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UCEAP Gift Planning

Making a gift (bequest) through your will or living trust creates a lasting and personal legacy that ensures UCEAP's future. Your legacy gift will transform, enrich, and provide scholarship support for UC students who study abroad.

Benefits

  • Your gift will have a significant impact.
  • A bequest is flexible.
  • Your assets remain in your control.
  • A charitable bequest may minimize estate tax.

How it works

For many donors, the easiest way to make a significant gift to UCEAP is through their will or living trust.

  • Simply name The University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) as a beneficiary in your estate documents, and direct your gift to any program or department either to be used outright or to create an endowed fund that will last for generations. Alternatively, you may allow your gift to be used at the discretion of UCEAP to support the area of greatest need.
  • Create an addition (codicil) to your existing will or an amendment to your revocable trust.
  • Choose to give a specific sum or a percentage of your estate in support of the university.
  • You can also give what remains in your estate after other distributions have been made.
  • Name UCEAP as a retirement plan beneficiary. To do so, you need to contact your retirement plan administrator and complete the necessary beneficiary designation forms.
  • Name UCEAP as the beneficiary of your life insurance policy. Contact your policy's administrator so that you can complete the beneficiary designation form.

Should you share your plans?

If you have already included UCEAP in your plans (or you intend to), please let us know.

  • UCEAP would like to make sure your wishes are understood and that your gift will be used exactly as you intend.
  • The development team can provide you and your advisors with sample bequest language, if desired.
  • The university would like to thank you and, if you wish, include you in the UCEAP Legacy Society.

Become part of a community that supports UCEAP’s mission to inspire students to explore and transform their lives, UC, and the world. The UCEAP Legacy Society honors those who provide deferred gifts to UCEAP. The kindness of UCEAP Legacy Society members secures the success of UC students and the future of UCEAP.

Donor Stories

Sara

Sara W. Lowenhaupt Scholarship 

Established in 1965 from an estate gift, the earnings from the Sara W. Lownehaupt fund provide $2,000 semester-long UCEAP Global Scholarships for over 150 UC students each year! 

A widow from Carmel, California, Sara had no known connection to the University of California. Her husband Haymer Lowenhaupt was president of the Moss & Lowenhaupt Cigar Co. in St. Louis, Missouri. When he passed away in 1936, Sara moved to California to be closer to family. She had a lifelong appreciation of education and was a member of the St. Louis Board of Education. In her will, Mrs. Lowenhaupt dedicated her estate to study abroad at the University of California. We are forever grateful for her vision and dedication to UC students. 

Allaway Family

Bill and Olivia Allaway Scholarship

As the founding director of UCEAP and throughout his 29 years of leadership, Professor Allaway built what is considered to be one of the premier study abroad programs. The Bill and Olivia Allaway Endowment was established in 1995 to support scholarships for reciprocity students. Each year, the fund awards over $16,000 to foreign students from UCEAP partner universities to study at a UC campus. The Allaway family was photographed in 2012 at the 50th Anniversary celebration of UCEAP. 

Theda

Theda Shapiro Scholarship 

In 2018, UCEAP received a generous bequest by the late Dr. Theda Shapiro (Professor Emerita, French and Comparative Literature, UC Riverside). Due to her generosity, each year five UCEAP students studying language abroad receive the Theda Shapiro Scholarship. Theda was a tireless educator who taught French literature and culture from the origins of France up to the present day, and Italian literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Dr. Shapiro worked very closely with UCEAP for 20 years, directing the Paris Study Center from 1982-84 and serving as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and International Operations at the UCEAP systemwide office from 1992-96.