Giving to RIT/NTID
You can be part of making great things happen, now and in the future.
NTID is the world leader in preparing deaf and hard-of-hearing students for career success and offers you many opportunities to make a difference in the lives of deaf and hard-of-hearing students from the United States and around the world.
Please consider supporting the next generation of deaf and hard-of-hearing leaders by joining the Sentinel Society today. NTID Sentinel Society gifts are designated to the NTID Foundation Endowed Scholarship, an unrestricted scholarship fund that allows NTID to provide critical scholarship financial aid to RIT/NTID students who need it the most. At NTID, all gifts to endowed funds are matched dollar-for-dollar by the federal government, so the impact of your Sentinel Society gift goes twice as far.
In addition to the Sentinel Society, there are many other ways to support RIT/NTID. To make a one-time or recurring gift to NTID, please click here. You can find information on planned giving, gifts of stocks and securities, cryptocurrency and more here. For any additional information, please contact us at givetorit@rit.edu.
Foundation Board
The NTID Foundation Board is an organization of volunteers committed to the advancement of career development and personal growth opportunities for deaf and hard-of-hearing students at RIT/NTID.
Foundation Board members partner with NTID to:
- secure financial support benefitting students and other critical needs;
- help NTID identify and recruit prospective students;
- identify and engage partners who can assist in advancing the mission of NTID;
- and help improve NTID visibility nationally and internationally.
The RIT Sentinel Society is a community of leadership donors who make a meaningful annual investment in the university. Members of the Sentinel Society champion the creativity and innovation that has become the hallmark of an RIT education. A key area of support is scholarship funds.
Pioneering Foundational Support for Students
Joining NTID in 1979, Dr. Linda Siple BS ’79, MS ’82 was a difference maker who had a significant impact on students. Now retired, her impact continues in a different way. Linda touched the lives of interpreting students for decades at NTID. Now she is giving back to honor her former colleague and mentor, Alice Beardsley.
Ways to Give
Your generous support enables RIT/NTID to increase scholarship funding so we can recruit talented and diverse deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Your contributions enable NTID to bolster student clubs and organizations, athletics and the performing arts, and enable a number of experiential learning opportunities like study abroad and co-op. If you’d like to learn more about how you can provide important financial support to NTID and the many deserving students who study here, contact:
