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The Ferrum Fund is the operational lifeline that keeps Ferrum College moving — every day, for every student.

If it touches students, the Ferrum Fund makes it possible.

Why the Ferrum Fund is so important

Ferrum College offers a hands-on experiential learning environment few other colleges can match. Our students work hard and are eager and curious at their core. Approximately 99% of our students on campus receive financial aid. A high percentage of Ferrum College students are the first in their families to attend college. Many of our students work 30-40 hours a week while attending school full-time. Many are also student-athletes with demanding practice and travel schedules. They have determination that often exceeds their resources. When you support the Ferrum Fund, the unrestricted nature of the fund allows Ferrum College to respond to the areas of greatest need and in the moments of opportunity for our students. 

Why Give to the Ferrum Fund

The Ferrum Fund relies on annual donations to keep it strong and at a level sufficient to meet the needs of our students and campus. By giving to The Ferrum Fund, you enable the programs that keep students connected with the faculty and staff who help them explore, develop personally and professionally, and achieve their educational dreams. You help students who enter with promise to thrive and leave with purpose—a purpose that will impact their communities, the region, and the world through service, a strong work ethic, ability, and leadership.

Gifts to the Ferrum Fund strengthen Ferrum College as Virginia’s College of Opportunity—nurturing students, connecting them to hands-on experiences inside and outside the classroom that educate and inspire. Giving to the Ferrum Fund can help provide internships, academic activities, support clubs and organizations, a community devoted to the success of each student, and much more.

Your Ferrum Fund Gift Has an Immediate Impact.

Recurring gifts to the Ferrum Fund are a great way to impact students and their experiences right away. Your gift to the Ferrum Fund can immediately help 

  • Keep Ferrum College’s tuition as low as possible
  • Provide emergency financial aid
  • Underwrite the Panther Promise—which provides free in-state tuition to qualifying Virginia students—ensuring that they can access an education
  • Support academic programs and faculty
  • Provide hands-on experiential learning opportunities
  • Maintain campus facilities and technology
  • Fund student success services
  • Respond quickly to unexpected needs

The Need

Transformational growth of the annual unrestricted Ferrum Fund is critical to help Ferrum College meet the growing needs of our students and campus. 

How You Can Help

When Ferrum College alumni and friends come together, small monthly gifts become transformational. With $1.50 per day, you can have a significant impact.

If 2,000 Ferrum College friends and alumni set up a recurring gift of $45 a month (about $1.50 per day), the Ferrum Fund will grow by $1M in just 12 months—and we all will have worked together to achieve transformation that helps our students achieve their educational dreams. It can only happen if you are one of them.

Be a Panther who joins us on this journey to transformation.  

Click here to set up your recurring gift today.

Together, we all rise.

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