Record Student Giving at UC San Diego - BroadcastNewsroom

Record Student Giving at UC San Diego - BroadcastNewsroom: The UC San Diego Student Foundation inspires philanthropy through ?students helping students? campaigns like the Give. Invest. Gain. initiative during Welcome Week?the week leading up to the start of classes?and the annual Senior Class Gift campaign at the close of the academic year. Hundreds of new UC San Diego student donors are also brought in through social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, as well as other forms of digital marketing.

The UC San Diego Student Foundation was the first organization of its kind in the University of California system and currently one of only a few in the nation. The student-run organization, under the guidance of UCSD Alumni, has awarded over $80,000 in scholarships to more than 60 UC San Diego students.