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"Knowing that alumni donate each year motivates me to do
my best in class and gives me the drive to succeed."
-Julia Zuag, Second-Year Chemistry Major
Dear Linda,
I am writing to urge you to make a year-end donation in support of IIT students.
Your tax-deductible gift to the IIT Alumni Scholarship Fund will have a direct and immediate impact on IIT students in the upcoming spring semester. Your donation makes possible the resources that our hard-working students depend upon to achieve their educational goals. Fully 97% of IIT undergraduates rely on some type of financial aid.
Click here to support the next generation of IIT innovators and leaders.
Alternately, your gift to your college's general fund will also make a difference for today's students. From graduate fellowships and research stipends, to faculty support or lab and classroom improvements-your donation will be directed where needed most to support IIT graduate and undergraduate students in this challenging year.
Best wishes in 2011 ,
Jason E. Smith
Director of Annual Giving
Hi Linda,
Thanks for the feedback.
Although Financial Aid dishes out the money, the scholarship money is actually assigned to undergraduate students based on a matching system managed by our office, Institutional Advancement, in conjunction with the Admissions office. The IIT Alumni Scholarship Fund can be assigned to any undergraduates earning financial aid that have not been covered by more specific, or restricted, scholarships. Because of this, it is a very important fund for the university.
We try to keep things simple and focused on the web site for now in terms of limiting options. However, you can use the online giving form to designate your gift elsewhere if you don’t like the options provided. Simply leave the designation blank and enter an alternate choice in the Comments field.
If you would like to make a gift today and have it be more specifically restricted, you could designate it to the Department of Humanities Annual Fund (basically a where-needed-most fund restricted to that Dept), or to the Humanities Scholarship Fund (which our office would match with an undergraduate Humanities student). There are also some lab funds I might be able to direct you to, if you have something specific in mind.
Federal privacy laws would prohibit us from showing individual students, but your comment on Kiva and DonorsChoose is food for thought on a possible direction for our web presence.
Finally, in the recent, and ongoing, effort to improve university services for students called Students Speak, the financial aid office was targeted as one of the offices most in need of improvement. Here is there page detailing their efforts in response to the survey results - http://www.iit.edu/financial_
aid/resources/student_speak. shtml
Thanks again,
Jason
312-567-7112
