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By making a donation to the Society for Technical Communication, you support STC’s mission to advance technical communication as the discipline of transforming complex information into usable content for products, processes, and services.
You could be helping a friend or a future colleague tomorrow. One hundred percent of your donation will go directly toward STC’s mission to serve its members by identifying and promoting best practices in the field and by demonstrating the economic value delivered by technical communicators. By providing lifelong learning opportunities, STC helps its members develop their skills and competencies so that they may advance in a variety of career paths.
STC Annual Fund Giving Options
Unrestricted Donations
Support the current top priorities of the Society. Your unrestricted gift will support the accomplishment of STC’s important mission:
The Society for Technical Communication advances technical communication as the discipline of transforming complex information into usable content for products, processes, and services.
STC serves its members by identifying and promoting best practices in the field and by demonstrating the economic value delivered by technical communicators. By providing lifelong learning opportunities, we help our members develop their skills and competencies so that they may advance in a variety of career paths.
To achieve this mission, we focus our efforts in the following areas:
- Offering continuing education that enhances the competencies and skills of our members and enables lifelong learning
- Fostering the means and opportunity for technical communication professionals to succeed in today’s workforce and to grow into related career fields
- Defining and publicizing the economic contribution of technical communication practices to businesses and governments
- Promoting the concept that technical communication training develops foundational skills and fosters in practitioners habits of analysis, discernment, and problem-solving that underpins their ability to successfully perform in many fields
- Managing the operations of the Society in a sound and sustainable manner, investing strategically to enhance our ability to deliver member value
Restricted Donations
Student Scholarship Fund
Ensure the success of our next generation by supporting students who are pursuing an accredited undergraduate or graduate degree or graduate certificate program in some aspect of technical communication. To learn more about STC Student scholarships, visit https://www.stc.org/scholarship/.
All funding received for the STC scholarship program goes to a restricted fund usable only for the scholarship program. All donations are tax deductible.
Scholarship Fund Giving Tiers
All donations to the Scholarship Fund are welcomed and appreciated. Donors who contribute at a tier level will receive special recognition for their generosity in supporting this campaign.
- Founder — $1,000 or more
- Partner — $500-$999
- Underwriter — $250-$499
- Patron — $100-$249
- Supporter — up to $99
How to Donate
To donate to the STC Annual Fund, you may do so as a part of your online STC membership application or by completing the online form below. If you wish to donate to both nonrestricted and restricted (scholarship) funds using this page, please complete the type of fund field. Select nonrestricted to give to STC programming. Select restricted to give to STC's scholarship program.
If you would like to donate by check, make your checks payable to the Society for Technical Communication, and mail your payment with a letter or a notation on the check stating to which fund your donation should be applied.
Society for Technical Communication, 3251 Old Lee Highway, Suite 406, Fairfax, VA 22030
Please email STC at stc@stc.org or call +1 (703) 522-4114 with any questions you may have about giving.