Giving to Saybrook

Georgia May accepting her honorary degree

Your interest in upholding Saybrook Graduate School’s educational process is greatly appreciated. Donations may be instrumental in improving and or creating new educational programs. Your generosity can be directed toward specific interests you may have for Saybrook.

You may designate your donation to any of the following areas:

• Tuition Assistance and/or Scholarships
• Technology, the Web and Humanistic Psychology
• The Chair for the Study of Consciousness in honor of Stanley Krippner
• The Alan Watts and Society for Comparative Philosophy Chair

Gifts can be made in a variety of forms, including Outright Gifts, Pledges, Matching Gifts, and Planned Gifts. Remember, gifts to Saybrook are tax deductible.

Outright Gifts/Cash Gifts

Pledges

Saybrook encourages and accepts pledges. Giving in this manner is a significant way to make your contribution over a period of time. Consider pledging to increase your gift’s impact. By giving Saybrook a pledge, it is able to make plans for the future knowing that your gift will allow it to fund the initiative that you designate as you to fulfill your commitment. This enables you to make your wishes known, while permitting you to make the funding when it is most convenient to you.

Matching Gifts

Some companies have "Matching Gift" programs that will double or triple your annual fund gift. If you are interested in this type of giving, you can check with your Human Resources Department to see whether they offer a "Matching Gift" program for charitable giving. Saybrook will complete any form and forward this documentation to your employer if you provide us with the appropriate contact information.

Planned Gifts

Planned Gifts allow you to include Saybrook in your financial and estate plans. There are many opportunities under the tax laws to support research, programs and other areas of interest through gifts and bequests, which we would be most happy to work with you. Some additional information is available by contacting our acting development director at 415-394-5109.

Saybrook appreciates your gift and your support!

Tuition Assistance & Scholarships At Saybrook Graduate School & Research Center

Each year, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center attempts to provide tuition assistance, grants and scholarships to students under a variety of programs. Donations may be made to Saybrook in the name of specific scholarship programs or designated to be used for the schools general tuition and grant programs offered by the school. In making a contribution, the following designation may be used.

• Tuition Assistance: Funds contributed under this general designation will be used to underwrite both Saybrook’s general tuition assistance program for students who have a financial need and apply for assistance; or funds will be used to assist in increasing the level of grants provided to all dissertation students, currently enrolled in the school.
• The Rudy Melone Scholarship Fund: Funds contributed under this designation will be used to underwrite the periodic scholarship made in the memory of former President and faculty member, Dr. Rudy Melone. Candidate for this scholarship will be a student who is accomplished academically, focused on the humanistic tradition and who would otherwise be unable to reap the benefits of Saybrook’s inter-disciplinary approach to academic study without this financial support.
• The Gerald Bush Scholarship Fund: Funds contributed under this designation will be used to underwrite the periodic scholarship made in the memory of former President, Dr. Jerry Bush. Candidates are evaluated for their efforts to develop "out of the box" strategic solutions that impact community problems. The Gerald Bush Scholarship Fund was established as a result of the generosity of our donors to honor the memory of Saybrook’s President. Saybrook gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the Don Parker Fund in support of the Gerald Bush Scholarship. The award will be presented during the graduation ceremony at the June Conference.
• The Rollo May Scholarship Fund: Funds contributed under this designation will be added to the existing fund establish by the Board of the Rollo May Center for Humanistic Studies to honor the memory of Saybrook’s co-founder and former faculty member, Rollo May. The Rollo May scholarship is awarded annually to a Saybrook student whose graduate work extends the existential-humanistic contributions of Rollo May to psychology in general, to psychotherapy, or to other fields. Such student work may include scholarship in the areas of personality theory, psychotherapy, art and literature, cultural criticism, or other topics that the student connects to the Rollo May tradition.

Technology, the Web and Humanistic Psychology

Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center is investing significant resources toward improving and expanding the role in which technology may be used to enrich the adult learning experience for students and faculty. Funds are needed to allow Saybrook to continue its modernization and research efforts.

Saybrook is expanding its web site to provide additional information both on the school and humanistic psychology. New Web pages have been established in the past year for The Rollo May Center for Humanistic Studies, to provide information on Carl Rogers and to continue the work on our web page regarding Humanistic Psychology.

On the web pages for Humanistic Psychology, Saybrook has developed an annotated catalog with the purpose of bringing together the most authoritative and current materials related to Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology on the World Wide Web. The catalog is designed to fit the needs and interests of Saybrook’s students and faculty, as well as enhance the accessibility of these sites by creation of bibliographic and descriptive cataloging.

The catalog identifies a range of the subject matter including history, biography, philosophy, mythology, ethnography, demographics, psychotherapeutic technique, psychological test and testing, researches, methodology and design. Formats within the WWW include electronic journals, hard copy journals, government documents, bibliographies, the offerings of other institutions and researchers, archives of articles, and archives of online discussion groups.

Currently we are working on including materials that are highly relevant to the history and curriculum of both the discipline and the school, which has not been previously available. In addition to the formats mentioned, the catalog will eventually contain:

• Audio and Videotapes of lectures, conferences, and other presentations which will be digitized and made available on the Web through Saybrook’s server, and records for these will be incorporated into the catalog.
• Written materials from the same sources will be selected and scanned for Web presentation as text documents and cataloged.
• Articles in back issues of academic and professional journals associated with Saybrook and Humanistic [and Transpersonal] Psychology will be considered for scanning and inclusion.
• Particular attention will be given to presentations by the founders of [Humanistic and Transpersonal] Psychology and former and current Saybrook faculty members.

In addition, Saybrook’s faculty and students have undertaken to use a new tool, which is commercially identified as eCollege. This suite of software products and services offer tremendous capacity to enrich our distance education. It provides mechanisms for structuring the sharing of documents among students in a class, offering students an electronic means for course related dialog and a secure means by which video or audio materials may be shared among a class of students to assist in the learning objectives for our courses.

The dynamics of this medium offers faculty new opportunities to learn and develop alternative approaches for interacting and facilitating the learning for today’s adult students, wherever they may be. In the coming year, Saybrook hopes to invest at least $100,000 in training, software and hardware in working toward modernizing and growing its services to its students.