The NCME Endowment

A Fund for Measurement Excellence and Integrity

The NCME Board and Past Presidents are proud to announce The NCME Endowment: A Fund for Measurement
Excellence and Integrity. This permanent fund ensures the stability, continuity, and legacy of NCME’s leadership
in educational measurement. Join our $150,000 campaign and help us reach our goal by the Annual Meeting
in Los Angeles, April 8-11, 2026!

Lasting Impact

Your gift will support measurement scholarship, practice, and talent development in measurement science in perpetuity.

Secure Legacy

Your name (or who you dedicate your gift to) will be linked with NCME’s enduring story and ongoing progress.

Join fellow leaders

NCME’s Board of Directors and Past Presidents have seeded the NCME Endowment. Join them in securing NCME’s future.

Total Funds Raised

Join our drive for enduring impact! Help us build the NCME Endowment day by day.

The donor list honors those who helped NCME secure Measurement Excellence and Integrity for future generations. NCME is setting an ambitious but achievable fundraising goal of $150,000 by April of 2026. Donations may be made to the Mission Fund, the NCME Endowment, or both, as donors are inclined and able. To read more about how your donation to NCME will help to protect and advance the NCME mission in perpetuity, visit the FAQ.

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Make a Recurring Donation

Monthly recurring donor option: Become a sustaining donor with a recurring monthly or annual gift. Your regular commitment makes a lasting difference.

Make Large Gift

Want to make a transformative impact? For gifts of $10,000 or more, contact Executive Director Susan Lyons (ncme@ncme.org) for custom recognition opportunities.

Donor Acknowledgments

$50+: Receive a hand-stitched NCME normal distribution plushie at in-person events (while supplies last).
$100+: Acknowledgment on this page annually. (You may request anonymity.)
$1,000+: Leading Gift recognition on this page. (You may request anonymity.)
$10,000+ cumulative: Permanent listing as a Champion for Measurement Excellence and Integrity. (You may request anonymity.)

Gifts in honor/memory of a colleague, mentor, or loved one are welcome.

Frequently Asked Questions

The endowment for the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) ensures stability, continuity, and legacy for NCME’s role in advancing educational measurement. Known as “The NCME Endowment,” or the “Fund for Measurement Excellence and Integrity” (FMEI), its resources ensure long-term protection and advancement of the scientific study of education informed by measurement practices that are robust, fair, and valid. Whereas the Mission Fund is directed by the board to advance the NCME mission in the nearer term, the NCME Endowment is an enduring investment that ensures that the organization and its mission will last for generations. NCME welcomes contributions to both funds as donors are inclined and able.

Through times of security or uncertainty, sound educational measurement practices are fundamental to the functioning of education in civic society. These practices rest on foundational pillars that include i) a sustained commitment to evidence collection, analysis, and reflection; ii) a healthy separation from external or political considerations; iii) transparency and rigorous scientific review; and iv) a pipeline of talent with advanced degrees in measurement science. Threats to these pillars emerge on a regular basis from multiple directions. The purpose of this fund is to build an endowment that secures the legacy of NCME in perpetuity.

The Fund received its initial endowment in April 2025 from $25,000 in contributions from 18 of NCME’s past presidents. This action reflects the ongoing commitment of NCME’s leaders to its enduring mission and the active role that past presidents play in the distribution of the Fund and its activities.

NCME holds and manages the NCME Endowment for the benefit of sustained support of its mission towards the purposes described above. The principal of the endowment is held in trust in a dedicated, segregated account. The fund is managed in accordance with investor standards and relevant law.

Donations to the NCME Endowment are tax deductible. The distribution is a prudent portion of the endowment (5% of the average endowment principal under current board policy) and is available annually for expenditure on aligned activities and only as approved by the Board.

Gifts to the NCME Endowment become part of NCME’s permanent resources. The distribution provides annual support for mission-advancing activities in perpetuity. Unlike the Mission Fund, which enables near-term priorities, the NCME Endowment builds a permanent foundation for NCME’s future.

The Immediate Past President of NCME shall lead the process of soliciting and recommending activities that annual Endowment distributions will support, with all funding decisions subject to approval by the NCME Board. In this role, the Immediate Past President may engage other Past Presidents, the Board, and the broader NCME membership to suggest relevant activities for consideration. A call for project ideas may be issued from time to time, at the discretion of the Immediate Past President and in consultation with the Board and Executive Director, to encourage engagement and additional fundraising.

The Immediate Past President may also delegate aspects of project identification or development to other Past Presidents as appropriate. The NCME Executive Director, in collaboration with the Immediate Past President, is responsible for sustaining continuity of Endowment-supported efforts across presidential terms. New activities are not required to be launched every year, to allow for sustained, multi-year initiatives where appropriate.

The NCME Board and the community of Past Presidents is setting an ambitious but achievable fundraising goal of goal of $150,000 by April 2026, and a goal of $250,000 by the end of 2026.

Donor Recognition

NCME gratefully acknowledges the individuals and organizations who have contributed to the NCME Endowment: A Fund for Measurement Excellence and Integrity. The list will be updated regularly.

Past Presidents/Founders ($25,000 Combined)

Terry Ackerman
Randy Bennett
Derek Briggs
Wayne Camara
Dale Carlson
Linda Cook

John Fremer
Edward Haertel
Andrew Ho
Suzanne Lane
Rich Patz
Mark Reckase

Cynthia Schmeiser
Stephen Sireci
Ye Tong
Michael Walker
Mark Wilson
Rebecca Zwick

Leaders ($1,000+)

AICPA Examinations Team
(in honor of Dr. Craig Mills)
Anonymous
Randy Bennett
Dale Carlson
edCount, LLC
Eastern Eufish Fantasy League
Edward Haertel

Amy Hendrickson
Andrew Ho
Kristen Huff
Suzanne Lane
Won-Chan Lee
Scott Marion

Yoon Soo Park
Rich Patz
Mark Reckase
Ye Tong
Michael Walker
Mark Wilson (in honor of Bob Mislevy)

Supporters ($100+)

Anonymous (6)
Stephan Ahadi
Eva L Baker (in honor of Robert Linn)
Alison Bailey
Michael Beck
Matthew Birmingham
Allison Boykin
Wayne Camara
Linda Cook
Ben Domingue
Claudia Flowers
John Fremer
Brian French

Drew Gitomer
Dan Goldhaber
Laura Hamilton
John Hansen
Jiangang Hao
Ken Hawkins
Yong He
Christopher Helmuth
Emily Ho
Alexander Hoffman
Hong Jiao
HD Hoover
Leslie Keng (in honor of Barbara Dodd)
Junhui Liu

Susan Lottridge
James Pellegrino
Michael Prager
Cynthia Schmeiser
Christina Schneider
Robert Schwartz
Sandip Sinharay (in honor of Neil Dorans)
Stephen Sireci
David Torres Irribarra
Mao Vang
Chun Wang (in honor of Bob Mislevy)
Rebecca Zwick