11/28/2022

GIVING TUESDAY

Your gift matters - please donate to support SAVIR!

As we approach the end of the year, many of us will make donations to organizations that are important to us. As you know, SAVIR is a small organization run mostly by volunteers who are other injury researchers. These volunteers serve on the board of directors, as committee members and chairs, and as conference hosts, devoting their time and energy to advancing the field of injury and violence research.

Why Give to SAVIR?

SAVIR operates on an annual budget of $95,000 per year, about half of which supports our annual conference. Approximately 38% of SAVIR’s budget is devoted to funding a professional management company, MEI, which provides management services. Most of SAVIR’s revenue comes from membership and conference registration fees, but the pandemic has created new challenges in event planning and recruiting new members. While donations and gifts are a small percentage of SAVIR’s budget, they provide the most flexibility to ensure SAVIR can be nimble and responsive to changing needs of our membership. In FY2021, 100% of our board of directors donated money, in addition to their time, to SAVIR.

Two Ways to Support SAVIR

Please consider including SAVIR in your year-end giving plans.

• General fund donations for SAVIR will be used towards priorities including supporting students through scholarships, travel funds and conference registration, and advancing efforts to increase research funding for injury and violence.
• Gifts can also be specifically donated to the Brooks-Webb student scholarship fund, and if at least $1,000 is donated by the general membership, a matching gift of $1,000 will be provided by a generous donor. We would like to invite all members to consider a donation of any size to help us reach this goal and support the next generation of injury scholars!

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