The Endowment Fund

The EERI Endowment Fund supports innovative projects that ensure the Institute's continuing leadership in the development and application of new earthquake research. The EERI Endowment Fund depends entirely on the vision and financial support of donors. Please help us support more high-quality projects by making a contribution to the EERI Endowment Fund.

 

The Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition Fund

EERI will be hosting the exciting 6th Annual Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition in Salt Lake City, Utah, in conjunction with the 61st EERI Annual Meeting, February 11-14 , 2009. The participating undergraduates are truly the future of our profession. Expenses related to the competition, including travel and lodging expenses for 15-20 student teams, can run as much as $50,000. Ashraf Habibullah of Computers and Structures, an EERI Platinm Subscribing Member, has generously offered to match all the contributions EERI raises up to a maximum of $20,000. We invite EERI members and other Subscribing Members to lend their support to this important event.

 

The 14WCEE Travel Fund

The EERI Board of Directors voted to contribute $5,000 from the EERI Endowment Fund for the purpose of enabling EERI members in developing countries who are students or young researchers to attend the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14WCEE). These colleagues would be otherwise unable to attend the conference, which will be held in Beijing, China, October 12-17, 2008. EERI members are invited to augment EERI's contribution for the same purpose.