Create a fund

If you establish an annual fund, you will be providing annual support to the cause you care about for a fixed period of time. Annual funds are most often established to provide funding for a short-term project, an annual student award or an annual event (such as a public lecture). With a donation of $1,000 or more per year, for a minimum three-year commitment, you can establish a named annual fund. Please contact us to discuss what you'd like to achieve with an annual fund.

Establishing an endowment is a great way for you to make a large, transformative gift to UVic. Endowing your donation allows you to have a long-term impact that will benefit the UVic Libraries far into the future.

Endowed gifts are invested by the University of Victoria Foundation to create a steady income stream - it pays out a yearly amount while the principle grows in perpetuity. Compared to annually funded gifts that have an immediate but short-term impact, endowments and their related benefits last forever and generate stable funding for donor-specific purposes, such as library student awards, book acquisitions for specific academic disciplines, general collections or enhancement of the library's physical spaces. The threshold for establishing a named endowed fund is $25,000. Endowed funds may be named to honour a person, family or corporation.

Please contact us to discuss what you'd like to achieve with an endowed fund.