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Donating to the Foundation

The CSEG Foundation is fundraising to encourage and support scientific, educational and charitable activities that benefit geophysicists. The fundraising will support programs such as academic Scholarships, the Canadian Distinguished Lecture Tour, Outreach, Earth Science for Society (ESfS), Travel Grants and Learning Subsidies.

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Download the printable donation form here:

CSEG Foundation Pledge Form (PDF)

Your contribution makes a difference! There are various ways in which you can support the Foundation through Planned Giving:

Giving Today

Cash; Pledges.
Property; Real Estate; Stocks and Securities.
Life insurance.

Giving Tomorrow

Bequests
Registered Retirement Funds

Giving and Getting Something Back

Charitable Remainder Trusts
Gifts of Residual Interest

The Ultimate Legacy

An Endowment

The Foundation is pleased to recognize donors at the following levels:

Members’ Society – up to $999
Doodlebug Society - $1000-$9999
Chairman’s Society - $10,000 - $24,999
President’s Society - $25,000 - $49,999
Leadership Society - $50,000 - $99,000
Champion - $100,000+
Legacy Society – Planned Giving

Here are four excellent reasons to donate to the CSEG Foundation:

Your gift to the CSEG Foundation strengthens the future of geoscience by investing in activities that encourage and support those looking to enter the profession.
Giving to the CSEG Foundation is an opportunity to “give back” and “pay forward”.
Working together as one membership, we can impact the profession. We can accomplish far more collectively than as individuals.
Giving to the CSEG Foundation delivers value to each and every member.

Support the CSEG Foundation, either personally or through your company. Contact the CSEG office at (403) 262-0015 or office@cseg.ca for more information.

Download the Gift Acceptance Guidelines here: CSEGF Gift Acceptance Guidelines (PDF)

Planned Giving

The mission of the CSEG Foundation is to encourage and support scientific, educational and charitable activities that benefit geophysicists through the solicitation of contributions aimed at promoting the development of geophysical knowledge, education and public awareness.

Your donation or legacy will help us to achieve our aims.

Message from the Chair

As the Chair of the CSEG Foundation it is my pleasure to highlight the programs and successes of the organization made possible by our past donors. This year’s highlights include an increase in the Foundation’s assets thanks to the generous donations of our members and corporate supporters as well as from the income generated from our investments. Our program spending was about $200,000 for 2018 with program highlights such as:

The Earth Science for Society (ESfS) program hosted over 2500 attendees of the public, including students from schools and youth groups.
Our Outreach Programs continued to support students in universities and K-12 schools with networking, mentoring and education.
Scholarships: The Foundation awarded 13 scholarships to students at nine institutions across Canada in 2018.
Travel grants and learning subsidies program helped students take courses and attend conferences, seminars and geoscience field trips.
Canadian Distinguished Lecture topic was Geophysics for Unconventional Reservoirs, delivered across Canada by David Gray.

We are looking forward to another successful year providing the programs that are at the core of the Foundation and at the heart of the CSEG membership. Due to recent economic conditions the task of providing these programs in a cost efficient manner without substantial cuts has been a particular challenge for all those involved. I’d like to thank the hard-working and dedicated Board of Directors, CSEG staff and all of our volunteers who have contributed their time in order to make this an ongoing program which benefits the Canadian geophysical community. To those of you that have donated, your generosity and contributions are greatly appreciated by all of us!

Kathleen Dorey,
Chair of the CSEG Foundation Board of Directors, 2019 - 2020

Giving Today
Giving Tomorrow
Giving and Getting Something Back
The Ultimate Legacy

Attending the CSEG GeoConvention was a great opportunity to interact with both the academic and the industry of exploration geophysics. I am thankful for the CSEG for organizing this event and to the CSEG-F for funding me to attend it.
– Amr, University of Alberta

I am very lucky to be selected to receive a CSEG Foundation Travel Grant and Learning Subsidy to attend the 3rd Annual CSEG Symposium. This Symposium is really valuable. As the first student from McGill University to apply for funding from the CSEG Foundation, I appreciate getting this chance and I can spread the news of these events and the Foundation around my friends and classmates here. Thanks very much again for CSEGF funding to gain such good experience.
– Meng, McGill University

Coming from Ontario, mostly surrounded by hard rock, we have a great deal of focus on igneous and metamorphose rocks. It was interesting to see the different takes on the education of the Earth Sciences across the country. The representatives at Repsol and Divestco gave great insight into the various roles of geophysicists and the workshop put on by Imperial was interesting as we never had anything like that to do at UofT. I learned a lot from the talks there and the assignment we worked through. It was really neat to see the Schlumberger truck both inside and out and the tools they had set up; I never saw a truck before. It was also amazing to see the vibrating truck set up by CREWES; we don’t have any of those at UofT.
– Erica, University of Toronto

My experience at the CSEG Symposium this year was very good. I am very grateful to the CSEG Foundation for allowing me to attend the Symposium.
– Nadia, University of Alberta

GIFT 2016 was an incredible experience for me. It provided me with a valuable opportunity to meet not only geoscience students from across Canada, but also industry professionals. It enabled me to broaden my scope in the oil and gas industry, and to understand its prospects and the application of geophysics in reality.
– Oi Yin, University of Toronto

Willapa Bay, Washington, offers an excellent opportunity for graduate students unfamiliar with modern sedimentology and ichnology to view and discuss trends in numerous depositional environments, as well as learn how modern techniques may be applied to the rock record. The graduate and undergraduate students involved are incredibly thankful to CSEG for providing the necessary financial support for their AAPG/ATLAS field trip.
– David and Christine, University of Alberta

As a geology and geophysics student from Quebec, I found that GIFT’s first day was very instructive on the workings of the oil and gas industry. Many speakers informed us on all the different career perspectives, on the ways to enter the industry and on the challenges that being a geophysicist may imply. The dinner and icebreaker were excellent opportunities to network with industry professionals.
– Micha, Université Laval

Attending this event [Geophysical Industry Field Trip] exposed me to numerous geophysical techniques and procedures that I had only ever learned about in the classroom. GIFT not only taught me something new, it introduced me to several industry professionals who were eager to meet the next generation of geophysicists and geologists.
– Ryan, University of Calgary

The 50th annual Western Inter-University Geosciences Conference (WIUGC) was a very good opportunity to reach students and to establish multiple contacts with other geoscientist and industry professionals. I believe it will greatly contribute to my further comprehension of geosciences and geo-engineering, therefore it was a really great experience.
– Imteaz, University of Regina

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