From the executive director
“Thanks to our friends and supporters, VCU is poised for continuous success. Your gifts are strategically invested in programs and projects that elevate VCU's ability to teach and empower the next generation.”
Thomas C. Burke Jr.; CFRE (B.S.’79/E, M.P.A.’95/G.P.A.)
Executive director
VCU Foundation
What we support
The VCU Foundation distributes funds to these academic units across the university:
Campaign for VCU
Your gift will help support one of the many ongoing university projects as well as enhance the academic programs located on the Monroe Park Campus. To donate now, visit campaign.vcu.edu.
Recent projects
We partner with our schools and units on capital projects that attract high-caliber students and raise the national profile of VCU.
Institute for Contemporary Art
VCU’s 41,000-square-foot Institute for Contemporary Art, opening in fall 2017, will serve as an iconic gateway, for the city of Richmond and be an incubator for interdisciplinary experimentation for VCU.
$30.2 million
donor support
Basketball Development Center
This $25 million, 60,000-square-foot facility opened in fall 2015 as practice space for the men and women’s basketball teams.
$9.5 million
donor support
Rice Rivers Center
Located on 494 acres along the historic James River, the Inger and Walter Rice Center for Environmental Life Sciences is VCU’s field station devoted to environmental research, teaching and public service.
$10.8 million
donor support
Board of Trustees
The VCU Foundation Board of Trustees includes leaders in business, government and the community who volunteer their time and expertise to advancing public education. Members meet three times a year, traveling at their own expense from across Virginia.
Joseph Bartholomew
Thomas C. Burke, Secretary
Paul Carder
April Duff
John Finn
William M. Ginther
Timothy Graf, Treasurer
Jim Gregory
John T. Grier
Hattie W. Hamlin
John C. Jacoby
Kenneth Jones
Lynn McAteer
Carol A. McCoy
Colette W. McEachin
William Murray
Joe Nadder III
Timothy Nguyen
Kevin L. Nicholson, Vice President
John Purnell
Michael Rao, Ph.D.
Cathy Saunders
Julie Weissand
Bradford W. Welles
Patricia A. Wilkerson, President
Madison P. Wootton
Leslie Wyatt
John Zeheb
