Your support for the Department of Classics provides our faculty and students the means to investigate, discover, and share their findings with the larger community. Your generosity helps to preserve the great tradition of academic inquiry that is such an essential element in the creation of new knowledge.
We invite friends and alumni to contribute to our funds:
Friends of Classics Unrestricted support for the Department of Classics. Gifts to this fund are used at the discretion of the Chair and are directed to where the need is greatest. These gifts support activities which enhance our treasured sense of community and collegiality, including receptions, symposia, class retreats, lectures, academic visits, and plays, and also make possible small capital projects such as the recent refurbishment of the Meg Greenfield Room (The Classics Seminar Room) and expansion of the department's own heavily used collection of texts, commentaries, journals and works of reference.
Classics Endowment Fund. 'Friends of Classics' and the 'Classics Endowment Fund' are funds for general use, which reach where state dollars cannot reach, and allow us to promote excellence and collegiality. Donations to ‘Friends’ give us short-term flexibility; donations to ‘Endowment’ help us to build up capital.
Jim Greenfield Endowed Classics Scholarship Fund established by the late Meg Greenfield in memory of her brother Jim, to reward student excellence and initiative in the Classics; open to further donation. To join a conversation about new ways to honor Meg Greenfield's vision please contact the Department Chair, Alexander Hollmann (hollmann@uw.edu).
Lawrence Bliquez Endowed Student Support Fund for the Classics was established by Laura Matz and Trevor Peterson in 2024 "to provide broad-based support for undergraduate students in the Department of Classics. Examples of expenditures may include, but shall not be limited to, support for educational expenses, research, travel costs, or study abroad." Open to further donations.
As the Department of Classics responds to increasing challenges in public university funding, here are major new fund-raising priorities for the years ahead:
- Endowed Professorships of Classics
- Endowed Graduate Fellowships
- Classics Endowment for Suzzallo and Allen Libraries
For more information about these and our other fund-raising goals, please see our Development Plan (PDF).
How to Give
Contributions designated for any of our funds can be made online or by check. Every single gift makes a real difference to us. The numerical strength of our community of donors will protect our standing within the University, irrespective of the size of each donation.
Donate by mail:
Please make checks payable to the University of Washington Foundation and indicate which fund or program you wish to support on the memo line.
Mail to:
University of Washington Foundation
Box 359505
Seattle, WA 98195-3110