three BILLION plus dollars!!!!!

pixiedanzer · March 11, 2006, 8:08pm

UCLA Raises More Than $3 Billion to Help Ensure Its Long-term Future Among Worlds Leading Research Universities

Date: February 16, 2006
Contact: Phil Hampton ( <a href=“mailto:phampton@support.ucla.edu”>phampton@support.ucla.edu</a> )
Phone: 310-206-1460

UCLA has completed the most successful fund-raising campaign in the history of higher education, generating more than $3 billion to deepen and broaden the university’s excellence in education, research, health care and community service, Chancellor Albert Carnesale announced today.

Campaign UCLA secured funding used to support cutting-edge research, provide student scholarships and fellowships, attract and retain top scholars in a wide range of academic disciplines, and enhance classroom, laboratory, health care and other facilities. The campaign benefited all sectors of UCLA from the College of Letters and Science to the 11 professional schools, from physical and life sciences to social sciences and humanities, from law and medicine to engineering and the arts, and from libraries to UCLA Extension.

“Campaign UCLA has been critical to UCLA’s ascent among the world’s leading research universities,” Carnesale said. “Through our donors’ generosity, UCLA has made strategic investments that advance our mission to create and transmit knowledge, power economic growth and social mobility, and enrich the lives of the people of California and beyond. We’re grateful to the many donors and volunteers who helped make the campaign so successful.”

Campaign UCLA began in July 1995 with an initial goal of $1.2 billion. In March 2002, UCLA doubled the goal to $2.4 billion. The campaign closed Dec. 31, 2005, with $3.053 billion in gifts and pledges from more than 225,000 donors.

No other single fund-raising campaign by a college or university has generated as much support. Other top research universities in recent years have launched fund-raising campaigns with similar monetary goals, but UCLA was the first to reach the $3 billion milestone.

Of the $3.053 billion raised by Campaign UCLA, donors directed gifts to these areas:

-$226 million for direct student support such as graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships.

-$784 million for medical research and patient-care programs.

-$605 million for faculty research and other support such as endowed professorships.

-$634 million for new and enhanced facilities.

Donors also provided $804 million in funding to be used for priorities especially student support set by deans, department chairs and program directors. For example, entertainment executive and philanthropist David Geffen pledged $200 million in 2002 to endow the School of Medicine, which now bears his name. The campaign’s single-largest gift is being used to enhance research and teaching programs.

Gifts generated by Campaign UCLA have been used to:

-Provide more than 30,000 scholarship and fellowship awards to undergraduate and graduate students.

-Endow 124 new professorships, which have attracted and retained top scholars and researchers in a wide range of academic disciplines, from literature to pediatric neurosurgery and from international finance to nanosystems.

-Create the Mattel Children’s Hospital, made possible by a $25 million gift from Mattel Inc. The hospital is a national leader in pediatric organ transplant programs and research into pediatric cancer, cardiology and neurology. In 2002, hospital surgeons successfully separated conjoined twins from Guatemala known as the “two Marias.”

-Establish the Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations, which provides analysis of the most pressing problems on the global geopolitical landscape affecting American foreign policy. Core financial support was provided through a $10 million endowment from Burkle, managing partner of the Yucaipa Companies.

-Endow the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science with a $30 million gift from Henry Samueli, '75, M.S. '76, Ph.D. '80, co-founder, chairman and chief technology officer of Broadcom Corp.; and a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA; and his wife, Susan. The school, now named in Samueli’s honor, houses six multimillion-dollar interdisciplinary research centers funded by top national and professional agencies.

-Build the Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center, where researchers use state-of-the art laboratories to isolate the genetic errors that lead to neurological and other diseases, and develop interventions to treat and prevent them. The center, which houses the UCLA Department of Human Genetics and the Brain Research Institute, was made possible by a $45 million gift from Leslie and Susan Gonda.

-Endow the Neuropsychiatric Institute with a $25 million gift from Terry S. Semel, chief executive officer of Yahoo! Inc., and his wife, Jane Bovingdon Semel, founder of a nonprofit production company that addresses public-health issues through entertainment. The newly named Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is among the world’s most comprehensive neuroscience centers, where faculty from multiple disciplines seeks to understand the human brain, develop effective treatments for neurological and psychiatric disorders, and improve access to mental health services.

-Form the Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate, named in honor of a $5 million gift from the chairman and chief executive officer of Arden Realty Inc. The center, a partnership between the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA School of Law, uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine the significance of real estate in the economy and urban environment.

-Help build the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, which will be the nation’s most advanced patient-care hospital when it opens in early 2007, complete with the latest medical equipment and technology. State and federal funding also was used.

-Build the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center, a new home for the visual arts programs of the School of the Arts and Architecture (UCLArts). Construction of the center, scheduled to open later this year, was made possible by a $23 million gift from the Broads, philanthropists and art collectors.

-Build Glorya Kaufman Hall, home of the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures and the nation’s premier dance center for teaching and performance. The facility, which opened in the fall of 2005, was made possible by an $18 million gift from Kaufman, a philanthropist and arts patron.

“Campaign UCLA highlights the power of private giving, providing a lasting legacy for the donor,” Campaign UCLA Chairman Bob Wilson said. “Every gift, no matter the size, can have a direct and positive effect on the life of a student, the work of a faculty member or the scope of groundbreaking research, thereby enhancing UCLA’s ability to serve the public good.”

Vice Chancellor of External Affairs Michael Eicher, who oversaw Campaign UCLA, emphasized the importance of the partnerships needed to identify funding priorities and raise more than $3 billion.

“It takes a great deal of dedication and collaboration among campus leadership, faculty, alumni, donors, volunteers and development staff to ensure that money is raised for the areas where it’s needed most to help sustain our broad-based excellence,” Eicher said. “The results of Campaign UCLA illustrate what can be accomplished when we work together.”

“The role of private giving and the engagement of faculty in philanthropic efforts are increasingly important as the funding gap between public and private universities widens,” said mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Adrienne Lavine, head of the UCLA Academic Senate. “Campaign UCLA benefited every segment of the institution, including faculty, and helped to secure UCLA’s long-term future among the world’s leading research universities.”

Chancellor Carnesale noted that state funding constitutes less than 15 percent of UCLA’s $3.6 billion operating budget, down from almost 21 percent in 1997. In addition, he said, UCLA competes for faculty and students against private universities with far greater financial resources.

“The success of Campaign UCLA is a great testament to our extraordinary faculty and students,” Carnesale said. “Private giving is critical if we are to continue to attract the best and the brightest.”

To mark the close of Campaign UCLA, the campus is planning a series of events to thank volunteers and donors, and to highlight the universitywide impact of the landmark campaign.

About UCLA

California’s largest university, UCLA enrolls approximately 38,000 students per year and offers degrees from the College of Letters and Science and 11 professional schools in dozens of varied disciplines. UCLA consistently ranks among the top five universities and colleges nationwide in total research-and-development spending, receiving more than $820 million a year in competitively awarded federal and state grants and contracts. For every $1 state taxpayers invest in UCLA, the university generates almost $9 in economic activity, resulting in an annual $6 billion economic impact on the Greater Los Angeles region. The university’s health care network treats 450,000 patients per year. UCLA employs more than 27,000 faculty and staff, has more than 321,000 living alumni, and has been home to five Nobel Prize recipients.

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pixiedanzer · March 11, 2006, 8:15pm

another article. same topic.

UCLA Breaks Fundraising Record
The university has raised $3.05 billion from more than 225,000 donors in its 101/2-year campaign.
By Stuart Silverstein, Times Staff Writer
February 16, 2006

UCLA will announce today that it garnered $3.05 billion in gifts and pledges in its recently completed 10½-year fundraising campaign, the largest donations total ever in American academia.

The tally surpasses the previous national record for a university fundraising drive, $2.85 billion, announced in 2003 by crosstown rival USC.

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UCLA’s effort dovetailed with an increasingly widespread assessment, often emphasized by campus Chancellor Albert Carnesale, that leading public universities need to step up their fundraising to compete against top private universities for the best professors and students.

Carnesale and other public university leaders also have cited an intensified need to attract private donations to help cushion the schools against volatile state funding for higher education in California and elsewhere.

Carnesale acknowledged that UCLA’s total donations were pumped up by the length of its drive, which was several years longer than most university campaigns. USC’s drive lasted 9 1/2 years.

He pointed out that a few leading private universities, including USC, have roughly matched or outpaced his campus’ annual fundraising levels over the last decade. Still, he described UCLA as the fundraising leader among public universities, and noted that its annual gifts and pledges have roughly tripled since the early 1990s.

The donations total “enhances and underscores our optimism about the future of UCLA,” said Carnesale, who as UCLA’s leader for nearly nine years has overseen most of the campaign. The proceeds, he said, can’t fully offset lagging state funding in recent years. Still, the drive “does help to explain why despite the tough budget situation, UCLA continues to be one of the top universities in the country,” Carnesale said.

UCLA’s campaign was quietly launched in 1995 and officially announced in 1997, with a goal of raising $1.2 billion over seven years. The goal was later raised twice, up to $2.4 billion, and the drive was extended by three years to the end of 2005.

Although university fundraising suffered for a couple of years following the dot-com collapse, the drive largely coincided with a time of strong philanthropy toward universities. That trend has benefited Southern California’s top three research universities UCLA, USC and Caltech, which is about $300 million shy of reaching its goal of raising $1.4 billion by the end of 2007.

UCLA officials said its donations have been spread widely around the campus, although the largest chunk, $784 million, is earmarked for medical research and patient care.

Among other things, the money has been used to provide more than 30,000 scholarships and fellowships to undergraduate and graduate students, to endow 124 new professorships and to build the Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center; the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center and the Glorya Kaufman Hall, which houses a dance center.

Funds from the campaign, along with state and federal money, also are being used to pay for UCLA’s new hospital, the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, which is due to open early next year.

The largest donors named by UCLA are entertainment executive David Geffen, who pledged $200 million to the medical school; and Leslie Gonda, an aircraft leasing magnate, and his wife, Susan, who gave $45 million for the neuroscience and genetic center bearing their name. Henry Samueli, co-founder of Broadcom Corp., and his wife, Susan, gave $30 million to the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

UCLA said most of the gifts and pledges generated in the campaign, $2.22 billion, already have been received in cash.

However, university officials declined to say how much of the $150 million pledged for the new medical center by friends of former President Reagan has been collected. UCLA spokesman Phil Hampton would say only that financial commitments “are being met on schedule.”

A leader of the $150-million medical center donors group was Michael Ovitz, a former Disney president and once a leading Hollywood power broker, who personally pledged $25 million. He could not be reached for comment. University officials said the donor group included an anonymous contributor who made two pledges totaling $100 million for the medical center.

Alexander “Sandy” W. Astin, founding director of UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute and a member of the faculty since 1973, said that the look of the university’s campus has been substantially changed by the fundraising campaign. He said much of the money has gone into a steady stream of building projects drawing complaints, at times, from people on campus trying to walk around the ongoing construction work.

On the other hand, Astin said, the donations, by ostensibly making the university less dependent on state politicians, could give university leaders greater freedom to guide UCLA’s future.

“A lot of private money comes with strings attached, like public money,” he said. “But because of the diversity of funders in the private philanthropic field, you do tend to get more autonomy for the university, and that’s a healthy thing. That’s what has made American universities world leaders.”

Thousands of small donations also figured in the campaign. UCLA said the drive was funded by more than 225,000 donors including 93,000 of the more than 300,000 living UCLA alumni.

Although the big campaign is over, major fundraising won’t stop. UCLA is in the midst of a separate five-year effort, announced in 2004, to raise $250 million to fund more endowed chairs for professors and to provide new fellowships and scholarships for graduate students. UCLA said it already has raised $143 million in that campaign.

three BILLION plus dollars!!!!!

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