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office of institutional advancementAccess to Excellence CampaignThe School of Medicine Announces a Comprehensive Capital Campaign
Temple University School of Medicine announces Access to Excellence, a $70 million capital campaign of strategic investment that will elevate TUSM to a higher plane, with vital new facilities, new research centers and programs, and new scholarships and faculty chairs.
The centerpiece of Access to Excellence is our new education and research building. Now under construction and slated for occupancy in 2009, the 480,000 square foot structure is the largest capital project in Temple University history. It will nearly double our current amount of space, with a flexible design that is ideal for our new curriculum.
Access to Excellence also benefits students, faculty and research. We are investing in student scholarships to attract more top candidates from all backgrounds and to ease the debt burden of our graduates (now averaging more than $150,000 per student). We are investing in endowed faculty chairs to attract and retain the very best scholars. We are also investing in research to advance patient care, to improve the quality of our education, and to elevate the School’s standing within academic medicine.
Facilities, scholarships, faculty support, and research funding constitute Access to Excellence. Our goal is to secure $70 million by December 2009:
Support The New Medical School Building
Announcing the Kresge Challenge! The Kresge Foundation has pledged a $1 million challenge grant to Temple University School of Medicine for our new building. In order to qualify for the challenge, we must raise $3.22 million in new gifts and pledges by May 30, 2009, and the Kresge Foundation will then award its $1 million grant as the capstone gift to complete our new building campaign. All new gifts and pledges to the building made after October 26, 2007 count toward the Kresge Challenge.
The Carson Schneck Gross Anatomy Laboratory – Join the effort to raise $1 million to name the gross anatomy laboratory after Carson Schneck, MD’59, PhD’65, who has inspired and amazed thousands of alumni. To learn more, please visit the Carson Schneck Gross Anatomy Laboratory Campaign web site.
The Lachman Auditorium – Join the campaign to raise $1 million to name a 220-seat auditorium in memory of former chief of orthopedics, John W. Lachman, MD ’43.
Alumni Bridge Challenge – A million-dollar campaign has been mounted to name a new pedestrian bridge connecting the new building to Kresge Hall, spanning Tioga Street. Thanks to a half-million-dollar challenge grant offered by the School’s Board of Visitors, this bridge will be named for all alumni of the School of Medicine. Accept the Board’s challenge: make a gift to the bridge of $25,000 to $50,000 and they will match it, dollar-for dollar. For more information, click here.
Name the Building or a Space Within It – Make a gift to name a space in the new medical school building – or name the building itself. Naming opportunities range from $25,000 to $20 million. For images and information about the new building, click here.
Support Students
Establish an endowed scholarship covering full or partial tuition for one or more students, fund a term scholarship providing a partial tuition grant to one or more students for one to four years, or make a gift to an existing scholarship fund, such as the Dean’s Scholarship Fund, or a Class Scholarship fund.
Support Faculty
Endow a professorship or faculty chair, allowing the School to attract a nationally recognized researcher and/or clinician educator; or make a gift to an established chair or faculty fund.
Support Research
Endow or support one of the School’s existing centers or work with us to stablish a new research program.
Other Reasons and Ways to Give
Legacy Giving – If you are one the nearly 2,000 alumni or faculty who belong to a family with two or more members who are also TUSM graduates and/or faculty, consider joining together with your family to create a philanthropic legacy in your family’s name by funding a scholarship or by naming a space in the new building or establishing a chair fund. To see our list of legacy families, please click here. To read the stories of families who have given, click here.
Reunion Class Giving – Are you soon to celebrate a significant reunion of your TUSM graduation? Get together with your classmates to select a class gift project to honor that special anniversary of your graduation.
Planned Giving – Are you familiar with charitable gift annuities and the many vehicles like them? Planned gifts, i.e., annuities, trusts, and estate gifts, along with gifts of insurance and real estate, are just a few of the ways that a “gift of a lifetime” can be made to TUSM.
The School of Medicine welcomes gifts in a variety of forms and can assist you in developing a plan to suit your needs and wishes. Commitments can be made payable over a period of five years. We can also help you make provisions for the School in your estate. Contact Eric Abel, Assistant Dean, Institutional Advancement, at 215-707-3023 or eric.abel@temple.edu.
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