The University serves Virginia, the nation, and the world by preparing responsible citizen-leaders; advancing, preserving, and disseminating knowledge; and providing world-class patient care.
All gifts of any kind help secure the University’s place as a premier institution of learning and make it possible for our students, faculty, and researchers to shape a brighter.
You can give to all 12 schools across Grounds. The possibilities are endless for supporting our students, faculty, and programs. Together, we will find the way forward.
You can join the growing number of alumni and friends who invest now in the University’s future by including UVA as a beneficiary of their wills, charitable trusts, and retirement plans. Gifts like these can offer you and your family significant tax benefits as well as greater financial flexibility in meeting your personal and philanthropic goals.
Through Honor the Future, the Campaign for the University of Virginia, we are building on our strong foundations to support the president’s vision: to become the best public university by 2030 and one of the very best in the world.
By supporting key areas of the University, your gift can have a lasting and transformational effect.
Your gift helps students achieve their full potential. With your help, promising students can have equal access to UVA.
Our distinguished faculty teach and inspire while pursuing research and scholarship that shape our world.
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SCHOOLS
The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences is UVA’s largest school and the intellectual heart of the University. Your support not only keeps UVA’s leadership in liberal arts education alive, but it also moves it forward.
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The Darden School improves the world by developing and inspiring responsible leaders and by advancing knowledge. Our success is built on transformation learning experiences, a supportive and diverse collaborative community, and enduring relationships.
The future of the Batten School’s evolution is clear: cementing leadership and team-building best practices into our curriculum and policy outreach, establishing Garrett Hall as a national locus of evidence-based policy research, and teaching advanced policy analysis skills to UVA’s extraordinary students.
The McIntire School of Commerce is regarded as one of the nation’s finest business schools, offering world-class programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and certificate levels.
The School of Architecture dreams big and aspires to excellence, drawing on Jefferson’s words, “always in the name of tomorrow.” This future vision encompasses both creative promise and critical responsibility—defining environments that are dynamic and sustainable cultural artifacts.
The University of Virginia School of Continuing and Professional Studies serves adult learners by providing access to educational experiences that blend academic scholarship with workplace relevance.
The School of Data Science was established as the University’s 12th school in 2019, with support from the Quantitative Foundation, a private foundation based in Charlottesville, co-founded by Jaffray Woodriff (McIntire ’91). The school will position the University as a global leader in efforts to improve society through teaching and research based on the powerful, emerging field of data science.
As one of the leading education schools in the country, the Education School is fueled by the generosity of annual contributions, which both enhance the educational experience for our students and increase the impact the school’s research and clinical practices have on the local community and the nation.
Founded in 1836, UVA Engineering is among the top-ranked engineering schools in the country. Our vision is clear: We will be a leader among engineering schools in seizing opportunities to benefit humanity through bold research and world-class education.
Founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819, the University of Virginia School of Law is the second-oldest continuously operating law school in the nation. Consistently ranked among the top law schools, Virginia is a world-renowned training ground for distinguished lawyers and public servants, instilling in them a commitment to leadership, integrity and community service.
The School of Medicine has a well-deserved reputation of graduating compassionate, thoughtful doctors who become leaders in their field by improving patient care and expanding medical knowledge. A gift to support medical scholarships is an investment in the future of health care.
A national leader in nursing education—and ranked among the top two percent of nursing schools in the nation—the UVA School of Nursing is readying the next generation of practitioners, researchers, and faculty in a time of dynamic change in health care.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise is a public, four-year residential liberal arts college located in the lush mountains of Southwest Virginia. UVA Wise is nationally accredited and has been nationally ranked among top public liberal art colleges in the U.S.
Donations to the Alumni Association annual fund provide critical, unrestricted support for the Alumni Association’s programs and services, including Reunions, Alumni Career Services, Football Weekends, and the Admission Liaison Program, as well as many student programs.
The arts are crucial to the residential experience at UVA, enriching us all while inspiring our students to innovate, create, collaborate, explore, and discover. Our artistic programs are also among UVA’s strongest bridges to the community of Charlottesville and beyond.
The Cavalier Fund is a resource available to students who need help meeting costs to take part in all the University has to offer. It is supported by generous benefactors to ensure the UVA student experience is truly accessible.
The Center for Politics was founded in 1998 by Larry J. Sabato as the nation’s preeminent institution for the study and promotion of civic education and political participation. Government works better when politics works better, and politics works better when citizens are informed and involved participants.
The Contemplative Science Center’s mission is to throughly explore contemplative practices, values, ideas, and institutions to better understand their diverse impacts, underlying mechanisms, and dynamic processes through analytical research and scholarship.
Vice Provost for Global Affairs Stephen D. Mull will raise the visibility of global programs in UVA’s schools, as well as expand the global perspective of all of UVA’s students, particularly undergraduates. Gifts for global initiatives help prepare a new generation of global citizen-leaders.
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The mission of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation is to serve the University of Virginia by identifying, attracting, and nurturing individuals of extraordinary intellectual range and depth who possess the highest concomitant qualities of leadership, scholarship, and citizenship.
The nonpartisan Karsh Institute synthesizes and builds on UVA’s expertise in the study of democracy, public policy, and leadership, and accelerates collaboration among areas dedicated to studying democracy at UVA.
The Miller Center is a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history and strives to apply the lessons of history and civil discourse to the nation’s most pressing contemporary governance challenges.
The UVA Parents Fund enhances the student experience through annual gifts from parents of current and former students. Directed by the UVA Parents Committee, the Parents Fund supports student clubs and cultural events, academic enhancement programs and career services, health and wellness initiatives, and class dinners and traditions that enrich student life across Grounds.
The Provost’s Fund for Academic Excellence is a resource for upholding excellence in teaching, scholarship, and outreach. Your gift to this fund gives the University’s provost the capacity to make investments in areas that have become hallmarks of a University of Virginia education: superlative undergraduate education, innovative curricular and research initiatives, first-rate faculty, and an intellectual community that is challenging, rigorous, and diverse.
The Office of the Vice President for Research (VPR) is responsible for the integration and enhancement of research activities across UVA’s schools and multiple research centers.
Gifts of all sizes provide a margin of excellence for the Vice President and Chief Student Affairs Officer to fund entrepreneurial initiatives, to respond to unexpected needs, and otherwise to support the UVA student experience. Discretionary gifts have funded requests responding to student safety concerns, provided initial funding to test new programs, and helped individual students with emergency financial needs.
Environmental Institute
The Environmental Institute is the hub of sustainability and resilience research at UVA, connecting faculty and students from all 12 schools and multi-sector partners to find solutions to society’s greatest environmental challenges.
Sustainability
To inspire innovation and utilize Grounds as a living learning lab, students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to implement projects that advance sustainability and lower UVA’s carbon footprint.
The University of Virginia was conceived with a library at its heart, placed in the Rotunda at the head of the Academical Village. The Library’s first collection was selected by Thomas Jefferson and arranged according to a classification scheme he adapted from Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning. Today, the Library’s original purpose remains unchanged: to provide access to accumulated knowledge, and in so doing, increase it—in short, to advance learning.
By supporting programs within the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, and the Medical Center, you play a vital role in contributing to a healthier future for generations to come. From discoveries that will change the way we treat Alzheimer’s, cancer, heart disease, and diabetes to being named the #1 hospital in Virginia three years in a row, UVA is bringing tomorrow’s solutions to today’s patients.
Each year more than 10,000 individuals make the commitment to be members of the Virginia Athletics Foundation. The financial investment of VAF members helps position our teams to successfully compete both at the national and conference levels.
