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The Illinois Institute of Technology Office of Institutional Advancement builds relationships and partnerships that raise philanthropic resources from alumni, friends, corporations and foundations to support IIT students, faculty, facilities and operations while enhancing alumni pride and the life of the university.Did you know your IRA can help your alma mater?
Before the year ends, take advantage of the extended IRA rollover benefit, which allows individuals 70 ½ and older to donate funds—tax free—from their individual retirement account (IRA or Roth IRA) to a qualified organization such as Illinois Institute of Technology. IRA rollover gifts will count toward your minimum required distribution.
This year, use your IRA to support IIT students. We are happy to assist you in setting up your IRA rollover gift to IIT before December 31, 2008.
For more information about this opportunity, contact Catherine Marquis at 312.567.5080 or cmarquis@iit.edu.
Our Donors Make An Impact
When Carol Kaplan attended college on scholarship, she was always grateful to the benefactor who funded her education. But she never got to meet him.
"He had confidence in me, and I never even saw him in person," she says.
Later, after a successful career as an educator and philanthropist, when she and her husband, Ed Kaplan (ME '65), entrepreneur and CO of Zebra Technologies, decided to fund a full four-year scholarship for an IIT student, they did not wish to remain anonymous. They wanted to make a meaningful connection with the student.
So on a warm summer's day in the month before her freshman year, Meaghan Rollins, IIT Kaplan Foundation Scholar, met with the Kaplans in person—not only to learn their names, but to share a pre-college conversation and get acquainted.
