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Challenge Areas

What are Giving Day Challenge Areas?

Each year, we have some generous alumni step forward to provide matching gift funds to increase the impact of your gift to the area of campus that means the most to you. Amplify your gift through one of our many challenges below! Whether it's through an all-day, hourly, or donor-specific challenge, there are many chances to maximize your gift. Let's see if we can make it to this year's goal of 1,500 donors!

Main Challenges (All-Day)

Each gift counts as a "vote" to the area within Husson that the donor is most excited about. The team that hits one of the following six all-day challenges will win an additional $1,000. Gifts of $5 or more will only be counted toward the six main challenges. 
  • Has at least 5 donors and the highest percentage of alumni donors*
  • Has at least 5 donors and the highest percentage of recent alumni donors**
  • Has the highest number of donors***
  • Has the highest number of first-time donors****
  • Has at least 5 donors and the highest number of faculty/staff donors
  • Has at least 5 donors and the highest number of student donors
Plus, be sure to keep checking back here, or sign up to receive emails or text messages as challenges and funds will be released throughout the day.

Scroll down for a list of even more challenges to further your impact!

 

Donor-Specific Challenges

Class of 2024, help your college unlock $1,000 by getting 15% of seniors (undergrad and grad) in your college to make their minimum senior class gift of $20.24. Think of the collective impact! For example, these gifts can fund new equipment or student travel to conferences.

YOU have the power to make a difference for your college as the Class of 2024!

  • College of Business needs 42 seniors to give $20.24 to unlock $1,000
  • College of Health & Pharmacy needs 28 seniors to give $20.24 to unlock $1,000
  • College of Science & Humanities needs 28 seniors to give $20.24 to unlock $1,000

And, the college with the highest percentage of seniors that make their gift will be awarded the coveted Bobblehead Baldwin for the year! The winning college will be announced at this year's Senior Celebration on April 23, 2024. Will the College of Science and Humanities remain champions?

#HussonGivingDay Hashtag Challenge!

Show your Husson spirit by spreading the word about Giving Day! Create a TikTok or Instagram story, or share a photo decked out in Husson green featuring yourself, classmates, parents, friends or even Baldwin on Facebook or LinkedIn using #HussonGivingDay.

Let's celebrate together! Use #HussonGivingDay and call out the area of campus you support and why for a chance to win! One winner per platform will receive an additional $500 towards that area!

*Only applicable to posts made on Giving Day, 4/3/24 from 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. EDT on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram or Linkedin with the hashtag #HussonGivingDay. One post per individual on all platforms. Individuals must have made a gift in support of their favorite area of campus to be entered.

Who lives the furthest from north to south? We will match a Giving Day donor who lives the furthest away* with a match of $1,000 to the area supported! There will be one northernmost and one southernmost winner!

*distance will be determined in hour(s) from campus, One College Circle, Bangor, Maine to the address of the gift.

To be considered, all gifts must be received on April 3, 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. EDT

Are you a current or past parent (or guardian)? Show your support for the area of campus that had the most impact on your student(s)! When you make your gift, be sure to enter your student's full name (first, middle, last) and check the box that you are the parent/guardian! We will be matching the first $2,000 in parent/guardian gifts.

*Only applicable to gifts made on Giving Day, 4/3/24 from 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. EDT

Available until Fulfilled

Generously sponsored by the Husson Alumni Association Board and in celebration of our 125th Anniversary, be the 125th donor* of the day and have an additional $500 given to the area you supported.

*Number of unique gifts - each donor will be counted once regardless of how many areas they support.

Who will be the lucky one to mark the halfway point with 750 donors? Be the 750th donor* of the day and have an additional $500 given to the area you supported.

*Number of unique gifts - each donor will be counted once regardless of how many areas they support.

Generously sponsored by the Husson Alumni Association Board and in celebration of our 125th Anniversary, be the 1,250th donor* of the day and have an additional $500 given to the area you supported.

*Number of unique gifts - each donor will be counted once regardless of how many areas they support.

Last year, we received support from 1,409 donors! Be the "one more" donor as our 1,410th donor* and we will give the area you supported an additional $1,410!

*Number of unique gifts - each donor will be counted once regardless of how many areas they support.

Hourly Challenges

Be the first donor of the night at 12:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 3, and win a Husson swag bag!

Plus, we will give $500 to the first five areas that receive a donation!

Starting at 4 a.m. on Giving Day, Wednesday, April 3, we will be matching the first $2,500 received in gifts to ESports or any of our athletic teams! To see the athletic teams you can support, click here or to get directly to ESports, click here!

In honor of the sixth anniversary of Giving Day, the top three areas that has the largest number of gifts (yes! you can make multiple gifts over $6 to your favorite area!) from 6 to 7 pm EDT will earn an additional $1,000.

*All gifts over $6 will count.

BONUS ANNOUNCEMENT:  We will match the first $2,500 in gifts over $6 starting at 6 pm! That's right -- that's ON TOP of the $3,000 on the line for the top three areas!

Feel like waiting until the end? Be the last donor of the night (closest to midnight before April 4 begins) and we will give an additional $1,000 to the area you supported!
Challenge Fine Print

For the main challenges, gifts of $5 or more will be counted toward unlocking one of the six $1,000 gifts. Gifts of any amount will count for the remaining challenge opportunities.

The highest percentage of alumni giving is determined by the total number of alumni donors giving for a particular area in respect to the total number of gifts for said area. 

The highest percentage of recent alumni giving is determined by the total number of recent alumni donors giving for a particular area with respect to the total number of gifts for said area. Recent alumni are defined as individuals who have graduated within the past ten years.

A donor will be counted only once in each giving area. If a donor makes multiple gifts to the same area, they will be counted as one donor.

First-time donors are defined as donors who are making their first-ever gift to Husson, not their first time participating in Giving Day. 

  • All gifts received, either prior to or on Giving Day (April 3rd), will be counted towards the "Main Challenges," the donor count challenges (125, 750, 1250 and 1410), the social media challenge and senior class giving challenge.
  • We will be reporting on leaders of the Main Challenges from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. EDT. 
  • Only gifts received on Giving Day will be considered for the hourly challenges.
  • For the challenges, an area can win more than one match (i.e. highest number of donors and largest individual gift, etc.)

 

A unique gift is defined as the donor's gift to the fund and does not include any potential challenge or matching funds.