Friends of IGS
Giving Options
Employer Matching Gifts
Employer Matching Gift Search Use this website to discover if your employer offers a matching gift program to support IGS.
Employee and Staff Giving Options
Payroll Deduction From the GivetoCal webpage: "Faculty and Staff are able to designate their gift to any fund listed on the givetocal site or any fund established with the UC Berkeley Foundation. Once an employee enrolls to make a gift via payroll deduction, funds are automatically deducted from the monthly paycheck and credited into the receiving account." To find out how to enroll (the instructions include a link to the online authorization form), click here.
How Gifts to IGS Are Used
University financial support of the Institute accounts for only 24% of total annual IGS funding. The remainder of the IGS budget comes from a variety of sources: endowment income, contracts and grants, faculty opportunity funds, federal, state and local extramural funds, revenue generating enterprises, and, most importantly, private gifts and donations. The importance of private development and fundraising activities as an essential component of the Institute's fiscal future has taken on a new sense of urgency. Simply stated, without a strong base of private donor support, IGS cannot compete and maintain its excellence in serving as the University's primary center for the interdisciplinary study of American politics, governance, and public policy.
To address this emerging imperative, the Friends of IGS was established in 1995 as an official University-sanctioned outside support group. Friends is a donor club that channels much needed fresh financial resources into Institute activities and programs. Your membership in Friends of IGS is automatic once you make a gift, no matter how small, to the Institute. The benefits from joining Friends are many, but most important is the fact that by giving an individual, firm, or foundation is directly contributing to maintaining the excellence of UC Berkeley. Members also receive a special annual newsletter, automatic free subscriptions to the Public Affairs Report and the IGS Calendar, and the intrinsic reward of knowing that their dollars are helping to prepare the next generation of leaders who study and train with IGS as students.
In addition, all contributions are tax deductible.
To join the Friends, please send your tax deductible contribution to:
Friends of IGS
c/o Institute of Governmental Studies
109 Moses Hall, #2370
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2370
Make checks payable to "UC Regents" for the amount of $100, or more. To make a gift using MasterCard or Visa, please visit the GiveToCal webpage.
For information about contributions to IGS or any other IGS-related development matters, please contact:
Marc Levin
IGS Associate Director
Phone: (510) 643-6476
Fax: (510) 642-3020
E-mail: marcl@berkeley.edu
A more comprehensive summary of the ways to contribute to IGS is outlined here.
IGS National Advisory Council
The IGS National Advisory Council is responsible for providing guidance and direction to advance the Institute's development and outreach efforts. Membership is composed of distinguished individuals representing the range of corporate, philanthropy, non-profit, professional, and academic sectors that are affiliated with the IGS mission.
