SEI Futures Fund

Your gift impacts strategic initiatives established by the SEI Futures Fund Board:

• Invest in the future of the structural engineering profession
• Promote student interest in structural engineering
• Support younger-member involvement in SEI
• Provide opportunities for professional development

Show your leadership and give generously to the SEI Futures Fund. Your contribution, with those of your colleagues, will strengthen SEI efforts to build a vibrant community of structural engineers.

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Where Your Gifts Go

For 2021, the SEI Futures Fund Board has committed more than $280,000 in funding for these strategic SEI programs. Some items have been deferred from 2020 due to impact of the COVID-19 pandemic::

• Student Scholarships to Structures Congress  
• Scholarships for Young Professionals to participate at Structures Congress
• Support to develop structural fire engineering curriculum
• SEI lecture for SEI Chapters
• Student Scholarship to Electrical Transmission and Substation Structures Conference 2021
• Seed funding for SE2050 Database
• Seed funding for Claims Database Workshops
• Strategy Workshop to Address Future Conditions of Environmental Loads and Impacts in SEI Standards
• SEI Global Activities Online COVID-19 Symposium

Learn more about the SEI Vision for the Future of Structural Engineering.

Review the 2019 SEI Annual Report

New Strategic Initiative Proposals Due June 1

Proposals are invited for new strategic initiatives in line with SEI Futures Fund strategic areas that benefit the structural engineering profession and/or SEI as a whole, and would not otherwise be funded out of SEI Division operating expenses. Proposals are due June 1 to consider for the following year funding and need to include a statement of your SEI Division Excom endorsement. Review the SEI Futures Fund Case Statement and the FY2022 Funding Request Guidelines.

100% of your gifts to the SEI Futures Fund benefit SEI strategic initiatives, and are free of any administrative burden. The SEI Futures Fund partners with the ASCE Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization, to leverage their expertise in managing philanthropic gifts. Your contributions are tax deductible to the full extent of the law, and an acknowledgement and receipt will be provided.

SEI Futures Fund Giving

Thank you to Computers & Structures, Inc. for hosting the Celebration of the Future of Structural Engineering at Structures Congress, ticket proceeds benefiting the SEI Futures Fund.

Thank you to all the individuals and organizations generously supporting SEI strategic initiatives with gifts to the SEI Futures Fund. The ASCE Foundation gratefully acknowledges SEI Futures Fund supporters by recognizing them as members of ASCE giving societies and clubs.

Founders

• John L. & Karen E. Carrato
• Jon D. Magnusson

James Laurie Visionary Circle

• John L. & Karen E. Carrato
• Jon D. Magnusson
• Sarmad (Sam) & Ina Rihani

Sustainers

• Max L. Porter
• J. Greg Soules
• Kishore K. Yalamanchili
• Anonymous

Legacy Society

• Phillip L. Gould
• Winston E. Kile
• Silky S. Wong

2019 Annual Gift Support

Leadership Gift Societies

Philanthropist Society

$10,000

• Computers & Structures, Inc. - Ashraf Habibullah
• Severud Associates Consulting Engineers

Champion Society

$5,000-9,999

• Winston E. Kile

Guardian Society

$2,500-4,999

• David & Monica Biggs
• James R. Harris

Leader Society

$1,000-2,499

• William F. Baker
• Matthew Buckli
• Joseph G. Burns
• John L. & Karen E. Carrato
• Edward M. & Mary F. DePaola and Family
• Thomas A. DiBlasi
• Gilsanz Murray Steficek, LLP
• Daniel L. Lavrich
• Jon D. Magnusson
• Sarmad (Sam) & Ina Rihani
• J. Greg Soules
• John G. Tawresey
• Silky S. Wong

Leadership Gift Clubs

Supporter Club

$500-999

• Robert E. Bachman
• Kevin G. Casey
• Laura E. Champion
• Randy Collins
• Joseph G. DiPompeo
• Don Dusenberry
• Theodore V Galambos
• Ronald O. Hamburger
• Brander Construction Technology, Inc.
• Robert E. Nickerson
• Donald R. Scott

Friend Club

$250-499

• Joseph M. Ales
• Craig E. Barnes
• Madison J. Batt
• John Cleary
• Bruce R. Ellingwood
• Anne M. Ellis
• Jerome F. Hajjar
• Richard Henige
• Lehigh Valley Section ASCE
• Donald G. Leitch
• Therese P. McAllister
• Ivan Ramirez
• Dennie & Nancy Tewksbury
• Tower Engineering Company
• Victor E. Van Santen
• Marlon W. Vogt
• Michael J. Walkley
• Loring A. Wyllie
• Paul Z. T. Zia

Donor Club

$100-249

• Johnny M. Aquino
• John Baranello
• Reidar Bjorhovde
• Gregg E. Brandow
• Kathryn Briggs
• Anthony C. Cerino
• Alan M. Ebner
• John W. Fisher
• Thuy Fontelera
• Phillip L. Gould
• John O. Grieshaber
• Karl F. Hees
• Eric Herbert
• Gregory T. Holbrook
• Jeremy Isenberg
• Theresa E. Jablonski
• Daniel A. Keithline
• Peter L. Lee
• Marc L. Levitan
• David H. MacDonald
• Kishor C. Mehta
• Louis A. Occhicone
• Michael J. O'Rourke
• Mathew Picardal
• Max L. Porter
• Scott M. Rosemann
• Niran G. Shah
• Elaina J. Sutley
• Jonathon F. Tai
• Kassim M. Tarhini
• David P. Thompson
• Kishore K. Yalamanchili
• Mehdi S. Zarghamee
• Anonymous

$1-99

• Rogelio N. Alama
• Jeffrey B. Alper
• Aly-Mousaad Aly
• Victoria Arbitrio
• Byron E. Atkinson
• Jeffrey Bak
• Soussan Bathaee
• Cody Beairsto
• Phillip Bellis
• Michael J. Bolduc
• Brittany Boyce
• Alexis A. Clark
• John Cocca
• Chuanzhi Dong
• Paul M. Evans
• Fluor Corporation
• Mustafa Gul
• Peter Kau
• Bob Y. Liu
• Jessica M. Mandrick
• Rosemarie McClure
• Sher A. Mirza
• Andrew D. Mueller-Lust
• Matthew Peitz
• Stephen Reichwein
• Beau Sanders
• Matthew P. Sangen
• Danielle Schroeder
• Kumarpal Shah
• Angie Sommer
• Stephanie M. Spann
• Steven Stelzer
• Natalie Tse
• Helmuth Wilden
• Jian Zhao
• Anonymous