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Ted Gomez, ENG’08, W’08
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Chrysta Irolla, ENG'08
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How to Endow a Scholarship

1. Make it Personal
  • Make the choice. Create a new scholarship or add to an existing fund.
  • Call it your own. If you endow a scholarship, you may name it.
  • Show your preference. Choose a student from a particular geographic region or academic school.
  • Personalize it. Get updates on your scholar’s academic experience, meet with your recipient at special events.
 
2. Choose a Level
$850,000
 creates a Gateway Scholarship
supports one high-need student each year in perpetuity
$500,000
 creates a Freedom Scholarship
meets the average grant need of one student each year in perpetuity
- a gift of $400,000 can be matched with $100,000 in Challenge Funds
$500,000 creates a named Challenge Fund
recognized by naming one student recipient each year in perpetuity; provides the matching funds needed to encourage up to 20 other donors to establish endowed scholarships
$150,000
 creates an Opportunity Scholarship
partially supports one student each year in perpetuity
- a gift of $125,000 can be matched with $25.000 in Challenge Funds
$100,000
 creates a Young Alumni Scholarship
available to alumni up to 15 years after graduation; establishes a permanent endowed fund recognized by naming one student recipient each year for four years
- a gift of $75,000 can be matched with $25,000 in Challenge Funds
  
3. Show Your Commitment
 
  • Gifts may be made in cash, as well as in other forms such as securities, real estate, and personal property.
  • Pledges may be paid over five years.
  • Future commitments in the form of planned gifts, annuities, bequests, trusts, and retirement plans can also be made.
  • Scholarship gifts are tax-deductible.
  • Scholarship gifts count toward the Making History campaign.

Interested in endowing
an undergraduate scholarship?
Please contact:

Joanne Hanna
Director of Development for
Undergraduate Financial Aid
215-898-4551
hanna@dev.upenn.edu


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