Giving
For more than a century, the Mike Petryk School of Dentistry has been improving the health of Albertans and beyond through outstanding oral and maxillofacial health care, education, research and scholarship, and service to our communities.
That tradition continues, but we need your help now more than ever to meet the evolving needs of our communities.
Why Your Gift Matters
Your contributions empower students to pursue excellence regardless of financial means, ensure that oral health care reaches our underserved neighbours, and help foster a culture of discovery. Through your support, we are training tomorrow’s experts and solving today’s most pressing health challenges.
Ways to Give
Current Priorities | Sponsorships + Corporate Giving | Leave a Legacy | Class Giving
Gifts in Action
Student-led initiative provides dental care to Métis communities across Alberta
Supported in part by the Pediatric Dentistry Endowment Fund
Current Priorities in Oral Health Care
Behind every great oral health professional is a journey that began with education. Empower the next generation of professionals by giving online. Our flexible giving tool allows you to contribute via single payments, scheduled installments, or recurring gifts.
Dentistry Student Bursary Endowment Fund
Many of our students face significant financial hurdles as they work toward becoming the oral health professionals Albertans rely on. By contributing to this endowment, you provide the essential bursaries that allow our dentistry, dental hygiene and dental assisting students to focus on their training today so they can serve our communities tomorrow.
Dental Hygiene Chapter Bursary
Established through the collective generosity of the Dental Hygiene Alumni Association and friends, this bursary provides essential support to dental hygiene students facing financial hurdles. Your contribution directly empowers students as they work toward joining our profession.
Dentistry Chair's Excellence Fund
This fund provides the school with the flexible resources needed to respond to the school’s most urgent priorities. From launching research projects to upgrading clinical technology, your gift helps keep our oral health-care programs at the forefront of the profession.
Dental Hygiene Excellence Fund
This fund allows for immediate investment in academic excellence. Your support fuels faculty initiatives, enhances student learning environments, and provides the agility to seize new opportunities as they arise.
Pediatric Dentistry Endowment Fund
Right now, thousands of children in our community are struggling with untreated dental infections and chronic pain. This isn’t just about oral health; it’s about a child’s ability to focus in class, maintain their overall physical health, and reach their full potential.
For over 20 years, the school has bridged this gap by integrating compassionate community care into our student training. Every year, we provide free, life-changing dental care to nearly 1,000 children across three vital streams:
- School visit program, with inner-city schools identified by Alberta Health Services
- Métis Citizens in Alberta / Access for All
- SHINE Dentistry
Your gift ensures children in our community can get the oral health care they need to focus in school, stay healthy and reach their potential.
Endowments in Action
Lessons in compassion: SHINE dental clinic has given students a chance to give back
Supported in part by the Pediatric Dentistry Endowment Fund and through corporate partnerships.
What Will Your Legacy Be?
Including a gift in your estate fuels world-changing research and supports the students who will shape the future.
Legacy giving is one of the most significant and flexible ways to support our mission without affecting your current lifestyle. Whether through a charitable bequest, life insurance, or gifts of securities and property, our Gift Planning Office is here to help you and your advisors create a plan that reflects your values and financial goals.
To explore your options for making a lasting impact, contact Kim Falconer, assistant dean, development, at kafalcon@ualberta.ca.
Your Gift Matters.
Students come here to pursue their passions and reach their goals. Your generosity to awards, projects, programs and facilities helps ensure that every deserving student has the chance to attend one of Canada’s finest universities.
Sponsorships + Corporate Giving
Corporate giving and sponsors make many of our community outreach initiatives possible.
Our team can help you make a sound investment in post-secondary education and navigate the university’s vast network to build meaningful and high-impact partnerships. Whether that is meeting your marketing objectives through event sponsorships or connecting with philanthropic causes that resonate with your corporate values to make a lasting community difference, we can help.
Connect with Us
Kim Falconer
Assistant Dean, Development
kafalcon@ualberta.ca
(780) 293-6677
Sponsor an Event
Our sponsorship opportunities offer more than just logo placement; they provide a high-visibility platform to showcase your commitment to the community.
Host a Practicum Student
Are you a dental clinic looking to mentor the next generation of dental assistants? The school is seeking general practice dental clinics to host dental assisting practicum students for two weeks.
Our Namesake
The Petryk Family
Susan, Mike, Pat and Bob Petryk donated $10-million to the U of A to honour Mike's 40-year legacy as a successful, long-serving and patient-focused dental professional. “If there's any way that we can help students to have a better life and be happy, that’s what we want, because we’ve just had a fabulous life,” says Pat.
Photo: Susan, Pat, Mike and Bob Petryk (right to left) were joined by U of A president Bill Flanagan (far left).
Class Giving
Would you like to stay in touch with your classmates? Want to support today's students and current priority projects at the School? Whether it is your 10-year, 30-year or 50-year reunion (or anywhere in between), we can help you reconnect with your class and identify a philanthropic project that is meaningful for you to support. We can help with all the logistics. Just reach out.
To explore your options, please contact Kim Falconer, assistant dean, development, at kafalcon@ualberta.ca.
