ASI External Advisory Board Meeting
Lodi, California
20 November 2012
Director’s Update
Tom Tomich
Director, Agricultural Sustainability Institute (ASI)
Director, UC Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program
(SAREP)
Overview
External Advisory Board transitions
(Highest) Highlights
Fundraising goals and status
External Advisory Board: welcome new members!
Mary Delany, Interim Dean, College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences (CA&ES), UC Davis
Katharina Ullmann, Graduate Student Representative
Nita Vail, Executive Director, California Rangeland Trust
David Wehner, Dean, College of Agricultural, Food and
Environmental Sciences, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
And thanks to outgoing Board members: Meredith Niles,
Jennifer Ryder Fox, and Neal Van Alfen and ASI Internal
Steering Committee member Matt Hoffman
SAREP:
selected highlights for 2012
Food & Society: regional food procurement is increasing in four
California school districts in which SAREP is active in farm-toschool programs.
Agriculture, Resources and Environment: New USDA funding
was received to develop a SAREP Solution Center focused on
nutrient and water management and climate change. This is a
direct outcome of the California Nitrogen Assessment, which is
nearing completion of its scientific review process.
Highlights of cross-cutting initiatives
• Sustainability Benchmarks: the Sustainable Sourcing of Global
Agricultural Raw Materials, a collaboration with Mars
Incorporated, rigorously identified global sustainability issues and
over 1,984 indicators pertaining to agriculture and supply chains.
• Farmworker Initiative: a new $100,000 grant from the Department
of Pesticide Regulation will fund a study of farmworker activity to
update pesticide exposure data.
Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility:
selected highlights for 2012
Integrated alfalfa into an annual farming system
to investigate reducing tillage and increasing
carbon inputs.
Completed ten-year soil sampling survey of
Century Experiment plots.
Launched soil biology initiative.
Student Farm: selected highlights for 2012
Students involved in field-based learning experiences
increased by more than 50%.
More than 40 students have declared the Sustainable
Agriculture and Food Systems (SA&FS) major.
2 students received SA&FS Bachelor of Science in 2012.
Van Vlierden Scholarships awarded.
Funding Goals & Status
Goal 1. Increase annual expenditures to $6 M
(from about $1.5 M in 2007/08) through $50 M in
ASI endowments and philanthropic gifts.
Goal 2. Secure two or more large program grants
each year, totaling $1 M or more in extramural
funding per year.
Goal 3. Sustain state support above $750 K or
more per year.
ASI Annual Income
$4,000,000
Grants (annual expenditures)
Indirect Overhead Returns
$3,500,000
Earned Income
$3,000,000
Gifts
Endowment Income
$2,500,000
Core Funding (UC)
$2,365,748
$1,754,555
$2,000,000
$1,477,139
$1,069,724
$1,500,000
$177,700
$80,000
$61,624
$328,219
$88,000
$68,584
$124,599
$1,000,000
$500,000
$73,147
$108,112
$77,208
$162,016
$187,234
$393,120
$417,806
$1,250,006
$1,246,267
$990,125
$997,194
$777,210
$781,849
FY 07/08 **
$1,582,574
FY 08/09 **
$1,731,070
FY 09/10
$2,305,190
FY 10/11
$2,697,486
FY 11/12
$3,114,333
FY 12/13 (proj.)
$3,768,037
$0
ASI Core and Grant-funded Staff
in FTE “full time equivalents”
25
Grant Staff
Core Staff
10
20
10
11.7
10.5
4
15
0.7
1.9
10
14.5
14.5
15.2
14.6
12.3
12.3
FY 09/10
FY 10/11
14.1
5
0
FY 06/07
FY 07/08
FY 08/09
FY 11/12
FY 12/13 *
* As of November 2012
ASI Grant Proposal Successes 2008-2012
By $ Amount and Number of Submissions
+ add'l
$12M
NSF Proposal
$5,000,000
$2,950,000
n=5
$4,000,000
$3,795,912
n=5
$3,000,000
$100,000
n=1
Unsuccessful
$1,707,653
n=3
$2,000,000
$2,661,300
n=15
$0
n=0
$1,000,000
$878,539
n=9
$1,361,885
n=13
$1,686,430
n=13
$585,781
n=8
$841,278
n=8
$0
FY 08/09
*as of 11/14/12
FY 09/10
FY 10/11
FY 11/12
*FY 12/13
(partial)
Pending
Awarded
ASI Fundraising Campaign Projection
(Gifts for current use plus endowment gifts)
Eight Year Pro Forma Campaign Projection: $50,000,000
$ in Millions
$60
Pro Forma
Projection
Pro Forma
Projection
excluding
"mega gift" of 8
figures
$30
$16,075,819
$0
Pre-campaign
FY06-07
FY07-08
FY08-09
FY09-10
FY10-11
FY11-12
FY12-13
FY13-14
Private grants and gifts for current use
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Almond Board of California
California Pistachio Research Board
Campbell Soup Company
Clif Bar Foundation
Clover-Stornetta Farms
Columbia Foundation
Davis Farmers Market Foundation
Davis Food Coop
C.E. Heller Foundation
Yohei Iwasaki
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Mars, Incorporated
David & Lucile Packard Foundation
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation
• McNamara Family Foundation
• National Honey Board
• Physicians for Social Responsibility
• Scott and Ulla Park
• Sacramento County Farm Bureau
• Seeds of Change
• Howard and Nancy Shapiro
• E.J. Slossen Endowment
• Laura Tourte
• True North Foundation
• Friends of ASI, SF: J Connett, J McBroom, P
Matson, C Pytlarz, A Trlica, C Worthen & T Groves
http://asi.ucdavis.edu/about/funding
ASI Cumulative Endowments by Fiscal Year
$14,000,000
$12,319,100
$12,519,100
$12,000,000
$10,000,000
$7,890,550
$8,000,000
$6,000,000
$6,250,000
$6,384,050
$6,384,050
07/08
08/09
09/10
$6,000,000
$4,000,000
$2,000,000
$0
06/07
10/11
11/12
12/13
ASI Endowment gifts
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F.H. Bixby Endowment (a portion)
J.G. Boswell Foundation
Elizabeth Bradford
Don and Diane Bransford
Campbell Soup Company
Del Monte Foods
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Rominger and Rowe Families
Rosenberg Endowment (until 2016)
Sesnon Family
T. Tomich and N. Allen
TomKat Charitable Trust
C. van Vlierden Estate
Friends of ASI endowment gifts:
• Ashley Boren and Daniel Purtell
• Richard Hernandez
• Carl Johnson III
• Nita Vail
http://asi.ucdavis.edu/about/funding
2012 Endowment updates
• A $200,000 leadership gift from the TomKat Charitable Trust launched
a drive to raise $1 million by December 2014 to create an Endowed
Professorship in Agroecology.
• Del Monte Foods adopted the first acre in the limited-time
opportunity to “Adopt-an-Acre” of the Century Experiment, which will
build an endowment for the Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture
Facility. Other $10,000 commitments, including naming opportunities,
are in discussion.
• The Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Endowment is within
striking distance of the $25,000 threshold to endow this fund to
support all aspects of the ASI program in perpetuity.
• ASI will announce its first yearend fundraising appeal in the coming
weeks.
Issues on my mind
• What are the most effective means to provide Board members with
information they need to champion ASI?
• How can we accelerate growth of ASI’s endowments?
• How can ASI and SAREP provide better support and more useful
information to UCCE farm advisors and other county-based
colleagues? What about new colleagues early in their careers?
• What will be the implications for ASI of the transition in leadership of
the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences?
• What are the implications of the proposed World Food Center for ASI’s
strategies and, in particular, for fundraising prospects?