CUArts - Arts Initiative @ Columbia University

GIVING OPPORTUNITIES

A guide to ongoing programs and their associated costs
The Arts Initiative's ability to make the arts part of every Columbian's education and to promote lifelong involvement in the arts - as creators and audiences - depends on the support of alumni and friends. Below is just a sample list of ongoing Arts Initiative programs. These are meant as a guide and are by no means a minimum gift requirement. Contributions in any amount make a difference and help make the arts part of every Columbian's education and life regardless of his or her academic or professional focus. While unrestricted gifts have an immediate impact by allowing the Arts Initiative to address its areas of greatest need, you may choose to designate your donation towards a particular program. Should you have any questions, please contact us.

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STUDENT PROGRAMS	ALUMNI INITIATIVES	ARTS & THE GREATER WORLD

STUDENT PROGRAMS

Arts Link

Enrich Columbia's curricula by supporting a program that will make arts and cultural events available as a teaching resource, accessible as easily as textbooks or other academic tools.

Each semester, the Arts Initiative will provide faculty with a list of events or exhibits chosen from the New York’s cultural season. Professors can assign an event simply by sharing the event’s link, either in Courseworks or via email. Students will click to buy a subsidized ticket online, and pick up the tickets at the Ticket and Information Center (TIC) in Lerner.

Provide one student with a subsidized performing arts ticket	$20
Send a section (average class size of 20) to a cultural event	$400
Sponsor Arts Link for a semester	$50,000
Sponsor Arts Link for an academic year	$100,000

Columbia Arts Experience

Prepare the next generation of leaders in the arts by placing students in internship programs.

The Arts Initiative, in partnership with Columbia's Center for Career Education, places students in internships with various arts organizations such as museums, theatres, publishing houses, TV and film studios and provides them with a stipend that is matched by the employer.

Provide one student with an internship stipend	$250
Sponsor CAE interns for a semester	$6,000

New Student Orientation Program (NSOP) Cultural Event

Introduce over 2,000 new incoming undergraduate students to Columbia and New York's great art institutions by hosting the Arts Initiative's orientation cultural event.

The inaugural event in 2005 welcomed 1,200 students in MoMA’s Sculpture Garden and for the past two years 1,900 students have been introduced to Columbia and NYC culture with a private reception in the Greek and Roman, Egyptian, and African galleries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Host a student	$30
or just your alma mater's freshmen or an entire first-year undergraduate class
Barnard College	$19,500
Columbia College	$34,000
General Studies	$10,500
School of Engineering and Applied Science	$12,00
or an entire first-year undergraduate class	$76,000

Ticket and Information Center

This new resource connects our students, faculty and staff to the arts on campus and around the city.

The Arts Initiative created a fully fitted and staffed Ticket and Information Center in the main lobby of Alfred Lerner Hall that distributes and sells tickets to campus productions and events on behalf of university organizations, as well as discounted tickets to cultural events throughout New York City. It further serves as an information booth for campus and city arts activity. Sponsorship opportunities are available. Please inquire with the development office.

Run the box office for a semester	$100,000
Run the box office for an academic year	$200,000

ALUMNI INITIATIVES

Columbia Alumni Arts League Class of 2009 Memberships

Provide graduating students with discounts and special benefits to more than 50 of New York City's finest cultural organizations with a one-year introductory Columbia Alumni Arts League membership.

Congratulate new graduates and introduce them to the alumni community by presenting a graduating class with discounted access to the city’s best cultural offerings.

Provide recent graduates of your alma mater with a one-year introductory CAAL Membership

College of Physicians and Surgeons	$475
Columbia College	$1,150
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation	$400
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences	$1,600
Graduate School of Business	$1,250
Graduate School of Journalism	$350
School of Continuing Education	$150
School of Dental and Oral Surgery	$200
School of Engineering and Applied Science- Graduates	$600
School of Engineering and Applied Science- Undergraduates	$400
School of General Studies	$450
Schoolof International and Public Affairs	$700
School of Law	$750
School of Nursing	$475
School of Public Health	$400
School of Social Work	$400
School of the Arts	$250

Provide recent graduates of all undergraduate schools with a one-year introductory CAAL Membership	$2,000
Provide recent graduates of all graduate schools with a one-year introductory CAAL membership	$8,000
Provide an entire graduating class of Columbia University with a one-year introductory CAAL membership	$10,000

Columbia Alumni Arts League International

Expand the Columbia Alumni Arts League internationally.

CAAL was created in late 2006 to extend the Arts Initiative’s commitment to making the arts part of every Columbian’s life. CAAL currently provides alumni members with discounts and benefits at 58 leading NYC cultural organizations, and hosts special events called CAAL Nights that provide members the opportunity to meet fellow alumni over drinks, converse with artists about their work, and navigate the city's arts scene. Given its success, the Arts Initiative would like to expand CAAL internationally to Beijing, London, Paris, Tokyo, and Toronto.

Launch CAAL with a CAAL Night abroad	$5,000
Start CAAL in an international city	$40,000

ARTS & THE GREATER WORLD

Arts Global

Create global literacy through the arts.

The Sino-Culture Project is the first phase of the Arts Initiative’s global arts program that serves as the cultural arm for the establishment of the University’s international regional centers. The primary goal is to educate all Columbia students, its physicists and financiers as well as filmmakers, by working with colleagues across the university – students, faculty, and administrators – to use arts and culture to train and educate not just better artists, but better scholars, scientists, historians, engineers, lawyers and businesspeople.

Showcase non-classical composers	$7,500
Present film screenings	$12,500
Provide for the development of the Arts Global website	$15,000
Host a visiting artist’s master class	$16,000
Sponsor the Beijing Modern Dance Company program	$40,000
Support the Arts Global project for one year	$350,000

University Artists

Columbia's University Artists are outstanding artists involved in the ongoing life of the university.

Echoing the University Professor position, University Artists work across departments in creative endeavors, teaching and other special projects. Oliver Sacks was named the first University Artist in September 2007.

Support a University Artist for one year

$250,000