2022 MBA Class Gift Campaign
The graduating MBA class is coming together to support our 2022 Class Giving Campaign. We hope you'll join us in showing our pride in the school and our program by making a contribution this year.
Make your gift go further! Individuals on the Tepper School Alumni Board have collectively pledged up to $9,750 to support our class gift. If we reach 50% class participation, we will unlock a $4,000 gift from the Alumni Board. If we reach 75% class participation, we will unlock an additional $5,750 gift from the Alumni Board. Funds will be distributed proportionally among the funds we all choose during this challenge.
What is Class Giving?: We are an important part of the Tepper community for life. This is our chance to unite as a class to leave a lasting impact that will help to ensure the success of the Tepper program for years to come. A gift to any Tepper fund will be counted toward our class gift participation goal. We encourage you to support an area at Tepper that you care about.
Class Giving History: Graduating Class Giving has been a Tepper tradition for over 20 years. The average full-time graduating class participation over the last 10-years is over 87%. The Class of 2018 set the current record with 100% class participation. Help us continue this tradition of strong support.
Are You Part of the 2023 Class? The Class of 2023 is welcome to make a gift to the Tepper School on this page. We encourage all MBA students to make a gift during their first year.
Why Give?
- To demonstrate your pride and confidence in the Tepper School MBA program.
- As a thank you to the school and our program, in recognition of the friendships and opportunities the Tepper School facilitated.
- To pay it forward.
- To invest in the future of the school.
- To join your classmates.
How Much Should I Give?
As a participation campaign, it's not the gift amount that matters, but rather that you chose to support the Tepper School, showing a vote of confidence in the school. We recommend a monthly recurring gift of $10. (That's less than the cost of one cup of coffee a week!)
Annual gifts totaling $500 or more qualify students for membership in the W.L. Mellon Society, the Tepper School's society for our leadership donors. Membership benefits include listing on the donor board within the Tepper School, invitations to special events, and exclusive communications.
Fundraising Progress
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Class Participation Goal: 90%, 127 donors
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63 Class Donors
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Dollar Goal: $3,500
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$2,2,45 Contributed
Current Class Participation: 45%
Dollar Goal: We’re 64% of the way there!
Become a Sustaining Donor
Break-up your gift into budget-friendly payments and have it renew automatically.
Make Your Recurring Gift
Make a One-Time Gift to an Area That You Care About!
Tepper Club Sponsorship
Select "add a designation," scroll to the bottom, select "other," and type Tepper club name.
Fund Descriptions
Tepper School Annual Fund: Provides the most flexibility which is especially appreciated by the Dean’s Office. During this unprecedented time, the Annual Fund greatly assists our students and faculty. Each year the annual fund supports:
- Financial aid, student experiences (like club activities, Basecamp, Accelerate Leadership Center, and Access Weekends), INTERSECT@CMU conference, faculty research, Diversity Weekend, Welcome Weekend, and Tepper Talks admissions event
Tepper School Fellowship Fund: Provides current-use financial aid funding for graduate students.
Tepper Community and Inclusion Fund: Provides funding for events, programs, and initiatives that support diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Tepper Club Sponsorship: Supports your favorite Tepper School Club.
Yellow Ribbon Match Fund: Allows the Tepper School and the Veterans Administration to partially or fully fund tuition and fee expenses that exceed the established thresholds under the Post-9/11 GI Bill.
Tepper Women in Business Conference: Delivers professional and leadership development for MBA and early-mid career professional women.
Accelerate Leadership Center: Supports the development of MBA leadership skills and training.
Consortium Scholarship: Enhances aid to minority students and promotes a more diverse MBA class, in partnership with the Consortium for Graduate Student in Management.
Tepper School Lifelong Learning: Supports cutting edge learning opportunities for alumni such as podcasts and self-guided micro-courses.
Don Jones Center for Entrepreneurship: Enhance educational opportunities for students and faculty in the center; associated with Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship.
International Graduate Student Support: Provide support for initiatives that improve the international graduate student experience at the Tepper School, including the development of an arrival toolkit to help students acclimate to life in Pittsburgh and the United States.
Thank You for Making Your Class Gift!
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Kara Buggy
Jacob Carlson
Fernando Cerda
Alfred Cerrone
Veda Valli Challa
Sung Bum Chang
Michael Choi
Mickey Colombo
John Crelli
Ari Derman
Brian Farrell
Marc Freiman
Shang Gao
Andrew Gollach
Wei Gong
Jonathan Graber
Fernando Granados Ruiz
Dani Grodsky
Ziqi Guo
Allison Hay
Charles Hermann
Emily Journes-Metcalf
Prerit Katwala
Max Kilkuts
Jonathan Kwan
Kneisha McClinton
Scott Mentzer
Marissa Miles
Robert Miller
Thomas Mitchell
Ryoichi Moriya
Ranjini Musuvathy
Atsushi Nishida
Jordan Ollee
John Park
Peter Park
Sheldon Pei
Jackson Randolph
Anthony Salesi
Hensley Sejour
Anik Shah
Lester Smith
Robert Spicer
Caleb Stotz
Mengwei Tang
Taylor Tear
Shiyang Wang
Cory Weeks
Steven Weinert
Katterin White
Bryan Wright
Cameron Wright
Alexander Yi
Hirofumi Yoshida
Jian Yu
Huizhong Zhang