Giving to Cumberland School of Law Online

An annual gift provides support for student support and advocacy programs. Participation at any level gives you, the donor, an opportunity to establish a partnership with virtually every faculty member and student.

Give to The Cumberland Fund

Each year, Cumberland students are invited to participate in the Cumberland Public Interest Fellowship Program. The program provides grants to students who accept nonpaying positions with a variety of nonprofit, judicial and public interest entities. In 2011 a record 77 students participated in the program.

Give to Annual Summer Public Interest Fellowship Program

Law Schools are judged, in part, by the research productivity of the faculty. Cumberland has a summer research grant program that supports and encourages our faculty to engage in significant research and writing projects. During the year, each grant recipients present the results of their efforts to the faculty for critique and refinement. Your gifts help our faculty excel in their academic pursuits, and we are all the beneficiaries.

Give to Annual Faculty Research Stipend

Established by Jere F. White, Jr., Cumberland School of Law class of 1980, the Jere White Fellows Program seeks to recruit the outstanding students with strong credentials, a history of leadership and a commitment to service that has been demonstrated during and/or after graduation from college. Preference is given to applicants who have served in the military, Peace Corps, Teach for America or other program benefitting underserved communities.

Give to Jere F. White Fellows Program

The Dean’s Discretionary/Excellence fund will support faculty and students to improve their contribution to the legal profession. Funds will be used for faculty development programs and assist students who wish to travel to annual student organizational meetings

Give to Dean’s Discretionary Fund

The library is the academic center of a law school. It is dynamic with ever-changing information available to be disseminated to students, faculty, practitioners and researchers. Gifts to the law library make it possible to constantly update its resources with new material.

Give to Cumberland School of Law Library Fund

The mission of the Center for Children, Law, and Ethics is to further the welfare and best interests of children locally, nationally, and internationally, through working collaboratively with organizations and persons engaged in furthering those ends, and by training students to contribute substantively to the field of children’s issues. The Center Director is David M. Smolin, Harwell G. Davis Professor of Constitutional Law. Professor Smolin teaches in the areas of constitutional law, family law, juvenile law, criminal law, bioethics, international human rights, children’s rights, and wills.

Give to CENTER FOR CHILDREN, LAW, AND ETHICS

Monies from the student relief fund can be utilized by any law student currently enrolled and in good standing in the Cumberland School of Law for emergencies such as, but not limited to:

• Loss due to fire, water or other damage
• Student health issues
• Immediate family emergencies such as death or illness
• Other reasons deemed sufficient by office of Student Services

Give to Student Emergency Relief Fund

If you would like to give to a fund not listed above, perhaps in honor of someone or to a particular student group, please fill out the form located at the link below. For a full list of available funds please contact Senior Advancement Officer David Hutchens at drhutche@samford.edu or (205) 726-4542.

Give to Other Designation Gifts