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MAKE HISTORY WITH US
For over 60 years, the Hertz Foundation has given the nation’s most exceptional innovators the freedom to pursue their boldest ideas. The breakthroughs that follow change lives, strengthen our nation, and shape our future. Your gift, of any size, helps make it possible.
Questions about your annual gift? Email Amanda Shinholser, Director of the Hertz Fund, at ashinholser@hertzfoundation.org.
The Hertz Fund
Our highest fundraising priority is to secure unrestricted gifts supporting our annual Hertz Fund, which provides us with the flexibility to immediately address our most urgent needs and priorities. This flexibility is what enables our fellows to take intellectual risks, explore audacious ideas, and collaborate within a powerful community that propels scientific progress.
WHERE IT’S NEEDED MOST
Your gift helps us stay nimble and responsive to the needs of our Hertz Fellows and the Hertz Community. All gifts to the Hertz Fund are unrestricted. By requesting a Hertz Fund impact area aligned with one of our foundation priorities, you can tell us what matters most to you.
HERTZ FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Your gift strengthens the Hertz Fellowship Program, the nation’s most competitive award for doctoral students in applied science, engineering and mathematics. You will directly impact Hertz Fellows by providing the flexibility and intellectual freedom they need to take risks and pursue their boldest ideas without limits.
HERTZ COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Some of the world’s most brilliant minds are united in the Hertz Community, exchanging ideas and inspiring one another to do what some would consider impossible. Your gift enhances the careers of all Hertz Fellows in our community by supporting online and in-person events, professional development and networking opportunities.
Diversity in STEM
Transformational scientific and technological advancements require an open, robust collaboration among the best innovators — regardless of background — who ask challenging questions and develop solutions informed by a variety of perspectives. Your gift ensures we can identify the most promising doctoral students in the nation and support their lifelong career success, regardless of background, perspective or scientific discipline.
Partnerships Program
Great innovations emerge when brilliant minds collaborate across institutions and industries. Your gift supports strategic partnerships that connect Hertz Fellows with leading organizations and create pathways for meaningful collaboration and real-world impact that extends the reach of their groundbreaking research.
Paying Success Forward
A Hertz Fellowship changed biotech pioneer Michael Schnall-Levin’s career. Today, he’s helping fund the next generation of innovators.
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Donor Advised Funds
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Honor a special person’s achievements, reinforce their passion for scientific advancement, or commemorate their life.
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Many companies offer employee matching gift programs, effectively doubling or even tripling your donation.
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Tailor a corporate partnership that aligns perfectly with your organization’s philanthropic or business goals.
Learn moreYour gift FUELS Innovation
Helping high schoolers win the math Olympics, four times
Po-Shen Loh
2004 Hertz Fellow
Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
A Simple Test for Fake Drugs
Marya Lieberman
1989 Hertz Fellow
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame
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