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Make an Impact with Your
Year-End Giving
FINISHING STRONG—Your Giving Makes Our Mission Possible
The GSA Foundation is extremely thankful to forward on their career paths. Field camp is considered
all of our friends and donors who have con- indispensable to many employers and is a foundational
tributed time, resources, ideas, and financial experience in developing necessary skills. Your support is
support toward the Geological Society of the sole reason we can provide this important assistance
America’s programs in 2017. next year. This is perhaps the year’s proudest display of
GSA members’ dedication and commitment to ensuring
Your contributions helped provide graduate students the next generations of geoscientists, and we thank you for
with a means to pursue their research: This year, a making this possible.
record-setting 785 student research proposals resulted in
395 awards totaling nearly US$700,000. If you have not yet, please consider making a year-end
contribution to a program that is important to you. For
Your support of GSA’s On To the Future program every 15 people who make a US$100 year-end gift, we can
enabled 73 students to attend their first GSA Annual offer another On To the Future scholarship next year. If just
Meeting in Seattle this past October, with nearly 10 people contribute US$200 each before the new year, we
US$52,000 distributed for travel support, meeting registra- can offer one more field camp scholarship. Perhaps you
tions, and one year of GSA membership for participants. have the good fortune to be able to contribute the full
amount for either of these, but your collective participation
Thanks to you, GSAF and GSA will be able to provide with any contribution amount can make a tremendous dif-
field camp scholarships next spring, which help students ference. You can also set up recurring monthly donations.
attend a field camp of their choice. In light of continuing Go to https://gsafweb.org/donate/ to make your year-end
challenges for some of our supporting industries, this was gift to GSA programs by 31 December in time for a 2017
a remarkable response from many of you to continue an charitable tax deduction.
invaluable program that propels aspiring geologists
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