Message from the Assistant Dean of Development

Jennifer Purcell Deacon   Assistant Dean of Development

The Bren School is a University of California graduate program emphasizing environmental solution-centered teaching and research areas of science, management, law, economics, and policy. This program is unique in the UC system and is the only one of its kind in the Western United States. It is broadly considered to be among the top three programs of its kind in the nation.

Make a gift now! Through innovative strategic partnerships, the Bren School is quickly becoming a world-renowned institution. We seek investment and involvement from individuals, our community, corporations, and foundations. Your support and theirs ensures that the Bren School will have the intellectual and financial resources to attract the finest scholars and graduate students, and enable them to conduct leading-edge, teaching and research in the most sophisticated green laboratory building in the United States.

Make a gift now to ensure that the School will always have the resources it needs. We encourage you to consider extending your generosity beyond your lifetime by naming The UCSB Foundation in your will for the benefit of the Bren School.  We can also discuss with you planned giving strategies, such as trusts and charitable gift annuities that allow you to improve your financial situation and make a gift to us.

To learn more about how you can create your future legacy through Planned Giving, contact Victoria B. Wing, J.D., Director of Major Gift Planning, or call (805) 893-5556.

I invite you to peruse our IMPACT brochure, which reflects the research efforts of just a few our stellar faculty. These researchers are directly affecting environmental policy and contributing to solutions around the world today. Your support extends their reach and ability to move us all to a sustainable future.

The fundamental spirit of giving grows out of a firm belief in the concept of sustainability - a key to understanding the environment in its totality. We reap what we sow. By supporting the next generation of environmental leaders, we make it possible for our faculty and students to find solutions that ensure humankind will enjoy a bountiful and responsible co-existence with a flourishing natural world.

Gifts to the Bren School of all sizes are greatly valued and deeply appreciated.  If you would like to make a gift now, please complete the form provided, or contact me directly. You will be making an important contribution to a magnificent enterprise and it will be my pleasure to assist you. 

Jennifer Purcell Deacon
Assistant Dean of Development

(805) 893-5743; jennifer@bren.ucsb.edu