Make a Planned Gift to Berkeley Social Sciences

Gift planning is one of the most powerful ways you can support the departments and programs of Berkeley Social Sciences while meeting your philanthropic, financial, and estate planning goals. Planned gifts can offer creative and flexible strategies for you to pursue your charitable and financial goals and support the work most important to you. 

UC Berkeley’s Office of Gift Planning offers a comprehensive website featuring online tools that guide you through various gift options, from IRA Rollovers to Gifts of Insurance to Bequests and more. To learn more, please reach out to socialsciences@berkeley.edu.

Assets to give

  • Cash

  • Donor Advised Fund - Beneficiary Designation

  • Privately Held Securities

  • Publicly Traded Securities

  • Real Estate

  • Retirement Plan - Beneficiary Designation

Ways to Give

  • Will/Living Trust

  • Beneficiary Designation

  • IRA Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD)

  • Charitable Remainder Trust

  • Charitable Gift Annuity

  • Deferred Charitable Gift Annuity

  • Donor Designated Fund

Your Guide to Gift Planning

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The lifeblood of any program is your trainees,” Knight says. “The actual day-to-day work, the data collection, and the data analysis are being done by trainees. I think anything we can do to support them, we should.
Professor Robert Knight

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