The MBA and BBA Alumni Endowed Excellence Funds provide support to graduate/undergraduate students and student groups who apply to fund a project or program that directly impacts other students.

Past projects include: 

• Case Competitions
• Wellness Week
• Leadership programs
• Industry partnerships

Make your gift today! Support for the Alumni Endowed Excellence Fund will:

• Provide a lasting source of support for student-led iniatives.
• Encourage experiential learning with real-world activities and industry collaboration.
• Increase students’ competitive advantage with experiences outside the classroom.
• Increase alumni interaction with students. 
• Distinguish McCombs as a leader in business education.

Give now and foster the legacy of your McCombs degree!

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Year after year, our entire community of supporters fuels our school’s success. We are grateful for the many alumni, friends, students, corporate partners, and foundations who dedicate their time, vision, and resources to ensure excellence in business education.

Annual gifts of any and all sizes make a huge collective impact at McCombs. Whether you give to the Annual Fund to provide support for the school’s area of greatest need, or designate your gift to support a specific department, program, or center of excellence, your annual gifts are put to use right away.

The McCombs School fiscal year begins September 1 and ends August 31. Your gifts to McCombs are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Email Andres Salcido for more information

The Corporate and Foundation Relations team facilitates mutually beneficial relationships between both corporate and foundation partners and McCombs by connecting companies with students, faculty, research centers, executive education, and other priority initiatives.

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Many employers sponsor gift matching programs and will match any charitable contributions made by their employees. Find out if your company has a gift matching policy.

If your company is eligible, request a matching gift from your employer and send it completed and signed with your gift; we’ll take it from there. The impact of your gift may be doubled, possibly tripled. Some companies match gifts made by retirees and/or spouses.

Often described as “gifts that keep on giving,” endowments leverage your gift across time and provide tangible, sustained benefits to the university.

The UT System invests your funds, using distributions from the investment for the purpose you wish to support:

• Financial aid or merit awards for students,
• Faculty support,
• Research productivity,
• Academic programs,
• Renovation/operation of facilities such as classrooms and centers of excellence for targeted curriculum, or
• Research initiatives.

A portion of the total income and capital gains can be reinvested each year, enabling the endowment to continue to grow and provide a predictable, stable stream of income over time.

For more information on endowments, contact Will Whiting, Chief Development Officer.

Gift Planning is one of the most powerful ways you can benefit the McCombs School of Business. Planned giving covers a wide range of gift options, including bequest intentions, gifts of life insurance, retirement assets, donor advised funds, and gifts of real estate and mineral interests.

Visit Gift and Estate Planning to learn about the many ways you can accomplish your charitable goals. UT Austin’s Office of Gift Planning has a team ready to assist you in exploring a number of options. Not only can we help you have an impact on the Forty Acres, we can also find ways that could benefit you and your family. Our gift planners are experienced advisors in philanthropy with knowledge to creatively assist in achieving your philanthropic goals.

Donors who include UT Austin in their estate plans qualify for membership in the Texas Leadership Society, which recognizes those whose generous and thoughtful actions today will strengthen the university far into the future.

To join the Texas Leadership Society and make your mark on the future at UT you can:

Contact Byron Liles, Executive Director of Gift & Estate Planning

Call the Office of Gift Planning

If you’re a UT employee, you can five to any university area through payroll deduction by following these steps:

1. Log into UTDirect using your EID and password.

2. On the right side of the page, scroll to ‘Personal Info’ and select ‘Giving to UT’.

3. On the page for making gifts through payroll deduction, make your selections.

4. Submit.

Payroll deduction for a gift made by the 15th of the month will begin the following month and the deductions will be reflected in your Payroll Earnings Statement under ‘Charitable Contributions’.

Student giving campaigns are one way to leave a lecacy for future UT students, just like other alumni left their legacy for you. Examples of student giving campaigns include:

• BBA/MPA Legacy Campaign
• BHP Make a Mark Campaign
• MBA, EMBA, and TEMBA Legacy Campaigns

Email Andres Salcido for more information