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Gifts of cash are among the most valuable forms of support for BCCP. Because they are immediately available and are often unrestricted, they provide flexibility to meet the BCCP's most pressing needs. You can make your tax-deductible gift by credit card now by visiting our secure server - Make a gift to the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics. Once you complete and submit the form, you will receive confirmation of your donation. Cash gifts made by check should be payable to "UC Berkeley Foundation" and mailed with your contribution form or a letter stating your gift's purpose to:
Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics
Telephone: 510.326.0239
Monthly payments via electronic funds transfer may be arranged through your bank and the UC Berkeley Foundation. An EFT authorization form must be submitted to the University to activate monthly withdrawals. See the form for contact information.
Pledges By spreading payments over a period of time - typically not more than five years - pledges allow donors to make larger commitments at a comfortable pace. For more information, contact the BCCP Executive Director Lucia Ortega Villasana.
Bank Wire Transfer Wire transfers are most commonly used for gifts made from outside the United States. Since banks provide minimal information on wire transfers, please alert our office that a wire transfer has been made to ensure proper disposition of the gift. For more information, contact the BCCP Executive Director.
Gifts of Securities Securities can be transferred directly from your brokerage account to the University's account. (Securities are recorded based on the mean market value of the stock on the date of gift, which is the date you relinquish control of the stock.) For more information, contact the BCCP Executive Director.
Planned Gifts A planned or deferred gift is a donation pledged to the University by a donor to be transferred to the University according to a schedule determined by the donor. These contributions are made to the University through bequest, charitable trust, charitable gift annuity, pooled income fund, life estate agreement, or similar vehicles. Berkeley's team of gift planning experts can help you select from a wide variety of tax-wise giving strategies. For more information, contact the BCCP Executive Director.
Real Property Gifts of real estate, including land, buildings, and other improvements and oil, mineral, and related rights, are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Outright gifts of real estate are counted at their fair market value on the date of gift. The campus is responsible for negotiating gifts of real property with the donor and reviewing the property title, value, and potential for the existence of hazardous substances. To begin the process, please contact the BCCP Executive Director.
Gifts-in-Kind Gifts-in-kind are items of tangible personal property such as art, books, computer equipment, and automobiles. They are donated for related educational purposes and are recorded at their fair market value. Gifts-in-kind valued in excess of $500 should be accompanied by a deed of gift and the fair market value as determined by the donor. The IRS and the University require that you provide an independent appraisal of gifts-in-kind valued at more than $5,000. For more information, contact the BCCP Executive Director.
Memorial and Honorary Gifts A memorial gift can help perpetuate the values and ideals that guided someone's life. Honorary gifts commemorate a significant event or someone who is still living. Such gifts can be made to the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics Heroic Partner Fund for general support of the center's frontier mission, research and educational activities, or donors may direct their support to specific purposes. The procedures for making such gifts are similar to those for cash, check, credit card, and securities as described above. Please be sure to identify the individual who is being honored with the gift. For more information, contact the BCCP Executive Director.
Foundation Partners
BCCP Foundation Support The Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics collaborates with foundations at every level.
Founded in 2007, the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics is an integrated research and education center of advanced and transformative science. In 2007, BCCP received a generous award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in the amount of $1.5M to support of research and operations activities for program years 2008 through 2010. Through its Annual Reports (2008, 2009), BCCP has presented a summary of its distinct research initiatives that are moving towards large-scale outcomes as well as significant and measurable impact in the areas of education and its business operations. As a direct result of this foundation award, BCCP has successfully forged global partnerships, set a strong foundation for its operations, expanded its educational activities to benefit teachers and students through Essential Cosmology for the Next Generation and the BCCP Global Teachers' Academy recruited the top young researchers from around the world and teamed them with the most outstanding senior researchers and students. This has created a multi-disciplinary science team – pioneers who are setting a strong foundation for ground-breaking research by combining traditionally separate areas and an extraordinary teachers academy that involves teachers and students in frontier research.
BCCP recognizes that it is essential that we act now to ensure that society as a whole must continue to prosper in the 21st century information and technology-based economy. The magnitude of this issue has opened an exceptional and unique opportunity for BCCP and foundation partners to play a visionary and productive role that will align resources to address this extremely complex issue. BCCP has created opportunities that address the needs of science and education.
Foundation Partnership Opportunities
BCCP welcomes both general mission support and designated grant funding. We honor the unique preferences and philanthropic goals of our foundation partners.
Benefits to foundation partnerships will:
For inquiries about how to make a gift to support BCCP, contact BCCP Executive Director Lucia Ortega Villasana. Lovillasana@berkeley.edu
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