Help VCU meet the COVID-19 challenge

During this worldwide crisis, Virginia Commonwealth University is focused on providing the best services to our patients and students.

As Central Virginia’s COVID response team, our researchers and caregivers are working around-the-clock to provide resources and care to fight this pandemic. Meanwhile, our faculty and students have transitioned to a completely online teaching and learning environment, which provides its own set of challenges.

Help VCU respond to the unique challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic by supporting one of two new funds, the VCU Health COVID-19 Response Fund and the VCU Student Life and Learning Fund. Your gift meets the challenges set by other donors:

• A Richmond donor recently contributed $1 million to VCU Health and challenged the community to give $1 million to support the VCU Health COVID-19 Response Fund.
• The School of Business Foundation, the College of Engineering Foundation, the VCU Foundation and VCU Alumni partnered to donate $100,000 to support the VCU Student Life and Learning Fund and challenged the community to make an additional $100,000 in donations to the fund.

Fight the pandemic

With a gift to the VCU Health COVID-19 Response Fund, you support patients, research and medical staff. Your gift funds clinical trials and the development of new treatments, which will help bring this pandemic to an end more quickly.

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Support VCU students

With a gift to the VCU Student Life and Learning Fund, you provide critical resources to students struggling to finish their semester during the pandemic. Your gift helps jobless students make ends meet, purchase critical supplies and more.

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Give by check

For the VCU Health COVID-19 Response Fund:

• Make check payable to the MCV Foundation
• Write COVID-19 Response Fund in memo line
• Mail to:
  VCU Gifts and Records Management
  Box 843042
  Richmond, VA 23284-3042

For the VCU Student Life and Learning Fund:

• Make check payable to the VCU Foundation
• Write Student Life and Learning Fund in memo line
• Mail to:
  VCU Gifts and Records Management
  Box 843042
  Richmond, VA 23284-3042

Resources for you

• VCU Health has a COVID-19 hotline managed by our poison control team, who have received additional training about COVID-19. It is staffed 24/7 and available to the public: (804) 628-7425.
• Stay up to date at the One VCU: Responsible Together website and the VCU Health COVID-19 website.

Community assistance

The Central Virginia COVID-19 Response Fund has been established at the Community Foundation. The fund provides flexible support for community-based organizations serving the most vulnerable in our community, and those facing hardship because of reduced revenue. Grants will be awarded on a rolling basis to nonprofit organizations only.

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