Opportunities for Corporations & Foundations
We welcome you to contact our staff for more information about these programs...
Philanthropic Support
Since 1889 the University of Idaho has been leading Idaho, the Northwest and beyond. From architecture to law, art to science, business to engineering, environment to education, our students, faculty and alumni are pursuing their passions and making our communities richer along the way. Giving to the University of Idaho Foundation, Inc. helps keep the legacy of leading alive. You can choose to support any department, program or area that supports our threefold mission of teaching, research and service. Or, you can choose to make a gift to the “President's Excellence Fund,” which allows the University president to designate your support to an area of greatest need.
Recruitment and Internship Opportunities The
Career Center is your portal to meet and interact with our students, among the best and brightest in the country. The Career Center can involve you in career fairs, organize on-campus recruiting of employees and interns for you, and promote your company to students and faculty.
Service Learning Opportunities
Through hands-on service projects, service-learning is a robust teaching method that promotes student learning, creative thinking, and civic engagement while simultaneously addressing the concerns, needs, and hopes of communities.
Civic Engagement
www.asui.uidaho.edu/Volunteer
Student civic engagement activities provide professional training for your organization, because these students are the thinkers, directors, and leaders of our communities and organizations tomorrow. At the University of Idaho, student engagement programs provide meaningful life-laboratory experiences in leadership, civic engagement, community development, problem solving, and provide students with perspectives about not only how to think differently, but also the confidence, inspiration, and spirit to use their education in creating a better world.
Research Collaboration www.uro.uidaho.edu/default.aspx?pid=31882 The University of Idaho is the state’s flagship higher-education institution and its principal graduate education and research university, bringing insight and innovation to the state, the nation and the world. University researchers attract nearly $100 million in research grants and contracts each year, and is the only institution in the state to be classified by the prestigious Carnegie Foundation for high research activity.
Technology Transfer
ott@uidaho.edu The Office of Technology Transfer (link
www.uro.uidaho.edu/irf) promotes the timely transfer of commercially valuable knowledge and information developed at the University to the businesses most capable of reducing them to practice.
Sponsorships Sponsorships provide opportunities to promote your company’s visibility and build a competitive advantage while supporting student success.
University Service A wealth of opportunities are available for corporate executives – both active and retired – to impart their expertise to students by teaching programs or participating in events such as the Executive Speaker Series. Please contact our
staff to explore these many varied occasions to get involved.
Athletics www.govandals.com Your investment in the University of Idaho Department of Athletics will assist us in enhancing the visibility and image of the University by developing and maintaining competitive integrity-based athletic programs, uniting students, faculty, staff, alumni and the community, and educating and graduating student-athletes.
Matching Gifts More than 1,000 parent companies and corporate foundations in the United States currently match their employees’ gifts to nonprofit organizations. You may search the list of matching gifts companies
here.