Membership Application
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The top priority of the Panther Club is to provide the best academic and athletic opportunities for Pitt's student-athletes.
Currently, it costs nearly $30,000 to provide one full scholarship to an out-of-state student-athlete for a year. Gifts to the Panther Club Athletic Scholarship Fund play a pivotal role in offsetting these rapidly escalating scholarship costs.
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With your continued and generous support, Pitt can recruit, educate and train the best and brightest student-athletes-regardless of their home state-while providing them the opportunity to compete athletically at the highest levels.
You can have an immediate impact on the lives of Pitt's student-athletes by participating as an annual member of the Panther Club. The Panther Club offers several gift levels with many benefits associated with each-starting as low as $100 annually. However, the greatest benefit is knowing that your gift provides a deserving young woman or man the opportunity to receive an education at a world-class University.
Your support of Pitt Athletics and our student-athletes are greatly appreciated and will be recognized in one of the membership and benefit levels. Please print the Membership Application and make your gift TODAY!
"Extra Effort", a Panther Club initiative launched in 2006, encourages donors, like Pitt's more than 452 Student-athletes on the fields of play and in the classroom, to give 110 percent. The initiative encourages donors to increase their annual gift by 10% from the previous fiscal year. Increasing your gift will make a difference in the lives of our student-athletes, and, will help directly offset our annual athletic scholarship costs.
Gifts to the Panther Club can be made in several different forms:
One-time Payment
Gifts to the Panther Club can be made with cash or check (payable to the University of Pittsburgh), by credit card (American Express, Discover, MasterCard or Visa), including online at www.giveto.pitt.edu.
Panther Banking
The Panther Club will be happy to draft your checking or credit card account on a monthly basis.
Payroll Deduction
Employees of the University of Pittsburgh can opt to have the Payroll Department deduct a monthly contribution to the Panther Club from their pay-check.
Stocks/Securities Gifts
Gifts of securities are welcomed and may provide significant tax advantages for donors. Appreciated stocks can be transferred electronically which, in some circumstances, enable donors to realize significant capital gain tax savings while helping the Panther Club provide essential support.
Capital Gifts
The University of Pittsburgh is in the middle of a capital campaign, Building Our Future Together. Part of this campaign focuses on generating funding for new and renovated athletic facilities. All donations will increase your priority points and directly offset the expense of these facility upgrades. These gifts, are not considered annual contributions and do not determine your annual Panther Club giving level.
Endowed Scholarships
Donors can make gifts to permanently name a scholarship, helping to ensure the future of Panther Athletics. Currently, a minimum of $150,000 is required to fully name such a fund. These gifts, are not considered annual contributions and do not determine your annual Panther Club giving level.
Planned Gifts
The Department of Athletics can be a beneficiary in planned gifts in the form of wills, bequests, charitable trusts, gift annuities and insurance policies. Please contact a member of the Panther Club staff to review this information.
Matching Gifts
Many companies match their employees' and retirees' charitable contributions. Please contact your human resource department regarding your company's matching gift policy. These contributions can make a critical difference to our student-athletes.
Please contact the Panther Club office to discuss any of the various giving methods at 412-648-8889.
All gifts are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by the law.
