THANK YOU for considering a gift to UW Computer Science & Engineering!

Supporting CSE is as easy as using your credit card at UW's secure online giving site. It takes only minutes!

will provide a 1:1 match of charitable contributions up to a maximum of $3,000 per employee per year.

Detailed instructions (please inform Ed Lazowska if you encounter problems!):

• A key fund to support is CSE's Google Endowed Scholarship, created by dozens of UW CSE alumni working at Google. UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Pablo Cohn and his wife Devon Wiel Cohn will match your gift. And, through the spring of 2008, UW will add a 50% match to the sum of your gift, Google's match, and Pablo's match! A $3000 gift from you provides a total of $13,500 for CSE's Google Endowed Scholarship -- incredible leverage!
  • Go to this website, check the "Google Endowed Scholarship" box, and hit "Continue" at the bottom.
  • Note: Both UW and Pablo will match multi-year pledges, as well as one-time gifts. The pledge can extend over as many as 5 years, and must be made this spring. A 5-year pledge of $3000/year would yield a total of $67,500 in student support! For further information on multi-year pledges, contact Ed Lazowska.
  • You can also give to our Annual Fund or our Innovation Endowment, here. (These gifts will be matched by Google, but not by Pablo or UW.)

• Once you have made your contribution to CSE, obtain the matching funds from Google. Currently, Google does not require verification of your gift from UW -- employees register their contribution on an internal website and the corporate match is forwarded quarterly. Here's how to do it (please inform Ed Lazowska if the story changes!):
• On Google's internal matching gift web site, choose "Submit a New Request."
• The next page asks for gift type: cash/check, stock, or credit card. This is "certification" to Google that you've made (or will soon make) your own gift.
• The next page asks for the name of the charity. The "charity" for all contributions to UW is the University of Washington Foundation. (The gift gets routed to the correct internal UW fund by other means.)
• If you've given to UW before (to any department or fund), click "Show charities I have previously designated."
• If not, click "Search for a charity." Now it gets weird. If you search for "University of Washington" in the "Agency Name" box, you will *not* find it! Not even if you enter the full name "University of Washington Foundation." Instead, though, search for "City=Seattle" and select "Category=Education Higher." You'll find "University of Washington Foundation" listed twice. They look to be the same: same name, same contact, and most importantly same EIN (tax ID number). Click either.
• Next comes a web form asking for gift date, gift amount, match amount, and "purpose." Put "CSE Google Endowed Scholarship" (or "CSE Annual Fund" or "CSE Innovation Endowment" or whatever) in the "purpose" box. This is how the Google match gets routed to the correct fund at UW. The match is disbursed quarterly.

That's all there is to it! Please let Ed Lazowska know that you've made a gift, partly as backup, and partly so he can put the touch on Pablo.

Further information:

• You can make a multi-year pledge. Contact Ed Lazowska.
• Although it's more complicated than using a credit card, there are special tax advantages to making charitable gifts by transferring appreciated securities -- details and procedures are here. (This makes the most sense for larger gifts, such as creating your own endowment.)
• You can also mail a check.
• If you need to provide any detailed information "manually" as part of the online process above, here it is:

  Organization Name: University of Washington Foundation / Computer Science & Engineering
  EIN: 94-3079432
  Address1: 407 Gerberding Hall,
  Address2: Box 351210
  City: Seattle
  State/Province: WA
  ZIP/Postal Code: 98195-1210
  Country: USA
  Phone: 1.800.326.7566
  Web Site Address: http://supportuw.washington.edu/

  Receiving Organization's Contact Person Information (Optional):
  Prefix: Ms.
  First Name: Rise
  Last Name: McGill
  Title: Computer Science & Engineering Gifts Officer
  Email Address: rise@engr.washington.edu

THANK YOU!