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UCSF has received a challenge gift of $20 million from the Sandler Foundation that will provide major support for the university’s groundbreaking research and clinical care efforts regarding neurological diseases. In honor of the extraordinary commitment of Herbert and Marion Sandler and the Sandler Foundation to UCSF and the Department of Neurology, the new neurosciences building, opening this month at the UCSF Mission Bay campus, will be named…
…ion, major gifts, volunteer engagement- including board development, constituent relations, development communications, digital strategy, and marketing. Before serving as senior regional director for New York at Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Grabau served the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) as vice president for strategic initiatives and Nebraska Wesleyan University as both vice president for institutional …
With a battered economy and volatile financial markets taking their tolls on donors’ pocketbooks, private giving to American colleges dropped sharply in 2009, according to findings of the annual Voluntary Support of Education survey, which were released on Wednesday. Donations were down $3.75-billion from the previous year—a decline of 11.9 percent, the steepest in the survey’s 50-year history. Colleges brought in an estimated $27.8…
The Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced the establishment of the Aga Khan Visiting Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown University in honor of Carnegie president Vartan Gregorian, who served as president of the university from 1989 to 1997. Endowed by a $2 million gift from Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, the professorship will be affiliated with the university’s Cogut Center for Humanities and will help Brown attract experts on I…
Margaret Sughrue Carlson, Ph.D., is a senior associate in the Minneapolis office of Bentz Whaley Flessner. Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Carlson was the chief executive officer of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association and the associate vice president of the University for twenty-five years; she was the longest-serving alumni director in the Big Ten. Dr. Carlson has been recognized for her contributions to the University of Minnesota, i…
Using Data to Strengthen Fundraising Instructors: Ali McLane, Joshua Birkholz, Diane Korb and Tina Donahoo The scientific aspect of fundraising is becoming more complex. There are myriad tools and methods for using data, but the challenge lies in choosing how to utilize data analysis to benefit your organization. Participants will learn what data they should be tracking and how to analyze it to improve fundraising efficiency and planning. Learn…
Prospect Research 101 Instructor: Ali McLane, Senior Associate, Bentz Whaley Flessner A key aspect of fundraising identifying the best prospects for your organization. Effective prospect research informs and helps shape fundraising strategies. In this course, development professionals receive an introduction to prospect research including a review of specific resources and techniques to identify, research and interpret capacity and interest ind…
The National Institutes of Health announced plans on Tuesday to spend $416-million over the next four years on genomics research at universities and medical centers across the country. The biggest chunk of the money will go to existing large-scale sequencing programs at the Broad Institute in Massachusetts, the Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, and the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston…
There was a time when senior Amy Roth — now a psychology major heavily involved in research and several on-campus groups — was unsure of whether she would even be attending college.“I needed to have something magical work out, if it was going to happen at all,” Roth said in an interview. Maybe magic isn’t the word, but something extraordinary certainly happened for Roth, as she ended up becoming an Alan and Jane Handler Scholar, meaning an expe…
The Rockefeller University has received a $15 million gift from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to fund research into digestive disorders including metabolic diseases, cancers and infections, university officials announced today. The funds will establish a new center, to be known as the Center for Basic and Translational Research on Disorders of the Digestive System, which will support interdisciplinary basic research and fos…
