About IUF

What Services Does the Foundation Provide to IU?

Designated by the IU Trustees as the central fundraising agency for Indiana University, the Foundation conducts campaigns for University priorities and provides central services to support fundraising, endowment growth, administration, compliance, donor stewardship, and other areas. Our services include:

Designing the overall strategy and process for coordinating and executing effective fundraising initiatives.
Coordinating overall fundraising goals for IU initiatives and for individual IUF programs.
Planning campaigns
Conducting feasibility studies
Raising gift funds through major, planned, annual, and special giving programs staff by IUF employees.
Providing fundraising services for smaller academic units.
Providing centralized services that leverage knowledge and intellectual capital and that promote efficient and effective IU and IUF fundraising and developent support:

Annual giving programs (mail, phone, esolicitation, etc.)
Expertise in planned giving, real estate, personal property, securities, and gifts-in-kind
Development marketing
Development publications, proposals, and communiques
Development reports
Events and meeting services
Prospect management and coordination
Gift processing and records
Investment management and distribution of income
Legal services
Accounting services
Accounts payable services for units utilizing their gift funds
Account services for donors and for IU 400
Gift processing and records
Database management and access

Identifying ways to leverage the efforts of the campuses and schools using Foundation expertise and University resources and programs to support the development and execution of their fundraising initiatives.
Providing continuing education/training for IU and IUF staff on fundraising and relationship building.
Continuing to work with partners to assist in lifetime involvement initiatives.
Participating in development officer recruitment and in development officer and program evaluation.