For students with financial need, scholarships help bridge the gap between college expenses and financial aid.

Section of the tax code that defines nonprofit, charitable tax-exempt organizations such as the UC San Diego Foundation.

 Donors recognized for their annual gifts of $50 or more to support student scholarships and alumni programming.

A giving society that recognizes distinguished alumni who have given $1 million or more cumulatively to UC San Diego.

 An area of fundraising that focuses on recurring annual gifts from alumni, parents, faculty, staff and friends of the university.

Donors recognized for their annual gifts of $500 or more to support the Alumni Scholarship Endowment Fund.

The recipient(s) of donor funds.

A well-defined fundraising effort that has specific goals, targets, funding needs and long-term organizational objectives.

Donors recognized for their annual leadership gifts to UC San Diego of $2,500 or more each year to be used at the Chancellor’s discretion to fund the university’s greatest needs.

The most common form of planned giving, a bequest to the university from an estate is made through a will or living trust.