* University Advancement Office Alumni and Friends

1. Participating in Salary Packaging Workplace Giving >>
   This allows staff to contribute to certain University activities and external charities through salary packaged payroll deductions.

2. Donating to the 2011 University Fund Appeal >>

3. Donating to other areas within the University by making a gift online >>
   In 2010, 275 staff donated more than $657,000 to support a range of programs and activities across the University.

Download the Staff Appeal Form (HR32D) to pledge your support through salary sacrificed payroll deduction. Please complete and return this form to Payroll Officer, Human Resources, Level 3, Raymond Priestly Building.

Workplace Giving Options - University of Melbourne

The following programs and charities are available for your support through Workplace Giving:

• Immediate Assistance for Students in Financial Need
• Long Term Support for Scholarships
• Faculty Scholarships
  • University staff can elect to support scholarships in the Faculty of their choice.
• Research
  Some of the finest minds in the world are leading important research into areas as diverse as biomedicine, the environment, neuroscience, culture and the arts. They dream of discovering cures, outcomes and solutions that will benefit not just ourselves, but the world we live in.
• Library and Cultural Collections
  Your gift to this area will provide crucial support to the University's cultural collections, extensive library and archives. The University's collection and resource environment enriches the Melbourne Experience for students and engages communities in collective experiences, providing opportunities for reflection and informed intellectual discourse.
  
  

Workplace Giving Options – External Charitable Organisations

• Medecins Sans Frontieres
  More information: www.msf.org.au/
• Oxfam Australia
  More information: www.oxfam.org.au/
• Australian Red Cross
  More information: www.redcross.org.au/
• World Vision Australia
  More information: www.worldvision.com.au

You can make a gift online now, or download and complete our giving form.

2011 University Fund Appeal Priorities

Staff are in a unique position to see the challenges students face everyday. Even when the economy is growing, the issues affecting our students remain the same; the cost of rent continues to increase and students are balancing increased part-time work with study in order to make ends meet.  Increasingly, older students are also juggling responsibilities as parents and carers with their studies.

This is why the priorities for the 2011 University Fund Appeal are focusing on immediate and long term needs:

• Immediate assistance for students in financial need

  The University's Student Financial Aid program provides grants to students with genuine financial need to help them pay the rent, day-to-day expenses and, importantly, focus on their studies.
  
  These small grants make a huge difference and can prevent a student abandoning their degree.
  
  

• Long term support for scholarships
  The continued support of the Future Generations Scholarships Fund ensures that scholarships can be made available to students now and in the decades ahead.
  
  Donors have helped build an endowment to support this fund since 2006 and the scholarships provide students with the opportunity to complete a professionally focused graduate degree.
  

If all staff gave $5 per week to support these priorities we could provide students with:

• 140 Financial Aid Housing Grants
• 125 Postgraduate Grants and;
• 8 endowed Future Generations Scholarships.

Your support could mean the difference between a student completing or abandoning their studies.
And with each donation, no matter the size, you help to grow the number of students we collectively support, together.