EVENTS
Though this annual event isn’t overseen by Advancement, it presents an opportunity to cultivate donors and prospects interested in advancing the public good by engaging undergraduates in research.
Undergraduate Research Symposium
This stewardship tool helps automate the student thank you letter collection process, allowing fundraisers to communicate with students through customized requests and online forms.
Beneportal
This online peer-to-peer fundraising tool helps staff, faculty, and students raise money for everything from memorial and honorary giving, research projects, and discretionary fund support.
This form of email communication often has a regular distribution cadence and is a powerful way to stay connected with alumni, donors and volunteers.
Newsletters
This fundraising event happens every fall in partnership with a large corporate funder, and raises over $5M-$6M to support scholarships for high achieving students from underrepresented and historically disadvantaged populations who have demonstrated leadership in their communities and have high financial need.
Costco Scholars Breakfast
ASA’s participation in this annual fall event is part of an important and ongoing stewardship strategy for one of the graduate school’s biggest philanthropic supporters.
ARCS Luncheon
A fundraiser’s annual plan of who they will solicit for major gifts and for how much.
Top 25
This powerful communication tool bolsters advancement efforts through its enhanced automation and customization capabilities, as well as its ability to integrate with Tandem and Cvent.
Marketo
Led by the Alumni Association, this annual gathering in southern California offers important opportunities for donor cultivation and stewardship with many of the UW’s largest philanthropic and volunteer supporters.
Dawg Days in the Desert
Nearly 50 years young, this donor society has more than 13,000 members who make annual contributions to the UW of $2,000 or more.
President’s Circle
This ASA fundraising priority focuses on the completion of an important capital project that will bring additional support to Native American student retention through heightened facility resources that offer greater connection to their culture and community.
Intellectual House Phase 2 Campaign
UW’s last campaign, that raised more than $6.3B, was based on this theme.
Be Boundless – For Washington, For the World
This annual event brings more than 5,000 UW students’ loved ones to campus for 3 days of engaging events, activities, and opportunities to learn about all that UW has to offer its Husky students.
Parent & Family Weekend
A stewardship tool used to connect donors and alumni to the programs and people they care about through video thank you messages.
ThankView
Any major gift, made in someone's lifetime or at death as part of a donor's overall financial and/or estate planning.
Planned gift
Commonly heard around rowing circles, this two word phrase is the current title for the campaign to finish fundraising for the ASUW Shell House.
Pull Together