page_title: Jack Baskin
section_title: Philanthropy
hierarchical_section_title: Jack Baskin / Philanthropy
caption_attribution_description: English: Baskin Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Engineering 1 is visible to the left, and the Auditorium can be seen to the right
context_page_description: Jack Baskin was an American philanthropist, engineer, and businessman in California, especially near Silicon Valley. He was the founder of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, one of the founding members of the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz, and director of the Peggy & Jack Baskin Foundation with his wife, Peggy Downes Baskin.
context_section_description: Baskin's charities include various local Santa Cruz establishments such as the Dominican Hospital of Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College, Seymour Marine Laboratory, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1997, he established a grant of $5 million used to build the Jack Baskin School of Engineering which opened in 1999. Additional grants of $500,000 in 2002 and $1 million in 2003 bring his current total contributions to the Jack Baskin School of Engineering to over $8 million. These donations helped to finance programs for computer engineering, the arts, the Institute of Marine Sciences, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, an endowed chair in psychology, and scholarships in literature. Baskin also served as chair of the UC Santa Cruz Foundation for two years and remained a trustee.
  Baskin was a director emeritus of the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz, as well as one of its founding members. In 2006, he pledged $1.25 million to the Foundation in order to acquire a site in Aptos where their headquarters would be built. Once the headquarters was completed in 2010, it was named the Jack & Peggy Baskin Center for Philanthropy, in honor of its donors. In January 2008, the Baskins also established the Peggy & Jack Baskin Foundation, initially funded with their gift of $2 million.
caption: Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz is named in his honor.
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