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No matter the theme, at each luncheon there is a student at every table — usually one student and nine donors to a roundtable. This really hits home with attendees, who love talking with students and seeing, firsthand, how their gifts help change lives.

“Everybody’s got their favorite charity. Some people really like education, some really like the medical world, some really like Habitat for Humanity, etc. — so you need to give them a reason not to forget you and for you to be one of their favorite ones,” Pfeffer-Nohre says. “You do that by showing them how their gift changed a life — how somebody’s life is different because of something [they] did.”