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.

Ferland Center Opening

The Grand Opening of the E. James and Eileen P. Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center was held on Wednesday, August 24, 2022.

Jeff Mills CASE Award

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

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.

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Over $43.5 million raised to bolster excellence at UMaine

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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

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...

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Crispin Kamundala

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...

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Chanthu Millay

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...

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Makaila Bailey – Class of 2023

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...

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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 memory page.

To set up memorial giving please visit the create a memorial giving opportunity page.

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2022 Annual Report

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!

Fall 2022 Alumni Magzine