Support Us
Your tax-deductible contribution to the French Department is an appreciated pledge of support to our program. As state funding continues to diminish, private funds become ever more crucial to keeping our department among the very best to engage students and accomplished scholars in the language, literature, film, and culture of the French-speaking world.
What Your Gift Can Do
Your generous support for the Department of French reaches across the spectrum of our financial needs and ensures that students continue to have a lively and full experience of French-speaking culture, both socially and academically.
Intellectual & Cultural Exchange: Seminar Room, Theater, Dinner Table
Your support brings outstanding writers, filmmakers, musicians and scholars to the University to participate in enriching programming, sustaining connective experiences for students and faculty beyond the classroom and keeping the department up-to-date on contemporary issues in French-speaking culture – from politics to poetry. Donors are also largely to thank for the relevant programming and general upkeep at the Maison Fançaise.
In addition to bringing great things to Grounds, donor dollars also make travel scholarships possible for undergraduate and graduate students who wish to pursue their studies abroad.
How to Give
The University of Virginia Department of French offers three ways to give. Regardless of which fund you choose to support, your donation will make a positive impact on the department and the students it serves.
The French Department Fund
Gifts to this fund are used to respond to the programs and projects that are most important to the department at the time the gift is made. These gifts give the department valuable flexibility in responding to unexpected needs or opportunities.
You can give to the Department Fund now through this secure site.
The Robert T. Denommé Fund
Gifts to this fund help build an endowment for the benefit of the U.Va. French Department. Established to recognize and honor an outstanding teacher and scholar of French literature, Emeritus Professor Robert T. Denommé, a portion of the endowment's income can be spent on department needs each year once the principal reaches $50,000. Gifts to this fund ensure a long-term income stream for the department. In addition, each year proceeds from this fund are awarded to UVa undergrads to support their participation in study abroad programs in French-speaking countries around the world.
You can give to the Denommé Fund now through this secure site.
The Barringer French House Fund
Gifts to this fund support the experience of students living in the old Barringer Mansion, i.e. the Maison française, also known as UVa's French House. The Maison, founded in 1985, is home to almost 30 French-speaking UVa undergraduates each year. With the Department of French, it also serves as a hub for francophone and fracnophile events open to the wider community.
You can give to the Barringer French House Fund now through this secure site.