Philanthropy

Paturzo, of Huntington Beach, California, credits scholarships and an internship at Johns Hopkins University with changing the trajectory of his future.

Loyal annual donors since graduation, Ben ’11 and Sarah Graves ’12 Lunka most recently made a five-year gift commitment to name a room at The Inn at Elon.

Generous support from the William E. Simon Foundation advances the future of STEM and cross-disciplinary studies as part of the Elon LEADS Campaign.

Longtime Elon supporters Bob and Barbara Byrd are including Elon in their estate plans to support the Department of Music, Elon Academy and the “It Takes a Village” Project.

The generous gift from the McMichael Family Foundation, including Elon Trustee Mac McMichael P’99, Life Trustee Gail McMichael Lane P’96 GP’23 and Flavel McMichael Godfrey, will support Elon’s new Innovation Quad, a priority of the Elon LEADS Campaign.

Through the Students First Fund, the Elon community has a new way to support students who have been affected by the economic impact of COVID-19.

Olivia Duffield ’20 gained undergraduate research opportunity and important mentorship through the Elon College Fellows program and Glen Raven Undergraduate Research Grant.

Elon alumnus and Trustee Dr. William N.P. Herbert ’68 and wife Marsha Herbert, of Charlottesville, Virginia, are among the donors making major gifts to the Elon LEADS Campaign to support the university’s planned Innovation Quad.

A grant from the Greensboro Virus Relief Fund is helping the law school’s Small Business & Entrepreneurship Clinic hire a practitioner-in-residence to coordinate its new COVID-19 Small Business Response Initiative.

Martin, an Elon alumnus and parent from Tinton Falls, New Jersey, will lead the second year of the campaign’s three-year public phase.