Division of Development and Alumni Relations

Your Gift's Impact
on Communities

With your contribution to USC, you're not just having an effect on our campuses. Our students graduate and spread out far and wide, bringing talent, innovation, and progress to the world. Of course, many of our students do remain in South Carolina after graduation: as nurses and entrepreneurs, teachers and scientists, friends and neighbors, they make South Carolina an incredible place to live.

Some illustrations of how our students, faculty and alumni -- and your support -- helps transform lives every day:

instilling hope, improving health

Every county in South Carolina benefits daily from health care delivered by professionals who have graduated from or now work at our medical, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and social work schools. 

Here are some inspiring examples of the difference the University of South Carolina makes in these communities:  the efforts of health sciences alumni who saw a need and now provide primary and HIV-AIDS care to thousands of individuals;  the giving of a medical school graduate who wants to make sure we have enough physicians to take care of our communities' health;  and the College of Nursing creating a clinic that helps vulnerable children and families get consistent health care they normally couldn't afford.  Our graduates -- many supported by scholarships when they were students -- are truly improving lives in our communities.

Dr. Chow: Paying Back, Paying Forward for Health Care

"I hope to set an example for the rest of my classmates to contribute
to the School of Medicine. My mom always stressed the importance of
passing knowledge on to the next generation, and my father strongly
believed that practicing medicine is a privilege. I don't ever forget that. So many faculty members in the School of Medicine went out of their way to help me get where I am. I want to do the same for others."

"This is an especially crucial time to give, what with budget cuts and limited assistance. Without contributions and endowments, we all stand to lose in terms of quality of education and the ability to supply the physicians we so badly need." 

PaRTNERSHIP SPURS Public school success

The challenge? A shortage of teachers in underserved schools and a lack of resources for science curricula equaled low student performance on state science exams. There's no problem too great, though, when College of Education faculty, staff and students team up with teachers and principals in our public schools. Learn how the Diverse Pathways program improved teacher recruitment and increased student achievement on state science test scores more than 30 percent at one rural elementary school in South Carolina.