Endowment & Naming Opportunities

Some champions of this institution choose to make their support for The Washington Center perpetual through an endowment gift. For gifts of $25,000 or more, the donor or family may choose to permanently restrict the funds towards The Washington Center’s Endowment. The donated fund is permanently named by the donor.

Endowed funds are responsibly invested and the interest earned is used for The Washington Center’s charitable educational purposes. Or the donor may restrict the resulting interest to a specific use, such as a scholarship fund.

The investment and use of endowed funds is overseen by The Washington Center’s all-volunteer Board of Directors where oversight of the the Endowment comes under the Board Finance Committee chaired by Christopher K. Norton, managing director of Goldman Sachs.

For example,
Becky and Mike Johnson and their sons Ray and Taylor donate $50,000 to the Endowment at The Washington Center. They named the fund The Johnson Family Scholarship for students from Western Pennsylvania where they live. The fund generates up to three $1,000 scholarships for The Washington Center students each year. The Johnsons help select student recipients from a group of qualified candidates and hope to share their personal values of philanthropy by including the grandchildren in the selection process after they have interned in Washington through The Washington Center themselves.

You may also be able to create your own “endowment” through a donor-advised fund at your community foundation or through an investment vehicle like a mutual fund family. By working with The Washington Center when you plan a donor-advised fund at a community foundation or investment vehicle, The Washington Center will honor your naming choice just as if you had donated to the Endowment at The Washington Center directly. Please contact us for more information when you begin this process.

For more information on the Endowment or naming opportunities, please contact:

Ryan Klang
Director of Development
(202) 238-7965
ryank@twc.edu

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