Grants and Foundations

Corporate and Foundation Relations

Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR), within the Office of University Advancement, facilitates engagement between corporations, private foundations, and the University of La Verne. These valuable partnerships help sustain important programming and projects for our students and the university.

 

What CFR Does

  • Guides outreach and maintains relationships with corporate and private foundation partners
  • Advises faculty and staff on fit, timing, and funder strategy before application
  • Supports proposal development, targeted messaging, and submission readiness
  • Coordinates internal routing/approvals and keeps submissions consistent and mission focused
  • Supports stewardship and partner engagement through reporting and ongoing communication

 

Highlighted Partnerships of 2025/26

Gilead Foundation
The Ahmanson Foundation | $49,000

While the rate of college students who are under-prepared in mathematics is rising, The Ahmanson Foundation have taken the lead to financially support the University of La Verne and its new venture of developing a math emporium. The Math Emporium concept was originally introduced at Virginia Tech in 1997, but only recently have schools began to adopt it. It allows students to check in through an electronic ID card and have access to all course materials, including textbooks, exercises, quizzes, and tests. Additionally, students have access to human and electronic assistance 24/7.

This new teaching tool will allow professors to develop online methods geared towards students who will be able to learn more efficiently at their own pace. The new lab and way of teaching will help decrease the drop/fail/withdraw rates and increase student retention.

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union

 

Corporate Partners Support Important University of La Verne Programs

  • Bank of America
  • Bon Appetit
  • Cardenas Markets
  • Cisco
  • Comerica Bank
  • Edison International
  • Gilead
  • Infoblox
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • Southern California Gas
  • US Bank
  • Wells Fargo
A series of programs continue to run as a result of corporate giving, including:
  • REACH Summer Business Camp, which benefits local high-school students by providing them with an exposure to business education in a college environment and showing them ways to gain entrance and succeed in college.
  • The Center for Neurodiversity, Learning, and Wellness provides a literacy program that offers tutoring services to local children and their families.
  • STEM Summer Science Camp, which involves eligible high school sophomores and juniors, and is designed to increase the number of students entering the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

 

Scholarship Support

The University of La Verne Scholarship Fund is a top priority for the university and provides a foundation of support that benefits our diverse student population. With the continued increase in enrollment, we are thankful to the foundations that continue to support higher education – The Ahmanson Foundation, The Los Angeles Philanthropic Foundation, Ann Peppers Foundation, Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation, George H. Mayr Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Foundation and the Esperanza Scholarship Foundation, TELACU, IME-Becas, Rose Hills Foundation, and Edison.

 

Resources

 

Contact Us

Karina Cummings
Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations
(909) 448-4778

Jenna Fox
Assistant Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations
(909) 448-4630