The Campaign for SIS: An Overview

A new 70,000 square-foot, environmentally-friendly building on AU’s main campus will enable SIS to continue providing the highest quality international relations education for its students. State-of-the-art technology, seminar rooms that facilitate distance learning, meeting space for student organizations – these and other features of the new building will provide SIS students with the physical facilities to match the world-class educational experience they receive at the school. The new building will play a crucial role in the school’s mission to help SIS graduates meet the challenges of an increasingly complex and ever-changing world.

The goal of the Campaign for SIS is to raise $25 million to offset design and construction costs for the new SIS building and to provide additional support for academic programs and student scholarships. Contributions to the SIS Building Fund may be made in one of four categories: Leadership Gifts, Sustaining Gifts, Supporting Gifts, and General Contributions. A pledge of $10,000 or more may be paid in annual installments over a term of up to five years.

Campaign Gift Categories: General Descriptions and Donor Acknowledgements

A Leadership Gift is a contribution of $100,000 or more which may be designated for a specific room, office, or public space (interior or exterior) in the new SIS building.

• The specific building feature benefiting from the gift may be named in honor of the donor, or in honor of another person or persons of the donor’s choosing.
• Donors of Leadership Gifts will also receive recognition in the Atrium of the new SIS Building.
• Additionally, names of Leadership Gift donors will be listed in the Annual Report of Gifts in each fiscal year in which pledge payments are received. (The Annual Report of Gifts is mailed as an insert with American Magazine each year to some 70,000 AU alumni and friends.)

A Sustaining Gift is a contribution of between $10,000 and $99,999 which may be designated for a specific room, office, or public space (interior or exterior) in the new SIS building.

• The specific building feature benefiting from the gift may be named in honor of the donor, or in honor of another person or persons of the donor’s choosing.
• Donors of Sustaining Gifts will also receive recognition in the Atrium of the new SIS Building.
• Additionally, names of Sustaining Gift donors will be listed in the Annual Report of Gifts in each fiscal year in which pledge payments are received.

A Supporting Gift is a contribution of between $1,000 and $9,999 which may be designated for general support of the SIS Building Fund, or may be aggregated with other Supporting Gifts to support a specific room, office, or public space in the new SIS Building.

• Names of Supporting Gift donors will be listed in the Annual Report of Gifts in the fiscal year in which the gift is received.
• Donors of Supporting Gifts that are pooled with other Supporting Gifts to support a room or space in the new SIS Building will be recognized by name on a Donor Acknowledgement Board that will be permanently displayed in the room or area benefiting form the gift.

General Contributions are donations of any amount up to $999 for general support of the SIS Building Fund.

• General Contributors whose gifts total $100 or more in any year will be acknowledged by name in that fiscal year’s Annual Report of Gifts.

Gifts in Support of Student Scholarships and Academic Programs

As part of the overall Campaign for SIS, the School of International Service also welcomes contributions for specific academic programs and scholarship funds. Prospective donors are invited to contact the SIS development office for detailed information and assistance.