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Opportunities
Giving Opportunities
Scholarships and
Fellowships
Annual Fund Gifts
Chairs and
Professorships
The School of Public and Environmental Affairs has identified
student support, faculty support and facilities
enhancements as priorities for fundraising.
Student Support
Scholarships and
fellowships are needed to assist our students. SPEA has many deserving
scholars,
but relatively little financial support available. Donors may fund
endowed scholarships and fellowships
or direct
annual fund gifts to
support existing scholarships and fellowships.
Faculty Support
Chairs and professorships
are needed to attract and retain SPEA's world-class faculty. Endowed
positions allow SPEA
to honor donors in perpetuity and reward its most esteemed
scholars.
Facilities
Facilities enhancements are needed to support the School's
teaching and research missions. The current building holds
more than twice as many people and activities as it was designed
to accommodate.
Classrooms, research labs, and research centers may be endowed and
named. The School itself may be named. To learn more
about naming opportunities, contact:
Susan M. Johnson
Executive Director, External Affairs
1315 East Tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-1701
(812) 856-4868
sumjohns@indiana.edu
Scholarships and Fellowships
Funding Undergraduate Student Scholarships
The School seeks to expand the need- and merit-based scholarships
it provides to undergraduates to recruit
and retain the best and brightest students.
Funding Graduate Student Fellowships
Graduate students are the life force of academia and the mainstay
of a superior program. The competition for
outstanding students among our peer institutions is intense, and
decisions are often based on available financial aid.
Funding Endowed Scholarships and Fellowships
An endowed scholarship or fellowship is a gift that creates a
permanent legacy to the donor while benefiting
generations of students. When gifts are used to establish an
endowment, the gift is invested with two goals
in mind: to make the principal grow faster than inflation, and to
provide spendable income for the scholarship
or fellowship. The principal is never invaded, and any earnings
over a certain amount—usually five percent—are
channeled back into the fund to keep it healthy and
growing.
Endowments provide naming opportunities for donors and ensure a
strong future for the School.
Funding an Existing Scholarship or Fellowship
You also may contribute to an existing SPEA scholarship or
fellowship. Please view the list of SPEA's existing scholarships and fellowships
for
undergraduate students
and for
graduate students.
Annual Fund Gifts
Alumni, faculty, and friends of the School of Public and
Environmental Affairs support the mission of the
School by making annual gifts ranging from a few dollars to
thousands of dollars. Annual fund gifts are the
primary source of unrestricted contributions for the School. They
provide the greatest flexibility to use funds
wherever the need is most urgent: student scholarships, faculty
support, classroom enhancements, or money for
special needs not covered by other funds.
The School seeks annual gifts in three ways: mail appeals, student
telethons, and online giving. To honor
your support, SPEA has established the following donor recognition
groups:
| DEAN'S FELLOWS
|
$2,000 or more |
| DEAN'S CIRCLE |
$1,000 to $1,999 |
| ADVOCATE |
$500 to $999 |
| SUSTAINER |
$100 to $499 |
| FRIENDS |
$99 & less |
Annual donors of $2,000 or more will be acknowledged on the Donor
Recognition Wall in the
School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
Donors also may choose to direct annual gifts to a particular
discipline or purpose. To direct
your annual gift to a specific area, such as scholarships, please
indicate where the gift is to be directed
when making your contribution.
Chairs and Professorships
The School of Public and Environmental Affairs faces intense
competition from private and better-endowed
institutions in recruiting and retaining the nation's most
distinguished faculty. Endowed chairs and endowed
professorships both attract and reward academic leaders of
unparalleled excellence.
Endowed chairs and professorships are named for the donor or for
an individual designated by the donor. Gifts to
endow these positions create a lasting legacy associating the
donor with SPEA's most esteemed scholars.
The minimum amounts required to establish endowed faculty
positions are:
| Endowed Chair |
$1,500,000 |
| Endowed Professorship |
$750,000 |