Creating Futures

Eight Years and 10,000 Donors

10,000-plus alumni, friends, foundations, and corporations participated in Engineering’s campaign and donated $267,564,979.

UW’s eight-year Creating Futures campaign for Engineering came to a spectacular conclusion on June 30, 2008. We are excited about every dollar, but what is most important is the impact of those dollars and other private donations:

181 New Endowments

• 1 deanship, 5 chairs
• 13 professorships, 68 scholarships
• 58 fellowships, 36 academic support funds

State-of-the Art Facilities

• The Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering
• William H. Foege Genome Sciences & Bioengineering Building
• Guggenheim Hall renovation

Matching Initiatives

Three incentive programs developed during the campaign provided matching dollars for new endowments. Engineering alumni and friends came through, taking creative advantage of this leverage.

• The UW Matching Gifts Initiative brought in 29 new endowments with a total of $20.6 million gift and match funds.
• The Students First Initiative garnered 45 new scholarships and fellowships resulting $20.7 million.
• 54 Faculty, Staff and Retiree Campaign donors made gifts of $5000 or more through June 30. (The FSR campaign extends through December 31, 2008, so results are still out.)

Campaign Contributions by Department

Read about our donors

People Who Gave - private donors

Our Industry Partners - corporate and foundation donors