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As an applied business program, our impact reaches well beyond the campus. Survey the greater Los Angeles area and you will see our faculty, students, and alumni making an impact on the business community. Through community outreach, practical academic research, and workforce preparation, the influence of the College runs deep.

FACULTY EXCELLENCE

The College has a tradition of recruiting outstanding academics who care about students and business. The next five years will provide a historic challenge and opportunity as about a third of our faculty approach retirement age, and we will be recruiting an unusually larger number of new faculty. While this provides an excellent opportunity for innovation and change, it also presents a great challenge, given the highly competitive job market and cost of living in Southern California. To continue to attract outstanding faculty in this environment, we will need substantial private support.

Endowed Chairs allow the College to recruit top faculty with proven records and national or international reputations by establishing endowments that augment salaries, research, and other activities. Faculty occupying endowed chairs improve the quality of our programs. They are magnets to attract and retain top students and other faculty, increase the reputation of the College, and provide innovate services to business. Endowed chairs are needed in every discipline.

Endowed Professorships are similar to endowed chairs, but require slightly smaller endowments. They allow the College to successfully recruit outstanding faculty who are excellent teachers and researchers. Professorships are needed in every discipline.

Faculty Fellows are endowments created to help recruit new faculty and reward outstanding current faculty. The success of our faculty fellows program is critical to the College's ongoing recruiting efforts. Without private funds for this program, the College will be far less successful in recruiting and retaining faculty in this high cost area.

Term Chairs, Professorships, and Fellowships are established by a multi-year donor commitment.

STUDENT EXCELLENCE

Scholarships allow us to attract the best students, which improves the quality of instruction by challenging other students to excel and by invigorating faculty.

Graduate Fellowships attract top graduate students and pay dividends to the community because they allow students to work with faculty and businesses while pursuing their graduate work.

Facilities, such as classrooms and labs, which are state-of-the-art help to better prepare students. A number of classrooms need to be upgraded to accommodate the latest student research and teaching technology and allow students to work with the latest business technology.

Internships are one of the most important ways by which we serve business while enhancing the education of our students. Interns provide assistance to businesses to help solve problems or develop plans while gaining valuable experience.

CENTERS & INSTITUTES

We pride ourselves on being an applied business program. That means we work with the business community in just about every area. Much of our involvement with area businesses is coordinated through our centers and institutes, which can be supported through an endowment that provides a naming opportunity for the donor and ongoing funding for the center. Our centers and institutes also support academic activities.

ESTATE PLANNING & CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS

Tax laws are established to provide individuals with an incentive to support charitable causes. Depending upon your tax situation, a major gift could make very good sense in your estate planning. You should consult your accountant or attorney or one of Cal State Northridge's estate planning experts to see if a major gift makes sense for you.

Such gifts often establish an endowment, where funds are invested and a portion of the earnings are used for the purposes of the gift. Endowments typically earn five percent annually, with the remaining earnings reinvested to protect the principal. Program funded by an endowment may be named for the donor or someone the donor wishes to honor.

NAMING OPPORTUNITIES

The College of Business and Economics has many devoted supporters and is proud to publicly recognize their vision and generosity. One way the college thanks its major supporters is through naming opportunities' which are available for:

  • The College and business building itself
  • Professorships
  • Endowed Chairs
  • Fellowships
  • Scholarships
  • Classrooms
  • Labs
  • Programs
  • Centers

TYPES OF GIFTS

There are a number of choices in the types of gifts that you may make to the College. Each offers a variety of tax deductibility and other benefits, depending on the type of gift.

Cash gifts are the easiest way to give. You may give funds via credit cards, money orders, cashiers check, etc…

Gifts in Kind are non-monetary items of personal property. Gifts may include books, artwork, equipment, etc…

Planned Giving are given during the donor's lifetime, but the College does not receive the principal benefits until the donor passes away.

Wills and Bequests
Gifts of Appreciated Stock
Charitable Gift Annuities
Charitable Remainder Trusts
Gifts of Retirement Assets
Gifts of Life Insurance
Charitable Lead Trusts
Gifts of Real Estate
Deferred Charitable Gift Annuities

Matching-Gift Programs are an easy way to increase your donation to the College without added financial responsibility on your part. Many companies offer a matching-gift program to their employees. The programs generally match all or a percentage of an employee's gift to a charitable organization. Contact your employer for information regarding matching-gift programs that may be offered.

Gift Pledges are gifts made through regular payments over time. This allows you to give more generously than you originally may have considered.

You can easily give now to support the College of Business and Economics. For more information on giving to the College, please contact our Development Office:

By phone: 818-677-3621

By email: busdevel@csun.edu

By mail:

Office of Development and Alumni Relations
CSUN College of Business and Economics
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8245