Professional education creates opportunity. It advances careers, transforms lives and enriches communities.
By donating to UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education (CPE), the workforce development and lifelong learning arm of the university, you’re funding innovative, accessible educational programs and scholarships that open rewarding career paths across a student’s lifetime.
Support one of the challenges issued by CPE and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI):
- Dean’s Innovation Fund – Support innovative programming and scholarship opportunities designed to upskill and reskill adults for the jobs of the future, such as a certificate program in gene therapy manufacturing to help non-college graduates launch careers in biotech.
- Mark E. Ruedrich North Coast Brewing Diversity Scholarship – Support diversity-focused scholarships to increase representation, leadership and cross-cultural understanding in the brewing industry.
- Heart of OLLI Fund – Support access, through technology, to engage in live online programs that give senior learners who are homebound or unable to travel the opportunity to expand their intellectual horizons and connect with their community.
CPE is a self-supporting academic unit and our students usually aren’t eligible for student loans or tuition assistance programs. Your support on Give Day matters– it helps ensure that all adults, regardless of socioeconomic status, have access to life-changing professional development and lifelong learning opportunities.
Meet some of our students who have benefitted from our programs:
- Kelin Bradley – Sensory Science
- Damariz Quezada – Construction Management
- Steve Shoemaker – Viticulture and Enology
- Noah Williams – Human Resources Management
- Suzette Westsmith – OLLI Member
Of course you can!
Click on any challenge or page on this site, and you will be directed to an area where you can support UC Davis or UC Davis Health.
We know you are busy. That's why we made it possible for everyone to give early and be counted on Give Day.
Join us today, if you want to!
Every gift makes a difference! And we appreciate your support!
Give Day is only a week away! Have you signed up to be a Social Ambassador yet?
It's very easy to become one! Follow these steps or watch the video included below!
1) Join here!
2) Support UC Davis or UC Davis Health by posting links to their Give Day web pages on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tik Tok before and during Give Day.
3) Include in your post a brief story about these places that makes you smile.
4) Include at least one of our hashtags to pull your Twitter or Instagram posts onto the tagboard on our main page! #ucdavisgiveday, #everyaggiecounts, #ucdhstrong
5) If you enjoy a little friendly competition, you can easily track how many gifts you help bring in through your own social ambassador dashboard on this site. (If you don't like to compete, that's ok! Just enjoy making a positive difference for the areas you promote.)
| Rank | State | Gifts |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CA | 16 |
| 2 | NV | 1 |
| 2 | OR | 1 |
