Grants Boost Campaign

Just on the heels of receiving a $1 million challenge grant from The Kresge Foundation in support of CLU’s new Sports and Fitness Center, the University has received a $500,000 grant from The Ahmanson Foundation. The Ahmanson Foundation has contributed the first foundation grant toward the Sports and Fitness project and the Kresge Challenge.

Both gifts come as CLU nears the end of its comprehensive $80 million Now is the Time campaign to enhance the academic and athletic facilities of the university and establish new programs, centers, professorships and scholarship endowments. To receive the $1 million challenge grant, CLU must raise the remaining $4.1 million needed to construct the Sports and Fitness Center by June 1, 2005.

Both foundations have supported CLU in the past. The university’s Spies–Bornemann Center for Education and Technology, which was dedicated in 2002, was supported by a generous Kresge Foundation grant. And, The Ahmanson Foundation is a longtime supporter of California Lutheran University in all areas of philanthropy, including a $1 million grant to the Soiland Humanities Center in 1996.