Senior Class Giving
Graduating Seniors: Donate 2024 or more and receive:
An invite to the annual True Blue Toast in April
A philanthropy cord to wear at graduation
membership to the UMaine Loyal M Club
Ways to Use Your IRA for Good
Contribute Now – If you are 70 1/2 or older, you can make charitable gifts directly from your IRA and avoid paying taxes on these distributions. If you would like to support UMaine and save taxes on your RMDs, ask us or your IRA custodian about making qualified distributions from your IRA.
Give Later – Many UMaine supporters have named the University of Maine Foundation as a beneficiary of an IRA or other retirement plan. This is simple to do and can often be done online. It can also save significant taxes.
Annual Report 2023
Enrichment Through Philanthropy
What do you see when you think of the future of our University? At the Foundation, we see a campus flourishing with opportunity, achievement, and growth. Philanthropy is the cornerstone that enriches our campus with new potential and encourages our students to blossom into valued leaders in our communities and beyond. UMaine is nourished through scholarships, professorships, endowed funds, planned gifts, and endless other forms of donor generosity. The impact the University of Maine has around the world is because of dedicated Black Bear alumni, friends, and fans like you — your philanthropy fortifies and enriches this magnificent campus that bestows its greatness on so many.
$43.8m Record-breaking FY23 fundraising
Over 100% increase in annual fundraising since 2016
Endowment at a record- high $436,131,510
Entering our 90th year of service to UMaine donors
News
Highlighting Three Scholarship Recipients from the Class of 2024
Michael Delorge of Biddeford, Maine, is a 2024 valedictorian. Pursuing dual degrees in political science and biology, Delorge crafted coursework focused on public health policy with the goal of generating skills to improve medical care. Originally a pre-med student,...
Paving the Path for Increasing DEI at UMaine
Dr. Shontay Delalue ‘00, ‘03G has an inspiring commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education and has contributed to initiatives in communities throughout Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Alaska, and beyond. A first- generation college graduate...
Celebrating the University of Maine Classes of 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, and Senior Alumni
Your gift might qualify for a match from the University of Maine Foundation!
Abby Cadorette
Abby Cadorette, a Senior Ecology and Environmental Science major at UMaine, is grateful for the scholarships that have helped her during her time at UMaine. She explained that “[My scholarships] alleviated the stress of covering college costs, and has allowed me to...
Ross Sousa
While working part-time on farms and in greenhouses, University of Maine senior Ross Sousa of Somerset, Massachusetts learned firsthand how disease can ruin crops. Memories of farmers’ plight, combined with a passion for plant pathology and finding more sustainable...
Crispin Kamundala
Our student gratitude story this week features Crispin Kamundala, a 4th-year political science student with a double minor in legal studies and foreign affairs. He received the John M. Nickerson scholarship. The John Mitchell Nickerson University of Maine Memorial...
Chanthu Millay
Chanthu Millay’s art is raw and intimate: a technicolor self-portrait in painstaking detail, a metal sculpture comprised of pieces of her old prosthetic leg, a ceramic sculpture depicting the emotions she experienced as her family’s lone survivor of the violent Khmer...
Gifts in Memory
Any gift you make may be in honor or in memory of someone. Specific people being honored with memorial gifts are listed on the gifts in
To set up memorial giving please visit the create a memorial giving opportunity page.
Black Bear License plate voucher
Find out how you can get your first year with your State of Maine Black Bear license plate for free!
