Giving
The generosity and support from alumni and friends play a critical role in expanding global engagement, amplifying construction explorations, and making a meaningful difference in accessibility for students, as well as many more opportunities.
Give to Our College
Contributions to the college support our efforts to attract top-tier students and faculty, while advancing our robust research culture aimed at addressing today’s most pressing design challenges.
Your Support is Essential to Our Success
College Fund
The College Fund for Architecture and Design supports funding priorities that enable us to make design education as vivid and accessible as possible and ultimately expand our capabilities to better serve our students, our state, and our world. Gifts to this unrestricted fund allow the dean to respond to immediate needs within the college and create a transformative and robust educational environment.
Design Your Impact
When you give, you shape the future of design education. Whether you’re passionate about student scholarships, funding faculty research, enhancing facilities, or global engagement, you have the power to direct your gift to where it matters most to you.
Our strategic priorities elevate design education and advance the opportunities for our future.
Read about it in our Vision + Mission statement.
Contact our team at ArchDesignGiving@utk.edu to identify a giving opportunity that reflects your values and supports your goals.
School Funds
Similar to our college fund, gifts to the school funds enable our individual schools to invest in cutting-edge technological advancements, support groundbreaking research initiatives, and enhance the range of programs and services available to students. Consider supporting the following funds:
Giving Communities
If you’re interested in joining one of the giving communities below, please reach out to ArchDesignGiving@utk.edu.
The Siena Society
Members of the Siena Society embody and emulate the same qualities of leadership, energy, and spirit that were present at the founding of the School of Architecture in 1965 and in the growth and transformation of the college through new programs and schools ever since. Their collective contributions have shown that this elite group of college supporters are ALL IN for the College of Architecture and Design.
Dean’s Circle
The Dean’s Circle recognizes leadership-level annual giving of $1,000 or more to the Dean’s Excellence Fund. Gifts to this unrestricted fund allow the dean to respond to immediate needs and allocate support strategically as opportunities arise.
Alumni on the Rise
Donors within 15 years of graduating from the college who annually give more than $400 to the Dean’s Excellence Fund are recognized as Alumni on the Rise.
Ways to Give
Give Online
Use the Fund Selection search to find the area or program you wish to support or select “Other Fund Not Listed” and type in the area to support.
Give by Check
Checks should be made payable to the University of Tennessee Foundation, Inc. with the fund you would like to support on the memo line. Please mail to: UT Foundation, 1525 University Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37921.
Create an Endowment
Endowed gifts are permanent and provide the college with an annual stream of income that support scholarships, research programs, and more.
Learn more about endowed gifts
Give Through Estate Planning
Including the college in your estate and financial plans can help you make a lasting difference and save on taxes. Alumni and friends can learn more about giving through wills/bequests, retirement plan assets, real estate, gifts from your IRA, charitable gift annuities, and remainder trusts.
Company Matching Gifts
Double or triple your impact with a matching gift from your company or organization.