UNLV Financial Management Association

The Founders Circle.

Every fall, twenty UNLV students walk into JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Nobody gets into those rooms alone. Somebody paid for it, and the students know exactly who. So the question is whose name they learn next.

Request the conversation The Founders Dinner

So everything good in this club traces back to one professional who decided to help. Last spring we invited those professionals in, just to say thank you. Nothing fancy. Snacks, and goodie bags the members made by hand. Then the students stood up one at a time and told the room what the New York trip did for their careers.

But here is the part we did not expect. Nobody in that room asked about a plaque. They asked what the club needed next. That is who this page is written for.

The donor thank-you, spring 2026

Where the money goes.

Nobody should back this on a promise. So here is the proof, straight from our story archive, unedited. New York, every fall:

New York, November 2024. Firm visit to JPMorgan Chase.

The floor of the New York Stock Exchange, November 2024.

Bank of America Tower, New York, November 2025.

Overlooking the NYSE floor, November 2024.

Day four in New York, November 2025.

And the rest of the year: firm tours, packed rooms, and first place at the President's Investment Challenge in 2025.

Firm visit to Northern Trust, October 2024.

UBS International Wealth Management, San Francisco, April 2024.

Dinner with professionals, February 2025.

President's Investment Challenge, first place, 2025.

Guest speaker night with Morgan Stanley, October 2024.

What your name goes on

Pick the one that carries your name.

One semester. One name. And before finals week, a written recap of exactly what it produced.

Name the trip

The cohort walks into JPMorgan, Goldman, and the exchange floor, and your name is on the trip that got them there. One trip, one name.

Name the meetings

Every Tuesday, a full room and a speaker who has actually done the job. Your name opens it. Speaker series or workshop series, the whole semester.

Title the semester

The send-off, the meetings, the dinner, all of it presented by you. One per semester. We do not sell a second.

Think about the rooms you were not in yet at twenty-one, and who finally put you in one. That is the whole job on this page. Get enough Las Vegas students into those rooms and this city builds its own finance pipeline, with your name on the semester that started it.

Giving levels

Five ways in.

Every level funds the same short list: student competitions, travel, and programs.

Founders Circle

A year on the inside. Your name on this page, your seat at every Founders Dinner, and a personal introduction to the five members with the highest engagement scores that semester.

$10,000 / year

Named Workshop Series

Resume nights and technical prep, the unglamorous sessions that actually get students hired. Every one of them opens with your name.

$15,000 / semester

Named Speaker Series

Every Tuesday a working professional stands up in front of a full room, and every Tuesday your name goes up first.

$25,000 / semester

The Named Trip

Your name goes into every firm on the schedule, and onto the send-off, the photos, and the recap that firms and families read afterward. One per trip.

$40,000 / semester

The Semester Title

The trip, the speaker series, the dinner. The entire semester presented by you, and nobody gets to share it. One per semester.

$75,000 / semester

Every naming includes a year of the Founders Circle. And here is the whole supply: fall has one trip, one speaker series, and one title. Three. When those are gone, the next opening is spring. So none of this gets decided by a checkout page. Structure, timing, and recognition get built in one conversation, and the students remember who sent them.

Invitation only

The Founders Dinner

One evening each semester, starting this fall. The professionals who back this club, the students they back, and nothing else on the agenda. Three student stories, one short plan from the board, and then the room talks. No podium, no slide deck.

Want a seat? Use the form below and pick "The Founders Dinner first".

Request the conversation.

Most giving disappears into a budget line. You never meet a student, you never see what moved, and a year later you are guessing. So we built this the other way around. Tell us who you are, a board member calls you inside 48 hours, and you leave that call with a plan instead of a pitch: number one, what your name goes on, and number two, what gets reported back to you and when.

Got it. A board member will reach out inside 48 hours. That is a person, not an autoresponder.

Name

Firm (optional)

Phone (optional)

Which describes you best?

What are you considering?

Anything we should know? (optional)

Rather skip the form? DM @fmaunlv and say "Founders".

Back the club directly.

Naming starts at $10,000. But backing these students starts at $1. Most people wait until they can write a big one, and the semester does not wait. So pick any amount up to $50,000 and it goes straight to competitions, travel, and programs. Square emails you the receipt the moment it clears.

Or your own amount

First name

Last name

Email (for your receipt)

$1 to $50,000. Whatever you send goes to work in the semester it arrives, not the one after.