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Stories of Impact

Every gift becomes someone's turning point. These are the students, teachers and places your generosity is already changing.

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Illinois Wesleyan students presenting their research at a poster session

The summer that changed the question

Priority 1: Accelerate · Students

A funded research summer turned a pre-med hunch into a published paper — and a different career entirely.

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An Illinois Wesleyan professor working through a problem at the whiteboard with students

A chair that holds a department

Priority 2: Cultivate · Faculty

An endowed professorship let one department recruit the scholar it had been chasing for six years.

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Illinois Wesleyan students talking together in a campus commons

A room built for making

Priority 3: Enhance · Community

Inside the Petrick Idea Center, a student venture went from sketch to shipped in eleven weeks.

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Illinois Wesleyan students presenting their research at a poster session

Why she came back

Priority 1: Accelerate · Alumni

Thirty years after graduating, an alumna funded the scholarship line that once had her name on it.

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