The 2024 March Challenge has come to a close: 161 donors from 26 chapters helped us raise over $31,000! THANK YOU to everyone who helped make the campaign so successful, especially those who made generous matching gifts:
- Jake Schmidt, Chi Delta ’11 (Duke)
- Jon Szynkowski, Epsilon Nu ’06 (Michigan State)
- Jeremy McKeon, Eta ’08 (Lehigh)
- Alex Senchak, Eta ’06 (Lehigh)
- David Hollis, Gamma Tau ’11 (Georgia Tech)
- Thomas Fox, Omicron ’00 (Illinois)
- Larry Rakers, Omicron ’86 (Illinois)
- Jim Platner, Phi Delta (Mary Washington)
- Patrick Gilrane, Psi ’83 (Hamilton)
The Gamma Tau (Georgia Tech) were the champions at 34 donors, with the Omicron (Illinois) right on their heels in second place! The Phi Delta had a very strong showing and took third and rounding out the top five were the Eta (Lehigh) in fourth, and the Epsilon Iota (RPI) and Omega (Chicago) chapters tied for fifth place.
And your gifts to this campaign truly make a difference – We all know that the fraternity experience matters and this campaign specifically raises money towards the Annual Fund that helps support the growth and expansion of Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Since we began the March Challenge in 2020, it has allowed us to do a number of important things to better support our chapters and grow the fraternity. As a result of this campaign, we’ve been able to:
- Hire a Director of Growth, the first employee of the fraternity to focus on expansion efforts.
- Provide Recruitment Certification Programs to all our chapters , over 100 members are now certified recruiters.
- Redevelop our New Member Education Guide “A Mighty Friendship”
- Further our Expansion efforts to restart dormant chapters. This fall we were able to return to Columbia University!
So thank you again to everyone who participated, helped spread the word and encouraged their brothers to give: we hope you all had some fun with the challenge. Your generosity will help Psi U grow and this achievement of raising over $31,000 is a great start to 2024!
While the challenge closed at Midnight Pacific on Monday, March 19th, you can still see the page here, the chapter leaderboard, and who has contributed from your chapter (and people are still contributing, which we appreciate!)
Below are some of the images we shared throughout the 2024 March Challenge, and we just wanted to thank you all again for making this campaign so much fun and such a success!
