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The Vikes Championship Breakfast is the largest annual fundraising event for Vikes Athletics and has raised $5 million since the inaugural event in 2008.

The I-witness Field School is giving students a greater understanding of how the lessons of the Holocaust are relevant in today’s world. The program is supported by generous donors who help keep costs affordable for students.

Congrats to UVic Law Alumna and donor Leena Yousefi who is featured in Canadian Lawyer magazine’s Top Most Influential List of 2018!

Two BC, high school students, have received prestigious scholarship awards as they launch into their first year of study at the University of Victoria.

UVic’s faculty and staff are known for their generosity and support; they consistently donate their time, knowledge and contribute financially to give UVic students access to rich and life-changing experiences.

Giving is personal for both you, the donor, and the recipients whose lives are forever changed by your gifts.

As thousands of UVic students celebrate during Spring Convocation, we celebrate your role as donors supporting their academic journey.

The Ames Family Foundation generously donated $10,000 in support of CARTE Academy, a day camp program for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

As the Sisters of St. Ann celebrate 160 years since their arrival in BC, UVic is grateful and honoured to play a role in continuing their legacy in education and healthcare.

Fans and researchers of Johnny Cash can now glean new insights from the perspective of his Canadian manager, Saul Holiff, through an extensive archive of memorabilia recently donated by the Holiff family to UVic Libraries. The archives and related exhibit "Volatile Attractions: Saul Holiff, Johnny Cash, and Managing a Music Legend,” chronicle the highs and lows of this astonishing relationship.

A generous gift from Terry and Leslie Farmer will help students in nursing.

Through a gift of $350,000 over 10 years from the Canet Foundation, a new endowed graduate student award will be established within the School of Child and Youth Care.

Dr. Chris Darimont is named Raincoast research chair, thanks to funding from an anonymous donor and the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. The five-year chair role supports Darimont and his Applied Conservation Science Lab to grow their research, teaching and outreach programs in community-driven applied conservation science.

Donors and friends of UVic Libraries attended an appreciation evening where they got to experience first-hand what it means to be a student in the digital age.

The Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Social Sciences both held donor appreciation events in March where students got to meet and dine with the generous donors of their awards.

Aspiring Indigenous entrepreneurs in Canada will benefit from a $1 million gift from BMO Financial Group to expand the Aboriginal Canadian Entrepreneurs Program (ACE).

This year's Harvey Southam Lecture will take place on April 5 at 7 pm in Room 240 HSD. The annual Harvey Stevenson Southam lectureship was established in 2006 and is made possible by a significant gift from one of the country’s leading publishing families.

A new video reflecting on donor support

What better way to thank School of Music donors and supporters than with a free concert?

In April 2017, former University of Victoria Vikes women's field hockey player Carmen (Kirkness) Asche passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. Field Hockey alumni gathered together to drive the creation of an endowed award in her honour and on Feb. 24 first-year Vikes defender Anna Mollenhauer became the award's inaugural recipient.

A renewed agreement between 12 faith communities ensures the Interfaith chapel, renovated in 2016 thanks to the Chapel Endowment Fund, remains a special place on campus.

The Mercer Report visits UVic and discovers two interesting projects supported by donors.

Chancellor Emeritus Murray Farmer and his wife, Lynda's generous gift to the university has established the Vikes High Performance Fund, intended to provide important financial support to high performance athletic initiatives that will benefit Vikes student-athletes in realizing their full potential, while contributing to the university's reputation of excellence.

Giving Tuesday was a huge success. We raised $25,000 and the donations are still coming. Check out the highlights.

"Haw’aa (thank you)," says Chantal Adams on page 2 of the latest issue of the HSD Quarterly Newsletter. Chantal is a student in the School of Child and Youth Care and a recipient of the Ramona Williams Memorial Scholarship.

The Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, in conjunction with Seaspan, have made a $1 million investment to support innovative teaching and research for cleaner and more environmentally friendly transportation solutions.

Shelagh Rogers and Ian Case share student messages of thanks.

Donors got a taste of hands-on learning during a tour of the native plant garden at UVic.

This year's David Harris Flaherty Undergraduate Student Library Scholarship and William Petrie Graduate Student Library Scholarship recipients are Rebecca Steel and Rachel Lallouz. The Libraries website features their bios and winning essays.

A Greater Victoria family with a personal connection to cognitive health issues today announced a donation of $2.5 million to the Victoria Hospitals Foundation for a five-year initiative that will bring together the University of Victoria, Island Health and the University of BC for a research project aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of dementia.

A letter of thanks from a student to a donor.

YouTuber, athlete, business student – and Black Press Scholar, Makari Espe on what it means to receive this scholarship.

The 2017 edition of Investing in Achievement, celebrating the donors who support UVic through endowed funds at the University of Victoria, is now out.

The university is establishing the Learning from Each Other fund to provide meaningful engagement with Elders and opportunities for learning Indigenous ways of knowing to students, faculty and staff.

This year's thank you video captures how your gifts to our teaching and research programs reach far beyond the UVic campus. Without you, we wouldn’t be able to tell inspiring stories like this one.