Excellence Funds are member donated. By making a donation to UT OLLI Excellence Funds, you are supporting programs that engage, inspire, and broaden member experience through intellectually stimulating courses and activities. When UT OLLI members, friends, and family provide a gift to program excellence funds, they champion program excellence.

Excellence Fund Gifts may be used for materials, resources, facilities, special recognition and honoraria for speakers and university departments, programs and administrative support beyond those provided by member tuition.

Funds have been used to provide individual hearing assist devices, purchases for experiential experiences (e.g. solar eclipse glasses for all attendees of an astronomy lecture during the week of the total solar eclipse in 2024), and an annual spring concert by the Butler School of Music for the use and enjoyment of all UT OLLI members.

Donations are tax deductible and may be made in honor or in memory of a current or former member, or anyone of special significance to the donor.