Giving Opportunities

A gift to SPEA is a commitment to the faculty and students of today, and tomorrow, who are solving critical, relevant issues of our day. Opportunities to support the strategic mission of our school are in six general categories:

Unrestricted support for critical needs
Provides support for time sensitive and critical needs of the school. Any amount is important to this very important fund for the school.

Scholarships and Fellowships
The School seeks to expand the need- and merit-based scholarships it provides to undergraduates to recruit and retain the best and brightest students.

Funding Graduate Student Fellowships
Graduate students are the life force of academia and the mainstay of a superior program. The competition for outstanding students among our peer institutions is intense, and decisions are often based on available financial aid.

Funding Endowed Scholarships and Fellowships
An endowed scholarship or fellowship is a gift that creates a permanent legacy to the donor while benefiting generations of students. When gifts are used to establish an endowment, the gift is invested with two goals in mind: to make the principal grow faster than inflation, and to provide spendable income for the scholarship or fellowship. The principal is never invaded, and any earnings over a certain amount—usually five percent—are channeled back into the fund to keep it healthy and growing.

Endowments provide naming opportunities for donors and ensure a strong future for the School.

Funding an Existing Scholarship or Fellowship
You also may contribute to an existing SPEA scholarship or fellowship. Please view the list of SPEA's existing scholarships and fellowships for undergraduate students and for graduate students.

Faculty Research
Support for teaching and research at SPEA allow our outstanding faculty to further their scholarly pursuits.

Endowed Professorships and chairs
The School of Public and Environmental Affairs faces intense competition from private and better-endowed institutions in recruiting and retaining the nation's most distinguished faculty. Endowed chairs and endowed professorships both attract and reward academic leaders of unparalleled excellence.

Endowed chairs and professorships are named for the donor or for an individual designated by the donor. Gifts to endow these positions create a lasting legacy associating the donor with SPEA's most esteemed scholars.

The minimum amounts required to establish endowed faculty positions are:
Endowed Chair: $1,500,000
Endowed Professorship: $750,000

Program Support:
Support is directed to specific programs or divisions within SPEA that you may have an affinity to.

Facilities
Facilities enhancements are needed to support the School's teaching and research missions. The current building holds more than twice as many people and activities as it was designed to accommodate.

Classrooms, research labs, and research centers may be endowed and named. The School itself may be named. To learn more about naming opportunities, contact:

Randy Rogers
Director of Development
1315 East Tenth Street, Room 312
Bloomington, IN 47405-1701
812-855-6802
ranroger@indiana.edu

Gifts can be made to SPEA annually, as major gifts, through multi year pledges or in your estate plans.

Annual Fund gifts
Alumni, faculty, and friends of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs support the mission of the School by making annual gifts ranging from a few dollars to thousands of dollars. Annual fund gifts are the primary source of unrestricted contributions for the School. They provide the greatest flexibility to use funds wherever the need is most urgent: student scholarships, faculty support, classroom enhancements, or money for special needs not covered by other funds. 

The School seeks annual gifts in three ways: mail appeals, student telethons, and online giving. To honor your support, SPEA has established the following donor recognition groups:

Annual donors of $2,000 or more will be acknowledged on the Donor Recognition Wall in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Donors also may choose to direct annual gifts to a particular discipline or purpose. To direct your annual gift to a specific area, such as scholarships, please indicate where the gift is to be directed when making your contribution.

Restricted gifts
Donors also may choose to direct annual gifts to a discipline or purpose. To direct your gift to a specific area, such as scholarships, the Washington Leadership Program or faculty research, please indicate where the gift is to be directed when making your contribution.
Please contact Randy Rogers, Director of Development, if you have questions about and area you would like to support.

Matching Gifts:
Matching funds are a great way to increase the value of your support. Please inquire with your company if they provide matching funds for your contribution.

Randy Rogers
Director of Development
1315 East Tenth Street, Room 312
Bloomington, IN 47405-1701
812-855-6802
ranroger@indiana.edu