GIFTS AND GRANTS Despite the challenging economy, CCA alumni and friends have continued to give generously. We thank all donors for their thoughtful support. Contributions provide vital funding for our academic programs, student scholarship aid, and outreach to the community. Following are some highlights from January through September 2009.
Scholarships Student scholarships are CCA’s highest fundraising priority in 2009–10, and donors have been very generous in this area. On the following page we feature a major new $350,000 scholarship challenge grant from board chair F. Noel Perry. CCA was notified this spring that longtime friend of the college Elvin Fowler created a $200,000 bequest to augment the George Post Endowed Scholarship. Carmen M. Christensen, mother of trustee Diane Christensen, gave a total of $107,000 to spend-down scholarships for graduate and undergraduate students. New scholarship gifts came from Ann Hatch and Paul Discoe, who gave $50,000, Lorna Meyer and Dennis Calas, who gave $25,000, and Susan Cummins and Rose Roven, who gave $20,000. CCA received three $10,000 scholarship gifts, one from the S. Livingston Mather Charitable Trust, one from the Helzel Family Foundation, and one from Dr. Thomas and Janice Boyce. Ann Morhauser (Glass 1979) gave $7,500.
Solar Decathlon The Solar Decathlon international competition took place on the National Mall in Washington DC in October, and CCA partnered with Santa Clara University to compete as Team California. The team was ecstatic to come in third overall, beating out top universities such as Tufts, Rice, and Cornell. In the individual contests they took first place in architecture and communications, second place in engineering, and third place in market viability. Thanks to the generosity of CCA trustees and other donors, the college raised $59,000 in cash and at least $70,000 in in-kind gifts (with more in-kind commitments that have yet to be valued). There were five cash donors, and board chair F. Noel Perry led the effort with a gift of $25,000. PG&E gave $20,000. Nancy and Steve Oliver gave $10,000, with half going to scholarship support.
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Annual Fund The Annual Fund provides critical support for the core operations of the college. Sharon and Barclay Simpson gave the single largest donation, $83,500. In spring 2009 120 alumni and friends gave a total of $22,700. Several CCA trustees gave generously, including Tim Brown, Diane Christensen, Charles Guice, George Jewett (BArch 1996), Byron Kuth, Mark Peterson, George Saxe, Dr. Calvin Wheeler, Carlie Wilmans, and Mary Zlot. Elizabeth Hope Ashley (Drawing 1980) remembered CCA in her estate plans with a gift of $10,000.
Wattis Institute The Curator’s Forum group continues to underwrite exciting programming at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. CCA thanks Susan Almrud, Jeffrey Fraenkel and Frish Brandt (Printmaking 1979), Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein, kurimanzutto, and Galeria Luisa Strina for their gifts. Ross Sappenfield and his wife, Laura Brugger, gave to Curator’s Forum and also enabled CCA to receive a $15,000 matching gift from Capital Group Companies. This gift underwrote the Wattis Institute’s Moby-Dick exhibition. The Nimoy Foundation awarded a $25,000 grant to support the Capp Street Project artist residencies of Abraham Cruzvillegas and Renata Lucas.
Grants CCA received a $53,300 grant from Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund to support public programs in San Francisco, including the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, the Architecture Lecture Series, the Graduate Studies Lecture Series, and the Design and Craft Lecture Series. Intel awarded $50,000 for a sponsored studio in Industrial Design and $15,000 to make possible CCA students’ participation in the Intel Design Expo. The LEF Foundation, thanks to the support of board member Byron Kuth, awarded a grant of $40,000 for the Annual Fund and academic programs. The CCA Center for Art and Public Life received a grant of $36,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts, a grant of $35,000 from the Alameda County Office of Education / U.S. Department of Education, and a grant of $7,500 from the Clorox Company Foundation. The Toby Fund gave $11,000 to the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. The Christensen Fund supported the spring 2009 Rising Tide: The Arts and Ecological Ethics conference with a grant of $10,000. With Santa Clara University, CCA received a $10,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation’s Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program.