SUPPORT THE COLLEGE

The College of Forest Resources is proud to participate in Campaign UW: Creating Futures. As part of this campaign, we pledged to raise $17.7 million by 2008. Thanks to your support, we have reached our goal and can continue to raise additional funds for students, faculty, and programs! Find out about our goals in fundraising for transformational change. Give a gift to one of the priority funds listed below, and visit our online giving page to view all of the College’s gift funds. Your generosity to the funds listed below, or to any other College gift fund, will make a difference in our community and our world, Your partnership with the College will help us sustain and nurture our environment, economy, education, health, and culture.

• The Dean Rae Berg Endowed Fund for Student Support supports students in the College of Forest Resources engaged in the study or research of riparian areas and or watersheds, and who are working with or funded through the Water Center. Preference will be given to students who are officially members of a Washington State or federally recognized American Indian Tribe. This fund honors the work of Dr. Dean Rae Berg, BSF '78, MSF '90, PhD '95, College of Forest Resources.
• The Forest Resources Enhancement Fund provides the margin of excellence that keeps our graduate and undergraduate programs among the best in the nation, helping to attract and retain outstanding faculty and to enhance the learning experiences of our students.
• The Arboretum Advancement Fund provides support for the Washington Park Arboretum, a 200-acre urban green space on the shores of Lake Washington east of downtown and south of the UW serving the public, students, naturalists, gardeners, and nursery and landscape professionals with its collections, educational programs and interpretations, research, and recreational opportunities.
• The Grant and Wenonah Sharpe Endowed Fellowship in Parks and Wildland Sustainability Fund will support research on sustainability focusing on complex ecological, economic, and social issues related to the conservation, restoration and stewardship of environments such as parks, open spaces, and wildlands. The Fellowship honors Grant and Wenonah Sharpe whose lifelong work furthered the field and profession of interpretation.
• The Yakama Tribal Endowed Scholarship Fund will provide scholarship awards to undergraduate students who qualify as recognized tribal members of the Yakama Nation and who are engaged in the study of natural resource conservation and stewardship in the UW College of Forest Resources.

For more information contact:

Thomas K. Mentele
Director of Development and Alumni Relations
email tmentele@u.washington.edu; Phone 206-543-9505; FAX 206-616-6101