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The UCR Fund
Priorities of the moment. Opportunities of the future.
Two Nobel laureates. Member of the AAU. First in the nation for social mobility. Hispanic Serving Institution and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution. UC Riverside is the nation’s singular leader in social mobility, educational access, and research excellence.
The UCR Fund is critical to UC Riverside’s planning and growth each year as we continue to create a new model for a public research university. Your gifts to the UCR Fund help us continue to redefine what a great public research university can achieve.
GIVE TO THE UCR FUND
High value. High impact.
NO. 1
IN THE U.S. FOR SOCIAL MOBILITY
– U.S. News & World Report
TOP 1.3%
OF UNIVERSITIES WORLDWIDE
– Center for World University Rankings
NO. 6
PUBLIC UNIVERSITY
– Princeton Review Best Schools for Making a Public Impact
Why give to the UCR Fund?
Gifts to the UCR Fund support all aspects of the university, our students’ education and champion their aspirations. These gifts are unrestricted, meaning university leadership can adjust and designate support toward specific campus priorities and needs each year. Common priorities often include financial aid, education excellence, student experience, world-class research, and economic vitality in our region.
Immediate Impact
The UCR Fund provides a safeguard of support for unexpected opportunities and unexpected challenges. Opportunities like helping a student-led organization get a new program off the ground or helping a dean create a new degree offering. Or challenges like transitioning the entire university online during a global pandemic.
The immediacy of these funds is vital to campus.
Champion Students
UC Riverside transforms lives. We’re No. 1 in the nation for social mobility. The UCR Fund can be used to fill gaps in financial aid and cover the cost of resources for students to stay safe, healthy, and engaged. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, more Highlanders are facing lasting food and housing insecurity.
With an ongoing need for support with basic expenses like transportation, health, and technology access, gifts to the UCR Fund have never been more important.
Allow for Growth
As UCR continues raising the bar in access and research innovation, the UCR Fund provides campus with resources needed for infrastructure expansion. As we continue to mark new milestones in enrollment and research excellence, the UCR Fund provides flexible funding to accommodate growth.
Sustainable Solutions
As a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU) and an R1 public research university, discoveries happening in the labs and classrooms at UCR blaze trails everywhere.
Gifts to the UCR Fund elevate campus so ideas today continue to accelerate bold ideas for a better tomorrow.
At UC Riverside, tomorrow’s leaders come together today to find new ways of thinking, doing, and achieving. Students, faculty, and staff work every day to make a difference in an increasingly multicultural and interconnected global society. Our vibrant, diverse, and thriving campus is a rocket ship, accelerating ideas and powering new possibilities.
Alongside community partners like you who invest in the UCR vision, Highlanders are empowered to accelerate their bold ideas. Because our mission is clear: to launch a new generation of innovative thinkers.
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