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    • Leadership Gifts Committee James F. Benenati, MD, FSIR
      Joseph Bonn, MD, FSIR
      Romi Chopra, MD
      Erik Cressman, MD (New Member)
      Janette D. Durham, MD, MBA, FSIR
      Marshall Hicks, MD, FSIR
      Eamonn P. Hobbs, FSIR
      Stephen T. Kee, MD
      Timothy Maroney, MD (New Member)
      Alan H. Matsumoto, MD, FSIR
      Thomas A. Sos, MD, FSIR
      Richard B. Towbin, MD, FSIR
      Arthur C. Waltman, MD, FSIR
      Robert I. White, Jr., MD
      Suresh Vedantham, MD

Welcome From the SIR Foundation Discovery Campaign

Invest in IR, Light Up Discovery

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Help Meet the $2.5 Million Goal!



Contribute to the SIR Foundation Discovery Campaign

To ensure that IR professionals are poised to be pioneers and leaders in the future, SIR Foundation must have a predictable source of unrestricted funds. The Discovery Campaign is intended to amplify the success of the Annual Fund, and all SIR members are strongly encouraged to make both the Discovery Campaign and the Annual Fund part of their giving strategy.  

Many of your colleagues (including 100 percent of SIR and SIR Foundation leadership) have made five-year commitments to this important effort. To date the SIR membership has raised just over $2.0 million toward this important effort.  The Discovery Campaign needs just under $500,000 from SIR membership contributions to meet our $2.5 million goal ... join the effort now!

Discovery Campaign Support Levels

Innovator

$100,000+

  

Leader

$10,000+

Pioneer

$ 50,000+

  

Explorer

$  5,000+

Pacesetter

$ 25,000+

  

Voyager

$  2,500+

Sponsor

Up to $2,499

 

SIR members advance Discovery Campaign beyond goal

Donations to the membership phase of the SIR Foundation Discovery Campaign have not only reached the initial goal of $2.5 million but exceeded it. The current amount raised for this phase of the Campaign is $2,713,419.03 with more donations arriving daily. The initial stage of the membership phase is due to close at the end of 2009, however, the Campaign will continue to solicit and receive donations from SIR members after that date.

Many SIR members have already made incredibly generous contributions. In comparison to our last fundraising effort, IA2000, to which 6 members donated $25,000 or more; the Discovery Campaign has already received 19 member donations of this amount. The SIR Foundation is extremely grateful to all those SIR members who already generously contributed to the Foundation during the Discovery Campaign. Many thanks to all of you. You will be recognized at our annual meeting in March.

For those members who have not yet donated, it is not too late. Please consider making a positive investment in your future by ensuring that interventional radiology remains vibrant and important for the rest of your career. Donating the collections you receive from one major procedure per year for five years will help to validate present and new procedures, guarantee that these procedures will continue to be available to patients and make sure that interventional radiologists will continue to be reimbursed for them.

Even at this early stage we have seen some very positive results from the generous donations that have already been made. As a result of this initial phase of the Discovery Campaign, the Foundation has been able to double the number of grants awarded. The industry phase of the Discovery Campaign will begin in the first quarter of 2010.