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In 2002, IIE trustees Dr. Henry Jarecki, Henry Kaufman, and Thomas Russo, together with George Soros, founded the Scholar Rescue Fund. This important new program provides support and safe haven to scholars around the world who are threatened as a result of their academic work.

The Scholar Rescue Fund has rescued over 280 scholars from 40 different countries since 2002, enabling them to continue their teaching and research and, essentially, saving their academic work. This effort returns IIE to its work in the 1930s when IIE’s Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars helped more than 330 scholars fleeing persecution in Europe.

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SUPPORT THE SCHOLAR RESCUE FUND
For more information or to give a gift, please contact:

Margot Steinberg
Chief Development Officer,
Scholar Rescue Fund
Institute of International Education
809 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
(212)984-5310
msteinberg@iie.org

HOW THE SCHOLAR RESCUE FUND WORKS

• Academics, scholars and intellectuals from any country and any discipline may apply for fellowships to support temporary visits to institutions in any safe country, in any part of the world.
  
  
• The SRF Selection Committee reviews applications and awards 20-40 fellowships annually to scholars whose lives or careers are threatened.
  
  
• Fellowships are awarded to host institutions for support of specific individuals to be matched by the host institution.
  
  
• Grantee-scholars may continue their work in safety at the host institution—teaching, giving lectures, completing research, publishing their work—throughout the fellowship.
  
  
• The Fund's hope is that during the fellowship period conditions in the scholars' home country might improve to allow their safe return; if safe return is not possible, the hope is that the scholars might use the period of the fellowship to identify a longer-term opportunity to continue their important work.
  

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