The Thornton Tomasetti Foundation (TTF) is an independent 501(c)(3) organization that helps students prepare for careers in building engineering, design and technology by funding scholarships and fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students. TTF also supports initiatives that help communities around the world by providing financial assistance to individuals and organizations pursuing activities in building engineering, design or technology.
SURE Program
The Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) at Columbia University was established to increase diversity in science and engineering by providing a unique summer research experience for students from
historically underrepresented and minority backgrounds. This year our $15,000 donation sponsored Marylyn Carrillo, a first-generation Latina student at UCLA and second-generation immigrant, who studied how advanced traffic-mapping techniques can provide insight into the variables that determine which areas are crash-prone, laying the foundation for better traffic-safety strategies.
Delivering Clean Water
We donated $10,000 to nonprofit organization charity: water to fund household biosand filters to more than 400 people in Cambodia, where nearly five million people lack access to clean water. The easily maintained filters remove pathogens by filtering water through a biological film, coarse sand, fine sand and gravel.