{"id":49304,"date":"2024-08-21T17:02:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T17:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/?p=49304"},"modified":"2024-08-21T17:28:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T17:28:21","slug":"introducing-augsburgs-giving-societies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/2024\/08\/21\/introducing-augsburgs-giving-societies\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Augsburg\u2019s Giving Societies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/Copy-MarketingDayA_16-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49305 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/Copy-MarketingDayA_16-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Two students jumping with their arms up outside of Old Science. The sign behind them reads &quot;Small to our students. Big for the world.&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/Copy-MarketingDayA_16-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/Copy-MarketingDayA_16-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/Copy-MarketingDayA_16-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/Copy-MarketingDayA_16-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/Copy-MarketingDayA_16-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">To celebrate and recognize the generosity of our Augsburg Fund donors, Augsburg University has established giving societies. Annual gifts at any society or sustainer level secures a bright future for our students, but each society will be recognized distinctly according to their cumulative yearly (from June 1-May 31 each year) giving to the Augsburg Fund.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ambassadors Society<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$1,000 &#8211; $2,499.99<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Leadership Society<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$2,500 &#8211; $4,999.99<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Directors Society<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$5,000 &#8211; $9,999.99<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Deans Society<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$10,000 &#8211; $24,999.99<\/span><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Presidents Society<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$25,000 &#8211; $49,999.99<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Founders Societ<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>y<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$50,000+<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #660033;\">Other Giving Societies<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Maroon and Silver Society<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gifts of $1,000 or more to support <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">any<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fund or initiative at Augsburg.<br \/>\n<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Note: If you make a gift of $1,000 or more to the Augsburg Fund, you will be a member of the Maroon and Silver Society <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> one of the above societies.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Augsburg Sustainers<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Augsburg Sustainers make a monthly contribution to Augsburg University<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sven Oftedahl Society<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sven Oftedahl Society members have committed a planned gift to Augsburg University<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information on Augsburg\u2019s Giving Societies, visit our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/celebrating-philanthropy\/giving-societies\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">webpage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Thank you for investing in a bright future for our students!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate and recognize the generosity of our Augsburg Fund donors, Augsburg University has established giving societies. Annual gifts at any society or sustainer level secures a bright future for our students, but each society will be recognized distinctly according to their cumulative yearly (from June 1-May 31 each year) giving to the Augsburg Fund. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,205,4],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-49304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augsburg-fund-2","category-augsburg-giving","category-donor-recognition","tag-giving-societies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49304"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49324,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49304\/revisions\/49324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}