Voluntary Donations to Campus Hit Record $8.6 Million Mark, Nearing Cal State Goal

Voluntary support donations to CSUN-those from alumni, parents, friends, foundations, corporations and other groups-increased 17 percent during the year to $8,641,633, a campus record. Corporations accounted for the largest share of that money, 59 percent or $5.1 million.

By raising those funds and other sources, CSUN also moved closer to meeting a CSU goal that each campus generate in funding at least 10 percent of its net general fund budget for the prior year. Using the CSU's formula, CSUN's share hit 9.7 percent, up from 8.5 percent the year before.

In a separate category, the university's special revenue funds-those from sponsorships, bequests and trusts, contracts, grants and endowment income-grew by nearly 19 percent for the year to $11,815,158. Grants were the largest share of that, 66 percent or $7.8 million.

Combining the voluntary support and special revenue categories, CSUN's total external support for the year increased nearly 18 percent to $20,456,791. That was a gain of more than $3 million over the prior year's figure of $17,342,809.

Those results and others for 1997-98 were presented to the Cal State Board of Trustees last week in the system's annual report of voluntary support and special revenues. That tally by the CSU Division of University Advancement includes system totals and individual campus breakdowns.

During his presentation to the trustees, CSU Vice Chancellor for University Advancement Douglas Patiņo cited CSUN as an example of campuses receiving significant faculty support. He cited the nearly $1 million charitable remainder trust given anonymously by a retiring faculty member.

"Raising money is probably one of the hardest things you're going to do in life," said trustee Martha Fallgatter, commending the entire university system for its fund-raising performance for the year. "What you have done here is absolutely incredible."

At the system level, total voluntary support to the 22 CSU campuses, plus the CSU Foundation and CSU Institute, increased 37 percent during 1997-98 to $237.4 million, a gain of $64 million. The largest share of those funds, 41 percent, came from corporations.

Total special revenue funds in the CSU system grew by 1 percent to $410,477,690. Combining voluntary support and special revenues, the system raised a record $647.9 million for the year, up nearly 12 percent from the prior year, according to the CSU report.

In terms of rankings, CSUN continued to place in the middle of the pack among 22 CSU campuses for its amounts of voluntary support and total external funding. Fourteen campuses achieved the CSU's 10 percent fund-raising goal for the year, with CSUN among three campuses close in the 9 percent range.

-John Chandler

Cal State University Voluntary Giving
Campus	1992/93	1993/94	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98
Bakersfield	$1,026,680	$1,609,142	$932,261	$1,206,112	$1,269,036	$3,313,670
Chico	7,257,286	7,026,291	7,510,031	7,170,169	9,242,952	14,500,000
Dominguez Hills	1,959,659	2,520,481	3,000,079	3,513,502	3,514,817	2,839,329
Fresno	10,881,066	13,091,245	15,933,784	13,331,286	12,269,446	20,760,449
Fullerton	3,019,033	4,148,318	4,690,652	4,765,574	7,130,352	8,140,613
Hayward	845,515	1,023,896	1,342,824	1,485,074	1,110,989	1,611,780
Humboldt	1,165,801	3,347,647	1,805,995	5,154,886	1,687,125	1,819,108
Long Beach	16,212,894	17,946,113	21,159,841	22,806,897	25,923,741	36,006,863
Los Angeles	4,736,126	1,235,676	2,731,481	3,688,738	13,331,699	18,548,179
Maritime Academy*	N/A	N/A	12,665,627	4,522,231	3,673,160	1,338,640
Monterey Bay*	N/A	N/A	N/A	345,110	460,897	828,339
Northridge	4,896,021	7,562,792	3,141,458	4,072,058	7,402,391	8,641,633
Pomona	5,511,680	7,041,304	3,492,427	7,153,485	8,627,475	9,382,730
Sacramento	8,623,419	6,984,144	5,574,089	6,363,937	4,877,597	5,542,321
San Bernardino	2,109,216	1,039,902	2,750,348	3,623,520	3,564,533	3,854,525
San Diego	15,564,727	16,008,520	17,340,441	28,548,616	23,173,705	29,749,072
San Francisco	2,594,850	8,675,634	9,141,846	3,378,018	5,147,473	9,685,301
San Jose	8,183,741	8,518,590	7,060,580	7,590,702	11,899,478	17,942,065
San Luis Obispo	10,970,700	38,951,366	11,478,704	12,140,239	14,737,074	21,324,372
San Marcos	605,646	694,324	930,031	1,096,086	3,086,264	4,474,649
Sonoma	2,075,875	1,740,757	3,911,208	5,124,067	8,760,205	10,730,309
Stanislaus	778,324	974,301	794,421	782,828	1,694,729	5,383,245
CSU Foundation	366,498	288,450	235,640	315,560	556,642	168,037
CSU Institute**	N/A	N/A	N/A	623,000	50,000	850,000
TOTAL	$109,384,757	$150,428,893	$137,623,768	$148,801,695	$173,191,780	$237,435,229
*California Maritime Academy and Monterey Bay joined the CSU system in 1995. **CSU Institute was established in 1995. Source: CSU Division of University Advancement