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Strategic Investment

instructor lecturing in classMany local, regional, national and international companies strengthen their relationships with Northeastern through meaningful and targeted gifts to enhance the university's mission of education, research and service to the community.

Such strategic investments address critical institutional needs and bring attention to the companies both on and beyond the campus.

Gifts for student aid, for example, enable Northeastern to attract students from throughout the country and at the same time link corporations with some of the university's finest undergraduate- and graduate-level young men and women.

Gifts to maintain state-of-the-art research and teaching facilities, endowed professorships and support for research of interest to the company are other ways corporations advance the mission of the university. Investment in Northeastern's many outreach activities, including work within the Boston public schools and community centers to strengthen the education of future generations of leaders, helps ensure a healthy business climate and quality of life for company employees and customers.

Corporate investment can be expressed in a variety of ways:

• Annual support through employer/employee matching gifts

• Funded scholarships for undergraduate students

• Funded fellowships and assistantships for graduate students

Creation of new professorships and research centers

• Support for faculty research related to corporate interests

• Grants for purchase of equipment

• Funds to upgrade and renew laboratories and facilities

Gifts in kind of equipment and software

• Major gifts for university strategic initiatives

Our partner companies work with us to determine where financial investment can best serve the needs of their organization and the university.

For more information:
Phyllis Valentine
Director of Corporate Relations
Corporations & Foundations
(617) 373-7110
p.valentine@neu.edu



mark vachon

GE STEPS UP

With financial support from the GE Foundation’s Learning Excellence Initiative, the Colleges of Engineering and Arts and Sciences set out to improve the instructional quality and educational environment for first-year engineering students in an effort to ensure a diverse pool of engineering graduates. At the end of the three-year project, teaching practices have been enhanced, regular assessments have increased and interdisciplinary collaboration and communication has improved. The result is a steadily improving freshman-to-sophomore retention rate.

"This grant is designed to address the growing need for well-trained engineering professionals, a key component of maintaining global competitiveness."

Mark Vachon, senior vice president and CFO, GE Medical Systems

 

 


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