Their generosity—along with that of so many other supporters—helped make UCLA Arts stand out as a leader in Campaign UCLA, the most successful fund-raising drive in the history of higher education. The ten-year campaign, which ended last December, generated more than $3.053 billion in support of UCLA’s longstanding tradition of excellence in education, research and community service. UCLA Arts raised $130 million.

“Campaign UCLA has played an essential role in UCLA’s ascent among the world’s leading research universities,” says Chancellor Albert Carnesale. “Through our donors’ generosity, UCLA has made strategic investments that advance our ability to create and transmit knowledge, to power economic growth and social mobility and to enrich the lives of the people of California and beyond. We’re grateful to the many donors and volunteers who helped make the campaign so successful.”

Alumni and friends of UCLA Arts responded generously to the campaign by making gifts to programs that support cutting-edge research; provide student scholarships and fellowships; attract and retain top scholars; create new classrooms; and enhance existing classrooms, studios and performance spaces. The campaign also yielded critically-needed new endowment funds for UCLA Live and its outreach program, Design for Sharing; launched the Hammer’s building campaign; and added to the Fowler Museum’s collections and programming support.

With the help of private donors in our community, UCLA Arts maintains an enormous margin of excellence, attracting the best talent in arts and architecture,” says Christopher Waterman, dean of UCLA Arts.

above: Kaufman Family Garden Theater, Glorya Kaufman Hall, 2005, photo by John Edward Linden top right: Left to right, Lou Adler, Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss and Mo Ostin at a reception at the Charles E. Young Research Library honoring Alpert’s and Moss’ donation of the A&M Records Collection to the UCLA Library, March 2005, photo by Lee Salem right: UCLA Arts Board of Visitors member John Kaswick, M.D. at the 2005 Honors Reception with Gluck Foundation scholarship recipients Lisa Hendrickson (left) and Clarissa Lecce, photo by Todd Cheney

• Build the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center, a new home for the visual arts programs of UCLA Arts. Construction of the center, scheduled to open later this year, was made possible by a $23.2 million gift from the Broads, who are both philanthropists and art collectors.
  
• Renovate and modernize Glorya Kaufman Hall, home of the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures and the nation’s premier dance center for teaching and performance. The facility reopened in the fall of 2005. The project was made possible by an $18 million gift from Kaufman, a philanthropist and arts patron.
• Build the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, made possible by a $5 million gift from Audrey Wilder. The theater will be jointly programmed with the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
  
• Establish the Mohindar Brar Sambhi Endowed Chair in Indian Music in the Department of Ethnomusicology with a pledge of over $1 million by Dr. Mohinder Sambhi, professor emeritus in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
  
• Establish the A&M Records Collection, donated to UCLA by company cofounders Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. The collection includes sound recordings, manuscript musical arrangements, photographs, correspondence, promotional materials, posters, gold albums, awards, books and ephemera from the company’s founding in 1962 through its sale to Polygram in 1989.
  
• Create the Moss Scholars program, with a $500,000 gift from Jerry and Ann Moss, to attract and retain the brightest and most talented UCLA Arts students.
  

“UCLA is one of the premier arts schools in the country,” says Eli Broad, speaking about their gift. “We are pleased to create this new art center to provide students with inspirational studios and gallery space to exhibit their talent. The Broad Art Center combines our family’s three passions: education, art and Los Angeles.”

As we embark on the next chapter in our collective history, private philanthropy will continue to play an increasingly critical role in our future. State funding constitutes less than 15% of UCLA’s $3.6 billion operating budget, down from almost 21% in 1997. UCLA competes for faculty and students against private universities with far greater financial resources. As a consequence, UCLA Arts will continue to rely on the philanthropy of alumni and friends to ensure the excellence of its programs and to achieve higher levels of success.

For more information on supporting UCLA Arts, please call 310-825-2512 or e-mail development@arts.ucla.edu.