How Your Support Helps

Your gift to USC OS and OT pays extraordinary academic and societal dividends. Whether it’s in the classroom, the laboratory, the hospital and clinic or in the community, USC OS and OT students, faculty, an alumni share high ideals and a powerful commitment to make a difference in the lives of those around us. We invite our alumni, friends and supporters - individuals, corporations, foundations, and nonprofit patrons of education and research - to join us in building on excellence. We are expectional stewards of the funds entrusted to us, and are faithful to the high purposes the university brings to Southern California, the United States, and the world.

Unrestricted gifts allow the Division to allocate funds wherever the need is greatest. Unrestricted gifts to the Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy allow the Division to take advantage of unique opportunities as they arise. Your contribution may be used to support costs associated with financial aid, innovations in teaching, dissemination and publication of research, equipment, facilities and much more.

Directed gifts allow you to designate your gift to a specific area of practice, program or project within the Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy. For example, you can direct your gift to specific initiatives within the Division, including:

Access to Health Care
Assistive Technology
Child Development Laboratory
Executive Health and Wellness
Healthy Aging
Rehabilitation
Returning Veterans
Sensory Integration Teaching and Research

Your donation can be used toward space and equipment, funding research, endowing faculty positions or for student scholarships.

Endowments allow individuals, foundations and corporations to create a named, endowed fund designated for a specific purpose in the Division of OS and OT. The principle is invested in the USC endowment and is expected to grow interest each year. After the second year, 5% of the funds are used each year thereafter to fund the specific program, scholarship, fellowship or faculty position.

In-Kind gifts allow individuals to give tangible gifts and services directly to the Division. Examples include underwriting the printing costs of dissemination of OS and OT materials to the community, technology, toys and equipment, items for silent auctions, underwriting events, and provision of airline frequent flier miles to support faculty and student global connections.