Giving Tuesday Doesn’t Have to Be One Day

Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday. Can you extend your giving one more day? Consider a gift to the SIOP Foundation, the only charitable organization focused solely on advancing the field of I-O psychology through support of cutting-edge research. The mission statement says it all: Connect donors with IO professionals to create smarter workplaces. Foundation donors support IO with endowments and term gifts that fund grants, scholarships, and awards.

As of the end of 2019, Foundation distributions exceed $1,080,000. You can see in the pages of the latest annual report how over 2 decades of contributions translate into advancing applied organizational science. However, as Foundation President Milt Hakel states, “Rapid advancement in IO psychology and the organizational sciences surely continues to be needed.”

A lot is happening at the Foundation:

1. In 2020, nominations for the first Joel Lefkowitz Early Career Award for Humanistic Industrial-Organizational Psychology will be open.
2. The scientist-practitioner award fund established by Wayne Cascio is on track to reach its $75,000 endowment goal in the near future.
3. A new website to better tell the stories of award winners, scholarship and grant recipients has been unveiled. Check it out at https://www.siop.org/Foundation.
4. Last February, the Foundation hosted a Horizon Forum, a pilot small group meeting to help shape IO research and development by highlighting emerging questions
5. The Visionary Circle, a venture to build a renewable and continuing source of funding for IO praxis, is off to a roaring start.

The Foundation is doing big things, but these initiatives need support from IO psychologists like you. As you continue your holiday giving, don’t forget the students, researchers, and practitioners who are the future of the field and who need your support. Who knows, maybe the Foundation will support your work next year? (To give online now, login at https://www.siop.org/Foundation/Donate-Now) The SIOP Foundation Trustees welcome your ideas and donations for advancing IO psychology. Thank you for your interest and support!