Indiana University Foundation: Empowering Dreams and Shaping the Future

The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) stands as a vital pillar supporting Indiana University's mission. From student scholarships to groundbreaking research, the IUF maximizes philanthropic support, enabling IU to transform lives and shape the world. This article explores the IUF's history, mission, impact, investment strategies, and commitment to its employees and the broader IU community.

A Legacy of Championing Fundraising at IU

The IUF's story began in 1936 when a group of alumni, friends, and IU community members formalized the process of securing financial support for IU. Over the decades, the IUF has evolved alongside the university, remaining steadfast in its core values. As guardians of IU's endowment, the IUF operates with a lean structure, ensuring that resources are used efficiently to secure IU's future.

Mission and Impact: Maximizing Support for Indiana University

The Indiana University Foundation supports IU by maximizing philanthropic support for everything from life-changing student scholarships to world-shaping faculty research. The IUF's mission is simple: to provide Indiana University with the financial support it needs to succeed. By raising and investing funds for the university, the IU Foundation maximizes support for the IU causes you care about the most. Together, we can make the dream of an IU education attainable for all.

The impact of giving to IU is profound and far-reaching. Donations enable students to achieve their lifelong dreams, support innovations that change lives, and address critical needs across Indiana and beyond. From safer waterways to unique student experiences to addressing Indiana’s nursing shortage and beyond, the impact of your generosity improves countless people’s lives. Thank you! When you give to Indiana University, you have the power to change the world for the better. To enable a student to become the first in her family to attend college. To support lifesaving research. To prepare the next generation of thoughtful, global leaders.

The IUF facilitates various fundraising initiatives, including IU crowdfunding campaigns. These campaigns provide a fun and engaging way to rally support for specific IU causes, benefiting students, faculty, programs, and more. Each of us can make a difference-and we can do even more together. IU crowdfunding campaigns are a fun way to rally support for your favorite IU causes. You can donate to or fundraise for a wide range of short-term campaigns benefitting IU students, faculty, programs, and more.

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Investment Strategies: Securing IU's Future

The IUF's investment team employs a comprehensive strategy to ensure long-term financial stability for the university. Successful investments secure IU's future Everything we do is designed to provide return rates that meet or exceed IUF's goals-both annually and over the long term. The investment portfolio is diversified across various asset classes, including:

Equities: A mix of domestic, international developed market, and emerging markets equities.
Private Equity: Primarily buyouts and venture capital, with some special situations.
Fixed Income: Investment grade, non-investment grade, and direct lending strategies.
Real Assets: Private natural resources, real estate, and infrastructure.
Absolute Return: Open mandate, event-driven, arbitrage, multi-strategy, credit-oriented, and global macro strategies.

Over the long term, the IUF has consistently outperformed its target weighted benchmark. The investment team is always seeking best-in-class investment managers and solutions to help us meet our goals.

A Culture of Opportunity, Impact, and Total Rewards

The IUF is committed to fostering a positive and supportive work environment for its employees. At the Indiana University Foundation, we are always seeking talented people to serve our organizational mission of supporting IU students, faculty, and world-renowned research and programs. The IUF nurtures a workplace culture that encourages and supports diverse perspectives and voices. By leaning on one another’s expertise, celebrating our accomplishments, pushing our coworkers and ourselves to grow professionally, and supporting each other in all that we do, we maximize our talents in service to IU. The organization prioritizes opportunity, impact, and total rewards for its team members.

Opportunity for Growth

The IUF believes in giving our employees every opportunity to grow their personal and professional skillsets and advance their careers. In addition to providing resources for learning, advancement, and growth, we offer a wide range of opportunities to join cross-functional teams and groups (such as our New Hire Onboarding Buddy Program, Mentoring Program, or our FUNdationTEam). The end result? Our employees are empowered to meaningfully shape their careers and our culture. The IUF provides resources for learning, advancement, and growth, encouraging employees to join cross-functional teams and programs.

Making an Impact

Above all, the work we do at the IU Foundation is important, life-changing work. Every day, we hear stories of the impact our efforts are having on the Indiana University family: from a student who can attend college because of a scholarship we helped secure, to a researcher who unlocks a medical breakthrough thanks to funding from a generous donor. These stories inspire us to work even harder on behalf of IU-and for all the lives IU will touch. The IUF emphasizes the importance of its work, highlighting the real-world impact on students, researchers, and the broader IU community.

Total Rewards Package

From substantial paid time off to generous retirement contributions to tuition reimbursement, we are proud to offer our employees a highly competitive benefits package. In fact, our benefits sometimes make candidates do a double take! The IUF offers a comprehensive total rewards package, including:

Generous Holidays & Paid Days Off: IUF employees receive 12 paid holidays a year. Full-time employees who’ve worked up to and including 5 years at the IU Foundation earn 30 days of PTO per year (2.5 days per month), and 36 days per year (3 days per month), after 5 years of service.
Defined Contribution Retirement Plan: The IUF contributes 10% of your base salary into a 403(b) Annuity Plan, with no required match by the employee. You may contribute additional funds to the plan on a pre-tax or after-tax basis.
Health Care Benefits: Employees enjoy comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with preventative care covered 100%. Machine-readable files via UnitedHealthcare provide transparency in coverage.
Health Savings Account: Each pay period, a generous HSA deposit is made for employees enrolled in the IUF’s High Deductible Health Plan. Unused account balances roll over from year to year, and funds belong to the employee.
Health Investment Program: Through our Health Investment Program, an annual maximum of $500 per employee with spouse and/or family can be used toward health and fitness memberships, activity trackers, fitness equipment, weight loss programs, chronic disease management education and apps, registration cost for athletic/running events, nutrition classes, healthy cooking classes and other health-related expenses.
Professional Development: IUF employees have the opportunity to attend training sessions throughout the year. Each employee can work with their manager to identify professional development opportunities that will enable them to grow in their career.
Personal & Family Tuition Reimbursement: Employees, their spouses, and their children are all eligible to receive tuition reimbursement at in-state rates for courses taken at any IU campus up to a maximum of $5,250 per calendar year.
Health & Wellness Programming: From health coaching, lunch & learns, group exercise classes, and wellness challenges, the IU Foundation offers employees a wide range of resources to optimize personal well-being.
Other Benefits: IU Foundation offers life insurance, long term disability, and employee assistance program benefits. Additional benefits include voluntary short-term disability, and a one-time twelve-week paid leave, which allows staff to take time off for FMLA-qualifying reasons with pay.

Commitment to Engagement and Belonging

The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) believes that a strong commitment to ‘Engagement and Belonging’ is vital to the success of our mission. The IUF is committed to fostering an inclusive environment for its employees, donors, students, faculty, staff, and volunteers. Through inclusion and a sense of being part of something meaningful, we will accomplish our mission of maximizing private support for Indiana University through advancement leadership and services and of fostering lifelong relationships with employees, donors, students, faculty, staff, and volunteers.

IUF is committed to ensuring an environment of collaboration, shared learning, and diverse perspectives that enrich our culture and support the power of our collective intellect. We commit to removing barriers that impede equity, access, and justice for all of our constituencies. At IUF, we know that celebrating and welcoming the unique qualities that are a reflection of diverse backgrounds will increase productivity and innovation, improve performance, and enhance our ability to excel in an increasingly dynamic world.

IUF prohibits discrimination, forbids harassment on any basis, and fosters a climate of respect, equity, and access. We will work actively to ensure that our policies and procedures effectively reflect and enforce the tenets set forth in this Statement. The IUF actively promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion, ensuring that its policies and procedures reflect these values.

Collaboration Between IU and IUF

The IUF is a 501(c)(3) organization serving Indiana University. IUF and IU employees work together toward a common goal: to maximize private support for IU. While the IUF and IU are separate entities, they work collaboratively to achieve their shared goal of supporting the university's mission.

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