Ways To Give
When you make a gift to the Illinois Annual Fund, you have tremendous flexibility in determining how your gift will be used, as well as many options for making your gift.
Unrestricted gifts, such as those to the Urbana Campus’ Chancellor’s Fund, are among the most valuable to the Illinois Annual Fund, because they allow us to allocate funds anywhere on campus, wherever the need is greatest, and to take advantage of unique opportunities as they arise. Your unrestricted contribution may be used to support costs associated with financial aid, innovations in teaching, research equipment, facilities, and much more.
Directed gifts allow you to designate your gift to a specific school or program, a support group, or a priority area at the University. When you make a directed gift to the Illinois Annual Fund, you enjoy the satisfaction of knowing you are supporting a program that is personally meaningful to you. For example, a number of alums choose to support the college or department from which they earned their degree. Many donors also elect to direct their gifts to scholarships, the arts, student leadership, the Library or athletics.
You also have the option of designating your gift for current use or for endowment. Current-use gifts provide funds and flexibility over the short term, whereas endowment gifts provide security over the long term by expanding the University’s permanent financial base and creating a predictable source of future income for such things as endowed faculty positions, student scholarships or fellowships, broad-based interdisciplinary research projects, or even entire academic programs.
Types of Gifts
Cash gifts – the simplest and easiest gifts you can make – can be made through credit card transactions, personal checks, cashier’s checks, or money orders made payable to the University of Illinois Foundation. We encourage you to complete the printable gift form available here, specifying amounts and the areas you wish to support, and include it along with your gift.
Please send your contribution and gift form to:
University of Illinois Foundation
Harker Hall, MC-386
1305 West Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Online gifts – making a gift to Illinois online is easy and secure. You can make your gift at any time, day or night, by going here and following the three simple steps to online giving.
Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) - Through electronic transfer, Illinois offers you the opportunity to make your gift without writing a check. With your authorization, your checking or savings account will be automatically debited in the amount and at the time you designate. At any time you desire, you may change or cancel your authorization - you retain control throughout the entire process. For further information about EFT and to download an EFT authorization form, please go here. You may also call 217-333-9174 to request an EFT Authorization Form.
For additional information about the Illinois Annual Fund, or if you have any questions, please contact us at:
Illinois Annual Fund
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
601 East John Street
Champaign, IL 61820
phone (217) 333-9174
fax (217) 244-1400
email giving@uiuc.edu