Gifts in action

Your gift can make great things happen.

You already know UC San Diego is dedicated to advancing education, research, health care and public service to improve lives in California and around the world. But you may not know exactly how your generosity helps make that possible.

Your donations make our world better.

When you give to UC San Diego, you help expand opportunities for students, fuel groundbreaking research and support the discoveries and innovations improving lives worldwide. Your philanthropy provides flexible support for emerging needs across campus and equips our Tritons to accelerate solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.

Your generosity helps set tomorrow in motion — and so much more.

How? When you make a gift to us, your valuable support helps students launch their futures, researchers pursue bold ideas and physician-scientists advance breakthrough discoveries and care. Consider the important and long-lasting impact you could have, including in any of the following areas:

  • Scholarships that expand access to a world-class education.
  • Graduate fellowships that support the next generation of researchers, innovators and educators.
  • State-of-the-art laboratories, classrooms and health care facilities that support discovery and innovation.
  • Recruitment and retention of leading researchers, physicians and faculty whose work advances society and drives economic impact.
  • Research initiatives that help UC San Diego remain one of the world’s top 20 research universities.
  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography, advancing global research in ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences.
  • ArtsConnect, an initiative building a vibrant arts ecosystem at UC San Diego where creativity sparks innovation, strengthens community and inspires meaningful connection.
  • Advancing medical care through exceptional training, world-class research and compassionate patient care.

Make your gift more meaningful.

  • A dedicated gift. You can make your contribution in honor or memory of someone special.
  • A directed gift. You can choose to put your donation toward a particular scholarship, department, program or initiative that resonates with you.
  • An enduring gift. You can leave a powerful legacy by contributing to or creating an endowment fund to support your area of greatest interest in perpetuity. Read more about endowment gifts.