Online Giving

Unrestricted support for the UIS Center for State Policy and Leadership.

Unrestricted support for the UIS Center for State Policy and Leadership.

Gifts suppport fellowships and internships of the UIS Center for State Policy and Leadership.

Unrestricted support for the Graduate Public Service Internship Program (GPSI). Located within the Center for State Policy and Leadership, GPSI is ranked as one of Illinois' premier governmental internship programs. For over 30 years this program has provided top-flight graduate students with a high quality graduate education, real world experience, and lifelong connections.

Unrestricted support for Illinois Issues magazine.

Gifts to this fund help with the publication of Illinois Issues magazine, and to pay for contractual writers.

Gifts support Innocence Project activities at UIS. The Downstate Illinois Innocence Project has a two part mission -- to provide assistance to attorneys representing downstate Illinois inmates convicted of crimes they did not commit and to prevent conviction of innocent persons in the future.

Gifts to this fund provide unrestricted support to the Institute for Legal and Policy Studies at UIS (ILAPS). The Institute was developed in 1977 primarily to contribute to the understanding and improvement of the Illinois legal system in ways accessible to scholars, policy makers, practitioners, and the general public. The Institute conducts training, research, and public service and education projects that address significant public issues related to the law and legal system.

Institute projects include those independently undertaken and those funded on a grant or contract basis to through public and private sector support. Substantive areas of concern have included judicial process; the philosophy and history of the law; social services, including child welfare and substance abuse; dispute resolution; and administrative, criminal, corrections, school, health, environmental, family, and juvenile law.

Institute activities include writing publications, legislation, and administration rules; legal and social science research; legislative and policy analysis; and developing law related and other educational material, training curricula, workshops, and conferences.

Gifts to this fund support the UIS Institute for Legislative Studies. The Institute's mission is: to generate and disseminate information about the Illinois General Assembly, U.S. state legislatures, and U.S. state public policy; to promote public interest in and understanding of the legislative process in Illinois, other states and at the national level; to enhance the quality of the legislative process in Illinois; and to promote the academic study of state legislatures and state politics.

Gifts support funding for the annual Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series. The UIS Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series, inaugurated in 2002 with the dedication of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, brings scholars and policy specialists of national renown to Springfield to present a lecture on a contemporary public policy issue. Unique to this series is each topic is one that both engaged Abraham Lincoln and the citizens of his era and that is still timely today. Each lecturer's focus is on the topic's contemporary form and how Lincoln addressed it at an earlier time. Subjects such as race relations, civil liberties, presidential leadership, and federalism are timeless, legacy issues.

The Series is sponsored by the UIS Center for State Policy and Leadership and Professor Phillip Shaw Paludan, Professor of History and Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Professor of Lincoln Studies at UIS. The series is also supported by gifts from generous donors.

Gifts to this fund support the UIS Papers of Abraham Lincoln Fund.

Gifts to this fund support writers for special articles related to future public policy issues.

Gifts support this oral history project to record the state government career of former State Senate President Phil Rock.

Gifts to this fund support The Survey Research Office (SRO), the unit of the Center for State Policy and Leadership that uses survey research to further the public affairs mission of the UIS campus.  In practice, this has meant specializing in serving the needs of state and local government agencies and non-profit organizations.  The SRO does this both directly and working with other Center/University units and faculty. SRO also assists the UIS campus -- administration, faculty, and students -- with their survey needs.

Unrestricted support for the UIS Office of Electronic Media.

Gifts to this fund are used for the WUIS Digital Conversion. This technological advance will mean clear listening and more channels featuring more public radio programs, with a digital receiver.

Endowment for long-term stability of public radio station WUIS/WIPA.

Gifts to this fund (also known as the Performing Arts Studio Fund) are used for the UIS Performing Arts Music Studio, which was made possible by a significant gift from Guerry and Michelle Suggs of Springfield. Your gift today will help complete the project, which will allow listeners and school groups to be a part of a studio audience for music performances and forum discussions.

Fund for individual or corporate gifts to support WUIS' sideband service for the sight-impaired. Listeners with the special RIS receivers hear newspapers, books and magazines read out loud.

Thirty percent of WUIS' program and operating costs are paid for by listener support. Your gift to this fund keeps your favorite programs on the air in central and west central Illinois, and helps WUIS reporters and hosts create innovative and interesting programs that reflect our communities.