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Your gift to Metropolitan makes a difference!
All gifts, in any amount, are significant.
- Alumni contributions help ensure programmatic innovation. Alumni can attest that Metropolitan can provide practical education to those seeking career advancement.
- Your gift can provide performance-based scholarships to motivated Metropolitan students in need, bring Metropolitan closer to establishing its new home, or help Metropolitan anticipate industry trends and initiate courses accordingly.
- Your support gives Metropolitan a vote of confidence. Ranking agencies gauge alumni satisfaction largely by the percentage of those who give.
Choose how you want to support Metropolitan.
Decide exactly how your donation will benefit Metropolitan by designating a specific fund from the list of giving opportunities. Below are Metropolitan’s areas of greatest need:
- Donate to the Metropolitan Building Fund to support relocating the College to a new home.
- Help Metropolitan students by giving to the Metropolitan Alumni Scholarship Fund. One of the first of its kind in the country, this award is a performance and need-based scholarship established by Metropolitan graduates for Metropolitan students; each year a committee of Metropolitan alumni interviews candidates and awards the scholarship.
- Contribute to Sargent Center, a 700-acre New Hampshire site that offers environmental education, team building retreats, educational conferences, and research opportunities for University faculty and students.
It’s easy to give to Metropolitan.
There are several ways to make a gift to Metropolitan.
- Give on-line
https://www.bu.edu/alumni/met/giving/online.html
- Contribute online by clicking on the appropriate fund in the list of giving opportunities. Boston University ensures the security of your online donation. Using a credit card to donate via the Web is a safe, secure, and convenient way to support Metropolitan. All transmitted information is encrypted and not accessible to anyone on the Internet.
- Call Kay Moriarty O'Dwyer at 617.353.2976 to give over the phone.
- Or mail your gift. Specify the fund to which you’re donating in the memo line of your check. All checks should be made payable to Boston University and sent to: Kay Moriarty O'Dwyer, Boston University, Office of University Development and Alumni Relations, 595 Commonwealth Aveune, 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02215.
- You also may make a gift in the form of securities, gift and estate planning, or in-kind gifts (i.e. any tangible items of value).
And there are tax benefits!
- Gifts to Metropolitan are tax deductible. Boston University, under IRS law, qualifies as a charitable and tax-exempt organization. If an individual makes a charitable gift to Boston University, that gift enables the donor to take an income tax deduction. You will receive a receipt for all donations, which you should keep as a record for tax purposes.
- A gift of cash can be deducted against up to 50 percent of the donor’s adjusted gross income. Any excess can be deducted against up to five successive tax years.
- A gift of appreciated assets can be deducted against up to 30 percent of the donor’s adjusted gross income. Any excess can be deducted against up to five successive tax years.
- Contact Kay Moriarty O'Dwyer at 617.353.2976 for more information about tax deductions for in-kind gifts.
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