Select Medical Corporation, a leading provider of specialty health care with headquarters in Mechanicsburg, has announced a $2.6 million gift to Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. The gift is the largest philanthropic investment by a corporation in the six-year history of the University, and it will establish the Select Medical Corporation Conference Center in the Academic Center.
Select Medical has stepped forward to help realize the vision of Harrisburg University, and this gift is yet another example of Select Medical’s commitment to the future of our region. This gift demonstrates the importance of the University—specifically its applied STEM-focused curriculum and focus on providing access to student groups historically under-represented in the sciences.
Investments from the corporate sector have been vitally important to the University since its founding in 2001. To date, the corporate sector has provided 57% of all private support to the University.
It is sustained strategic philanthropic investments from the private sector like this one from Select Medical that will ultimately determine whether Harrisburg University becomes the preeminent institution it has the potential to become. Corporations can make major gift commitments now that will be celebrated and permanently recognized with named spaces in the new Academic Center.
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The gifts are designated to support CONNECT: The Campaign for Harrisburg University—the University’s inaugural comprehensive fundraising campaign that was publicly launched at the Groundbreaking Gala Celebration in November 2006. The Select Medical gift raises the current total of commitments to approximately $31.6-million or 80 percent toward the goal of $40-million. Corporate support of this magnitude is what will make the University’s campaign a success, as well as ensure the continued fast-paced rise of Harrisburg University as a prominent institution of higher education in the Commonwealth. We encourage other corporations and organizations to consider their own philanthropic investments—what impact they wish to make and what legacy they wish to leave.
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