ASI External Advisory Board MeetingLodi, California

20 November 2012

Tom TomichDirector, Agricultural Sustainability Institute (ASI)

Director, UC Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program (SAREP)

Director’s Update

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-to-school 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 & StatusGoal 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

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

$500,000

$1,000,000

$1,500,000

$2,000,000

$2,500,000

$3,000,000

$3,500,000

$4,000,000

$1,250,006 $1,246,267 $990,125 $997,194 $777,210 $781,849

$61,624 $68,584

$73,147 $77,208$393,120 $417,806

$80,000 $88,000

$124,599 $108,112$162,016 $187,234

$177,700$328,219

$1,069,724

$1,477,139

$1,754,555

$2,365,748

Grants (annual expenditures)

Indirect Overhead Returns

Earned Income

Gifts

Endowment Income

Core Funding (UC)

ASI Core and Grant-funded Staff in FTE “full time equivalents”

FY 06/07 FY 07/08 FY 08/09 FY 09/10 FY 10/11 FY 11/12 FY 12/13 * 0

5

10

15

20

25

14.5 14.5 14.6

12.3 12.3

15.214.13

0.71.9

410 10.5

10 11.65

Grant Staff

Core Staff

* As of November 2012

ASI Grant Proposal Successes 2008-2012By $ Amount and Number of Submissions

FY 08/09 FY 09/10 FY 10/11 FY 11/12 *FY 12/13(partial)

$0

$1,000,000

$2,000,000

$3,000,000

$4,000,000

$5,000,000

$2,661,300n=15

$878,539n=9

$1,361,885n=13

$1,686,430n=13

$841,278n=8

$100,000n=1

$0n=0

$3,795,912n=5

+ add'l$12M

NSF Proposal

$2,950,000n=5

$1,707,653n=3

$585,781n=8

UnsuccessfulPendingAwarded

*as of 11/14/12

ASI Fundraising Campaign Projection (Gifts for current use plus endowment gifts)

Pre-campaign FY06-07 FY07-08 FY08-09 FY09-10 FY10-11 FY11-12 FY12-13 FY13-14$0

$30

$60$ in Millions

Eight Year Pro Forma Campaign Projection:

Pro FormaProjection

Pro FormaProjection ex-cluding "mega gift" of 8 fig-

ures

$50,000,000

Pro FormaProjection

$16,075,819

Private grants and gifts for current use• 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

06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13$0

$2,000,000

$4,000,000

$6,000,000

$8,000,000

$10,000,000

$12,000,000

$14,000,000

$6,000,000$6,250,000 $6,384,050 $6,384,050

$7,890,550

$12,319,100 $12,519,100

ASI Endowment gifts• 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?