Contribute to Costo Endowment

Constancy: The Costo Endowment

• Established by Rupert and Jeanette Costo, supported by their benefactions and those of other donors
• Has supported the research and work of Costo Chairs, past, present, and future
• Funds contributed become part of the principal and are not spent
• Stewardship philosophy; make every dime count, think strategically

Send checks made out to the "UC Riverside Foundation" with a note designating the funds to the "Costo Chair Endowment" to:

Elizabeth Wottring, Finance and Administration

University Advancement

252 Highlander Hall, University of California, Riverside

Riverside, CA 92521

Responsiveness: The "current expenditure fund associated with the Costo Chair"

• Supports ongoing projects designed by the Costo Chair in response to focused areas of need or opportunity. To propose a new project, contact Joel Martin. Available to meet in person.
• Funds contributed are spent as needed for selected projects, do not become part of the principal, and are carried forward to the new fiscal year
• Dialogue model identifies need or opportunity; searching within university produces the right team; proposal formulated; consultation; revision; execution with evaluation; feedback that alters how we do things in the University, a win-win result.

Examples:

• Site Monitor Training Project, designed in response to a request from Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians and with the Anthropology Department from the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and UNEX
• Takic Language Revitalization Project, designed in response to several tribes and with UNEX and CHASS
• Other areas can be selected for emphasis, funds will not be spent until the appropriate opportunity is identified; arts, environmental studies, engineering, botany, healthcare, children, elders, etc.

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