About us

Gift Administration processes over 100,000 gift and pledge transactions annually, guaranteeing that each transaction is accounted for in a timely and accurate manner. This team creates, maintains, and educates our organization on detailed gift administration process workflows and procedures, while ensuring that compliance requirements are met. These efforts allow the Office of Advancement to meet its fundraising goals over the course of the campaign.

The Office of Institutional Partnerships (OIP) serves as a University-wide liaison to communicate with corporate, foundation, and association donors. The OIP team works across schools, units, and departments that make up the Main, Medical Center, and Law campuses at Georgetown. OIP provides comprehensive support to university programs, departments, faculty, and administrators as they pursue philanthropic grants and partnerships.

The Law Center and Alumni Affairs Department work directly with the Dean of the Law Center to engage alumni, families, friends, corporate partners, and the greater Law Center community. This team strives to keep alumni engaged with Georgetown Law and to solicit support, both endowment and current-use, to benefit the operation and programming of the Law Center.

The Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) Development team focuses on the advancement and support of such core Medical Center functions such as undergraduate and graduate medical education, biomedical research, and cancer research in partnership with alumni, families, and friends of Georgetown. This team consists of Advancement Services and Special Projects, Georgetown University Medical Center, Berkley School of Nursing, School of Health, Biomedical Graduate Research, and the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center development teams.

The Planned Giving Team works with donors and other internal staff to help establish planned gifts. Planned Gifts are the donor’s way of making Georgetown a part of their family and lifelong philanthropic plans. Planned gifts can take several forms such as a gift to Georgetown from a donor’s will or trust (i.e. Bequests) or gifts that pay income to the donor now with the remainder going to Georgetown (i.e. Charitable Gift Annuities or Charitable Remainder Trusts). The Planned Giving Team, many who have law degrees and experience, also assists with current gifts of stock, mutual funds and other complex assets like real estate, closely-held business interests, and personal property (e.g. art, collectibles and in-kind gifts). Planned giving creates a lasting relationship between Georgetown and the donor.

As part of the larger Main Campus Development team, the Unit Development teams work closely with Georgetown’s schools, centers, programs and initiatives to advance their philanthropic priorities. As subject-matter experts of these specific areas across the institution, Unit Development fundraisers collaborate directly with Deans and faculty leaders, to engage donors and cultivate support. Unit Development includes Mission and Ministry, Athletics, the McCourt School of Public Policy, the McDonough School of Business, the College of Arts & Sciences, the School of Foreign Service, and Family Philanthropy.

Partnering closely with Unit Development, as part of the larger Main Campus Development team, is Regional Development. Regional Development fundraisers manage broad-based portfolios that are made up of donors who support a wide range of initiatives across Georgetown. Regional Development works to foster community and drive strategy for key Georgetown markets and regions both domestically and internationally. The Regional Development Teams consist of five regional teams: Northeast, Western, Midwest and Southwest, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, and International.