The Phillips Society
Inaugurated in 1998, the Phillips Society honors the landmark $9-million endowment bequest of Bates’ fourth president, Charles F. Phillips, and his wife, Evelyn Minard Phillips.
Membership includes more than 550 alumni, parents, and friends who have provided for Bates in their estate plans, trusts, or other financial arrangements. We are grateful for each and every gift that helps ensure that the best of Bates will endure for generations to come.
Historically, planned gifts and bequests have been the single largest source of endowment support for Bates. Bequests and other planned gifts to Bates will help to ensure that the college can afford to maintain the highest level of academic excellence and its position of leadership among the nation’s finest liberal arts institutions.
An alumnus who has given more than $2 million in planned gifts to Bates calls his support “the closest thing I can imagine to an eternal gift to America. I have more confidence that Bates will be doing its work faithfully in a hundred or two hundred years than any other organization I can see.”
3 Simple Ways to Join the Phillips Society
- Name Bates in your will or trust.
- Name Bates a charitable beneficiary of your IRA, your bank account, donor-advised fund and/or life insurance policy.
- Donate assets in return for a secure income for you or your loved ones.
To indicate your interest in joining the Phillips Society or to learn more, please fill out the form below. As always, you can reach out to the Office of Gift Planning at any time.