University of Maine Foundation Announces 75th Anniversary Matching Gift Program
Contact: Amos Orcutt, University of Maine Foundation, (207) 581-5100
ORONO — On June 9, the University of Maine Foundation celebrated its 75th anniversary with a dinner at the Wells Conference Center on the Orono campus. More than 250 guests attended the special event, held exactly 75 years after the Foundation’s date of incorporation.
At that event, Darryl Brown, chair of the University of Maine Foundation board, announced a matching gift program to encourage the establishment of new scholarship endowments for UMaine. The university’s minimum level for a named, endowed scholarship fund is $20,000. The Foundation will match a gift of $15,000 (may be payable over three years) with $5,000 to establish a new named, endowed scholarship fund to provide support for deserving students attending UMaine. The matching gift offer will be in effect until December 31, 2009. For more information, contact the Foundation at Two Alumni Place in Orono, the Foundation’s Foden Road location in South Portland, or online at www.umainefoundation.org.
The University of Maine Foundation is an independent 501(c)(3) organization that exists primarily to encourage gifts and bequests designed to nurture academic achievement, foster research and elevate intellectual pursuit at the University of Maine.