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BSC has created its own registry list with items you can “purchase” through your tax deductible gift, such as:

This allows you to direct your gift toward current programs and projects that mean the most to you. These needs are typically supported through the Forward Ever Fund, but with our new detailed list you can choose exactly where you want your donation to go. You’ll know that your gift made a difference, and in many cases, you’ll be invited to see exactly how it was put to work.

Select an area of interest below to view current funding opportunities:

Business & Accounting | Humanities | Education | Fine & Performing Arts | Interdisciplinary Experiences | Library | Sciences & Mathematics | Social Sciences | Student Experience | Religious Life

If you prefer to leave the shopping to us, your gift to the Forward Ever Fund will provide flexible resources for these and many other opportunities that will make this academic year the best yet.

 

Business & Accounting

E-Term Business Launch – $5,000 to fully fund

The Senior Capstone Course puts teams of students to work building a business from the idea up. Often after E-Term ends, teams wish to continue the business they have built, requiring the purchase of business licenses and more. Your gift will ensure they can continue in their entrepreneurial efforts.



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Faculty Development – $1,750 per faculty member; $5,250 to fully fund

Great educators never stop learning. Help ensure that BSC faculty can attend professional meetings such as the Society for Marketing Advances Annual Conference and the Academy of Marketing Conference.

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Peer Tutoring – $500 per student; $3,000 to fully fund accounting tutors or $5,000 to fully fund business tutors

Learning complex material from peers boosts the classroom experience for both the student and the tutor. Your gift can provide educational materials for learners and a stipend for the tutor as follows:

•$3,000 funds materials and a tutor stipend for six accounting students (FUNDED!)


•$5,000 funds materials and a tutor stipend for ten business students


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Honors Day Awards – $1,000

Celebrate the achievements of business department students and recent graduates by funding the Honors Day Awards. Donors will be invited to attend the business department’s Honors Day events.

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Humanities


English

Faculty Development and Research – $5,000 per faculty member; $10,000 to fully fund

BSC faculty has been recognized nationally for research, including the work of Dr. Sandra Sprayberry. Help ensure that BSC faculty has access to research and professional development opportunities such as the Transatlantic Conference on Education, Research, and Community Engagement in Ireland.

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Writing Center Materials – $1,000 to fully fund

Writing skills are vital to any career. Help BSC provide free, quality writing assistance to students of all majors at the Writing Center.

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History

Faculty Development – $1,000 per faculty member; $3,000 to fully fund

Great educators never stop learning. Help ensure that BSC faculty can attend professional meetings such as the Southern Historical Association meeting.

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Faculty Research – $2,000 to fully fund

BSC faculty has been recognized nationally for research. Help continue this tradition of excellence by funding faculty sabbatical research.

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Student Research – $500 per student; $3,000 to fully fund

Students like Connor Hansen ’20 use research opportunities to explore the world and go deeper into their field. Your gift will underwrite the cost of travel for independent and capstone research.

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Guest Lecturers and Visiting Scholars – $1,000 to fully fund - FUNDED

Help bring great minds and fresh perspectives to BSC history classrooms by helping with travel expenses for an annual invited lecture.

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Media and Film Studies

Digital Motion Capture Studio – $3,000 to fully fund

Help create a real-world studio environment for BSC students. Support the purchase of new tools for student use, including digital motion capture equipment and the Einstein 3 Light Studio Lighting Kit.

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Student Awards – $500 per award; $1,000 to fully fund

Recognizing outstanding performances is important. You can support capstone film projects by sponsoring media and film senior awards.

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Faculty Development – $1,000 to fully fund

Great educators never stop learning. Help ensure that BSC faculty can attend professional meetings such as the University Film and Video Association.

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Modern Foreign Language

Guest Lecturers and Visiting Scholars – $500 to fully fund five guests

Help bring great minds and fresh perspectives to BSC classrooms for an annual campus-wide lecture series.

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Student Research & Experiential Learning – Gift opportunities from $500 to $3,000

Support students wanting to take learning outside of the classroom. Your gift can fund the following independent research courses:

•$500 to sponsor students visiting Chinese communities in Alabama and Georgia

•$1,500 to sponsor a student working with Middle Eastern Arab refugees around the world

•$3,000 to sponsor a student’s participation in an archeological dig in Greece or Italy


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Student Awards – Gift opportunities from $200 to $500

Recognizing outstanding performances is important. Your gift can support the student award of your choice:

•$200 to sponsor the Award for Excellence in Chinese, given to four students for writing the best story in Chinese or for creating the best Chinese video

•$500 to sponsor the Arabic Music Award, given to a student with the best performance or composition of an Arabic song

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Faculty Development – $3,000 to fully fund

Great educators never stop learning. Help ensure that BSC faculty can continue in excellence by underwriting the cost of new course seed funding, including study abroad course development.

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Freshmen Placement Exam Materials – $750 to fully fund

Students should always be encouraged to move forward in learning – not to stay stagnant. Help provide the Spanish foreign language placement exam, ensuring that students are placed in the best-fit class for their current level.

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Modern Foreign Language Day – $1,000 to fully fund

Encourage students to build multi-cultural skills in their quest to grow as global citizens. Your gift will ensure that the celebration of Modern Foreign Language Day is an enriching experience with guest lecturers and receptions.

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Religion

Structured Dialogue Training – $10,000 to fully fund

Conversations are the beginning of all solutions. Your gift will provide both students and faculty in the religion department training on creating conversation relating to the intersection of religion and public life.

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Guest Lecturers and Visiting Scholars – $500 per speaker; $1,500 to fully fund

Help bring great minds and fresh perspectives to BSC religion classrooms.

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Faculty Development – $1,000 to fully fund

Great educators never stop learning. Help ensure that BSC faculty can participate in meetings such as the Southeast Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion, the African Studies Association annual conference, and the Southeast Regional Seminar in African Studies Conference.

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Faculty Research – $1,000 to fully fund

BSC faculty has been nationally recognized for research, including the work of Dr. Amy Cottrill, associate professor of religion and chair to the department of religion. Help with costs of publishing her work on moral injury through the lens of biblical text.

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Student Research – $5,000 per student; $25,000 to fully fund

Support students wanting to take learning outside of the classroom. Your gift can help send five students to participate in the International Student Research Fund, where students travel to complete research with professors in India and Africa.

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Education

Student Teaching Technology and Supplies – Gift opportunities from $500 to $6,000

To create a practical, hands-on learning experience reflective of current school environments, new equipment is needed. You can designate your gift to the following:

•$500 to purchase a rolling floor stand and Promethean Pen


•$1,000 to purchase four Lenovo Chromebooks


•$2,000 to purchase educational software


•$6,000 to purchase a Promethean ActivPanel


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Fine & Performing Arts


Art & Art History

Dorothy Gillespie Exhibit – $2,700 to fully fund

This exhibit, running from Sep. 6-25, 2019, will recognize the lasting contribution of Dorothy Gillespie to the arts and the future of women artists, reflecting on her work during the feminist arts movement in the 1970s.

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Charles Beneke Iron Pour – $1,500 to fully fund

Charles Beneke’s work addresses disruptive forces within closed systems ranging from the global to the personal, through a broad range of print media, painting, and installation. This exhibit will coincide with the Sloss Furnace Iron Pour, running from Oct. 4-30, 2019.

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Promise of Sun Exhibit by Richard Feaster – $2,000

Help show BSC students the success of their successors. Richard Feaster ’89 has been recognized internationally for his work, with exhibits at the City University of New York and the Cheekwood Museum of Art. This exhibit will be open Nov. 9-26, 2019.

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Women’s Suffrage Exhibit – $1,200 to fully fund

Coinciding with Women’s History Month, this exhibit will run from March 6-26, 2020, highlighting the centennial celebration of women’s suffrage.

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Music

BSC Concert Choir Travel Assistance Fund – $4,200 per student; $25,200 to fully fund

Your gift can allow students to take their talents to Europe in 2020. Funds will be given to students with demonstrated financial need.

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Opera Workshop – $1,500 for general student recruitment; $10,000 to fully fund

Events like an opera workshop are part of what makes BSC so special. Your gift will contribute to the cost of recruitment and touring productions.

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Instrument Care and Maintenance – $1,000 per gift; $11,000 to fully fund

Maintaining excellence requires keeping our instruments in tune. Help provide the necessary maintenance for current instruments, including a yearly piano and organ tuning.

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Taylor Recording Studio Technology and Equipment – $2,200 for Apple Education Bundle; $3,000 for iMac computer

Help create tomorrow’s musical stars with updates to the Taylor Recording Studio. Your gift can purchase an iMac computer or the Apple Education Bundle, including equipment for recording, video, animations, encoding, and notation software.

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BSC Bands – Gift of any amount

Donate to the spirit of football games and on-campus events with a gift of any amount.

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Theatre and Dance

Performances and Underwriting – Gift opportunities from $17,000 to $23,000

Your donation can help continue the impressive stage presence of BSC’s theatre program. Designate your gift to fund one of the following productions:


•$17,000 to sponsor “Falsettos” - a story revolving around a non-traditional family coping with dysfunction and an international health crisis

•$23,000 to sponsor “Lizzy” - a rock opera exploring the story of Lizzie Borden. This true crime story inspired by the ’70s puts a new perspective on this mysterious tale. Partially Funded!

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Guest Instructors, Directors, and Designers – Gift opportunities from $8,000 to $11,000

Hiring external professionals turns student productions into high caliber performances. Designate your gift to fund one of the following productions:

•$8,000 to sponsor all guest needs for “Falsettos” - a story revolving around a non-traditional family coping with dysfunction and an international health crisis.

•$11,000 to sponsor all guest needs for “Lizzy” - a rock opera exploring the story of Lizzie Borden.

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Guest Dance Instructors – $1,300 to fully fund

Inspire collaboration across disciplines by sponsoring guest dance instructors.

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Interdisciplinary Experiences


Poverty Studies

Shepard Higher Education Consortium on Poverty – $5,000 to fully fund

Membership with the SHECP allows all students the opportunity to incorporate a distinction in poverty studies with their degree.

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SHECP Annual Conference – $2,000 to fully fund

Your gift will allow the creation of new courses and programming through faculty attendance at the SHECP Annual Conference.

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SHECP Internship Program – $1,700 to fully fund

Provide sponsorship for students wanting to intern for organizations focused on alleviating poverty in America.

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Gee’s Bend rise3 Service-Learning 2020 E-Term project – $400 per student; $4,400 to fully fund

Your gift will give students the opportunity to quilt with internationally acclaimed artisans, visit the Voting Rights Museum, and participate in an intensive writing retreat.

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Black Studies

Faculty Research – $1,500

This new distinction is in the process of adding new courses and learning opportunities for students, requiring in-depth faculty research. Your gift can provide the necessary books and materials to create meaningful classroom experiences.

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Guest Speakers – $1,500

Help bring great minds and fresh perspectives to BSC classrooms by helping with travel expenses for two annually invited speakers.

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Library

Student Resources – Gift of any amount

Provide campus-wide student resources including databases, books, media, and journals with both general and subject-specific research options for current BSC students. Your gift of any amount will contribute to the overall annual cost of $335,000.

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Technology Upgrades – Gift opportunities from $1,000 to $15,000

Your gift will service the intellectual and creative needs of the College with improved auditorium infrastructure. Your gift can be designated to one of the following projects:

•$1,000 to purchase two Mobile Power Towers – allowing more convenient electrical access

•$15,000 to purchase a new projection screen, projector, and audio receiver.


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Sciences & Mathematics


Applied Computer Science

Robotics Station – Gift opportunities from $250 to $6,500; $7,600 to fully fund

Sponsor the creation of a robotics station. You can designate your gift to the following accessories:

•$250 to purchase Arduino accessories

•$850 to purchase ten Raspberry Pi 3B computers

•$6,500 to purchase Lego Mindstorms robotic programming kits


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Computing Technology & Lab Equipment Upgrades – Gift opportunities from $155 to $1,700

Sponsor the renovation of this lab by designating your gift to one of the following:

•$155 to purchase a green screen lighting kit

•$450 to purchase Adobe Creative Cloud for two iMacs

•$645 to purchase an LCD flatscreen TV and accessories

•$800 to purchase two virtual reality headsets

•$1,250 to purchase a 3D printer

•$1,400 to purchase two Apple desktop computers

•$1,700 to purchase two Windows desktop computers


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Faculty Development – $4,000 to fully fund

Great educators never stop learning. Help ensure that BSC faculty can participate in national and international meetings, such as the Computer Science Education Conference and the National Center for Women and Information Technology Summit.

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Faculty Research – $2,500 to fully fund

BSC faculty has been recognized nationally for research, including work focused on design created to be accessible. Help continue this tradition of excellence by funding the publication of faculty research.

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Student Research – $1,500 per student; $12,000 to fully fund Partially Funded!

Past research has resulted in the development of a tactile input modality, allowing visually impaired students to interact with block programming languages. Underwrite an undergraduate research stipend to sponsor similarly life-changing projects.

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Biology

Lab Supplies and Equipment – Gift opportunities from $1,000 to $8,000

Beneficial research is impossible without the right equipment. You can designate your gift to purchase the following equipment:

•$1,000 to purchase all necessary field lab supplies for hands-on learning FUNDED.

•$2,500 to purchase a microcentrifuge.

•$3,200 to purchase all necessary molecular lab supplies.

•$5,600 to provide necessary classroom enhancements, including all new lab stools.

•$8,000 to purchase a compound microscope. - FUNDED!

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Faculty Development – $3,000 to fully fund - FUNDED

Great educators never stop learning. Help ensure that BSC faculty can participate in national and international meetings, such as the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.

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Faculty Research – $2,000 to fully fund

BSC faculty – including Dr. Peter Van Zandt, assistant professor of biology – has been recognized nationally for research. Help continue this tradition of excellence by funding the publication of faculty research.

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Student Research – Gift opportunities from $700 to $4,200

Learning and supporting the community come together when biology students are involved in experiential learning. Designate your gift to one of the following opportunities:

•$700 per lab at Sloss Furnace, Birmingham Zoo, or Botanical Gardens; $4,200 to fully fund all lab classes

•$700 to fully fund trip for 16 students to Dauphin Island

•$800 to fully fund trip for 16 students to the Vertebrate Field Zoology or Field Botany in Little River Canyon, Solon Dixon Center in Alabama, or Highlands Biological Station in North Carolina FUNDED

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Chemistry & Physics

Lab Supplies and Equipment – Gift opportunities from $700 to $15,000

Beneficial research is impossible without the right equipment. You can designate your gift to purchase the following equipment:

•$700 to sponsor a physics lab, including all necessary supplies, equipment, maintenance, and waste disposal; $4,200 to fully fund all six labs

•$700 to purchase seven Vernier drop counters

•$1,300 to purchase spectrometers

•$2,300 to sponsor a chemistry lab, including all necessary supplies, equipment, maintenance, and waste disposal; $13,800 to fully fund all six labs

•$2,800 to purchase a Sartorius analytical balance

•$11,200 to provide the necessary classroom enhancements, including new lab stools

•$10,000 to purchase a fluorimeter spectrometer - FUNDED!

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Faculty Development – $1,250 to fully fund FUNDED

Great educators never stop learning. Help ensure that BSC faculty can participate in national and international meetings, such as the Advanced Laboratory Physics Association Conference.

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Student Research – $2,000 per student; $4,000 to fully fund

Support students wanting to take learning outside of the classroom. Underwrite student research stipends, supporting research in chemistry and physics.

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Mathematics

Faculty Development – $1,250 per faculty member; $2,500 to fully fund

Great educators never stop learning. Help ensure that BSC faculty can participate in national and international meetings, such as the Joint Mathematics Meetings, American Mathematical Society, and the Mathematical Association of America.

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Faculty Research – $1,000 to fully fund

BSC has been recognized nationally for research, including the work of Dr. Jeff Barton in Math Horizons. Help continue this tradition of excellence by funding the publication of faculty research.

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Student Research – $700 per student; $7,000 to fully fund Partially funded!

Support students wanting to take learning outside of the classroom. Your gift will send students to mathematics research symposiums, where they are able to present their senior research.

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Peer Tutoring – $1,000 per student; $10,000 to fully fund

Learning complex material from peers boosts the classroom experience for both the student and the tutor. Your gift will provide a stipend for tutors in the Math Lab.

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Urban Environmental Studies

Student Internships – $7,500 to fully fund

Internships offer valuable hands-on learning experiences to students. Underwrite the cost of national and local internship stipends, allowing students to make important professional connections.

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Student Research – $5,000 to fully fund

Support students wanting to take learning outside the classroom. Your gift will sponsor labs at locations such as Jones Valley Urban Farm and Lay Lake.

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Student Award – $1,000 to fully fund

Your gift will encourage students to participate in independent research courses and conferences by sponsoring the UES Independent Research Study Award.

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Faculty Development and Research – $1,750 to fully fund

Great educators never stop learning. Help ensure that UES faculty can remain current with respect to challenges and opportunities in the field.

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Social Sciences


Political Science, Economics, and Sociology

Data Analysis Programs – $10,000 to fully fund

Digital research has become just as fundamental as hands-on learning. Your gift will provide subscriptions to SPSS and Stata.

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Student Awards – $250 to fully fund

Recognizing outstanding performances is important. You can support students going above and beyond by sponsoring an annual student disciplinary honors award.

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Faculty Research – $5,000 to fully fund

Great educators never stop learning. Help ensure that BSC faculty can attend professional conferences and collaborate with students on research through your donation.

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Guest Speakers – $3,000 to fully fund

Help bring great minds and fresh perspectives to BSC classrooms by helping with travel expenses for all invited guest speakers.

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Psychology

Lab Equipment – $11,000 to fully fund

Beneficial research is impossible without the right equipment. You can designate your gift to purchase operant boxes and their associated equipment.

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Software Licensing – $7,500 to fully fund

Digital research has become just as fundamental as hands-on learning. Your gift will provide campus-wide access for research programs such as Qualtrics, an analytic program designed to create surveys and analyze data.

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Faculty Development and Research – $2,000 per faculty member; $6,000 to fully fund

Great educators never stop learning. Help ensure that BSC faculty can attend professional meetings such as the Convention for the Association of Psychological Science, The Society for Research in Child Development, and The Society of Experimental Social Psychology.

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Guest Speakers – $3,000 to fully fund

Help bring great minds and fresh perspectives to BSC classrooms by helping with travel expenses for all invited guest speakers.

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Campus Life


Student Experience

Sponsored Scholarships – $5,000 and up

Our students’ single greatest need is scholarship funding – which keeps tuition affordable, minimizes student debt, and gives donors the joy of knowing they have made a life-changing investment in a young person. Sponsor an annual scholarship based on financial need or academic merit; you will know exactly who benefited from your generosity, and will have the opportunity to meet that student during the year.

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Student Travel – $1,000 to $2,500 and up

A study-away trip during E-Term, summer or the spring or fall term changes a student’s perspective on the world. A gift of $1,000 helps send a student on an unforgettable adventure – not a vacation, but an immersive learning experience. A gift of $2,500 or more can bear the name you choose, providing a meaningful way to honor someone who has touched your life.

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Anne Ledvina Passport Fund – Gift of any amount

Even when students have found the funds to cover studying abroad, the $150 needed for the passport fee can be a stopper. The Anne Ledvina Passport Fund – named to honor BSC’s longtime study-abroad program leader – provides full and partial grants to help cover that fee for qualifying students.

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New Student Orientation Programming – $5,000 to fully fund

Help us welcome new students to campus. Your gift will ensure that they have everything they need to succeed, from orientation leaders to print materials.

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Career Services Handshake Platform – $5,000 to fully fund

Handshake is a digital platform where students can connect with employers. Your gift will provide this opportunity to students campus-wide.

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Sustainable Water Filling Stations – $1,000 per system; $5,000 to fully fund

To make campus resources more sustainable, your gift can help SGA replace current water fountains with water bottle fillers around campus. Their goal is to install five additional filling stations!

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Physical Fitness and Recreation – $5,000 to fully fund

Your gift will help make the Striplin Center more accessible to all students, with the installation of a swimming pool chair lift.

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Residence Hall Common Room Upgrades – $9,000 per floor; $108,000 to fully fund

BSC aims to feel like home from the second you drive on campus. A donation to improve living spaces will include upgrades for the common rooms in all residence halls.

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Mascot – $4,000 to fully fund

Rowdy has spent 13 years cheering on the Panthers, and it is time for him to get a makeover with your gift.

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Athletics – a gift of any amount

Your gift to the B-Fund supports all 22 sports teams, coaches, and 450+ student-athletes. You may designate your gift to a specific sport.

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Religious Life

Student Leadership Team – $1,800 to fully fund

This inter-denominational Christian leadership team works to develop a stronger sense of community on campus. Your gift will cover the cost of all programming, worship events, small groups, and service projects.

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Programming – $1,500 to fully fund

Religious Life organizations often host well-known guest speakers and community-building events. Your donation will support all programming efforts.

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Service Work – $2,400 to fully fund

BSC students support the community by providing weekly coffee at Church of the Reconciler for the Birmingham homeless population and fresh produce to the local community at “Crop Drop” events. Your gift can support these service projects.

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Pre-Ministry – Gift opportunities from $3,600 to $6,000

o Encourage students confirming their call to full-time ministry with a gift to provide retreats, supplies, and internship stipends. You can designate your gift to the following:

•$2,000 to provide a Winter Weekend Retreat for up to 12 students

•$3,600 to purchase books for 12 students

•$4,000 to provide a ministry internship stipend to one student – fully fund two students with a gift of $8,000

•$6,000 to provide an August Study Retreat, a five-day trip, for up to 12 students


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Wesley Fellowship – Gift opportunities from $200 to $6,000

This Methodist specific programming includes weekly student meals, an annual retreat, and local service projects completed throughout the year. You can designate your gift to the following:

•$200 to provide weekly student meals – fully fund one year with a gift of $5,600

• $400 to provide an annual service project – fully fund all remaining projects with a gift of $800

•$6,000 to purchase all needs for an annual retreat, including lodging, food, travel, and programming


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