HOW ON EARTH CAN I PAY FOR ALL THIS?

It is not easy. However, with some ingenuity and creative financing, you can make it possible to reduce the expenses for this life-changing medical school course down to no more than you paid for any other three hour credit course. You somehow have got enough resources together to finance your other courses, and you will remember this one a lot longer and more fondly than some of the others. There never seems to be enough money to do what you need to get done; but there is not life enough NOT TO!

Let me help you market your plan. I have helped several students by assembling a group of slides that I had made in the site to which they propose to go and have coached them through a presentation that they made to family, friends, church groups, Rotary and former employers. Fund-raising is not a new idea to most medical students, but you have a far more powerful motivator with a tangible outcome product that is immediately beneficial to others, and this is actually easier than financing the much longer range and more nebulous intermediate benefits of your biochemistry course earlier in your medical school career.

One student planned his whole trip and all the arrangements were made when he came to see me $1000 short of what was needed for his goal. He took the newspapers to a recycling place while awaiting some inspiration, and met there a young woman who was organizing the pickup of the week's left newspapers. Since she was a pretty woman, he began flirting with her, and asked what newspaper was worth, what happened to all the proceeds from the collection of it and who decided in this non-profit group what would happen to the revenues? She said they had quarterly meetings and the next one was later that same week. He appeared with his best suit and a box of slides and made his pitch, and the first half was given to him for the proposed trip he described from my slides of the place he had hoped to visit. Still $500 short he sat in my office moping that he was so close, but could not yet buy the ticket. We called the air carrier, and I introduced him to the agent and turned it over to him for the "pitch". It took a long distance hour, but he received his air ticket for airline cost, discounting below the money he already had in hand. It takes persistence, but that talent defines goal-oriented medical students, so it is really an unfair struggle!

Discounted air tickets are available from travel brokers for students with more time than money and a flexible scheduling of overseas flights. My office can help you exercise your ingenuity, but meanwhile, here are some hints and a precious few sources of support:

KNIGHT FOUNDATION                            CHATLOS FOUNDATION
Mr. James D. Spaniola, Secretary             W. J. Chaltos, President
The Knight Foundation                        The Chaltos Foundation
One Biscayne Tower, Suite 3800               P.O. Box 975048
Two South Biscayne Blvd.                     Longwood, FL  32791-5048
Miami, FL  33131

EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF AMERICA              PACIFIC TELESIS FOUNDATION
Mr. Richard W. Hansen, Executive Director    T. S. Donahoe, President
The Education Foundation of America          Pacific Telesis Foundation
23161 Ventura Blvd., Suite 201               Pacific Telesis Ctr.
Woodland Hills, CA 91364                     130 Kearney Street, Rm 3351
                                             San Francisco, CA 94108

                                   
ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND                    XEROX FOUNDATION
Mr. Benjamin R. Shute, Jr., Secretary        Mr. R. H. Gudger, V.P.
The Rockefeller Brother's Fund               The Xerox Foundation
1290 Ave of The Americas                     P.O. Box 1600
New York, NY 10104                           Stamford, CT  06904

FREEDOM FORUM                                SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION
Mr. Calvin Mayne, Administrator              Ms. Marilyn Perry, President
The Freedom Forum                            174 East 80th Street
1101 Wilson Blvd                             New York, NY 10021
Arlington, VA 22209

STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION                       GTE FOUNDATION
Mr. C. Davis Weyehaeuser, President          Ms. Maureen V. Gorman, Sec.
The Stewardship Foundation                   The GTE Foundation
P.O. Box 1278                                One Stamford Forum
Tacoma, WA 98401                             Stamford, CT  06904

LEVI STRAUSS FOUNDATION                      KRESGE FOUNDATION
Mr. Robert D. Haas, President                John E. Marshall III, Pres.
The Levi Strauss Foundation                  3215 West Big Beaver Road
1155 Battery Street                          P.O. Box 3151
San Francisco, CA 94111                      Troy, MI 48007-3151

HEARST FOUNDATION                            ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION
Mr. George R. Hearst, Jr., President         Mr. William G. Bowen, Pres.
The Hearst Foundation, Inc.                  The Andrew W. Mellon Found.
888 Seventh Avenue                           140 East 62nd Street
27th Floor                                   New York, NY 10021
New York, NY 10106-0057

RUTH MOTT FUND                               WENNERGREN FOUNDATION
Ms. Deborah E. Tuck, Executive Director      Mr. Syd Silverman, Pres.
The Ruth Mott Fund                           The Wennergren Foundation
1726 Genesee Towers                          220 Fifth Avenue
Flint, MI 48502                              16th Floor
                                             New York, NY 10001

GRAINGER FOUNDATION, INC.                    EDNA MCCONNELL CLARK FOUND.
J.S. Chapman, Director                       Patricia Carry Stewart, Sec.
The Grainger Foundation, INC                 250 Park Avenue
5500 West Howard Street                      Room 900
Skokie, IL 60077                             New York, NY 10017

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