Annual Giving Program
Mission Statement
Invite new, renewed, and increased participation from alumni, employees, friends, faculty, staff, and corporations who believe in and support the mission, vision and goals of University of Maryland University College through the Annual Giving Program. Provide excellent customer service and stewardship to constituents of UMUC throughout the fiscal year.
To help support the mission of the University, you may designate your gift to
- Academic Scholarships
- Better Opportunities Through Online Education Endowment
- Community College Transfer Student Scholarship Fund
- Graduate School of Management & Technology Scholarship Fund
- Military Student Support Scholarship Fund
- Military Textbooks Endowed Scholarship Fund
- Military Veterans Endowed Scholarship Fund
- School of Undergraduate Studies Scholarship Fund
- Working Family Scholarship Fund
- Buy a Brick – Leave a lasting impression; purchase a commemorative brick with your personalized inscription.
- Name a Lithograph – A unique naming and memorializing opportunity! Purchase a donor plaque to be placed alongside a lithograph created by Phillip Ratner for the rededication of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
UMUC Foundation—501(c)(3) Status
The University of Maryland Foundation, Inc., doing business as the UMUC Foundation, is a 501(c)(3) corporation incorporated in 1978 and registered in the state of Maryland. The UMUC Foundation manages all private donations made to UMUC through the capital campaign, annual programs, and planned gifts.
UMUC graciously accepts all donations offered through charitable fund-raising and grant fundraising initiatives and through individual gifts. Funds are used to maximize the number and extent of tuition grants and scholarship awards for students and to enhance UMUC’s educational services by adding and improving undergraduate and graduate-level curriculum and supporting materials.
Many constituents are contacted throughout the fiscal year via personal correspondence and direct mail, alumni events, visits from volunteers and staff and through the annual phonathon. Constituents include alumni, parents, friends, corporations, foundations, faculty, staff, and students.
