Giving

Your investment in supporting University of Redlands, Los Angeles’ mission helps provide the highest level of professional and liberal arts education to promising students in a rapidly changing and complex world. Explore the many ways you can help support the university and preserve the student experience for future generations.

Below are a series of university-wide, or school-specific funds which you an support. Click on the links to learn more about each fund and make your gift.

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University Giving Opportunities

Supporting our students across the University of Redlands, Los Angeles community.

All gifts and pledges will help secure the future of the University of Redlands, Los Angeles and shape the futures of our students. Your support is a vote of confidence in our efforts to nurture, challenge and transform the lives of students and allows us to be good stewards of this extraordinary University.

While larger portions of the university operating budget come from tuition and the endowment, The Woodbury Fund is essential to the financial health of the university. Gifts are unrestricted and support each of our four schools, Student Affairs, academic programs, scholarships, and the library. Your commitment make an immediate difference today! How we apply your investment:

Student Scholarships: Woodbury is committed to financial accessibility and socioeconomic diversity among its students, and offers competitive merit-based financial aid to top-performing scholars.
Faculty Support: By recruiting and retaining accomplished teacher-scholars, Woodbury ensures that student achievement remains a priority. This support encourages faculty scholarship and enables professors to implement innovative teaching methods in the classroom.
Presidential Priorities: These funds provide unrestricted support that may be used to address the current, most pressing needs and also allows the president to seize immediate opportunities for the benefit of the university. These include:

  • Student travel for study abroad
  • Immersive and hands-on learning experiences for students

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The Woodbury Scholarship Fund was established for the sole purpose of providing scholarships to students currently enrolled in the university. Scholarships are a way to bridge the gap for those who are academically able yet financially challenged.100% of your gift goes directly to students that have demonstrated need.

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According to the USDA, roughly 1 in 7 Americans experiences food insecurity—a lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life. The negative impacts of food insecurity on both physical and emotional health are well documented and range from anemia and asthma to aggression and suicidal ideation.

We believe that no student should ever need to worry about where their next meal is coming from. That’s why we are pleased to introduce the Food for Thought program which provides meals to students who struggle with food insecurity. The program may provide as many as 5 free meals a week at a nearby eatery.

Students struggling with food insecurity can complete and submit the form on this page, with completely confidential submissions.

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Friends of the Library

The Friends include sponsorship of special projects, informing the public of the resources and services of the library, funding services and materials that are beyond the command of the ordinary library budget, and performing other services deemed useful to the Library.

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Woodbury School of Architecture

The School of Architecture Dean’s Fund provides a unique opportunity to help shape the future of education by supporting students as they develop their personal educational vision and realize their professional goals. The fund provides flexible funding to meet high-priority needs and respond quickly to emerging opportunities and innovative learning experiences.

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Agency for Civic Engagement

The vision of ACE at University of Redlands, Los Angeles is to empower students to improve underserved communities through design, business and media. ACE connects students and faculty with nonprofit and governmental organizations to realize projects for the public.

Students work collaboratively across disciplines to combine skills and test their fields of study on real projects and local issues. Reinforcing the capacity of young generations to create impact, ACE projects are made to benefit the common good: architectural design/build works, business plans for organizations, graphic design, films, journalistic and creative writing, and other services. Framing opportunities to make a difference, ACE supports student learning through inclusive and socially equitable research, outreach and engagement.

Your gift helps support ACE student activities. For more information about ACE projects, see Agency for Civic Engagement.

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Julius Shulman Institute
Woodbury University students studying architectural photography at the Julius Shulman Institute (JSI).
Julius Shulman Institute (JSI) Exhibition at Ahmanson Main Space. Photo by John Southern

The Julius Shulman Institute (JSI) is a programming and research unit housed in the School of Architecture. Julius Shulman was one of the world’s most significant architectural photographers. His work helped to introduce modern architecture, and particularly the work of dozens of renowned Southern California-based architects to a broad populace. His archive, now housed at the Getty Research Institute, provides an unparalleled window into Los Angeles’ mid-twentieth century built history. Shulman established the Julius Shulman Institute at Woodbury in 2005 with the goal of promoting an appreciation and understanding of the built environment, particularly as mediated by photography, to aspiring students of design and architecture and to the general public.

Your gift helps support JSI public programming and student activities that promotes photography as a means to understand and appreciate the cultural value and significance of the discipline of architecture from interior architecture to landscape architecture and urban design.

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AIA-SFV

The San Fernando Valley chapter of AIA (AIA|SFV) has gifted an endowment to the School of Architecture.  The American Institute of Architects is a professional association whose members are comprised of licensed architects and dedicated to furthering the architecture profession in local communities.  Since 2001, AIA|SFV has awarded more than $120,000 in scholarships to over 120 School of Architecture students.  Proceeds from the endowment will go toward funding scholarships to architecture and interior architecture students at the Burbank campus.  Support for this endowment will directly benefit our students.

Donations by Check

Checks should be made payable to University of Redlands, Los Angeles and mailed to:

University of Redlands, Los Angeles
University Advancement
7500 N. Glenoaks Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91504-1052

Donations by Credit Card

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Ignacio Rodriguez

The Ignacio Rodriguez Scholarship Fund was founded in 2016 by Ignacio Rodriguez. The fund provides financial assistance to final year School of Architecture students who demonstrate the highest level of professional promise and financial need; ensuring talented students from diverse backgrounds become tomorrow’s architects. Please consider donating to the Ignacio Rodriguez Scholarship Fund and join us in supporting the next generation of architects. 


Donations by Check

Checks should be made payable to University of Redlands, Los Angeles and mailed to:

University of Redlands, Los Angeles
University Advancement
7500 N. Glenoaks Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91504-1052

Donations by Credit Card

If you would like to donate by credit card, please click the button below:

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Nick Roberts

As a professor, Nick Roberts understood the value of student experiential learning. Nick’s legacy lives on with the Nick Roberts Endowed Scholarship Fund which is designed to support Woodbury School of Architecture students in their study away experiences throughout the world.

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Norman Millar

The Norman R. Millar Scholarship Endowment was established to honor Dean Millar’s sixteen year legacy of educating architects and designers. Annual income from this endowment will support Woodbury School of Architecture student scholarships.

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Woodbury Business Institute

School of Business

Woodbury Business Institute Deans Fund

The Dean’s Discretionary Fund provides a unique opportunity to help shape the future of business education and produce the leaders and managers of tomorrow, while providing the foundation of support that the school’s needs to be successful. By investing in the Dean’s Discretionary Fund, you will provide the flexible funding the school needs to implement innovative ideas, meet its highest priority needs, respond quickly to emerging opportunities and invest in areas of the highest potential.

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Woodbury Business Institute Alumni Council Fund

Started by the Woodbury Business Institute’s Alumni Advisory Council, the Woodbury Business Institute Alumni Council Fund aims to provide financial assistance to Woodbury Business Institute students to help them complete their education. Over 96% of undergraduate students receive some type of financial aid during their time at the university. Scholarships are a way to bridge the gap for those who are academically able yet financially challenged.

The Woodbury Business Institute’s Alumni Advisory Council encourages their fellow alumni to participate in this fund to help us empower the next generation of business leaders and Woodbury alumni.

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Accounting

Open to full-time students enrolled in the Department of Accounting and pursuing degrees in Accounting.

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Student Entrepreneurs Support Fund

This fund honors and encourages the efforts of budding entrepreneurs, who are students at Woodbury’s Business Institute, or are members of one of the Woodbury Business Institute-headquartered professional student organizations, CEO and BPWoW.

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Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

Scholarships

The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Scholarship is designed to support the recruitment of qualified, incoming students in one of the center’s majors.

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Writing Department

The Writing Department Fund supports the work of the students, student tutors, and faculty of the University of Redlands, Los Angeles Writing Department.

The Department is home to the major and minor in Writing, which provide concentrated practice and instruction in creative and technical writing, the First-Year Composition program, which helps students gain a foundation in university-level writing skills, and the Writing Center, which provides peer tutoring services to students in all the university’s programs.

The Writing Department is a dynamic and forward-looking community of writers that also sponsors readings, discussions, workshops, and other campus events.

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The Black Intellectual Groundworks (B.I.G.) Fund

The Black Intellectual Groundworks (B.I.G.) aims to build academic and co-curricular resources that honor and celebrate the Pan-African tradition of culture and scholarship. Starting from the acquisition and cataloguing of dedicated materials that align all majors and minors in the university curriculum with this rich tradition, the B.I.G. also engages the community by organizing talks and outreach events.

The B.I.G. is a collaborative effort between faculty from the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Black Student Association, the University Library and the rest of the university community.

Your donation will be utilized for the acquisition of library materials, bringing exciting speakers to campus, and hosting co-curricular events.

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School of Design and Media Arts

Dean’s Fund

The School of Design and Media Arts Fund provides a unique opportunity to help shape the future of education by supporting students as they develop their personal educational vision and realize their professional goals. The fund provides flexible funding to meet high-priority needs and respond quickly to emerging opportunities and innovative learning experiences.

If you would like to donate, please click the button below:

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Student Scholarships

The School of Design and Media Arts Fund provides a unique opportunity to help shape the future of education by supporting students as they develop their personal educational vision and realize their professional goals. The fund provides flexible funding to meet high-priority needs and respond quickly to emerging opportunities and innovative learning experiences.

If you would like to donate, please click the button below:

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More opportunities

Here are some additional ways that you can support.

Checks should be made payable to University of Redlands, Los Angeles and mailed to:

University of Redlands, Los Angeles
University Advancement
7500 N. Glenoaks Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91504-1052

Note: Woodbury’s Tax ID is 95-2786163

Endowment reflects the support of alumni and friends who are helping shape the university’s present and future. Endowment refers to assets that are invested for the long term and intended to provide a permanent source of financial support for the university. This is in contrast to expendable funds, which are typically used for immediate needs.

Woodbury alumni and friends who want to support the university can do so and reap the income and tax benefits. Planned-giving benefits may include life income, future continued use of gift property, and avoiding capital gains tax as well as providing donors with an immediate income tax deduction.

For more information, please call (818) 252-5213 or email [email protected].