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.
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.
We heard you!
You have been asking us to consider converting our giving timeline from a July 1-June 30 fiscal year to a January 1-December 31 calendar year to match the tax year. On January 1, 2023, we converted to a calendar year cycle.
Thank you for your input and for all that you do for the University of Maine. We will keep you updated throughout the process.
Please contact us if you have any questions.
We heard you!
You have been asking us to consider converting our giving timeline from a July 1-June 30 fiscal year to a January 1-December 31 calendar year to match the tax year. On January 1, 2023, we converted to a calendar year cycle.
Thank you for your input and for all that you do for the University of Maine. We will keep you updated throughout the process.
Please contact us if you have any questions.
The Grand Opening of the E. James and Eileen P. Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center was held on Wednesday, August 24, 2022.
University of Maine Foundation President/CEO Jeff Mills recognized with national award for foundation leadership
The President and CEO of the University of Maine Foundation is one of two leaders honored with the national 2022 CASE Commonfund College and University Foundation Award.
Jeffery Mills, Ph.D., President and CEO of the University of Maine Foundation, was recognized for his contributions at the 2022 CASE Conference for College and University Foundations in April.
2022 Annual Report
The annual report theme is “Our Journey”.
As alumni and friends of the University of Maine, we have shared a similar journey from the time we crossed one of the bridges that led us to our first encounter with the University of Maine in Orono. Although our paths are all quite different, the journey has taken us to this place—one where we have a desire to give back and support the many things we love about the college of our hearts, always. This special place continues to have a hold on us. Generations of us have made a difference for those who have traveled those bridges behind us and generations will continue the journey after us.
Over $43.5 million raised to bolster excellence at UMaine
News
Foundation Funded SPIFFY Finding Success in Competition
For Ethan Howe, investing is about more than the money: it’s about the challenge, the thrill of taking risks, and the community that he has built around it. Aside from his involvement with student investment funds on campus, he has used his knowledge of the market to...
$2 million planned gifts from UMaine alumnus will enhance Fogler Library digital resources and Maine Business School scholarships.
Two planned gifts from a University of Maine alumnus totaling $2 million will greatly enhance the digital resources of Raymond H. Fogler Library and provide additional scholarship assistance to University of Maine business majors. The University of Maine Foundation...
Celebrating the University of Maine Classes of 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, and Senior Alumni
Your gift might qualify for a match from the University of Maine Foundation!
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...
Makaila Bailey – Class of 2023
Makaila Bailey, a student in the Environmental Horticulture Program, has had a significant impact on our campus. This past summer, she started working to propagate the Campana elm tree, which lived next to Hitchner Hall for over 150 years. Before it had to be removed...
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!
