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The Gift Planning Office is here to serve your deferred giving needs and to assist with certain kinds of outright gifts. We are pleased to work with you to find creative giving strategies that enhance the well-being of you and your family while helping Oberlin reach its long-term objectives.
Planned gifts are a tremendous source of support for the College’s operations and endowment. During The New Oberlin Century campaign that concluded in 2004, Oberlin received $87.7 million in commitments and gifts through matured bequests, bequest expectancies and planned gifts. Because of their importance, estate and planned gifts are recognized through The Charles Martin Hall Heritage Society.
Oberlin currently manages a $60 million portfolio in deferred gifts through our financial management partner, Kaspick & Company. These funds are invested separately from the College’s endowment and provide a pipeline of future support for the College.
This website provides information to get you started on the pathway toward making a planned gift. We welcome and encourage you to contact us at any time to discuss your individual circumstances. We can even prepare a personal illustration of your giving options and the many ways your gifts at any level can benefit Oberlin’s students and faculty.
Taking the next step:
To learn more about making a planned gift, please contact us at gift.planning@oberlin.edu or (440) 775-8599. We also encourage you to fill out the request for information form so we may better assist you.
 Professorship Helps Faculty Star Illuminate Mysteries of the Universe
"Astronomy,” says Dan Stinebring, the Francis D. Federighi Professor of Natural Science at Oberlin, “is loaded with mind-blowing concepts.” So on the first day of Introductory Astronomy, he sets out to introduce the hundred-plus students packed into Craig Lecture Hall for his popular course to at least one of them. He dims the lights, cues the video, and treats them to Powers of 10, a film that starts with an image of a sleeping man in a field and then moves farther away by a power of 10 every 10 seconds, transporting students in a matter of minutes from the human scale to the edge of the universe. The effect is eye-opening and exhilarating. “They start to realize just how vast the universe is,” says Stinebring. And they’re hooked.
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