Looking to the Future of Fundraising for AELF.
The 2026 Giving Tuesday & December Campaign is our most important giving season of the year. Every gift underwrites scholarships, oratorical coaching, the ALPHA, AMA, and ARA academies, the Keep Our Youth Alive (KOYA) initiative, our Collegiate Support Opportunities, the AELF-TEMP Mini-Grant Program, and much more as we build scholar-leaders, strengthen the community, and guard the safety and well-being of our youth so that they may arrive home safely each day.
Fuel the 2027 Educational & Leadership Program Year.
Building on a historic 2025 season, we are preparing an even bolder 2026 campaign with new digital tools, expanded matching gift opportunities, and a renewed call to friends, members, alumni, and corporate partners to invest in what works.
- Give early as every dollar committed before Giving Tuesday amplifies our matching pool.
- Become a monthly K.O.Y.A. subscriber to sustain year-round programming.
- Refer three friends to help us grow the circle of AELF supporters.
- Ask your employer about a corporate matching gift to double your impact.
Preparing the 2027 Program Year.
Your Giving Season 2026 gift directly funds recruitment, curriculum, coaching, and scholarships for the 2027 cohort of Scholar-Leaders.
The Alpha Educational & Leadership Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (Tax ID 59-3560158). All gifts are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
What if everyone gave just 10% more?
In 2025, 94 donors gave $11,729.06. If each of those friends increases their gift by only 10% in 2026 — about $12.48 more on the average gift — we clear our $12,500 goal without adding a single new donor. And if the giving and the giving circle both grow 10%? That case is below.
What last season's donors gave
Same friends, 10% more each
Same gifts, 9 new donors
10% more from every donor and 10% more donors.
The two gains multiply rather than add: $11,729.06 × 1.10 × 1.10. About 103 friends, each giving an average of $137.26, would close the season at $14,192.16 — $1,692.16 over goal and $2,463.10 more than 2025.
No single donor has to do anything heroic: about $12.48 more per person, plus a few new friends invited through Refer 3, carries the season past goal with room to spare.