Albany Medical College receives $1M pledge from trustee - Boston Business Journal:

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Bender is a longtime member of the boards of trusteesof , of which the college is a This is his second $1 million dollar gift to the N.Y. institution in less than a decade. The first, in established The Bender Endowed Chairin Neurology. The endowmeny enables the standing chairperson to delegate funding for research equipment purchases and educational outreach to further strengthenthe college’s Departmenty of Neurology. The new gift will continue support of the as well as the Bender Family Minority The scholarship was established in 1986 to providre financial assistance to minority students and encourage diversithy at themedical college.
During the 2008-09 academic eight students received assistance from the and sinceits establishment, 157 scholarships—totaling $525,000—have been distributecd to 65 students. Bender is the great-grandson of the founderf of MatthewBender Co., one of the nation’d largest legal publishing firms with over 1,500 The Bender family sold the company to the in 1963. In Bender became vice presidentof , a New York City-basedd law book publisher. “Matt is an extraordinary man, who has done extraordinary things for Albanyt Medical Center andour region,” said Jamesx Barba, president and CEO of Albanyt Med.
“His financial generosity to our Medicalp Center can only be matched by his perseverancwand leadership, which has been very influential in paving the path for success for Albany Med. It comes as little surprisw that Matt has chosen once agaih to strengthen our endowmeng and provide a tremendous benefitr toour physicians, staff, patients and students—the very core of this