Next Now Mid-Campaign Touchpoint

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Next, Now : The Campaign for Cincinnati has already raised $1.8 BILLION.

Transformational gifts. New partnerships. Record-breaking Days of Giving. Former students honoring mentors. Donors advancing our understanding of COVID-19.

Your gifts at work are making an impact to ready our campus, our community, our city for what’s next.

“There are 46,388 stories that we have the power to tell, lives that we have to shape, and futures...to invest in for the betterment of our society.”

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Our Next Leaders

YOUR GIFTS, THEIR SUCCESS

Scholarships support student excellence and access. They keep the best and brightest in Cincinnati, they encourage exploration of growing fields of study, and they make the dream of college a reality for thousands of our students.

Through the Next, Now campaign, donors have created 759 new scholarship funds.

Hughes STEM High School graduate Benya Coleman is in her first year as a Marian Spencer Scholar, studying medical sciences. Her scholarship covers full tuition, room and board in UC’s Marian Spencer Hall, and a service abroad trip to Tanzania.

From left to right: Marian Spencer with UC President Neville Pinto; With her mother cheering on, Benya Coleman learns of her offer to UC and the Marian Spencer Scholars program. Photo by Andrew Higley; professor Aaron Bradley, associate professor, with a Next Innovation Scholar, Miles Spearman; students at the College of Law.

The power of Next, Now has launched

NEXT Innovation Scholars

Spearheaded by UC President Neville G. Pinto, this highly selective scholarship program brings together a cohort of resilient, forward-thinking problemsolvers who embrace curiosity and confidence to drive innovation.

Women in Law

A philanthropic alumnae group, Women in Law awards grants each year to UC students and programs, including work in public interest and outreach programs from the Black Law Students Association and the Latina/o Law Student Association.

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Next frontier Explore $14M gift establishes the uc gardner neuroscience institute

To back the vision of our leaders in neurological research and care, in 2014 the Gardner Family Foundation committed $14 million to establish the UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute. This donation supported the creation of a state-of-the-art clinical outpatient center that opened in April 2019. With a focus on patient experience, the facility design puts patients, families and caregivers first.

SINCE ITS OPENING IN 2019:

19 Awards

615,929 patient visits 128,745 current patients

Next, Now invests in research and discovery

$9 Million in pilot grants

More than 4,000 donors annually give to funds that support research and discovery across UC and UC Health. Pilot grants support new ideas that can spin into multimillion-dollar studies.

28 endowed chairs

Endowed chairs provided dedicated funds for faculty to push the frontiers of scholarship. One chair holder can touch hundreds of lives through their courses, mentorship and research.

Photos left to right: UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute, UC Health clinical staff; researchers at the College of Medicine; Sian Cotton, PhD, the Turner Farm Foundation Endowed Chair at the Osher Center for Integrative Health.

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Our Next purpose

$25M GIFT HONORS AN ENGINEERING MENTOR

As a professor and former department chair in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, Tom Mantei has always had an open-door policy for students. In honor of his mantra to putting “students first,” the Engineering Research Center was rededicated as the Mantei Center.

Supported by a $25 million gift from alumnus Jim Goetz, it will expand computer science education across the university.

“Dr. Mantei was a critical mentor in my life. He advocated for me, helped me believe in myself, and helped me realize my potential.

I remain in his debt.”

jim goetz, BSEE ’88

Photos left to right: Thomas Mantei, PhD, with Jim Goetz and Mantei Mae Scholars; the unveiling celebration of the Mantei Center, formerly the Engineering Research Center; DAAP student Cameryn Blake; (at top) Tim Johnson and finance faculty Charles Appeadu, PhD; Natalie Altieri’s parents celebrate the opening of the Fashion Technology Center.

Next, Now creates new spaces to collaborate

Johnson Investment Institute

Thanks to Tim and Janet Johnson, the Carl H. Lindner College of Business boasts a simulated trading floor and investment lab, providing hands-on stock market education.

DAAP Fashion lab

Honoring Natalie Altieri’s memory, her parents created a scholarship and supported DAAP’s Fashion Technology Center. It includes an apparel production lab, a textile innovation lab and software for creating wearable technology and 3D pieces.

Your generosity by the numbers 2014-2022

Scholarships & Fellowships

$178,306,654

Chairs & Professorships

$39,446,160

Research & Discovery $78,946,924

Capital & Programs $597,388,115

Professor Claudia Rebola with students in the Industrial Design Lab.

thank you

The impact of your gifts can be felt and seen across UC and UC Health.

Your support helps our students, faculty and clinicians break new paths to learning, doing and caring, turning passion into purpose.

Victoria Wilhelmy, Spring 2022 graduate, Lindner College of Business. A Thornburgh scholarship recipient, Victoria has started her dream job in medical technology in California.

at the close of our Next, Now campaign, more than 55,000 students will step off of UC’s campus with diploma in hand and be ready for their next.

WHAT’S NEXT STARTS WITH YOU .

LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW YOUR IMPACT IS SHAPING UC AND UC HEALTH.

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