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Information changes lives. It drives economic development, builds community, equalizes opportunity and sparks innovation. By offering top-tier academic programs and conducting trailblazing research with social, cultural and organizational impact, the UW iSchool develops solutions to today’s most crucial information challenges and produces graduates who will address challenges not yet imagined.

Private support has never been more important. Every gift makes a difference to the quality of the education we can provide and the research we conduct. We are deeply grateful for the continuing support of our alumni and friends, whose contributions are creating opportunities and providing much-needed resources.

Our top priorities

iSchool Fund for Excellence: Your gift allows the dean to respond quickly to emerging opportunities for our students, faculty and programs. This includes creating unique learning opportunities for students, recruiting and retaining excellent faculty members, and participating in community events that impact the information field.

Information School Scholarship Fund: This annual scholarship is open to all iSchool students with demonstrated financial need.

Next Gen Faculty Fellowship in Information Science: The Next Gen Faculty Fellowship in Information Science will provide support for the teaching and research activities of distinguished faculty at the Information School.

iStartup Lab: Your support helps iSchool students develop entrepreneurial skills and launch data-driven social impact startups, as well as other innovation-driven social impact organizations.

Select one of these funds to support or one from the lists below to make your gift.

Student Support

 
Alan and Ann Johnson Endowed Student Support Fund

This fund provides financial support to undergraduate and graduate students in the Information School.

Bellevue Friends of the Library Endowed Scholarship in Library and Information Science

This endowment provides scholarship support to MLIS students.

Benjamin F. Page Fellowship in Librarianship

Named for the former School of Librarianship associate director Benjamin Page, this endowment benefits MLIS students.

Bryce Nelson Fellowship

This endowment provides financial assistance to MLIS students who intend to become school librarians.

C.D. Smith (MLIS 1965) Endowed Fund for Student Support

Named for 1965 alumna and former State Librarian C.D. Smith, funds from this endowment are to be used at the Dean’s discretion for support of undergraduate or graduate iSchool students.

Data Science Endowed Fund for Student Travel

This endowment supports Ph.D. students and select graduate students studying data science by providing travel awards to attend academic and industry conferences.

Earl Borgeson Research Law Librarianship Award

The Borgeson Award was established to promote the UW Law Librarianship Program and to encourage scholarly research that will enhance the profession. 

Eisenberg Family Student Leadership Endowed Fund

Provides support to Information School student organizations.

Eliza T. Dresang Endowment for Youth Services

In memory of iSchool Professor Eliza Dresang, this fund provides fellowship support for students hoping to pursue a career in children and youth services.

Eric and Christine Larsen Endowed Fellowship for Innovation in Information Management

Supports Information School students with unmet financial need. Preference is given to students with expressed interest in innovation and information management.

Friends of the Edmonds Library Scholarship Fund

This annual scholarship supports MLIS students.

Genevieve C. Cobb Scholarship in Librarianship

This endowment provides scholarships for MLIS students.

Harry & Lorraine Bruce Endowed Informatics Scholarship

This endowment provides scholarship support for Informatics students with unmet financial need.

Information School Centennial Scholarship

Established in recognition of the iSchool’s centennial in 2011, this scholarship provides support for Informatics, MLIS, MSIM and PhD students.

Information School Scholarship Fund

This annual scholarship is open to all iSchool students with demonstrated financial need.

Information School Students First Endowment Scholarship

This endowment provides need-based scholarships for first-generation college students at the iSchool.

Irving Lieberman Intellectual Freedom Endowed Fund

Named for Irving Lieberman, who served as the director of the School of Librarianship from 1956 to 1973, this endowment provides discretionary funding to support activities related to intellectual freedom and to provide opportunity for iSchool faculty and students to delve into the complexities of intellectual freedom issues.

Jeannette M. Privat Endowment for Librarianship

This endowment supports MLIS students with unmet financial need.
 

Jody Berge Orlick Endowed Fund for Public Librarianship

Supports MLIS students who intend to pursue a career in public librarianship.

Jonell and Christopher Lee Family Endowed Fellowship in Library Information Science

This fund allows the iSchool to recruit and retain the best and brightest students in the MLIS program. The scholarship provides broad-based, direct financial support to graduate students in the MLIS program

Koon Family Endowed Fellowship Fund

This endowment provides financial assistance to deserving graduate students in the Information School.

Lee Dirks Student Support Endowment

This endowment supports graduate students with a focus on data curation.

Linda J. Gould Endowed Fellowship for Children's and Youth Services

This endowment provides financial assistance to MLIS students with unmet need who intend to pursue a career in Children's and Youth Services (CYS) librarianship. 

Mae Benne Scholarship Fund

To support graduate scholarship at the Information School for one or more qualified candidates who endeavor to work in public libraries and pursue a Masters of Library and Information Science.

Marguerite E. McAlpin Endowed Fellowship

This endowment provides fellowships for MLIS students based on need and merit.

Mary Elizabeth Hotchkiss Endowed Travel Fellowship

This endowment supports iSchool undergraduate or graduate students’ studies, with a preference for travel support.

Mary Lerg Crandall Endowed Fellowship in Librarianship

This endowment provides scholarship support for MLIS students.

Melissa Sue Landers Memorial Fund

This fund is intended to benefit aspiring library students at the UW who are interested in law librarianship.

Michael D. Crandall Fellowship for Information Management

Named in honor of former MSIM program chair Mike Crandall in recognition of his outstanding leadership of the program from 2005 to 2012, this fellowship provides support to MSIM students.

Nancy J. Gershenfeld Endowed Fellowship in Special Librarianship

This endowment provides financial assistance to iSchool graduate students who express an interest in the field of special librarianship or information entrepreneurship and who demonstrate leadership potential.

Nancy J. Gershenfeld Endowment for Doctoral Student Support

This endowment provides support for iSchool doctoral students. In particular, this fund is used to attract and retain the best and brightest students to the program.

Nancy Pearl Endowment for Public Librarianship

This endowment provides scholarship support for MLIS students who wish to pursue careers in public librarianship.

Paul Jones Endowed Fellowship in Information Science

This endowment provides support for graduate students in the Information School or for graduate students actively collaborating with researchers at the Information School.

Penny Hazelton Endowed Fund for Law Librarianship

The purpose of this endowment is to provide broad-based direct financial support to graduate students in the law librarianship program at the University of Washington Information School.

PitchBook Term Scholarship in Information Management

This fund provides financial assistance to graduate students pursuing a degree in information management with a career interest in financial technology.

Quentin and Karalee Christensen Endowed Student Support Fund in Informatics

This scholarship supports Informatics students with unmet financial need.

Robert M. & Marilyn G. Mason Endowed Fund for Student Innovation in Information & Society

This endowment was created to encourage student innovation in information science and information management and is intended to support activities that stimulate student engagement in the innovation process.

Saxton Family Endowed Student Support Fund

This endowment provides support for undergraduate and graduate students of the iSchool.

Scott Barker Endowed Fund for Excellence in Informatics

Supports Informatics students who demonstrate academic merit and leadership potential.

Sherman Alexie and Lethene Parks Endowed Fellowship in Tribal and Rural Librarianship

Supports MLIS students who would like to become librarians in a tribal or rural library.

Sigrid L. Bulley Endowed Fund for Student Support in Library and Information Science

This endowment provides scholarship support for MLIS students.

Susan Nelson Bockman Endowed Scholarship

Named for Susan Bockman, a children’s librarian and a law librarian, to provide financial assistance to MLIS students.

The Donald and Lynda Horowitz Endowed Fellowship in Information Technology and Justice

This fellowship is awarded to graduate students who demonstrate a commitment to public service with an expressed interest in learning and exploring how information and information technology can contribute to a more just world for all.

Viola Stone Oakes Endowed Scholarship

Scholarship support for MLIS students.

William E. Henry Scholarship Fund

This endowment provides scholarship support for undergraduate and graduate students of the Information School.

Faculty Support

 
Beverly Cleary Endowed Professorship in Children and Youth Services

This endowment supports the activities of the Cleary professor in the area of children and youth services.

Next Gen Faculty Fellowship in Information Science

The Next Gen Faculty Fellowship in Information Science will provide support for the teaching and research activities of distinguished faculty at the Information School.

Program Support

 
Barbara Moberg Endowed Fund

This endowment provides unrestricted support for the Information School.

Edith M. Jennings Endowed Fund

This endowment provides unrestricted support to the Information School.

iAffiliates Fund

Gifts from iSchool corporate, community and foundation partners to support the academic and research endeavors of the iSchool.

iSchool Fund for Excellence

This discretionary fund supports areas of greatest need with the iSchool and allows the dean to respond to unexpected opportunities that arise during the course of the academic year.

Mabel Turner Endowed Fund

Named in honor of Mabel Turner, Professor Emeritus of the Library School, this unrestricted fund provides general, ongoing support of the Information School. “No art please. The idea of a bust of Melvin Dewey leaves me cold.”

Spencer G. Shaw Endowed Lecture

Named for Professor Emeritus Spencer Shaw, an internationally renowned librarian, storyteller, and teacher, this annual lecture series brings award-winning children’s authors and illustrators to campus to meet with children’s and youth services librarians and MLIS students.

William R. Haegele Endowment

Named for William Haegele, librarian at Dearborn Park Elementary School, this endowment provides unrestricted support of the Information School.

Research Support

 
Al Za'atari Camp Life Project

This fund supports the UNHCR Syrian Refugee Camp Project, focusing on resilience through information, culture and community. Led by Dr. Karen Fisher.

Center for an Informed Public

Your gift will support the interdisciplinary research and outreach center's mission to resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society and strengthen democratic discourse.

CIAC Discretionary Fund

This discretionary funds supports the activities of the Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity.

Data Science Lab Fund

Supports the work of the iSchool Data Science Lab

Digital Youth Lab Fund

Supports the Information School's Digital Youth iLab.

Information & Society Center Fund

ISC investigates the role and impact of information and technology on people in local and international communities.

Project Information Literacy Fund

This national study examines early adults and their information-seeking behaviors, competencies and challenges conducting research in the digital age.

TASCHA: Technology and Social Change Group

TASCHA explores the design, use, and effects of information and communication technologies in communities facing social and economic challenges. Active in more than 40 countries, TASCHA brings together a multidisciplinary network of social scientists, engineers, and development practitioners to conduct research, advance knowledge, create resources, and improve policy and program design.

Diversity Initiatives

 
Charity Cantey Endowed Scholarship Fund

This endowment provides scholarships for MLIS students with demonstrated financial need, with a preference for women of color.

Larsen Family Endowed Scholarship in Informatics

This scholarship supports community college transfer students entering the Informatics program.

McKinstry Family Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Native North American Indigenous Knowledge

This endowment provides funding for salary, research and other academic support for a faculty member in Native North American Indigenous Knowledge.

Native North American Indigenous Knowledge Initiative

This fund supports faculty research and activities in the area of Native North American Indigenous Knowledge.

Sylvia Lake Finley Multi-Ethnic Library Fellowship

This fund provides fellowships for students of color in the MLIS program to increase diversity in the field of librarianship. The fellowship is named in memory of Sylvia Lake Finley ('74).

The Neon Blackboard Term Fellowship in Informatics

This fund povides financial assistance to Informatics students, with a preference for students with a demonstrated interest and an active role in advancing the research and career interests of underrepresented populations in the UX field.

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More Ways to Give

By mail

Make your check payable to "University of Washington," specify an area to support, and send it to: University of Washington Advancement, Box 359505, Seattle, WA, 98195-9505.

By phone

Call 877-UW-GIFTS (877-894-4387) and specify the iSchool fund you wish to support.

Endowments and planned gifts

For questions about creating an endowment, giving securities, or making a planned gift, contact the iSchool Advancement team at 206-453-4794 or igive@uw.edu.

MyUW giving

Make a gift, update your contact information, print tax receipts, see your impact, and more. Visit the MyUW Giving website.

No stopping her

Leticia Y Romo BuenoLeticia Y Romo Bueno has overcome a lot to pursue her master's in information management. An iSchool Dean's Scholarship is helping her manage the cost of grad school.

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Breathing room

Maina GachuguMaina Gachugu wants to tap into his community's potential as a librarian. The Genevieve C. Cobb Scholarship gives him "the gift of time, which is so precious."

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Contact Us

Have a question? Need assistance? Email us at igive@uw.edu and a member of our Advancement team would be happy to chat with you and assist you with making a gift. Or contact Danna Bowers, Assistant Dean for Development, at dbower@uw.edu or 360-393-8017.

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MLIS Law Librarianship Information Session

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5:30-6:30PM

iSchool Library Leadership Spotlight Series: Melody Sky Weaver

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Faculty Meeting

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Jun 2
 
12:00-1:00PM

MSIM Mid-Career Last Chance Q&A

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