We know that connection means coming together to explore the potential and importance of education and innovation. Those who benefit from generosity in support of these goals are families and communities and people the world over. We engage alumni and students, parents and friends, foundations and corporations to partner with us and move the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) forward. And, more importantly, to address the challenges that are important to the college and its donors.
Our work brings about scholarships for CLAS Gators who might otherwise be left out because of education costs, professorships that attract and retain faculty stars, initiatives that empower the university to focus on real issues and societal problems, and innovative research that changes communities.
State funding alone is roughly 18 percent of the university’s annual budget; private giving is often the difference between doing or not doing, exploring or not exploring, discovering or not discovering, solving or not solving.