The total exceeds the capital campaign’s goal of $6 billion; 76% of the more than 1 million gifts were $1,000 or less. One of the largest capital campaigns launched by any public or private U.S. university — UC Berkeley’s Light the Way: The Campaign for Berkeley — has come to an official and impressive end. Its ambitious […]

Imagine a technology that could remove planet-warming emissions from smokestacks, turn moisture in the air into drinking water, and transform carbon dioxide into clean energy. A new UC Berkeley institute will bring together top machine learning and chemistry researchers to make this vision a reality, and a Bay Area foundation is providing a substantial gift […]

Moffitt Library has been through many changes since it opened in 1970, but it has always been central to the Berkeley experience — the library averages over a million visits annually. Revitalizing Moffitt has been a priority during Berkeley’s historic Light the Way campaign — not only because it is one of several critical upgrades […]

The University of California, Berkeley Foundation (UCBF) has been dedicated to supporting UC Berkeley’s core endeavors — teaching, research, and public service — since 1948.