The University Fund is an important source of private financial support that ensures students receive a quality education at WVU. The University Fund provides vital resources that allow WVU to excel as a world-class research facility and an exemplary teaching institution. Those resources also enable the University to perform services and outreach to the state, region and nation, thus fulfilling its land-grant mission.

Foundation Partners

This program honors alumni and friends who provide WVU with a solid base of ongoing support by contributing $1,000 or more each year. All gifts made during the fiscal year (July 1-June 30) are applied toward membership.

While enhancing the academic environment for students, Foundation Partners inspire others to raise their own philanthropic sights and follow suit.

Foundation Associates

This level of giving acknowledges donors who for five consecutive years have made gifts to the Foundation to benefit WVU of at least $100.

Augusta Scholarship

The Augusta Scholarship endowment enables family, friends, and organizations to honor or memorialize a loved one while helping a deserving student attend WVU.

In Memory Of/In Honor Of gifts, unless otherwise directed by the donor, become part of the Augusta Scholarship fund’s endowment principal to assist undergraduate students with financial need. The WVU Foundation recognizes Augusta Scholarship gifts exceeding $1,000 (outright or cumulative) by including a brief biographical listing of the individual being honored or memorialized in the Augusta Scholarship Register. The Augusta Register may be viewed by students and visitors to the Mountainlair, WVU’s Student Union. It can also be viewed on the Foundation’s interactive donor recognition wall at the Erickson Alumni Center.

Gold Blue and You

Each year, WVU faculty and staff make gifts to financially strengthen the University. Generous internal financial contributions are an excellent example of how faculty and staff support the University beyond their day-to-day responsibilities. 

Support the 2013 Gold Blue and You Campaign.

WVU Family Fund

The WVU Family Fund gives parents and families of current WVU students an opportunity to make a gift that will help improve the quality of student life. The Foundation, in collaboration with the WVU Division of Student Affairs, has identified programs you can support that will benefit all students at WVU.

Support the WVU Family Fund .

The Fund for WVU

The WVU Family Fund gives parents and families of current WVU students an opportunity to make a gift that will help improve the quality of student life. The Foundation, in collaboration with the WVU Division of Student Affairs, has identified programs you can support that will benefit all students at WVU.

Mountaineer Line

Through the Foundation's telemarketing program, WVU students contact alumni and friends of the University on behalf of its colleges, schools and selected programs. Integral to the University's development efforts, the callers add personality and style to WVU's outreach to alumni and friends. Mountaineer Line students inform alumni of campus news and events, update personal records, answer questions and ask for financial support for various programs.

Mountaineer Mark

This program gives WVU undergraduate seniors and final-year professional students an opportunity to make their first-ever gift to WVU's academic programs.  All student donors have their names placed on a plaque to memorialize their senior gift.