UCSB Give Day 2023

We did it! Congratulations to each of our donors, and special thank you to Trustee Chuck and Merryl Zegar and the Zegar Family Foundation for their transformative generosity. Their challenge gift will go to the Arts & Lectures Justice for All Series ($100,000) and “Mapping Climate Effects on Marine Species Distributions to Drive More Resilient Ocean Management," Bren School research at Dangermond Preserve ($685,000).

We did it! Thank you to Trustee Diandra de Morrell Douglas for her $100,000 gift for research and teaching in environmental ethics.

Thank you to everyone who helped us reach 750 gifts! We are grateful to Trustee Marcy Carsey for inspiring us to reach our goal!

Scott Dettmer '78 and his wife, Lisa, inspired us to reach new heights. Together, we met their challenge to raise a total of $2,500. Thank you!

Wow, you did it! You showed Scott '78 and Lisa Dettmer, and the entire Gaucho community, what we are capable of together. Thank you for helping us raise $2,500!

Gaucho generosity never sleeps. Thank you to Scott '78 and Lisa Dettmer for their UCSB Give Day support!

Thank you, Dixie and Ron Lopes, and all parents and families who supported UC Santa Barbara today!

The answer is yes! We are grateful for David '74, Jeanne, and everyone they inspired. Thank you for helping us get $2,500 closer to our Give Day 2023 goal!

Congratulations to everyone who made a gift to help us unlock this challenge, and thank you to donor Michael R. Costello '88 for supporting graduate students in chemical engineering!

We did it! Thank you to Michael '78 and Diane Ziering for their continued commitment to Technology Management.

Thank you, Judy and Jack! Their $500,000 gift to NCOS will support the conservation and restoration of this ecologically significant complex of wetland and coastal upland habitats.

We did it! Thank you to Beverly Colgate for her $5,000 gift to the Women's Athletics Excellence Fund. This fund provides critical, flexible funding for academic support, career and leadership development, sports medicine, sports performance, and facility enhancement resources for all of UC Santa Barbara's women's athletics programs.

The UCSB Promise Scholars Program provides financial security and enhanced services and support to a select cohort of low-income, high-achieving students who are often first-generation, underrepresented, enabling them to succeed and thrive in college and beyond. Thank you UC Santa Barbara Foundation Trustee Judy '63,'65 and Jack Stapelmann for their support of our Promise Scholars.

Thank you to Trustee Claudia '75 and Alec '76 Webster for their gift through the Helen and Will Webster Foundation! Their gift will support GGSE Community Fellowships to foster a diverse, local education workforce. Community Fellowships provide graduate students from Santa Barbara and neighboring regions with full fellowships to support access to high quality graduate education and professional preparation, and facilitate the fellows’ placements into jobs in our regions’ schools, school districts, and youth-serving organizations upon completion of their graduate degrees.

We did it! The entire $3,000 match from our anonymous alum donor have been claimed.

Update: Match is complete! Thanks to Scott '78 and Lisa Dettmer, the generosity of our donors counted even more during this matching gift challenge. Thank you to everyone who participated, and a BIG thank you to Scott and Lisa Dettmer!

We did it! Thanks to everyone who had their gift doubled during this generous match from Tom and Jane Henley.

Thank you, Peter & Nicole Magaddino (Class of 2000)! We are grateful for your UCSB Give Day support.

We did it! Thanks to everyone who had their gift doubled during the generous match from David G. Carlson '74 and Jeanne L. Schroeder!

Thank you, Magbak, for helping first-generation undergraduate STEM students succeed at UC Santa Barbara!

Thanks to support from donors like the Bennetts, the UCSB Guardian Scholars Program supports the academic and personal success of students who have been part of the foster care system. Thanks to help from the Bennetts, UCSB Guardian Scholars can continue to provide academic support, enrichment services, student advocacy, career guidance, peer networking, housing assistance, emergency student awards, and financial aid advising.