There are several ways our class members can support the University, including:

  1. Our Class of 1971 Endowed Scholarship Fund
  2. Charitable Gift Annuities – a way to target your gift toward a cause that is meaningful to you. CGA gifts provide “lifetime” income with “considerable” non-tax income. A special onetime $53K CGA gift using a QDC transfers $$ from pre-tax IRA to post- tax Income; current CGA annuity interest rate is 6.2%. There are various Endowment Funds that can be targeted:
    • The International Student Assistance Fund; the Iaccoca fund will match donations to this Fund.
    • Starting a Fund for a new home for the Marching 97; the officers feel that informing our classmates about the lack of a home for the Marching 97 will generate interest in this cause
    • Support Lehigh’s Future Makers Campaign; Marty discussed his gift to provide voice-text transcribers for hearing impaired students.
  3. Access Success Program – supports the non-academic expenses encountered by students; examples are
    • providing stipends when a student takes on an internship to enhance their professional development,
    • forgoing a paying job,
    • and travel expenses to attend conferences to present their research
  4. College of Health Endowments – a recent $10,000 grant enabled a member of this newest college at Lehigh to initiate a project to develop a method to provide for enhance GPS tracking in buildings enabling impaired individuals to navigate the building. This initial funding led to a $2.3 Million Federal Grant to fully develop the idea.
  5. Establish of a Class of 1971 Scholarship. It can be modeled after the McConn House Scholarship. We would need $50K to get it started, with $250K to establish a scholarship.