Funds
Establish Your Own Fund
When you contribute to the annual fund raising campaign, you help meet many of the College’s current needs. But you might dream of creating your own personal legacy: to strengthen a highly esteemed academic program, for example, or to honor a loved with one a permanent scholarship program serving students living in your own community.
Create Your Own Scholarship Fund
Creating your own scholarship fund is easy. You can use this easy Q-A checklist to identify the name and purpose of your fund. Complete the checklist, contact us at 585-345-6809 or email foundation@bianlifan.com and we’ll provide you with a proposed letter of intent that can create your fund.
Scholarship Fund Creation Checklist
- What name would you like to give to your new fund? (Example: your name, your business name, you family name, or the name of a loved one)
- Which of the following eligibility standards would you like GCC to use in making scholarship awards? (Can be multiple)
- High academic performance or potential
- Financial need and hardship
- Students pursuing study in a specific program or field (note the program or field)
- Students living in a particular community (note the county, town, village, or school district)
- Other
- Would you like to create:
- A permanent Endowment Fund (earnings are used to make awards) – gifts of $10,000 or more
- A Special Term Fund – ongoing gifts of $500 or more each year
- If you decide to create your fund, when do you plan to make your gift(s)?
- $500+ gifts to term funds – within the next 12 months
- Gifts to endowment funds – $10,000+ gifts up to 5 years and/or through a Bequest
- Who should be recognized as the donor(s) on the Wall of Honor and Honor Roll of Supporters?
- Your name, telephone number and email address