Eastman Fund
We are proud of the Eastman School‘s international reputation for excellence, and are grateful for the generous alumni, parents and friends who ensure we have the resources to provide our students with a world class education.
The Eastman Fund allows us to continue to provide much needed scholarship assistance, special performance and outreach opportunities, and state-of-the-art resources. Above all, your generosity helps Eastman develop young musicians into well-rounded artists, leaders, teachers, and innovators.
By making a gift to the Eastman Fund, you are investing in the promising futures of our students, ensuring scholarship support is available to help them achieve their musical dreams.
We value your participation at every level; please make a gift today!
Eastman is a place where lifelong friendships are built, skills are refined, and students are molded into better musicians, better leaders, and better people. Passion seeps out from every student here, and I believe it is this unique camaraderie through creativity that gives the Eastman community its special buzz. When you combine that with the opportunities to work with outstanding and devoted faculty, you get an experience none of us is willing to trade.
Erin McPeck, BM ’09
Here are a few examples of how your gift to the Eastman Fund makes a difference:
In Support of Student Scholarships
Through the years, gifts to the Eastman Fund have played a significant role in the history and growth of Eastman’s scholarship program. The general scholarship program provides a valuable student recruitment tool and is vital to sustaining Eastman’s tradition of excellence. Without limitations on major, instrument, or class year, general student scholarships afford Eastman greater flexibility in offering competitive financial aid packages to the most deserving students.
In Support of Innovative Initiatives
Guided by George Eastman’s vision of educating the “intelligent musician,” the Eastman School of Music is renowned for its long-standing commitment to both curricular innovation and the highest academic and performance standards. The Eastman Fund provides an important source of support that is essential to realizing and implementing innovations that expand learning and performing opportunities beyond the classroom and performance hall.
In Support of State-of-the-Art Resources
A blend of historic and contemporary architecture, the Eastman campus is a reflection of the institution’s esteemed past and its promising future. Over the years, the campus has changed and grown to meet the space needs of students, faculty, and staff. Our annual giving program has long been an important source of unrestricted dollars used to build and renew Eastman’s fine campus.
The George Eastman Circle
We invite Eastman alumni, parents and friends to join the George Eastman Circle, a University-wide leadership annual giving society. The George Eastman Circle recognizes donors for their leadership gifts of $1,500 or more per year to any of the University’s unrestricted annual funds, including the Eastman Fund.
Increasing unrestricted support is one of the Eastman School’s highest priorities, and the George Eastman Circle offers us a wonderful vehicle to help us expand our base of annual support dramatically.
Eastman Parent Fund
Parents are an essential part of the remarkable community at Eastman and we look forward to your support and involvement in the Eastman experience.
As an Eastman parent, you can be confident that your daughter or son benefits from the highest standards of artistry and scholarship, with faculty who care deeply about student success and are fully engaged in preparing them for a bright future.
We ask that you join others in supporting the Eastman School through a gift to the Eastman Parents Fund.
The Eastman Parents Fund provides annual unrestricted support that offers the flexibility needed to provide for unanticipated opportunities and special experiences that will prepare Eastman students for success. Gifts to the Eastman Parents Fund help support scholarships, educational enrichment, career development, and innovative initiatives, including master classes, ensemble tours and student travel, and other opportunities. You can be confident that your support of the Eastman Parents Fund will directly impact your child’s experience at Eastman.
Please give and make a difference.
Eastman Parent Ambassadors
We extend a warm invitation for you to join the Eastman Parents Ambassadors by making a leadership gift to the Eastman Parents Fund of $1,500 or more. Through your involvement, you will join with other Eastman School of Music parents who share a vision for helping the school maintain the highest standards for artistry, scholarship, leadership and community.
For more information, please contact Anne Boylan at 585-274-1044 or e-mail: aboylan@esm.rochester.edu
As a Friend of Eastman Opera, your contribution will support students, programs and productions of the Eastman voice and opera department. FEO’s student support comes in the form of master class presentations, guest adjudicators, a voice competition, student opportunity grants, website development, audience development, marketing and the purchase of needed equipment.
Please join many others in supporting Eastman opera. Contributor benefits are offered at the following annual giving levels: Associate (below $75), Friend ($75-$149), Sponsor ($150-$299), Patron ($300-$599), Benefactor ($600-$999), Luminary ($1000 and above). Give online or by check. Search on Friends of Eastman Opera in Facebook and [LIKE] the FEO page. For more information about supporting opera at Eastman, contact the Office of Development at 585-274-1040.
