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 gifts program (gifts of $100,000+), an alumni fund program, an annual gifts program centeed around the Lone Star Legacy Society, a corporate and foundation relations program, a prospect research program, a gift processing and acknowledgment program and a Development 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 2001-2005, the major fund raising focus was 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. In January 2006, the heatlh science center realized that goal.

Fund Raising in the Future
For much of 2005, the Office of Development, while working hard to complete the New Frontiers Campaign, was quietly planning for the next big fund raising effort. Leadership at each of the six schools, along with the Harris County Psychiatric Center and the Children's Learning Institute, are in the proces of identifying fund raising priorities that would be the focal points of a next sizeable campaign. Recruitment of volunteer leadership is underway, as is the development of the case for support in each health science center entity. The priority fund raising projects will be identified through a health science centter-wide strategic planning process currently underway. Following that, final priorities and fund raising goals will be established for each entity and thus for the health science center as a whole. The next campaign will likely be comprehensive in nature rather than targeted, as have past health science center campaigns with an announcement and kickoff expected in Fall 2006.

Fund Raising Effectiveness
The health science center’s fund raising supports the education, research, collaboration and disease prevention mission of UTHSC-H and its faculty. In terms of fund raising effectiveness, for FY 2005, cash gifts (new cash gifts and pledge payments) totaled $38 million, a ndw fund raising record for the health science center, breaking the previous year's record by about $3 million. These figures, both for FY 2004 and FY 2005, placed The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston among the 400 highest-producing charitable institutions and organizations in the United States. The cost to raise one dolloar remained ver low: 4.1 cents.

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