The Birzeit Annual Fund is an essential resource that helps the University to maintain its status as the most-competitive and most-reputable Palestinian institution of higher education. Gifts to the Annual Fund improve students’ lives, helping us to offer them world-class facilities and an enriching campus experience that is fit for the requirements of delivering higher-education services in the 21st century.
Through the Annual Fund, we enhance student life at our campus and enrich students’ academic development, allowing them to benefit from state-of-the-art facilities and technology. Fund monies pay for computer and laboratory equipment, exhibitions in the museum, recreation and wellness resources, outreach programs for community engagement and sports and cultural activities.
Gifts to the Annual Fund fuel campus life, helping Birzeit to recruit the best students and faculty, while working vigorously to meet students’ needs. The Annual Fund has an impact on nearly every aspect of a student’s higher-education experience at Birzeit. Annual Fund gifts made by our dedicated community of friends, faculty, staff, students, parents and alumni support daily operations at the University and enrich our legacy of philanthropic support, helping Birzeit to meet the challenges of providing higher-education services under conditions of occupation and economic recession.
Thanks to the support of our generous donors, we are able to fund basic requisites that make an education at Birzeit University unique and satisfying, providing us with resources to fund societies, activities, capital maintenance projects and technological advancement that positively impact and enrich the student experience at Birzeit.
Areas of Support
The Annual Fund enables the university to channel unrestricted funding to a range of capital development projects, technological initiatives and extra-curricular activities and facilities. Donors can identify a preferred area of support in-line with the University’s priorities:
- Campus Beautification: Contribute to the planting of trees on campus and protecting the environment.
- Community Outreach: Assist Birzeit in putting something back in our community by funding grassroots activities.
- Museum and Gallery: Help us expand our Palestinian art and culture collections and outreach programs.
- Student Life and Extra-Curricular Activities: Enhance the student experience by contributing to student societies and non-academic activities, as well as, students’ exchange.
- University Library: Support the library in expanding its 150,000-volume, multi-language resource collection.
Membership Programs
The President’s Circle (minimum contribution: US$ 1,000)
When making contributions in excess of $1,000, donors join the University’s President Circle. Through this forum, donors have the president’s ear and can suggest new projects, initiatives and ideas. Birzeit hosts an annual meeting to present the current situation and priorities of the university and solicit ideas from members of the President’s Circle. In addition to an annual dinner with the University Council, these donors have full access to the University’s resources, activities and facilities.
University Museum Membership (minimum contribution: US$ 500)
Donors who join the Member’s Circle have access to the University’s museum and are invited to special events at the University.