The Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources is recognized nationally and internationally for excellent programs in forest productivity and management, forest business, wildlife ecology and management, fisheries and aquaculture, water resources and forest environmental sciences. Programs emphasize the interrelationships between renewable forest resources and their interactions with human needs and management.

Enrollment includes more than 200 preprofessional, 240 professional and 125 graduate students, with additional continuing education programs for more than 6,000 working forest resource professionals. Sixty-five faculty work in forest, water, wildlife and fisheries management as well as business, economics, soil biology, spatial imaging and biotechnology.

Modern facilities include four campus classroom/office buildlings, four statewide outreach centers, laboratories, the 740-acre Whitehall Forest in Athens and more than 22,000 forested acres across the state used for teaching, research and service activities.

Georgia Leads Nation In Forest Resources

Georgia leads the nation in the production of goods and services from forests. Forestry contributes more than $20 billion a year to the state's economy. As population grows and demand for forest products shifts even more toward Georgia and the South, the commercial landbase may begin to decline due to development and other land uses. At the same time, people are recognizing the critical importance of forest sustainability, habitat conservation and ecosystem management.

The Warnell School has a clear leadership role in providing education, research and service programs that emphasize integrated forest resource management in solving complex problems while ensuring sustainable production, use, values, benefits and enjoyment of forest and natural resources.

Private Gifts Critically Important

Alumni and friends provide the support that places the Warnell School among the top forest resources programs in the nation. But given the projections for public funding in the coming decade, private support will be even more critical in building and maintaining successful programs.

Increasingly we depend on private funds to provide scholarships and assistantships for deserving students, acquire new information technology, support personnel for research and service programs and continuing education opportunities for professionals in the field. Today, more than 15 percent of the School's annual operating budget comes from private gifts.

Funding New Priorities

The Internet and advent of distance learning offer tremendous new opportunities, both to enhance the education of traditional students and to reach new audiences. New technologies will allow us to offer graduate credit and continuing education opportunities to working professionals.

Our methods of delivering course work, research results and service programs may change dramatically over the coming decade as new technology develops. And all will require new funding.

If you would like to help the School build for the future, you can specify gifts for one or more of the following:

• Information Technology Upgrades
• Distance Learning
• Graduate Student Program Funding (2+3 Program)
• International Studies Support Funds
• Named Centers of Study
• Chairs of Excellence
• Facilities

Enhancing Established Programs

Existing opportunities for giving:

Endowments

• Scholarships
• Professorships
• Chairs of Excellence
• Support Funds
• Dean's Discretionary Fund

Gifts may also create new endowed funds for the School...

...which can be named and designated to areas of special interest. These gifts may provide you, the donor, with an opportunity to recognize individuals in perpetuity and enable the School to develop new programs and learning opportunities for our students that will also benefit the forest resources industry.

Or be designated to established funds ...

...which will further our ability to provide necessary support to the recipients, and in some cases, increase the number of recipients or gifts to the Forestry Fund made through phone-a-thon or annual pledge cards. These gifts benefit the general programs of the School. The Forestry Fund supports student, faculty, staff, and alumni programs as well as community outreach and education. To view a complete list of established funds go here

Many Ways To Give

• Cash
• Securities
• Real Estate
• Timber
• Tangible Property
• Insurance Policies
• Bequest (Gifts by Will)

Gifts may be Current or Deferred

Gifts may be established to provide the donor with strategic benefits such as:

• Bargain Sales
• Pooled Income Funds
• Gift Annuities
• Charitable Remainder Trusts
• Charitable Lead Trusts
• Life Income Gifts
• Life Estates
• Wealth Replacement Trusts

Levels Of Recognition

Presidents Club- established in 1973, recognizes major donors. Current Gifts of $1,000 or more will entitle you to annual membership.You to be listed in the Annual Honor Roll of Donors, receive special mailings & discounts, and be invited to special events. Presidents Club Members enable the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources to offer the highest levels of teaching, research, and service.

University Partners- established in 1999, is open to all alumni and friends of the University and supports specific areas of interests. These gifts help us meet University funding challenges as they arise throughout the year. Membership is accorded to all individuals whose annual gifts total $2,500 or greater. A minimum of $1,000 must be unrestricted while the remaining $1,500 may be designated to the Forestry Fund or other established scholarship fund, professorship, etc, within the School of Forest Resources. University Partners are members of the annual President's Club and are invited to exclusive events. Members are offered an opportunity to particpate in a variety of educational experiences. Members are recognized in alumni publications and the Foundation's Annual Honor Roll of Donors.

Heritage Society- The Heritage Society to honors alumni and friends who have made documented bequests in their wills or other planned gifts in support of the University of Georgia. All donors who designate deferred gifts to the University of Georgia Foundation for the benefit of the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources are recognized with membership in the Heritage Society. Members receive a framed membership certificate, a distinctive lapel pin, are listed in the Annual Honor Roll of Donors, and are invited to special events on campus.