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PROGRESS

Encouraging broader community financial support

Goal: Increase the level of private giving to the University in a manner that has lasting impact.

Progress:

  • The University Foundation at Sacramento State has been reorganized to focus attention on fundraising and endowment investments.
  • The President's Executive Committee was created to lead development efforts to build our new Recreation and Wellness Center.
  • Alex and Faye Spanos contributed $10 million to the Alex G. Spanos Sports Complex project, for which more than $26 million in private support has now been committed.
  • The University recently received gifts of $1 million in support of its Asian American Studies program and $250,000 to refurbish parts of its theater complex.
  • Sacramento State received $16.2 million in private support in 2006-07, its highest level ever. 
  • Six new testamentary commitments amounting to more than $7.5 million were recently recorded by the University. These will ultimately fund endowed scholarships, an academic chair, and program support for departments and colleges.
  • The University has received $1 million to establish the Almond and Betty Sue Curien endowment scholarship for students in business, engineering, and the biological and health sciences.
  • A member of the University’s Legacy Circle, which honors those who have made an estate commitment to Sacramento State, gave $500,000 to establish a new scholarship endowment.
  • Supporting both academics and athletics, a new donor to the University gave $375,000 to the Honors Program and $125,000 to the football program.
  • The University has received $1 million from the Bernard Osher Foundation for an endowment to provide 20 scholarships for re-entry students each year. An anonymous donor has made a $3 million bequest intention that will fund scholarships, academic programs and awards.
  • Eli and Edythe Broad contributed $2 million for the new Eli and Edythe Broad Fieldhouse, part of the Alex G. Spanos Sports Complex.
  • Sacramento State has new funding for a Scholar in Ethics program through a $150,000 gift, over three years, from the RCA Community Fund of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation.


Goal: Increase the level of federal and state funding of University research, programming and planning grants.

Progress:

  • The University has received $1.5 million in federal appropriations for its planned Science and Space Center.
  • $4.8 million in capital outlay funds have been committed to support design and planning for the Space and Science Center/Science II project.
  • Sacramento State has received funding from the Office of the State Librarian to support research and archiving of the late Robert Matsui's congressional papers.
  • University Enterprises, Inc. has received nearly $1 million from the Sacramento Area Council of Governments to develop a proposed campus link—the Sacramento State Tram—to light rail.
  • An additional $800,000 grant for the Sacramento State Tram project was approved by the California Transportation Commission, following an earlier recommendation by the Sacramento Area Council of Governments.


Goal: Increase the number of corporate partnerships aimed at moving the campus forward.

Progress:

  • The Office of  University Advancement is partnering with SMUD to sponsor a business summit to discuss the challenges of a diverse workforce.
  • The College of Engineering and Computer Science is partnering with PASCO Scientific to test engineering teaching devices.
  • University Enterprises, Inc., in a partnership with Follett Higher Education Group that included capital investment of over $1 million, recently completed construction of a new campus bookstore, acclaimed as one of the nation’s finest.
  • Corporate marketing and sponsor partnerships are now being coordinated throughout the University by the Office of University Advancement.