More Challenges Await!

More ways to win and make an impact this Give Day! Take part in these fun challenges for a chance to direct bonus funds to the project of your choice.

⏱️ Power Hours: The project page with the most unique donors during each specified Power Hour will receive $1,000 applied to their project. These challenges will take place on:

Winner: Honors Program

🐦 Early Bird: Be the first donor on Give Day proper (Starting on March 4, 2025, at 12 AM PST) and earn the chance to designate $500 to the project page of your choice.

⏰ Procrastinator: The last donor on Give Day (March 5, 2025, at 9:54 AM PST) will earn the chance to designate $500 to a project page of their choice.

📩 Keep In Touch Challenge: Update your contact info through our Alumni & Friends Form, and you’ll be entered into a drawing to designate $250 to a project page of your choice. Five winners will be randomly chosen on March 5, 2025, at noon PST.

🐻 Tag your #UCRiverside besties: Tag your UCR besties, past or present, on our Give Day post (March 4, 2025, at 9 AM PST) on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn! We’ll randomly choose one of you & designate $250 on your behalf to give to your favorite area of campus today for #UCRGiveDay! The winner for each social media platform will be chosen on March 5, 2025, at 11 AM PST.

 🔍 Hidden Scottys: Play the game and find 5 Hidden Scottys across our Give Day website on March 4, 2025! The first five participants to collect all five will earn $200 each to designate to a project page of their choice. Winners will be chosen by those who email annualgiving@ucr.edu with confirmation and screenshots of the 5 Hidden Scottys as proof. 

🎓 Class of 2025 Challenge: Graduating students who donate $25 to any UCR Foundation fund through the Grad Class Giving philanthropy cord program will have their gift matched with $25 from the UCR Foundation Board of Trustees to Student Scholarships for up to 468 students. Each student’s $25 gift will be matched once.

📑 School of Business Challenge: If 50 donors make a gift to any of the featured Give Day Business funds, it will unlock $5,000 for the Student Support Fund, UCR School of Business.

💙 Alumni Challenge: If 400 alumni make a gift on UCR Give Day, an anonymous donor will contribute $25,000 towards UCR Give Day!

 🏫 SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union Challenge: A generous $10,000 gift from SchoolsFirst will be unlocked once 425 UCR retiree, emeriti, staff, and faculty members make a donation toward Give Day!