The future success of businesses and society depend on brilliant, well-prepared innovators able to envision a better way.
Your company’s philanthropic investment in UC Santa Barbara will support the next generation of such leaders, while increasing both the recognition and reputation of your company among these dynamic students and their faculty advisors.
Who to contact
Rob Dunton
Senior Director of Development, Foundation and Corporate Relations
(C) 805-456-9616 | (O) 805-893-2925 | robertdunton@ucsb.edu
How Your Gifts Help
Your philanthropic investment in UC Santa Barbara can make a difference to:
Students
Establishing a scholarship in your company’s name in any academic department can help a motivated, highly qualified student complete their degree. A corporate fellowship helps a graduate student to complete their degree in a field important to your business, or undertake critical research.
Faculty
A gift to support a faculty research lab, whether in a STEM field or the social sciences, helps to advance knowledge and create crucial relationships among scholars, researchers and companies. A gift to support teaching can provide classroom tools like lab equipment and software, or an award to recognize exceptional educators.
Programs
A corporate gift can engage your company with one or more programs that align with your company’s philanthropic and strategic goals. INSPIRE, one of many such programs, supports high-achieving, first-generation and/or low-income students on their educational journeys. A UCSB corporate relations director can suggest ideas and provide guidance to efficiently direct your efforts.
A Wide Range of Options
Depending on your time horizon, there are many ways to support UC Santa Barbara, including:
- Current-use scholarships or fellowships, which carry the power of now and are designed to support a student in the current academic year. You provide important support for a student, while ensuring that your company’s name is known to the student population you care about.
- Endowed scholarships or fellowships, which are generated from the income your gift generates. If you wish to support students year after year in perpetuity, an endowment would be the appropriate vehicle.
The Value of Partnership
Your company’s willingness to share data, real-world insights and employment opportunities also has tremendous value for faculty and students at UCSB, and means that, as a potential future employer, you stand to benefit from hiring students who know your company and are ready to contribute to your success. You can partner with UC Santa Barbara on joint research, for example, in computer science or technology management, to create a pipeline of talent for your company. If you’re seeking a more significant collaboration, you might consider establishing or naming a research center, laboratory or auditorium. Such investments pay enormous dividends in terms of prestige for your company and shared research that can lead to paradigm-shifting innovations.