Thank you, again, for your support in 2021!  We would love to include you in The Lantern ad celebrating National Coming Out Day in 2022!  Tomorrow is the last day to donate to have your name included in the advertisement.  If you have already donated, thank you!  We appreciate any and all donations made to this very important campaign.  Check out the video below to hear from another one of our scholarship recipients, Jacob Depinet, about the impact your donations have made to their education and Ohio State experience. 

Thank you,

Kristina Toliver

Vice President, Scarlet and Gay 

Hello and thank you for being a supporter of the 2021 National Coming Out Day Ad campaign to raise money to provide scholarships to Ohio State LGBTQIA+ students! 

We were asked again by President Johnson and First Lady Veronica Meinhard to participate as a society in this year's President's Scholarship Challenge to once again help raise funds for scholarships in support of Scarlet and Gay as well as the Scarlet and Gray Advantage Program.  We have given ourselves a goal of $65,000 and believe that with the help and support of all of our fellow Buckeyes we will definitely be able to do it! 

Please consider visiting our 2022 scholarship page and supporting Scarlet and Gay and current and future Buckeyes!

The Ohio State University | National Coming Out Day Ad 2022 (osu.edu)

Sincerely, 

The Scarlet and Gay Alumni Society 

National Coming Out Day 2021 Supporters,

In this season of Thanksgiving, we wanted to thank you once again for your generous donations to the National Coming Out Day (NCOD) fundraising campaign this year. With your donations, matched by our Champions' donations, we were able to raise just over $50,000 in scholarship dollars for our current and future students through Scarlet & Gay scholarship program. Ohio State University's First Lady, Veronica Meinhard, has a message for all our donors. You can view her message with this link: https://vimeo.com/643957307

Remember that your donation of $25 or more has given you membership this year with Scarlet & Gay, so be on the lookout for opportunities to engage with us. We would also like to share that we have two new board members that will administer the NCOD Ad campaign next year. Jeff Speicher will serve as Chair for the NCOD Ad campaign, and Kristina Toliver will support him in her role as our new VP for Scarlet & Gay.

Thanks for your support and GO BUCKS!

Brian Orefice

Former VP, Scarlet & Gay 

Greetings,

On behalf of Scarlet & Gay: The OSU LGBTQ Alumni Society, I want to thank you for your support of the National Coming Out Day Ad 2021! Whether it is your first time donating, or you've been a supporter for years, it means a lot to our society and to current OSU undergraduate students. 

We're also excited to share that the NCOD ad fundraiser, combined with the support of "champion" donors through the Scholarship Challenge led by OSU's first lady Veronica Meinhard, has raised a record-breaking $51,426 this year! 

A copy of the NCOD ad 2021 is included in this message, and will run in The Lantern this Thursday, October 7. Your generosity not only serves to support our undergraduate scholarship program, but it affirms to our LGBTQ students that they are supported by a network of alumni, faculty, staff, and students at OSU.

With Pride,

Brian Orefice, Vice-President, Scarlet & Gay: The OSU LGBTQ Alumni Society