Philanthropy
Tall-Wiedefeld Society
The Tall-Wiedefeld Society, in its inaugural year, awarded grants totaling $20,000 to five programs on March 8.
$5,000 to the MentHER Program in the College of Business and Economics (CBE)
The program, in its 14th year, builds leadership skills and connects female students
with information and mentors while instilling a sense of community engagement. In
addition, MentHER develops high school students’ college and career readiness.
$3,750 to Grantwriting in Valued Environments (G.I.V.E) in the College of Liberal
Arts (CLA)
G.I.V.E. provides female undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to connect
with nonprofit leaders, increase the resources and assets of the organizations and
advance their professional writing goals by connecting their coursework to the needs
of nonprofit organizations in Baltimore.
$3,750 to the women’s and gender studies department’s 50th anniversary
Students will develop a digital archive of the department’s history and impact. In
collaboration with the Special Collections and University Archives, students will collect materials and oral histories for a launch event at the Peale
Center.
$5,000 to Learning to Fly: Girls After-School STEM Program in the College of Education
(COE)
This six-week, one-on-one STEM program will match 26 TU undergraduate women from all
majors with 26 elementary/middle school girls. They will learn to operate drones,
investigate flight patterns and make suggestions for alterations to future drone design
models/flight technology.
$2,500 to Mental Health Support for Women STEM Students in the Fisher College of Science
and Mathematics (FCSM)
Ensuring an equitable research culture is the focus of this grant, which aims to increase
the number of minority students successfully completing degree programs in STEM disciplines
and provides individualized and group coaching to reach that goal.
For more information on the Tall-Wiedefeld Society and the grant program, visit towson.edu/tallwiedefeldgrants
$100 million RISE campaign
More than $8 million has been raised since we last reported our RISE campaign success in the fall issue of TU Magazine. The campaign now stands at $94 million. “We are in the homestretch of TU’s largest campaign ever,” says Brian DeFilippis, vice president for university advancement. “We are so overwhelmed by the generosity of our entire TU community—alumni, students, faculty, staff and other friends of TU have all stepped up. And our future is brighter for it.” It’s not too late to RISE with us . . . every dollar and donor impacts the lives and experiences of our current and future TU students.