A Hub of Innovation
Washington Research Foundation’s gift program assists numerous research, education and recruitment efforts.
Our support includes the Seattle chapter of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation, which helps bring many of the country’s top graduate students to the University of Washington (UW) and Washington State University. Our gift program also funds the Washington Research Foundation Faculty Recruitment Award at the UW.
Gift highlights:
- More than $30 million in total gifts
- Over $3.7 million given for recruitment and retention
- 74 WRF commercialization gifts, totaling $2.7 million in direct gifts
- More than 300 individual gifts to the UW
- Contributed to more than 100 endowments for chairs, professorships, research fellowships and graduate stipends
- 84 ARCS graduate fellowships
- 78 undergraduate fellowships
WRF was a founding partner of the UW’s Creating Futures campaign, which raised over $2.5 billion and will help to ensure that the UW has the means to remain competitive among the world’s premier research institutions.
In addition, WRF backs “gap” funding programs that target research and technologies with strong commercial potential at organizations including the UW, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Washington State University and Benaroya Research Institute.
WRF continues to provide assistance for university-level enterprises such as the UW Center for Commercialization’s Entrepreneurs-in-Residence program, which partners researchers with experienced entrepreneurs and business executives to help potentially marketable technologies reach startup stage.
Contact Us
To learn more about our gift program, please contact:
Luciana Simoncini, Ph.D.
Director, Research Commercialization
Washington Research Foundation
(206) 336-5600
