Large or Small, Your Gift Makes a Difference

Now, more than ever, the world needs the kind of innovation UC San Diego attracts, cultivates and produces. Pioneering solutions in healthcare, making breakthrough scientific discoveries and cultivating global awareness—UCSD can do it, but we can’t do it alone.

Because UC San Diego only receives a fraction of its total annual budget from state funding—just 12 percent— philanthropic contributions are critical to the university’s continued success. This campus depends on private support so that it can continue to deliver the results UCSD has achieved as the region’s leading research university.

A gift of any size can help make the difference in finding advanced treatments for cancer, developing policies to promote global security or recruiting the best and brightest students and faculty.

Consider the following:

A gift of any amount: Can be pooled with donations from others to help the University meet its greatest and most urgent needs.

A gift of $100: Purchases a campus library book to help students enhance their knowledge and inspire new ideas to further their academic careers.

A gift of $500: Provides sporting equipment for one of 23 teams whose student-athletes consistently earn national recognition.

A gift of $1,000: Supports a graduate student’s outstanding achievement, whether it is researching a novel therapy for disease or designing a spectacular set for a theater production.

A gift of $5,000: Provides discretionary funds for a dean to support innovation and address budget challenges.

A gift of $10,000: Helps the university attract leading artists and scholars to our campus for visiting lectureships.

A gift of $25,000: Funds a student fellowship to enable talented graduate students to conduct groundbreaking research.

A gift of $50,000 or more: Creates a named scholarship endowment that provides a bright undergraduate student—perhaps the first in his or her family to attend college—with a one-year annual award.

A gift of $500,000 or more: Establishes in most divisions a permanent endowed faculty chair in your name to help the campus attract and retain Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners and innovators of all kinds.

Every contribution can achieve big results—and begin a lifetime of philanthropy.


For information about giving opportunities, click here, or call the UC San Diego Office of Development at (858) 534-1610.