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employees can support the Campaign for CSE in a variety of ways, including donations of cash and/or stock. In addition, Microsoft will match your donation dollar-for-dollar (up to a total of $12,000 per employee per year).

Here are the key things you need to know:

1. The University of Washington is a registered tax-exempt charitable organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Federal Tax Code. Thus, your gift is tax-deductible, and is fully eligible for Microsoft's corporate match. UW's Federal EIN is 94-3079432 (technically this is the University of Washington Foundation).
2. Complete information on the Microsoft Employee Giving Program is available on the Microsoft internal web at http://give/GiftMatch.asp.
3. You may give stock, or you may give cash via check or credit card. For information on the special tax advantages of making a gift through the transfer of appreciated securities, see information here.
4. Microsoft has two "formal" giving vehicles: the annual Giving Campaign, and the year-round Matching Gifts Program. Here is are the Microsoft Employee Giving Program Guidelines as of late 2003, but the details change regularly so get the latest one from the Microsoft internal web. The main differences are:
   • When you give through the annual Giving Campaign, you transfer your stock or cash to Microsoft (or Microsoft's agent), and they forward it to us and automatically provide the match.
   • When you give through the Matching Gifts Program, you give directly to UW and complete a Matching Form which UW uses to extract the match from Microsoft. Here is the Matching Gift Form as of late 2003, but get the latest one from the Microsoft internal web.
5. You will actually be giving to either:
   • UW Computer Science & Engineering Endowment for Innovation and Leadership 99-6338. This endowment provides funding that the CSE Chair uses to invest in initiatives that have the promise of significantly increasing UW CSE's innovativeness and competitiveness in any of its three critical missions of education, research, and service.
   • UW Computer Science & Engineering Annual Fund 64-1101. A "current expense" fund that similarly supports all of UW CSE's priorities: faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students.
   (At http://give you can search for "UW Computer Science" or "CSE" or "UW%CSE" and you'll find these funds.) For further information, and online giving, look here.
6. If you made a multi-year pledge to the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, you can fulfill your annual commitment through the Microsoft Employee Giving Program:
   • UW Computer Science & Engineering Construction Fund 65-3384. This is only for fulfilling pre-existing multi-year pledges, not for new contributions to CSE.
   For further information, and online giving, look here.
7. Finding us via http://give as of October 2004:
   • Select "Give Money" -> "Matching Gifts" -> "Matching Gifts Program"
   • Select "Give Now!"
   • Select "Organization Lookup"; enter "UW Computer Science" or "CSE" or "UW%CSE"
   • Choose "UW Computer Science & Engineering Annual Fund" to make an annual fund contribution (or the Endowment to support our permanent endowment, or the Building to make a payment on an existing pledge to the Allen Center -- these three CSE funds are listed on the Microsoft Giving website)

For further information, contact Ed Lazowska (lazowska at cs.washington.edu) or Jan Labyak (labyak at engr.washington.edu).

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