FSU undergrads form FSU Student Foundation

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<p>Outstanding. Makes this alumnus proud!<br>

Seifter, who helped lead a student campaign called Protect Our Professors that raised $125,000 during spring 2009, is kicking his philanthropy up a notch.
Seifter, with the help of Student Government Association President Dustin Daniels and others, has created the FSU Student Foundation.</p>

<p>It has a 20-student board of trustees, bylaws and various committees. It operates as a separate entity under the university’s primary fundraising organization, the FSU Foundation, and is beginning a campaign to raise $250,000 to match a grant from the Knight Foundation for Garnet and Gold Scholars, a new program at FSU.</p>

<p>“We feel we’ve started a spark of philanthropy on campus,” said Seifter, an economics and political science major from Boynton Beach. “I wanted to continue that and do it in a way that would always have students looking to raise money and give it back to the university.”</p>

<p>The FSU Student Foundation, patterned in part on a similar entity at Georgia Tech, is the first student-based fundraising association at a Florida university, Seifter said.</p>

<p>“This is a great additional experience for students who are interested,” FSU President Eric Barron said. “I think this is a case where the students realize that philanthropy can have a significant impact on their programs and their success as a student.”

See: [Undergraduates</a> at Florida State form FSU Student Foundation | tallahassee.com | Tallahassee Democrat](<a href=“http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20100612/BREAKINGNEWS/100611010/Undergraduates-at-Florida-State-form-FSU-Student-Foundation]Undergraduates”>http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20100612/BREAKINGNEWS/100611010/Undergraduates-at-Florida-State-form-FSU-Student-Foundation)</p>

<p>Go 'Noles!</p>