Download Current Issue - SAIS

Tomorrow’s
Leaders,
Today’s
Philanthropists
The Classes of 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011
Over the past five years, recent
SAIS graduates have contributed
more than $200,000
in fellowship support to
ensure that talented students
could have access to the
same world-class education,
distinguished faculty and
remarkable fellow students
that defined their own SAIS
experience.
Despite facing a historically challenging job environment
and carrying the burden of school loans, these graduates
have demonstrated a level of philanthropic engagement
and dedication that exemplifies the type of student
who is attracted to SAIS and will represent the school long
into the future.
This trend started in 2007 with a group of students
who believed that their class could make a significant
financial contribution to SAIS. They successfully mobilized
their fellow students to make a commitment that
would be fulfilled in the first year after commencement.
The trend caught on, and now each class holds a fund Henry Nuzum ’07—center, with Mirentxu Arrivillaga ’07 and Hagin
drive to continue to provide needed fellowship support and Elawad B’06, ’07—helped mobilize his classmates to establish
a class giving program, launching a powerful new tradition of
to establish an early tradition of philanthropy among our
philanthropy among graduating students that continues today.
alumni.
Highlights:
n The class of 2007 boasts a lifetime philanthropic participant rate of 66 percent, compared with an
annual participation rate for all SAIS alumni of 16 percent.
n The class of 2008, which may have faced the full force of the most difficult economy in recent times,
has contributed $63,245 since graduating, the most of any recent classes with giving campaigns.
n The class of 2011 raised $45,000 for eight current-use fellowships in memory of their classmate Julia
Bachleitner B’10. Fellowships will be awarded to students in the Conflict Management Program, alternating
each year between a Washington, D.C., and Bologna Center student.
76 SAISPHERE