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Help Us Lead the Way

You can help our nurse scientists develop life-changing ideas to improve the health of patients in Rochester
and around the world. Please join us. The following is a sampling of how you can help.

ENDOWED AND DISTINGUISHED BRIDGE FUNDS—$100,000
PROFESSORSHIPS—$1,500,000 to $2,000,000
As government research funds become more restrictive, it is
Professorships allow us to recognize and recruit faculty increasingly difficult for current investigators with on-going,
whose scholarly achievements have attracted national and/ well-established research to sustain uninterrupted NIH

or international attention. These enduring funds enable us funding—interruptions that can have a significant, negative
to compete successfully for senior faculty, and as a result, impact on the research being conducted—and for new
attract the most promising students and research funding. investigators to renew their first grants; a crucial event for
Endowed professorships help the School of Nursing enhance individuals establishing research careers. These factors have
its reputation and visibility and further efforts to build a made private philanthropy an essential stopgap measure to
community of scholars and future leaders. sustain promising science and highly meritorious research

projects.
ENDOWED RESEARCH FUND—$750,000 to $1,000,000

Endowed research funds support mid-career scientists who PILOT PROJECTS/SEED FUNDS—$50,000 to
have not yet attained the rank of full professors, but whose $100,000 (annually)
work has distinguished them from their peers. New ideas need exploration and nurturing before they
can be developed into successful application from the
ENDOWED GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS—$750,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH), large foundations or

Endowed fellowships provide a competitive edge in recruiting other traditional avenues of support. Gifts for seed funding
the most talented graduate students from around the world— are “risk capital” for a promising researcher who has the
those with the greatest potential to impact our profession. potential to make groundbreaking discoveries that will
Your gift will help us continue to build a first-class research impact people here and around the world. Funds invested
environment. today in innovative research help nurse scientists and
clinicians provide state-of-the-art models of health care for
TEAM SCIENCE FUNDS—$250,000 to $750,000 tomorrow’s patients. They can also be leveraged many times

You can support the contributions of our entrepreneurial, over, bringing external funding, jobs, and economic growth
innovative research teams who have a legacy of working to the Rochester Community.
collaboratively across disciplines and schools, and with nurse
GEORGE EASTMAN CIRCLE—$7,500 to $50,000
scientists from other institutions. You can also support the
technology that speeds the path to new approaches to improve The George Eastman Circle recognizes those who pledge
health and prevent disease, yet adds heavily to research costs. unrestricted annual gifts of at least $1,500 for five years, or
more, to the School of Nursing. As a member, you will not

only honor the legacy of one of our greatest benefactors and
establish a new tradition to inspire others, but you will also
provide the flexible programmatic support that allows us to
take advantage of new opportunities in research and care.

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University of Rochester Advancement
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