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About the UIS Office of Development

The Office of Development leads the effort to secure financial support for academic, cultural, and extra curricular programs offered at the University of Illinois at Springfield. 

Working with the University foundation, administration, faculty, staff, alumni, friends, and board members, the office seeks funding to advance excellent teaching, research, scholarship, creative accomplishment, and service.

As the liaison between UIS and its benefactors, the office promotes campus needs and priorities, as well as identifies individuals, corporations, and foundations that can help the institution to achieve its goals.

Likewise, development officers represent donors throughout the giving process and serve as stewards of their generosity. They assure that appropriate recognition is given and that high ethical standards are maintained.

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Our Staff

The staff members of the Office of Development manage the activities necessary to procure resources in the form of outright gifts, planned gifts, matching gifts, endowments, gifts of equipment, special discounts, and other in-kind donations. In order to accomplish this, staff members engage in the following:

  • Coordinate fundraising activities on behalf of the University to solicit charitable gifts from individuals, corporations, and foundations;

  • Promote programs, projects, and University priorities;

  • Identify, cultivate, solicit, and provide ongoing stewardship to individuals, corporations, and foundations that can help advance the University's mission;

  • Assists with external relationships developed by others within the University; and,

  • Assist the University community with research, proposal development, and strategy implementation to secure support from external sources.

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