Status: $4,078 out of
$2500 goal for Fiscal Year 2017
Still need: ~$18,500 to
meet final program goal of $25,000 for endowed scholarship.
Happy New Year!! We are
at our halfway point in the SWE fiscal year! As I started writing this post, we
were about half way to our fiscal year goal! When I was able to sit down again,
we exceed our goal! I am ecstatic to report that we have tremendous support
from our section’s Life Members! We are well on our way to getting our 2nd
endowed scholarship. This also means you won’t hear from me again until July
when FY18 starts.
For those reading our
blog for the first time, our Endowed Scholarship initiative targets our
section’s Life Members to take the lead and build a legacy to support future
female engineers through an endowed scholarship. The challenge to the Life
members is to raise $2,500 each year for the next five (5) years to reach the
$25,000 required for an endowed scholarship. To help encourage participation,
SWE Detroit’s current officers agreed to match up to $2,500 each year to
support the initiative. The endowed scholarship will provide an annual $1,000
scholarship to an aspiring and deserving women pursuing engineering. If the
goal is met, the first scholarship would be awarded during the 70th
Anniversary of SWE Detroit! SWE D’s Life Members would like the first
scholarship to be given in honor of Josie E. Rewald, one of SWE Detroit’s Life
Members who passed away unexpectedly in September.
If you know any of the
SWE Detroit Life Members, please help us communicate to them. We have found
that they, like many of you, are super busy and can miss the posts and emails. Some
don’t even have an email. So if you see them at work or outside, please tell
them what you have read on the blog.
Not a Life Member? No
problem, anyone can donate to the fund (some have already). Every little bit
helps, so we encourage you to donate if you can. Your donation is tax
deductible.
The program will be
tracked separately from the Member Solicitation Program and have its own
levels:
Diamond $ 1000 +
Sapphire $ 500 to $ 999
Emerald $ 250 to $ 499
Quartz $ 50 to $ 249
Contributions will be
tracked yearly and the level will be determined based on accumulated
contributions received by SWE Detroit.
To donate online go to www.swedetroit.org
and look for the Donate Button on the site for Paypal. After you submit your information and input
your donation amount, you will have the opportunity to designate your donation.
Please input in the text field, “SWE 4 Life Endowed Scholarship or Life Members
Endowed Scholarship” to allow it to be allocated appropriately.
To donate via check:
mail the check to Society of Women Engineers – Detroit, PO Box 2978, Southfield,
MI 48037 and place in the memo section “SWE 4 Life Scholarship”.
Big Thanks to our Life
Members, Members, and friends of SWE Detroit who have donated so far (updated
as of 01/17/17):
Diamond
Dawn Tilbury
Sapphire Level
Laurie
Ramsay
Brooke
Voto
Ally
(company match in honor of Brooke Voto)
Emerald Level
Tina Poquette
Michele Marion
Susan Cischke
Kristine Lott
Lisa Henn
Quartz Level
Jessica Swan
Miriam Breslauer
Katie Amelio
Lisa Purvis
If you have any
questions, are interested in supporting the SWE Detroit SWE 4 Life Program, or
creating your own endowed scholarship to build a legacy to benefit the SWE
Detroit Scholarship Program, please contact Lisa Purvis, Michele Marion, or
Jennifer Morikawa at swe_detroit@swe.org.
P.S. Come out to
celebrate SWE D’s 65th Anniversary at our annual Awards &
Recognition Banquet late spring to meet our 2nd Past Presidents
Endowed Scholarship Recipient!
