The USI Foundation
Supporting the University for over 36 Years

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Final figures for Campaign USI became available when the campaign books were closed on June 30, 2003. (For comparative purposes, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) has determined that no gift to a capital campaign may be counted after a maximum of seven years.) Total gifts to Campaign USI of $17.7 million were received over the seven-year period from July 1, 1996 to June 30, 2003, with a remarkably low 1.6 percent, or $290,840, in campaign pledges being written off.  Deferred gifts of $6.1 million were realized during the same period. Campaign USI's enormous impact -- $23.8 million - will benefit countless numbers of USI students and faculty.  The real results?  Education. Taken Higher. 

In March 2002 the Lilly Endowment established two initiatives to help increase charitable giving among Indiana's colleges and universities.  The USI Foundation provided leadership to The Challenge for Academic Excellence at USI to raise $1 million in board gifts and $3.5 million from alumni, parents and family members of students and alumni, and employees both past and present. Bringing in more than $5 million in gifts, the successful challenges qualified for $4 million in grants from the Lilly Endowment, which were placed in the newly-established permanent Endowment for Academic Excellence, the income from which will perpetually support USI academics where the need is greatest. 

In 2003/04, the USI Foundation re-organized The President's Associates to also recognize donors who achieve significant lifetime charitable giving totals. The lifetime giving levels were named in honor of four businessmen - Jennings D. "Nick" Carter, Fred C. Newman, Joseph E. O'Daniel, and C. Wayne Worthington -- who during their lifetimes made significant total gifts supporting USI as well as providing leadership benefiting both the University and the Foundation. The new lifetime giving donor recognition display, installed in the University Center in August 2004, was underwritten by Betty Worthington in honor her husband Wayne.  

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