Development Profile

Fund Raising
The Office of Development coordinates the health science center’s private fund raising activities and is committed to building a model development program to support present and anticipated needs. The development program is balanced by a centralized major individual and planned gifts program (gifts of $100,000+), an unrestricted annual giving program, a corporate and foundation relations program, a prospect research program, a gift processing and acknowledgment program and a special projects/board relations program. All initiatives are designed to communicate effectively the priorities of the institution to all constituencies and to establish relationships that will fulfill the philanthropic objectives of donors to establish endowments, construct and equip buildings, provide scholarships/fellowships and support research and clinical programs.

Major Priority Areas for Private-Sector Support
For fiscal years 2000-2004, the health science center’s major fund raising priority has been the New Frontiers campaign, a $200 million effort to build a new home for the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases and to retain and recruit the top scientists in the world. That campaign is nearing completion. A new University campaign is now anticipated that may be announced in mid 2005.

Fund Raising Effectiveness
Fund raising supports the health science center’s faculty as well as its education, research, collaboration and disease prevention mission. In terms of fund raising effectiveness, for FY 2004, cash gifts (new cash gifts and pledge payments) totaled $35 million. In terms of new cash gifts and new pledge commitments, the FY 2004 total was $51 million, the second-highest total in institutional history. The cost to raise one dollar was 6.6 cents.