Emergency Funds

Facing Challenges Together

As the impacts of COVID-19 unfold, we are prioritizing the health and safety of our students, patients and health professionals who are working around the clock to serve us.

Philanthropic support has been key to the university’s ability to provide food, emergency housing and other crucial resources to undergraduate and graduate students in need, including use of laptops allowing students to continue their studies when classes moved online.

Your gifts also provide emergency support for our medical students, patients, clinicians, nurses and staff at UC Davis Health who are working on the front lines and in laboratories to save lives and find solutions to this fast-moving and lethal pandemic.

Your gift to any of our emergency funds supports much-needed resources and research that will mitigate the negative and varied consequences of COVID-19. Gifts of any size make a difference.

Thank you for your generous support—now and always.

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USA
International

Rank	State	Gifts
1	CA	395
2	OR	11
3	CO	7

$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

$50,000

Bob '63 and Kinzie '64 Murphy Student Basic Needs Challenge

THANK YOU to our generous donors for your support of the Murphy Basic Needs Endowment. Your help ensures that the basic needs of our students, such as food security and shelter, are met now and in the future. Thank you to the Bob ’63 and Kinzie ’64 Murphy for providing this $50,000 challenge gift!

72 / 72 Gifts

Completed

$2,500

Dean Lairmore's Challenge Grant for the School of Veterinary Medicine's Hardship Fund

THANK YOU to Dean Michael Lairmore, Mrs. Donna Lairmore, and to all of the generous donors that chose to support this challenge. Your generosity will provide essential support for veterinary students experiencing unexpected financial hardships during this unprecedented time.

100 / 100 Gifts

Completed

$5,000

The Redirect Housing Costs to Help Fight COVID-19 Challenge

THANK YOU to a generous UC Davis parent and to all of the donors who chose to support this challenge. Your support will help the UC Davis Medical Center teams address the impacts of COVID-19. Your gifts will allow us to expand diagnostic and testing capacity and will help us continue to support extended staff time and benefits for health care providers working directly on the crisis.

75 / 75 Gifts

Completed

$2,500

English Graduate Students Emergency Fund Challenge

THANK YOU to Margie Ferguson and David Simpson, Walt and Dianne Harrison, John Marx, Chris Schaberg, Claire Waters and Alan Taylor, and to all of the other generous donors that chose to support our English Graduate Students! Your generosity will help us provide emergency funding to English graduate students in need.

20 / 20 Gifts

Completed

$5,000

Sue Maderious Mayer '80 - COVID-19 - School of Veterinary Medicine Hardship Fund

THANK YOU to Sue Maderious Mayer '80, Jim Mayer, and to all of the generous donors that chose to support this challenge. Your support will help us provide financial assistance to currently enrolled DVM students, MPVM students, Ph.D. students and employed veterinary House Officers who are experiencing a serious financial hardship due to a sudden emergency, accident, or unforeseen event that requires additional emergency monetary assistance in order to stay enrolled and focus on their academic career.

50 / 50 Gifts

Completed

$2,500

School of Nursing Leadership Challenge #1

THANK YOU to the School of Nursing Leadership and all of the generous donors who chose to support this challenge. Your generosity will help the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing ensure that every student has financial resources to complete their studies regardless of unexpected financial hardship.

4 / 4 Gifts

Completed

$2,500

The Devin Odell & Maria Fernandez-Gimenez Aggie Compass Challenge

THANK YOU to our generous donors for helping us reach our goal of 20 gifts! Your support for the Aggie Compass Basic Needs Center is important and very much appreciated. Thank you to Devin Odell and Maria Fernandez-Gimenez for providing this $2,500 challenge gift!

20 / 20 Gifts

Completed

$5,000

Victor and Meg Chan's Center for Neuroscience Emergency Relief Fund Challenge

THANK YOU to Victor and Meg Chan and to all of the generous donors that chose to support this challenge! Your support provides emergency financial support to our trainees, staff and faculty experiencing hardship and for resources to save groundbreaking research projects and the careers of our next generation of neuroscientists.

15 / 15 Gifts

Completed

$2,500

School of Nursing Leadership Challenge #2

4 / 4 Gifts

Completed

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Participating Groups

Emergency Funds Annual Fund Aggies Helping Aggies Arboretum and Public Garden Athletics Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing Cal Aggie Alumni Association Center for Neuroscience College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences College of Biological Sciences College of Engineering College of Letters and Science Continuing and Professional Education Division of Student Affairs Energy and Efficiency Institute Global Affairs Graduate School of Management Graduate Studies Institute of Transportation Studies Manetti Shrem Museum Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts Office of Research Parents Fund School of Education School of Law School of Medicine School of Veterinary Medicine UC Davis Health UC Davis Library Undergraduate Education

UC Davis

Rank	Region	Gifts
1	United States	452
2	Australia	2
3	China	1