Philanthropy 2023: Transforming Tomorrow for the College Community

2023 was a transformative year for the College of Computing community. The following is an excerpt from the College's recently published annual report.

With a growing reputation as a leading center for innovative computing education and groundbreaking research, the College is attracting the attention of global companies and philanthropic foundations.

These organizations invested millions of dollars to support the College’s faculty, students, and programs through scholarships, grants, and endowments in fiscal year 2023. Recent support includes:

• An $11 million grant from Schmidt Futures to create one of four software engineering centers within the newly launched Virtual Institute for Scientific Software
• A $623,790 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to fund the creation of the Open-Source Program Office at Georgia Tech
• A $500,000 grant from the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation to strengthen the pipeline for underrepresented minority students seeking degrees and careers in computational media
• $100,000 in scholarships from the Squarepoint Foundation to support five CS majors with demonstrated financial need to complete their degrees
• Fellowship funding from JPMorgan to pay tuition for 10 OMSCS students that promote diverse representation in technology
• An anonymous donor matching contribution dollar-for-dollar, up to $25,000, for the School of Computing Instruction’s Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Scholarship Endowment

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