The University's Most Flexible Annual Giving Fund
The UIS Fund provides unrestricted support to UIS, making it one of the most important gift funds at UIS. You can give safely online to this valuable fund by visiting giving.uis.edu and searching for "UIS Fund." If you are a donor who responds generously to these annual appeals, you are providing crucial support for UIS, and we thank you.
Through annual appeals, we ask donors to give most often to the UIS Fund, but you always have the option of giving to any fund of your choice, including department funds, student organizations, the general UIS Scholarship Fund, or many other funds.
You can choose a fund you want to support through your annual gifts.
Here are some recent ways the UIS Fund has supported needs across campus.
Student Skill Development
A cutting-edge esports game arena is available on campus, allowing students to virtually compete against other collegiate teams in the United States. Creating the UIS Esports Arena was a campus-wide effort with multiple units - including the UIS Fund - providing funds and services to transform the space.
Addressing Student Needs
Generous gifts from donors to the UIS Fund support areas around campus like the UIS Cares Food Pantry. With previous donations made to the UIS Fund, the food pantry was able to provide baskets of food to students who stayed on campus.
Prospective Student Opportunities
Donations from the UIS Fund were used to provide buses so prospective high school students and their parents from Chicago and St. Louis had the opportunity to visit UIS for a day-long educational experience. These trips immersed more than 250 prospective students in the diverse culture and welcoming community that UIS exemplifies. Many were first generation and underrepresented minority prospective student groups.
2025 UIS Fund Projects
Artificial Intelligence-Powered Student Leadership Bootcamp: Featuring a hybrid event in October for student leaders, and a challenge for action plans in November, this initiative provides student organization leadership with essential artificial intelligence literacy and practical skills.
Summer CASA Support to Develop The Learning Hub: Through this initiative, a graduate student through the Center for Academic Success and Advising develops materials to train tutors and support students who are navigating the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
Aunt Flow Period Program: This program allows for the purchase of new dispensers, disposal bins, and period products in the Student Union. Aunt Flow is a woman-owned and eco-friendly partner.
COVID Stories Exhibit and Opening Event: The COVID exhibit, a digital archive of COVID-Era narratives built by Dr. Livia Savit-Woods, UIS students, and SIU School of Medicine, this initiative covers printing costs and an opening night reception for the exhibit.
Central Illinois Project - Building Community: This community-centered, student-led initiative confronts the problem that practices of democracy, particularly thoughtful deliberation and the ability to engage across differences. A graduate student identifies partner schools and organizations and organizes a workshop.
Badge Scanner and Printer: This initiative helps with the purchase of badge scanners and printers to modernize and better accommodate prospective students at campus events.
Admission Recruitment Bus Tours: This initiative pays for charter bus companies to bring potential high school students to campus throughout the year as part of UIS recruitment efforts.
Questions?
Contact the Division of Advancement.