A-Z list of funds

Accelerate research

This fund supports those recognised for their achievements in research to continue to ask audacious questions and be ambitious in their search for answers.

Alumni Scholarships Fund

Your donation to the Alumni Scholarships Fund helps students achieve their potential by providing real and immediate support they would not otherwise receive.

Ardmore Fund

The Ardmore Fund was established by students from the Auckland University School of Engineering at Ardmore, class of 1957-59.

Arts & Education Student Support Fund

Your gift will assist students with financial challenges.

Auckland Bioengineering Institute General Fund

Your donation will support the Auckland Bioengineering Institute's development of engineering approaches to help better understand biological function and provide the foundation for new approaches to medical diagnosis and therapy.

Auckland Bioengineering Institute Research Fund

A gift to this fund provides support for ABI research. If you wish to specify the of research you wish to support please contact our Development Manager first.

Auckland Bioengineering Institute Student Support Fund

A gift to this fund supports students in need with PhD scholarships and hardship grants.

Audiology Support Fund

Support audiology to build a national hearing centre with a mission to improve the hearing health of all New Zealanders through outstanding research, education and leadership.

AUEA Current Use Fund

A gift to this fund will be used to provide scholarships at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Beating the Superbugs

The world desperately needs new antibiotics, and the Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab needs your help to find them.

Business School Inspiring Futures Scholarship Fund

Your gift will place you among a select group of Business School supporters who understand the value of higher education to our nation’s youth and the important role it plays in creating the business leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators.

Business School Student Support Fund

Donations to the Business Student Support Fund help ensure a greater number of deserving students have the opportunity to fulfil their academic goals.

Business School Women's Mentoring Programme

Will you help us support the next generation of female business leaders?

Carosika Collaborative

Make a gift to help us improve the care and outcomes for preterm birth across Aotearoa.

Cecil Segedin Fund

The Cecil Segedin Fund was established to recognise the significant contribution of Cecil Segedin’s work to the fields of Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics.

Centre for Brain Research Support Fund

With your support we will continue to develop new therapies, improve clinical care and educate our communities.

Community Eye Health

Your support will allow us to help more schoolkids see the blackboard better and to deliver better eye healthcare to all New Zealanders, regardless of their background.

Creative Thinking Fund

The University of Auckland’s Creative Thinking Project developed out of a belief that creativity is a fundamental element in our learning and development as human beings.

The David M. Emanuel Research Scholarship in Accounting & Finance

To pay tribute to David’s broad and substantial contribution, the David M. Emanuel Scholarship in Accounting & Finance was established.

Dean's Student Support Fund

Gifts like yours will give students every opportunity to pursue their dreams.

Dementia in contact sport athletes

Support our research into Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).

Dementia Research Fund

New Zealand’s population is ageing, with a rapidly increasing number of people with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia.

Department of Statistics Fund

Statistics and data science help us understand our data rich world. Make a donation to support scholarships for students, research by our staff, and the annual Ihaka lecture series, set up in honour of Ross Ihaka, one of the co-founders of the free statistical software, R.

Early Medical Women of New Zealand Fund

To support the the writing and publishing of biographies of notable women doctors in New Zealand.

Engineering General Fund

A gift to this fund will be used for the general support of the Engineering Faculty including assisting students with their education and academic staff with their research.

Engineering Student Support Fund

By making a donation to this fund you are supporting scholarships, providing financial assistance, and covering costs for special projects, books, materials and equipment when needed.

Emma Waterhouse Scholarship for Women in Natural Sciences

A donation to this fund, set up by alumna Emma Waterhouse, supports undergraduate and postgraduate women studying in the field of natural sciences.

Field Club gives back

100 years have passed since the inception of the Auckland University Field Club. To mark this milestone, we want to protect and preserve the heart of the Field Club’s activities – the natural world – by working to stop kauri dieback.

Fine Arts Supply Bank

Make a gift to support the Fine Arts Supply Bank.

FMHS Dean's Student Support Fund

Gifts like yours will give students every opportunity to pursue their dreams.

Friends of Leigh Marine Laboratory

Become a Friend of Leigh Marine Laboratory and help promote the responsible stewardship of New Zealand's marine environment.

Gavel Clubs Fund

The Centre for Brain Research Gavel Clubs provides people with aphasia and people with Parkinson’s disease a way to rebuild their worlds, rejoin conversations with family and friends and reconnect with their community.

The George Mason Centre for the Natural Environment

Make a gift to support the George Mason Fund.

Global Asthma Network

The Global Asthma Network aims to reduce the suffering that affects at least 334 million people of all ages in all parts of the world, to reduce the economic burden, and to prevent avoidable asthma deaths.

Heart Research Centre – Manaaki Manawa

By connecting researchers and clinicians with New Zealanders most at risk of cardiovascular disease, Manaaki Manawa, the Centre for Heart Research, will allow life-saving breakthroughs to be made as never before.

He Kohikohinga Aroha Fund

Support Māori and Pacific Medical and Health Sciences students currently experiencing financial hardship to continue their studies.

Immune therapy research

Support Immune Therapy Research with an online donation.

Inspiring Futures Student Support Fund

Your gift will assist Business School students with financial challenges.

International Legal Scholars Fund

Support international legal professionals who have fled persecution with the opportunity to enrol at Auckland Law School so they can qualify for practice in New Zealand.

The Kate Snow Student Hardship Endowment Fund

Kate’s Fund will support undergraduate FMHS students, from across all schools, who find themselves in unexpected hardship, ensuring that financial circumstance will not prevent talented students becoming our health leaders of tomorrow.

Kauri Dieback Research Fund

Will you support the next generation of bright minds behind kauri dieback research?

Law School Student Support Fund

Support Law Students facing financial hardship

Law School Innovation and Development Fund

Your support of this fund will help the Law School where the need is greatest.

Liggins Endowment Fund

An Endowment Fund creates a permanent fund which can ensure certainty for research grants and/or provide for a permanent Chair.

Liggins General Fund

The General Fund provides funding for research projects, summer internships and symposia.

Liggins Institute Student Support Fund

A gift to this fund supports students in need.

LiLACS Fund

Learning from Māori and non-Māori in advanced age – LiLACS NZ follows octogenarians to learn from their wisdom and develop programmes to promote positive ageing.

Little Liggins Programme

Every baby deserves a healthy start to life but with each mum and baby in a clinical trial costing between $1,000-$5,000, we need your help to make this possible.

Long Covid Research Project

Dr Anna Brooks is an immunologist who is focussing on understanding the immune dysfunction experienced by those with Long Covid.

Malaysian Student Support Fund

Join us in creating lasting impact for Malaysian students studying at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland.

Māori and Pacific Scholarships Fund

Support Māori & Pacific students to realise their academic dreams.

Marine Research

Support critical research that will help save the Hauraki Gulf.

Masters of Creative Writing Fund

This fund supporters Masters of Creative Writing graduates including helping them cover the costs of appearing at festivals and effectively promoting their books. This will help support new authors early in their careers.

Monitoring of Southern Hemisphere Whales Fund

Support new field work for developing and optimising techniques for non-lethal research into marine mammals, with a focus on right whales.

Motor Neuron Disease Research Lab Fund

Your donations help us to fund the students, researchers and research materials we need to learn about motor neuron disease.

New Zealand National Eye Centre Support Fund

Together with your support and that of other philanthropic partners we are committed to advancing vision research, clinical care and community education.

The School of Nursing Alumni Scholarship Fund

For some the costs associated with a nursing degree can make this unobtainable without the support of a scholarship. Support from alumni and donors ensures that there is equality in the opportunities available.

Ocular Surface Research Fund

Led by Associate Professor Jennifer P. Craig, the team of clinical researchers at The Ocular Surface Laboratory contribute to the overarching aim of better understanding ocular surface disease in order to improve patient management of anterior segment disorders, and in particular, dry eye.

Olive Malienafau Nelson Legacy Fund

The Olive Malienafau Nelson Legacy Fund was established by the Sir Michael Jones Foundation in 2022 to honour and celebrate the legacy of the late Olive Malienafau Nelson, the first Pacific graduate, the first Samoan graduate and one of the first women graduates of Waipapa Taumata Rau.

Peter Gibbons Lectures Fund

The Gibbons Lectures is an annual series of talks given in the Department of Computer Science in association with the Institute of IT Professionals NZ (formerly the New Zealand Computer Society).

Postgraduate Student Support Fund

Gifts to this fund help break down financial and social barriers for students across the University. This includes immediate emergency support for postgraduate students facing financial crisis and long-term support for those who, because of financial hardship, may not otherwise be able to undertake or complete their studies.

Professor Graham Liggins Scholarship Fund

By donating to the Mont Liggins Scholarship Fund you will help us to support the next generation of ground-breaking researchers.

Psychedelic Therapy Research

Your gift to the Psychedelic Therapy Research Fund will support Professor Suresh Muthukumaraswamy and his research team to explore the potential of psychedelic drugs to help treat mental health issues.

Kauri Dieback Research Fund

Will you support the next generation of bright minds behind kauri dieback research?

Refugee Scholarships Fund

University of Auckland alumni and friends are invited to help establish a significant new scholarship to empower our newest New Zealanders – students from refugee backgrounds.

Science Student Support Fund

When you give to the University of Auckland Foundation Science Student Support Fund, you make important things happen.

Sir Owen Woodhouse Memorial Lecture Fund

Your gift will directly support the biennial Sir Owen Woodhouse Memorial Lecture Fund.

Staff for Students: The Wellbeing Fund

Students caught in challenging personal circumstances or financial hardship need your help to continue their studies.

STaR Centre Fund

With your support we can do more to bring the benefits of surgical innovation into the lives of patients and those who love them.

Student Emergency and Wellbeing Fund

Emergency funding and support can help meet the immediate needs of students and allow them to succeed in their tertiary studies.

Support our area of greatest need

Through this fund support can be provided to wherever the need is greatest.

Student support

Gifts like yours can help break down financial and social barriers.

Te Whainga I te Tika Award for Social Justice

Your gift will support the next generation as they make outstanding contributions to social justice.

The David M. Emanuel Research Scholarship in Accounting & Finance

To pay tribute to David’s broad and substantial contribution, the David M. Emanuel Scholarship in Accounting & Finance was established.

The Eisdell Moore Centre Research Fund

The Eisdell Moore Centre is a virtual research centre that is hosted by the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University and brings together hearing and balance researchers from around NZ.

The University of Auckland Endowment Fund

The University of Auckland Endowment Fund is a special fund established by Roger France, a former Chancellor of the University, which aims to create, over time, a substantial endowment, the distributable income from which can be used for the general advancement of the University.

US/NZ Scholarship Programme Fund

The US/NZ Scholarship Programme helps both American students travel to The University of Auckland to study and Auckland students to undertake their studies or research at an American university.

Vice-Chancellor's Discretionary Fund

Please support the University with a gift to the Vice-Chancellor's Discretionary Fund.

Vision Bus Aotearoa

Your support will allow us to help more schoolkids see the whiteboard better and to deliver better eye healthcare to all New Zealanders, regardless of their background.

Women's Mentoring Programme

Will you help female law students reach their full potential?

Zachary Gravatt Memorial Scholarship Fund

This scholarship will support professional development and training for medical students who have overcome significant personal challenges to succeed with their studies.

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