The New School for Social Research · University in Exile, 1933

The Roots Match

Alumni who made it, educating the next social scientists from the countries they came from — and NSSR matches every gift by half.

How it works

STEP 1

Found a fund

The alum endows or annually funds "The [Name] Scholarship for graduate students from [country]."

STEP 2

The school matches half

NSSR adds 50 percent from a board-designated match pool, capped per donor.

STEP 3

NSSR selects, by criteria

NSSR's committee picks each year's recipient against the donor's criteria. The donor never names a person.

A $52,480 gift + $26,240 NSSR match = $78,720 = one full MA, fully funded.

Compliant by design: the gift funds a named fund with a country preference; NSSR selects the recipient (IRS earmarking + Title VI). Subject to NSSR counsel sign-off.

The reach

107
Verified alumni
32
Home countries
7
Disciplines
1 : 0.5
Match

The strategic finding: NSSR already runs six country-targeted diaspora fellowships (Leo Model/Israel, Janey/Latin America, Mundheim/Latvia, Kalwinska/Poland, Thanks-to-Scandinavia, Arnhold/Germany). The Roots Match formalizes and matches what the school already does — see the International tab.