Support the USF Student Emergency Fund on Giving Tuesday - 1340 WJOL

This Giving Tuesday, November 29, articulation the University of St. Francis (USF) arsenic generosity transforms into interaction successful the signifier of a Franciscan acquisition for USF students.

This year, USF is focusing Giving Tuesday efforts to enactment the Student Emergency Fund. This money provides exigency fiscal assistance to students who are incapable to conscionable immediate, indispensable expenses forcing them to see withdrawal from the university. Applicants use for this one-time assistance done University Ministry. As applicant needs are pressing, applications are processed wrong 48-hours for accelerated effect to the issue.

“The Student Emergency Fund is 1 mode the University of St. Francis responds to our students’ increasing needs. The Student Emergency Fund was created to code the unforeseen hardships of our students that compromise their pursuit of education. With the generosity of donors who lend to the Student Emergency Fund we supply one-time scholarships of $500 for things similar impermanent nutrient assistance for a pupil who whitethorn person mislaid their part-time job,” said Lisa Sampalis, vice president for advancement.

Visit stfrancis.edu/givingtuesday to larn much and enactment successful Giving Tuesday. Please interaction the USF Advancement squad at [email protected] for much information.

About Giving Tuesday

Giving Tuesday is simply a planetary generosity question that unleashes the powerfulness of extremist generosity astir the world. Giving Tuesday was created successful 2012 arsenic a elemental idea: a time that encourages radical to bash good. Over the past 9 years, this thought has grown into a planetary question that inspires hundreds of millions of radical to give, collaborate, and observe generosity. Visit GivingTuesday.org for much information.

The University of St. Francis, successful Joliet, Ill., serves adjacent to 4,000 students nationwide and offers undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and certificate programs successful the arts and sciences, business, education, nursing and societal work. There are implicit 53,000 USF alumni crossed the globe. For information, telephone 800-735-7500 oregon visit stfrancis.edu.

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