Giving to UCLA - Impact of Giving




	Gifts to UCLA are making a lasting contribution—to students, communities, and the world. By investing in the promise of human potential, UCLA's alumni, parents and friends demonstrate confidence in the power of knowledge to improve people's daily lives. The impact of such philanthropy is measured in problems solved, innovations sparked, diseases cured, and lives enriched. Gifts to UCLA of every size enable transformations in education, the arts, health care, research and community service. We invite you to explore the many ways UCLA's supporters ensure that UCLA stands among the world's great research universities.



	Donors Participate in Chancellor’s Inauguration On May 13, UCLA paid special tribute to the generous philanthropists who have established endowed chairs at the university, by including them in a colorful academic procession marking the inauguration of Gene D. Block as UCLA’s ninth chancellor. It was the first time donors have been honored in this way. Wearing caps and gowns with blue sashes, the participants were proud to be part of the festivities. “The ceremony was so spectacular it brought tears to my eyes,” said Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. ’59, MA ’61, who endowed a faculty chair with his wife Carol at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. The week-long inaugural celebrations featured a range of activities for faculty, staff, students and alumni, culminating in UCLA Day on May 17. For more information, click here.




	Law School Launches $100 Million Campaign The UCLA School of Law is an ambitious institution. So it’s not surprising that its new campaign goal, recently announced at a meeting of prominent alumni and friends, is ambitious, too: $100 million to increase student scholarships, attract and retain faculty, and support centers and institutes that inform law and public policy. Click here to learn more about how the campaign will help secure the law school’s future.



	Advancing Engineering at UCLA Helping UCLA to remain at the forefront of electrical engineering advances, the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has established three new endowed faculty chairs. The chairs will be held by renowned faculty conducting research in the areas of electrical engineering, electronic information displays, and semiconductor devices and/or integrated circuit technology development and applications. For more about these chairs and the donors who created them, click here.



	$30 Million Gift Endows the UCLA Department of Surgery "Two years ago, the surgical team at UCLA performed a liver transplant that saved my life," says Robert Day. Now he and his wife Kelly will provide $30 million to enhance the surgical research, teaching and patient care mission of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Click here to learn more about the many benefits this gift offers UCLA surgery, including the creation of four new endowed chairs.



	New Gift Ushers in UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Music education at UCLA has received an unprecedented boost with a $30 million gift from the Herb Alpert Foundation, creating the cross-disciplinary UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. To learn more about this largest gift to music education in the western United States, click here. To view a UCLA Arts video about the gift, click here.

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