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Thanks to your generous support, our students are changing the world and building healthier communities. We are dedicated to promoting the health and wellness of individuals and communities in the southwest and globally, with an emphasis on eliminating health disparities through excellence in education, research and service.

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Each gift, large and small, is truly appreciated by our students and faculty. Wherever you direct your gift to scholarships, programs or research, you’ll be helping us make an impact on students, on the community, and on the world. Give Today! and make a difference.

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Make your donation payable to UAF/ Zuckerman College of Public Health and designate a specific program or fund in the memo line. Mail to:

The University of Arizona Foundation
P.O. Box 210109
Tucson, AZ 85721-0109

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Gift Definitions

Learn more about gift definitions at giving.arizona.edu/ways-give-overview

Endowments

An endowment is a permanent fund in which the principal is invested and only the annual interest income is available for use to support the endowment purpose.

As the investment fund grows (or with additional contributions to the principal by donors), the annual income also grows. With a strong endowment base of support, the UA Zuckerman College of Public Health will be able to maintain a consistent and long-term standard of excellence despite economic fluctuations. Endowments create a lasting legacy and can have an incredible impact on students, faculty and research at the Zuckerman College of Public Health.

When you create an endowment, you can honor someone important to you while providing permanent support to The UA Zuckerman College of Public Health.

Learn more about donor designated and named endowments at giving.arizona.edu/endowments

What are the Benefits of Establishing an Endowment?

• Serves as a permanent named tribute
• Ensures continued progress toward health promotion and elimination of health disparities
• Provides for future generations
• Continues tradition of helping those in need
• Perpetuates your enduring vision
• Naming Opportunities

An endowment or scholarship may be named in honor or in memory of an individual, colleague, or a loved one. Also, an endowment can be named for an organization, foundation or corporation. In addition, Roy P. Drachman Hall, our new home offers numerous opportunities to honor, memorialize or commemorate individuals, groups and corporations.

Endowed Faculty

Support One of the most lasting gifts one may make to a university is to provide a source of endowed funds to support faculty. When donors provide funds to endow a chair or a professorship, they are making a prominent and permanent investment in an academic institution.

Endowment Name

Endowment Description

Friends of Canyon Ranch Health Promotion

Established by innumerable donors (friends & colleagues of Mel & Enid).This endowment will fund programs and projects focusing on health promotion. Funds will support the development, implementation and evaluation of research and community-directed programs for underprivileged and at-risk population. An RFP cycle will be instituted within our College to provide an opportunity for our entire faculty to apply and receive an endowment award in a fair and competitive process.

Endowed Chairs

Investments starting at $1.5 million An endowed chair, named for the donor, is one of the highest honors a university faculty member may receive. It recognizes an outstanding professor currently on the faculty, or it may be used as an incentive to recruit prominent faculty to the University of Arizona. While it is a prestigious honor for the faculty member, it can also be a source of great pride for the donor and supporters who originally establish the chair, since they would know they have played a key role in the future success of the UA Zuckerman College of Public Health academic enterprise.

Endowed chair holders will help to recruit outstanding faculty and students to their program, serve as mentors for younger faculty members, and engage in innovative research. All told, the initial investment in an endowed chair becomes a significant source of future resources to the academic enterprise.

Endowment Name	Endowment Description
Zuckerman/Canyon Ranch Endowed Chair	Established by Melvin and Enid Zuckerman in 1997 to hire a tenure track faculty member to serve as the Canyon Ranch Endowed Chair. All funds support the salary and related expenses of the chair holder.
Mel and Enid Zuckerman Endowed Chair in Public Health (Dean)	Established by Mel & Enid to foster collaborations that identify innovations, best practices and cutting-edge research that have a positive effect on the promotion of wellness. The endowed chair also will support scholarly public health research and inquiry, as well as the translation and dissemination of best practices that benefit the health of Arizona’s communities.

Endowed Distinguished Professorships

Investments starting at $500,000. An endowed distinguished professorship helps the College recruit outstanding candidates by providing supplemental salary or program support for that faculty member. These professorships may also be used to recognize and reward outstanding faculty who have achieved academic success at the highest level and may be in demand by competing institutions.

Endowed Lectureships

Investments starting at $100,000. One of the most appealing features of the academic experience is the opportunity to "talk shop" with distinguished public health professionals from all over the world. An endowed lectureship provides a stable source of funding to bring leading researchers and scientists to the University of Arizona to lecture and interact with our students and faculty.

Endowment Name	Endowment Description
James E. Dalen Endowment for Public Health Policy	Established by innumerable donors to support a public health policy lecture series of national and international visiting professors.

Scholarships and Fellowships

Scholarships and fellowships offer donors the opportunity to provide a university education for deserving students and to recruit the very best students for the academic, research, and community service programs within the UA Zuckerman College of Public Health. Privately funded scholarship and fellowship opportunities allow the UA to compete with other top universities for the most promising undergraduate and graduate students.

Learn more about Scholarships and Fellowships here.

Laboratory Endowment Support

The Zuckerman College of Public Health shares some of the laboratory research activity at the Medical research Building. Modern laboratory facilities are vital to our student training and research activity, but the technology that drives cutting-edge science is expensive and changes very quickly. The need is constant for equipment upgrades or replacement and for expendable supplies and other expenses to maintain the utility of these laboratories.

Endowment Name	Endowment Description
Zuckerman/Canyon Ranch Prevention and Lifestyle Medicine Endowment Fund	Established by Melvin and Enid Zuckerman in 1997 to support the education, research, teaching, and related programs of the UA's Arizona Prevention Center (now the College of Public Health). Distributions will be determined by an approved committee comprised of the following individuals: College of Public Health Dean, the Endowed Canyon Ranch Endowed Chair, a member of the UA Foundation, and Melvin Zuckerman (or his designee).
Roy P. Drachman Prevention Fund for Children Endowment	Established by Roy P. Drachman to support internships and research experiences for students currently enrolled in the MEZCOPH. Students who will be completing internship or research projects focusing on children or youth to promote healthy behaviors, nutrition, physical activity and/or mentoring at-risk children and youth are invited to apply for the Drachman Prevention Fund.
Community Health Equity Fund for Rural and Border Health	Established by deceased, anonymous donor. Endowment to fund rural and border health programs and projects within MEZCOPH. Distributions at the discretion of the Dean. As of 2007 Will fund Rural Health Endowed Chair.
Friends of Canyon Ranch Health Promotion	Established by innumerable donors (friends & colleagues of Mel & Enid).This endowment will fund programs and projects focusing on health promotion. Funds will support the development, implementation and evaluation of research and community-directed programs for underprivileged and at-risk population. An RFP cycle will be instituted within our College to provide an opportunity for our entire faculty to apply and receive an endowment award in a fair and competitive process.
Josephine Weresch Diabetes	Established to fund Diabetes research at discretion of dean.

Addititonal UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health Endowments

Endowment Name	Endowment Description
APC Internship
Sally Keith COPH Endowment	Established by Sally von Ostman aka: Sally Keith, this fund benefits the University of Arizona Zuckerman College of Public Health program for Native American Health or American Indian Health. Distribution is at the discretion of the Dean of the College of Public Health.

Eminent Scholars Program

The University of Arizona needs exceptional faculty to accomplish our bold goals for research and education. The Eminent Scholars Program (ESP), managed by the Office of the Provost and the University of Arizona Foundation, is a state-funded program designed to provide funding to match philanthropic investment for the recruitment/retention of eminent scholars (faculty) at Arizona universities. At the University of Arizona, the program provides a 1:1 match for the payout of newly established endowed faculty positions for five years and an additional one-time award for graduate students working under/with the holder of said endowed chair/position.

Qualifying Gifts and Limits

• Minimum Gift Level: New gifts to establish an endowed chair ($2M) through a gift commitment or a pledge (planned gifts are not eligible) spanning no more than five years. Please note that multi-donor chair commitments will be eligible for the match at such time as the entire pledge commitment(s) have been fulfilled.
• Funding Limits: The ESP has limited funding; $2M is the maximum it will match per endowed faculty position.

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