Our Promise.

U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , B e r k e l e y

The Chancellor’s Challenge for Student Support

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Their Future.

Berkeley is committed

to keeping its doors open to the most talented graduate and

undergraduate students regardless of their financial means.

With rising costs to educate our students, we can lessen

the student and family financial burden by shoring up our

endowment for need-based scholarships for undergraduates.

At the same time, new fellowship endowments will enable

us to offer competitive funding packages to top graduate

students in the nation and the world, and help maintain

Berkeley’s preeminence in teaching and research.

Every gift or pledge you make to the Chancellor’s Challenge

will be matched dollar-for-dollar. There is no minimum amount

required — unless you want to establish a named graduate

fellowship or need-based scholarship for undergraduates

— and the maximum that will be matched is $250,000.

For more information

Contact the development director

in your school or college for more

information.

For graduate fellowships,

contact:

Development Director

Graduate Division

510.642.8614

For need-based scholarships

for undergraduates, contact:

Director of Development and

Community Relations

Student Affairs

510.643.5810

Our Promise. Their Future.

ourpromise.berkeley.edu

ourpromise.berkeley.edu

Faculty and staff:Make the dream of a Berkeley education possible for more outstanding students

Support the Chancellor’s Challenge for Student Support — and double your impact when your gift is matched

Step up to the Chancellor’s Challenge

As members of Berkeley’s faculty and staff, you know the pride

that comes from being a part of one of the world’s finest

institutions of higher learning. For many students and their

families, Cal represents a dream they find harder and harder

to afford.

Now, you have an opportunity to ensure that every talented

young person has equal access to the excellence of a Berkeley

education — access that is based on the ability to achieve, not

on the ability to pay.

Berkeley must substantially grow its endowment to keep

bringing the most gifted graduate and undergraduate

students to our campus. The Chancellor’s Challenge for

Student Support matches gifts made by members of the

campus community to any graduate fellowship or need-based

scholarship endowment.

Faculty and staff stepped up to the Challenge in 2007 and gave

$1.8 million in donations, yielding nearly $3.6 million when

you add the match. Join the campus community to ensure that

Berkeley’s promise of excellence and opportunity is open to

all high-achieving students regardless of their financial means.

Who can participate in this matching program?

All faculty and staff — including active

or retired, emeriti faculty, and surviving

spouses or partners of faculty and staff

— as well as students.

Gifts of any size can be made to existing

endowments for graduate student and

need-based undergraduate student

support. New named endowments can be

established with a minimum gift of $10,000.

Give now, and have your contributions

matched.

How?

Give securely online, including through

convenient payroll deduction:

ourpromise.berkeley.edu/

Checks and pledges payable to the

UC Berkeley Foundation may be

mailed to:

UC Berkeley Foundation

Gift Administration

2080 Addison Street

Berkeley, CA 94720-4200

“Providing access to education — access based on the ability to achieve, not on the ability to pay — is one of the highest values I find in our campus community. People express that value in many ways; for some, it is donating to Berkeley’s endowment for student support.

This new program will double the value of such personal investments in our students and, I hope, encourage new donors from the campus.”

– Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau