Ways of Giving to the College
Regardless of designation, your gift helps support the academic efforts of all students in the College of Business Administration at California State University, Long Beach. Charitable giving today ensures future benefits for generations to come. By supporting faculty excellence, superior academic programs, student scholarships, world-class educational facilities, and forward-looking management initiatives, your contribution enhances the entire CBA experience.
If you wish to discuss a multi-year pledge, a planned gift, or learn more about establishing an endowment, please contact the CBA Office of Development at (562) 985-2264.
Annual Fund
Your gifts to the Annual Fund, when designated for the College of Business Administration, have an immediate impact, enhancing many of the College’s most critical operational priorities.
Your unrestricted annual gift helps:
- Bridge the annual funding gap of about $1.75 million not covered by state appropriations and student fee support
- Make flexible resources available for strategic initiatives
- Increased student scholarships
- New faculty research and curriculum support
- Expanded student leadership development
- Career services for students and alumni
- Enhanced educational technologies.
Gifts of any size are appreciated, and all gifts are tax-deductible. If your employer offers a charitable gift matching program, you can increase the size of your gift. For more information about the benefits of unrestricted annual gifts, please contact Bill Hendry, Director of Development, (562) 985-2264.
Naming Endowments
Contributions earmarked for Naming Endowments serve to support the College of Business Administration in its ongoing efforts to become a world leader in business education. Funds are distributed in targeted ways designed to materially improve the College’s performance vis-à-vis our peer schools.
The College offers the following naming endowment opportunities:
- Recruiting and Retaining Top Faculty – Opportunities include Endowed Chairs, Endowed Professorships. Endowed Faculty Fellowships, and Endowed Faculty Excellence Funds.
- Attracting and Supporting the Best Students – Options include Dean’s Graduate Fellowships, Dean’s Undergraduate Scholarships, and Tuition and Fee Waivers.
- Ensuring Superior Academic Programs and Centers – Opportunities exist to endow the following Programs and Centers: Mentoring Business Program, College Honors Program, Student Managed Investment Fund, Center for Ethical Leadership, Center for Information Strategies and Technologies, Center for International Business Education, and Lectureship or Seminar Series.
- Developing State-of-the-Art Facilities – Options for naming endowments include instructional laboratories, classrooms, conference rooms, and offices.
Planned Gifts
Life income gifts, or planned gifts, offer an opportunity to invest in the College of Business Administration today without sacrificing the current income you receive from your personal investments. Life income gifts meet estate planning objectives, family considerations, and major tax concerns while providing significant support to the College. The many benefits of supporting the Business School through a life income gift arrangement include:
- Income to you and/or another beneficiary for life
- Charitable income tax deduction
- Avoidance of all or a portion of capital gains tax on appreciated property
Establishment of a planned gift also qualifies donors for membership in an honorary society. The Friends of the College of Business Administration will recognize and honor CBA alumni and friends whose actions today will positively impact the College. By remembering the College in your will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, or with a life income gift, you can create a significant ongoing legacy such as an endowed undergraduate scholarship or faculty fellowship, or support a specific program. Simply advise us that the College is included in your estate plans to become an automatic member of the society.
A donor may make a planned gift to the College through a variety of plans, including the following:
- Charitable Gift Annuity – A fixed distribution rate for your retirement years.
- Deferred Charitable Gift Annuity – Similar to a charitable 401K, providing a tax deduction now and remarkable income later.
- Charitable Remainder Trust – Referred to as the “last great tax shelter,” this can help you support your heirs and your alma mater. If created through your will, the Charitable Remainder Trust is one of the best ways to roll over your qualified retirement plan assets without stiff IRS penalties.
- Charitable Lead Trust – You “lend” assets to the College so that you can pass those assets to your heirs at greatly reduced levels of estate taxation.
- Life Insurance – Offers an attractive way to leverage low premium payments to make a major gift to the College. By naming the College of Business Administration an irrevocable beneficiary and owner of the policy, you obtain an immediate tax charitable deduction for fully paid policies with cash surrender value.
- Real Property and Gifts In Kind – Make an outright donation of such assets as closely held stock, land, equipment, and other forms of property to receive an income tax donation.
- Remainder Interest in a Personal Residence – Deed a remainder interest to the College and continue to live in your property for the rest of your life.
Bequests to the College of Business Administration are deductible for estate tax purposes and have no limitations. Because of tax and legal aspects of life income gift arrangements, it is advisable to include your accountant and attorney in gift planning.
For more information on Planned Gifts, please contact Bill Hendry, Director of Development, (562) 985-2264, or David Harrison, (562) 985-5489.
Gifts in Support of Faculty
Endowed Faculty Chairs, Professorships, Fellowships and Faculty Excellence Funds build the reputation of the College of Business Administration and are evidence of strong commitment to academic achievement. They foster a sense of tradition, and reward our best faculty with the tools to become more productive. In addition to providing year-round salary incentives for our most productive faculty, Chairs and Fellowships provide for support staff, research assistance, conference travel, and continuing education allowances.
To support the efforts of faculty and help us recruit, retain, and reward the faculty excellence that increases our standing and benefits our constituents, consider supporting one of the following options:
Endowed Chairs are awarded to deans, department chairs, and superior faculty to enhance their scholarly efforts and research. Typical funding for establishing an endowed chair is $2,000,000.
Endowed Professorships are awarded to outstanding faculty members to reward and enhance scholarly efforts. Typical funding for establishing an Endowed Professorship is $1,000,000.
Endowed Faculty Fellowships support excellent teaching faculty regardless of rank or tenure, including visiting scholars in residence. Typical funding for establishing an Endowed Fellowship is $300,000.
Faculty Excellence Funds are flexible funds dedicated to promoting faculty research, teaching, and continuing education. They can be used to respond quickly to sudden opportunities that may arise, and are a key asset in a rapidly-changing business world. In conjunction with visionary leadership, Excellence Funds ensure we can fulfill our mandate to take the College to the next level of greatness. Typical funding to establish an Endowed Faculty Excellence Fund is $150,000.
For more information on endowments in support of recruiting and retaining top faculty, please contact Bill Hendry, Director of Development, (562) 985-2264.
Gifts in Support of Programs and Centers
Program Excellence Endowments are unrestricted endowments that support particular programs at the College of Business Administration. These programs include the College Honors Program, the Mentoring Business Program, and the Student Managed Investment Fund. Endowments that significantly contribute to these programs’ self-support status will be honored by a naming designation.
Centers of Excellence enable the College to ensure a superior academic program. In addition to our Center for Information Strategies and Technologies, we are establishing two new centers focusing on our strategic initiatives in Ethical Leadership and International Business Education. These Centers will attract great students and top scholars, foster relationship-based corporate partnerships, and produce research that will garner national attention.
For more information on endowments in support of ensuring a superior academic program and building centers of excellence, please contact Bill Hendry, Director of Development, (562) 985-2264.
Gifts in Support of Students
Providing student assistance in the form of scholarships is a priority at the College of Business Administration. Our impressive and diverse student body is active in numerous organizations and leadership opportunities. A significant number of our students are first-generation college students; their success is our success, and the College supports their efforts in every way possible. With your help, students will have the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Endowed Graduate Fellowships are merit-based and are awarded to graduate students who meet the criteria set forth by the donor. We estimate a full-time, non-resident graduate student’s annual cost of education to be around $25,000.
Endowed Undergraduate Scholarships are merit-based and awarded to deserving undergraduate students based on criteria set forth by the donor. We estimate a full-time, non-resident undergraduate student’s annual cost of education to be around $20,000.
Endowed Tuition and Fee Waivers are used to provide tuition and fee support to deserving graduate and undergraduate students. We estimate a full-time student’s annual tuition and fees to be around $1,800 for California residents and $8,500 for non-residents.
For more information on endowments in support of attracting and supporting the brightest students, please contact Bill Hendry, Director of Development, (562) 985-2264.
Gifts for Facilities
Facility Endowments assure that students and researchers always have access to the latest business technology. These endowments also provide for repair and replacement of damaged furnishings, ensuring appropriately maintained surroundings for our students. These funds support the “behind the scenes” work of the College of Business Administration, thereby providing for technology infrastructure upgrades. They also enable instant and lasting impressions about the vitality of the College that are based in part on the image projected by our teaching appearance and learning facilities.
We propose to create an environment more conducive to learning and promote a sense of pride by:
- Renovation of tiered classrooms with data ports at each seat to enable students to access information from worldwide sources and conduct exercises in real time, under direct supervision of their professors.
- Construction of team-based breakout rooms to enable smaller groups of students to complete specific group projects, and to link to the Internet and other data resources.
- Creation of seminar and conference areas to facilitate the generation and refinement of ideas through dialogue among groups of students, faculty and executives.
- Featuring the College’s excellent student services, which include specialized undergraduate and MBA advisors, as well as a proposed center for internships and career and job preparation.
- Opening of a student center where students can study, grab a bite to eat, or meet between classes.
- Design of a gallery that is aesthetically appealing and reinforces the themes on which CBA is centered.
For more information on endowments in support of developing state-of-the-art facilities, please contact Bill Hendry, Director of Development, (562) 985-2264.
Other Ways of Giving to the College
Student Organizations are a vital aspect of the College of Business Administration experience, creating networks and fostering the skills that ensure quick integration into corporate settings. Our student government—the Associated Business Students Organizations Council—has been voted best student government at CSU Long Beach for three of the past five years. Our business student organizations appreciate the unique perspective of corporate representatives and welcome corporate participation as guest speakers or mentors. For information on speaking opportunities or to sponsor one or more of these dynamic student groups, please contact Dr. Jeane R. Caveness, Assistant Dean of Students, at (562) 985-7547.
The Office of the Dean, (562) 985-5307, serves as a central point of contact between companies and CBA faculty, staff, and students. Our goal is to meet the needs and objectives of our corporate investors to enhance their relationship with the College. To do so, we invite companies to explore the following types of involvement opportunities:
- Faculty, Research, and Teaching – Collaborate with faculty on research that impacts your company
- BS and MBA Student Programs – Encourage student leadership skills by sponsoring student organizations or conferences.
- Corporate Mentoring – Improve the retention and graduation rates of our first-generation college students by serving as corporate mentors.
- Placement – Recruit our students for employment and internships.
- Executive Education Opportunities – Generate new ideas and better strategies to run your organization by engaging us in Executive Education.
- Facilities – Enable us to use your company facilities for research and innovative classroom teaching.