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What Do My Gift Dollars to
Young Harris College Actually Do
Young Harris College’s top priority is providing sufficient financial aid to ensure
that students of the highest caliber are able to attend YHC regardless of their financial
circumstances. More than 90 percent of all students annually receive some form of
financial aid. Your annual gifts to Young Harris College help provide an essential bridge
between the College’s operating budget and endowment and tuition revenues, which
only cover about half of the costs involved in educating students.
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What Can You Make Possible
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9.2%
Institutional
Scholarships/
Grants
51.2%
Institutional Scholarships/
Grants
State Scholarships/Grants
Private Scholarships/Grants
Loans
Work-Study
Federal Grants
Generous Aid for YHC Students
More than half of the financial aid provided to YHC
students is institutionally funded, and generous support
of the Young Harris Annual Fund helps make this possible.
Other financial aid options include loans, grants, external
scholarships and work-study programs.
The Annual Fund
at Work
Nearly half of the revenue
received through the Young
Harris Annual Fund supports
student scholarships and
financial aid, while the rest
impacts the quality of a
student’s academic and
student-life experience.
helps freshmen discover programs, events, services and what it means to
be a member of the YHC community by attending the two-day summer
orientation program.
helps purchase biology lab equipment for teaching and student research.
helps supply the Department of Music with instruments and sheet music.
helps purchase computer software for the Center for Writing and
Speaking, which helps students learn to excel in written and spoken
communication assignments.
sends six students on the annual Spiritual Life Retreat.
18.51%
34.57%
Scholarships,
Grants and
Work Study
46.93%
Scholarships, Grants and
Work Study
Academic Experience
(Instruction and Support)
Student Development
Delivers
Big Fun
The Swingin’ Medallions
returned to Young Harris College
to headline the second
annual Big Dance,
hosted March 10 at the
Recreation and Fitness
Center by YHC’s
Board of Associates,
the driving force
behind the annual
Local Scholarship Campaign.
Board members sold 85 tables
in an effort to raise scholarship
dollars for local students. The
fun-filled evening of good food,
great fellowship and live music
brought 700 guests to campus
and raised more than $10,000
in scholarship funds to benefit
YHC students from Fannin,
Gilmer, Pickens, Towns and
Union counties in Georgia and
Cherokee and Clay counties
in North Carolina. Plans are
already underway to make next
year’s event even bigger and
better, scheduled
for Saturday,
March 9, 2013.
Forever Young Harris
$
1,000
$
1,500
$
4,000
provides scholarships to students like Hayden Verner,
a biology major who plans to become a physician assistant.
helps bring quality guest speakers and lecturers to campus.
sends a student on a study abroad/travel seminar course to places like
England, Italy and Russia.
For more information about annual giving opportunities, contact Senior Director
of Development Stacie Barrow at (404) 365-4871 or slbarrow@yhc.edu.
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