Rutgers giving day starts at midnight!

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Don’t forget to support your favorite Rutgers program/department/institute starting at midnight. Don’t have one? Please support the Rutgers Global Health Institute and their push to help fight cancer. Any donation is a huge help!

https://go.rutgers.edu/rghi22

 

[LeapinLou]

Don’t forget to support your favorite Rutgers program/department/institute starting at midnight.

Hard to forget when I've literally received 10 emails about it from RU in the past 12 hours. What's the over under by midnight?

When I first graduated, all of my donations went to the College of Engineering. But with the introduction of seat licenses, it's mostly going to the athletic department now. But always good to give back to the department that helped you achieve your life goals.

 

[RU848789]

Hard to forget when I've literally received 10 emails about it from RU in the past 12 hours. What's the over under by midnight?

When I first graduated, all of my donations went to the College of Engineering. But with the introduction of seat licenses, it's mostly going to the athletic department now. But always good to give back to the department that helped you achieve your life goals.

Same here for the most part. Donations were more impactful before I retired, since Merck matched my donations to most charities (including any educational ones). That's why I did my large donation 2 years ago right before I retired, when my very good friend and I co-funded a $50K chemical eng'g scholarship, which will provide $4K in scholarships per year on a merit basis, in perpetuity (he and I "only" had to put up $25K, which we split evenly). And then COVID hit, so we haven't had a chance to celebrate it yet - soon, hopefully.

 

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Donations will be matched for a lot these programs. Please consider even a $5 donation to Rutgers GHI. They are getting very close to their matching goal. https://go.rutgers.edu/rghi22

 

[LeapinLou]

Same here for the most part. Donations were more impactful before I retired, since Merck matched my donations to most charities (including any educational ones). That's why I did my large donation 2 years ago right before I retired, when my very good friend and I co-funded a $50K chemical eng'g scholarship, which will provide $4K in scholarships per year on a merit basis, in perpetuity (he and I "only" had to put up $25K, which we split evenly). And then COVID hit, so we haven't had a chance to celebrate it yet - soon, hopefully.

That is awesome. $12,500 is still a very big nut but you cleverly made that donation worth $50K to RU. Really excellent job.

PS - I made a small donation around lunch time and after that, I didn't get anymore emails about Giving Day. So I guess they somehow know to turn the faucet off once you respond.

 

[RU848789]

That is awesome. $12,500 is still a very big nut but you cleverly made that donation worth $50K to RU. Really excellent job.

PS - I made a small donation around lunch time and after that, I didn't get anymore emails about Giving Day. So I guess they somehow know to turn the faucet off once you respond.

Thanks! It certainly helped to have a good friend (who also got his PhD at RU chem eng'g and is one of my ticket-mates for football and we worked together for 25 years at Merck before I retired) who was similarly inspired to give back to RU - and we've both been heavily involved in SOE activities/volunteering.

 

[GORU2014]

Donated to basketball (surprise!)