University Advancement
Quinn 1
617-287-5320
giving@umb.edu

Alumni Relations
Quinn 2
617-287-5330
alumni@umb.edu


:: UMass Boston Fund

umb fund 2009



Your gift engages students.

studentFor over 150 years, the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Boston and its legacy institutions, including Boston State College and State Teachers College at Boston, have engaged students to build the skills and confidence that make their knowledge matter - right here in Massachusetts.

The UMass Boston Fund provides a stream of vital support which strengthens the
university's research, teaching and service mission. Your gift helps provide a student-focused,
quality education Student and facultythat is also accessible. Your generosity make a difference in the
Commonwealth, in students' lives, and in UMass Boston's operations.

Did you know that:

  • 75% of graduates remain to enrich our communities?
  • over 50% are first generation college students?
  • less than 30% of our operating budget comes from the state?

We depend on you.  Your unrestricted support — in any amount,
and as many times a year as possible — brings vitality, richness, and hope
to our campus through:

  • financial aid;
  • faculty development and research;
  • new learning technologies and library resources; and
  • community partnerships.

Designate your gift for UMass Boston's highest priority or toward a college, a special area
of interdisciplinary research, Athletics, the Healey Library or one or more of our over 30 Institutes and Centers.
Your gift to the UMass Boston Fund may be designated to these purposes as well.
Note your preference on the "other" line of our on-line giving form.

You participation matters. Here's why.

Graduate student Michael Way examines a fragment with David Landon, Senior Scientist at the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research.