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Selected Gifts from the Creating Futures campaign

More than 115,000 individuals, corporations, and foundations have contributed over $900 million toward University of Colorado people, places, and programs since the Creating Futures campaign began July 1, 2006. The impact of these gifts can be seen in all corners of CU’s four campuses. Selected campaign gifts so far have included:

Learning and Teaching

  • More than $40 million from The Anschutz Foundation toward the Anschutz Medical Campus, sparking the growth since 2007 of America’s largest new academic and research health campus, and laying a foundation for the campus’s Health and Wellness Center due to open in 2012. The Anschutz Foundation has given more than $100 million to help establish of the campus.
  • $5.5 million from an anonymous donor to the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS), primarily toward student scholarships—the campus’s largest individual cash gift to date—making UCCS one of eight U.S. universities to benefit from this nationally publicized act of philanthropy.
  • $5 million from Richard F. and Rick E. Schaden toward an endowed chair in experiential learning at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) School of Law, helping law students better connect classroom schooling with real-world clients in need.
  • $5 million from Pinnacol Assurance to establish a new program in risk management and insurance, the largest in the Rocky Mountain West, at the Business School at the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver).

Discovery and Innovation

  • More than $40 million toward the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building at CU-Boulder from donors such as Marvin Caruthers, Larry Gold, Anna and John Sie, Jeannie and Jack Thompson, and ConocoPhillips. To open in 2012, the building will better enable multidisciplinary research teams to pursue basic science solutions that inform fields such as medicine and energy.
  • More than $14 million from the Gates Frontiers Fund to launch the Charles C. Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine at the Anschutz Medical Campus, whose highly regarded scientists are pursuing adult stem cell breakthroughs with numerous medical applications.
  • Nearly $500,000 in gifts from Marilyn and Warren Bateman to support scholarships honoring exceptional graduate student achievement in mathematics at CU Denver.
  • A $1.3 million anonymous bequest to UCCS from a former member of the science faculty to fund faculty research and scholarships in the field of chemistry.

Community and Culture

  • $1 million toward a new UCCS Events Center from the Gallogly family, which graduated eight members from UCCS. The venue triples the campus’s spectator capacity for court sports.
  • $2.4 million from Kaiser Permanente toward an Interdisciplinary Rural Training and Service Program at the Anschutz Medical Campus that prepares professionals in diverse disciplines to serve the health needs of rural areas.
  • More than $2 million from the Reisher Scholarship Fund toward the Reisher Family Scholarship program at CU Denver and UCCS, which provides scholarships to incoming sophomores and community college transfers who might not otherwise pursue a four-year degree.
  • Nearly $5 million from the estate of Louise Bennett Reed toward athletic scholarships at CU-Boulder, funding in perpetuity as many as 10 scholarships each year in football and men’s and women’s basketball.

Health and Wellness

  • More than $12 million from the ALSAM Foundation as a leadership pledge toward construction of the new Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences building at the Anschutz Medical Campus.
  • $750,000 from the Seedworks Foundation toward CU Denver’s Center on Domestic Violence, which offers the nation’s first and only specialty certification in domestic violence prevention.
  • A $5 million gift from Mort and Alice Mortenson and M. A. Mortenson Company to establish the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities at CU-Boulder, which educates and deploys engineering students and professionals to tackle development challenges around the globe.
  • More than $15 million in Colorado Health Foundation grants for diverse health programs, including $2.25 million to help southeastern Colorado rural communities grow their own nurses to serve remote areas, through a program housed at UCCS.