Your generous donation will help keep this life-changing opportunity open to tomorrow’s leaders from all family backgrounds. We guarantee to meet the demonstrated need of every admitted applicant with generous financial aid grants. Every summer, those from low income families pay only what they can afford. In 2023, 89 deserving participants received financial aid.
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:
After receiving the funds, we will send a letter of acknowledgment with our thanks.
Questions? Email donations@ssp.org
After receiving the funds, we will send a letter of acknowledgment and 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):
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.
We know it’s important that your donation is being used effectively, that’s why we work hard to receive the highest grades available for accountability. SSP International has earned the Gold Seal of Transparency from Guidestar, and the top rating each year from GreatNonProfits, based on anonymous alumni reviews. You may access our most recent audited financials here.
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The IRS has designated SSP International as a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit, EIN 94-3341965. Your contributions are deductible as provided by law.
SSP International is a nonprofit offering inspiring science immersion experiences. Founded in 1959, its mission is to provide opportunities to accelerate learning, doing and belonging in science. SSP International’s flagship program is Summer Science Program, a leading education experience for exceptional high school students in astrophysics, biochemistry, genomics and more.