Each of UC's 2,600 endowment funds has its own story and makes its own impact. Each one supports a specific scholarship, professorship, research project, or other program; and, ultimately, UC’s mission.
From helping a student afford to attend college, to sponsoring a lecture series that inspires a future career, to developing a life-saving drug, to exonerating an innocent life...their missions are varied and their stories and impacts reach far and wide; and it's the privilege of the Investment Office to work ambitiously day-by-day to drive investment gains in order to maximize those impacts.
Two programs we're particularly proud to support through the endowment are the Ohio Innocence Project (OIP) and the Gen-1 Impact House. These programs are making an immeasurable impact thanks, in part, to the perpetual gifts which helped to establish and continue to provide funds for each endeavor.
The goal of the Ohio Innocence Project is to exonerate every wrongly-convicted Ohioan. Harnessing the energy and intellect of UC law students as its driving force, OIP seeks to identify inmates in Ohio prisons who are actually innocent of the crimes they were convicted of committing. Since its founding in 2003, the Ohio Innocence Project has helped 42 individuals obtain their long-sought freedom.
We are their last hope. Someone to advocate and believe in them and fight for them when no one else will.
Mallorie Thomas Former OIP Fellow
Gen-1 is a groundbreaking UC program and the nation's first living-learning community to focus on first-generation college students. The Gen-1 Program was established in 2008 and is a living and learning community that shepherds Pell-eligible, 1st generation college students helping to ensure academic success through high-intensity advising, academic courses, and co-curricular experiences. One such measure of success is Gen-1's 92% 1st-to-2nd-year retention rate — well above the national rate of 62%.
December 16, 2024
A $2.65 million gift from the Farmer Family Foundation will help transform care for UC Health patients needing the most specialized neurological care. The neuro-ICU at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center provides advanced, around-the-clock care for critically ill neurological and neurosurgical patients.
Event: January 17, 2025 12:15 PM
Professor Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School, will be the 2025 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law lecturer, discussing US Supreme Court Justice John McLean's anti-slavery views.
December 2, 2024
By bolstering an already significant commitment, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine alumnus Steven Edelstein, MD, ’89, has elevated his Dr. Steven Edelstein Medical Student Endowment Scholarship Fund, established to further support generations of aspiring physicians.
October 31, 2024
Stevie Famulari, a visiting professor in horticulture and landscape architecture at UC, teaches students to immerse themselves in design processes. Famulari learned ways to educate students on the sensitivity of design while in graduate school and brings those lessons to academic intuitions across the country.
October 17, 2024
The University of Cincinnati Foundation will recognize its Outstanding Philanthropic Volunteer Award honorees at the George Rieveschl Recognition Dinner on October 17, 2024.
September 20, 2024
In her fourth year at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Kamala Nelson is on the brink of realizing her dream of becoming a surgeon. But her path to this point has been anything but ordinary. It’s been a journey marked by rigorous academic challenges, a passion for helping underserved communities and — perhaps most crucially — the financial support of scholarships that made it all possible.
