Where to Give
Causes
What are you passionate about? From children, veterans, and animal welfare to building community and the arts, partner with UT to improve our world.
Animal Welfare
Free Spay and Neuter Clinic
Habit Therapy Dogs
Help Livestock and Horse Owners in Need
Help Pet Owners in Need
Pet Emergency Care
Rescued Animal Assistance
Wild Animal Medicine
Arts, Culture, and Journalism
Clarence Brown Theatre
Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture
McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture
Pride of the Southland Band
UT Opera Theatre
UT Press
UT Symphony Orchestra
WUOT 91.9 FM
WUTK 90.3 FM
Child Welfare and Youth Development
Camp Koinonia
Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Assistance for School Children in Need
For Families Grieving the Loss of a Child
Tennessee 4-H
Early Learning Center Playground Fund
Community Support
Pride Center
Dean’s Student Crisis Fund
Disability Services
Free Legal Clinic for the Public
Smokey’s Closet
Environment and Sustainability
UT Arboretum
Next-gen Broiler Research Facility
Smith Center Study Abroad Scholarships
Smith International Center Support
Sustainability on Campus
Tennessee RiverLine
UT AgResearch Strategic Initiatives
UT Extension General Support
UT Gardens
UTIA Greenhouse Support
Food Insecurity
Big Orange Pantry
Big Orange Meal Share
Saving Unused Food on Campus
Military and Veterans
Air Force ROTC
Army ROTC
Military and First-Responder Families
Rocky Top Battalion Enrichment Fund
UT Police Department
UTIA Veteran Student Support
Veterans Success Center
Public Health and Health Care
Cancer Impact & Outcome
Healthy Eating and Activity Lab
Pediatric Services for Children
Prevention and Early Intervention Domestic Violence Program
Rocky Top Recovery
Student Counseling Services Center Development
Student Health Center
Vols Beat Cancer Scholarship
Student Retention and Access
Basic Needs Emergency Fund
UT Promise Scholarship
Flagship High School Scholarship
Tennessee Pledge Scholarship
Next-gen Broiler Research Facility
This facility advances poultry research, training, and sustainability through UTIA’s Next-Gen Broiler Research Facility.
UT Extension General Support
This fund supports UT Extension’s statewide education, outreach, and innovation serving farmers, landowners, and communities.
Dean’s Student Crisis Fund
The Dean’s Student Crisis Fund supports Herbert College of Agriculture students facing unexpected financial emergencies. Your gift helps provide assistance so students can remain focused on their education during difficult circumstances.
Wild Animal Medicine
This fund supports the treatment and rehabilitation of injured wildlife. Your gift helps ensure these animals receive the care they need on the path to recovery and a healthier future.
Rocky Top Battalion Enrichment Fund
For over 175 years, the UTK Rocky Top Battalion has stood as a forge for leaders—shaping young men and women into officers who embody courage, integrity, and the Volunteer spirit. Since its founding in 1844, cadets from Rocky Top have answered the call in every major conflict, carrying with them the lessons learned here in Knoxville: lead from the front, never quit, and serve with purpose. Each generation builds on the legacy of those before them, creating an unbroken chain of service that stretches from campus to communities around the world.
The Rocky Top Battalion Enrichment Fund is how we keep that legacy alive. Its primary mission is to ensure we can continue hosting the annual Military Ball each February—a night that brings cadets, alumni, and supporters together to celebrate achievements, honor sacrifices, and inspire the leaders of tomorrow. Through this event, cadets also learn and practice important military traditions and etiquette that will serve them throughout their careers. The fund also strengthens cadet development year-round by equipping our specialty companies with new physical training gear to push cadets past their limits, enhancing marksmanship equipment to sharpen their competitive edge, and ensuring every cadet wears branded apparel that unites them as one team—one Battalion. Your support is an investment in the next generation of leaders.
UT Police Department
The UT Police Department Gift Fund supports safety initiatives, specialized training, and community engagement efforts that help keep campus secure and welcoming. Your support strengthens programs that create a safe and welcoming environment for students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
UT Arboretum
The UT Arboretum supports agricultural research, plant collections, education, and community programs. Your gift helps sustain this important resource.
Prevention and Early Intervention Domestic Violence Program
This program supports education, crisis response, and survivor services that help prevent domestic violence and promote safe, healthy relationships. Your support helps provide resources that strengthen the program and expand support for those impacted.
Student Counseling Services Center Development
This fund supports the Student Counseling Center, which provides short-term individual therapy, group counseling, skills training, seminars, and support groups. Your gift helps expand access to essential mental health services.
Cancer Impact & Outcomes
This fund supports research, patient care, and community outreach focused on improving cancer treatment, survivorship, and overall health outcomes. Your support helps advance efforts that make a meaningful difference for patients and families.
Rocky Top Recovery
Rocky Top Recovery is the collegiate recovery program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, supporting Volunteers on their journey toward mental health and substance use recovery. The program builds community, offers campus programming, and promotes advocacy to create a space where recovery is supported and students can find connection and encouragement. Your support helps sustain a welcoming environment where students in feel safe in their recovery journey.
Smokey’s Closet
Smokey’s Closet provides free, gently used professional and business casual clothing, shoes, and accessories for students. Your support helps ensure students have access to attire that builds confidence and prepares them for interviews, internships, and career opportunities.
Vols Beat Cancer Scholarship
The Vols Beat Cancer Scholarship Endowment provides financial support to UT students who are undergoing cancer treatment or living with a cancer diagnosis while enrolled. Battling cancer is emotionally, physically, and financially demanding, and continuing as a student during treatment can be especially challenging.
This scholarship helps ease that burden so students can focus on their health and their studies. Your support can make a meaningful difference in a student’s ability to continue and complete their degree during an incredibly difficult time.
Smith Center Study Abroad Scholarships
The Smith Center Study Abroad Endowment provides scholarships that expand global learning and study abroad opportunities for students. Your support helps make international experiences more accessible to students.
Smith International Center Support
The Smith International Center Fund supports global agricultural research, study abroad opportunities, and faculty-led international projects.
UTIA Veteran Student Support
This fund supports UTIA student veterans with tailored resources, financial assistance, and a supportive academic environment. Your gift helps ensure veterans have the support they need to succeed in their academic journey.
Rescued Animal Assistance
This fund supports medical treatment for rescued and abandoned small and large companion animals. Your gift helps ensure these animals receive the care they need on the path to recovery and a healthier future.
UT AgResearch Strategic Initiatives
This fund advances agricultural research and collaboration at UTIA focused on climate resilience and sustainable farming.
UTIA Greenhouse Support
This fund enhances UTIA greenhouses that support agricultural research, sustainability, education, and community engagement.
Playground Improvement Fund
The Playground Improvement Fund supports enhancements to Early Learning Center playgrounds and outdoor classroom spaces. Your support helps maintain and improve these areas where children explore, play, and learn outdoors.
Habit Therapy Dogs
Therapy dogs for those in need
H.A.B.I.T. (Human-Animal Bond in Tennessee) works to promote the special emotional bond that humans and animals share. This program sponsors pet visitation in care facilities including nursing homes and hospitals by trained volunteers and pre-screened animals. This exclusively volunteer-run program relies on support from the community to continue providing services to numerous facilities in the area.
Free Spay and Neuter Clinic
Companion Animal Initiative of Tennessee (CAIT)
The mission of Companion Animal Initiative of Tennessee (CAIT) is “to improve the lives of companion animals and reduce the homeless pet population in Tennessee by promoting humane education and spay/neuter initiatives.” CAIT relies solely on support from the community to continue providing critical services for pet populations in the Knoxville region.
Help Pet Owners in Need
Small Animal Assisted Care Fund
UT College of Veterinary Medicine’s teaching hospitals are self-supporting. For the past fifteen years, individuals have supported our Small Animal Assisted Care Fund to share their resources with other pet owners who cannot pay for all of their pet’s care. Please consider a gift to our Assisted Care Fund to help us alleviate the unnecessary loss of our animal companions at a time we need them most. Our clients and our compassionate veterinary caregivers need and appreciate your support at a time when they are carrying a heavy emotional burden.
Help Livestock and Horse Owners in Need
Large Animal Assisted Care Fund at UTCVM
UTCVM Equine, Farm Animal Hospital and Equine Performance and Rehabilitation Center provides referral service, routine care, emergency care, and herd disease outbreak investigations for horse and livestock owners. Our Large Animal Assisted Care fund provides resources to help cover the veterinary costs for pet owners who cannot pay for all of their pet’s care. A gift to this fund helps to alleviate the unnecessary loss of animals at a time when we need them most. Our clients and our compassionate veterinary caregivers need and appreciate your support at a time when they are carrying a heavy emotional burden.
Pet Emergency Care
Help Save a Life
The UTCVM Veterinary Medical Center provides exceptional emergency care for animals of all shapes and sizes. Your gift can help grant life-saving services for animals in need.
Clarence Brown Theatre
The Clarence Brown Theatre is home to UT’s premier theater program. Named for alumnus and Academy-Award winning director Clarence Brown, the CBT hosts 40,000 patrons annually and provides top-ranked arts education.
Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture
The Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture is home to UT’s premier art and architecture gallery, hosting exhibitions that showcase both historical and current design and serve as an educational resource for the community.
McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture
The McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture advances understanding and appreciation of the earth and its peoples through the collection, preservation, study, interpretation, and exhibition of objects and data. Your gift will support educational programming and unique exhibits for the community.
Pride of the Southland Band
The Pride of the Southland Band is one of the oldest collegiate band programs in the world, known for its “outstanding musical performance and precision marching.” Currently hosting 340 members, this program provides top-notch musical training for its students.
UT Opera Theatre
The UT Opera Theatre offers premier operatic training for students, as well as opportunities to participate in productions with the Knoxville Opera, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, and Oak Ridge Symphony.
UT Symphony Orchestra
The UT Symphony Orchestra is a 70-piece ensemble dedicated to providing students with a superior musical education. The Orchestra hosts numerous concerts throughout the year.
WUOT – 91.9 FM
WUOT 91.9 FM is a public service of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, dedicated to its land-grant mission, connecting with Tennesseans and serving our state. We aim to serve our region with accurate information and diverse entertainment. In addition, our partnership with the School of Journalism and Media expands access for future journalists to produce stories highlighting the stories, voices, and history of East Tennessee.
WUTK – 90.3 FM
WUTK is the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s student-run radio station providing music, news, and sports broadcasts. Your gift will help to enhance current program offerings which allow students of the UT Department of Journalism and Electronic Media to deepen their understanding of broadcast journalism.
Our station has the unique ability to reach everyone in East Tennessee because radio remains a free and equitable information source. Support from donors like you allows us to remain a trusted, independent NPR-affiliate in our community, increase our local journalism efforts, and grow outreach like podcasts and online streaming.
Camp Koinonia
Camp Koinonia is an outdoor education program for individuals ages 7-21 who have multiple disabilities. The camp is offered through the Therapeutic Recreation program that is housed in the Department of Kinesiology, and participants come from special education classes across the state. Your gift will assist in programmatic needs, as well as travel and lodging for students of the camp.
Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature
The Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature aims to engage and empower young readers. Your gift will support partnerships with local school systems and literary scholars, enhance the existing browsing collection of books, and grow community experiences like book clubs and workshops.
Assistance for School Children in Need
Full-Service Schools
The Community Full-Service Schools program seeks to address unmet needs of schoolchildren and their families to contribute to a more successful educational future.
For Families Grieving the Loss of a Child
The Precious Prints Project
The College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has established the Precious Prints Project in collaboration with local business, Precious Metal Prints, as a way to comfort grieving families who have lost a child. Families are gifted with a silver pendant of the child’s fingerprint as a remembrance of a life lost too soon.
Tennessee 4-H
4-H Programs
Tennessee 4-H is a well-known youth development organization that strives to teach kids valuable life skills through hands-on learning activities in areas such as leadership, outdoors, STEM, animals, and more. Your gift would create opportunities for youth to explore their interests, promote personal growth and cultivate skills that will benefit them throughout their lives.
Sustainability on Campus
Campus Environmental Fund
The Campus Environmental Fund supports the Office of Sustainability and their work to create a more environmentally friendly campus. Your gift will enhance campus programs that encourage students, staff, and faculty to “Make Orange Green.”
Tennessee RiverLine
The Tennessee RiverLine program seeks to develop and enhance relationships between communities along the Tennessee River to boost local economy, foster partnerships, and improve public access. Your gift would support the development of infrastructure that benefits a diverse range of user groups, from local residents to tourists exploring the river’s cultural resources.
UT Gardens
UT Gardens, designated in 2013 as the state of Tennessee’s official botanical gardens, hosts over 4,000 different flowers, bushes, and more to foster an environment of beauty and botanical education on campus. Your gift would support special events that engage the public and inspire a love for gardening and nature as well as promote beauty, biodiversity, and lifelong learning in the heart of Tennessee.
Big Orange Pantry
The Big Orange Pantry fulfills emergency food needs for students, faculty, and staff attending or employed by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. A gift of just $50 can provide 150 meals!
Big Orange Meal Share
Big Orange Meal Share is a “short-term meal assistance program” that allocates meal swipes to students in need. Students with extra meal swipes can also donate their swipes to this program. Your gift to the Big Orange Meal Share will help students facing food insecurity and contribute to a more successful academic experience.
Saving Unused Food on Campus
Food4VOLS
Food4VOLS is a partnership between Knoxville’s Culinary Institute and Vol Dining to collect unused food and transform it into ready-to-heat and ready-to-eat meals for those on campus experiencing food insecurity.
Veterans Success Center
A focal point for veterans and military-affiliated students, the Veterans Success Center serves the student veteran population with support, resources, and education. The Center create a successful environment for veterans as they navigate from military service to higher education.
Air Force ROTC
The Air Force ROTC Scholarship was established to support students with unmet financial need and who have shown exemplary effort and achievement within the Air Force ROTC program.
Army ROTC
The Army ROTC Scholarship was established to support students with unmet financial need and who have shown exemplary effort and achievement within the Army ROTC program.
Military and First-Responder Families
Vols of Honor
The Vols of Honor Scholarship Endowment supports dependents and spouses of first responders and military members killed or disabled in service to their country and communities. This scholarship is a partnership with the Folds of Honor Foundation.
Pediatric Services for Children
Provide Pediatric Services
The Vine School Health Center was established in 1995 between the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the Knox County Schools Health Services Department to provide pediatric outpatient services to students who may have limited access to healthcare. The clinic has also recently expanded to add services like social work, counseling, telehealth, and more.
Student Health Center
The Student Health Center is a health clinic accessible by all UT students, “Caring for All Vols” regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, socioeconomical status, and more. The clinic offers services such as immunizations, physical examinations, gynecology care, and more.
Healthy Eating and Activity Lab
The Student Health Center is a health clinic accessible by all UT students, “Caring for All Vols” regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, socioeconomical status, and more. The clinic offers services such as immunizations, physical examinations, gynecology care, and more.
Pride Center
UT’s Pride Center provides academic and social support for LGBTQ+ students through connection, education, and empowerment. The Pride Center works to provide a safe space for these students by offering educational workshops, peer mentoring, and even a gender-affirming clothes closet.
Free Legal Clinic for the Public
UT Law’s Legal Clinic
UT Law hosts the nation’s oldest legal clinic, giving students the opportunity to represent real clients facing real legal issues. Your gift to the Legal Clinic will contribute to the success of our law students as they deepen their knowledge and understanding of legal practice.
Disability Services
Student Disability Services
Student Disability Services at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, works to create an inclusive and accessible experience for all students. Your gift helps to support inclusive initiatives and events on campus to foster an environment of belonging for all.
Basic Needs Emergency Fund
The Basic Needs Emergency Fund assists students with short-term financial needs including utilities, minor medical expenses, basic technology, and more. Your gift can help relieve a student’s financial stress, allowing them to have a more successful academic experience.
UT Promise Scholarship
The UT Promise Scholarship is offered to admitted first-year, transfer, and continuing students who qualify for the HOPE Scholarship and have an annual family income of less than $60,000. When combined with other federal, state, and institutional aid, this scholarship covers tuition and mandatory fees.
Flagship High School Scholarship
The Flagship Scholarship is offered to admitted freshmen who graduate from one of 38 designated flagship high schools. When combined with the HOPE Scholarship, this scholarship covers a student’s tuition and mandatory fees for up to eight semesters.
Tennessee Pledge Scholarship
The Tennessee Pledge Scholarship is offered to admitted freshmen with a family income of $40,000 or less. When combined with other federal, state, and institutional aid, this four-year scholarship covers direct costs—tuition, mandatory fees, and an average of on-campus room and board expenses.
UT Press
Since 1940, the University of Tennessee Press has been the premier scholarly publisher in the state of Tennessee, garnering both national and international acclaim. Our mission is to support the research aims of the University, and we invite you to join us on our journey as we work to preserve and promote the rich cultural and intellectual heritage of Tennessee and the region.
