"Philanthropy will mean the difference between the maintenance of a great university and the evolution of an extraordinary one." 

There is no better way than the Vision Statement of the University of Wisconsin Foundation to describe what university fund raising means: to care for it that the hitherto standard - although certainly very good - is turned into somenthing extraordinary. And that private involvement has a direct impact on the extraordinary development of a university. That is what we, together with our friends and supporters, foundations and company partners, have been striving to realize since 2005.

My name is Beate Eichenberg and I am the fund raiser of the university on the staff of HfMDK president Thomas Rietschel. Since 2007 I have also worked as the manager of the "Friends of the University". Before that, I was responsible for public relations and fund raising for the Berlin Cancer Society (Berliner Krebsgesellschaft e.V).

I would be more than happy to collaborate with you!