Support

UMBC’s intellectual sports welcomes your support! Depending on your preferences, there are multiple different ways to help them achieve success.

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As a proud public university, UMBC works hard to keep costs low and to ensure access to life-changing opportunities for all students. Your financial support provides them with the access and makes it possible for students to fully actualize their abilities. When they have the resources they need, their potential becomes limitless.

This support includes:

• Procuring tools
• Developing prototypes
• Acquiring case materials
• Attending tournaments, competitions, or conferences

The impact of your gift becomes a lifelong legacy of learning. 

For more information, contact Lesa Goodhue, Special Assistant to the AVP, Intellectual Sports & Applied Learning at lgoodhue@umbc.edu

Financial Donations

All intellectual sports student organizations welcome and will immediately utilize financial support. There are several different ways you can donate funds to support their efforts:

Tax Deductible

By credit card: UMBC has online crowdfunding options through the University Systems of Maryland Foundation (USMF). Gifts made through the following links are tax deductible.

• All intellectual sports via Gritstarter
• Specific intellectual sports:
  • UMBC’s chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
  • UMBC Mock Trial
  • UMBC Racing

By check: if you’d like to make a tax-deductible donation by check to support intellectual sports:

• Make out the check to USMF (not UMBC).
• Include the name of the intellectual sport you’d like the money to go to on the check’s memo line. If you’d like the money to go into the overall intellectual sports account, write “UMBC intellectual sports” on the memo line.
• Mail the check to:
  • Lesa Goodhue
    UMBC
    1000 Hilltop Circle
    The Commons, Suite 336
    Baltimore, MD 21250
• Make sure your return address is clearly listed. Once we receive the check, UMBC’s Office of Institutional Advancement will send an invoice to that address for tax documentation purposes.

Not Tax-Deductible

By check: if you aren’t seeking to make a tax-deductible donation:

• Make the check out to UMBC.
• Include the name of the intellectual sport you’d like the money to go to on the check’s memo line. If you’d like the money to go into the overall Intellectual Sports account, write “UMBC intellectual sports” on the memo line.
• Mail the check to:
  • Lesa Goodhue
    UMBC
    1000 Hilltop Circle
    The Commons, Suite 336
    Baltimore, MD 21250

With cash: bring your donation in person to our Student Affairs Business Service Center, located in The Commons room 337 (inside the Campus Life suite on the third floor). We are not able to provide documentation for cash donations to be tax deductible.

UMBC does not have any options for making a financial donation via PayPal, Venmo, or other peer-to-peer mobile payment apps. At this time, we are only able to accept donations via the methods outlined above.

Equipment Donations

Many of our intellectual sports student organizations rely on tools and equipment for their hands-on prototyping, building, and design refinement experiences. They have workshops that they are constantly looking to better outfit with tools, machinery, materials, and project-specific building supplies. If your organization would like to work with an Intellectual Sport to donate equipment, we’d be thrilled to assist you with that! In particular, our Retriever Robotics Vex and SUAS teams, AIAA Design/Build/Fly team, and UMBC Racing team are grateful for assistance. We are also able to coordinate with UMBC’s Office of Institutional Advancement to ensure your organization receives paperwork for tax documentation purposes.

If you’re interested in learning more about donating equipment email Lesa Goodhue at lgoodhue@umbc.edu for step-by-step instructions; reach out to specific organizations directly to inquire into their unique equipment needs:

• AIAA’s Design/Build/Fly team constructs a remote-controlled aircraft to perform specific tasks.
  • Contact UMBC’s Design/Build/Fly team
• Retriever Robotics’ Vex team competes in VexU and constructs two robots a year to compete against other robots to complete tasks within a game. Their SUAS team designs and builds a fully-autonomous aircraft (drone) to complete specific tasks.
  • Contact Retriever Robotics’ president
• UMBC Racing designs and builds an off-road vehicle (dune buggy) to traverse rough terrain.
  • Contact UMBC Racing