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Financial contributions — regardless of the amount — strengthen the educational experience, providing vital support to our students, faculty and programs. Our donors make it possible to update our facilities, provide student scholarships, attract nationally recognized faculty and recruit high-caliber students. Their gifts build a foundation for our long-term legacy of serving Kansas City and the region with premier graduates in the workforce.
Other Ways to Give
Explore different ways to support our school, including contributing to our annual fund, scholarship funds, major gifts, endowed scholarships and planned giving opportunities.
These unrestricted gifts play a critical role for students, such as augmenting scholarships, supporting student academic programs and enabling student development and research projects.
Want to give to a specific scholarship fund?Select the option to designate your gift to an existing scholarship fund, then choose or write in the scholarship name.
Throughout the years, our alumni and friends have made major gifts to create scholarships, support programs and provide the dean with resources to take advantage of extraordinary opportunities. Major gifts ensure a strong endowment and can also help build and restore facilities and sustain our classroom activities.
Major gift donors can choose to direct their support toward an area where their personal interest matches the needs and priorities of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. These gifts can be made in the form of pledges that can be paid over a multi-year period. They also can lead to unique recognition opportunities that can honor or memorialize a person who is important to you.
If you are interested in making a major gift, email Shelly Doucet.
Charitable Bequest
A charitable bequest is one or two sentences in either a will or living trust that lets you pass any amount you wish to benefit the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, free of estate tax. You can give cash, specific property or a percentage of your estate, with or without restrictions.
Charitable Gift Annuity
A charitable gift annuity involves a simple contract between you and UMKC in which you agree to make a gift to the university, and we, in return, agree to pay you (and someone else, if you choose) a fixed amount each year for the rest of your life. This gift vehicle also creates a variety of tax benefits, including a federal income tax charitable deduction.
Charitable Remainder Trusts
A charitable remainder trust allows you and other named individuals income each year for life or a period not exceeding 20 years from assets you give to the trust you create. Benefits include a partial charitable income tax deduction, potential for increased income and up-front capital gains tax avoidance.
Real Estate
A gift of real estate — personal residence, vacation home, timeshare property, farm, commercial property or undeveloped land — helps UMKC and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and it also benefits you. When you give UMKC appreciated property you have held longer than one year, you get a federal income tax charitable deduction. You also avoid paying capital gains tax and having to deal with the property’s maintenance costs, taxes or insurance.
Life Insurance
A gift to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences through a life insurance policy could be a sensible and generous option for you. If you make us the owner of your policy, you will normally receive an income tax deduction for the policy’s fair market value on the date of the gift. If you name UMKC as a beneficiary of the policy and retain ownership, you won’t be eligible for current tax benefits because the gift is revocable at any time. Either way, your estate will not pay estate taxes on the policy proceeds we receive.
If you are interested in making a major gift, email Shelly Doucet.
Our Greatest Needs
One of the best ways you can help the School of Humanities and Social Sciences is by donating to particular projects that need immediate funding. Every gift makes a difference, because it touches many diverse efforts to enhance academic excellence. We depend on your financial help to respond quickly to technology changes and attract the best and brightest students and faculty.
Students
Scholarships, both need- and merit-based, allow many of our students to achieve their dreams. Funds are also available to assist students with emergencies, conference travel and other school-related expenses. Your contributions ensure that we are able to attract and retain the brightest minds.
Technology
Make a gift that impacts hundreds of our students and faculty by investing in our cutting-edge programs. One of our biggest needs is updating outdated technology. We are especially dedicated to regular improvements within our classrooms and facilities. These technology upgrades are costly, but they are also an essential ingredient for developing skills that allow our graduates to be successful.
Faculty
We're dedicated to attracting and retaining nationally recognized faculty. Potential students are attracted to strong programs that have experienced and engaged faculty. Contributions to an endowed chair or professorship allow us to draw the attention of the best academic minds in the country. Not only does your gift help strengthen existing programs, but it also creates new opportunities for students. Adding more outstanding faculty members is essential to our growth.
Facilities
Renovation and construction projects allow us to maintain state-of-the-art classrooms. Modern facilities and updated technology and equipment are crucial factors in recruiting and retaining top students and faculty. Your gift allows us to create short-term and long-term improvement strategies.