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Ways to Give

Gifts to UC San Diego from alumni, parents, faculty, staff, students and friends play an important role in keeping our university in the forefront of academic and research excellence. Even modest contributions, pooled with gifts from others, can achieve big results—and begin a lifetime of philanthropy with impact. It's as easy as 1-2-3:

Step 1: Choose Your Area of Impact

• Increase financial aid to undergraduate students through scholarships.
• Fund a graduate fellowship to support gifted graduate students.
• Create an endowed chair to help recruit and retain outstanding faculty.
• Give to research, or any school or area that you choose.
• Support the university's funds for greatest needs by providing unrestricted gifts.
• Consider making a planned gift or an annual gift to fund a specific area of campus.

Step 2: Designate Your Amount

• You can make a difference with a gift of any amount, whether it's $50, $500, $5,000 or $5 million.

Step 3: Choose Your Philanthropic Tools

• Outright gift of cash (check, credit card, electronic funds transfer (EFT), or if you are a UCSD employee, payroll deduction)
• Appreciated securities and mutual funds
• Pledge (a gift paid over a three- to five-year period)
• Matching gifts through your employer
• Planned gifts such as bequests through a will or charitable trusts. Please visit the Office of Planned Giving website for more information.

Make Your Gift

Thank you for supporting the University of California, San Diego. You can make your gift through any of the following convenient methods:

To make your contribution online via credit card, electronic funds transfer (EFT) or, if you are a UCSD employee, payroll deduction, complete our convenient and secure online giving website.

To make your gift by phone, please call UCSD Gift Processing at (858) 534-4493.

To mail in your gift check, print this gift form, make your check payable to "UC San Diego Foundation" and mail it with your payment to:

UCSD Gift Processing
9500 Gilman Drive, #0940
La Jolla, CA 92093-0940

For more information, please contact the UC San Diego Office of Development at (858) 534-1610 or giving@ucsd.edu. If you would like to search for an Office of Development representative by area of campus or focus, please use our Development Directory.