Finish the year by opening doors for the next SSP cohort
You know what SSP can launch: confidence in the lab, a real scientific community, and a career direction that sticks. This year, an SSP alum has stepped forward with a $180,000 leadership gift to help ensure a full 25-student cohort in 2026.
Make your year-end gift today to help meet this $180,000 challenge, strengthen the SSP endowment, and keep this opportunity open for future Summer Students at JAX.
Fuel breakthroughs at The Jackson Laboratory with your year-end gift.
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Why your year-end support matters
The SSP has a long history of launching aspiring young scientists into lives of discovery and impact. If you’re an SSP alum, you’re proof of what this experience can do.
Right now, we’re working to raise an additional $180,000 in philanthropic support for the Summer Student Program endowment. Endowed support helps protect SSP from year-to-year funding swings and moves us toward the long-term goal of a fully endowed SSP of $15 million.
Your year-end gift helps build that endowment and helps ensure JAX can welcome a full cohort of Summer Students in 2026 and beyond.