Office of the Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement (OVCIA)
The OVCIA is a university-level office that works in close cooperation with advancement employees embedded in our colleges and units to support philanthropy at Illinois.
The OVCIA is comprised of teams that support fundraising, engagement, and operations across the community and is responsible for leading strategic efforts in major and principal gifts, stewardship, donor relations, annual giving, and engagement. In addition, OVCIA partners with colleges and units to recruit and support advancement staff and to provide planning and data insights that strengthen fundraising efforts across campus.
Campus units
More than 150 advancement professionals are embedded across colleges, schools, and units, leading frontline fundraising and stewardship efforts that directly support institutional priorities. Chief Advancement Officers operate within a dual-reporting model — partnering closely with their dean while aligning with the OVCIA — to ensure both unit-level goals and university-wide strategy move forward in tandem.
Browse the list of colleges and units below:
Carle Illinois College of Medicine
College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences
College of Applied Health Sciences
University of Illinois Alumni Association (UIAA)
The Alumni Association is a separate 501c3 university related organization that functions as an advocate for the alumni and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign by informing interested parties of current issues, events, and accomplishments of alumni and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The OVCIA offices in Urbana are located on the third floor of the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, the home of UIAA.
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Learn more about the University of Illinois Alumni Association
University of Illinois Foundation (UIF)
The Foundation serves all three campuses of the University of Illinois system and is an independent not-for-profit membership corporation that functions as the independent official fundraising and private gift-receiving agency for the University of Illinois. UIF works with the president of the University of Illinois System and leadership for each university to identify strategic private support priorities, create suitable fundraising strategies and tactics, and implement and evaluate appropriate development programs.
UIF also manages the data and database (referred to as TED) that feeds our advancement work, both for frontline fundraising and for wider communications and engagement.