Shelby and Gale Davis are one of UWC’s greatest-ever supporters, and their family’s involvement with the UWC movement goes back to the year 1998. With a highly successful investment and fund management career, Davis devoted his personal and financial energies to a number of philanthropic aims, focusing on education. 

In 2021 he doubled his annual Davis-UWC Dare to Dream Program pledge from USD 5 million to USD 10 million, leading to the creation of up to 300 new scholarships per year through this program only.