Bates Community,

Good morning!  As you have seen from recent e-mails, we are in open enrollment season and have begun our very important Community Giving Campaign.  Our local community depends on this fundraising drive and we are grateful for your support.  For the past several years over 200 members of our community have raised nearly $40,000 to support local charity organizations.  We write today to let you know that the United Way offers generous raffle prizes (gifts cards for heating oil, groceries, the italian bakery, L.L. Bean, golf outings, among many others) as part of their annual fundraising campaign.  If you would like to qualify for the United Way raffle prizes, you would need to go into Garnet Gateway to make your gift by 5 p.m. today.  If you would like to learn more about the United Way and what your gift would support, please enjoy this video.

To make your gift, login to Garnet Gateway, under the home tab you will find a list of “to do’s”.  Under the to do list, you can click on Community Giving Campaign to make your gift designations.  Any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you again for your support!

Most sincerely,

Erin Brown P’25 and Cary Gemmer ’07

P.S. We have Bates raffle prizes to come in the weeks ahead!