SUPPORT THE SCHOOL

Forest Resources was proud to participate in Campaign UW: Creating Futures. As part of this campaign, we pledged to raised $17.7 million by 2008. Thanks to your support, we surpassed our goal, raising $21 million during the campaign. With your help, we continue to raise additional funds for students, faculty, and programs! Give a gift to one of the priority funds listed below by visiting our online giving page. Your generosity to the funds listed below, or to any other School gift fund, will make a difference in our community and our world, Your partnership with the School will help us sustain and nurture our environment, economy, education, health, and culture.

  • The Dean Rae Berg Endowed Fund for Student Support supports students in the School of Forest Resources engaged in the study or research of riparian areas and or watersheds, and who are working with or funded through the Water Center. Preference will be given to students who are officially members of a Washington State or federally recognized American Indian Tribe. This fund honors the work of alumnus Dean Rae Berg, ('78, '90, '95).
  • The Forest Resources Enhancement Fund provides the margin of excellence that keeps our graduate and undergraduate programs among the best in the nation, helping to attract and retain outstanding faculty and to enhance the learning experiences of our students.
  • The Arboretum Advancement Fund provides support for the Washington Park Arboretum, a 200-acre urban green space on the shores of Lake Washington east of downtown and south of the UW serving the public, students, naturalists, gardeners, and nursery and landscape professionals with its collections, educational programs and interpretations, research, and recreational opportunities.
  • The Grant and Wenonah Sharpe Endowed Fellowship in Parks and Wildland Sustainability Fund will support research on sustainability focusing on complex ecological, economic, and social issues related to the conservation, restoration and stewardship of environments such as parks, open spaces, and wildlands. The Fellowship honors Grant and Wenonah Sharpe, whose lifelong work furthered the field and profession of interpretation.
  • The Yakama Tribal Endowed Scholarship Fund will provide scholarship awards to undergraduate students who qualify as recognized tribal members of the Yakama Nation and who are engaged in the study of natural resource conservation and stewardship in the UW School of Forest Resources.