If you could change the direction of a young person's life in a transformative way, wouldn't you? Saint Mary's University now offers you that chance through the First-Generation Initiative (FGI).

The First-Generation Initiative
Saint Mary's University is eager to respond to the perplexing problems first-generation students, especially economically disadvantaged persons of color, face and proposes the nation's first comprehensive solution. The First-Generation Initiative will provide first-generation college prospects with:

• sufficient tuition assistance;
• on-campus enrichment programs; and
• pre-collegiate preparatory work, or "college preparation programs."

Most significantly, first-generation college candidates will begin preparing for college, academically and socially, while still in middle school.

Please give a young man or woman a better future through the First-Generation Initiative. Your gift will help the nation's academic inequity, and bolster American productivity and economic progress, one student at a time. Check out the new First-Generation Initiative website for more about the program and related giving opportunities  See news, stories and videos about our FGI students and programs Make a Gift Online (make sure to direct your gift toward FGI)

To learn more about the program or becoming a benefactor, please contact:
Brother Ed Siderewicz, FSC
Assistant to the President for First-Generation & Lasallian Initiatives
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
700 Terrace Heights #12
Winona, MN 55987-1399
(800) 635-5987, Ext. 6683
(507) 457-6683
esiderew@smumn.edu