In the midst of challenging times, the UMBC community always finds ways to support each other.

We’ve called on our GRIT to do great things.

Now, We’re Calling on You

FY23 1966 Society & Hilltop Society Members
324 Hilltop Society Members
Joint/Household
79 1966 Society Members
Joint/Household
Portrait of a woman standing indoors beside a large palm leaf plant.

Carrying on a Philanthropic Legacy

Inspired by her mother’s philanthropic giving, Hema Gowda ’01, biological sciences, established the Gowda Scholarship Endowment for UMBC in 2016 to help students interested in pursuing graduate studies in pharmacy find success at UMBC.

“When [my mother] retired, she set up endowments at [The University of Maryland,] College Park in the name of her parents because they were the ones that pushed her for higher education,” says Gowda. “She is the person she is today because of them…So I’d always been inspired by that and wanted to give back to UMBC because it was the foundation for my career.”

All contributions are administered by the UMBC Foundation, Inc., for the benefit ofUMBC.

The UMBC Foundation is part of the University System of Maryland Foundation, Inc., which was founded in 1979 as a not-for-profit corporation separate from the University System of Maryland. It is a tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (EIN 52-1125663). Both the “The University System of Maryland Foundation, Inc.” and the “UMBC Foundation, Inc.” are registered trade names of the University of Maryland Foundation.

Scroll to Top