Goal 1
Create outstanding academic, administrative, residential and athletic facilities.

Actions steps include:

• Secure and complete funding for residential space providing for 260 beds.
• Secure and complete funding for a visual arts center.
• Secure and complete funding for a performing arts center.
• Secure and complete funding for an addition to the science building.
• Complete the feasibility study and program plan for an athletics complex.
• Secure financing for new/and or remodeled administrative space
• Complete the fund-raising for the tennis courts/parking project, with completion projected for September 1, 2005.
• Complete fund-raising for the pedestrian-corridor project.
  (Funding of the above projects may include a percentage of debt financing based on the results of feasibility studies and the board of trustees' evaluations.)

Goal 2
Enhance Whitworth College's academic reputation and attract exceptional faculty.

Actions steps include:

• Create scholarship endowment for students in the sciences.
• Further strengthen faculty scholarship endowment in the sciences.
• Secure funding for the sciences from key regional and national foundations as well as from key individuals.
• Continue to garner support for the Act 6 program and for the Future Teachers of Color program, with an emphasis on training teachers for the ever-increasing number of multicultural classrooms in the region and the state of Washington.
• Increase support for future teachers of all ethnic backgrounds who come from economically disadvantaged circumstances, in partnership with the work of the Whitworth Regional Resource and Research Center and the establishment of a scholarship endowment.
• Establish an endowment in special education to attract highly qualified high-school students to special-education teaching.
• Fully fund an endowed chair in music.
• Increase scholarship endowment in music and visual and performing arts.
• Complete funding for the Bruner endowed chairs in theology and identify and solicit prospects for a second endowed chair.
• Seek funding for key global church partnerships in select Eastern African countries.
• Secure supplemental funding for an overseas campus site.

Benchmarks:

• Complete the Weyerhaeuser Center endowment goal by reaching $800,000.
• Fully fund one endowed chair in theology and make progress toward a second ($2 million).

Goal 3
Establish a regional center for research and resources focused on alleviating poverty in the Inland Northwest.

Actions steps include:

• Secure funding from national foundations such as the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Northwest Area Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PEW Charitable Trust, Lilly Foundation, Kellogg Foundation, Murdock Charitable Trust to support the work of the center.
• Secure federal funding through the "faith-based initiatives" division of the federal government.

Goal 4
Prepare for the next large-scale fund-raising effort to assist Whitworth College in meeting the goals of the 2006-2010 Presidential Plan.

Actions steps include:

• Create a compelling "case for support" for the next large-scale fund-raising effort focused on increasing our endowment, garnering support for key capital projects and improving our base of annual support. (How our graduates are changing the world. How our undergraduates provide leadership in the marketplace that integrates faith and learning. How we create leaders who not only make a difference in the global marketplace but are changing the world for Christ.)
• Utilize the president and key volunteers in strategic fund-raising.
• Complete the fund-raising plan and timeline for the next large-scale fund-raising effort.
• Fund and maintain major-gift fund-raising counsel.
• Fund and conduct a fund-raising feasibility study prior to making a decision about a future large fund-raising effort.
• Conduct national prospect screening prior to the launch of the quiet phase of the next large fund-raising effort.
• Recruit and train fund-raising volunteers.

Benchmarks:

• Draft preliminary case for support before the end of FY 05.
• In FY 2010 or prior, depending on leadership-gift fund-raising results, announce the public phase of possible campaign (duration FY 2007-13), having secured sufficient leadership gifts.

Goal 5
Achieve a $100 million endowment.

Actions steps include:

• Increase scholarship endowment and improve the student-to-endowment ratio from $26K to $40K.
• Double the assets managed by The Whitworth Foundation (from $14 million to $28 million).

Goal 6
Create a culture of giving on campus and with key constituents.

Actions steps include:

• Develop realistic, yet ambitious, major-gift program benchmarks comparing ourselves to a defined set of institutions that are not necessarily all of our current peer institutions.
• Enhance the Alumni Relations website to encourage alumni to report their successes through online alumni class notes, career-placement information, graduate-school placement information, etc.
• Fund alumni surveys that will allow the college to capture critical data that supports the increasing value of a Whitworth education. (Tie this to institutional-research goal.)

Benchmarks:

• Increase alumni giving from 23% to 30% by 2010.
• Increase faculty/staff giving from 45% to 60% by 2010 (including alumni faculty and staff).
• Increase giving among graduates of the last decade to 20% by FY 2010.
• Increase support for The Whitworth Fund from $1.2 million to $1.5 million by 2010.
• Increase annual support from parents to $200,000 annually by 2010.
• Increase total annual giving from under $7 million (FY 04) annually to $10 million by 2010.