Our Commitment
The UConn Foundation is dedicated to creating a welcoming culture for our team by supporting individual growth and enhancing understanding among our members.
We inspire philanthropic support for UConn and UConn Health by connecting with alumni and supporters, showcasing their unique perspectives and elevating new voices.
Our mission drives positive change by securing philanthropic resources to elevate, among other things, access to education, research and innovation, and community impact.
Promoting a Collaborative Culture
- A taskforce made up of over 20 staff volunteers helps guide our organization’s ongoing learning and training resources, supporting our talent management and new hire onboarding practices that align with our core values.
- We work with specialists to continuously evaluate our team’s focus, opportunities, and areas for improvement that inform our goals.
- We maintain a central resource hub and provide ongoing optional learning opportunities to enhance our team’s knowledge and skills.
- We advise our leadership team on essential training and professional development opportunities for staff.
Inspiring Philanthropic Support
Bridging the Alumni Community
We connect our alumni community together and with the University by supporting volunteer led identity and affinity-based networks.
Creating Impactful Opportunities
Our donor and alumni community are an increasingly powerful voice in directing funds toward programming, scholarships, and other initiatives at UConn and beyond.
Representation for all Communities
This community of supporters stands as allies and partners to our traditionally underrepresented communities, and in turn, strengthens the UConn Foundation’s unique position as a motivating influence in this work.
Driving Positive Change
Environmentally and Socially Responsible Investing: The UConn Foundation is dedicated to addressing issues regarding environmental sustainability and its impact on economic growth, asset value, and financial markets and is committed to making investments that have positive effects on society. We have a longstanding commitment to evaluating investment opportunities based on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk factors, with ESG risk factors weighed alongside other material risk factors that influence investment decision making.
Our Core Values
Courageously choosing what is true and correct over what is comfortable, fast, or easy
Being sensitive to and considerate of others’ feelings, viewpoints, or individual circumstances and framing one’s own words and actions accordingly
Genuinely and intentionally connecting with others through words and actions that have a positive impact
Individually and collectively taking ownership for our words, actions, and performance
The achievement of a shared goal through honest communication that promotes active participation, careful listening, and acceptance of diverse perspectives..
The practice of being open and honest, through appropriate, timely, and clear communication in support of our commitment, our people and our work.