Dear Donors,

Thank you so much for your generous contributions to the Bill Beedles First Generation Student Scholarship. We were amazed by the amount of support we received to honor Bill. With your help, we raised $56,000 from 80 donors for the scholarship in just over a month. That is more than double our initial goal of $25,000. Your gifts will directly support tuition for first-generation students in the KU School of Business, and now we can help even more. 

We also shared all of your heartfelt comments with Bill. You can only imagine the joy it brought him to read your memories from the past 40 years. It is truly a testament to the number of lives Bill has touched during his teaching career, and we are humbled and eternally grateful you have helped us deliver this message to him.

Thank you for your support, and please continue to share the project with anyone we may have missed during this final week. 

Rock Chalk!

Thank you to everyone that has donated to the Bill Beedles First Generation Student Scholarship so far. Because of your incredible generosity, we’ve already exceeded our initial goal of $25,000, then $30,000 and now $40,000! We know your contributions mean the world to Bill.

We now have a new goal of $50,000, which will endow this scholarship so Bill’s legacy can live on far into the future. We still have 40 days to fundraise, so please continue to spread the word to friends, colleagues, and former students who may want to contribute.

Thank you again for all your hard work and your generous donations to honor Bill’s legacy. Onward!”