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What impact does your gift to McGill really have? In addition to the ever-present need for funding student initiatives, scholarships and student aid, there are many university priorities emerging from each faculty and school across both McGill campuses. Listed below are just a few of the essential items and experiences funded by annual gifts:

Gifts of $100
  • Can give McGill soccer teams the competitive edge with new field equipment.
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  • Can help subsidize travel and participation fees for a Faculty of Engineering student to attend provincial and national engineering and design competitions, conferences or seminars.
  • Can purchase musical scores or contribute towards special collections acquisitions in the Schulich School of Music.
  • Will cover the cost for a graduate student in the Faculty of Religious Studies to further their research by attending local conferences.
  • Can fund a career workshop in the Faculty of Science that will aid in the important task of ushering students into life outside of the University.

Gifts of $250

  • Can help to furnish the new student computer lab in the Faculty of Education with an ergonomic workstation, increasing student health and safety during long hours on the computers.
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  • Can subsidize essential scholarships, bursaries and graduating prizes for qualified and deserving students, allowing them to focus more fully on their research and studies in the Centre of Continuing Education.
  • Can cover the printing cost for AMPERSAND, the Arts and Science Undergraduate Journal which works to detail topics that integrate the arts with the sciences.
  • Can provide treatment for one patient at our Faculty of Dentistry’s mobile outreach clinic, where volunteer dentists and students provide free dental services through community agencies to patients who cannot physically or financially obtain dental care.

Gifts of $500

  • Can contribute towards building a standard repertoire in the Schulich School of Music in all the essential areas, such as Flute, Violin, and Percussion.
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  • Can provide extra funding for the men's and women's swim teams, purchasing new gear and subsidizing travel costs to attend competitions.
  • Can provide a student in the School of Nursing the invaluable exposure of presenting at a national nursing conference.
  • Can help support the TEDxMcGill conference, which invites the world’s leading thinkers and achievers to an international, multimedia stage - live from McGill’s Faculty of Arts.

Gifts of $750

  • Can send 15 students from the Faculty of Science to represent McGill at the Undergraduate Mathematics conference.
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  • Can provide students from the Desautels Faculty of Management with real-world experience by funding field trips to attend Case Competitions, Career Fairs and Networking Events.
  • Can help fund the McGill Engineering Student Centre’s peer-to-peer tutoring program and provide material on career development.
  • Can help students in the Faculty of Arts chart their future career goals by supporting the Arts Undergraduate Society’s career panel, "Work Your BA."

Gifts of $1,500

  • Can help students in the Faculty of Dentistry treat 10 children in the Faculty’s new pediatric program.
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  • Can provide the varsity Squash team with extra funding for travel to cross-over tournaments, which are competitions between eastern and western teams.
  • Can subsidize the cost of the Global Food Security Conference in the Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, an event that addresses the most pressing challenges and issues in food and nutrition.
  • Can provide funding to the Canadian Forum on Islamic Economics & Finance in the Faculty of Arts.

Gifts of $2,500

  • Can help decrease McGill’s carbon footprint by enabling students in the Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences to perform sustainability initiatives, such as recycling water and developing community gardens.
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  • Can contribute to improvements to the Applied Kinesiology Student Laboratory in the Faculty of Education, which focuses on research and testing in the field of kinesiology, in particular sports injury prevention and recovery.
  • Can provide funding for workshops through the Career Services Centre in the Desautels Faculty of Management, including Leadership in the Workplace and Effective Resume Preparation.
  • Can enable 24 students from the Faculty of Science to travel outside of Quebec to conduct geological research.

Gifts of $5,000

  • Can subsidize the cost of modernizing the design studios or upgrading presentation and computing equipment in the School of Architecture.
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  • Can finance a study visit to the Faculty of Medicine by a foreign scholar interested in medical education.
  • Can purchase an oral camera to film procedures and reproduce them in class for students in the Faculty of Dentistry – an innovative and efficient teaching tool that provides invaluable hands-on experience.
  • Can purchase an electronic billboard-announcement display system for the Centre of Continuing Education, which helps keep students abreast of news within the Faculty.

Gifts of 10,000

  • Can purchase one out of 36 patient simulators required for the new pre-clinical simulation lab in the Faculty of Dentistry
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  • Can provide a gifted graduate student in the Faculty of Engineering with a fellowship for one academic year.
  • Can help support a fellowship program in the Faculty of Medicine that teaches students how to translate their research into public policies that will positively impact the lives of the poor
  • Can equip a multimedia classroom in the Centre of Continuing Education with a computer, projector, speakers and electronic interactive whiteboard - essential tools for a cutting-edge learning environment.

Gifts of $25,000

  • Can provide essential funding to operate the Office of Advising and Student Information Services in the Faculty of Arts, through which new, returning and graduating students receive peer to peer advising.
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  • Can equip renovated science teaching labs in the Faculty of Education with materials to prepare teachers for the 'engineering design' component of the Quebec Science Curriculum.     
  • Can help fund set design and costumes for Opera McGill's productions, such as the upcoming La Bohème, in the Schulich School of Music.      
  • Can help fund the infrastructure development for an online Nursing course in the School of Nursing.