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Designate GGIC using Code 63116
Elevating our International Community TOGETHER
The UF Campaign for Charities supports 105 local charitable organizations that provide a wide variety of services, including medical assistance, legal help, environmental protection, food for the hungry, shelter for the abused and homeless, hospice care, pet services, school readiness for children, and much more.
We have outlined how your UFCC contribution will celebrate, elevate, and empower our international community!
Refugee resettlement
$3,000
Your gift will cover all the costs to resettle one newly arrived refugee individual over 90 days. For a family of four, this would be $12,000.
$115.38 per pay period
Health services
$750
Your gift will help provide access to healthcare, especially in cases of emergency or when insurance is unable.
$28.85 per pay period
Workforce training
$250
Your gift will fund one semester's scholarship for a student in the planned financial wellness and employment training class.
$9.61 per pay period
Rental assistance
$1,500
Your gift will provide rental assistance for a newly arrived family, granting much needed stability as they search for work.
$57.69 per pay period
Interpretation/Translation
$500
Your gift will enable interpretation services in one language for one cultural orientation class, English class, or direct service.
$19.23 per pay period
Virtual exchange
$125
Your gift will help support the implementation of online exchange programs with friends in our sister cities and others around the world.
$4.80 per pay period
Empowering our International Community, TOGETHER!
Venezuelan refugees obtaining IDs
"GGIC accompanied us in every aspect related to our documentation, meeting with our family to provide us informaction about the necessary administrative forms to complete for our arrival in the country. They did this selflessly."
"GGIC nos acompañó en cada aspecto relacionado a nuestra documentación, se reunieron con nuestra familia para proveernos de información acerca de los formularios administrativos necesarios para completar nuestra llegada al país, lo hicieron de manera abnegada."
Guatemalan family in new housing
"Since the moment that Mr. Lauren brought us to see the permanent housing (which is our current home), we felt that it was the destined place to continue forging our family. The children feel happy about their new home."
"Nuestra vivienda permanente, es ahora nuestro hogar, desde que el sr. Lauren nos trajó a verla sentimos que esta era la indicada para seguir forjando nuestra familia. Los niños se sienten felices de su nuevo hogar."
Kazakh delegation farewell dinner
After a packed week of visits to federal and state courts, the UF Levin School of Law, the Santa Fe College Institute of Public Safety, a Gainesville City Commission meeting, and the office of 3rd District of Florida congresswoman Kat Cammack, the delegation from Kazakhstan enjoyed a warm farewell dinner together with their hosts at the home of a GGIC board member.