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.
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.
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.
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
New Lewiston Strong Scholarship Fund established, donations sought
To make the transformational power of a four-year postsecondary degree even more accessible, UMS has established a Lewiston Strong Scholarship Fund through which the public is invited to invest in the future of those impacted by the Lewiston shooting. The fund, which...
Vaun Dole Born ’47 Memorial Scholarship Created Through the Foundation’s 90th Match Program
The Vaun Dole Born’47 Memorial Scholarship fund was established at the University of Maine Foundation in 2023 for the benefit of the University of Maine, Orono, Maine with a gift from Vaun’s husband, James O. Born, son Douglas J. Born, and daughter Christine Born...
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!
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!
