Name: UCSB Natural Reserve System
Start: 2025-03-28T00:00:00-0700
End: 2025-04-11T12:07:00-0700
Location: UCSB Give Day

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UCSB Natural Reserve System

Protect Our Environment

The 41-site University of California Natural Reserve System was founded in 1965 to provide natural landscapes for research, education, and public service. These unique living laboratories are places for understanding our natural world today and what environmental change may mean for our future.

UC Santa Barbara manages seven of these Reserves, which comprise Valentine Camp Reserve and the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory — both located in Mammoth Lakes — the Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve in Cambria, the Santa Cruz Island Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve in the Santa Ynez Valley, the Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, and Coal Oil Point Reserve on UC Santa Barbara’s West Campus.

Please join us by supporting research, university-level education, and land stewardship at our Reserves as we celebrate Give Day! Your gift truly makes a difference.

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Kaplan Sprint #3

It's been the most exciting Give Day yet thanks to our competitive community! Congratulations to the top ten funds, and a big thank you to Christine and Jordan '83 Kaplan for their creative challenge!

Rank	Prize	Area	Donors
1	$2,000	Women's Volleyball	59
2	$1,750	Men's Swimming	43
3	$1,500	Men's Water Polo	37
4	$1,250	Women's Rugby Sport Club	29
5	$1,000	Women's Tennis	23
6	$750	Women's Swimming	16
7	$500	Latin American and Iberian Studies	15
8	$300	Women's Track/Cross Country	13
9	$250	Interdisciplinary Humanities Center	12
10	$200	CCS Dean's Fund for Excellence	11
11		Classics	11
12		Art, Design & Architecture Museum	11
13		Men's Tennis	10
14		Graduate Student Fellowships	8
15		Economics	8

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Research Institutes and Initiatives

See how your area is doing!

Rank	Area	Gifts
1	KITP Career Development Fund	24
2	The REEF (Research Experience & Education Facility)	9
3	Santa Cruz Island	6
4	Natural Reserve System (General)	6
5	Coal Oil Point Reserve	3
6	Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve	2
7	Sedgwick Reserve	2
8	The Ocean Fund	2
9	National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)	1
10	CCBER Natural History Collections	1
11	North Campus Open Space (NCOS)	1
12	Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory	1
13	MSI's onBOARD: Broadening Opportunities across Research Diving	1
14	CCBER Kids in Nature Program	1
15	Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve	0

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Give Day 2025

See how your area is doing!

Rank	Area	Gifts
1	Athletics	1,556
2	Campus Excellence	566
3	Humanities and Fine Arts	342
4	Recreation	305
5	Social Sciences	288
6	Student Affairs	146
7	Sciences	84
8	Gevirtz Graduate School of Education	79
9	Library	73
10	College of Creative Studies	70
11	Education Abroad Program	67
12	Research Institutes & Initiatives	60
13	Alumni Affairs	59
14	College of Engineering	58
15	Campus & Community Initiatives	42