The USI Foundation
Supporting the University for over 36 Years

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Since 1986, a variety of new programs have been established to support USI's mission.  The USI Annual Fund raises unrestricted dollars to help meet the University's most pressing needs.  Beginning in 2000/01, the Annual Fund has been conducted in three separate campaigns, with each of the Alumni, Corporate, and Friends Campaigns being responsible for meeting its own separate goal.  In 2005/06, the USI Annual raised over $350,000.

Donor recognition events place emphasis on thanking our donors who give to various programs with The President's Associates being established to provide the highest recognition of the University's most generous donors. Those who make annual gifts of at least $1,000 or a one-time contribution of $25,000 or more are honored each fall at The President's Associates Dinner and their names are placed on the donor wall in the University Center. Separate luncheons are hosted by the USI Foundation for Presidential Scholarship and Foundation Scholarship to provide donors with the opportunity to meet their students. Members of the planned giving society Reflections meet annually to hear about the University's future directions.

The prestigious Presidential Scholarship program was established in 1988 to attract qualified Indiana valedictorians and salutatorians to USI. To date, 191 Presidential Scholars have graduated, 82 percent with honors. A total of 40 Presidential Scholars are enrolled for the 2005/06 academic year. In 1994, Nick and Jo Carter gave the University its first $1 million gift, a benchmark which has helped us attract other leadership gifts. During 1993 and 1994, the Foundation spearheaded two fund drives, the first to construct the David and Betty Rice Plaza to honor USI's retiring president and first lady, and the second to refurbish and redecorate the University Home for Ray and Linda Hoops, the University's second "first family."

In 1995, the USI Foundation established Reflections, a planned giving society, to encourage and recognize donors who have established a deferred gift plan to benefit the University of Southern Indiana. The 195 charter members' names are starred on the Reflections Recognition Display in the University Center which was dedicated at the group's first annual luncheon in June, 1999.

The Foundation, in cooperation with the University, conducted its first capital campaign from July 1, 1996 through December 31, 1998. Campaign USI exceeded its $10.5 million goal with gifts and pledges of more than $18 million, with an additional $6 million committed in deferred gifts, as of December 31, 1998.  (A separate Campaign USI story appears on the next page.)

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