FIND YOUR CAUSE
Turn passions into real impact for Warhawks
Being a Warhawk means something different to everyone — we all have stories to tell about our time in the residence halls, the classrooms, and the campus community.
Continue your UW-Whitewater story by giving back in ways that reverberate. Whether it is through enhancing scholarship opportunities, expanding research awards, or bettering campus facilities, you can make a great difference in the experiences of all Warhawks.
Warhawks Give
Your generosity goes a long way. By donating to the Warhawks Give Fund, you are playing an important role in continuing our strong academic tradition and truly enriching the Warhawk experience.
As an unrestricted fund, it provides campus leadership with the vital flexibility to respond immediately to the greatest and most urgent challenges facing our students, faculty, and university. Your gift has a massive impact, ensuring resources are directed exactly where they’re needed most.
Your gift makes a difference by:
- Empowering students: Funding merit-based and academic scholarships to keep education accessible and recognize excellence
- Advancing innovation: Supporting crucial research awards and academic initiatives
- Enhancing campus life: Providing the agility to meet unexpected, urgent needs that directly improve the overall student experience.
Your support drives us forward. Together, we can ensure the Warhawk community continues to thrive.
College of Arts and Communication
Where passions become professions
Allow creative minds to thrive in communication, art, music, theatre, dance, game development, and more by donating to the College of Arts and Communication. By giving to our Student Opportunities Fund, contributing to our continued improvement of our learning spaces, or helping to fund featured artist visits, you can continue the college’s legacy of artistic success.
College of Business and Economics
Welcome to what comes next at Wisconsin’s largest business school
Help support future entrepreneurs, accountants, and business educators by donating to our nationally recognized College of Business and Economics. Through contributing to our many college-based funds, such as the CoBE Strategic Priority Fund, Warhawk Accounting Advancement Fund, Finance and Business Law Advancement Fund, and more, there are many ways you can invest in student success.
College of Education and Professional Studies
Teaching, leading, and shaping futures
Our students are the leaders and mentors of tomorrow, inspiring generations to embrace the pursuit of knowledge. The college aims to attract and retain exceptional faculty members to develop future leaders in education and to embrace emergent technologies to empower students to design learning opportunities that reflect recent discoveries in how people learn.
- Winther Hall Naming Opportunities: Allows supporters to meaningfully invest in the future of our students, the college, and the university as a while. A variety of naming opportunities are available.
- Student Opportunities Fund: The Future Teacher Program recruits students who want to teach in high-need subjects and/or promote diversity in education.
- Warhawks Teach @: This teacher residency program provides a pathway for working professionals to earn licensure and a degree.
College of Integrated Studies (Rock County)
Start here. Unleash your potential. Go anywhere.
Your donation to the College of Integrated Studies allows the advantages of a smaller campus environment to continue to shine. Your generosity can help maintain our legacy of top-notch student-faculty connections, accessibility, and emphasis on transferable skills.
College of Letters and Sciences
Explore everything. Discover your future.
Our students engage in hands-on learning, research, and innovative programs that prepare them to think critically, communicate effectively, and lead in a rapidly changing world. Programs like travel experiences and undergraduate research help students build the interpersonal skills they need to thrive beyond UW-Whitewater.
Make a lasting impact on our students and the communities they go on to serve.
- College of Letters and Sciences Priority Fund: Provides the most flexible and immediate support for the college’s highest-priority needs and emerging opportunities.
- Promise Scholarship: Opens doors for talented students by removing financial barriers to a UW-Whitewater education.
- STEM Boot Camp: Supports incoming students facing social, educational, and economic barriers to STEM careers. Your gift helps expand access, provide essential supplies, and enhance programming, leading to higher retention and graduation rates.
- Reinvestment Fund: Gives students a second chance by covering the cost of retaking a course, which often serves as a critical step in helping them stay on track to graduate.
Athletics
With nearly 100 national championships accumulated by intercollegiate teams and individuals, Warhawk sports are packed with tradition. UW-Whitewater is a member of NCAA Division III, so our 600 student-athletes compete across 20 sports for love of the game.
Warhawk Emergency Fund
The Warhawk family has your back
We recognize that sometimes, sudden personal emergencies occur during a student’s college experience that can completely offset their plans. By donating to the Warhawk Emergency Fund, you can play a pivotal role in allowing these students a way to continue their education through their struggles with housing, health care, food stability, and other areas of need.
Forward Scholars
Opportunity for all
Our Forward Scholars Program is a merit-based scholarship designed for first-generation college students with a focus in high impact educational practices. By donating to this program, students from a multitude of backgrounds can continue to have life-changing experiences in this first-year learning community.