The Information School

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Giving Priorities for The Information School

Whatever your dreams in life, you'll need the right information at the right time to reach your goals. Our job at the iSchool is to help you flourish by marshaling information and technology to serve you. We do that when we apply our expertise to important questions and nurture the minds of future professional leaders. The iSchool believes that connecting people with knowledge is of fundamental individual and societal importance.

If you're a consumer comparing products, a medical patient pondering a course of treatment, or a manager looking for more efficient operating methods, then you are an information scientist. We improve your purchasing and health decisions, your research, or your bottom line by finding ways to adapt technology to meet human information needs.

The Fund for Excellence

We particularly welcome gifts to the Information School Fund for Excellence, a discretionary fund we use to fill gaps where state or grant funding is restricted.

The Fund for Excellence enables us to recruit the very best and diverse students and faculty, and furnish them with money for travel, small grants, or paid help on research projects—items typically not covered by other sources. Small things that, taken together, greatly increase our flexibility and broaden our impact; small things that make dreams come true.

Creating an Endowment

All gifts make a difference. An endowment, however, is the most lasting form of giving. Through gifts of cash, stock, real estate, estate planning and other forms of appreciated property you can help us create the future of information education.

An endowment can be the philanthropic gift of a lifetime, creating a lasting legacy of your commitment to the students, faculty and programs at the Information School. Existing in perpetuity, the life of an endowment is for the future of the University, providing a consistent source of income to support our students in need, our most outstanding scholars, our cutting-edge research and innovative programs.

An endowment can be created in the name of the donor or in the name of someone whom the donor wishes to honor.

Student Support

You can enrich the educational experience of our students through endowed undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships.

Faculty Support

You can help us recruit and retain faculty who are great teachers and important researchers by endowing a faculty fellowship, professorship or chair.

Annual Support

Community involvement is critical to the success of the iSchool. Gifts from alumni and friends enable the College to:

• Increase student scholarships to attract the next generation of library and information leaders to the iSchool.
• Support activities to expand students' learning beyond the classroom, like internships and directed field work.
• Help students travel to professional conferences like ALA and the Information Architecture Summit.

Scholarships make a real difference in the lives of our students. Scholarship funds support students who will be the next generation of leaders in the field, giving a global perspective to the library and information sciences. You can help create more success stories like these:

• Information School Ph.D. candidate Deborah Turner has received a prestigious Fulbright award to conduct her dissertation research in Finland. With the support of scholarships from the Information School's Mabel Turner Endowed Fund and the UW's GO-MAP program, Deborah has spent the last two years studying how conversation varies from other forms of information sharing. Deborah will spend her time Finland conducting a study of professionals who communicate in a common second language, such as Finnish managers speaking in English with German and Japanese colleagues.
• After completing his bachelor's in international relations at UW, Joshua Walker jumped right in to international development, working for the Uzbekistan Educational Partnership Program. With no formal library training, but a year as a student worker at Suzzallo Library, Joshua soon was running a small library in Uzbekhistan on his own. Funded by a Koon Family Fellowship, Joshua returned last fall to Seattle to earn a Master of Library and Information Science degree. He plans to work in an academic library and focus on supporting international relations and area studies research.

You can help make more success stories like these possible. Please support iSchool students by making a gift this fall.

Recognition Levels

The President's Club ($2,000+)
Dean's Club ($500+)

Contact Information

To learn more about specific programs or how you can help the Information School, please contact:

For more information on the Information School, visit our web site at http://www.ischool.washington.edu.