Small Colleges Can Get BIG Donations
Cape Cod Community College is not a large University. But this small institution punches well above its weight when it comes to donations. This year, they received a $5 million dollar donation from a local philanthropist called Maureen Wilkens. That is the largest single donation the College has ever received – equal to 51 percent of their endowment! So how did they do it? They have a fraction of the alumni that a school like Johns Hopkins University does. And fewer alumni o