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Investing in the Retirement Center's Future

Though the Center gets its core funds from the campus, those funds do not fully support the Center’s activities. In 1998, the Center established an endowment to ensure its long-term continuation and an annual campaign to meet immediate programmatic needs

The Center is now moving into its second decade of providing stimulating programs, meaningful services and access to an array of campus discounts for retired faculty, staff and their current as well as surviving spouses or partners.

Because of private gifts by retirees, the Center has been able to continue, grow, and enhance the robust programming it offers, even though our budget is 20% less than it was in 2000. That is why, this year, we are asking you to consider making a gift to the Center to ensure our continued success.

The Center has accomplished far more than was even imagined by its visionary founders. In fact, it has become a model for universities in the United States and Canada and has been instrumental in helping two of its sister UC campuses start their own Centers. It has also taken a leadership role in developing an international association of retirement organizations in higher education.

In order to move successfully into our next decade, however, we must solve the challenges that our current success has brought. We must double our annual income stream from private gifts to $80,000 per year. This funding stream would also fulfill the promise made to the administration by the founding members that some of the Center’s programming would be self-supporting.

Recently, in addressing newly retired faculty and staff at University House, Vice Provost of Academic Affairs and Faculty Welfare Jan deVries stated that the Center uses its budget, dollar for dollar, better than any other unit on the campus. It was a proud moment. We hope that you, too, feel that the Center will make good use of your gift and that you will make an investment in the Center’s future at this critical juncture.

We thank you.