UMassGives 2025
Support UMass Journalism during this two-day campaign!
We are excited to offer opportunities that give students access to numerous career-focused classes, events, workshops, and invaluable hands-on experiences. With your help, a new generation of students can learn to elevate and sharpen their skills to make journalism and public relations more equitable and just for the future of democracy.
Your support provides students with annual scholarships, access to events with high-profile alumni and speakers and offer stipends for unpaid internships. This gives them the financial freedom to pursue their passions for producing, editing, reporting, writing, public relations, sports, photography, video and design.
Your gifts will also help fund equipment upgrades for our students. We were able to purchase new audio recorders last year to help them produce high-quality podcasts, and hope to soon get them new cameras and access to industry-standard analytics platforms. Investing in these resources allows us to offer collaborative spaces for students to refine their craft and use their voices for reporting, storytelling and strengthening civic relationships.
Journalism and public relations are critical to our democratic society.
Your support ensures our students continue to gain the professional skills and experiential learning opportunities that are vital to their success in a competitive job market. It also ensures our communities’ stories will continue to get told and that we’re able to uphold democratic values, informed civic engagement and the watchdogs needed for representative self-governance to function as it should.
Please consider supporting us during #UMassGives with a gift.
Give in any amount - $5, $50, $500, or more. Your donation will directly impact the students working hard to advance their careers as well-rounded and skilled journalists and public relations professionals.
Our POWER HOUR is from 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. on April 29: Make an even bigger impact by donating during this hour to assist us in winning an extra $2,000!
Help us spread the word via social media, e-mail, text or word of mouth!
Follow the excitement of #UMassGives on our social media accounts:
- Twitter and Instagram: @UMassJournalism
- Facebook: @UMassJournalismDepartment
If you know anyone who would appreciate a chance to support #UMassJournalism, please share this page and encourage a donation.
Thank you!
The UMass Journalism Department
Rank | Prize | Department/Group/RSO/Fund | Donors |
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1 | $2,000 | Student Alumni Association | 120 |
2 | $500 | Department of Food Science | 110 |
3 | $500 | UMass Women into Leadership (UWiL) | 96 |
4 | Professional Writing and Technical Communication | 30 | |
5 | Women's Rowing | 17 | |
6 | Isenberg Class of 2025 Senior Gift Fund | 12 | |
7 | Active Minds | 10 | |
8 | Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management | 9 | |
9 | College of Education Student Emergency Fund | 6 | |
10 | Department of Theater | 5 | |
11 | Commonwealth Honors College Community Scholarships | 5 | |
12 | Script U Scholarship Society | 4 | |
13 | Laxbackers | 4 | |
14 | Field Hockey | 4 | |
15 | Nursing Student Scholarships | 4 |

Rank | Prize | Department/Group/RSO/Fund | Donors |
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1 | $2,000 | Women's Club Ice Hockey | 120 |
2 | $500 | Boxing Club | 76 |
3 | $500 | UWW Faculty Student Scholarship Endowment Fund | 71 |
4 | Women for UMass Amherst | 55 | |
5 | UMass Hillel | 37 | |
6 | World Librarians | 37 | |
7 | Isenberg Class of 2025 Senior Gift Fund | 29 | |
8 | Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences | 27 | |
9 | Energy Transition Institute | 25 | |
10 | Minutemen Racing | 23 | |
11 | CICS Dean's Opportunity Fund | 15 | |
12 | Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship | 9 | |
13 | Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning General Fund | 9 | |
14 | The Frank Waugh Alumni Board Scholarship | 8 | |
15 | HackUMass | 8 |

Rank | Prize | Department/Group/RSO/Fund | Donors |
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1 | $2,000 | Men's Club Rugby | 203 |
2 | $500 | WMUA | 105 |
3 | $500 | Dynamics Acapella | 94 |
4 | Club Running | 68 | |
5 | Student Care & Emergency Response Fund (SCERF) | 65 | |
6 | Department of Journalism | 61 | |
7 | Film Studies Program | 40 | |
8 | Muslim Students Association | 38 | |
9 | Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management | 37 | |
10 | Fencing Club | 24 | |
11 | Cape Cod Alumni Group Scholars | 20 | |
12 | UMass Science Olympiad | 19 | |
13 | CMASS | 15 | |
14 | Alpine Ski Team | 12 | |
15 | Belly Dance Club | 11 |

Rank | Prize | Department/Group/RSO/Fund | Donors |
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1 | $2,000 | Men's Ultimate Frisbee | 141 |
2 | $500 | Club Water Polo | 120 |
3 | $500 | Sharp Attitude | 100 |
4 | UMass Dance Company | 86 | |
5 | UMass Club Swim | 59 | |
6 | Climbing Club | 40 | |
7 | Mock Trial Team | 36 | |
8 | UMass Sailing Team | 25 | |
9 | Accounting Department | 24 | |
10 | ACEing Autism | 21 | |
11 | Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers | 16 | |
12 | Alliance for Women in Accounting | 14 | |
13 | UMass4CCL | 14 | |
14 | Outing Club | 13 | |
15 | Department of MicroBiology | 13 |

Rank | Prize | Department/Group/RSO/Fund | Donors |
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1 | $2,000 | Stonewall Center | 200 |
2 | $500 | Polymer Science & Engineering | 99 |
3 | $500 | Earthfoods Cafe | 39 |
4 | Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Student Support Fund | 31 | |
5 | Filipino Student Association | 17 | |
6 | UMass Ice Skating Club | 12 | |
7 | Badminton Club | 9 | |
8 | Pond Club | 8 | |
9 | Script U - Hockey | 8 | |
10 | Men's Cross Country/Track & Field | 7 | |
11 | Marketing Department | 7 | |
12 | Isenberg Class of 2025 Senior Gift Fund | 7 | |
13 | Script U - Football | 6 | |
14 | Public Interest Technology Initiative | 6 | |
15 | College of Education Student Emergency Fund | 5 |

Rank | Prize | Department/Group/RSO/Fund | Donors |
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1 | $2,000 | Daily Collegian | 166 |
2 | $500 | UMass Emergency Medical Services | 104 |
3 | $500 | The Boltwood Project | 86 |
4 | Baseball | 73 | |
5 | CLACLS | 45 | |
6 | iCons Fund | 35 | |
7 | Comparative Literature | 25 | |
8 | UMassTap Company | 25 | |
9 | Accounting Department | 25 | |
10 | Society of Women Engineers | 22 | |
11 | Angel Fund | 21 | |
12 | Legal Studies Department | 18 | |
13 | Softball | 17 | |
14 | Operations & Information Management Department | 16 | |
15 | Student Nursing Association | 11 |

Rank | Prize | Department/Group/RSO/Fund | Donors |
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1 | $2,000 | Men's Club Rowing | 290 |
2 | $500 | Women's Rugby | 135 |
3 | $500 | Korean Students Association | 112 |
4 | Center for Women and Community | 100 | |
5 | Minuteman Marching Band | 96 | |
6 | Doo Wop Shop | 82 | |
7 | Model UN | 68 | |
8 | Spanish and Portuguese Studies | 45 | |
9 | Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy | 17 | |
10 | Arab Cultural Association | 16 | |
11 | Field Hockey Club | 15 | |
12 | Nursing Student Scholarships | 9 | |
13 | Daily Collegian | 8 | |
14 | Baseball | 7 | |
15 | Stonewall Center | 7 |

Rank | Prize | Department/Group/RSO/Fund | Donors |
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1 | $2,000 | Duly Noted | 237 |
2 | $500 | Laxbackers | 91 |
3 | $500 | Girl Up UMass Amherst | 91 |
4 | Women's Ultimate Frisbee | 81 | |
5 | UMass Cybersecurity Club | 43 | |
6 | Ballroom Dance Team | 32 | |
7 | UMass CHAARG | 17 | |
8 | Accounting Department | 15 | |
9 | Golf Club | 13 | |
10 | UMass ALTITUDE | 13 | |
11 | Women's Rowing | 11 | |
12 | CICS Dean's Opportunity Fund | 8 | |
13 | Women's Lacrosse | 8 | |
14 | Men's Club Rowing | 8 | |
15 | Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers | 8 |

