By most accounts, the economy’s immediate forecast is mostly cloudy — if not gloomy.
It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to assume that such a climate would cause many a sleepless night for Sandy Wilcox, president of the University of Wisconsin Foundation — a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation that is the official fundraising organization for UW-Madison. After all, few envision a scenario in which the state is suddenly going to start funding a higher percentage of UW-Madison’s $2.3 billion budget — making the work of the UW Foundation increasingly more important to the university’s financial well-being.