Give the "Educational Experience of a Lifetime"

Send your donation in by mail. Download this form to include with your check.

After age 70 1/2, donating up to $100,000 directly to SSP International from your traditional IRA is absolutely free of income or capital gains taxes, and counts toward your annual Required Minimum Distribution (RMD). It’s a smarter alternative to donating after-tax dollars. To give:

1. Email donations@ssp.org and include your name, email, financial institution, and expected donation amount
2. Convey SSP International’s EIN (94-3341965) and mailing address (SSP International, Inc., 1207 Delaware Ave #680, Wilmington, DE 19806) to your IRA custodian with the donation amount

After receiving the funds, we will send a letter of acknowledgment with our thanks.

Questions? Email donations@ssp.org

⇒ GIVE ONLINE TO THE COTLER FUND

Steve wrote on his website, “The Summer Science Program found me when I was 16. We were high school juniors—future rocket scientists—sequestered for six weeks and intensely challenged with cosmology, astrophysics, spherical geometry, and the like. SSP changed my life.”

Actually, it changed his life twice. In 1999, Steve led the rescue of this venerable and unique program from extinction, by starting a new nonprofit to operate it. He served as Board Chair for the first seven years, and remained actively involved thereafter. He considered SSP one of his enduring legacies. All 1,800 participants since 1999 are indebted to Steve, whether or not they ever met him. In a very real sense, SSP is Steve’s Science Program.

Steve’s family has donated $50,000 to establish the Steve Cotler ’60 Fund within the endowment, and others have more than matched that amount. Your gift will be added to the Fund, and your name (but not donation amount) will be shared with the Cotler family. When the balance reaches $225,000, the Fund will endow a Cotler Scholar and full financial aid each summer for a teenager who embodies exuberance and love of learning … as Steve did.

Donate online above. Or, if you prefer to give by check, download and print this form, check the box and indicate your gift is in Steve’s honor and memory, and mail to: SSP International, Inc., 1207 Delaware Ave #680, Wilmington, DE 19806

Questions? Contact donations@ssp.org.

Join the President’s Circle by committing to donate $1,000 or more annually to SSP International. 

Find out more on how to join and what it means to be a member by following this link.

The Legacy Society recognizes alumni and other friends who make planned gifts to SSP International.  

Whether you bequest a specific gift or a percentage of your residual estate, or designate SSP International as a beneficiary to a brokerage account, your thoughtfulness will help sustain SSP International’s excellence for future generations. 

Members of the Legacy Society will be (with permission): 

• Recognized in the Universal Times Annual Report
• Acknowledged at the Annual Dinner and other events 
  

If you have any questions or would like to speak with us aboutstructuring your gift to meet your goals, email donations@ssp.org.

Sponsorship is a direct connection between a corporation or foundation and SSP International’s talented young participants. Interested in sponsoring? Find out more here.