Double the power of your gift to the AFLSE Scholarship Fund
We are pleased to announce a unique opportunity which maximises the generosity of our alumni and friends based in the United States. Thanks to the incredible generosity of an anonymous alumni couple, every gift donated to our AFLSE (Alumni and Friends of LSE in the United States) Scholarship Fund will be matched dollar for dollar, doubling the value of your gift to the Scholarship.
The initiative will significantly help the School to fully endow the AFLSE Scholarship in perpetuity, enabling one deserving student from the US, each and every year, to study for a one-year taught master’s programme. Donations of any size, will be matched up to the value of $450,000.
We are incredibly proud to be part of the AFLSE community, and its long history of enabling talented US students to benefit from an LSE education. We share LSE’s vision of enabling future generations of promising students from the US to join LSE and gain skills to make a positive difference in the world, regardless of financial constraints. Our hope is that in providing this matched gift, it will encourage many of our fellow US alumni and friends to donate to the Scholarship and ensure many future generations of talented US students have the same opportunity we all did of studying at LSE.
In June 2022, we announced that the AFLSE Board had initiated the endowment of the scholarship by donating its own fund, worth $500,000, to LSE, with a target of raising $1m to fully endow the costs of a tuition only scholarship. This matched gift has given us the confidence to increase the target to $1.5m, which will allow us to endow a full scholarship each year, covering both tuition and living costs. In an ever-uncertain world, with many of our students facing rising living costs, it is becoming increasingly important to ensure students do not turn down their places due to financial constraints.
The AFLSE Board is absolutely thrilled that an anonymous alumni couple have chosen to support the Scholarship in this way. We are very grateful to them for this incredible generosity, and for enabling us to aim higher and provide a fully funded scholarship each year. For more than 40 years, the AFLSE Scholarship has been at the core of our efforts to support LSE, and we hope as many alumni and friends as possible will take advantage of the matched gift and support the future of the Scholarship.
Hear Cheyenne L’Auclair, MSc Development Studies 2023, talk about her experience as the 2022/23 AFLSE scholar.
