Investing in Tomorrow
Your annual gifts, planned gifts and legacy gifts to the ASCE Foundation will ensure that civil engineers remain “out front” as you help build and strengthen a financial infrastructure that touches every corner of the Society. Your generosity supports ASCE programs that encourage lifelong learning, develop leaders, promote our profession and advance infrastructure and environmental stewardship.
| 2012 Foundation Funding Allocation
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What We Are Funding in 2012
In the past year, the Foundation provided $750,000 in financial support to ASCE programs. We hope to meet or exceed that level in 2012. We will fund programs within four main areas:
- Awards & Scholarships,
- Strategic Initiatives,
- Communications & Outreach, and
- Education & Student Programs
The programs within these areas that will receive all or partial funding from the Foundation include National Engineers Week, West Point Bridge Design Contest, ExCEEd, Practitioner and Faculty Advisor Training Workshops, Steel Bridge Design Competition, National Concrete Canoe Competition, Congressional Fellows Program, Pre-college Outreach, K-12 events, Diversity Activities, and more!
Without your generous contributions, many of these programs would not exist or be able to sustain their current level of operation.
What We Have Funded Before
During 2010 and 2011, the Foundation provided funding for the following programs and initiatives:
>$100,000
Advancing National Infrastructure Improvement
To support the National Infrastructure Vision Summit on the nation's failing infrastructure. Experts from within and outside the Infrastructure field convened in early 2011 to discuss critical barriers to and strategies for accelerating public infrastructure improvement and development in the United States.
>$75,000
Failure to Act: The Economic and Social Costs of Poor Infrastructure
Contributions will help fund economic studies, in 2011, to find out: "What the Cost of Doing Nothing Is," as America's failing infrastructure continues to affect the nation's economic prosperity and individuals' quality of life. The first report on surface transportation can be
found here.
>$700,000
Developing Solutions for a Sustainable World
To support the Sustainability Action Plan and fund the development of the
Sustainable Infrastructure Project Rating Program. This new infrastructure rating system uses a set of objective-based goals to guide the engineer, owner, constructor, regulator, and policymaker to provide more effective levels of reliability, resilience, efficiency, organizational adaptability and overall project performance.
>$75,000
National Engineers Week 2010: Co-Sponsor
To support activities related to ASCE's leadership of Engineers Week 2010. As a co-sponsor of
National Engineers Week, ASCE developed activities around the theme, "Celebrating Engineering Volunteerism." The theme supported the 20th Anniversary of the DiscoverE educational outreach program, builds upon a 2009 initiative to record one million hours of volunteer outreach, and advances the National Engineers Week strategic goal to foster further collaboration among various volunteer participants.
>$500,000
The Building Reserve Fund
To underscore the importance of maintaining the Class A status of the ASCE World Headquarters building in Reston, Virginia, the Foundation established the Building Reserve Fund with an initial investment of $500,000. The Building Reserve Fund will ensure that an adequate reserve is maintained to appropriately finance future capital expenditures for unexpected and emergency repairs and improvements to this major Foundation asset.