Internships in Aging Project Endowment
Purpose
The Internships in Aging Project (IAP) Alumni Endowment provides an endowed scholarship for IAP students. The
fund ensures the continuation of quality field and classroom education in social work with older adults and their
families.
The Internships in Aging Project (IAP) is an educational program that prepares MSW-level professional social workers
for leadership roles in service to older persons. The innovative IAP Program offers an integrated, in-depth educational
experience that provides a solid foundation of social work skills and a specialization in aging. This includes integrated
coursework; an internship rotating through agencies that serve older persons; a specialized integrative seminar and
opportunities for leadership development through additional courses in management; and projects that identify gaps in
services which lay the groundwork to plan for new services.
Making a Difference
Your generous contribution to the Internships in Aging Project Alumni Scholarship will attract future social work
students to work with older adults and their families. The nation will require 70,000 social workers who specialize in
aging by 2020, a 43% increase from 1987 (National Institute of Aging). Unfortunately, there is a shortage of social
workers who are trained in working with older adults due in part to the number of social workers who will be retiring
in the next few years but also due to a lack of information about aging and working with older adults.
Within the School of Social Welfare only about 10% of all social work students report an interest in aging. We have
found that if students are exposed to working with older adults and their families, their assumptions about aging
change and they are much more likely to seek out a career in aging. Therefore, the Internships in Aging Project Alumni
Scholarship will: (1) meet the need of the rapidly growing aging population in the country for additional, quality social
work and community services; and (2) help recruit social work students to participate in an innovative training
program that will increase the number of qualified gerontological MSW social workers in the country.
How to Make a Donation
You may choose to make a contribution payable by either a check or charge; make a pledge to be paid over up to 5
years; make a gift of securities or real estate; or make a bequest or life income arrangement.
If you choose to make a contribution by check, please make your check payable to The University at Albany
Foundation and note in the memo line “The Internships in Aging Project Alumni Endowment.” You may use the
attached form (see over) and send it with your contribution to The University at Albany Foundation, University
Administration Building, Room 226, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222.
You may also make a contribution online at http://www.albany.edu/giving/. On the right, click the “Give Online”
button which takes you to a new screen. Indicate in the comments section that your gift is for “SSW, IAP Alumni
Endowment #47371.”
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Internships in Aging Project Endowment
School of Social Welfare Scholarship
University at Albany
Donor Form
Please send your contribution with this form to: The University at Albany Foundation, University Administration Building, Room 226,
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222.
In order to provide resources for the advancement of the educational mission of the School of Social Welfare, I/we shall contribute the
amount of $______________ to the University at Albany Foundation.
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