SINGAPORE - More than 1,000 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) students have received financial aid amounting to $1.5 million from its Covid-19 relief package, the university announced on Tuesday (Aug 25).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - More than 1,000 Nanyang Technological University students have received financial aid amounting to $1.5 million from its Covid-19 relief package, the university announced on Tuesday .
To fund the package, NTU launched new initiatives to attract private philanthropic gifts, in addition to deploying available sources of public funding and university resources. Its donors include NTU faculty, staff, alumni, friends, and members of the Board of Trustees, as well as organisations such as the Lee Foundation, GIC Private Ltd and Ngee Ann Kongsi.
He said:"The true spirit of the NTU Priorities Fund is to perpetuate a virtuous cycle of philanthropy and imbue in beneficiaries the motivation to pay it forward.
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