Faculty and staff members have submitted nearly 400 ideas for innovative ways UC Davis could generate savings or revenue as part of the IDEA$ at Work budget campaign.

Now is the time for you to send in your ideas and insights, as Tuesday, Jan. 31 is the deadline to participate in the campaign’s prize drawing for Mondavi Center tickets, UC Davis Stores gift cards and UC Davis swag packs. Everyone who chooses to enter the prize drawing will receive an email with coupon codes for free Athletics tickets and a discount to UC Davis Stores.

All ideas and insights will be reviewed by the Revenue Generation and Institutional Savings Task Force in its quest to identify $50 million in ongoing savings and net revenue to help address UC Davis’ core funds deficit. If your idea isn’t selected for broad use, it will be shared with specific leaders within colleges, schools or departments for further consideration at a local level.

The task force will continue to welcome ideas beyond Jan. 31, with the goal of collecting at least 1,000 — and when that happens, the campus will split a $6,000 donation between the ASUCD Pantry and the Staff Emergency Funds at UC Davis and UC Davis Health.

So keep those ideas coming, and while you’re thinking, here’s a look at 50 of the suggestions for budget opportunities and process improvements that have come in since the campaign launch in November:

1. Establish grant-writing infrastructure
2. Standardize IT tools
3. Develop or expand nontraditional learner programs
4. Establish a staff mentorship program
5. Create a campus bike fleet
6. Rent out laboratory space for private use
7. Establish additional endowments to name schools and colleges
8. Rent out space in the summer for camps or vacation programs
9. Establish a centralized unit to provide consulting
10. Lease roof space for cell phone towers and solar panels
11. Maximize online general education offerings in the summer
12. Create cannabis partnership research opportunities
13. Transition to a four-day workweek
14. Evaluate use of recharge on campus to improve efficiency
15. Streamline new degree program approval
16. Increase use of systemwide contracts
17. Offer workforce certificate and credential programs
18. Expand special education programs on campus
19. Offer popular courses online to the public
20. Expand academic administrative support to reduce burden on faculty
21. Create flexible workspaces and expand hoteling
22. Hire more instructors to allow research faculty to focus on research
23. Offer a year of coursework online
24. Expand flexibly scheduled course offerings
25. Invest in tools to improve academic advising
26. Centralize campus messaging
27. Create an on-call nurse pool for UC Davis Health
28. Allow sales at the Craft Center
29. Expand the Research Administration certificate
30. Establish Community Development Financial Institution designation to provide financial services to the community
31. Increase delegation of spending authority for departments
32. Create a ridesharing app for getting to and from campus
33. Develop staff purchasing specialists
34. Retrofit obsolete heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems
35. Evaluate efficiency of the current Vendor Risk Assessment process
36. Increase research collaboration outside the UC Davis community
37. Implement DocuSign across the Sacramento campus
38. Invest in an electronic regulatory system for research/clinical trial offices
39. Improve the AggieBuy search tool
40. Formalize an internship program
41. Create a comfort animal program
42. Charge for weekend parking
43. Streamline the hiring process for faculty
44. Add motion sensors to lighting
45. Create a cycling safety class
46. Install a billboard along Interstate 80
47. Establish an electronic diploma system
48. Create a campus tent rental service
49. Establish a staff mentorship program
50. Add an Amtrak train stop closer to campus

Do you have your own ideas or insights to add to any of these? Then make sure to share your thoughts now. Ideas can be submitted anonymously.

The task force, led by Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Croughan, has been doing outreach to gather ideas — and you’re invited to help. A toolkit with a slide deck and flyer is available for your use for brainstorming with your team or sharing this opportunity with colleagues.

A version of this article originally appeared on UC Davis News.