Make YOUR GIFT LAST FOREVER
Endowments, Designated Funds, & Planned Gifts
Endowment gifts to Purdue Convocations offer immediate and long-term impact. Funds are invested to address current needs while ensuring indefinite future support.
Impact for Today
Designated Funds
Designated funds are set aside for specific performances or programs. Gifts accumulate and are spent as needed by the respective program. A minimum of $10,000 is needed to establish a new designated fund in consultation with Convocations staff. New gifts can also be made to existing funds.
Convocations Innovative Performance Fund
This fund fulfills Convocations’ commitment to bringing new, experimental, and engaging artists to our stages that stretch the imagination and boundaries of audience members of all ages.
Piano Giving Circle
The Convos Piano Giving Circle brings together the Friends of Convocations who believe in the importance of making live piano music performances regularly available in our community. By pooling resources, the Circle will have a profound impact, making it possible to program world-class piano performances at affordable ticket prices.
William J. Fischang Fund
Established in honor of Bill Fischang, former Vice President for Student Services, to underwrite discounted tickets for Purdue University and Ivy Tech Community College students whose professors are relating performances to curricula through the Curricular Connections collegiat program.
Irwin E. Treager Fund
Established in honor of Irwin Treager, Aviation Technology Professor Emeritus, to underwrite discounted tickets for Purdue technology students whose professors are relating performances to curricula through the Curricular Connections program.
Fritz and Leona Cohen Fund
Established by Fritz and Leona Cohen to underwrite educational programming expenses, including ticket and transportation scholarships, artist and production fees associated with matinee performances at Purdue, and to support in-school artist residencies and workshops.
Michael Piggott Fund
Established by Michael Piggott to underwrite general P-12 educational programming, including ticket and transportation scholarships for P-12 students and schools attending a matinee performance at Purdue; subsidizing artist and production fees associated with presenting P-12 matinee performances at Purdue; or subsidizing artist and production fees associated with sending artists to local schools for residencies.
Impact for the Future
Endowments
An endowment gift is a powerful way to provide Convos with programmatic support in perpetuity. The principal of the gift is invested, and only a portion of the interest is spent each year. Gifts to create a new endowment, or gifts to support the Friends of Convocations endowment, may offer Lifetime membership benefits. Gifts of any amount may be given to any existing endowment.
Education and Access Support
The following endowments support two of the three components of our mission: Catalyze the Curriculum and Energize the Community. Purdue Convocations creates transformative learning experiences for students at Purdue, in P-12 schools, and lifelong learners in our community and broader region.
Preschool to 12th Grade (P-12)
Bill Edward Wilburn Endowment
Established by Janet G. Wilburn to provide support for in-school artist residencies and workshops.
Mary E. Seyfried Endowment for Arts Outreach and Engagement
Established by Mary Seyfried to provide support for in-school artist residencies and workshops.
Mary E. Seyfried Endowment for All Aboard for the Arts
Established by Mary Seyfried to provide bus transportation and tickets for students from schools with high economic need.
Collegiate
Christiane E. Keck and David L. Filmer Endowment
Established by Christiane Keck and David Filmer to underwrite discounted tickets for Purdue students.
Floyd H. and Patricia S. Garrott Endowment for Curricular Connections
Established by Floyd and Pat Garrott to provide discounted tickets for Purdue University and Ivy Tech Community College students whose faculty members have tied a performance to a course syllabus, support education research initiatives, and support P-12 matinee performances.
Community & Lifelong Learners
Mary E. Seyfried Endowment for Community Access to the Arts
Established by Mary Seyfried to provide greater access to the arts with complimentary tickets to underserved populations.
Programming Support
The following endowments support the three components of our mission: Catalyze the Curriculum, Energize the Community, and Distinguish the Institution. With these endowments, Convocations is empowered to be a leader in presenting world-class performing arts to the region.
Jeanne Compton Endowment for Artistic Excellence
Established by W. Dale and Jeanne C. Compton to inspire others in the community to support Convos by enhancing and perpetuating the presence of world-class performances at Purdue.
Davis Family Endowment
Established by Kevin and Janene Davis to provide performance support.
Dr. Michael Lee Seretny Endowment Fund
Established to provide support for performances as well as the entire umbrella of educational activities for pre-school through high school students
Mike and Pam Luenz Endowment for Classical Music
Established by Mike and Pam Luenz to provide support for classical music, with emphasis on Discovery Artists.
Robert B. and Patricia Peyton Truitt Endowment for Piano Performance
Established by Bob and Patti Truitt to provide performance support, with emphasis on piano-based solo or small ensemble classical and jazz music.
Leonora and Harold Woodman Endowment for Theatre
Established by Harold Woodman to provide support for theatre projects.
Alan and Gail Beck Endowment
Established by Alan and Gail Beck to provide support for jazz, vocal music, and innovative performances.
Hanni Aebersold and William A. Cramer Endowment
Leave a Lasting Legacy
Planned Gifts
Gifts made to Convocations through estate planning provide for the organization’s future and offer significant tax and financial benefits in return. Convocations has established the Legacy Society to recognize individuals who have made provisions for future support through bequests, annuities, charitable remainder trusts, or other planned gifts.