Giving | By Anna Brennan-Curry
March 17, 2025

On March 12 and 13, 2025, Anselmians supported Saint Anselm College during the 11th annual Days of Giving. This year’s campaign raised more than $1.32 million from more than 4,100 donors over two days, ensuring that current and future students may continue to have a transformative experience at Saint Anselm College. 

Generous donations to important initiatives such as scholarships, the Professional Development Initiative (PDI), the debate society, club sports, and the Jean School for Nursing and Health Sciences, and a number of community-focused projects such as the High School Ethics Circle and the Meelia Center’s Access Academy – just to name a few - will impact the lives of our students, faculty, staff, and community. 

There was a tremendous response to the #HawksSoarHigher athletics challenge led by interim Director of Athletics Phil Rowe, student-athletes, coaches, and staff, where more than 2,600 donors supported the many varsity sports programs, athletics scholarships, and athletics operations.

Some updates on other challenges:

  • Reunion classes, led by the class of 1975 in participation and the class of 1985 in total giving, raised almost $231,000.
  • The soon-to-graduate class of 2025 won the student competition for participation with more than a third of the class making a gift. The recently graduated class of 2024 won the young alumni challenge with more than 70 gifts coming in.
  • In the club sports competition, Ultimate Frisbee led the pack with more than 50.

“I would like to thank everyone for their generous participation in making our 11th annual Days of Giving a success,” said James F. Flanagan P’23, ’25, senior vice president and chief advancement officer. “Special thanks to the Advancement team for their hard work and adaptability.  In addition, I offer my gratitude to our campus partners and our alumni and parent volunteers who helped support this Anselmian tradition.” 

Saint Anselm College would like to thank the generous donors who provided a record number of match and challenge gifts during the campaign including: 

  • anonymous challenges for athletics, donor milestones, nursing;
  • Jeffery ’69 & Irene Burke for reunion and Center for Ethics in Society challenges;
  • David Canarie '78 & Pamela Koonz-Canarie '80 for the Debate Team;
  • Susan Connelly ’92 for women’s athletics and club sports;
  • Linda Connly '87 for athletics;
  • Kate (Rogers) Coppins '92 for athletics;
  • Mark Cronin for the Abbey Players;
  • Sheila '74 & Jack Evjy for the Jean School’s Technology Maintenance Fund;
  • Kevin Fitzgerald '00 for the Professional Development Initiative;
  • Jim & Erin Flanagan P'23, '25 for the Jean School’s Technology Maintenance Fund;
  • Charles Gadbois '88 & James Dillon '88 for the Melucci, Scholarship;
  • Paddy & Joseph Favazza for a faculty/staff challenge;
  • Kathy Kayros for the Grappone Humanities Institute;
  • Richard Meelia '71, HD'14 for the Meelia Center;
  • Daniel Puopolo ’98 for the Professional Development Institute and a class challenge;
  • Robert ’71 & Susan Savard for donor milestones;
  • George '96, P'25, '27 & Amy Sullivan '97, P'25, '27 for club sports;
  • Michael '70, P'01 & Anne-Marie Sullivan P'01 for baseball;
  • Geoffrey & Kathleen Gallo ’85, Walter J. Gallo Jr. ’83, & Kara Gallo Fountain ‘91 for the Gallo Endowed Family Scholarship;
  • Anders & Amy Vikstrom P'25 for the Jean School’s Technology Maintenance Fund;
  • Michael '88 & Patricia Rockett '88 for scholarships;
  • James Mulcahy P’06 and Tim Mulcahy P’28 for the Kathleen (Mulcahy) Miskell Memorial Fund for Anselmian B.R.E.A.K; and
  • James ’85 & Tracey ’87 Van Hoof for scholarships, reunion, and athletics challenges.
     

A special thank you to Mariel Capulli and the Annual Giving team; the entire College Advancement team; Mitch Capelle and the Office of Athletics, the College Communications and Marketing team, and the faculty, staff, students, and members of the monastic community who supported the campaign.

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