All gifts make a difference. Even a small donation, when combined with hundreds or thousands of others, can have a positive and lasting impact on Binghamton University.
The Binghamton Fund is the University’s annual giving program which provides a powerful opportunity to make a gift every year that makes an immediate difference every day in areas that are essential to the success of Binghamton’s students and faculty. Gifts to the Binghamton Fund allow the University to meet current-year needs in all departments, take advantage of opportunities that enhance the University experience and meet the goals identified in Binghamton’s strategic plan.
The Binghamton University Leadership Society recognizes donors whose annual giving of $1,000 or more demonstrate a strong commitment to Binghamton’s future and a belief in excellent, affordable public education. If you’ve graduated from Binghamton University within the past five years, your $500 single, annual gift makes you eligible for an associate membership in the Leadership Society.
Gift Planning benefits both the University and the donor, by offering significant tax advantages and life income arrangements. Planned gifts include bequests, charitable lead trusts, life income gifts and gifts of life insurance, appreciated securities, real estate and personal property, and retirement funds.
Endowments can be established for student scholarships, faculty chairs and academic programs. An endowment fund preserves capital, offers long-term growth, keeps pace with or exceeds inflation, and can offer significant tax advantages to the donor. An endowment can be named for the donor or in honor of the person or persons of the donor’s choice.
Support for the Binghamton Scholars program helps Binghamton University to continue attracting the best and brightest students to campus through merit scholarships and challenging opportunities for experiential learning, independent study and collaborative, interdisciplinary contact with faculty and graduate students.
Alumni, students and parents, faculty and staff are helping to create a Memorial Courtyard in the Fine Arts building. The project’s initial phase will commemorate each of the 16 Binghamton University alumni killed in the September 11 attacks. The courtyard will be primarily supported by private donations and will eventually provide a way for all Binghamton University alumni, faculty, staff and students to be memorialized by their family members or friends.
Lawrence and Jennifer Schorr have experienced Binghamton University as students, alumni, community members, staff, even as faculty. They believe their experiences from several perspectives has strengthened their belief in the University and its mission.
“When you’re an alumnus or alumna who leaves town after graduating, what you remember vividly is your time at college,” said Lawrence Schorr BA’75, MA ’77, who has been an adjunct professor in the School of Management. “When you’re an alumnus or alumna who stays in the community it sets up new ties, it all blends together. I can’t distinguish my interest in the University as a member of the community from my ties as an alumnus.”
“There have been times when I would work here all day, come back in the evening and walk through the Nature Preserve, and then go to a basketball game or a concert at the Anderson Center,” said Jennifer Schorr MBA. ’81, a university administrator for several years. “It felt like we lived here, because the University does provide so many different things.”
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The average tuition for one student at a four-year state university ate up 25 percent of the median income for low-income families. For middle-income families, college education bills equaled 11 percent of income. Source: The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education in San Jose, Calif. |
