Donors
Welcome to Stellenbosch University

Types of Gifts

You can determine when and how your gift to the university should be used. It could be provided for current projects or invested to provide a lasting legacy for generations to come.
 
Current-use gifts of any size can be made to the academic initiative, strategic objective, research programme, faculty, student residence or society of your choice.
 
These include:
  • ​Stellenbosch University Bursary Fund
  • Deans’ Funds (in the faculty of your choice)
  • Residences and Societies
  • Operational costs
    (equipment and ad hoc human resource needs)
  • Named research chairs (for the duration of the funding).
    A revenue-funded (current-use) research chair requires on average R2 million per annum to support a top researcher
    and his/her team.
 
Endowments are permanent funds that are invested to create a lasting resource that grows in perpetuity. The fund may be established in your name or in honour or memory of another.
 
These include:
  • Stellenbosch Trust
  • Named research chairs
  • Endowed bursaries or scholarship funds
  • Endowed Deans’ Funds
The cost of endowing a research chair in perpetuity at a South African university falls in the region of R30 million to R38 million. This is based on certain assumptions for growth in the future.​

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