President’s Circle | $100,000 to $249,999 | Honoring the exceptional generosity of donors in support of Wesleyan’s highest priorities. |
| Founders Club | $50,000 to $99,999 | Includes donors whose leadership giving assures the strength of Wesleyan’s academic mission. |
| Willbur Fisk Associates | $25,000 to $49,999 | Commemorating the mission of Wesleyan’s founding president, that “Education should be directed in reference to two objects—the good of the individual educated and the good of the world.” |
| College Row Society | $10,000 to $24,999 | One of Wesleyan’s enduring physical landmarks—the silhouettes of North College, South College, Memorial Chapel, Zelnick Pavilion, the Patricelli ’92 Theater, and the Ring Family Stage. |
| John Wesley Associates | $5,000 to $9,999 | Named for the chief founder of Methodism for whom the University was named, the John Wesley Associates celebrates the era of denominational liberal arts colleges in 19th-century America. |
| 1831 Society | $2,500 to $4,999 | Recalling the founding year of Wesleyan University. Wesleyan opened its first term with 48 students and 5 faculty members—and cost students about 12 dollars. |
| Douglas Cannon Club | $1,000 to $2,499 | Commemorating Wesleyan’s traditional contest between the freshman class, charged with firing the cannon on Washington’s Birthday, and sophomore class, which attempted to thwart the effort by stealing the cannon. |
| Day Society | Consecutive Year Giving | Honoring alumni who have made consecutive annual gifts to Wesleyan for 5, 10, 15 and 20+ years. Named in memory of David M. Day ’27, whose unbroken string of gifts to Wesleyan inspired generations of alumni to make Wesleyan a philanthropic priority every year. |
| Olin Associates | Planned Gift | Honoring Stephen Henry and Emeline Harriman Olin whose planned gifts in the early 1920s helped nurture Wesleyan into a leading liberal arts institution. Olin Associates sustain a tradition of vital importance to the University by including Wesleyan in their estate plans. |
Note: GOLD (Graduates Of the Last Decade) alumni join the Donor Associations at half the rate. GOLD alumni are also recognized for consecutive-year giving in the Day Society during the first four years after graduation.