The Information School

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Campaign 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.

During the Campaign, we seek private funds to enrich our students' experience, ensuring they have the opportunity to excel, and to support and expand the cutting edge research and service programs of our faculty and students.

The Information School's Campaign goal is $5 million. Participation and advocacy are just as important as how much you can give. We want the members of our community and all our alumni to come together in support of the iSchool's mission of changing lives for the better—through information.

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.

Recognition Levels

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

Contact Information

To lean more about specific programs or gifts and how you can help the Information School reach these essential campaign goals, please contact:

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