General Scholarship Fund: Scholarships help to ensure we continue to attract bright, young minds to UVic. This fund supports general scholarships for undergraduate students with outstanding scholastic achievement.

General Undergraduate Bursary Fund: This fund provides general bursaries for undergraduate students, giving additional opportunities for students to attend UVic. Bursaries provide financial assistance to deserving students with demonstrated financial need and reasonable academic standing. Bursaries are not repayable.

The Alumni Fund: This fund is administered by the UVic Alumni Association, and awards funds for:

• Projects which cannot be funded by the base budget but which make significant contributions to teaching and learning;
  
• Grants to help students and young alumni enter careers that optimize the value of their education; and
  
• Grants to students and student organizations for projects which provide cultural informational exchanges, special opportunities, enhanced campus life, or otherwise make a positive contribution to the experience of students.
  

Library Enrichment Fund: The library is central to the quality of education provided to every student at UVic. This fund provides important supplemental funding for the acquisition of library resources. Your gift to this fund purchases books, journals and online subscriptions, as well as library equipment, vital to enriching the quality of our research and scholarship.

Digital Initiatives Fund - UVic Libraries: The information age demands that libraries make collections as accessible as possible. Online scholarly resources enhance research and learning for both students and community members, as well as facilitates international research and collaboration. Your support of this fund enables the library to keep pace with the need for online digital resources, including journals and digital images of rare books and archival materials.

Vikes Athletic Award: The University of Victoria is proud of the athletic achievements of our students. This fund provides financial awards for students who have demonstrated excellence in athletics.

UVic Excellence Fund: Gifts to this fund provide critical support to areas where it is most needed. Your gift will help equip UVic with a means to adapt to new challenges and excel in a dynamic environment. Funds are used to support continuing and emerging priorities essential to the university's success.

Donate now to one of these funds.

Business Scholarship Fund: Contributions are invested to provide on-going income for scholarships, bursaries, and fellowships at both the undergraduate and graduate levels

The MBA Endowment Fund: Your gift will help increase the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business’ ability to recognize and reward its students’ achievements. With increased availability of scholarships, we will enhance our national and international reputation and ranking.

Innovation Fund: The Dean’s Innovation Fund allows the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business to take advantage of opportunities for innovation and leadership. These initiatives are what keeps us competitive and at the forefront of management education.

Donate now to one of these funds, read about our fundraising priorities, or visit the school's website.

The Shirley Case Memorial Scholarship
This scholarship supports an Education student pursuing humanitarian work. It was established to celebrate the life of Shirley Case, a humanitarian aid worker and UVic Education alumna, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2008 while working to better the lives of women and children in that country. Shirley was thirty years old at the time of her death.

The Indigenous Teacher Education Program
This program encompasses a plan to recruit and maintain indigenous students within the Faculty of Education. There is a critical need for their representation at the post secondary level, as well as in the teaching profession. This fund recognizes the need to acknowledge the contributions of these founding nations, as they are individually some of the richest and most diverse in the world.

The Faculty of Education's CORE Fund:
This fund supports the Centre for OutReach Education. Located in the heart of the Faculty, on the third floor of the MacLaurin Building, CORE provides a wide range of multidisciplinary services to enhance the education of children and youth in our communities.

Donate now to one of these funds, read about the Faculty of Education's fundraising priorities, or visit the faculty website.

Engineering Entrance Scholarships Fund: To attract the top students from high schools across BC and Canada, the Faculty of Engineering is creating entrance scholarships. This will also make the faculty more competitive with other faculties across Canada

Engineering Outreach: Science and Engineering have allocated funds to assist the student and faculty initiated programs which encourage young people to choose these areas of study. With your help, we can make the programs even more accessible and valuable for tomorrow’s students.

Please choose from one of the following funds:

• Let’s Talk Science dispels the myths of science, encourages critical thinking and shows that science is interesting, relevant and fun;
  
• Science Venture consists of hands-on, minds-on science, engineering and technology learning opportunities for kids in Grades K-12, including week-long summer camps, in-school workshops, interactive community events and a Girls Science Club;
  
• WECS- encourages and supports Women in Engineering and Computer Science;
  
• Student Teams- AUVic, EcoCar Challenge, H2Drive, AeroVic, FSAE - provide students with hands-on practical experience and brings students together from each of the Engineering disciplines;
• Aboriginal STEM Outreach reaches Aboriginal youth in hands-on, engaging Science, Technology, Engineering and Math programs.
  

Design Projects Fund: As part of their course work, 4th year engineering students are required to complete a design project. This fund will make available money often necessary for competitions and travel to competitions as well as for equipment and supplies.

Donate now to one of these funds.

Read about the Faculty of Engineering's fundraising priorities, or visit the faculty website.

Fine Arts Scholarship & Bursaries Fund: Invest here so we can attract and retain top students to this faculty -those with the intellect to be scholars and the talent to be artists - and help students with tuition so that learning, studying, rehearsing and creating can be their top priority during their time at UVic.

Fine Arts Opportunity Fund: Help us help our students by enabling enriching educational experiences - travel, conferences, artistic events, visiting scholars and artists, and special classroom or production materials.

History in Art Fund: Your gifts will provide scholarships and study or research grants for History in Art students and will support activities of the Medieval Art Research Group.

Music Fund: Our 64 new (as of 2009/10) pianos are over 1/3 paid for. We still need to raise over $500,000, and every bit helps! These pianos will last for 80-100 years, so your investment will benefit generations of music students.

Theatre Fund: Every year productions require 'extra' expenses for special costumes, additional movement or speech coaching or specialized lighting or sound technology. Please help with a donation that will benefit the Department of Theatre Performance and be a part of this year's successful season!

Visual Arts Fund: Last year this fund helped to create BFA and MFA graduating show catalogues, invaluable tools for any art career. The catalogues also impressed a donor who gave $2 million to our Department, and that's a value-added benefit!

Writing Fund: With your help this year, we will host a Visiting Writer to teach, coach, mentor and also make one or more public presentations in the area of environmental writing.

Donate now to one of these funds.

Read about the Faculty of Fine Art's fundraising priorities, or visit the faculty website.

HSD Student Awards: This fund provides bursaries for students in financial need and scholarships for students who achieve the highest standing in a course. It also benefits graduate students and PhD fellowship students.

HSD Aboriginal Student Emergency Fund: This fund assists aboriginal students in need who find themselves experiencing pressing financial hardships during their academic studies.

The Family Centre: An increasing number of students are returning to get an education with a family in tow. Many (25%) of the families are single parents families juggling school and parenting with limited resources. The University of Victoria Family Centre is located in the heart of the David Lam Complex. On average 18 adults and 28 kids find their way to the Centre each day.

For student parents, the Centre is a place where the entire family is supported; for the children it’s a place to come when you are new and feel far from home; for the University, it is a concrete demonstration of support for life long learning.

Donate now to one of these funds, read about the Faculty's fundraising priorities or visit the Faculty of Human and Social Development.

Aboriginal Language Revitalization: Humanities is proud to host this award-winning and accessible program designed to strengthen an understanding of Aboriginal language loss, maintenance and recovery and develop knowledge and strategies for language revitalization within Indigenous communities. Donations to this fund assist students with the costs of tuition and travel for the core courses at UVic. Donations will also help the University of Victoria offer the program in more remote Indigenous communities.

Humanities Scholarship and Bursary Fund: Scholarships encourage students to pursue their learning by rewarding excellence. Bursaries help students complete their studies by helping those in financial need. Your donation to this fund will help students have the time to stay focused on research and learning as their top priority.

University 101 Fund: Join hundreds of other donors in support of participants usually excluded from post-secondary education because of social and economic barriers. Now in its 6th year, University 101 continues to foster a passion for learning among people who have experienced substance abuse, poverty, unstable housing or mental illness. Your donation helps to provide meals before each free class, as well as bus fare and child care subsidies where needed while professors and graduate students volunteer their time to create an intellectually challenging learning environment.

Faculty of Humanities Undergraduate Research Travel Fund: Humanities students are studying languages, culture and history. Donations to this fund go directly to assist individual students to travel abroad for academic activities such as independent research at world renowned libraries; language education in Europe, Mexico or China; or experiential learning opportunities such as the Holocaust Remembrance Field School.

Donate now to one of these funds.

For other ways to help, please visit Faculty of Humanities.

The Law Entrance Scholarships Fund: Entrance scholarships are a secure and permanent means of attracting outstanding students. Supporting entrance scholarships sends two messages: the value of striving for excellence in one's endeavors; and the importance of making a lasting contributino to the community. Every dollar you contribute to this fund will be matched 1:1 by the Law Foundation of British Columbia.

The Dean’s Bursary Fund: Bursaries can help make a legal education accessible to all qualified individuals, regardless of economic circumstances. With this assistance, UVic Law helps ensure that the legal profession better reflects - and can better serve - the country's social, cultural and economic diversity. Every dollar you contribute to this fund will be matched 1:1 by the Law Foundation of British Columbia.

The Law Centre Fund: Funds raised will support the operating expenses of the Law Centre. The Law Centre provides advice, assistance and representation to clients in the community who cannot afford a lawyer. The Law Centre also provides UVic Law students with clinical and legal education. As the only full-time, term clinical program offered by a Canadian Law school, The Law Centre provides students with a truly unique educational opportunity.

Donate now to one of these funds, read about the Faculty of Law's fundraising priorities, or visit the faculty website.

Science Student Awards Fund: Your gift to this fund will help to provide financial support to graduate and undergraduate students. Awards also allow us to attract the best and the brightest students to our faculty and to recognize and reward students’ special achievements.

Science Outreach: Science and Engineering have allocated funds to assist the student and faculty initiated programs which encourage young people to choose these areas of study. With your help, we can make the programs even more accessible and valuable for tomorrow’s students.

Please choose from one of the following funds:

• Let’s Talk Science dispels the myths of science, encourages critical thinking and shows that science is interesting, relevant and fun;
• Science Venture consists of hands-on, minds-on science, engineering and technology learning opportunities for kids in Grades K-12, including week-long summer camps, in-school workshops, interactive community events and a Girls Science Club;
• Aboriginal STEM Outreach reaches Aboriginal youth in hands-on, engaging Science, Technology, Engineering and Math outreach programs.

Dean of Science Innovation Fund: This pool of funds enables the Dean to support some of the most enriching educational experiences we can offer our students, such as funding for seminar series, field schools, and undergraduate societies.

Donate now to one of these funds, read about Faculty of Science fundraising priorities, or visit the faculty website.

Social Sciences Student Awards Fund: Your gift will be invested to provide on-going income for scholarships, bursaries, and fellowships at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

University 102 Fund: This fund provides introductory academic courses to people whose economic and social circumstances have prevented them from pursuing a university education. University 102 is a free, non-credit course that introduces students to a wide range of university topics. Your gift will help to support students as much as possible; meals are provided at the beginning of each class, and bus tickets and child care subsidies are also available.

Social Sciences Innovations and Opportunities Fund: Your support will fund extraordinary requests for learning, teaching and research needs, especially for student led initiatives.

Donate now to one of these funds; read about the Faculty of Social Science fundraising priorities, or visit the faculty website.

General Graduate Bursary Fund: This fund provides general bursaries for graduate students, giving additional opportunities for students to attend UVic. Bursaries provide financial assistance to deserving students with demonstrated financial need and reasonable academic standing.

UVic Fellowships Fund
Your gift will provide assistance to outstanding graduate students in any faculty.

Dean's Discretionary Fund
Your gift will allow the Dean to address Faculty needs as they arise throughout the academic year.

Donate now to one of these funds, or click here to visit the Faculty of Graduate Studies online.

Division of Medical Sciences
The Division of Medical Sciences is the academic and basic science research structure that underpins the Island Medical Program (IMP) at UVic.  Within the IMP, research is recognized as a critical component of medical education.

Division of Medical Sciences Fund
The two major research areas in the division are neuroscience and genetics.  At the discretion of the Head of the Division, this fund supports resources for research.  It also benefits the Division’s graduate students, offering financial resources so that learning and research can be our students’ top priority.

General Graduate Bursary Fund: This fund provides general bursaries for graduate students, giving additional opportunities for students to attend UVic. Bursaries provide financial assistance to deserving students with demonstrated financial need and reasonable academic standing.

The Island Medical Program Bursary Fund
Your gift to this fund will provide financial support to UVic-based medical students.  Graduates of the Island Medical Program (IMP) are the next generation of physicians.  This fund provides bursaries to help IMP students who are in greatest financial need as they undertake the arduous training to become a doctor.  Your donation is a lasting gift to health care on Vancouver Island.

Donate now to one of these funds, read about the Division’s fundraising priorities, or visit the websites of the Division of Medical Sciences or the Island Medical Program

CanAssist, as a university-based program and resource, is dedicated to developing and delivering technologies, devices, supports and services that improve the quality of life of those with special needs. We believe passionately that all those with disabilities, regardless of the challenges they face, be provided with every opportunity to participate in and contribute to society.

Donate now or visit the CanAssist website