The UNH-IOL Gift Fund


Your contribution to the UNH-IOL Gift Fund, combined with those of fellow alumni, parents and friends, helps the UNH-IOL meet its top priorities. Gifts to the UNH-IOL Gift Fund are the most flexible, enabling the UNH-IOL to direct resources where and when they're needed the most. The UNH-IOL Gift Fund helps to:

New Endowment Establishment

The minimum amount necessary to establish a new endowment at UNH is $50,000. This amount can be paid all at once or in payments (typically three to five years). Once the fund reaches the $50,000 amount, it will payout to purpose. Until $50,000 is reached, the interest gained is reinvested in the fund. Gifts to an endowment are invested, with a percentage of the income growth. The remaining income is reinvested into the endowment, ensuring that the value of the investment grows forever.

Matching Gift Option

After a company establishes an endowment, employees are welcomed to continue its growth. When an employee makes a charitable contribution, the company matches the donation and forwards the check to the UNH Foundation directly. *Other options for investments are also available: equity investments, bonds and short-term securities. To find out more about the UNH fund, visit: UNH Foundation Website.

Equipment Donations

Donations are one way that your company can help improve our services and offerings, by helping to provide resources that allow for development that normally would be prohibitively expensive or impossible to purchase directly.

Member companies are required to provide implementations to test, but donations are a way for a company to help expedite our development cycles and provide an increased level of service offerings above and beyond what regular membership fees cover.

As a non-profit organization, donations to the UNH-IOL are tax deductible.

Member and non-member companies often arrange to donate equipment and materials because they know that it will foster the UNH-IOL's ability to develop new services, and that donated equipment will have a high visibility to every other company that visits our facility for testing or Group Test Events.

Here are some examples of donations that have been made in the past:

  • Test equipment:
    • Oscilloscopes
    • Analyzers
    • Cable test gear
    • Traffic generators
  • Singlemode and multimode fiber plants
  • CAT-5, CAT-5e and CAT-6 cable plants
  • Cable/fiber management systems
  • Termination equipment and tools
  • Patch panels and modular systems
  • Cabling connectors and interconnects
  • Switches, repeaters, and routers
  • Workstations for testing and development
  • 19" and 23" equipment racks
  • KVM switches
  • Printers, NAS, and SAN systems
  • HP-UX, BSD, Solaris, IRIX, OSX, True64Unix, Linux, and VMS servers and software
  • Power distribution equipment, power conditioners, and DC supply systems
  • Technical and training books, publications, and manuals
  • Presentation systems, projectors, and training materials
  • CAD/CAE software and systems

If your company is interested in donating equipment, products, solutions, parts, or expertise, please feel free to contact us. Please keep in mind that donations need not be physical; monetary donations, expert assistance and support from your company are also welcome and appreciated.

The following companies have been extraordinarily generous:

  • 3M
  • Absolute Analysis
  • Agilent
  • AMP
  • Ancot
  • Avaya
  • Bay Networks
  • Cabletron
  • Champlain Cable
  • Control Telecom
  • Datacube, Inc.
  • DCT Corp.
  • Enterasys
  • Finisar
  • Fluke
  • Fotec
  • Funk Software
  • Hewlett Packard:
    • Procurve Networking
    • Printers
  • Hitachi
  • IBM
  • Intel
  • Krone
  • LeCroy
  • Meetinghouse Data Communications
  • Microwave Logic
  • ModTap
  • Mohawk/CDT
  • Motorola
  • NCR
  • National Semiconductor
  • NetIQ Corp.
  • NetManage
  • Netopia
  • Network Associates
  • Newnex Technology
  • Novell
  • Owens Corning
  • Racal-Interlan
  • The Siemon Company
  • Sifos Technologies, Inc.
  • Silcom
  • SMC
  • Spirent Communications
  • Tektronix
  • Trellis Communications
  • TTC
  • Verizon
  • Western Digital
  • WildPackets Inc.
  • XLNT Designs
  • Xyratex
  • ZDExpos
  • ZyXEL
As a recognition for the large donated amounts of equipment and expertise, the UNH-IOL, on behalf of the hundreds of member companies, shows appreciation for their generous donations and dedication to quality networks. These methods include press releases, plaques, awards, and other special tributes.

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