Our Impact
- Meet Our Scholars
- Faculty Endowed Chairs
- Chancellor’s Associates Endowment Challenges
- Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Challenge
Endowments provide steadfast resources for our scholars, ensuring our awards will be fully funded as our program expands.
The permanent and sustained nature of endowed gifts makes them uniquely impactful by benefiting students now and creating a stable foundation for planning and future growth. An endowed fund is created with a gift for the purpose of generating a permanent source of payout annually. The gift principal is invested to grow in perpetuity, and the payout is a calculation designed to preserve the purchasing power of the payout and provide predictable annual allocations to beneficiaries.
Your support can make a bigger difference now thanks to several complementary challenge matches that will increase the impact of gifts to support scholarships and fellowships.
The Chancellor’s Scholarship and Fellowship Challenge, announced in February 2021 by Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla, provides a $1 match per $2 of gift up to $5,000,000 for eligible gifts to undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, and health-related professional school scholarships through the close of the Campaign for UC San Diego on June 30, 2022.
And gifts to Chancellor’s Associates may also take advantage of additional matching funds, thanks to the Timmons/Sandstrom Chancellor’s Associates Endowment Challenge - a $1 million match opportunity created through the extraordinary generosity of our council chair, Sandy Timmons ’81, and her husband, Rick Sandstrom ’72, MS ’76, PhD ’79, who have been supporters of UC San Diego for nearly three decades.
Endowed gifts to create new named Chancellor’s Associates Scholarships are eligible for the Timmons/Sandstrom Chancellor’s Associates Endowment Challenge — a special match of $1 per $4 of gift up to $1,000,000 that, together with the Chancellor’s Scholarship Challenge Match, will create endowment gifts of $125,000 or $250,000, as outlined below:
For any questions, please contact ca@ucsd.edu.