UC Irvine Giving Day 2025

UC Irvine’s Giving Day provides crucial support for ICS undergraduate and graduate students and their amazing cutting-edge research, and investment in the future workforce. ICS is filled with entrepreneurs, innovators, future professors and researchers who are dedicated to making the world a better, safer place – just like you.

Whether you contribute to one of our named funds supporting a specific area close to you, or give to the ICS Dean’s Excellence Fund, you will be making a significant impact on ICS and the lives of our students. More importantly, you will be investing in the future by allowing important research to continue in the areas of AI, bioinformatics, cybersecurity, data science and software engineering, to name just a few of the school’s key research priorities.

With your help, ICS students can and will remain at the forefront of computer science, informatics and statistics, ensuring no student is left behind. Here are a couple of opportunities to make an impact: 

Debra J. Richardson Student Support Endowment

The proposed Debra J. Richardson Student Support Endowment*, supported by gifts to the Bren One-Time Gifts fund, will continue founding Dean Debra Richardson’s lifelong mission of making computer science education accessible to all.  The fund shall be used to enhance the student experience or for scholarships that will provide critical financial support for students who demonstrate a commitment to Debra’s vision of an inclusive, dynamic computing field, empowering them to pursue degrees in computer science and informatics at UC Irvine.** 

Office of Outreach, Access, and Inclusion Student Enrichment Fund 

OAI Student Enrichment, supported by the Stacey Nicholas Office of Outreach, Access & Inclusion fund, ensures that all ICS students have access to personalized, high-quality tutoring, as well as providing enrichment experiences whose goal is to ensure that every student has the opportunity to thrive and succeed in their academic endeavors.

General Support  

The ICS - Dean’s Excellence Fund provides a flexible source of funds for high-need areas, including students committed to continuing their research, internal improvements with additions and updates to make classrooms and labs accessible to help people understand and experience alternative ways of interacting with technology and other environments through hands-on access to different tools and assistive technologies.

* If funding from gifts in support of this proposed endowment does not reach the minimum for establishing a named endowment (currently $50,000) by June 30, 2030, then your gift will be allocated to support an unnamed endowment for the purposes described above. In the unlikely event that funding from gifts in support of this proposed endowment does not reach the reach the minimum for establishing an unnamed endowment (currently $25,000) by June 30, 2030, then your gift will provide current-use support for the purposes described above.

**Gifts shall be administered in accordance with the University of California and UC Irvine’s administrative guidelines and procedures, and applicable federal and state nondiscrimination law.