University Of West Florida Foundation Inc

Student scholarship program - the uwf foundation awarded 2,997 scholarships to 1,429 uwf students. These scholarships helped to ensure those students gained a higher education. One of the new scholarships promoted during the year was the first generation scholarship. This scholarship enables students, who are first generation in their family to attend college, to be able to afford college tuition. The foundation raised and awarded $297,598 of first generation scholarships during the year.

Eminent scholars and professorships - the university added 3 distinguished professors last fiscal year. These professorships helped to advance the educational mission of the university by having distinguished and specialized professors teach students.

All other programs: the uwf foundation has agency accounts which support the mission of certain departments and colleges within the university. These accounts primarily consist of donated funds to help support faculty salaries, student scholarships, learning environments, professional development, and lectures.