Business schools maintain their excellence and their reputations in part by growing the resources that allow them to attract the best students and faculty, and to provide high quality programs. Top private schools have major endowments, and increasingly public universities have had to rely on their alumni to create a margin of excellence by depending on generous gifts to their endowments.

An endowment fund is a fund in which the principal is invested, and only some of the interest on that principal is spent. Other interest earnings are channeled back into the fund. In this way, the endowment grows over time and remains a perpetual source of revenue for the School and benefits future students.

The graduating students in the GSM Class of 2000 in the Full-time MBA program began the tradition of the class gift campaign to establish the GSM endowment fund. The graduating students in the Sacramento Working Professional program began their class gift campaign in 2002 and established a second endowment fund to specifically benefit the Working Professional programs. The graduating students in both Sacramento, and now the Bay Area Working Professional program, contribute to this endowment fund.

The Class Gift campaign commences each Spring quarter and is implemented by a committee of graduating students. There are three campaigns--one for each MBA program.

For information about the class gift campaigns, please contact Director of Development & Alumni Relations.