Annual Fund
Providing emergency, academic and research support for students and faculty

At UC Davis, we are extremely proud of our world-class faculty and students. The Annual Fund supports them through signature programs that enhance research and teaching opportunities—and open the doors to a more diverse student body at UC Davis.

 

Unrestricted funding is often incredibly valuable when university leadership needs to be nimble and and make quick decisions that benefit our students.

 

Recently, Annual Fund support enabled Chancellor May to provide use of 600 laptops to students who otherwise could not have participated when classes moved online during the Coronavirus emergency. 

 

By giving early today, you help UC Davis continue to address urgent needs as they arise.

 

Key among them is the Chancellor’s Fellows program, now celebrating its 20th year! Outstanding early career faculty who are named Chancellor’s Fellows receive unrestricted funding in the form of a cash award for their research, teaching, service activities or creative work. Students at all levels benefit from opportunities to participate in projects that are often groundbreaking or exploratory in nature.

 

These are transformative learning experiences for young people—and your support helps open them to students from all backgrounds. Chancellor’s Achievement Awards, another signature Annual Fund program, has gifted more than 500 scholarships to high performing California students who are often the first in their families to attend college. These awards change lives by opening higher education to students who otherwise might not have the opportunity.

 

The Annual Fund, supported by the UC Davis Chancellor’s Club—and by donors like you—helps UC Davis make the world a better place. Your gift allows the Chancellor to fund the university’s greatest needs, including emergency programs and those that advance research, teaching and social mobility among our faculty and students.

 

That’s why you mean the world to us. Please join us on Give Day!

Give during Give Day to turn your state and the world Gold!
Rank State Gifts
1 CA 62
2 WA 3
3 TN 1
$75,000
Planned Giving Challenge - Wayne & Jacque Bartholomew
THANK YOU to our generous donors for helping us reach our goal of 75 planned giving requests! Your support is important and very much appreciated. Thank you to Wayne and Jacque Bartholomew for providing this $75,000 challenge gift!
75 / 75 Gifts
Completed
$13,000
Davis Chancellor's Club Cabinet Challenge
THANK YOU to the DCC Cabinet members and all of the donors that chose to support their challenge! Your gifts will support the UC Davis Annual Fund, an unrestricted fund that allows the university to quickly address immediate campus needs.
50 / 50 Gifts
Completed
$5,000
Unrestricted Thinking! Challenge
THANK YOU to Jim and Lisa DeSanti and all of the donors that chose to support their Unrestricted Thinking challenge! Your gifts will support the UC Davis Annual Fund, an unrestricted fund that allows the university to quickly address immediate campus needs.
10 / 10 Gifts
Completed
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