Leadership Giving
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Alumni
Forging Excellence
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100

This free online tool helps donors create a legally valid will and often includes options to support charities.

What is FreeWill?

100

Companies including Sky Lakes, Kla-Mo-Ya Casino, US Bank, First Interstate Bank, Winema Electric, and Elevate PT have agreed to this type of partnership with the Foundation.  

What is sponsorship?

100

This experiential alumni event in Grants Pass helped strengthen relationships through shared adventure and connection.

What is the Alumni Hellgate Jet Boat Excursion?

100

We successfully transitioned to this phase of the Forging Excellence Campaign in October 2025. 

What is the Quiet Phase?

100

The alumni-owned business that is partnering with Oregon Tech for Give A Hoot Day this year.

What is Brevada?

200

This type of meeting is designed to introduce us and strengthen our relationships to new alumni and friends.

What are Discovery meetings?

200

This newly developed document builds trust with our top donors and prospects with transparent reporting and inspiring stories.

What is the annual report?

200

This national storytelling initiative collected over 1,700 alumni stories and updated thousands of alumni records.

What is The PCI Oral History Project?

200

This volunteer leadership group helps guide the Forging Excellence campaign while growing Oregon Tech's network. 

What is the Campaign Steering Committee?

200

Which Banquet are we looking to grow in the future to celebrate students and their accomplishments at the Portland Metro campus?

What is the Scholarship Banquet? 

300

This campaign fundraising initiative received a $500,000 donation.

What is Dental Hygiene Mobile Unit?

300

This direct mail solicitation has generated over $36,000 from 137 gifts.

What is the calendar year-end appeal?

300

Through sustained engagement efforts, alumni participation increased to 1.38%, representing a 91.8% progress toward the annual goal before year-end.

What is Alumni giving participation?

300

This document provides a high-level overview of the impact of Oregon Tech's comprehensive campaign.

What is the Forging Excellence Campaign CASE for support?

300

This recent achievement involved securing two commitments to donate essential vehicles for our EMS program.

What is an Ambulance Donation?

400

This organization recognized at the Pink Out basketball game for establishing a scholarship for MIT students.

What is Norma's Challenge?

400

This student worked on projects to improve the Foundation website's navigation and content and developed materials for Legacy Giving and the Fund for Oregon Tech.

Who is Nolan Blofsky?

400

This pop-culture event allowed Oregon Tech alumni to be visible in one of Oregon’s largest community gatherings while connecting with alumni, students, and families in a unique setting.

What is Rose City Comic Con.

400

This is a single, organization-wide list that manages and assigns donor prospects strategically across all gift officers.

What is a Centralized Prospect List?

400

The annual tradition of inviting alumni who graduated from Oregon Tech 40+ years ago to return to campus and lead the graduates to the commencement stage.

What is the Golden Owl Reunion?

500

Donors have generously contributed this amount in fiscal year 2025-2026 to support students and make a philantrhopic impact at Oregon Tech.

What is $3,216,368?

500

The total amount we raised on Giving Tuesday this year.

What is $202,875 (over $200,000)?

500

These relationship-driven campus and industry experiences connected Oregon Tech with alumni at companies like Leviton, Rohde & Schwarz, and SendCutSend to strengthen workforce alignment

What are Alumni Industry Luncheons and Business Tours.

500

Forging Excellence, The Campaign for Oregon Tech, has raised $11 million + of the $35 million dollar goal.

What is at 30% of the total fundraising goal?

500

With the major gifts that we have in process as well as Give A Hoot Day and the Presidential Gala, we have a path to raising $5,500,000 this fiscal year. 

What is reaching our fundraising goal this year?