Make a Gift, Make a Difference
Goal: $35 million | Time frame: Through June 30, 2012
As part of The Columbia Campaign launched in fall 2006, the Campaign for the School of Social Work will enhance the School's core mission and provide support for students, faculty, academic programs, and the building fund.
Your commemorative gift helps sustain our tradition of excellence and provides opportunities that faculty, students, and alumni expect. Help us continue to be the "first and finest" school of social work.
Key Initiatives
Student Aid: $18 million
Create a master's student scholarship or doctoral fellowship for our talented students, 90 percent of whom require financial assistance.
- Named annual scholarship-$15,000
- Annual master's scholarship-$35,000 each year fortwo years
- Endowed scholarship-$50,000
- Endowed doctoral fellowship-$250,000
- Endowed full master's or doctoral fellowship-$1,000,000
- CUSSW Alumni Association Commemorative Scholarship-gifts of any amount
Faculty Programs: $8 million
Enhance our academic and research initiatives by endowing a professorship.
- Endowments-$1 million or more
Building Fund: $7 million
Help us complete the financing for the School's state-of-the-art building and provide essential operating support for technology and other needs. A number of premier naming opportunities remain, including naming the building itself, main lobby, library stacks, and widely used seminar rooms and classrooms.
- Naming opportunities-$50,000 or more
- Named row in our largest seminar room-$10,000
- Named seat in seminar room-$5,000
- Gift for CUSSW Alumni Association Student Lounge-any amount
CUSSW Annual Fund: $2 million
Your gifts to the CUSSW Annual Fund are critical and powerful, as they allow the School to provide funding where it is most needed. Unrestricted funds can be immediately used to help bridge gaps and provide for flexibility in the operating budget, bolster services that enhance the quality and experience of student life, and provide for programs that foster relationships with alumni. Gifts of all amounts are welcome.
- Mary Richmond Society-$500 or more
- Dean's Circle-$1,000 or more
Endowments and naming gifts of $50,000 or more may be pledged and paid over up to five years. For more information, please contact Gretchen Knudsen, Associate Director of Development, at 212-851-2368 or gdk2111@columbia.edu.