Upstate Scholars: Match Your Gift!
Supporting Upstate Scholars in the College of Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University
For the first time, our University has a matching gift program to benefit our Upstate Scholars program. For a limited time, your gift will now be doubled to do twice the good in providing scholarships and other awards. Supporting Upstate Scholars means supporting the future of medicine.
Why is your help needed?
Despite being a state school, medical tuition is not static, or even low-cost. Tuition in our College of Medicine has risen 75 percent since 2001! In addition, almost all our students enter with undergraduate debt. Your gift keeps medical education within the reach of all outstanding students.
If You Can Do It, We Will Double It!
The giving levels below are eligible to be doubled with our Matching gifts program. To ensure these funds benefit the greatest number of areas possible, the maximum contribution that may be matched this year is $150,000.
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MINIMUM MATCH LEVEL |
College of Medicine
Upstate Scholars . . .
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$ 1,000 |
| (General Scholarship Fund) |
| Existing Endowment . . . |
$ 5,000 |
For example, scholarships/professorships honoring Drs. Patricia J. Numann, Ellen Cook Jacobsen and Sarah Loguen Fraser.
(www.upstate.edu/medalumni/scholarships.php or call for complete list)
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| Create an Endowment . . . |
$12,500 |
| (Normally, it takes $25,000 to create an endowment; through this matching gift opportunity it is half that.) |
"I plan to add an extra year and pursue clinical research in infectious disease before graduating. My scholarship greatly eases the cost of a long educational journey."
Andrea Shaw, MS III
"I received the Sarah Loguen Fraser scholarship, the Julius Schwartz, MD '33 Cardiology Scholarship and the Citizen Award. Each award brought with it a sense of accomplishment, pride and a renewed zeal to continue on this path that I started so long ago"
Signa Perkins, COM '07
Residency: Internal Medicine,
Albert Einstein-Montefiore Medical Center
"After my residency, I hope to work as a surgeon in an underserved area of the third world. Since this career will not be financially rewarding, minimizing my debt will make it possible. I am truly grateful for my scholarship, because it helped me make my tuition payment without going further into debt. "
Rugy Maybury, COM '07
Residency: General Surgery, Georgetown University Hospital
