Sustaining Everyday Excellence:
Endowment $28 Million
Endowment provides us with a financial foundation, but term gifts
- those we can expend immediately - sustain the everyday
excellence of our efforts.With new unrestricted and restricted gifts,
we will reinforce our operations at all levels.Law Annual Giving
Last year our alumni and friends broke all records in annual giving. This unrestricted support is irreplaceable because it allows us to direct funds where they are most needed. Law Annual Giving has enabled us to strengthen academic programs, provide a measure of support for our students' heavy financial burden - and do the exceptional. In that exceptional category, we were able, after Katrina, to accept, tuition-free, 12 Tulane Law School students who were displaced by the hurricane.
Law Annual Giving will grow at 5 percent per year, adding $20 million to the campaign by 2010. This bold ambition is firmly rooted in the success shown in recent giving to Penn Law. In 2006, alumni and friends contributed over $3 million in unrestricted annual giving.
Biddle Law Library
What could be more fundamental to the quality of Penn Law? We can never afford to shortchange our library. Every student and faculty member depends on the quality and currency of this vital resource. As we must constantly add print and electronic resources, costs rise quickly. Generous donors have recently allowed Biddle Law Library to develop an outstanding collection of international legal material, and added funding will support a wide range of other specific subject interests.
