Annual Giving
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
This program enables family, friends and organizations to honor or memorialize an individual who has ties to the University.
All undesignated Tribute gifts (In Memory Of/In Memory Of) become a part of the principal of the Augusta Scholarship Fund endowment. The cash expenditures are split between West Virginia residents or legacies, and non-West Virginia residents. Legacy is defined as a sibling, child, stepchild, or grandchild of a WVU alumnus or alumna.
Campus Campaign
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 2010 Campus Campaign.
Student Support Fund
This program is a way for parents of WVU undergraduate students to further maintain and enhance the excellence of the University. Gifts to the fund directly benefit current undergraduates. Among the programs the fund helps: Mountaineer Parents Club, WVU Libraries, WVUp All Night, Student Emergency Relief Fund and University Health Services Assistance Fund.
The Fund for WVU
Donors have an opportunity to contribute unrestricted dollars for WVU’s greatest needs. Most major gifts to the University are restricted to particular areas of a college, school, department or program. However, needs can arise unexpectedly. They may include scholarships and loan funds for needy students, laboratory and library acquisitions, scholarly travel, or extra learning resources. Unrestricted gifts can be directed by the University president and other senior administrators to meet those most urgent needs.
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.