Your generosity is helping people and ideas flourish across the SFU community!
Read below to learn how donors like you are inspiring leaders through athletic excellence and experiential learning and improving avalanche safety for outdoor enthusiasts, discover how the SFU School of Medicine will help train future family doctors for B.C., and more!
Explore the impact of philanthropy in the stories below.
"Every day at SFU, our students, faculty and staff are stepping up to address the issues affecting our communities in B.C. and around the world. We couldn’t do this meaningful work without you.
Through your generous investment and involvement, you are enriching our learning environment and helping people and ideas flourish..."
Dr. David J. Price was appointed as SFU’s founding dean of Medicine in July 2024 and had served as interim dean since September 2023. He leads a growing and diverse team establishing the first entirely new school of medicine in Western Canada in 55 years.
With generous support from Avalanche Canada and HeliCat Canada, SFU School of Resource and Environmental Management professor Pascal Haegeli is developing tools to help outdoor enthusiasts of all skill levels make better-informed decisions when venturing into avalanche-prone areas.
Thanks to an extraordinary partnership with the CBC, researchers and the public alike will be able to freely access this important and prestigious collection on the SFU Library website. A sample of digitized Writers & Company episodes are available now in the audio collection, and the entire run of the program will become available in the archive between 2024-2026.
SFU alumnus Michael Provenzano (BSc ’20) has enjoyed an impressive basketball career that has taken him from SFU’s courts to playing professionally in Melilla, Spain, and now coaching with Michigan State University.
During the past fiscal year (April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024), the impact of your support was felt across the SFU community. We are grateful for the many ways your contributions are enriching our learning environment and helping to advance an inclusive and sustainable future.
Guided by the belief that not all learning happens in the classroom, Karen and Steve Sharlow chose to leave a gift in their will to help future SFU students embrace their own unique educational journeys.
“Following a slightly different path was always our way,” Karen reflects. “I think that’s why SFU was a good fit for us.”
Regardless of your age or financial situation, an estate plan can reduce the taxes and expenses of an estate, simplify and speed the transition of assets to your beneficiaries, and ensure beneficiaries are protected.
In this second instalment in a three-part series, we look at some ways to minimize taxes at death and help you leave a lasting legacy (for your family and charitable organizations that you love).
Endowments build a legacy of support that links generations and allow institutions like SFU to make commitments far into the future, knowing that stable and enduring funding will be available to meet those commitments.
VIEW ENDOWMENT HIGHLIGHTS & A MESSAGE FROM THE VP FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
