Join the Global Generosity Movement: Giving Tuesday
Since its inception in 2012, Giving Tuesday has focused on celebrating philanthropy, volunteerism and community service as a way to highlight the powerful difference people can make when they come together to help others. It has since grown into a global movement encouraging people to do good. And each year on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, people from around the world can reflect and act on the importance of generosity following the retail rush of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Your gift to UCF supports innovation and social mobility — join us Nov. 28, 2023 for Giving Tuesday.
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Support UCF’s Areas of Greatest Need
Make an impact when and where it’s needed most. By giving to UCF’s Areas of Greatest Need funds, you can help ensure the university has the financial flexibility necessary to respond quickly to exceptional opportunities. Big or small, your gift helps bolster academic, inclusive and operational excellence at UCF. Here are just a few ways your gift to an Area of Greatest Need fund makes a difference:
Student Scholarships
Reduce financial barriers to achieving a degree. Student scholarships make it possible for students to focus more on their studies and less about how they’ll make ends meet.
Academic Colleges
Put your gift to work by supporting one of our 13 colleges. Your gift empowers deans to make sure students have the resources they need to succeed across disciplines.
Student Experience
Promote student involvement on and off campus. With 650+ student clubs and organizations to choose from, your support fuels career development, inclusion initiatives and life-changing trips.
Innovative Research
Ignite curiosity and groundbreaking discoveries. Your donation helps researchers explore everything from how proteins impact diseases to how our solar system was formed.
Emergency Relief
Help Knights in need. From stocking the shelves at Knight Pantry to providing rent for students who are struggling to make ends meet, your gift will help the students who need it most.
Student-Athletes
Do more than just cheer on your Knights. With your support, student-athletes can keep charging on — in the classroom and on the playing field.
Here’s how you can participate
Give. Include UCF among your generous plans on Giving Tuesday and make a donation of any amount. All gifts are important and make a collective difference. Advocate. Spread the word on UCF’s behalf and help us multiply our impact.
Why Support UCF?
At UCF, we are committed to making a better future for our students and society. We believe strongly in education’s ability to transform lives and livelihoods — because we see it happen every day. And we believe wholeheartedly in the need for innovation and groundbreaking research to not only help solve today’s most pressing issues but also to help us better understand ourselves, each other and our planet.
Give because you careYour Impact on UCF Students
Your generosity helps support the lives of current and future Knights. It unlocks potential, inspires excellence and expands access to higher education. And your combined generosity helps us make good on our promise to create a better world — for all of us.
Mariana Sorroza ’24
College of Engineering and Computer Science,
Burnett Honors College
“Scholarships really help students. Not only does it take some of our stress away and allows us to focus more on our work, but scholarships are also good for boosting one’s confidence. They serve as a symbol that there are people supporting us and believing in us, and believing that we can do good in the world.”
Eileen Zelaya ’22
College of Arts and Humanities, Visual Arts & Design, BA with a minor in Sociology
“I am so thankful to have received the J.R. Hopes Scholarship in Art. As a first-generation Latina student, it’s important to me that my degree allows me to support myself and my family. The generosity of donors was the validation and confirmation I needed to pursue my calling as a photographer. Their recognition of my potential as an artist helped me gain the confidence I needed, but also made me feel seen, recognized and rewarded — all of which mean the world to me.”