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Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions

#MeetTheMatch in our Annual Giving Campaign!

Help us #MeetTheMatch! Your donations are necessary for us to unlock The Kresge Foundation's challenge grant!

The Penn Center for MSIs needs your help!

Earlier this year, we received a very generous grant from The Kresge Foundation to help us fund our day-to-day operations as we support Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) across the country. The Kresge Foundation has challenged us to find matching funding from other donors. That is why we are excited to announce this year's Annual Giving campaign, #MeetTheMatch.

During the month of October, we will be asking you and our other supporters to #MeetTheMatch and help us continue to create new and innovative ways to support MSIs and the tremendous work they do. Your contribution will help us unlock The Kresge Foundation's challenge grant, which will ensure the Center will continue to operate for years to come. Your continued support and collaboration are essential to achieving our mission.

We are incredibly grateful for all the donations we received last year. Will you consider donating this year?

Your generosity has allowed us to launch many new programs, such as our inaugural faculty-development program, ELEVATE, which equipped early-career faculty from MSIs with training and support to help them lead successful careers as MSI educators. Your support has also allowed us to expand our staff and hire many talented new individuals. Finally, your donations have allowed us to continue to produce in-depth reports, offer research fellowships, and even create a guide to graduate school for MSI students.

As the Center grows in both size and scope, we take this as a sign that we're doing valuable and important work. This is why #MeetTheMatch is about more than fundraising--it is about collectively demonstrating our commitment to lifting MSIs, students of color, and the diversity of our nation.

We can't do it without you!

While we have been awarded generous research grants tied to our major MSI capacity-building projects, we simply cannot fund the Center's daily operations without your donations. Without donations like yours, we wouldn't be able to provide as much support for MSIs; we wouldn't be able to train as many faculty of color; we wouldn't be able to help as many MSI students pursue postsecondary degrees. Your gift is therefore critical for us to unlock The Kresge Foundation's challenge grant and maintain the excellence of our research and practice with MSIs across the nation.

We're all in this together. That's why we will be featuring 31 personal #MeetTheMatch stories--one for each day in October--of students, faculty, alumni, and staff whose lives have been improved by their respective MSIs. Please add us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or visit our website to be part of these beautiful MSI stories. We also invite you to post your own #MeetTheMatch photo in support of our cause.

It is our hope that you will join us in our work here at the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions by donating today. Giving is very simple; just follow the Donate Now! button above. Thank you.

All my best,

Marybeth Gasman
Professor & Director of CMSI

Donation messages

#CenterLove --Mr. Deshaun Bennett

Happy to support the Smartest women I know, do all the great work her and her team do to support th under served. --Mr. Kenneth Keefer

Thank you for helping me to develop an understanding of and appreciation for the history, value and relevance of HBCUs. And of course, for making me understand the importance of research to support the story. --Dr. Nia Haydel

As a proud HBCU grad, I sincerely appreciate the work you do. Your work inspires me to continue giving back to my HBCU (#Claflin) even more. --Mr. Mauirce Williams, Jr.

Thanks for the great work you all do at the Center! #CenterLove --Miss Sridevi Rao

MSI Graduate Student Weekend is an annual event sponsored by the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions that brings undergraduate students at MSIs to Penn’s campus to expose them to graduate school. Participating students are able to tour the campus, attend sample classes, receive advice from a student panel, meet faculty and learn about the application and financial aid process. MSI weekend has had tremendous impact on students of color and enables them to envision themselves in a graduate program. Jennifer Yang, a Hmong student who traveled to Penn from California State University at Sacramento is grateful for the experience. “The weekend made me see that I could go to grad school,” she said. Felicia Commodore, who teaches classes during the weekend, also affirms the value and reach of the program: “To see students who may have never thought they could attend an Ivy League graduate school like Penn realize that it is well within their reach."

Fundraising goal $15,000.00

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Your support will help us continue to offer our innovative programming, such as the Center's faculty-development experience, ELEVATE.

MSI Graduate Student Weekend exposes undergraduate students from MSIs all over the country to the possibility of pursuing graduate and professional degrees in education. The Center pays for all of the students' expenses during the weekend to help them take their first steps towards a master's or doctoral degree.

Recent donations (129 donations)

Name	Amount
Mr. Lionel Anderson	$50.00
Dr. Emery Petchauer
Mr. Deshaun Bennett	$25.00
Dr. Tryan McMickens	$50.00
Mr. Kenneth Keefer	$250.00


Recent donations

Top donors (129 donations)

Miss Chloe Gasman	$4500.00
Anonymous	$3000.00
Dr. Marybeth Gasman	$820.00
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Ms. Celia Liu	$200.00
Ms. Jennifer Yang	$20.00
Mrs. Linda Oubre	$500.00
Dr. Martha Kanter	$500.00

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